Apparently, ADV is not as dead as it seemed (via). And it was proven yet again that the all-grabbing, first-look Funimation monster is not as powerful as we were lead to believe.
read moreMidnight Tease on Naruto
read moreThe other recent oddity is that, completely out of the blue, I decided to watch Naruto on Crunchyroll. I never, ever thought I would do this. I've never had anything against Naruto, per se... just against the kids that watched it on Cartoon Network. I had …
R5 Haibane Renmei unboxing
Today, USPS made me to pick up a box with the R5 release of Haibane Renmei by Reanimedia.
The box was far too big for a DVD set, because it contained a poster.
To the box set and the poster, Reanimedia added a stack of mini-calendars for anime they released …
read moreCrunchyroll is showing a fansub of original Hanaukyo
This may not be news to anyone, but I ran across it today. Here's a screencap, with the fansub translator's handle:
The publishing data for ep.1 says: "Publisher: ponycanyon; Uploaded: February 11, 2007". I cannot help wondering what the story behind this is. I imagine Pony Canyon licensed the …
read moreZyl on Kampfer 10, 11
Found two saved examples of Zyl's masterful analysis and scintillating wit. Episode 10:
read moreKaede's criticism of Natsuru is being lame is IMHO unfair. Firstly, Natsuru loves and wants Kaede so much he doesn't see any other girl as a potential girlfriend thus the almost willful denseness. Faithfulness is not a …
Shinichiro Kimura directed Sleeping with Hinako?!
SDB mentioned today that the director of Mahoraba (and many other things) is also responsible for Sleeping with Hinako (but not Training with Hinako). What is this, I don't even...
read moreTheowne on Figure 17
Honestly, I was curious what he was going to review after quickly burning through all of the Ghibli movies and other... movies. Anyway, looking at the review of Figure 17, I cannot help thinking he's missing some kind of tremendously important point about the anime, so we get weakly-sourced speculation …
read moreDiGiKerot on Toradora in R1
The post on Beta-Waffle is a true wall of text (also, rendered in unreadable font in Firefox), but the main message is fairly scary fearmongering about NIS' release practices. To be sure, he makes fun of idiot gamers fretting about the name order and other petty issues first, but there's …
read moreDamien says K-ON is not great enough
In a post at Moe Check, DKellis outlines a concept of small number of special anime, somewhat parallel to my "titans". The plank is very high when considering anime that way, so, unsurprisingly, K-ON fails to clear it. Still, it was seriously considered.
read moreEternal names K-ON the greatest moe anime