Most of the time I fall decidedly into the camp of “serious business” anime viewers, the sort who would list Miyazaki, Kon, and Oshii in top ten lists, attend pretentious film festival screenings of various animated works, and wax eloquent on the stylistic affectations taken by various directors (all while swirling around a pinot noir [...]
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Building a better moeblob
Posted in Anime, tagged profile, Taisho Yakyuu Musume, Tweeny Witches on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yukikaze END: Musings on Air-to-Air anime
Posted in Anime, tagged Battle Fairy Yukikaze, editorial on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bakemonogatari Nadeko Snake Notes and Musings Part 1
Posted in Anime on September 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This episode made me realize that Hanekawa is voiced by Horie Yui. HNNNNNNG.
Obligatory aneurysm aside, as usual I’ll skip the commentary on the character development since others more than adroitly cover it, and instead focus on digging into the supernatural nature of the plot…
First Note: Shinto is an animistic religion, based around the worship of [...]
Bakemonogatari Assorted Commentary Clippings
Posted in Anime, tagged Bakemonogatari on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Various collected clippings from Ghostlightning’s episodic coverage of Bakemonogatari. To be cleaned up and made presentable in a future post. I present them here in mostly raw format, just cut and pasted so I won’t have to go digging later. Eventually I’d like to compile a sort of viewer’s guide for the show.
“Umineko”: Gulls, Cats, and linguistic associations thereof
Posted in Anime, tagged Umineko no Naku Koro Ni on July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Recently, I was talking with fisharson and Phazys about upcoming shows, and Umineko No Naku Koro Ni, the English title of which translates to “When Seagulls Cry”. Both noted that the title certainly didn’t seem quite as sinister as it’s predecessor, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (lit. “When Cicadas Cry”). I pointed out that, being [...]
Blatant Filler
Posted in Anime, tagged Filler on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Officially back in Canada now (although heavily, heavily jet-lagged). More posts to come… but in the meantime, some trailers of some rather interesting upcoming titles that are perhaps a tad more obscure. Most of these are in either a movie or OVA format, which personally I always prefer to a long TV series (anything past [...]
Religion and Politics: Coles Notes on Eden of the East Part I
Posted in Anime, tagged Eden of the East, editorial on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Slowpoke may be appropriate here, as Eden of the East has definitely made quite the splash. However, there are a lot of subtleties that I’ve been mulling over in the two or so episodes I’ve seen. In particular, Eden of the East feels very “western” – and that’s not just because of the English voice-acting. [...]
Building a Realer Robot
Posted in Anime, tagged editorial, Mecha on April 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
To all intents and purposes I come across as a mecha fan much of the time when discussing anime, and something that often comes up when talking about mecha shows is often something along the lines of “that show felt really realistic”, or “that show was more realistic than this other show”, or “that show [...]
