Demi-chan wa Kataritai anime? Why, I would've never guessed. From the headlines, I thought it was some kind of knock-off for Everyday Life With Monster Girls. The English title was apparently invented in the bowels of Kodansha.
The Demi-chan manga is rather cute, mostly. The detectives were terrible, and I …
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Let's stick to basics in this one.
What do we have? An anime about raising children of tender age of about seven. Nice and sweet.
Good sides? The OP is phenomenal, especially the artsy animation of the two rabbits. The tune is all right, but meshes well. Apparently, it's by …
read moreNow the vlogs and youtubing are things that completely passed our notice at Ani-nouto. I hardly have the time to watch anime, what to say about fan videos, unless it's something everyone talks about. Still, people do some good work out there. Check out 10 minutes of non-stop praise in …
read moreGotta snipe this bit of a longer post:
Which is also to say, Girlish Number takes a rather cynical and unfortunate example. If things were like this from the beginning this industry would not have blossomed like it did today.
This recalls very much in my mind Yano's observation about …
read moreThe Behind of the Nihon Review posted a usual season summary, where a couple of grafs caught my eye. In particuar, the second opinion by a staff blogger Reckoner:
Euphonium’s second season has yet to truly justify its own existence. Now that Kumiko and the concert band have made …read more
In other news, Twitter killed animeblogging and then suicided. GAB is far too politicized. I suppose I'll keep the GNU/Smug.loli thing going for now. It's not like I have many years left to play with it. At least that one provides an RSS feed.
read moreWhile the wheels of popularity turned, Cinderella Girls Theater was one of those constant things that made people load the browser game. Last I checked, it published more than 600 strips. Published in color nowadays, Danbooru can provide a taste. With such a hot property locked into the dead-end website …
read moreI saw a comment on the Twitter recently about how the success of Shirobako signaled to the industry that perhaps there was a market for shows with adult characters after all.
No link? Tsk, tsk. Also! Is Shirobako actually a success? Well, I bought the BDs, but my …
read more<Author> Usagi Drop time
<Sage> [23:22:32] <Author> Usagi Drop time <-- the incest show?
<Author> it's not that close
<Sage> The incest show.
<Author> I noticed that Nobar shared the prejudices of small minded people too. http://re-jinx.me/2011/09/17/summer-11-closing-thoughts-usagi-drop/
<Sage> But Author.
<Sage> He fucks …
The idea to watch Usagi Dropp was seeded by Evirus' effective advocacy and prompted by the disappointment in the S&L. So far it's a smooth sailing. Production values were a shade under what I expected from PIG, but when Rin worked through a fear of death, things fell back …
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