I finally got around to looking at BOST. Unfortunately, there was nothing to buy. The Keitai Shoujo is free of charge for now, and the other titles are not available in America. The flash video itself works well enough. The quality is about what we were getting with fansubs in …
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Orion on plushies
Barren wasteland
Josh posted a weekly release list, and it's just bad. Haven't seen such an empty week in a while: 21 release and not a single one worth watching. Amazing! Also, the sub steamroller continues to advance (38% of the 21 are subtitled releases), it's too bad they keep subbing garbage …
read moreRocket Girls again
I was scanning quickly through Rocket Girls to grab a few screencaps of credits (for some reason I thought it was interframed in Vietnam, like ef, and I hoped to match the names of interframers, but it turned out that I remembered wrong, and Rocket Girls were farmed to China …
read moreThe impossibility of Top 10
Steven chastizes Jeff for not being enthusiastic enough about the 10 notables of the year:
2007 really must have sucked if Jeff couldn't find ten series he was genuinely enthusiastic about, and doesn't have to apologize for recommending.
The problem mainly that indeed, while making 150 series a year, the …
read moreef's strange eyecatches
I already complained about the references in ef, but obviously the creators aren't listening. Here's one of the more blatant ones from ep.8:
For those not in the know it's a reference to Clannad, a show which is currently on the air! I mean, seriously. At least wait until …
read moreFrom the trenches
Avatar subtitles Nanoha professionally.
It [realities of DVD subtitles] definitely affects my timing practices. I'm very likely to leave subtitles contiguous (no gap between) if they're overlapping with something, unless the amount of space between them is huge. I'm also significantly less likely to include unimportant background dialog - sure, subtitle …
read moreHaruhi ends
I thought I would never be able to shake off the crazy blog hype that surrounded Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but I forgot about it pretty quickly. Perhaps because my impressions were contrary to most old writing that I saw.
Firstly, the animation quality jumps all over the place. It's …
read moreLawson on Tokimeki
Jeff says, "a breath of fresh air", and:
I don’t watch as many bishoujo game adaptations nowadays as I did in the past. Somewhere along the line, I grew tired of the extraneous stories and cookie cutter characters so typical of the genre. Occasionally, however, an adaptation will come …
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