The 3rd volume of Rocket Girls turned out to contain the extras, including the pilot episode (I think it's the episode that a studio made when selling the show to sponsors). I thought I'd have an apoplexy from rage. The art is just amazing, especially if we compare it with …
read moreThe Pink Sylphide prepares for Haibane Renmei
Christopher Fritz documents the goings-on, including issues with the cover art. At this point I feel that Haibane Renmei is merely one of the only three or four greatest series ever and thus it's far above animeblogger's poor power to add or detract. So, I only anticipate some unique insight …
read moreMatthew is back!
I don't know what made to re-visit the blog... but today I discovered that Matthew is alive and updated 10 days ago. Can Momotato be far behind (aside from the yearly post, obviously)?
In the post, Matthew talked about the the season, and this is what he wrote about Kannagi …
read moreMike on ToLove-ru
Having established [the philosophical underpinnings of "good"], ToLoveRu is good. It is not good with regard to popular consensus; neither is it good with critical criteria. It is, however, good inasmuch as a fanservice anime can be good: it provides a plethora of compromising positions, a hesitant lead …
read moreAscaloth on Nodame 03
We hear a lot of complaints from manga readers about Nodame Paris being butchered badly, and I for one tend not to give them much credence. But this time, Ascaloth backs complaints with line items which are pretty damning. Although it was pretty obvious that Nodame Paris was badly chopped …
read moreKannagi begins
It's too early to tell where Kannagi is going, so it's the fluid animation that left the biggest impression. Unfortunately, it's difficult to capture without the help of an animated GIF, so I'm going to use words.
I glanced through reactions to Kannagi quickly, and it appears that nobody except …
read moreKannagi cast interviews
J1m0ne went into trouble of transcribing and translating (partially) interviews with the cast and staff of Kannagi. So, the director is a sadist? I hope they include these interviews on the DVD.
read moreNodame Paris 04
This was a difficult episode and I'm beginning to think that Zyl's method was more appropriate than my pig-headed obsession. In particular, I did not understand what the Chinese dude's intrusion was about at all.
The 3D continues to annoy me. Instruments in the original Nodame were ok, only hands …
read moreSports anime
As I mentioned in the season update, One Outs is being talked about, if not as a top drawer show. Now the apologists of sports anime made their point in Jen's comments (hat tip: saturnine). Impz summed it up thus:
read moreI cannot agree more. The issue with such shows is …
Yomiuri on Kannagi
I saved a few articles to post after I start watching. A couple of weeks ago, Daily Yomiuri Online took the usual creator-oriented angle (link may go bad eventually, because of Yomiuri's strange expiration policies):
read moreKannagi is drawing particular attention among the many anime shows that started broadcasting this month …