When I rented this show from Blockbuster years ago, it looked very pretty, but animation has advanced a lot since then. Now it seems so hand-painted, it hurts. Nonetheless, the art has a certain charm to it.
A few more issues are present. The background story takes a toll on …
read moreOne of the guilty pleasures of a Naruto fan is to watch elitist pseudo-intellectuals flopping around in the tsunami. Instead of simply observing that Naruto does not appeal to them and moving on, they feel compelled to fight the dreadful possibility that Naruto may in fact have redeeming qualities and …
read moreWell, this certainly was energetic.
The most memorable part was probably the magic exploit. If you lose your sword, take the patch off, then put it back on. The transformation sequence brings you the sword back.
The story was badly deformed to retrofit the first series. Notably, I still cannot …
read moreOn February 1, 1991, a Boeing 737 landed on top of a Metroliner holding on runway 24L, killing 34. A part of the accident was a perception issue. Experiments were done which proved that if a pilot expected to see an airplane where it was that night, he saw it …
read moreVia Nigorimasen! comes the word that ADV's Ledford continues to toot the same cracked horn of lies, deceiption, and disregard for his customers.
I am sure it would not be a new insight, but consider this: If only A titles sell profitably, why does ADV continue to license B titles …
read moreThe Sea Sliugs posted an interview with Hung of BasuGasuBakuHatsu. I expected them to touch upon the reviewing of free stuff and Steven's criticism, but not plopping it right on top. No burying the lede here, that's for sure. Hung himself handled the "incident" with remarkable maturity [^1].
From there …
read moreJason made a post about how 26% of all search queries on Wikipedia are anime-related. Then, he took it further and proclaimed Wikipedia to become a premier anime website.
Aside from AoD and maybe ANN, there really weren’t any place to find information about anime. Sure, you could hunt …read more