He says it's super derivative:
The first episode of Re-Kan seems practically like a reverse clone of Kotoura-san. Sougeki no Soma appears to be an updated version of Yakitate Japan that focuses on dinner cuisine instead of pastries. Omakase Miracle Cat Dan looks and feels an awful lot like a …read more
In comments at Wonderduck:
read moreYurikuma has a completely different DNA than the Noitamina block - it's Ikuhara being Ikuhara for an audience consisting, these days, almost wholly of Ikuhara. So think Utena and then Penguindrum, but without the usual mask of reality that later fractures.
Honestly, it's just bad. Okay, some …
On the cusp of iM@S CG being broadcast, I went on the record with my concerns about history repeating itself twice, first time as tragedy and second time as farce (and Omo dismissed my worries). Now that we've seen 11 episodes, things are even worse than I expected.
To …
read moreThis is not an April Fool's joke, he was going at it for a while. I merely saw pictures at his Twitter today:
Danny is an interesting guy. He started out as a fellow animeblogger, but managed to build an impressive website empire, a portal beyond a mere anime blog …
read moreSkipping massive spoilers in the "FIN" entry, we find the following executive summary with more spoilers:
read moreHaving suffered through Tokyo Ghoul √A absolute complete failure of a season and ending, I thought that Aldnoah.Zero’s ending was fairly good in comparison. It was consistent with the themes presented with …
Nova finally posted the article, which apparently took some pains. Characters were praised, of course:
read moreThe characters don’t appear as string puppets acting out a set script through rigid archetypes and a strict division between the good and bad guys, but as concrete people with proper personalities, aspirations, and …
There's no wishy-washing it, Shirobako is an outstanding series. I had a small trouble accepting it at first, because of the meta premise. Anime about anime is inablity to see outside of one's cocoon, is it not obvious? How many Hollywood writers set their flicks in New York and L …
read moreThey are proclaiming the Nico turnaround already, with some choice analysis:
read moreOto. [...] This reminds me: I kinda like Nico now. Not because of anything the show has done, but because of what you’ve been saying about her off air.
Pon. Yeah, in the posts I’m just saying what …
The Tamako Love Story was firmly suggested to me by Justin Brough. One day our conversation moved to it, and I mentioned how I dropped the Tamako Market TV series. Justin claimed that they fixed it all up in the movie. And yes, they did — everything that was possible to …
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Promised myself never submit patches or animeblog in zeitnot before bed, but real quick now. One strange thing about Shirobako is its powerful hold upon my semi-subconscious. Just two phenomena:
#1 - exceedingly powerful deja vu - completely false at that. Examples:
#1.a - in 12, 13:16, Ema says "watashi mo …
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