The last failed restart of Sketchbook was almost 4 years ago, but suddenly I finished it, thanks to the air travel. Its nature lends itself well to drone out the liberal propaganda being spewed by airport TVs. It is otherwise unbearable, even for an iyashikei, but luckily I had a …
read moreThere's another trailer (h/t Chris Beveridge). Not much new from PV(1). The chipmunk girl is still missing.
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For some reason, the one thing that got stuck in my mind about Mysterious Gf X was Otou's initial reaction (on Twitter, quoting approximately from memory): "icky trappings aside, it's just a bad relationship, man". He later completely recanted, so it's not even the truth, but it kept the …
read moreApropos Chikorita hitting the rough road towards self-improvement, the other day I was rewatching Ai yori Aoshi 01. For years, one thing about it bothered me: when Kaoru refers to Aoi's broken strap, he says: "Harao ga...". It's quite clear, but there's no such word.
And so, years passed, and …
read moreCalling Nichijou a moe anime is like calling a pug a cat. Nichijou is troll anime: it’s about the best of friends trolling each other.
A good analogy (and not a sports one, natch). I think there was more to it, as KyotoAni persistently tried to demonstrate …
read moreIt just occured to me that every animeblogger that I met IRL is based at Meenuvia: Pixy, Avatar, Wonderduck. I came very close to meeting LoliKit at Fanime 2008, but that didn't work out.
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I did not realize that Mirai Millenium was actually a thing. Glad that the failure of Chinka did not discourage him. The picture above is from a pilot trailer. We know that not every pilot makes it to full production, but still, it's encouraging.
[Tagged "meta", because Danny Choo.]
read moreThe Animenation John made the following remark in his reblog of 2nd season announcement:
The first anime series ended abruptly without any resolution or climax.
Now I'm mad. I hate when this happens, and nobody who recommended Chihayafuru bothered to mention it to me.
Although, in truth, I should not …
read moreI was shuffling some old notes today. As you may notice from pad-anime.txt.diff, large chunks of notes periodically disappear (they are marked with "-" and colored brown). That means they go to an private archive. So, today, I moved a couple of links to make the pad more readable …
read moreJManga posted an announcement (h/t RT):
read moreWe are proud to announce that JManga has made an exciting change to our subscription system. Previously only Premium Members could use points to purchase manga, but now Free JManga Members can, too!
(Please note that Free JManga Members will need to upgrade …