Seen in Cracker Barrel store in Albuquerque: Speed Racer and Annie Oakley.
The future of our country is assured.
read moreIn a good company
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The Fourth Titan
When I regard my anime favourites, I see a big gap between the few I consider truly great, and the best of the rest. Azumanga Daioh, Manabi Straight, and Haibane Renmei tower over the crowd of lesser shows like three titans of anime series.
Actually, this picture is obsolete, because …
read moreWindy Tales 01
Windy Tales (風人物語) is one of the few anime to which I excuse the lack of a big budget. By using delicate hints and motions, Windy Tales accomplishes what entries such as Soul Eater and Kaiba attempted in the arts department.
Unfortunately, the story peters out after …
read moreOmo on To Heart
Omo takes a historical perspective and reminds us just how groundbreaking To Heart was. I wasn't intimately connected with anime at the time of To Heart's impact, and, seeing much later, took it as yet another show to be seen, graded, pigeonholed, and dutifuly blogged. And it was good. It …
read moreLittle notes for Sekirei
Hopefuly the coverage of Sekirei comes to an end at Ani-nouto. Unless someone like Lawson or Badger suddenly produces an amazing reflection post that I can link, these small notes are it.
- If a programmer wrote the script, Yume would've been #0 [but see also the discussion of numbers below …
Things Aroduc was wrong about
Ubu writes that, contrary to Aroduc's assertion (which Ubu forgot to link, tsk tsk), Sekirei ep.12 is "not introducing new characters at the end; all of those have been shown before, most in that episode." While technically true, Aroduc's point still stands: creators were gunning for a sequel.
Since …
read moreTo Heart omake 6 in the thinpack
I wasn't going to unwrap the thinpack that I just bought for a while, but Omo reminded me to re-check the omake 6. Turned out, it uses the same bleak video that original American release and not the cleaned-up version from my Japanese DVDs.
It's still great though and I …
read moreNew order arrived
Delivery was strangely quick this time.
The box is unexpectedly large, and full of corn. I hate shipping corn. I hoped for a 12x9x6 box, but it looks like I only get useful boxes when I order with the cheap-ass shipping.
I heard some good things about Futari Ecchi. Gurren …
read moreSekirei quick round-up
People's minds just aren't working the way I want them. Apparently the best bloggers were capable of doing was summing up the details and bringing more details over from manga. It's not bad as such, but we need someone of SDB's caliber to re-analyze the show. Sadly, there's no mecha …
read moreSekirei 12 at Moero Amazon
Chihiro (the group) is not done yet, but Japanese have reactions:
両手で2人を掴んでは、大空に向かってポイ捨て。これには皆さん呆然とするばかり。
Pouzen bakari, huh …
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