I know it’s definitely a ploy by SHAFT to cut back on the animation budget, but there were a lot of nice, clean wallpaper-worthy screens from this episode. Now where’s my completed ED?
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Hanamaru Yochien: Surprisingly awesome. Had no idea what to expect with this show, and was pleasantly surprised by good platonic humor. Although I am a bit jealous of the facilities at Hanamaru, that two-story slide would’ve been awesome back when I was three-foot tall. The music in the show is soothing and goes really well [...]
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After going through the entire last season on Umineko alone, I couldn’t wait for January to roll around with the promise of less QUALITY. And for the most part, it delivered. Most of the shows below have been talked to death elsewhere so I’ll keep it short: SO•RA•NO•WO•TO – Too early to judge, but the show’s [...]
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For me personally, 2009 was pretty yandere. Here’s hoping for less trolling in 2010.
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If there was just one thing that the anime adaptation was successful in doing, it was to fuel the hype machine for the release of the 6th episode of the VN. And for us non-moon-speakers, the ending of the anime coincided quite nicely with Witch Hunt’s release of the English patch for Episode 5. The first [...]
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There is a lot to say about the seventh chapter of what is now my most beloved story, and at the same time, there isn’t a whole lot to say either. One word that came to mind while watching was ‘anguish.’ This chapter especially was infused with an almost suffocating sense of tense despair. From Shiki’s [...]
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Blogging is a lot like exercise or any club activity. Once you miss a few sessions, it’s very difficult to get back into it. Luckily, I’ve been accruing topics I want to talk about, so I should be able to break this fortnight of silence relatively easily. I’ll start with a recap of all that’s [...]
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I’m having such a difficult time just keeping up with episode reviews on this little outpost in the backwaters of the anime blogosphere. I can’t even imagine trying to maintain the “conversations” all those cool power-bloggers hold from time to time. Instead, I’m resorting to the batch summary of the anime I’ve watched since the [...]
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And so starts the Meta world. I thought it was pulled off pretty well, with more BGM to boot. A little concerned about the faces in this episode, but nothing too unbearable. I kinda wished they did a better job with Rosa and Maria’s scenes. They captured the randomness of it all, but they could’ve [...]
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Well, it turns out that the $59.99 GSC Ryougi Shiki Garan no Dou 1/7 PVC figure was indeed a too-good-to-be-true bootleg. I definitely should have done more research before clicking buy now. Will probably file a PayPal buyer protection claim this week in hopes to recoup my losses. But a pretty downer of an experience [...]
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