I was not particularly attentive to efforts of episoders back when AKB0048 was in its middle. Now I am reaping the problem by not having a whole lot of interesting stuff to reblog. It's made worse by high-brow bloggers tending to show their worst or at least overthink it. The …
read moreOh Miao, you card
Yes, it's the thin slicing at now Blog Suki nee Anime On My Mind (poor Darry, discarded like a used sock), and it starts well. No opaque sports references, no mis-spelled Brett Favre, but I am smirking and snorting at all the cute hate down the scale.
Uta Koi:
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Oh Steven, you trickster
I follow DD2 with a big delay; but a good anime cannot be spoiled, etc. etc., so I admit that I looked at Chizumatic's account of ep.3. It ends thus:
read moreTruly an awesome battle, and fun for everyone. Quite a success. And the final strip count for this episode …
Internet ruined Oka for me
Look:
TV anime never was so good. Sure, Porco Rosso, yes, that was this good. But it was shorter, it was more expensive, and we knew it for being exceptional. Now, every other series has animated visuals like that.
Still, when I see Oka doing it, I cannot pass on …
read moreSteelbound on drool in Nazo no Kanojo X
To me, the drool angle was a very important component, not merely superfluous, because it was used to let the viewer feel the approximate same uncomfortable feelings both the main characters felt throughout the series as they stumble and learn how to build a relationship between each …
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DM00 on Oba Nobuna, The Ambition Of
Writing for BigN, he approves, in particular thus:
read moreOne thing this show has going for it is the way it leavens its silliness with seriousness: it plays off real events in history; the protagonist is not just some schlub, but progresses the plot through his (game-mediated, admittedly) knowledge of his …
Joshiraku begins
That's right, the "begins" bracket after just one episode. It does not owe to Joshiraku being all that brilliant, but rather earnest and straightforward, with little chance of pulling a deceptive 1st episode on us (I look at you, Natsu no Arashi).
In watching exhuberance I tagged Joshiraku as series …
read moreRemember Big O
How about a coincidence? First, Jackson of Sketch Comedy promises a "parody week":
That’s right: I’ll be hitting you with new hand-drawn comics every day next week, spoofing everyone’s favorite film noir mecha anime from 1999.
Then, Spherical Cows throw off a remark:
I always wondered what …
read moreSubtitles God-Sent For Blogs
Kuro reminded me about something: Anglophone blogs have a great advantage over Japanese anime blogs[0]: subtitled screencaps! These things add a good deal of expression or sometimes a tongue-in-cheek call-out, playing off the way readers reconstruct the material[1]. How about this one, from AKB0048, which I was saving …
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