Since I did not like Tokikake at all, I scour the Internet high and low for an authority who finds Summer Wars lacking in order to justify my own refusal to waste time and money on it. Today, Dark Mirage:
read moreCharacter development in the story is practically non-existent. Where it …
read moreThe other recent oddity is that, completely out of the blue, I decided to watch Naruto on Crunchyroll. I never, ever thought I would do this. I've never had anything against Naruto, per se... just against the kids that watched it on Cartoon Network. I had …
Today, USPS made me to pick up a box with the R5 release of Haibane Renmei by Reanimedia.
The box was far too big for a DVD set, because it contained a poster.
To the box set and the poster, Reanimedia added a stack of mini-calendars for anime they released …
read moreI poked around the Internet search engines and sharing sites a bit, but had to give up. Only found a couple of interesting raws, but not specifically what I was looking for (e.g. "relations" by Chihaya etc.). The only thing I learned was that the game apparently does 720p …
read moreThis may not be news to anyone, but I ran across it today. Here's a screencap, with the fansub translator's handle:
The publishing data for ep.1 says: "Publisher: ponycanyon; Uploaded: February 11, 2007". I cannot help wondering what the story behind this is. I imagine Pony Canyon licensed the …
read moreFound two saved examples of Zyl's masterful analysis and scintillating wit. Episode 10:
read moreKaede's criticism of Natsuru is being lame is IMHO unfair. Firstly, Natsuru loves and wants Kaede so much he doesn't see any other girl as a potential girlfriend thus the almost willful denseness. Faithfulness is not a …
Kurogane became excited about the promise of "Yuno Crab" in the upcoming episode of Hoshimitsu. Sorry to disappoint, but I think it is a mistake. "ゆのクラブ" means "Yuno Club", if anything. The translator was just thinking about crabs (kani) that Yoshinoya talked about in the previous …
read moreread moreThen just the other day, I was assisting an English class when I saw the teacher draw an interesting picture next to an important grammatical point: The drawing was a spiral, with a sort of fluffy petal pattern surrounding it. It looked so terribly familiar, but where on …