9. Sasa on the Autumn

   A rather longish list is up on Heterochromia. Sasa is behind on most shows, but for me it's not a problem. I've just finished Toradora 03 yesterday too. I love it when people make an effort to summarize the shows briefly, even when we strongly disagree (e.g. Sasa is …

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10. Sasa on the Winter

    Oh snap, she tricked me into double-posting, but I cannot help myself. Very interesting, and looks like a rich season.

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11. Portmanteau words in Nodame

    This observation is not new or unique to Nodame, but still: Japanese sure like their 2+2 syllable shortenings.

    

    Examples include:

    • ジミヘン / "jimi hen": Jimi Nendrix, made in the same way as Kane-tomo refers to Tomoko Kaneda.
    • セクハラ / "seku hara": Seksual Hara …

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12. pyTivo

    At last I have discovered a tool which allows my TiVo to download videos from a Linux system: pyTivo (the "wgw" version worked for me).

    

    Unfortunately, I don't have anything that my family would like... Mushishi is about the only thing, but that is available on DVD.

    UPDATE: While I'm …

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13. J.P.Meyer on To Heart

    J.P. tells us what makes To Heart different (with spoilers, but hey, how old is this show?):

    I can’t quit put my finger on it, but To Heart has a certain something, a je ne sais quoi if you will, the prevents me from automatically hating it in …

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14. Nomad Otto on Nodame's French

    Nomad's boss, BigN, made me read the post till the end, and I found something with which to disagree:

    Alright, so, you have Nodame, a notorious screw-up, in a foreign country. Obviously, she’s not going to speak the language at first, so, you have an episode of grace in …

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15. Evirus on Macademy

    Karmaburn:

    I don’t know how I made it through the first episode. It’s God awful. It’s worse than Cosprayers, easily. It might even be worse than Limeiro CROSS.

    This looks like a showdown, and honestly, from what I've seen (the YouTube clips) I'm leaning towards Evirus' side …

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16. Nodame, a Visual Retrospective

    Nodame is a tough object for this excercise, because it produced a record number of screencaps: 646 (for a comparison, in Gurren-Lagann I only thought the frame remarkable enough to capture 240 times). With wittling so ruthless there's a real danger to lose the essence of the anime. It's going …

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17. Saturnine vs. Imaginary Weaboos

    Owen bestowed upon us a post entitled "The Raw Delusion: Stick to Subtitles, You Poseurs". For an inexplicable reason he posits that the badass raw watchers (BRW) claim, verbatim: "1. You can learn Japanese from watching anime". I don't know where he got a basis for the assumption he ascribes …

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18. Lupus on mental bandwidth

    With an editorial at THAT, Lupus joins the raw revolution:

    Ever since I started watching a show twice - once with subtitles and once without - I realised just how much the subtitles get in the way of focusing on the visuals. Little details in animation or background or direction, things that …

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