The art is so beautiful. But the titular character is what makes Galko so enjoyable. I love in particular how innocent she is. Galko has far too many other good qualities as well, bordering on Mary Sue in fact. But when comparing this to, say, Watamote, what do you rather …
read moreWatching KimiUso 08 with wife, and: "Heh, this girl is so going to die." "Oh, totally. It's Japan!"
Over time, I found that it's common or normal for people at large to like anime that I do not care for. Conversely, if I like something, it's natural and proper for …
read moreI followed WanPanMan in-season, so it actually ended quite a while ago, but it took some time to see if I have anything to add to the opening impression. In the end, there wasn't anything. It is still the only anime that I liked which is mostly about great animation …
read moreMr. Kerot lists a few reasons why this Kickstarter is likely to fail:
I'm afraid I'm in agreement... And with this …
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Yet another previously dropped series is restarted and completed. Scrapping the bottom of the barrel? We got it! And Garupan is not all that bad too. Just not all that good either.
One good thing about Garupan is the artificially crazy setting that is designed to disclaim any presence of …
read moreOmo draws the attention to a kickstarter for a true anime, although a 3D one:
read moreI call it an “anime” project in full honesty despite it being produced in the 3DCG style, like Arpeggio or Sidonia, because unlike the other, garden variety, animation projects on Kickstarter, this one is run …
I read the manga, and I cannot believe they went this far, this strong, on the material that they had. It's one thing to make anime from essentially no material, when you have a free hand, like they had in Strike Witches. But it's another thing to pick something already …
read moreRemember how SDB posited that the well crow in Haibane Renmei was Rakka's dog? It was a while since anime induced such flights of fancy in animebloggers, and today it came from an unexpected direction:
read more[I] wondered what the fuck is going on with Hotaru? I am asking valid questions …
Just a few months ago I knew nothing about the title, so when it was announced, I thought it meant "daga, shikashi". Although perhaps it was an intentional pun by the creator. But one way or the other, the original source is a manga about dagashi, or junk snack of …
read moreI know we've been remiss in blogging WanPanMan, but others took upon it. I have some small bones to pick with Zyl, like this:
read moreHowever, while the relationships in Sunred remain essentially static over the course of the two seasons (with similar crises at the end of each), the relationships …