It's not like I was a big fan of the original Galaxy Angel, but somehow I managed to pick an idea that Galaxy Angel A was improved over it. After renting a DVD, I suspect that I confused it with Nanoha and Nanoha As. The comedy seemed flat, uninteresting.
The …
read morePrompted by an enthusiastic blogging friend, I rented Negima. Big mistake. Of course, I made sure to get the correct series, as the screencap attests.
I don't even want to go into explanations of why and how Negima failed; it's a combination of factors that made it unpleasant, some possibly …
read moreOn RIUVA:
The similarities are striking, with GA also being adapted from that kind of manga and featuring a group of girls doing their hobby. But unlike K-ON, which was a bit mundane, dull and unfunny, GA is not only educationally informative, it is also very witty and well-written gag-moe …read more
Spot the glaring omission in the list of Candidates for License:
read moreUPDATE: Why isn't anyone talking to J.C. Staff? Think of all the wonderful shows they've produced which no one has licensed for R1?
Mahoraba
Potemayo
Nodame Cantabile
HayateAnd in the second tier:
The final report may be heavily spoiling, so I wasn't paying close attention, but at heast he finished the show, and that counts for something.
read moreI noted a few other posts aside from Bluemist's.
Evirus writes: "The best show of Spring 2009 is Hatsukoi Limited. A mostly wistful look at first love, Hatsukoi Limited is a textbook example of how J.C. Staff can succeed wildly when it plays to its strengths."
Girls seems to …
read moreI glanced across his report, and Bakemonogatari appears exactly as expected: a hotly anticipated Shinbo's production after the stop-gap show of Arashi. It seems a bit too violent for my taste though, I'm not sure I'm going to follow.
This blog is in a danger of turning into "Aro-note" for …
read moreHe's sticking with it for another week, but there are reservations:
read moreI’m really liking the stories that this show is trying to tell, and Plug got some great development this week that nicely offsets her from the supergirl Aresta without making them antagonistic to each other, but the fanservice …
