The summer-season came with a lot of interesting and unique series. Probably the weirdest of them is Tetsuko no Tabi. Not weird as in an extremely strange setting, but weird as in “how the heck did this get turned into an anime!?” Basically, what we have here is one of the very few non-fiction anime: [...]
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Nonfictional anime isn't very common, but perhaps Tetsuko no Tabi (鉄子の旅) explains the rarity. It shows the adventures of real-life train geek Yokomi Hirohiko in a 13-episode series currently running on Family Theatre, Sundays at 10:00 JST.
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If you’re wondering what Dash! Kappei is doing in this entry, it’s a request by Maria, who asked me to blog about this series and it was a nice opportunity to wrap up the quick first impressions before the start of the Summer-season, since I needed one more series for that. ICE This is probably the [...]
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Yep! A trailer for the upcoming anime Tetsuko no Tabi is on the web and… sadly, it's in quicktime format. For various reasons I refuse to install quicktime and hate it and want it to die. Also, they are using javascript to drop the thing onto the page, so stealing it for reuploading elsewhere would [...]
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