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Not so good, although I am glad they cut down the actual rakugo bits. The entire second portion was talking about various Japanese towers, so… yeah.
03:
The first third wasn’t too bad. // The middle travel segment was just as lame as the last one. They lack even …read more
It's quite good. The art is attractive and looks a bit like Patlabor OVA (on reporters, in particular), as opposed to, say, Ranma. And yet...
Oh well. It was worth a try.
P.S. It should be noted that my gag reflex is tuned wrongly too often. I never was …
read moreSpoilers have never been so fun. OK, maybe they have, strictly speaking, but YKWIM. It took me a while to start laughing out loud, I think it happened when I saw the two dudes commiserating while nursing identical injuries. And gosh, am I glad that nobody lost an eye to …
read moreNetflix sent me a DVD with v.1 of Yawara:
It may very well be my last rental DVD ever: Netflix brass hides no disdain for DVD subscribers ever since the failure of Quickster, when the unwashed masses made them to beat a hasty and expensive retreat. They did not …
read moreAmong the flurry of Otakon announcements, one was hiding that informed from the Area 11 mothership: apparently Haganai is getting a second season. I'm a little hostile to the idea, considering that manga hasn't ended (to the best of my knowledge, anyway), but nobody asked me when they planned this …
read moreThe series of Precure candy came to a close, but never fear: the American food industry is infiltrated by weaboos. While the candy was sold by a store that may be described as "ethnic" (e.g. selling Heinz beans), this specimen came from an honest supermarket:
What do you think …
read more"Asobi" http://randomc.net/2012/07/26/akb0048-13-end/ Kawamori and Studio Satelight again prove why they are one of the industry’s go-to for animating concert scenes thanks to their signature style – one of blindingly flashy colors, dazzling visual effects, impressive shots from a dizzying variety of angles and pans …
read moreThey promise a TL page and also run a poll of viewer's favourites. As usual, my choices are not entirely aligned with the crowd:
Chieri's lead is not in any way surprising, even if Evirus tried to be flippant:
In fact, at the moment I can only remember the name …read more
Interesting ads it is showing, I have to say:
What have I become — from Google's point of view?
Tenso is a mail forwarding service that every weaboo must know and use. Otaku, too.
read more"Anime blogging - Personality and relationship with your readers".
No idea where he got the number of 257 active anime blogs.
UPDATE:
read moreThe number of blogs still active is created daily by a personal software I wrote and is shown in the sidebar of this blog under the title "Blogs Heartbeat …