Nodame Cantabile was a bad mistake on my part. The premise seemed completely uninteresting to me and I tuned out all the blogging about it. But in the event, it offers extremely entertaining character comedy. Especially Milch is an enigma and an amalgam of ordinarily incompatible traits. But everyone else …
read moreThe Pink Sylphide on sexualization
Apparently I trolled Christopher into giving a serious consideration to the question, but I'm not sorry: he produced a bunch of pretty screencaps and a meaningful discourse.
read moreBateszi on True Tears
read moreI liked it. A lot.
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Thinking back to a dramatic crescendo or two, True Tears does often twist like a slightly cliché, soapy love story, but this existential willingness to look beyond superficial emotion, to find a sad, warm reason behind all the pain, lies and deceit of normal …
Otou on Blassreiter
Shameful Otaku Secret (SOS?) posts a comprehensive and entertaining review of Blassreiter. Among other things, it talks about the role Blassreiter plays in the Gonzo's foray into the downloads, its style and basic premise, etc. It was quite enough information for me to reject the show with confidence. For some …
read moreRyan on raws
Strike Witches ship 10,000 DVDs
News goes around (via) that Strike Witches v.1 R2 DVD was a success not seen since Vandread. I wasn't able to confirm this, because Oricon is impossible to navigate, the worst website ever. The thread on 2chan that Canned Dogs referred was archived.
BTW, it's a good news for …
read moreThe Pink Sylphide opens Aria
Christopher says:
DVD thinpack covers? Beautiful. DVD faces using same artworks as covers? Absolutely gorgeous. It’s nice to see DVDs that look so beautiful.
That's what I thought, too. But now, a question is burning me: is the cover "sexualized"?
I had to watch this episode three times (over …
read moreMarimite and Shingu
Over the course of the last two months, I coaxed myself through 7 complete episodes and 10 minutes into ep.08 of Marimite. I even started thinking about completing it, when three days ago I accidentially thought: "School government in Shingu was so much more fun", and it was the …
read moreBrickmuppet on Gurren-Lagann
Fans of works vs. fans of creators