Brickmuppet defies the broadcast order nazis to produce this:
read moreHaruhi Suzumia is bored...completely...utterly...bored. She dispairs of her banal existance and wants desperatly to do interesting and unusual things and by golly she is going to try to make said things happen!
This is, on the surface, a …
Nodame stayed good throughout, and there's very little I can add to the original "it puts the com back into romcom", although the show is certainly is more than just that. In the end it was "come for com, stay for direction".
Characters were quite appealing. I especially liked the …
read more[This, obviously, has to spoil. But you knew that Chiaki and Noda had to get together in the end, right? They are in the OP after all!]
The OP was quite good, despite the 3D instruments.
The exclamation catalog [being updated, keep suggestions coming]:
The thing with Simoun is that, really, there isn’t any kind of real story to it. Events only really happen in this show in order to force the characters into particular situations for the sake of inter-character drama - it’s a show which revolves entirely around it’s …read more
After the revolutionary1 deal of brazen product placement in Geass, few people even mentioned the logo of Yamaha in Nodame.
I imagine it makes the licensing more difficult, although it did not stop Geass from being imported.
UPDATE: Look at an excellent example at Karmaburn: Haagen-Dazs in Kara no …
read moreThe today's article at Claiming Ground is rather long by the standards of blogs, and constructed in vintage SDB style: 75% introduction, 20% argument ("foo-porn" (gun porn, airplane porn, drink porn), in this case facial expression porn). While being essentially spoiler-free, it makes some claims, like: "Just like pornography, True …
read moreSeen in yet another season review:
[Torako] lives up to her tsundere reputation from the start and strikes me as infuriatingly rude. It was really frustrating watching Ryūji suffer through her constant volleys of abuse without throwing anything back, and indeed, whether or not you can enjoy Toradora! much at …read more
We nearly had a mutiny a the club meeting yesterday, because members present were not enthusiastic about watching Sketchbook. Someone even floated an emergency proposal to switch to Toradora for the slot.
In the end we proceeded as planned, and so I watched Sketchbook beyond the point I dropped it …
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