We nearly had a mutiny a the club meeting yesterday, because members present were not enthusiastic about watching Sketchbook. Someone even floated an emergency proposal to switch to Toradora for the slot.
In the end we proceeded as planned, and so I watched Sketchbook beyond the point I dropped it …
read moreNodame Cantabile was a bad mistake on my part. The premise seemed completely uninteresting to me and I tuned out all the blogging about it. But in the event, it offers extremely entertaining character comedy. Especially Milch is an enigma and an amalgam of ordinarily incompatible traits. But everyone else …
read moreApparently I trolled Christopher into giving a serious consideration to the question, but I'm not sorry: he produced a bunch of pretty screencaps and a meaningful discourse.
read moreread moreI liked it. A lot.
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Thinking back to a dramatic crescendo or two, True Tears does often twist like a slightly cliché, soapy love story, but this existential willingness to look beyond superficial emotion, to find a sad, warm reason behind all the pain, lies and deceit of normal …
The propreitor of The Scrumptious went to a local convention... This passage was chuckleworthy:
The maid café became the main attraction of Anicon 2008, thanks to the cute meidos in the place, and the café was filled with pedobears in no time! According to biankita, the pedobears were making the …read more
Shameful Otaku Secret (SOS?) posts a comprehensive and entertaining review of Blassreiter. Among other things, it talks about the role Blassreiter plays in the Gonzo's foray into the downloads, its style and basic premise, etc. It was quite enough information for me to reject the show with confidence. For some …
read moreNews goes around (via) that Strike Witches v.1 R2 DVD was a success not seen since Vandread. I wasn't able to confirm this, because Oricon is impossible to navigate, the worst website ever. The thread on 2chan that Canned Dogs referred was archived.
BTW, it's a good news for …
read moreChristopher says:
DVD thinpack covers? Beautiful. DVD faces using same artworks as covers? Absolutely gorgeous. It’s nice to see DVDs that look so beautiful.
That's what I thought, too. But now, a question is burning me: is the cover "sexualized"?
I had to watch this episode three times (over …read more