I thought about talking about various shows while taking off the initial impressions at Setsunaism, but on second thought, it's not like I even watch any of them. I am having too much fun playing Toradora Portable instead (did you know that the bad end is Yuri end in it …
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The strange death of #animeblogger
Nova remarked in comments (ahem!):
read moreWell, the thing about IRC is that I just haven’t found anything feasible to replace it. It still remains as the most powerful means of chatting, and for myself also works as a feed aggregator thanks to some nice smart scripts. All in all …
WAH on Hanamaru Youchien
The article at Mistakes of Youth touches upon various points in a refreshing way, with about half dedicated to the grown-up angle.
read moreKodomo no Jikan touches upon these sorts of things as well, and so does Evangelion. I understand that is a weird pair of names to drop in an …
Lawson on K-ON2
I can’t even begin to describe how delighted I am that K-ON! is back, and (supposedly) for two cours, at that.
THIS.
By the way:
I never expected K-ON! to grow into a franchise. I think it goes without saying that, until now, Kyoto Animation’s …
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Quack in your boots, Crunchyroll
In an update to the post about the streaming cancellations Calaggie points out that Manga Ent. puts the titles into several channels, and the material taken off Netflix remains available elsewhere (see You Must Survive of Gurren Lagann, for example). Naturally, rights owners will attempt to disintermediate Crunchyroll if only …
read moreZyl the metablogger
I know what he's saying, and as far as it goes he's right, but I just need to snipe out one quote for absolutism (it's what I do):
It's always a drag when your hobby becomes work [...]
Having transitioned from moonlighting as a Linux hacker (while on the day job …
read moreAroduc on B-gata H-kei 02
I realize that I am in danger of doing something like the Zero Episode stuff, but I cannot help reading the spoilers in the Aroduc's weekly of GataKei 02. And an even bigger danger is that I cannot see how watching this may be better than reading about it.
Also …
read moreMiao on the original K-ON
In the the post at BS (nee AoMM nee DbD), Jason pays the due to the enthusiasm K-ON generates in the masses.
It’s the social media show of 2009 – K-On! has just generated more fan art and more YouTube clips than any other series of the year. Things really …
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