read moreEveryone else seemed to like Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!, but I dropped it after five episodes because I didn't care about what happened to any of the characters. Also, all that chuuni stuff was really annoying, even if it was supposed to be "ironically" annoying or …
Tappan on Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai
The capsule summary:
the “great craftsman” show which starts with a premise that sounds ordinary or even trite, but executes it so brilliantly that it becomes something wonderful.
The hystogram at ANN tops at about 2.5 (Haibane Renmei easily takes 0.1 and Shingu takes a strong 3).
My …
read moreOtou-san on Pretty Cure
Otou used the old trick: start with the sequel (the concept was hashed out here mostly in connection with Nanoha As). I started with Max Heart, but it was merely a result of the DTO debacle. I did great on the original without Shiny Luminous before Crunchyroll's perfidy.
Interestingly, he …
read moreAbout that "Katyusha" thing
After DiGi posted about it, the issue of the missing Katyusha spread around. Even Brickmuppet got in on it (with a cute animated gif).
One thing amuses me about it is the selection of the song. Russians have a whole of two songs, which I find more appropriate for tank …
read moreCurmudgeon on rampage
My interest in anime was only kept alive by the amazing idol shows, it seems. From the longest run list ever I went to an empty one.
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Cobra The Time Dive
Cobra: Time Dive is terrible. I mostly watched it because some idiot blogger called it or other Cobra thing "sexist", and these days it stands for "strong female characters who do not conform to the feminist stereotype" or "attractive, positive heterosexial women". Thus, "sexist" tends to stick to wonderful anime …
read moreCrunchyroll and friends
So, the streaming at large. We all know about Crunchy, I suppose. Ads do not work, etc. Before we move beyond it, I'd like to note that I tried its Android app at Kindle Fire HD.
And what do you know, ads work. On the other hand, they only have …
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Joshiraku ends
And what an ending it was. I watched a few epic endings in my anime-watching career, and this one was right there, or at least felt that way - in an anime about cute girls doing nothing, and which had no story. In Azumanga, the graduation was the linchpin, but in …
read moreThe Behind on Eureka 7 AO
While I ignored PBC by accident, Eureka 7 AO was shunned at Ani-nouto explicitly, after I decided that the original was too gritty. Still, Vuc and CKS seem to like it enough to give it "show of season" (over Jinrui et al). In this context, Reckoner's piece for The Behind …
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