It didn't click here until Steelbound linked it, but the director of Idolm@ster is the guy kicked off Gurren-Lagann. Not good, unless he reflected deeply, trained in the mountains, etc. Even then, remember how Yamakan received his second chance with Fractale?
Steelbound also thinks that A-1 makes good-looking anime …
read moreI was close to dropping Nichijou after the first epsiode - you could say it's Azumanga on crack, but I didn't like the cast nearly as much as Azumanga or Lucky Star's.
I was close to dropping Nichijou after the fourth episode. Cannot stand how Prof. abuses …
read moreThe defining feature of early Railgun for me is the tension between the fun antics of the main quartet and the horror that lurks just below the surface: the brutal dystopia where espers are raised: Dune's prison planet with a smiling face. I was chuckling at hapless Kuroko through the …
read moreThis is tough work, might as well make it fun as much as possible.
"Anyway, I want the next episode! My craving for ambiguously gay superhero duo must be satisfied!"
P.S. DiGi made me do it. But also, there was a sensible discussion at Sea Slugs.
read moreThe propreitor of my favourite retail outlet posted a curious revelation (via):
read moreNo news here. Anime sales in the US have dropped probably 70-75% across the board since the peak in 2005. DVD, Manga, Merchandise, everything. Excluding Disney, the Anime DVD market alone in 2005 was around $350 Million. Last …
Left to right: original light novel, English light novel, R1 DVD set. I suppose all I miss is some kind of Naoko Yamazaki trinklet, perhaps a mission patch.
I also got Cat Shit One on DVD. It's not really anime and the photo came out poorly, so just trust me …
read moreLook who's peeking through the Great Firewall of China:
read moreThe recap episode to Kimi ni Todoke was one of the stranger ones I’ve seen. To watch it you’d think that Kurume was the main character, a lonely, flawed girl, desperate in love, and that the shy, gangly, long-haired …