Since Daisuki is not available in Japan, I had to watch OPM at hotel TV. It was an adventure all in itself: even had to set up an alarm clock. Screencapping was compromised. But regardless, it's good and I think we can open its run safely.
I remember that back …
read moreAnyway, pictures. As it happens, all of them come from series of which I only rewatch a couple of specific episodes.
Stellvia 12. Giant robots, school love, and classical education. What more could one want? Directed by Tatsuo Sato, too.
AKB0048 17. That man cracks me up every time.
Ai …
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The moment when Saitama gears up to fight the King of Subterrans was highly reminiscent of the showdown of Sunred and General Vamp in Sunred 26. So good. Both end abrubtly for the same reason :-) .
read moreInstead of being productive, I spent Saturday watching Devil is a Part-timer on Netflix. There's not going to be "Anime begins" nor "Anime ends" -- I marathoned the whole thing before I had a chance to blog it.
Until now, I rested under a mistaken impression that Maou was an anime …
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The Wakako-Zake is another great 2-minuter, focused entirely on the subject. There's no amazing plot tension of PuPiPo or heart-shaking feels of Danna o Wakaranai. Instead, we get a back-to-basics food anime. And no crazy lesbian tension nor over-the-top fights.
Personally, I find the lack of human interaction somewhat disappointing …
read moreThis season is pits.
Cinderella Girls is almost unbearable. Omo seems to think that I need an idol to latch on (if I understood him right). Not true, I already have Miku and Rin. Sorry, I meant "RIN RIN RIN RIN RIN". Anyway, it's somewhat of a nightmare, although a …
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About a week ago I played an opposites game in a mixed group with native speakers. It's a game where participants form a circle and ask their neighbour to name an antonym for a word. Americans go heavy on adjectives at first: takai-yasui, semai-hiroi, and so on. Japanese endeavour to …
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Wooser is as uneven as Nichijou. Fortunately, it's similarly brilliant at its peaks. I thought ep.5 of the current season was pretty amazing, although not in the way of some kind of dramatic or artistic quality. Here's how it works.
At its core, Wooser is an advertisement machine nowadays …
read moreThe most important thing to know about Sidonia is that everyone who promised a great ending lied. Not only it's deus ex machina ending, it's also OreTata ending (yes, I learned that term from Shirobako).
The rest of the series was faulty all over, starting with a completely senseless alien …
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