It's old, it's mecha, and it kicks butt. Say what you want about Patlabor, but it certainly is entertaining [1]. It oozes with forgotten simplicity of purpose (or at least this is what I think so far).
BTW... I became so used to the cliches from the turn of the …
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So what if a series has a shallow premise? Azumanga demolished deeper series on the strength of Chiyo-chan’s and Osaka’s memorableness.
Jason may not see it, but Azumanga is a powerful tale of innocence. In addition, while in most series innocence is framed by contrast, usually over …
read moreHere's another article about the depletion of anime talent pool (via). Unfortunately I forgot to save the last one, so I cannot compare and contrast. This one has numbers, which is always welcome.
read more[...] A storyboard artist in the business may average a partially feasible monthly pay of JPY 280,000 …
Here's one of those irritating things animators insist on doing even in high budget anime like Twelve Kingdoms:
Look at Yuka's chin. Why is it behind her collar? To make matters worse, she speaks.
read moreSixten agitates for Azumanga with an essay. It's good effort, although I see that nailing the secret is hard. He comes very close with the "transition between funny and heartful".
Little Snow Fairy Sugar and Mahoraba – Heartful Days are the only two J.C.Staff series I consider superior to …read more
I am having difficulty remembering another series which came with such strong recommendations and was so disappointing as Twelve Kingdoms. I think the last case for me was the Toei's Kanon. I lasted 5 episodes of that, hated every minute of it, but wanted to give it a good chance …
read morePrompted by certain circumstances, I managed to sit through another episode of Myself;Yourself. I had an episode squirreled away in a dark corner of my home filesystem back when the show aired.
Thus far the fun part was listening to various tidbits. For example, Aoi above eschews "onaji" for …
read moreLike everyone else, I've read through the list at Impz's and started to try shows for size. It looks like OVAs are missing, but it will do for now.
Macross F: The Plus was on my list. Might as well try this.
Nabari no Ou: Seems like Naruto redone, let's …
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