I think 2DT's post about Taishou in anime is far too brief for the topic. My favourite reference is old SDB's post that predates Chizumatic itself. His take-off point was the Sakura Taizen movie, which as we all know stacked rather poorly against the rest of the franchize. Steven later …
read moreK-ON2 turns awesome at 07
Surprisingly, the improvement occured in an episode that turns upon a heavy retcon in a large degree. Usually such tricks are employed by desperate creators, but it worked here.
Note that Sakabe wears a red necktie, which makes complete sense: in school time she appeared before Azusa and graduated in …
read moreIdolm@ster anime announced
Woke up today to find Twitter aflutter with rumors of an IM@S anime. Apparently, it was announced at a live event. So, not a fake. But before I die from happiness, I have to remember that IM@S-based anime had a mixed record at Ani-nouto to date: Xenoglossia was …
read moreK-ON2 begins
I'm rather unhappy with the proceedings. At one point, I noted: "having every episode like every other consistency in directing does not make, WAH!" By now I've re-read WAH's argument and he did not even mention consistency, I just misremembered. But episodes are all the same anyway. Certainly, new character …
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Campanella ends
And how. No, I don't just mean how the color saturation suddenly appeared. It is the contrast of the last third with the first two that I find shocking. The story was intentionally cretinuous, and to watch seven episodes of it took a major dedication to the beauty of the …
read moreCampanella retrospective
I am going to run free with spoilers here. But it's not like anyone is going to watch Shikufuku no Campanella anyway, so no harm done, right?
But first, sorry for the lack of the screencaps. It hurts all the more since everything is so pretty. But capturing them off …
read moreIn before Railgun
Here's a quick rundown of shows I want to finish before Railgun's sword falls:
K-ON2: Pixy and WAH were impressed and I liked the original.
Katanagatari: Don called it. And Don called OER, too.
Kurau: This I actually knew about before Nick Istre saw it, and before the poster …
read moreCampanella 08
This needs sharing:
Salza above, Ritos below.
An episode before I jotted "sick of Ritos hazing Salza", but now they decided to outstrip my wildest expectations. By the end of the episode, screwing with Salza was not enough, so creators made Ritos screwing with viewer's mind. They gradually built her …
read moreCampanella 06
Campanella is confusing. It has a story of an unsophisticated children's show and a bright setting. Then, suddenly Chelsie is trying to rape Lester (spoiler: she is too drunk, so passes out from the effort). JAAAAPAAAAN. Who is the target demographic for this?
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