So, the Live for You! OVA. The deal here is very simple: if you are a fan of Idolm@ster, you must watch it. Otherwise, stay away.
As an anime, it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Production values are low, characters go off-model all the time (faces deform), Miki is …
read moreIt does not take a genius to observe that Marui sisters are named sequentially. But what's puzzling, they are also given numbers, and the numbers run in the opposite direction to names. For example Hitoha is #3 (see the screencap).
What gives?
UPDATE: Just saw this in the preview for …
read moreI did not see this mentioned on blogs:
Not sure what it means and how great is the amount of money involved, but nonetheless, it's curious. Nico-nico is no Crunchyroll, it's more like Youtube (or even Youtube before it was bought by Google).
read moreSeen a few minutes ago what "Too Old For Anime" has for HSoTD and Mitsudomoe. It opens with a mature movieblogger's prose, the kind you'd expect from Kaedrin:
read more[..] When Takashi does the sensible thing and bludgeons Hisashi, she turns on him with hate. Takashi, who is in love with her …
Writing for CJ's operation, Nameless makes a risky bet:
In my opinion, the shows only interesting character thus far is Hitoha. By the end of the episode I felt that whenever she was in a scene a laugh was sure to follow, which is something I couldn’t say for …read more
It was decidedly more of the same, almost exactly the same.
Some difference is there, of course. The action is set in the Spring of 1945. There are a lot more witches. Yamato was inserted for no good reason. And so on and so forth. But overall, more of the …
read moreAgainst my better judgement I feel an urge raising to watch Strike Witches 2, after seeing Aroduc's account. The story seems like a weird redo of the original, with some small differences... Unfortunately, I'm working and it has to wait.
read moreFirst, Steven pronounced a disappointment:
Angel Beats was a show which started out intriguing but soon lost my interest. [...] I've been downloading episodes as the show has gone along, just in case the ending turned out to be awesome, so that I could mainline the show if need be. Now …read more
As usual, bloggers and commenters all over are trying to frame the new series through the lens of previous experiences. In Kuro's comments we see "Ichigo Mashimaro mixed with Kodomo no Jikan" and "Today in Class 5-2 meets Minami-Ke" (comparisons with South Park may be more apt though). Surprisingly, none …
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