A chance comment at Chizumatic reminded me that I did not have the Azumanga Daioh 10th Anniversary Supplement, so I ordered it. Amazon also suggested something called "Yotsuba Stajio", so I ordered that too.
Yotsuba Stajio turned out to have about as much with Yotsuba as Azumanga Recycle did with …
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Left to right: original light novel, English light novel, R1 DVD set. I suppose all I miss is some kind of Naoko Yamazaki trinklet, perhaps a mission patch.
I also got Cat Shit One on DVD. It's not really anime and the photo came out poorly, so just trust me …
read moreLook who's peeking through the Great Firewall of China:
read moreThe recap episode to Kimi ni Todoke was one of the stranger ones I’ve seen. To watch it you’d think that Kurume was the main character, a lonely, flawed girl, desperate in love, and that the shy, gangly, long-haired …
The most important thing about the Funimation lawsuit is that the suit has characteristics of massive "John Doe" lawsuit, the likes of which were considered in the paper "Large Recording Companies v. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations", by Ray Beckerman (published in …
read moreThe sequel to the all-conquering K-ON is surprisingly different from the original. Certainly not Futakoi Alternative different, and not even Kanon different, but still very much different. The direction was squarely aimed at extracting maximum from the "cute girls doing cute things" angle and extremely deliberate. Remember how Azusa was …
read moreI think this was a valliant effort at uniqueness through pointlessness in slapstick humour. But it didn't connect, although I gave it an episode beyond Falce's arrival, in case the end of harem formation brought out something interesting.
Actually, the oft-repeated claim of uniqueness is a bit overdone, I think …
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