The policy of letting other bloggers to put toes in the water first works quite well for me: everything I watch pre-selected is excellent. I dropped both Onegai Sensei and Onegai Twins, so nothing is guaranteed, but Ano Natsu opens very strongly. All the right superlatives apply: gorgeous, competent, engaging …
read moreInstead of continuing with great shows that I opened recently, I spent Sunday binging on various things, like Carnival Phantasm. It chose it primarily because of the availability of official AVI (thank you, UTW!), and secondarily because of the pretty imagery (thank you, SDB's top rotation). Princess Phantasmoon is pure …
read moreThe video was only 5 minutes 14 seconds in when I thought: "This is going straight into the `disliked greats' folder". The anime gave off that unmistakable masterpiece wiff. More than a wiff actually.
Reading various anime blogs, I slated Ano Natsu and Chihayafuru as best just-complete titles to try …
read moreread more[...] and it’s already obvious that she’s going to get the nice boy in the end. So what are they going to do for the rest of the series? The “scary” gimmick is already played out (though her thrill in playing a ghost and scaring people was …
As I am moving on, I find myself trending away from edgier anime, the one that is not cartoons, towards meaningless escapism and comedy (with the exception of veritable masterpieces like Oh Edo Rocket and Gurren-Lagann). Even Mouretsu Pirates is asking too much, so the "preview" was a lie, and …
read moreread moreIf last week's episode was dumb, then this week's Natsuiro Kiseki is just plain dull -- all of the machinations within it eventually come to naught, ideas from last week's episode get reused, and ultimately nothing of any interest actually happens as our cardboard cut-out characters lurch around and go …
Nothing new happened in the series since I posted the opening bracket, except perhaps the JP's mistake became even greater in the perspective. On the other hand, I skipped the oversexualized OP every time. It was this bad.
The art and animation of Haganai were astonishing, truly. The only thing …
read moreThis looks like another entrant that makes one appreciate Nichijou more, as a work of genius. That one was not always agreeable, but it was outstanding throughout, while Naruto SD is merely ordinary. That said, how can you not love this:
There were a few of small touches, too, like …
read moreI had a look at Aniblog Tourney bracket, and apparently Ani-nouto is seeded to face the winner of a match-up between the well-known Altar&Vega and OneMinuteOfDusk. Having never heard about the latter, and in the spirit of the tourney went to check it out... found a cancellation notice:
read moreThe …