アニ・ノート

Owing to extreme inconvenience of grabbing screenies from Hulu, pickings are rather slim, and random. For example, check out a bridge bunny, who turned out to be a rather whiny little useless thing later. The quality is about as good as it gets for the series. By the way, spoilers.

SDF Macross is rife with errors. Some are rather strange, like filling up with a wrong color. Here are three frames of geometry mis-steps (surely it makes creators of Dai-Guard’s floating chair feel better).

Still some parts are rather well done, like a reflection that looks generally right, unlike the one in Mahoraba.

Closer to the end I mostly paused to the epic stuff.

For example, Millia’s destiny and also the hilarious (first) date. Apropos which, I appreciated Max not being red-shirted. Remember Mac F and what happened there at the same juncture? Of course, we had Roy Fokker here, but oh well.

Also of course, no wedding can eclipse Nia and Simon’s, but then this one was pretty epic. And funny.

And speaking of weddings… Good times.

Another place where Mac F was a product of its time was the way Ranka’s singing was treated wrt. Varja. In SDF Macross, Minmei’s singing was fully weaponized (pictured). It’s unthinkable for it to be played so straight today. Making things ambiguous is considered sophistication nowadays.

And finally…

Coincidentially, Kuro was screwing with me recently. Yeah.

Chris made me to review my screencap stash, and so! Possibly more spoilers.

I have an affinity for anime food in general ever since Azumanga, and used it in both reporting brackets of IS. But there’s more where that came from.

Is IS “forgettable”? I completely forgot what was the deal with Laura’s left eye. I think it was explained, but I forgot.

Cool Houki recalls her IS. SDB managed to snap the frame just beyond this one, when the glow starts to envelop her, but I just missed, as was too caught up in the moment to step back.

Houki again. This one I grabbed mostly for the subtitle: a perk unavailable to raw watchers.

Another subtitle, and a good one.

Oh what the heck, another one. Do you think they are unhappy about the animation quality?

This subtitle moment is interesting because it’s notable how Ichika got his suspicions about the promise. He may be a fortress of dense, but not an entirely impregnable one. But of course, by the law of comedy, Rin’s pride made her to mishandle the situation and lose the benefit of the promise just when it could be realized.

In-video subtitle that’s available to BRWs and also The Episode Where Fujoshi Were Cruelly Entrapped.

Instead of continuing with great shows that I opened recently, I spent Sunday binging on various things, like Carnival Phantasm. It chose it primarily because of the availability of official AVI (thank you, UTW!), and secondarily because of the pretty imagery (thank you, SDB’s top rotation). Princess Phantasmoon is pure cake.

I am also very friendly with the idea of a callout anime for the fans. My word, The Idolm@ster TV was just that!

Not knowing the characters seems not hurt anything. Unexpectedly, I am somewhat predisposed to Ciel, although she really does not have any redeeming qualities, aside from being a cute meganekko. Perhaps I pity her for being made a comic relief. Their Lucky Channel at the episode’s end is… clumsy and cute like puppies. And overall, the anime does not seem to lose steam over the course of 4 episodes, which is good omen.

FRIDGE: To heck with badwidth, time for a half-retrospective!

Here’s the old man, who reminds me a bit about the mascot of that definitive macambre humor anime, the name of which escapes me. He belongs to the “glue creatures”, who assemble the separate large-skit pieces in the show. Some bloggers were unduly hostile to these creatures, but I don’t mind. What really bugs me thugh, I cannot understand if a 1:1 correspondence exists between the glue creatures and main show characters (like in PuchiMa).

Ciel’s entrance is where she got me. Although I recognize my mistake now, it is too late.

Ciel’s serve. Wow.

Ciel’s in teacher guise, wearing a New Mexico torquoise brooch for some reason. Around here, everyone wear them, men and women alike.

A random secondary character, who later makes appearance in the Houkago Puppies Brigade.

Rin Tosaka does what she knows best.

More Rin. BTW, the BD recording scene was a mad riot, comedy-wise, even if you are not aware of Archer’s identity. In the picture, she was committing one of the 5 pilot’s deadly sins, as identified by FAA: Resignation [1].

Arcueid: the failure of a vampire.

Saber in civvies. Nobody needs explaining about her, right? On the other hand, I did!

Look at Taiga’s face closely… and now this:

They broke the 4th wall explaining how they blew the budget animating her, which was amusing. But more importantly, look at the caption: only 2 frames for the speech. And yet, it looks 10 times better than Shining Hearts. For shame.

Finally, the puppy group. They try so hard. If only Jon Stewart was half as clever (or adorable).

[1] Other the 5 safety deadly sins are Anti-Authority, Impulsivity, Invulnerability, and Macho.