They rolled out a new character mid-season, Konoha, a younger sister of Miss Dried Seaweed. One thing immediately jumped out at me: her character design appears to be significantly more elaborate than Desu-desu's, who is even in the OP sequence.
Somehow it reminded me about a letter where J.R …
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All aboard the ship-shipping ship shipping relation-ships! We were following a few series this season, but none were enticing enough to blog... Until Mr. Nova Jinx said at #animeblogger:
<Lupus-sol> is that animu any good?read more
<NovaJinx> it's pretty crappy but in an amusing way
<NovaJinx> everyone expected it to be …
You know how really good anime cannot be spoiled, because it's so good that it's impossible to spoil, right? I'm going to spoil the New Game manga now, because it's like that.
Our hero, Aoba, enters another no-holds-barred competition with her idol and mentor, Yagami. They have to produce a …
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Aside from all the comedy, two things Youjo Senki left with me are 1) Germans in the Japanese mind, and 2) unfinished anime.
Generally speaking, I am allright with anime based on an unfinished source. I mean, who doesn't love Mahoraba? Although, every time it ends abrubtly like Sacred Blacksmith …
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Bricmuppet's evolution is not uncommon. Mr. JTFish, too, started as a ball of hate and ended with "how do I live without EMILY!!! (now that Eromanga-sensei is over)".
One funny thought about this... I suspect strongly that in the LN author's mind, Elf and Muramasa are peers, loser comrades in …
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Finally done with Kobayashi. They mostly removed everything too gross, such as magical penises, but eh... Thematic concerns are abundant. The series pretty cute if you can get over that, althugh a bit too straightforward (the final visit was much too predictable). Production values are oustanding.
I made a note …
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Does anyone know, from original LN perhaps, why Muramasa's right hand is bandaged? She is manifestly left-handed.
UPDATE: J. thinks her bandages are related to her calligraphy practice, which I suspected too, but I don't see exactly how it works.
UPDATE: The reason is spelled out in manga ch.34 …
read moreVia Blue Blue Wave:
read moreSpotted news online that the official website for the “Yama no Susume” anime adaptation of the “ヤマノススメ” slice-of-life manga by Shiro, announced that not only will a new OVA titled “Yama no Susume: Omoide Present” be released during the fall of …
