Prompted by e-mail from Chris and continuing truncation at Sekai, I examined the feeds a bit with curl(1), and it seems that WP continues to truncate them, at least when the XML is fetched by a simple-minded client (like the Planet code which Sekai uses). Google Reader somehow manages …
read moreNarue begins... and ends
Raising good little cogs for the enviro-industrial complex
As seen Don's place:
Dino Squad — yet another reason to stick to anime. (Via Tim Blair.)
To be fair, anime has its share of this. Let's remember the infamous Arjuna, the Earth Maiden. On the other hand, it's not always the straight party line. In J2, creators portrayed a school …
read moreLucky Star animation quality
In an early beach episode of Lucky Star, I saw a picture of Kuroi-sensei downing a glass:
It reminded me immediately about something else, seen at Penny Arcade:
I also told a story during the panel about the Oblivion comic we did a few days ago. See I wanted Gabe …
read moreRocket Girls and Danny Choo
Danny made a post about a new(?) figurine of Yukari of Rocket Girls and asked:
Never did get round to finishing off Rocket Girls but after seeing this figure am thinking of picking it up again - any thoughts on the anime?
I wrote about it before:
As an anime, it …
read moreThe golden age is now
I watched a couple of episodes of NieA_7 back to back with some Lucky Star, and the contrast was quite striking. I haven't seen the 2006 Kanon, but it's clear that KyotoAni know their stuff.
I mean, you just look at these confining lines! Not only drawing in Lucky …
read moreShingu and hubbub?
BigN wrote (elsewhere) about "the hubbub about it [Shingu] these past couple of weeks". With all due respect, this's not hubbub. The hubbub is going to happen when Jason Miao sees the facial distortions.
I'll be first to note that Nayuta is not doing what is known as "panteon class …
read moreBeta Waffle on Shingu
DiGiKerot didn't jump on the bandwagon, because he was running in front of it, and so he attempts to inject the conventional wisdom into the discourse. Needless to say, I do not feel like agreeing, but he makes some good points (e.g. OP should have showed more characters), so …
read moreShingu: We've got Omo
Well, it was rather Jeff than "we" who "got" him, but anyway, welcome to the bandwagon club [link].
Ever encounter a situation when you find yourself totally appreciating something that is well-constructed, beautiful, meaningful, and unique, but totally unable to enjoy it?
Indeed, I can see people having a problem …
read moreParallel Dual ends
Well... I suppose not every anime is Haibane Renmei.
The harem formula in Dual is the same as in Zero no Tsukaima: the chosen girl (the original Mitsuki) is fairly nasty, and an alternative exists which is far superior (Mitsuki II), but due to various circumstances the male lead is …
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