Since Ayako posted subs, I'm rewatching GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class on TV. The difference is stunning: colors look washed out no longer.
Mind, the setup is made of an ancient Series2 TiVo and an equally ancient Sony projection TV (made before HDMI). It's not a high-end home theater, but …
read moreSeen today (short enough to quote essentially in full):
read moreHere is something that I did not see and understand until the last (aired) episode of Bakemonogatari smacked me in the nose with it: Bakemonogatari is really a love story. A romance, like Toradora.
And like Toradora, I think that it …
The post focuses on the evocative backgrounds, but also mentions the characters. IMHO, the best thing about Oh Edo Rocket is the portrayal of the life in the long houses in general, and not specifically anime backgrounds or other technical components. In fact, the layout of Oh Edo Rocket is …
read moreIf anything, it was worse than the anime. Stitches between story arcs were annoying. Acting was super-weird, certainly not Kurosawa-like. More like theater than cinema, if you ask me. Uninitiated got confused by the flashback in the end.
read moreBetter late than never at BasuGasuBakuhatsu:
I just finished watching the first episode of K-ON! I guess they forgot to add the “ROC” to the first part of the title. Yes, I am going through my anime backlog by just picking the most popular (according to Anime Nano) series. I …read more
Why did Kaede (Sakura) lose consciousness? Quoting Damien, fuushigi mystery. I suspect we just don't have enough material in the anime yet to form a good guess. {Update: Sage says she just fainted. On rewatch I concur, and think it was probably the shock from the hair and subsequently Natsuru …
Actually the article at Chizumatic is more about Railgun than Index. In any case, spoilers are morbidly fascinating: tens of thousand murdered etc. Outside of spoilers:
Railgun's situation really is amazing. No wonder she's got a tortured soul.
Clearly an anime for fans of Nanoha. I'm quite happy I dropped …
read moreThe benevolent dictator of Meenuvia is also an anime fan, but unlike our own overlord Maestro, he finds time to blog about it (albeit infrequently).
read moreTake your standard high school teen romance angst-fest... And attach a JATO unit and smash it into the side of a cliff at 600MPH where …
Our master troller and famous editor of game translations continues to apply expletives better than Cunningham ever done. Agree or disagree, it's worth a smirk at least — when reading the whole thing. But I'm going to ruin the fun and rip quotes.
read moreKiddy Girl-and – Honestly, I’m not quite sure …
Damien Kellis hits bulls-eye with this question:
Why are most of the customers in the Maid-ish Cafe female? Fushigi mystery.
On second thought, Kampfer is so full of manifest impossibilities, that this one should count as something very minor.
Thanks to the opening and ending animations, the identity of this …read more