I might have created too high expectations and Mr. Brickmuppet is not entirely impressed. Although I seem to recall he used to same reaction for Midori no Hibi too, which went down as a rousing success later.
Meanwhile, Sage attracted my attention to the original source manga, available at SenManga …
read moreWe do not consider it justified to complain about translation here often, especially when the original is easily available, but just for today, take a look at this:
Humitan's Jun says, "俺達｡｡｡このままずっと｡｡｡こんな風に｡｡｡", or approximately, "If we stayed …
read moreWhat do you see in the corner? Or, rather, who?
I do not recall seeing something like that happen before. Looks like someone drew the backgrounds without looking at the storyboard.
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The art is so beautiful. But the titular character is what makes Galko so enjoyable. I love in particular how innocent she is. Galko has far too many other good qualities as well, bordering on Mary Sue in fact. But when comparing this to, say, Watamote, what do you rather …
read moreWatching KimiUso 08 with wife, and: "Heh, this girl is so going to die." "Oh, totally. It's Japan!"
Over time, I found that it's common or normal for people at large to like anime that I do not care for. Conversely, if I like something, it's natural and proper for …
read moreI followed WanPanMan in-season, so it actually ended quite a while ago, but it took some time to see if I have anything to add to the opening impression. In the end, there wasn't anything. It is still the only anime that I liked which is mostly about great animation …
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Omo polemizes with a comically bootlicking article, which claims that illegal streaming bankrupts anime, but bases revenue calculations on prices to legal uses multiplied by numbers of illegal users -- which are unknown. We heard it all before in the form of "if every illegal user of Windows in Russia paid …
read moreMr. Kerot lists a few reasons why this Kickstarter is likely to fail:
I'm afraid I'm in agreement... And with this …
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Yet another previously dropped series is restarted and completed. Scrapping the bottom of the barrel? We got it! And Garupan is not all that bad too. Just not all that good either.
One good thing about Garupan is the artificially crazy setting that is designed to disclaim any presence of …
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