9. 2DT and Yi, sitting in the tree

   The special effort to dig deeper was better pre-meditated than my random musings (e.g. about Azusa), but I only extracted one thing from it: the documentary questions that I took for the lines of dialogue from the player's avatar, may in fact be more related a standard of documentary …

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10. Idolm@ster TV 02

    Stuffed dress sequence was a bit painful; poor Aroduc. And frankly, the storyline of finding one's natural side was far too simplistic. I ended watching it for pure fanservice (pictured).

    

    On second thought, there was probably no other reason to watch this anime to begin with. I am happy for …

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11. Azusa's tragically worthless life

    

    I rewatched IM@S 01 with subtitles to see if I missed anything, and sure thing: not that I missed all that much, but being relieved of the effort to decypher, was able to put 2 and 2 together. In particular, I was reminded that Azusa had a backstory. Not …

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12. Metanorn on IM@S 01

    In the middle of the typical retelling, which perhaps is not as dull as most of them, we find this:

    Apparently after eating her hamster’s lunch (um, what?), it got mad at Hibiki and ran away. They go after it and we see some other idol and Makoto in …

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13. Infinite Stratos ends

    And so! it all passed so quickly. Although I finished watching yesterday, I haven't decided yet, if it's a keeper; should I rush to buy R2 DVDs, or wait for R1s.

    

    The reason for the hesitation is that although IS delivers what's promised, I want even more. For example, back …

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14. Intro cards in IM@S

    

    A minion at RP remarks:

    The Idolm@ster gives you their name in big kanji right off the bat. Although it does seem to make sense as a way for the audience to “engage” with the characters, there’s just too many girls in this show for me to remember …

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15. Nichijou 14

    

    The ep.14 of Nichijou was an amazing departure from the routine, with amazement stemming from how almost nothing has changed. Magic! But I enjoyed any time when characters from different plotlines interacted before, and this delivered the best synergies ever. And of course, I hated the Nano and Prof …

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16. Nova on IS

    Jinx.fi:

    While Madoka Magica and Yumekui Merry are trawling the depths of emo and suffering, and Freezing is busy mutilating poor girls with pointy things, Infinite Stratos just goes “Hey man, why so serious? Here, have some slick CG mechas and a comedy harem. You’re welcome.” It was …

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17. Mr. Otou on Yumeki Merri

    In passing at Sea Slugs:

    It was a good looking, imaginative series with a big (sometimes misplaced) heart and tasteful fanservice. But it got weaker in its story toward the end.

    He duty-blogged it under Kabitzin's slave-driving whip and probably wrote much more, but I was semi-retired back then and …

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18. SDB and Campanella

    Steven is warming up to, of all things, Shukufuku no Capanella. This got me remembering if there were many shows that teetered at the brink but made themselves accepted, with R > 1.

    Shingu was one of these. It clearly was well made, and I do not even remember precisely what …

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