Ep.02 is about Hyakko antagonizing Tatsuki and not receiving any comeuppance (while they hop school clubs). I guess creators extracted wrong lessons from Tomo/Yomi and Konata/Kagami.
The best part of the show is the commercials. I noted especially the LadyGuard: the drug that makes women pee less …
read moreMy R1 set came in today (all hail Bandai!), so I gave it a first look. I did not see any differences so far, perhaps they start later (every difference that I have saved occurs later). The picture is crisper, and that's all. Scaling it down for the blog hurt …
read moreThe second episode served to make it up to me a little, as characters improved a bit. Tanya was absent altogether and Frank de-emphasized; more characters appeared and made somewhat positive impression.
The animation still looks alien and even defective, however, in a shocking sign of progress, conducting was animated …
read moreThis episode left me yawning, sadly. Nodame has trouble in school and has to get herself together to overcome it yet again... sounds very familiar. Frank and Tanya seem a shade better now, but not anything special.
Another thing, the compression of the source is becoming too noticeable now. When …
read moreA post at Nakama Britannica made me consider my local club, which does not seem to be at risk of imminent collapse. One curious thing about it was, very few polled members visited the local convention ("Otakumex"). Perhaps, contrary to what Paul implied with comparisons to conventions, different sets of …
read moreAccording to a post somewhere [NSFW] (via), they removed the pretty censoring strips and Nico-nico styled comments. Honestly, I'm very disappointed. Dropping the steam and foreground objects is a time honored tradition, but this?
UPDATE: Sankaku Complex reports [NSFW] generally poor quality on the DVD. I'm so sad... It was …
read moreI wasn't going to see the Paris extension of Nodame ("Paris-ben"), but a picture at the official website had Kuroki in it, so I decided to check it out after all. The impression is rather negative, mostly on the account of the new characters. Both Frank and Tanya feel stilted …
read moreDemian writes that "the “love stories” it [ef] contained were trite, superficial, and above all boring", but it displayed "lush visuals" and is a "beautiful, almost sublime show."
Really makes me wish the show had a Makoto Shinkai movie level budget to work with, cause we all love floating clouds …read more
While the whole blogosphere hotly anticipates Dai Hahou Touge at Chizumatic, Hikago has already seen it.
From what little I know of the mahou shoujo genre, there seems to be very little biting commentary on tropes common to the parodied genre, instead we get a lot of violence to fill …read more
