The finale post explains the defects (and then repeats the theme a few times):
read moreOf course, as the season finale, there was a lot left to be desired, so I’ll get my gripes out of the way first, namely: the whole rushrushrush feeling that resulted in whisking Shu-Shu out …
Macademi 01 was finally posted at Crunchy, and it's still a disappoinment (I watched a small piece raw back in the day). It's exactly the same as Otoshimono [1], only whacky and over the top. Worse, Tanarotte did absolutely nothing to endear. The dude seems kinda ok, as far as …
read moreAt the very bottom, in the "Dishonorable Mention" section of the year-end post:
read more[My] real-objection is to the ending, which can be reasonably interpreted as saying that the hero and his sister committed suicide, after which they got to be together in the afterlife. The very last thing Japan needs …
The Fractale section in Aroduc's 2011 Winter preview sums Yamakan's career thus:
The main notable things are that this is the second of three shows Okada is writing for this season and that the director’s said he’ll quit if it fails, which is less of a threat than …read more
There was comparison in the article about SYD:
The 4-koma base of the show was very distinct [in SYD]. However, it somehow worked for SYD when before it totally didn't work for me in Lucky Star (I bounced off LS because I could practically see the strip boundaries).
Rewatching Lucky …
read moreThe article made me ROFL, and also made some good points. Sure we can disagree about some things, but I have no quarrel with:
read moreSo all in all, I think that 2010 was a weaker year than usual (due primarily to the huge number of sequels to shows I didn …
The man of excquisite taste pushes Katanagatari like mad, and succeeds: I'm sold.
Initially, Katanagatari seems formulaic: find the sword that gives the episode its name; learn the history of the sword’s owner; get the sword. Then comes episode four, in which we get to know Shichika’s frail …read more
An unnecessarily spoiling review at Major Arcana finds deficiencies:
read more[..] what comes out is a vividly imaginative fantasy adventure that falls only one aspect short of ‘epic’.
[..] In the end, what I felt Seirei no Moribito lacked was scale. It failed to expand the scope after the initial focus to bring …
Cute Proxy turns to classics and fortunately this time it is not some Eva movie or Haruhi movie that I can't stand anymore:
In spite of the nicely done animation, the movie started veering into boring territory half-way. A major culprit was the choice of music for the battle scenes …read more
Authors and commenters at Hey Say Anime agree: there is no way for this show to end in one episode. Also, hilarious screencaps.
Although I want to make one thing clear: the anime/manga habit of having people slap each other all the time is so effin’ annoying!
You mean …
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