At least, so says Mr. Duck in comments to a random post. Actually, now that I saw a bit more, I would like to tweak my previous comments on Hidamari Sketch a bit. It's not quite as limp as it was in the beginning, but the low grade animation remains …
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Is there anything better than the choco coronet, the signature of Lucky☆Star?
Of course there is!
It's a cream coronet.
These particular examples come from a Russian ethnic food store at Clement near 31st Ave. in San Francisco.
read morePhysical Space
Seen at Anime Diet:
4. DVDs are cool, but they can be such a hassle to keep because they take up physical space. If I can download good subtitled copies and store them on my HD, I can access them so much quicker.
This is why you rip them, duh …
read moreWhen Trees Were Big
When ADV started hating their own customers in public, we sort of forgot that they used to do good. I received the first DVD of RahXephon today, and was reminded how the gentle and cuddly ADV of years past released up to five episodes per DVD on first release.
I …
read moreStelviablogging ahoy
Due to certain circumstances (mostly Jeff's C&C), I've been stelivablogging a lot receintly, more than the show deserved, in fact. Nonetheless, there's more. Using the no-blogging breather I also marathoned the first 10 episodes, conveniently packaged on 3 discs. It was fun, but also I saw lots of errors …
read moreA,e,i,u,e,o,a,o
Saw something curious in Figure 17 yesterday.
Tsubasa and Hikaru are told by their teacher to practice by sounding off a line of vovels: "A,e,i,u,e,o,a,o".
The sequence is not random, it can be found around the net. Google was entirely useless, even with …
read moreMy Neighbour Totoro
Totoro certainly was nice, but not anywhere as dramatic as the iconic titles such as Princess Mononoke. Hardly anything happens at all.
The movie is to be watched for the atmosphere. I'm old enough to remember those 3-wheeled conveyances, but even without that it has a bit of period piece …
read moreTNK and muddying the water
TNK suddenly launched a missive which claims, as far as I can discern, that separating "old school" anime from the "new school" anime is fallacious.
Let’s place Urusei Yatsura next to Love Hina. [...] Both share humongous similarities on a basic level of formula. They tell different stories, with different …
read moreWordpress leaks drafts
I discussed this topic with Astro before, because I saw it happening on his site, but I did not have evidence. But today, my feed reader delivered me a draft of Sasa's long-awaited essay about Iyashikei.
As it turns out, Sasa started on it immediately after she made the announcement …
read moreThe Fifth Beatle
While reading the post about classics at Nigorimasen, I saw a rotating banner with Manabi characters. I encountered it before, Nigorimasen's rotation pool is not vast. But now that I am the number one Manabi fan, something bothers me about it. Who is the extra girl on the left?
She …
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