A timely reminder that Japanese produce cartoons other than anime is Usavich. For some reason they remind me about Mikanseijins (ミカン星人).
UPDATE: I've beaten Iwa ni Hana to the press (by less than a day), but they have screenshots.
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Keitai Shoujo ends
Frankly, this was just bad. To add insult to the injury, the anime itself is well made, including script and direction, but the 6-minute format simply strangles it dead.
Not giving us any real time with Rin was downright criminal and inexcusable.
Imagine that you get to watch Figure 17 …
read moreMegaDaijobu 1.41
I cannot believe it, DS put me into his comic. As I was reading it, I became concerned that he would attempt to pull my real life into the strip. For some reason, some people are prone to this kind of thing... especially after they've seen me shooting a silenced …
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According to a posting at TAF's Japanese blog, tickets have become available for purchase. This information is missing from their English blog, and I can see why. None of the services they linked is set up to deal with foreigners; I was even unable to register (for example, foreign telephone …
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SDB on Tea Society of...
I and Steven for some odd reason often march in lockstep like goosestepping nazis (e.g. watching Shingu)... OK, it was a bad analogy, because we're not in complete sync this time. While I'm struggling with Hourglass, he's sampling another Hirameki title, Tea Society of a Witch.
The biggest disappointment …
read moreADV's shenagians
By now everyone has read about ADV disappearing Gurren-Lagann, which was the only title worth watching in their list of upcoming anime. They better not screw the pooch on that one (via DbD, Chizumatic).
UPDATE: Ubu added a copy of ICV2 article.
Robert of RACS posted his take.
read moreRahXephon fan service
Motivated by a dumb comment I made elsewhere, I looked into my stash of RahXephon screencaps, started laughing and could not stop.
Meg: high comedy. Ayato was doing his part too.
And the fanservice was great. Although, honestly? I'm a fan of Kim.
But as I moved along, I remembered …
read moreSDB on MKM/RFM
The title of this post is a self-parody, as a reminder not to take anything I write too seriously. That said, SDB writes:
read moreI didn't finish watching the first DVD when that was all I had, though I got most of the way. Part of the reason why is that …