The danger of being ignorant is in becoming unable to distinguish truth from lies, and thus being reduced to spouting garbage on one's blog (like Avatar does today):
The creation of anime requires, to put it bluntly, a tremendous amount of scut work. [...] That sort of project can't be done …read more
The weak comparisons with Haibane Renmei, which Owen and I have made, evoked my worst fear in animeblogging:
Intellectual bankrupcy.
Haibane Renmei is one of the three to five greatest series of them all, or perhaps even the greatest one period. So it's only natural that five years down the …
read moreWe all have our hangups. I steer away from yaoi, traps, and lesbians -- although only when they are real, so Mikan does not count. And even then everything is balanced against the overall quality (which is why Simoun is still teetering in my evaluation list after a year). Steven, apparently …
read moreAfter reading what Owen wrote about Dennou Coil today, I feel inclined to agree, but his specific arguments seem lacking.
When I say that [Dennou Coil] bears similarity to [Haibane Renmei], I’m talking about how the conflict between the characters in the main arc are depicted. Isako’s determination …read more
I spent a couple of hours just now trying to figure how to set order to categories in Wordpress, mostly because every time I give someone a link to my ef category, I want them to read it in chronological order.
As it turns out, the only way to do …
read moreI am wondering, why I cannot I remember any anime musicals? There is music in anime, but it's always playing the second fiddle. I'm thinking something like animated Producers ("Springtime for Toro in Ja-a-a-pan!" and "Make it gay, make it gay, make it gay!" -- surely anime fans would love that …
read moreJust a random thought: in 2007 two series were sponsored by agencies of Japanese government: Rocket Girls by JAXA and Moyashimon by Ministery of Agriculture. Both turned out well. Fun series, even popular. So, what next? I think JSDF's number is up. They already had dancing sailors, so they know …
read moreYesterday I saw it mentioned Visual-Novels.net, with ANN reporting it a day later: Hirameki is gone. The message at their website says: "Hirameki International Group, Inc. has decided to bow out of publishing Interactive Visual Novels as of January 2, 2008."
Coincidently, Hourglass of Summer was the centerpiece of …
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