As seen at Spaceflight Now today:
The orbiter was nicknamed Kaguya after thousands of suggestions were submitted to JAXA by members of the public. The probe was named after a character in a popular ancient Japanese folktale.
They are talking about this:
I'm afraid I'll have to research that girl …
read moreAs seen at Wakaranai, MyAnimeList is a yet another attempt at creating an anime list site. This is not anything new, for example ANN has this feature as well, here's one list I know: Nanobot. Another example is AnimeSeen. Finally there's a number of ad-hoc lists. Seems like getting crowded …
read moreFollowing a hint from an ancient blog entry, I visited TV.com. Here's the result:
Naruto descended to #4, but it's still within the leading pack, ribbing with the broadcast shows which I've never seen.
Actually, all such online rankings are poorly ordered and easily stuffed, I just find it …
read moreBy its nature this is going to spoil, and not just RahXephon, but Lain et al.
Animation issues were obvious from the start. They've really overdone it on the clean look and reduced number of fill patterns, and it detracts a lot. The [background] art was beautiful …
read moreWell, this was pretty tremendous. The storytelling in RahXephon is convoluted like in Lain, but the story makes a touch more sense. Or, rather, it meshes with characters better.
One thing is certain: there's nothing like good Engrish to lighten the mood.
Liked: Yes for quality, no personally.
Rewatch: Possibly …
Why do I continue to watch this silly show? Maybe because it's beautiful (this statement is not meant to endorse Kanon 2006).
Almost there... BTW, I was told that A.F.K. is a one man show. There are a few channel ops and host managers, but all of the …
read moreBluemist noticed Direct-Anime, went into a tl;dr mode. I am ready to fight with scrappers, but so far there wasn't a cause. Direct-Anime pulls from Antenna, not from me, so the decision to poison their feed and/or block them rests with my provider, because all AB blogs are …
read moreWhen commenters at Avatar's place discussed "Gatefold" packaging versus the conventional plastic box, a thought occured to me that it's comparing bad with worse. I do not really care which one. But what I really would like publishers do is to devise a packaging which holds a DVD at the …
read moreAfter finishing Nadesico, the obvious follow-up is VanDread.
I don't even need to pencil any remarks, I'll just type them in for an extra touch of immediacy.
