It's Thursday, and I feel a little emptiness. While I tried to fill it with Allison and Lillia, the result wasn't wholly satisfactory. The biggest issue — and I would never think I come to saying this — Nopants Witches offer a much better story than Allison &! offers.
To begin with, the …
read moreFrom the random TiVo catch comes an episode of Inuyasha where he, Sesshomaru, and their antourage visit their father's grave. Things we watched in the VHS age!
For some reason the ED fascinated me, especially the Ferris wheel sequence. It looked exotic.
read moreDaniel continues to reflect upon politics in Manabi. Many Western viewers latch on analogies with the 1923 Beer Putsch and Hitler's famous speech, even though they know that the swastika is reversed. Daniel uses the Great Leap forward instead:
read moreRegardless of whether or not that reference was intended, the scene …
Sasa is first out of the gate with a rather complete list. She's not posting summaries like Hashi-hime, but she provided links to original websites. Some of them I can almost read... Here's one for Hyakko:
いつも楽しく、元気に盛り上がる …read more
I sure burn through them quickly. On the heels of the Shuffle disaster come Kirameki Project and Mokke. I really don't want to say anything bad about Mokke, it's just unsophisticated, primitive a bit. Kirameki though... It's one of those shows where creators think that anime watchers are dumb, I …
read moreI was intrigued by the promise of airplanes in Allison and Lillia, and so kept the series on the list. But before plunging head first into a 13-ep batch download, decided for a quick peek at one of the numerous flash sites.
There were some issues, to be sure. The …
read moreThe series appears to be embarrasingly stupid. I could not even find a decent screenshot to show.
Steven went a little deeper into it, and wrote more about it.
I heard that Kaede was a canonical yandere, which would be curious to watch perhaps. But I cannot make myself to …
read moreI'm done with Strike Witches and I'm going to celebrate. The episode 06 wasn't anything special, but it was nice.
The blog resolution does not give this eyecatch justice. And of course, frozen wastelands is the stereotype used here, only made cute.
Sanya at night (episode prologue).
Is this Ford …
read moreDaniel completed Figure 17 and has a few ideas on reflection.
I still cannot remember what THE SCENE was, or perhaps again: I have a vague feeling that I e-mailed Jeff Lawson with a question, he replied, and I cannot find the e-mail now. DVDs are gone back to Netflix …
read moreZyl opens Blassreiter thus:
read moreSo, in addition to Mentar carefully anticipating and answering all my objections and worries (principally GONZO, then again Seto no Hanayome was enjoyable too - are they finally getting their act together?), there was also the invocation of the Shizuka Itou Doctrine for MOAR pink-haired kick arse …