Purely for humour value, since my own position is hardly going to change:
Finally finished Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s. It had been built up quite a bit as something mindblowingly cool by a lot of people, but at the end I was still left feeling… like I’d …read more
And the secret is apparently that he can't stop blogging. Not that I am dumping on that, because I pretty much did the same thing before. That said, Tumblr is probably the worst place to reappear due to its ridigness. But at least it's not MAL (because it's where dead …
read moreI went to see a Q/A with A.B. Spellman, which I gather is an annual affair where he gets to interview someone in front of an audience. The format is somewhat similar to a TV talk show. This time his interlocutor was Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is apparently a …
read moreI feel like I lampooned the account at Otaku2 as mad ravings of vintage member of Japaneze intelligenzia, but don't remember where: perhaps it was IRC. But that was in jest, WAH is more serious about it. I would say we are in complete agreement, except that WAH puts his …
read moreI was saving this for the time I blog Kara no Kyokai for myself, but it is not likely to happen ever, so here goes:
<hikago|sleep> @digi: I usually just summarize as: "Distraught floating girl is enraptured by her own defeat and kills herself. Guy makes delicious black coffee …read more
Back when the series was still in the planning phases and Anima was seeking investors to continue with the project at last year’s Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF2009), it was suggested that it would be twelve episodes long; however, there doesn’t seem to be any …read more
All I can say about this episode: remember Strike Witches 05? Same meh, repackaged.
SDB wrote merely that "there are a couple of closeups which push the bounds of decency". Don't think so. The issue is that the series were on probation already and AIC is telling us loudly where …
read moreBateszi quickly touches upon the barbaric brutality at the core of Naruto.
There’s a moral ambiguity at its core, feelings torn between the vicarious thrill of watching a series of awesome encounters with heroic characters, and the reality of seeing these children maimed and killed by a bunch of …read more