In the newest installment of the storied "gone mad" series, S.D.Shamsel drops this pearl:
With shows like Hidamari Sketch, K-On!, and Lucky Star, even if they are designed to appeal to a moe audience and have shameless promotion sewn directly into their very souls, [...]
I suspect that he …
read moreI wouldn’t say [Kimi ni Todoke is] unique by any stretch, just a good series for its genre…
Not unique? Great, name another one then.
read moreFor the benefit of people who I, somewhat inadvertently, trolled into watching the silly thing — my notes real quick, Animanachronism-style:
+ Animation quickly refines the expressive style after 2 eps.
- Even so, don't expect eye candy. It's more Kaiba than Moribito.
- They fill in the OP gradually as they animate …
Awww, I completely forgot that it's based on a running manga too! No wonder the ending was rather anticlimactic. Still, remember the original Nodame?
Also! Few people (e.g. Zyl) fingered Aroduc as heir apparent to Omni. But did they even notice that Aroduc did not blog Kimi ni Todoke …
read moreAt Aloe Dream:
And, that's it... hmm? Sadly I didn't find what I was looking for in this end, though I don't know what that might have been... nostalgia, sentiment, fulfillment? I'm not sure. The lead-up to this end was not bad, but the composition to tie it all together …read more
Kuro has the spoilers. In short - GAINAX managed to end the anime off the running manga; certainly it's no Mahoraba, but I guess nothing is. Another gold star on the resume of Seiji Mizushima, who I mostly know as the director of Dai-Guard.
(In respect to some comments, GAINAX buried …
read moreThe anime industry worked on this product for a long time. Dozens of various approaches were taken, but the result always fell short: just a bit too fantastic, too creepy, too unstable, too artificial, or even too ideal.
But our long wait is finally over.
The ideal woman. Just typing …
read moreHeard via a shoutout that Danny created an illustration set at Flickr, for those of us into that sort of thing. Of course the most important thing is the story and the ending, and second most important is the characters, and so on. But when the art looks professional it's …
read moreVia Nigorimasen comes the news of another bulk streaming shutdown, this time at Netflix. I never used the service, because it required Windows-specific software, but others did (I recall that Nick Istre watched Kurau that way).
We really need another DTO challenger like BOST (R.I.P.).
UPDATE: Nick elaborates …
read moreOn the premise that good anime cannot be spoiled, I've read what Josh had to say about the finale. Not going to regurgitate the details, but CLAMP seem to wrap it quite well, which is a welcome feature these days.
Myself, I dropped Kobato back in ep.2 due to …
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