Belive it or not, Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? came very close to being dropped after ep.3. It was much too overdone and saccharine.
However, the series gradually righted itself. Sure, things continued to be somewhat simplified, such as when Cocoa was playing with a wire puzze: the outcome …
read moreI am currently away from home for a business meeting, and one of the attendees is a Japanese gentleman, whom we shall call Mr. Tz., for privacy's sake. A group of us went for a dinner today, and the following exchange took place:
AUTHOR: "So... What are your hobbies?"
MR …
read moreSomeone asked Evirus if he missed anything noteworthy in several years away from anime. The answer was:
read moreI wish I could point to some amazing bit of anime that you missed over the past few years, but nothing really stands out. Oh, there is a lot of material that's very …
Looking at a picture table by "Zana at Neregate", the season is impossible to sample. Even discarding what bloggers already vetoed (like M3), we still have fully 27 series left.
| Author | Omo-sensei | |
|---|---|---|
| GochiUsa | Mega CGDCT with Rize. Must Watch. | [..] a big endorse [] and it probably doesn’t deserve it |
| Puchimas … |
Watching a classic many years later in a batch mode offers obvious convenience advantages, but it makes one miss on all the fun discussions. And there sure were some. My kinda blog-friend from SDB's halo, Wonderduck, apparently was a big fan, for one (the leader of geriatric animebloggers himself boycotts …
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Against my better judgement, I marathoned the last 8 or 10 episodes, and I have no regrets. The ending was somewhat fragmented, but made sense.
One of most notable things for me was seeing the vintage KyoAni at work. Haruhi was poorly animated in many places, but it demonstrated what …
read moreIt's major spoiler, so try not to read any further if it's a problem.
No kidding.
And it's not answered in Tappan's Spoiler Notes.
Without further ado:
We know that Makoto is around enough to manifest, and even positively affect the goings-on in the real world. Tappan's interpretation is that …
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A local arthouse cinema was showing Welcome to The Space Show, so we went. It was an extremely kid's movie, and an extravaganza end to end. It made the Watchkovsky brothers' Speed Racer feel like a hardbroiled social drama.
Despite being animated by A-1, the movie didn't look like iM …
read moreExamining my records and digging through my old fansub stash, I found that I never actually watched the 2006 Kanon, so what the heck... It promises a shortcut to all the stories, which would take too much trouble to play through.
A couple of episodes in, it matches the game …
read moreBack in 2005 or so, at Aniverse's #anime, one of my buddies, Matt "Mashu" Kern was much into Kanon, then in Toei anime release. He made me to suffer through some 5 episodes. When the KyoAni remake came about, I gave it a try too, but it was no better …
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