I was scanning quickly through Rocket Girls to grab a few screencaps of credits (for some reason I thought it was interframed in Vietnam, like ef, and I hoped to match the names of interframers, but it turned out that I remembered wrong, and Rocket Girls were farmed to China …
read moreThe impossibility of Top 10
Steven chastizes Jeff for not being enthusiastic enough about the 10 notables of the year:
2007 really must have sucked if Jeff couldn't find ten series he was genuinely enthusiastic about, and doesn't have to apologize for recommending.
The problem mainly that indeed, while making 150 series a year, the …
read moreef's strange eyecatches
I already complained about the references in ef, but obviously the creators aren't listening. Here's one of the more blatant ones from ep.8:
For those not in the know it's a reference to Clannad, a show which is currently on the air! I mean, seriously. At least wait until …
read moreFrom the trenches
Avatar subtitles Nanoha professionally.
It [realities of DVD subtitles] definitely affects my timing practices. I'm very likely to leave subtitles contiguous (no gap between) if they're overlapping with something, unless the amount of space between them is huge. I'm also significantly less likely to include unimportant background dialog - sure, subtitle …
read moreHaruhi ends
I thought I would never be able to shake off the crazy blog hype that surrounded Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but I forgot about it pretty quickly. Perhaps because my impressions were contrary to most old writing that I saw.
Firstly, the animation quality jumps all over the place. It's …
read moreLawson on Tokimeki
Jeff says, "a breath of fresh air", and:
I don’t watch as many bishoujo game adaptations nowadays as I did in the past. Somewhere along the line, I grew tired of the extraneous stories and cookie cutter characters so typical of the genre. Occasionally, however, an adaptation will come …
read moreThe Cross of St. Kamina flag
I wasn't following it closely, but I didn't have to. Ubu has all the important details.
UPDATE: Animanachronism.
read moreTNK on Gundam 08th MS Team
Found in a pile of old notes is a review at TNK, written with some pathos:
Visually, 08th MS Team is probably the strongest Gundam series ever. Its use of heavy shadows and sense of scale with the mechanoids is something truly magnificent, unseen outside of itself and Gundam 0083 …
read moreBrickmuppet on Chobits
Ken reviews Chobits and produces this (I'm going to ignore spoiling considerations, because of the series' age):
I didn't mind the fellow sort of adopting the "Chobit" after realizing he might have an emergent AI and trying to help "her" along he was ethical to do so...that was cute …
read moreef ruins
In ep.8 they finally explained what the pesistent imagery of ruins was.
It means "ruins of the past" (I forgot what it was originally, but I thought it was an ok translation. Not that I would know anything.). But did they seriously expect anyone to figure it out? In …
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