Nodame stayed good throughout, and there's very little I can add to the original "it puts the com back into romcom", although the show is certainly is more than just that. In the end it was "come for com, stay for direction".
Characters were quite appealing. I especially liked the …
read more[This, obviously, has to spoil. But you knew that Chiaki and Noda had to get together in the end, right? They are in the OP after all!]
The OP was quite good, despite the 3D instruments.
The exclamation catalog [being updated, keep suggestions coming]:
The thing with Simoun is that, really, there isn’t any kind of real story to it. Events only really happen in this show in order to force the characters into particular situations for the sake of inter-character drama - it’s a show which revolves entirely around it’s …read more
After the revolutionary1 deal of brazen product placement in Geass, few people even mentioned the logo of Yamaha in Nodame.
I imagine it makes the licensing more difficult, although it did not stop Geass from being imported.
UPDATE: Look at an excellent example at Karmaburn: Haagen-Dazs in Kara no …
read moreThe today's article at Claiming Ground is rather long by the standards of blogs, and constructed in vintage SDB style: 75% introduction, 20% argument ("foo-porn" (gun porn, airplane porn, drink porn), in this case facial expression porn). While being essentially spoiler-free, it makes some claims, like: "Just like pornography, True …
read moreIt is just what it says:
Noting that I enjoy, drama, bishoujo, coherent plots and endearing characters, which of these Spring/Summer productions would you recommend for tanuki consumption?
I see we disagree again. The problem here is, a dud recommendation is 95% likely even in the view of the …
read moreThe inability of bloggers to break through my filters can be turned around: let's ask, who could do what to make me notice Nodame?
DiGiKerot might've done it, but he was poisoned by manga of Nodame, so he did not watch and did not blog it. Well, I'm still not …
read moreSeen in yet another season review:
[Torako] lives up to her tsundere reputation from the start and strikes me as infuriatingly rude. It was really frustrating watching Ryūji suffer through her constant volleys of abuse without throwing anything back, and indeed, whether or not you can enjoy Toradora! much at …read more