The story behind Takane no Jitensha was, apparently, the best submission for the 2007 Animax Awards. Watching the roughly 24 minute one-shot, it felt like A-1 was merely honouring an obligation. On the other hand, “best” could mean “whatever can be done quickest and cheapest.” Given that they play into each other, it’s probably [...]ShareThis
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Natsu no Sora’s full OP has one kicker of an outro. I’m such a sucker for strong harmonic progression. ShareThis
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Watching the Batanime (or Batmanime), I came across technobabble, and it feels out of place. It’s kind of weird to think that heaps of jargon wouldn’t belong in a story about a character who relies heavily on gadgets, but in the Batman world, gadgets are used for getting stuff done, as opposed to being [...]ShareThis
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Reading this lengthy 2007 MUSICA interview, was a lot like re-watching Introducing Utada, which I went back re-watched anyway. Juxtaposed against clips and images of her commercial success, she speaks with a vacancy that matches her listless appearance. I suppose you could read the signs to arrive at the same conclusion, being as transparent as [...]ShareThis
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Inset image from [1]. Not from Planetes, but it could have been. The larger, two-page version was probably derived from everything that the ESA was tracking on radar. Here’s the description: Instead of floating inside an orb, these flakes, some of the solar system’s newest ornaments, dance around it. The dusting comprises active [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Barriers to escape (velocity)", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/07/25/barriers-to-escape-velocity/" });</script>
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But it’s so not happening. I’m not one to note events related to commercial releases, but when it’s uncertainty related to 5 Centimeters Per Second, I’ll make an exception. If you’ve been thinking about giving one of those poor R1’s a better home (alongside its older siblings, perhaps?) than a warehouse, store shelf, or bargain bin, you [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "It would be touching if fans hoarded 5 cm/s", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/07/12/it-would-be-touching-if-fans-hoarded-5-cms/" });</script>
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If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough. Pursuant to that, is Gundam 00’s shot across the bow of Murphy’s Law: if the most unexpected event can occur that can bail you out, it will. Bonus points are had if it’s statistically independent. For example, if you cry so hard that you get [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gundam.dll", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/06/29/gundamdll/" });</script>
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You may want to skip the preamble, which is mostly anecdotal. The review preamble So this is a Heart Station review, and a late one at that. It was something that I’d get around to eventually, but this is a pretty tardy kind of eventually for which I have no good reason. The kicker was when I [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tuned cardiac resonators", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/06/27/tuned-cardiac-resonators/" });</script>
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One of the many questions that sprouts like a weed goes something like, “What is the cost of a fansub?” Current practice is to deploy the pesticide known as, “Lost sales (maybe),” one whose long term effectiveness is dubious at best. That’s a cost to the industry, and a monetary one at that. But [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fork your fansub", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/06/15/fork-your-fansub/" });</script>
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The first half toes around the umbrella known as translation. The second half manages to trip over the big orange monster to whom that umbrella belongs to. Somewhere along the line, the lot of us became translators. And I don’t mean just fansubbers, but fansub watchers as well. The term gets thrown around [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Misnomers and supposition", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/06/14/misnomers-and-supposition/" });</script>
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I’m not particularly well-read. I lie. I’m not well-read at all, having last studied any kind of literature in my last year of high school. Whoops, actually I did make an attempt at higher reading out of interest some time later, but more on that, later. So back in high school, I read [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An absurd proposal", url: "http://www.silician.com/anime/2008/06/13/an-absurd-proposal/" });</script>
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