Ani-nouto was remiss in its core mission recently: observing what everyone else is blogging, especially about the anime Author himself is not watching. Perhaps we're burning out. Still, it's hard not to notice that Shirobako is gunning for the anime of the season, if critical acclaim is the yardstick. If …
read moreDenki-Gai, a visual retrospective
Let's just put it out of the way by stating that indeed, when the creators tried to ramp up the perversion factor, the anime got awful. There's nothing wrong with poking fun at society's rigid mores, but you cannot be clumsy and crude doing it if you want a good …
read moreM. LaMoe on the death of literature
According to post at Anime Diet, "light novels are the culprit that killed the Japanese traditional literature or “pure literature” as they call it" (he agrees with the statements of Owlguildy to that effect). Personally, I think Murakami killed literature better, but sure. At least he's not blaming videogames!
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read moreiM@S CG, GBF TRY, K-ON
Denki-Gai 07-09
As I feared, Denki-Gai no Honya-san slipped off the heights of ep.6. The tender moment of 09 is supposed to be when Kantoku threatened to rape unconscious Hio-tan. Still, it's quite noticeable that the series works best when it turns away from the workplace comedy toward romantic comedy. And …
read moreHaibane Renmei at YouTube
FUNi posted Haibane Renmei to YouTube, and I am enjoying a rewatch. Every time it happens, I worry that it turns out to be an obsolete anime that only became popular by accident, but no. It is still great. The animation is quite dated, of course, and it was a …
read moreGYO
At a meeting of my fabulous anime club today, I had to watch GYO, or, truth to be told, had to make every effort not to watch it. The anime is basically a disaster porn. People losing human nature and such, the usual. Completely not up my alley, and also …
read moreInou Battle begins
The Inou Battle is yet another turn in the 1 Boy N Girls Club arena. Initial signs aren't good. It's a harem, of course. With a loli. The style of humour is similar to Rokujouma with a dash of Chuuni REN. One (practically) former blogger suggested that something bad is …
read moreEvirus on Shirobako
Urobutcher gone missing from Gargantia
At least that's the take at Lost in America:
read moreAs we know [Urobutcher] wrote only the first and last episodes of the series, and to what extent he was involved in what came between I don't know. But this OVA in particular is completely devoid of anything remotely resembling contemplation …
