First impression of the DVD is the quality dub. I remember how Azumanga's quality varied, with Nancy Novotny doing a stellar job as Yomi and Tiffany Grant rather unexpectedly deciding to screech for Kaorin. So far Wendy Lee, Karen Strassman et. al. gave a good account of themselves.
A.F …
For no good reason, I am ignoring the unwatched pile and rewatching Dai-Guard. It's a 2000 vintage character show, with a grotescue mecha playing the role of unifying thematic element. This would be the 6th or 7th pass, if I counted, and I begin to appreciate Ooyama quite a bit …
read more{UPDATE: Team blog strikes again (but this time I don't have the excuse of theme making the post's author less obvious, so fail indeed; they even have a correct Creator tag in the feed).}
CJ watched [actually, Crisu did; see above — Author] the little OVA and apparently misses the whole …
read moreIt's a great production and I didn't like it at all.
This is disappointing, because I see the strengths in Plus. But the characters sucked. It's most apparent when looking at The 08th: Shiro is better than Isamu, Aina is better than Myung, Norris is better than Guld. Villains, too …
read moreImpz posted an updated summary of the animeblogging history, and included Ani-nouto thus:
In search of Number Nine, Ani Nouto, Drastic my Anime Blog, Furu Anime Panikku, Ogiue Maniax, That’s Not Kanon, Mega Megane Moe and Far away no where are editorial blogs having a strong view on things …read more
I think I mentioned before that they have a pasta place in Japantown in SF, called "On the Bridge", where manga is made available to customers, but here are a couple of pictures.
They also show anime from R1 DVDs, this time it's the UFO Princess Valkirie.
I'm not very …
read moreThe idea seemed simple enough: play the game, learn kanji. And it went pretty well for a while. But when I hit level 3, I realized that it's completely unworkable. The problem is, I need to take the material in small dozes, to allow kanji to get digested. But KanKen …
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