It manages to gather so many great ideas together and miraculously makes everything work.
Thus it's no classic, just a summer dalliance.
read moreCat Shit One is promised in August
Bloggers on Full Moon wo Sagashite
All right, jeez, no need to go nuclear. I'll watch your Full Moon. In a couple of months.
Actually, it was in my queue for years, since I noticed that the hystogram at ANN topped at 1, which is usually reserved for masterpieces like Haibane Renmei.
read moreEvirus was right about Max Heart
First he completely accidentially sold me on the concept with the "rebar in the face" (although the official advo helped too), but then tried his best to explain that it's the same thing as the original and whatnot. Well, he's right, but a) it's self-contained like the Star Wars ep …
read moreRemember Ani-kuri?
The post at Polymetrica reminded me to check if DVDs finally came into existence... And guess what, CDjapan is out of stock. As usual. Amazon agreed to sell the set, although apparently they have a new trick: sales are not done by Amazon.co.jp anymore, but by "Amazon International …
read moreCanne on Hanamaru
It almost looks like Canne wants us to persuade to vote for Colony Drop. Not that I would, but look:
The generic plot and unremarkable characters are neither good nor bad. I think it depends on the execution and the circumstance. And it so happened that I was in the …
read moreToHeart 4 (well, 2 but YKWIM)
The news of another ToHeart OVA is quite timely for the discussion of relevance in the long term. My R2s of the original are reprints bought in 2007, so the staying power of it is pretty good. Even the poor derivatives could not kill it. But did anyone predict how …
read moreFormer Badger on K-ON
Among the Martin's many contortions and passive-aggressive ("commercialized", "derivative", "fandumb", "characters are completely lifeless archetypes [for the majority of time]"), there was one concrete misstep to which he may yet be held responsible with time.
2DT beat me to the punch in highlighting its celebration of transience, which really hightlights …
read moreSecond Episode Season
Back when Haruhi did it, it was cool. But now the epidemic of the preview episodes and special openers is so widespread that animebloggers started adapting officially. Major Arcana runs a season-start summary on the basis of the second episodes (BTW, I find very little with which to disagree in …
read moreOnegai Twins begins
What I saw of Onegai Twins so far was surprisingly inoffensive. Animation reminded me of Kiminozo very much; it has a very pleasant 90s feel to it. Maik(u) seems entirely too cool a type, but it's ok. I'm sure I would have been happy to lap it up back …
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