tl;dr (ok, I lied: I did mostly read it, but I'm too unfamiliar with the material to comment)
read moreThe Anti-TAF or the TAF-Next
John mentioned that a bunch of holdings such as Geneon and Media Factory "have announced plans" to set up an alternative event at Makuhari Messe event center in Chiba, across the bay from Odaiba, on the same date. This is taking things beyond the mere boycott and makes them interesting …
read moreDon on Katanagatari
The man of excquisite taste pushes Katanagatari like mad, and succeeds: I'm sold.
Initially, Katanagatari seems formulaic: find the sword that gives the episode its name; learn the history of the sword’s owner; get the sword. Then comes episode four, in which we get to know Shichika’s frail …
read moreAorii on Moribito
An unnecessarily spoiling review at Major Arcana finds deficiencies:
read more[..] what comes out is a vividly imaginative fantasy adventure that falls only one aspect short of ‘epic’.
[..] In the end, what I felt Seirei no Moribito lacked was scale. It failed to expand the scope after the initial focus to bring …
Hayase on Yamato movie
Cute Proxy turns to classics and fortunately this time it is not some Eva movie or Haruhi movie that I can't stand anymore:
In spite of the nicely done animation, the movie started veering into boring territory half-way. A major culprit was the choice of music for the battle scenes …
read moreHSA on Kurage-hime 10
Authors and commenters at Hey Say Anime agree: there is no way for this show to end in one episode. Also, hilarious screencaps.
Although I want to make one thing clear: the anime/manga habit of having people slap each other all the time is so effin’ annoying!
You mean …
read moreNova on PSG
He seems not enthralled:
Thus the most experimental show in the season grinds to an end. It was about time too as it was steadily losing steam over its run.
... however...
PSG was a nice change to the usual anime routine and the various tricks Gainax was playing around with …
read moreRewatching Lucky Star
This turned out to be the greatest linguistic challenge yet. I maybe get 5% of what's being said. The problem is mostly in the casual. Vocabulary, certainly, but the turns of phrase are odd and the sentences are so long that I cannot keep up. There is very little action …
read moreSpiraling into the nasty
The NSFW post by a new writer at CSW does its utmost to establish the stereotypes of eroge as the vehicle of violence against women and thus does very little to interest me in the area. Choux was a more effective ambassador.
P.S. CSW is already on notice after …
read moreChoux's screen
In before an avalanche of spoiling screencaps, one observation:
read moreToday, I have come across an epiphany: one of the reasons that I read a lot of VNs is because my computer can’t play HD anime. Now, I have a new computer which allows me to watch 1080p videos on …