Ascaloth of RIUVA asked in passing what has happened to blogging Nodame Cantabile ~Paris-hen~ at Ani-nouto. The answer is, lack of interest happened. Although the ep.06 was rather strong by the standards of Paris-hen, and I enjoyed Chiyaki going undercover, the sequel is just not measuring up to the …
read moreAria and Naruto
While watching ep.11, a thought has occured to me that I have seen this exact design before: two generations of three.
I am explicitly not trying to build any equivalencies between specific characters, because obviously it's futile (although, Aika is as stupid and hiperactive as Naruto, to the letter …
read moreImportant comunication from SDB-sempai
Brickmuppet on Rocket Girls
The post is mostly a retelling, but here's the summary:
We live in an age when technology is often portrayed as an implacable enemy of nature and humanity, when our young adults are coddled and infantalized as "mere children" into their late 20s and where great deeds, idealism and aspiration …
read moreWhat I was forced to watch... #3
In an intermission at the club, they were showing "Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series". That stuff is seriously funny most of the time, IMHO. Available on YouTube (2 million views, not bad).
read moreAria's mechanical oddities
The French Press is only seen once, but the senseless staircase occurs no less than three times.
What's odd, I've seen one (and only one) rendition of it, where it was offset properly, so it's not even consistently senseless.
read moreCrunchy Naruto or whatever
The Twitter was on fire today with Scott The Pundit and whoerver hangs off his feed (t1, t2); they even managed to wake Gia. For some reason though, I just cannot muster enough caring about Shippuuden near-simulcast and Crunchy getting into it too. Maybe I should... Omo did, after all …
read moreChris Fritz's DMoTR
TheBigN and Aria
I'm still plugging away at Aria, currently past 09 (the Grandma). I took a notice SDB's evaluation, or, rather, the rank, but what he wrote in support of it seemed not very persuasive. However, I remember a Russian professional review of Azumanga (I cannot find it now), where the reviewer …
read moreWashi on Allison and Lillia
The review at Wakaranai hits the right tone in general. It is a good stuff throughout, which pains me to trim (such as the bland directon), but I would like to comment on the adventure part:
read more[] Allison and Lillia pulsates with light-hearted energy and tries diligently to capture the pure …