| 12:00am | I Love Gundam, I don’t Love Gundam Wing | | | | [No spoilers here] I’m pretty much a Gundam fan. I totally buy into the whole thing: the toys, the significance in otaku culture, the inside jokes, and whole tradition. I haven’t seen all of the franchise (nor have read the manga and novels, nor have played all the video games), but I... | | |
| 12:45am | The Recency Bias and How it Affects Anime Appreciation | | | | [Pic somehow related] I just finished watching a lot of shows in the past 2 months, as well as read a lot of manga. I look at my recent archives and see how much samurai anime and manga I’ve bee consuming. Sometimes I catch myself thinking, ‘oh wow, this is just the best thing ever.’... | | |
| 12:00am | Cutting Through a Forest of Swords: a Survey of Swordplay Anime | | | | [This post has no spoilers, pic somewhat related] As I’ve said recently, one thing that interests me almost as much as mecha anime is samurai anime. If there are swordfights, I’m somehow interested. In this post I’m going to give short impressions, or rather what I took away from... | | |
| 12:00am | In the mood for blood: notes on the atmosphere in Shigurui | | | | Shigurui is one sexy show. I don’t mean this in the way the reviewers I respect mean it, in the way they talk about the content of sex in the show. The sexuality of the show is actually quite repulsive. If you get off on it, think of what you’re finding out about yourself. That may make... | | |
| 12:00am | Why is Balsa Smiling? (Seirei no Moribito is awesomely heartwarming) | | | | [No spoilers here] Having caught up with the Shigurui manga after being a long-time fan of Vagabond, I was in the mood for more period setting samurai action and Seirei no Moribito has been suggested to me by a whole lot of sensible people for having the best fight sequences. Thus, I approached... | | |
| 12:00am | A Well-Drawn Sword is Hard to Beat: Vagabond and Shigurui | | | | If there’s anything I like almost as much as ‘real robot’ anime, it’s ‘real samurai’ anime and manga. What I mean by ‘real samurai’ is that the swordsmen and swordplay in the subject works are for the most part portrayed with a realistic aesthetic; the... | | |
| 12:00am | I Remember Digital Love: Interstella 5555 | | | | [This post has no spoilers] 2003 was a bit of a lull in my anime watching; it was the last year of my life that I could tell myself I wasn’t an otaku. I had been watching anime pretty much all my life and was pretty intense about Macross, but I was casual about everything else. But this was... |
| 12:00am | Hatsukoi Limited is Where all the Males are Limited | | | | I’ve grown rather fond of Hatsukoi Limited. It feels every bit the generic junior/high school hijinks romance comedy with some dramatic elements. What sets it apart for me is the gorgeous character designs by J. C. Staff, that to me, is superior to their work on Toradora! Why is this a critical... | | |
| 12:00am | Feeling Legitimately Moe for a real-life Moeblob MOE~MOE~KYUUN~KYUUN | | | | Here it is: a legitimate moe-blob, all 1.6 centimeters of blobby, defenseless, useless, incapable, thoughtless blob of a human being that I’d do anything to protect. All it does is float uselessly in the womb and grow body parts. Now I won’t be able to settle the issue of classification of an... | | |
| 12:00am | A Meditation on Robots, not mecha, ROBOTS! | | | | [This post will have many references, and no spoilers]. I’ve taken time to pause from my obsession with mecha anime typology (super robot vs. real robot) to consider robots in anime the non-galactic-busting, turn you into a God or a Demon kind; neither did I think of the mobile suit kind. I’m... | | |
| 12:00am | Sky Crawlers: Heaven (Valhalla) on Earth | | | | [This post will spoil you. Watch The Sky Crawlers first, (I recommend it!) then read this post] Humans cannot deal with perfection, in this case, peace. Just as the copper-tops, the living batteries that power the mechanized dystopia of The Matrix cannot be placated by an utopian dream and require... | | |
| 12:00am | Holland Novak Shows Bits of Characters: Remembering Love for Awesomeness | | | | [Some spoilers up to episode 33 of Eureka SeveN, and a whole bunch of spoilers from Gundam's Universal Century timeline (Mobile Suit Gundam & Mobile Suite Zeta Gundam)]. As of this writing I find myself impressed to a ridiculous degree with Eureka SeveN. I feel that it is a show that expresses... | | |
| 12:46am | Deifying Anime Characters: Do You Remember Love? | | | | [Discussion Begins at Kaioshin_Sama's post: Deux ex Anime] Suzumiya Haruhi made religion cool, or at least moé. A brash and obnoxious know-it-all high school girl who also happens to be devastatingly attractive as a literal goddess is quite a brilliant concept (it will sell! and it did!). Religion... | | |
| 12:30am | Deifying Anime Characters: Do You Remember Love? | | | | [Discussion Begins at Kaioshin_Sama's post: Deux ex Anime] Suzumiya Haruhi made religion cool, or at least moé. A brash and obnoxious know-it-all high school girl who also happens to be devastatingly attractive as a literal goddess is quite a brilliant concept (it will sell! and it did!). Religion... | | |
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