Another "geriatric animeblogger" of Meenuvia hatched today with a review of Haibane Renmei. He says "[...] the plot amazingly well constructed, it also has some of the best character development I've ever seen in any work of fiction. // Furthermore, it has a brilliant tension arc" -- meaning the way the story builds …
read moreShinichiro Kimura directed Sleeping with Hinako?!
SDB mentioned today that the director of Mahoraba (and many other things) is also responsible for Sleeping with Hinako (but not Training with Hinako). What is this, I don't even...
read moreTheowne on Figure 17
Honestly, I was curious what he was going to review after quickly burning through all of the Ghibli movies and other... movies. Anyway, looking at the review of Figure 17, I cannot help thinking he's missing some kind of tremendously important point about the anime, so we get weakly-sourced speculation …
read moreDiGiKerot on Toradora in R1
The post on Beta-Waffle is a true wall of text (also, rendered in unreadable font in Firefox), but the main message is fairly scary fearmongering about NIS' release practices. To be sure, he makes fun of idiot gamers fretting about the name order and other petty issues first, but there's …
read moreDamien says K-ON is not great enough
In a post at Moe Check, DKellis outlines a concept of small number of special anime, somewhat parallel to my "titans". The plank is very high when considering anime that way, so, unsurprisingly, K-ON fails to clear it. Still, it was seriously considered.
read moreEternal names K-ON the greatest moe anime
Suddenly... Old times at JAR, right now
About an hour ago, with no warning, Shon at opened a Live Request Hour at Japan-a-Radio. We're having fun right now, with old-timers joining left and right and requesting (can't use phone this time though, only IRC. Word travels fast... 52 minutes left yet.
read moreToradora is licensed by NIS America
Somehow the Funi's bragging how they "have the first look" at all licenses immediately comes to mind immediately when I read about a start-up nabbing Toradora. Now, considering that NIS America is a direct subsidiary of their Japanese master, the question is if the pricing model is going to be …
read moreKanzeon on KnT 17
The post at Metanorn uses animated GIFs to a great effect, and really makes me think if basic blogging about animated media is too limited in its ability to expose the anime itself. BTW, the best way to read the post is to leech it through a newsreader: the site …
read moreSunred retake
I wasn't happy with Tentai Senshi Sunred when it aired, but I was made to watch it again at the club, and it makes a bit more sense now. The jokes are pretty funny, but more importantly, they do not wear out despite the ostensible repetition.
In addition, Kayoko is …
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