I protest-dropped Muromi-san with one episode remaining until the end (thanks to Fuji-san), so in some way it almost counts as a completion. And frankly it was way too late. The series wasn't all that great even as an absurd comedy. Worse, it slided badly through the run. The attempts …
read moreWatching Initial D with others
While Ana-sempai was at a lay-over between her secret jobs, we dragged her mother into watching Initial D First Stage together. Dub, of course. So, how did it go over? Pretty, well, considering. The ancient art is just adorable in its basic anime ways. They did not care for the …
read moreChikorita157 on RDG
Apparently, RDG: Red Data Girl ended after 12 episodes, and:
However, I feel that a good amount of people has mixed feelings about this show and dropped it in the beginning episodes for the fact that the show has a strong Japanese culture influence.
Sounds like Joshiraku, but not as …
read moreTraining the hands in IM@S 18
In a course of a Twitter conversation, I twittered to(ward) Evirus: "Remember how Ritsuko demonstrated the greeting hand, and 3 inept idols (inc. Iori) tried to do it", and he replied: "Actually...I don't." Very well, here's the scene from IM@S TV 18:
In order to acquire the …
read moreUbu on Infinite Stratos
So, here's what it takes to make animeblogger's blood boiling nowadays:
This series was slammed as formulaic, by the numbers, and stale, but I never bought into the anti-hype.
Now hold on just a moment. Without a link we cannot know if the anime was "slammed" this way and by …
read moreFantasy and Reality
I saw the following in SF Japantown parking on Saturday:
Even has pop-up headlights! I am not sure if the model ever was for sale new in America and the pictured unit may be a gray-market import or a 25-year-old antique. Of course, I would not even notice it if …
read moreOtou-san on Gargantia
Twittered: "Gargantia: even with no marketable skills, you may still find love with an underage exotic dancer".
I happen to know what he's talking about, having seen some screncaps where Ledo laments difficulties of job-hunting with no marketable skills, and then the one at Rabujoi, which almost looks like something …
read moreMuromi-san 06
Blogging pickings for Muromi-san 06 were so slim, that I had to read Aroduc. Kuro tried to get off with just one sentence! Not that Aroduc's griping became any more interesting, or extensive, in the years since I saw it last. But it seems like nobody finds Muromi blogworthy. Which …
read moreYuyushiki begins
Yuyushiki is a bit strange and I found it difficult to judge. The "cute girls doing cute things" area is well mined nowadays, but I did not see one like it before. Initial episodes of Lucky Star were somewhat vapid and boring. K-ON offered us the hated "retard moe". Hidamari …
read moreHigh-brow releases by Media Blasters
Steven names Grenadier a high point of Media Blasters' catalog history, but I know that he knows about their strategy to license a critically acclaimed anime once a year or so. IMHO their biggest scoop on that front was Figure 17. I also have a soft spot for Midori no …
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