read moreWhile I think it’s quite a good show, even excellent in a number of respects, my opinion is that unlike so many others Madoka Magica did not open the world to me. It is not the greatest magical girl anime I’ve ever seen, let alone the …
AKB0048 01-08 Q and WMG
I tried to blog the titular notes back when Ani-nouto started, but it wasn't very successful, IMHO: the material was too transient. Two years down the road nobody is going to care about small plot twists in an anime; at most they'll like to know if it were any good …
read moreBloggers on middle AKB0048
I was not particularly attentive to efforts of episoders back when AKB0048 was in its middle. Now I am reaping the problem by not having a whole lot of interesting stuff to reblog. It's made worse by high-brow bloggers tending to show their worst or at least overthink it. The …
read moreTheology of Haruka Amami
After listening to the same iDOLM@STER tracks for years, I began to parse some of the text; usually it comes as a sudden understanding while driving along. The full message often remains mysterious. For example, it appears that Agent deals with prostitution (canonically performed by Makoto, Ami and Mami …
read moreOh Miao, you card
Yes, it's the thin slicing at now Blog Suki nee Anime On My Mind (poor Darry, discarded like a used sock), and it starts well. No opaque sports references, no mis-spelled Brett Favre, but I am smirking and snorting at all the cute hate down the scale.
Uta Koi:
read moreTYO …
Oh Steven, you trickster
I follow DD2 with a big delay; but a good anime cannot be spoiled, etc. etc., so I admit that I looked at Chizumatic's account of ep.3. It ends thus:
read moreTruly an awesome battle, and fun for everyone. Quite a success. And the final strip count for this episode …
Calaggie gives away EVA swag
Apparently, all you need to do is to leave a comment on this blog, and you can win an Evangelion-themed fan, a shirt, and possibly a bag (or maybe not: the captions do not match pictures exactly). However, you must be able to accept the parcel at a U …
read moreOh Japanese xenophobes, you cards
Rebecca Silverman reporting for ANN:
read moreThere was a rude surprise after Dengeki Daisy bested Skip Beat! and Princess Jellyfish for Best Shoujo Manga when Kaze's president announced that Americans are idiots. He had previously worked at Viz, Kaze's American counterpart, and said that Americans did not appreciate manga and that …
Internet ruined Oka for me
Look:
TV anime never was so good. Sure, Porco Rosso, yes, that was this good. But it was shorter, it was more expensive, and we knew it for being exceptional. Now, every other series has animated visuals like that.
Still, when I see Oka doing it, I cannot pass on …
read moreSteelbound on drool in Nazo no Kanojo X
To me, the drool angle was a very important component, not merely superfluous, because it was used to let the viewer feel the approximate same uncomfortable feelings both the main characters felt throughout the series as they stumble and learn how to build a relationship between each …
read more