Remember when 6-minute episodes were too short and did not let Keitai Shoujo to showcase its characters properly? The Quiet Morita-san comes in 3-minute chunks! What's more, they pack characterisations into that, and it comes out quite nicely indeed. Amazing, isn't it?
Still, there's not much of general content, just …
read moreThe idea that some animebloggers prefer the art and animation of A-1 in Idolm@ster to that of KyotoAni's classics continues to bother me. I criticized Haruhi for animation lapses myself. But the KyotoAni consistently continued to produce expressive, moving animation with some const-cutting lapses, while A-1 were consistently poor …
read moreIf Miki stole Iori's episode, and Iori stole Yayoi's episode, then whose episode is Yayoi going to steal? Obviously, nobody can steal Miki's episode.
Also! I am unable to find the side story. This week's story is Makoto, password is "KAZOKU", expires on 8/25. The location clue is "TV- …
read moreThis example of feminist-laced claptrap is so perfect that I'm going to give it Google juice:
read moreRitsuko refers to herself as a novice, but she’s been at Studio 765 longer than everyone except the chief, and she’s clearly doing all the heavy lifting. She makes the schedules and …
I am unable to resist the mee-too temptation of the post at Sea Slugs. One can see that the life of episoders is generally similar across the board: you take screencaps, you write it up. Ani-nouto is no different, except for a few small things, and one major thing.
Firstly …
read moreIt's tough to be a loser and know it.
On the other hand Miki is apparently an idiot savant like Yui Hirasawa. Only she's not an idiot.
Seriously though, the storyline of P-san descending into a funnel of being a loser, his desperation, and idols dealing with his increasingly erratic …
read moreThere was a change of guard at Sea Slugs and now we are going somewhere.
Meanwhile, I follow raws with a rewatch at Crunchy, because I miss a lot of basics on the first pass due to my poor Japanese. There wasn't much that I would change in the bloggage …
read moreFractale... Do you remember that thing? Talk about "forgettable". I forgot about it until Aziz of Hailbane.info finished it and his review is as bland and explanatory as the show deserved. Also, almost lost me here:
read moreOf course as the writers intended I completely identified with the “terrorists” cause …
I forgot about Fractale so well, that I had to refer to archives to refresh my memory. There I found that apparently I never blogged an opening bracket, let alone the cancellation. Notes are rather thin and the best is probably this: "the physics do not pass the smell test …
read moreAnd so, we have the beach episode. With no specific personality focus, it added a few welcome touches to a several idols. In particular, Chihaya continued to be developed in rather interesting ways, such as her reaction to girl things. Some of these touches are... obvious, for the lack of …
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