Anyone watching Taishou Yakyuu Musume 01 saw how girls were shocked at the violence of the sport after a player was knocked out with a ball. Also, I recall some bloggers mentioning anachronistic aluminum bats in TYM, although I didn't watch far enough to see them myself. Now, check out …
read moreKampfer and Neko Funjatta
By a strange coincidence, entrails toy was profiled at Failblog recently.
I'm sure someone has blogged this already, but I'm saving it for reference.
"Neko funjatta" means, roughly, "I stepped on the cat", or at least the song goes that way (with missing particles).
BTW, I realize that nobody stepped …
read moreKimi ni Todoke begins
Swayed by the exhalting posts, I gave Kimi ni Todoke a good try and giggled maniacally non-stop through the first 15 minutes of the episode. Also, squeaked "OH NOES SHE'S CHANGING COLOR" and such. No idea if this is my internal fangirl or what, I've never met her before.
As …
read moreChoux and Eternal's inner fangirls
Poor Eternal struggles to define the essense of Kimi ni Todoke and comes up with heart, which is the same signifier Mahoraba commonly received back in 2005. Now I have to extract the anime from the "rejected" pile, where it landed after a brutal beating by Aroduc, and put it …
read morePolaryzed on Sora no Otoshimono
Josh is staging a comeback that includes his newly minted co-writer, Polaryzed, producing cutesy first impressions going like this:
read moreNow this series threw me for a loop. I came into it knowing that it’d be a fan service comedy. The premise/synopsis from ANN made it sound very similar …
Starship Operators and failed triptychs
I was quite satisfied with the triptych that I made for Marimite, but alas, it's difficult to hit the right tone every time.
This may be a bit too obscure. Nanoha is supposed to express my dissatisfaction with the outright magic and implausible combat that is completely railroaded by the …
read moreUbu on the progress of 2009 Autumn
Not many enough shows for a thin slicing, but Ubu's report makes it up with wit. Sadly, he didn't like Kampher and Sora no Otoshimono. About Ichizon:
This strictly B-grade effort doesn’t seek to achieve much, and yet it is the season’s best, so far. This is not …
read moreStarship Operators ends
It started so well, but the bullshit was steadily growing in the final episodes until I only wanted it over with. Magic attacks and tactics, gravity in the axial passage to shuttle, convenient plotting, and... Truman? Seriously? I would not claim that Starship OPS reached the GONZO levels of ending …
read moreJP on Tutu
The weekly "what I was forced to watch" feature bore fruit this week with Princess Tutu. I would say, J.P. pretty much gives it the justice. It's too bad that I had to put it on the special list, it's a terrific anime. However, I don't think that he's …
read moreSixten on Railgun
Sixten does his utmost to convince everyone that Railgun is a superior show, mostly using the device of point-by-point contrast with Index. Sequels being better are not unknown (e.g. Nanoha), and if I didn't know that he would be using the same oratory for any show by J.C …
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