I finally got around to watching Steins;Gate during Thanksgiving. And then rewatching it this Christmas season with my sister. I thought it was a fantastic show. And it gets better the second time through. Actually, I thought even the pacing seemed quicker the second time around, maybe because I was noticing things I’d missed the [...]
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Sorry this update was a long time coming. I’ve been MIA for a couple months… well, clearly. Figured it would be nice to provide an update so you know I haven’t gone the way of the dodo yet. So I’ve been abroad in Asia this whole summer working at an internship. Not in Japan sadly, [...]
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Can’t say I loved the 8 year time skip, but how cool was it seeing Sentarou and Kaoru jamming again? And the final scene where Ritsuko meets up with the two – is it a super hammy, unrealistic ending? Sure… but seeing the three together again was a brilliant final bow to their friendship which [...]
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  First of all, my apologies for a long, looooong layoff of six months since I last posted here. That was in large part due to inspiration simply not striking for me over that span of time. But now, thanks to an anime awesomely trainwrecking, intensely invigorated inspiration has struck anew! And since this triangular [...]
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One of the things that has confounded me for years now, ever since I first watched Fate/Stay Night and now revived during Fate/Zero, was why there’s so much love for Saber. Is it the moe factor? Now to be fair, I don’t know much about the Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night VN universe. I know it’s pretty [...]
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I’ve been thinking of the best way to write this post for a while now. Kids on the Slope is one of the best animes I’ve seen so far, and so far, perhaps my favorite romance anime to date. In retrospect, I wish I’d blogged about it episodically, but I was late to the ball. [...]
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Despite being one of the admins for the aniblog tourney I’ve been pretty hands off. Most of the credit for the work goes to Scamp, Mefloraine and Renn. But as someone who also helped kick off the first aniblog tourney, I’ll give you a little insight into the thinking behind the tourney. The goals of [...]
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It’s not just a slice-of-life any more, it’s literally real life. No, I don’t mean that in a good way. To be honest, out of all the shows that are airing this season, I had the highest hopes for Hyouka, because it was one of the few that I didn’t know what the plot would [...]
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Between Fate/Zero’s continuation, Tsuritama, Acchi Kocci, Sankarea and probably Hyouka (once I get around to it) I’ve been pretty pleased by the quality of the summer season. Traditionally not a very strong season. With that said, it’s looking increasingly like I’m probably not going to pick up a show on a weekly basis, and will [...]
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That is, if you were to describe “nostalgia” as the year 2007 and the show, Lucky Star. It’s hard for me to explain exactly why Acchi Kocchi gives me Lucky Star vibes. It’s certainly not the first 4-koma mimicking the laid-back, Seinfeldian observations of life humor that Lucky Star seemed to do so well. And [...]
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