How can I skip this? It's the twin and nemesis of Stellvia, Vandread. J.P. says:
Vandread is basically what Dragonaut could have been like, assuming that they wanted to make the show silly rather than it being unintentionally funny. In fact Vandread makes jokes about things like gattais that …read more
Actually, I have already decided to give Special A a try after seeing a short blurb at Wonderduck's, but Hung provides a bigger write-up. BTW:
I’m pretty sure Takishima stole this move from Sasuke.
It's not necesserily Sasuke, methinks. We see kagebuyo first as executed by Lee, and Sasuke …
read moreHere's another lesson to look for reasons for judgements rather than judgements themselves. Astro says:
I shouldn’t be surprised that there is terrible anime being made, or even surprised that somebody bothered to sub it. But Jesus, this took the cake as the most horrible thing I’ve ever …read more
Everyone knows the "poisoned by manga" phenomenon, when someone reads the parent manga first and then unable to take an anime adaptation on its face value. Since I never read manga and essentially play no games, I rarely experience it. But, as I mentioned before, Hourglass of Summer, or Natsuiro …
read moreIn comments at Aziz's Nick mentioned that Legend of the Galactic Heroes comes in Japan on 46 DVDs. That's about the size of classic Naruto before the big fillers start, maybe a bit less. J.P. has watched it all.
Seen at Minaide Hazukashii:
I usually describe LoGH as the …read more
It took me quite a while to find this one sentence in the wall of text, but Chris says:
I decided to sell the site to the folks at Mania.com [...] Working with them, I and the entire staff will be taking this site into their larger platform where we …read more
The comments section in an entry on "studiotolatry" at Animanachronism underscores the meteoritic rise of that blog: it looks like Who is Who of anglospheric animeblogging. Only SDB and Omo are MIA, busy with real life no doubt. Jeff Lawson is there too (emphisis is mine):
read moreHonestly, I think a …
The moment of truth has arrived: DRM-free downloads are here. Don says:
I registered and purchased the minimum quantity of BOST “points” (a disorienting process: the PayPal page was initially specific to Japan, but I live in Kansas, not Kansai). [...] However, the [iPod] episode wouldn’t play in VLC or …read more