Here's one of those irritating things animators insist on doing even in high budget anime like Twelve Kingdoms:
Look at Yuka's chin. Why is it behind her collar? To make matters worse, she speaks.
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Sixten on Azumanga
Sixten agitates for Azumanga with an essay. It's good effort, although I see that nailing the secret is hard. He comes very close with the "transition between funny and heartful".
Little Snow Fairy Sugar and Mahoraba – Heartful Days are the only two J.C.Staff series I consider superior to …
read moreTwelve Kingdoms begins
I am having difficulty remembering another series which came with such strong recommendations and was so disappointing as Twelve Kingdoms. I think the last case for me was the Toei's Kanon. I lasted 5 episodes of that, hated every minute of it, but wanted to give it a good chance …
read moreHourglass, hourglass
I am aware that this blog is turning into all Hourglass all the time kind of deal, but what can I do? It's longer than I imagined and it takes all my anime time. I finally visited the walkthrough, and found that only now I'm at about the middle. One …
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Prompted by certain circumstances, I managed to sit through another episode of Myself;Yourself. I had an episode squirreled away in a dark corner of my home filesystem back when the show aired.
Thus far the fun part was listening to various tidbits. For example, Aoi above eschews "onaji" for …
read moreSpring is looming closer
Like everyone else, I've read through the list at Impz's and started to try shows for size. It looks like OVAs are missing, but it will do for now.
Macross F: The Plus was on my list. Might as well try this.
Nabari no Ou: Seems like Naruto redone, let's …
read moreThe Right Stuf's teasing
I think that the only series to do justice to the amount of hype is Nanoha. The problem with my argument is, companies usually overhype.
The released hints are far too vague to interpret. Someone at
read moreAoD forums[link gone stale] made an observation that the deleted text of the …Never follow recommendations
I'm still away, currently leeching the open wireless Internet from the Zimmerman library in UNM. If anyone sent me any e-mail, I'll reply on Tuesday... hopefuly. [Update: While blog's backend was broken, I moved to ABQ where I'm waiting for a delayed flight.]
Meanwhile, I am sorry if I repeat …
read moreThe Go Forward Award
Hourglass... 90% done, 90% remains
Now that I made peace with the medium ("it's only a full-color manga with audiobook overlay"), I can hate the content freely.
The phenomenal stupidity of the male lead, Kotaro, is something I have never seen before. I wasn't that stupid at his age myself, and trust me, I was …
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