I always toot the "milking is bad" horn, and I'm sure happy when Hinano says:
I can’t take much more of this torture, if I am somehow blogging season 4 I’ll have to kick myself in the face.
And this is for the show that I tagged as …
read moreIn a good company
Seen in Cracker Barrel store in Albuquerque: Speed Racer and Annie Oakley.
The future of our country is assured.
read moreThe Fourth Titan
When I regard my anime favourites, I see a big gap between the few I consider truly great, and the best of the rest. Azumanga Daioh, Manabi Straight, and Haibane Renmei tower over the crowd of lesser shows like three titans of anime series.
Actually, this picture is obsolete, because …
read moreWindy Tales 01
Windy Tales (風人物語) is one of the few anime to which I excuse the lack of a big budget. By using delicate hints and motions, Windy Tales accomplishes what entries such as Soul Eater and Kaiba attempted in the arts department.
Unfortunately, the story peters out after …
read moreOmo on To Heart
Omo takes a historical perspective and reminds us just how groundbreaking To Heart was. I wasn't intimately connected with anime at the time of To Heart's impact, and, seeing much later, took it as yet another show to be seen, graded, pigeonholed, and dutifuly blogged. And it was good. It …
read morePara Para U.S. Mix is good
It was well known before that the Para Para US Mix was different from the first Para Para MAX, despite having essentially the same CD jacket. Geneon was unable to secure worldwide rights for some tracks in the original, so they substituted a few. But I had no idea just …
read moreLittle notes for Sekirei
Hopefuly the coverage of Sekirei comes to an end at Ani-nouto. Unless someone like Lawson or Badger suddenly produces an amazing reflection post that I can link, these small notes are it.
- If a programmer wrote the script, Yume would've been #0 [but see also the discussion of numbers below …
Things Aroduc was wrong about
Ubu writes that, contrary to Aroduc's assertion (which Ubu forgot to link, tsk tsk), Sekirei ep.12 is "not introducing new characters at the end; all of those have been shown before, most in that episode." While technically true, Aroduc's point still stands: creators were gunning for a sequel.
Since …
read moreTo Heart omake 6 in the thinpack
I wasn't going to unwrap the thinpack that I just bought for a while, but Omo reminded me to re-check the omake 6. Turned out, it uses the same bleak video that original American release and not the cleaned-up version from my Japanese DVDs.
It's still great though and I …
read moreWeird Japanese airplane
An e-mail from reader Jeff Chuang regarding To Heart omake 6 made me look at a YouTube video of Drifters, which had the following still in it:
I always took for an article of faith that the only Japanese fighter with an inline engine was Ki-61. So what is that …
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