When I watched Shingu, I had an feeling that I've met Hajime before. On reflection I think that it comes to his ability to set things straight by talking to people. This might not be a real trope, but it's something reasonably discrete (more so than "moe", perhaps). The little …
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Girls of archery is something commonly seen in anime. They are not as abundant as mikos, the shrine maidens, but the type is well established. But with all my years of anime I noticed something odd just now. Look where the string of Lemmy's bow is.
It can be seen …
read moreNieA_7 ends
Good heavens, this was bad. I'm so happy it's over.
It's quite possible that manga was good, but adaptation was done improperly. Watching the series I've got a feeling that a novel would read pretty well. Looking at credits, it stands to reason that ABe himself knew the medium and …
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After seeing the OP of Muteki Kanban Musume (Ramen Fighter Miki), Steven makes a guess that Hell's Bunny is Megumi's mother. The sheer audacity of the call renders me speechless. I hate to admit it, but I did not even see their likeness until Hell's Bunny made her appearance in …
read moreTo Heart starts
In truth, this run was planned very long time ago as a part of familiarization with the harem genre. To Heart is a founding title together with Love Hina. But of course, Lucky Star helped.
The first imression is rather positive.
Immediately, I was rather surprised to see 7 or …
read moreNarue begins... and ends
Raising good little cogs for the enviro-industrial complex
As seen Don's place:
Dino Squad — yet another reason to stick to anime. (Via Tim Blair.)
To be fair, anime has its share of this. Let's remember the infamous Arjuna, the Earth Maiden. On the other hand, it's not always the straight party line. In J2, creators portrayed a school …
read moreLucky Star animation quality
In an early beach episode of Lucky Star, I saw a picture of Kuroi-sensei downing a glass:
It reminded me immediately about something else, seen at Penny Arcade:
I also told a story during the panel about the Oblivion comic we did a few days ago. See I wanted Gabe …
read moreRocket Girls and Danny Choo
Danny made a post about a new(?) figurine of Yukari of Rocket Girls and asked:
Never did get round to finishing off Rocket Girls but after seeing this figure am thinking of picking it up again - any thoughts on the anime?
I wrote about it before:
As an anime, it …
read moreThe golden age is now
I watched a couple of episodes of NieA_7 back to back with some Lucky Star, and the contrast was quite striking. I haven't seen the 2006 Kanon, but it's clear that KyotoAni know their stuff.
I mean, you just look at these confining lines! Not only drawing in Lucky …
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