Hashi-hime calls the second season "very beautiful and extremely visually inventive", with "many images ... entrancing". And then, "the plot, characters, music, and visual and dramatic rhythms are pretty special, too." I'm still not watching it, because I'm concerned about its competition with the original in my mind. But I'm happy …
read moreMarimite ends
Since Netflix was already primed (in fact, I saved ISOs for later), I finished Marimite despite it being pretty clear not to be a show for me. I did skip quite a bit though.
Overall, it was a bad experience. The art was nasty throughout; while not a deciding factor …
read moreHoiHoi-san
I read the manga at the recent club meeting and liked it, so I picked its derivative, Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san OVA.
The art is very cute, but there's basically no material in it: only 11 minutes of running time. It's longer than Azumanga VSM or Strike Witches OVA, but unlike …
read moreSixten on Index
Index was on my radar since SDB posted an impromptu round-up of positive reactions. I'm just saying, in case anyone thinks I only read Sixten's notes because of the link to Ani-nouto. He talks primarily about the adaptation issues, which I usually discount due to "poisoned by manga" phenomenon, but …
read moreToei-Crunchyroll
The announcement that Toei joins GONZO in a distribution deal with Crunchyroll does not seem like a big deal to me, considering just what they want to distribute. It's as if they selected the worst titles in their collection on purpose. But in reality... they probably did! I see an …
read moreZyl the badass raw watcher
read more[] The process for Index Ep 4 went something like:
Raw: Very superficial understanding. Overall impression was that the fight scene was unnecessarily interrupted by an over-long dialogue between Touma and Kaori.
Chinese sub: My Chinese reading isn’t all that good either, especially for traditional (rather than …
Hyakko 02
Ep.02 is about Hyakko antagonizing Tatsuki and not receiving any comeuppance (while they hop school clubs). I guess creators extracted wrong lessons from Tomo/Yomi and Konata/Kagami.
The best part of the show is the commercials. I noted especially the LadyGuard: the drug that makes women pee less …
read moreSekirei and the breast power
There was a noticeable number of people to visit Ani-nouto searching for "Sekirei DVD" recently. They were coming for a one-sentence post which referred elsewhere, to "Something of Red Comet #3" (deshou?). That blog runs script which creates a link dashboard:
Sekirei's power must be amazing if it can lift …
read moreRocket Girls DVD 01-04
My R1 set came in today (all hail Bandai!), so I gave it a first look. I did not see any differences so far, perhaps they start later (every difference that I have saved occurs later). The picture is crisper, and that's all. Scaling it down for the blog hurt …
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