I am unable to give ef justice with one screenshot, so here's a little stack.
Kulons worth of electrons were expended on critiquing ef's frame composition, with complaints about the streetlamp taking up space here and odd split-screen techniques there. I found these innovations only a little annoying, and most …
read moreWhen I watched the beginning, it was not very clear just who is chasing whom, but Jen is doing a good job explaining what is likely to happen. Not a harem, sounds good.
read moreCoincidently to the discussion of OAVs, Tales of Symphonia is an OVA for which I had high hopes since it is being done by Ufotable (known for 2x2 Shinobuden). It did not work out.
The main issue seems in the gaming heritage, starting with the clothing (e.g. Lloyd wears …
read moreMy first reaction to KimiKiss is just "Holy shit!" I haven't seen anything as pretty since forever. Kimikiss even beats the pants off the Clannad, which was completely unexpected. It looks like KyotoAni at last have met their match in J.C.Staff (who is no spring chicken themselves, known …
read moreJeff Lawson writes about the teatrical anime, or lack of it. Not much for me to disagree with, but I'm going to make a quick comment.
And even though Naruto and Pokeman movies are a dime a dozen, I don’t think anyone cares all that much with the exception …read more
TJ of RIUVA made a comment somewhere (I ended there following from Omo):
read moreIf you take off the rose-tinted glasses, you’ll realise that most of the anime you mentioned were quality only in their own time. Sure, they were great back then, but people have taken those and built …
Concrete Badger gives Lucky Star his stamp of approval. Obviously he has a strong capability to abstract away less likeable parts. Observe how he managed to review Lucky Star and not mention Lucky Channel even once.
read moreNo, it's not by me. The Epic Win made mockery of anything I could've put together.
[Why so late to link? I ran across a comment by Orion. — But this pours water on the mill of pro-comment party! — Oh shit. Well, anyway...]
read moreClannad is disturbing, but its visuals are outstanding. In other words, nothing unexpected. One personal note though... I hated the Toei's Kanon because the girls were defective, unpleasant, annoying, repulsive, etc. I even bypassed its remake. In Clannad, they are only defective, which seems like a step forward.
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