The capsule summary is "Kannagi is this season’s pleasant surprise."
BTW, the picture of a mall looks terribly familiar, but the documentation that I have from my TAF visit says that the only similar passage can be Oazo Building, and it uses a different color scheme for its columns …
read moreAccording to ANN, Funi sues a group of affiliated retailers over bootlegs (via). The chief import of this action is how it gives them the moral authority to talk about the evils of downloads. The issue of bootleg DVDs was mentioned before on this blog, and Discount Anime DVD was …
read moreI finally got around to reading Owen's Itazura na Kiss round-up. He reminded me that it was noticeable in the reactions how feminist brainwashing pressed on minds of some (in particular Jen's screed had way more seething than what Owen quoted in the round-up). As for not taking anime seriously …
read moreOne of the best things about anime is finding something unexpectedly enjoyable. After the failure of Hyakko, I triggered a surprisingly robust discussion about it on #animeblogger yesterday. All sorts of suggestions were offered, including really weird stuff like One Outs. But in the end it's down to established leaders …
read moreHashi-hime calls the second season "very beautiful and extremely visually inventive", with "many images ... entrancing". And then, "the plot, characters, music, and visual and dramatic rhythms are pretty special, too." I'm still not watching it, because I'm concerned about its competition with the original in my mind. But I'm happy …
read moreSince Netflix was already primed (in fact, I saved ISOs for later), I finished Marimite despite it being pretty clear not to be a show for me. I did skip quite a bit though.
Overall, it was a bad experience. The art was nasty throughout; while not a deciding factor …
read moreI read the manga at the recent club meeting and liked it, so I picked its derivative, Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san OVA.
The art is very cute, but there's basically no material in it: only 11 minutes of running time. It's longer than Azumanga VSM or Strike Witches OVA, but unlike …
read moreIndex was on my radar since SDB posted an impromptu round-up of positive reactions. I'm just saying, in case anyone thinks I only read Sixten's notes because of the link to Ani-nouto. He talks primarily about the adaptation issues, which I usually discount due to "poisoned by manga" phenomenon, but …
read moreThe announcement that Toei joins GONZO in a distribution deal with Crunchyroll does not seem like a big deal to me, considering just what they want to distribute. It's as if they selected the worst titles in their collection on purpose. But in reality... they probably did! I see an …
read moreread more[] The process for Index Ep 4 went something like:
Raw: Very superficial understanding. Overall impression was that the fight scene was unnecessarily interrupted by an over-long dialogue between Touma and Kaori.
Chinese sub: My Chinese reading isn’t all that good either, especially for traditional (rather than …