I'm not dead set against 3D as such, I liked Shrek. But there's just something very wrong about the motion of people in Appleseed Ex Machina. I lasted for 24 minutes.
Maybe I'm in the Uncanny Valley with this. It certainly is pretty, in static pictures.
read moreThe Anime Almanac takes on the issue of the Tokyopop. Since I almost do not follow the manga at all, the article contained one eye-opener for me. I knew about the Tokyopop's big OEL push. I knew that something was fishy with it when things like Van Von Hunter began …
read moreThe long article at Claiming Ground was interesting to me mostly because Arjuna probably helped me to become sufficiently disgusted with enviroprop enough to see through the dirty tricks Al Gore pulled with the poor bear years later. But by now I cannot see the show other than through the …
read moreTower of Druaga is full of mysteries. I am a bit intrigued, but god help the creators if they use them for sequels. This time we learn a little bit about the mysterious duo of ghosts (I call the blue one H1 and the tan one H2), but not too …
read moreI asked this question before, and now a simple explanation: they blog in English:
It is not exactly my first time of anime blogging in general [...] Unfortunately i have no desire to do any kind of coherent anime blogging in Russian, thus I am here.
Via Owen, who alerted me …
read moreI was busy with life for a couple of days, and now I'm not only missing the Tower of Druaga, but completely overwhelmed by the bloggage. I think, one most important note is the designs of new Haruhi at Canned Dogs.
They should've given it to Toei, for lulz. But …
read moreMave-chan is a one-episode OVA, blurbed thus:
One day ... he is transported to another dimension where the jet planes from the anime, Yukikaze, take on the form of beautiful girls fighting a never-ending battle against the JAM.
And it was only $7.99+tax. How could I pass it?
It …
read moreI’m so strongly in two minds about Allison & Lillia: on one hand it’s old-school style feelgood entertainment that had me glued to the screen from start to finish; on the other hand the direction and screenplay writing are so amateurish that it was enough to make …read more
Omo shares some tips. I think, they are quite sensible. He mentions commuting, but I never commute to a con. It's just... not the same.
BTW, one small note:
I don’t have any real numbers to back this up, but I bet more people go to any major west-coast …read more
Steven posted a review of [Melanholy of] Haruhi [Suzumiya], which reiterated and assembled the points he has made before.
I only have a few small bones to pick... Firstly, Haruhi is not "gorgeous", only pretty; Ryoko is gorgeous. Also, I think Kyon is somewhat interesting character, so "Cliche" is not …
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