It's a great production and I didn't like it at all.
This is disappointing, because I see the strengths in Plus. But the characters sucked. It's most apparent when looking at The 08th: Shiro is better than Isamu, Aina is better than Myung, Norris is better than Guld. Villains, too …
read moreIt seems there’s still some confusion about what Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk’s OP means. Is it a hint as to the real nature of the world: are they all actually just playing an MMORPG? I think that’s a brilliant idea, but unfortunately …read more
Calaggie was rushing into Scott's camp of Lucky Star appreciation and added the following tidbit, no doubt useful to establish credibility:
I simply have no intention of watching Azumanga ever again because I’ll see the jokes and their setups coming from a mile away and thus would be wasting …read more
Cameron's post reminded me to check on the progress of VIZ's theater project, which I mentioned previously. They're still at it:
The nation's first J-Pop mall is in the works in San Francisco, created by Japanese film distributor Viz Pictures, and will feature a Japanese-only film theater, bookstore, café and …read more
There was a lot of usual profanity at the post, but:
Yeah, I liked Lucky Star. No, I won’t concede on the points made in my landmark Lucky Star post. They still stand. Just, Lucky Star turned out to be enjoyable. The comedy was decent and the slice of …read more
I don't want to call it "food porn", and unfortunately, "foodservice" means something else, so here we just have food. Nothing quite as intricate as food in Azumanga, but nice nonetheless. We start with perhaps not the best drawing ever, but the one to represent something special:
Dual: Shark fin …
read moreThrowing a mere child (who has led an especially sheltered life too) into a very grown-up world of thugs, secret agents and mystery makes for a fantastic culture clash - the setup is a winning formula similar in some ways to Luc Besson’s classic crime thriller Leon.
Good …
read moreApropos the Funi thing (noticed by Astro), here's what AoDers were saying (although they talked about mostly in the context of The Strongest Disciple Kenichi, not the Il Teatrino):
<UEHacker> Once again, Funi should stop licensing stuff and release what they have firstread more
<DarkSong> man, why is funi liescencing crap …
The first quarter of Macross Plus was just bad: no sympathetic character in sight. Aside from being unpleasant, everyone is cartoonish, from behavioural patterns down to the facial features (I can only cut some slack for Myung).
With no hope for help from characters, show leans heavily on gadgets, which …
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