I was running out of things to watch tonight, so I went to poke at queued series Vanadis and Daitoshokan (both at Hulu). Both were disappointing enough in the first few seconds that I gave up. Tatsuo Sato seems to be losing his touch... But what to do? I dusted …
read moreHyouka ends
The common theme for reviews of Hyouka is to laud its animation while sounding disappointed about the story. But I found it delivering on both counts.
The animation of motion is frankly astonishing in Hyouka, and it's pervasive. It looked to me at least a half step above of what …
read moreTwintails 04
Everyone else have seen 05, but being a slave of FUNi's legal not-quite-simulcast I haven't. Anyhow, here's one small thought, since it's becoming clear that different attributes exist, with Twintails being the most powerful. Did anyone notice that Twirl surrendered her old primary attribute... but she still has one remaining …
read moreKylaran on AmaBuri
This is too good not to share. Buried in a slicer post at The Behind, the first impressions of Amagi Brilliant Park:
read moreLook, I understand the need to differentiate your story from other light novels. I certainly understand that originality is more valued over writing finesse in this area of …
Hyouka begins
The hatelist updates
Historically the failing anime are classified at Ani-nouto into several groups, although the borders are somewhat fluid.
Rejects. These are series that I do not plan to touch ever again. The list is populated by both series that I watched and those that were rejected without a chance. Since this …
read moreYama no Susume resumes at Crunchyroll
It looks like Crunchyroll have fixed up whatever hung-up they had clearing the rights to Yama no Susume S2 aka Encouragement of Climb S2 and it is available for streaming.
P.S. Anime of the season.
read moreAmaBuri begins
In retrospect, the accumulated baggage of the past did me no favours in this one, because the main question was if KyotoAni washes away the dull taste of Tamako Market. I haven't seen Hyouka yet, but it, too, was called "the most boring anime in history". Amagi Brilliant Park is …
read moreSudden alarm about YuYuYu
Twitter killed animeblogging and delivered us this:
Kurogane: "I'm sure all these Madoka similarities I'm seeing in #yuyuyu is just my own hyperactive imagination."
Mike (of Anime Diet): "At least this one was relatively competent. Looking at you #wixoss...#yukiyuna may be to Madoka that Rahxephon was to Eva"
What …
read moreBloggers on 2014 Autumn
The season opening summaries start to pop up. Jason Miao's Thin Slicing feels like he's tired of the gig. But it's still there, like clockwork or J.P.'s end-of-year poop post.
Peter S. stepped up his game. He posted a comprehensive and informative series of 6 sections (exh.1 …
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