Totoro certainly was nice, but not anywhere as dramatic as the iconic titles such as Princess Mononoke. Hardly anything happens at all.
The movie is to be watched for the atmosphere. I'm old enough to remember those 3-wheeled conveyances, but even without that it has a bit of period piece …
read moreTNK suddenly launched a missive which claims, as far as I can discern, that separating "old school" anime from the "new school" anime is fallacious.
Let’s place Urusei Yatsura next to Love Hina. [...] Both share humongous similarities on a basic level of formula. They tell different stories, with different …read more
I discussed this topic with Astro before, because I saw it happening on his site, but I did not have evidence. But today, my feed reader delivered me a draft of Sasa's long-awaited essay about Iyashikei.
As it turns out, Sasa started on it immediately after she made the announcement …
read moreWhile reading the post about classics at Nigorimasen, I saw a rotating banner with Manabi characters. I encountered it before, Nigorimasen's rotation pool is not vast. But now that I am the number one Manabi fan, something bothers me about it. Who is the extra girl on the left?
She …
read moreVia RLV & Space Transport News comes a report about the skin-tight spacesuit development.
I wrote that it was not a fiction before, but still, it does not hurt to repeat. Rocket Girls is not porn. It's engineer's porn.
One note I forgot to post was how the race for space …
read moreWarning: major spoilers ahead.
I am quite unhappy with Koinosuke's behaviour, and, by extension, character. That he went AWOL from his quest and got married, I can understand. Not ideal, but... Heck, if his own master deserted in the same way, who am I to judge him? But pulling his …
read moreIt seems obvious to me that Shiraishi's phenomenon was engineered on purpose, because the script is written ahead of time. Sure, I understand that he appeared in drag to the first recording session. But by that time everything was already decided. The misterious "creators" have seen through him at auditions …
read moreAfter the start of NieA_7 (read: "Nee-eh-Ah Under Seven") I am cautiously optimistic.
