The long article at Claiming Ground was interesting to me mostly because Arjuna probably helped me to become sufficiently disgusted with enviroprop enough to see through the dirty tricks Al Gore pulled with the poor bear years later. But by now I cannot see the show other than through the …
read moreDruaga 10 (late)
Tower of Druaga is full of mysteries. I am a bit intrigued, but god help the creators if they use them for sequels. This time we learn a little bit about the mysterious duo of ghosts (I call the blue one H1 and the tan one H2), but not too …
read moreNew Haruhi
I was busy with life for a couple of days, and now I'm not only missing the Tower of Druaga, but completely overwhelmed by the bloggage. I think, one most important note is the designs of new Haruhi at Canned Dogs.
They should've given it to Toei, for lulz. But …
read moreRescue Me Mave-chan
Mave-chan is a one-episode OVA, blurbed thus:
One day ... he is transported to another dimension where the jet planes from the anime, Yukikaze, take on the form of beautiful girls fighting a never-ending battle against the JAM.
And it was only $7.99+tax. How could I pass it?
It …
read moreConcrete Badger on Allison and Lillia
opens with:I’m so strongly in two minds about Allison & Lillia: on one hand it’s old-school style feelgood entertainment that had me glued to the screen from start to finish; on the other hand the direction and screenplay writing are so amateurish that it was enough to make …
read moreOmo on anime cons
Omo shares some tips. I think, they are quite sensible. He mentions commuting, but I never commute to a con. It's just... not the same.
BTW, one small note:
I don’t have any real numbers to back this up, but I bet more people go to any major west-coast …
read moreSDB on Haruhi
Steven posted a review of [Melanholy of] Haruhi [Suzumiya], which reiterated and assembled the points he has made before.
I only have a few small bones to pick... Firstly, Haruhi is not "gorgeous", only pretty; Ryoko is gorgeous. Also, I think Kyon is somewhat interesting character, so "Cliche" is not …
read moreRomance distilled
I'm struggling with Rumbling Hearts. I was tempted to write "I hate Jeff Lawson" [*] for lulz, but truthfuly, the problem is that every and all romance series disturb me. I can only watch them piece by piece, so, for example, Myself;Yourself is at ep.3 offset 06:18 currently …
read moreDruaga 09
The 09 was an exposition episode, full of flashbacks and informational dialog. Young Ahmey was such a cutie pie.
Speaking of whom, looks like Ubu was only half-right. Ahmey was in the Uruk army and was aquainted with Kelb, but she retired three years ago. It doesn't look like she's …
read moreFansub dorama
Apparently, a washed-up hack of a translator is trying to gain views on his Youtube video by pumping up a dorama. Icy is ripping him a new one at length, while Hinano takes the other side ("ex-fansubber", remember). Do I even have to link to this?
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