January 27, 2015
Random Anime Picture #92: Giant Holographic Space Sharks
Because there hasn't been enough
Rio Rainbow Gate! around here recently. No giant holographic space sharks in the shot, though Rio will be jumping on the back of one any second now.
God, I love anime. It lets me type sentences like that with a straight face.
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I fell, heavily, off of the anime bandwagon for a couple years there. They were ugly years personally, and anime wasn't really doing all that well anyway. (Perhaps if I'd looked harder I'd have found better gems to enjoy. Perhaps.)
But when all's said and done, anime is a gift, particularly if you like seeing things that are occasionally way way WAY off kilter. "Oh,
Japan!" isn't just an exclamation, it's an affirmation.
Posted by: GreyDuck at January 27, 2015 09:02 PM (AQ0bN)
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Wait, you're saying Rio's about to Jump the Shark?
Posted by: Mauser at January 28, 2015 03:15 PM (TJ7ih)
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"Oh,Japan!" isn't just an exclamation, it's an affirmation."
Do you say that in any way similar to the way you'd say "Oh John Ringo no" ?
Posted by: Rick C at January 28, 2015 04:25 PM (ECH2/)
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you're saying Rio's about to Jump the Shark?
No. I'm not.
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Rick C: Not entirely unlike, I suppose... depending on the occasion!
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January 24, 2015
Random Anime Picture #91: I Don't Need A Reason...
...to post something from ARIA, now do I?
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ARIA the Origination, Ep01
It's quite amazing, the emotions this show causes. Just hearing a few seconds of the opening themes can cause tears to well in my eyes. That's powerful stuff.
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January 05, 2015
Random Anime Picture #90: Tess And Strension
-Yokohama Shopping Trip: Quiet Country Cafe, Ep01
I needed me some of that something awful.
-Yokohama Shopping Trip: Quiet Country Cafe, Ep02
That too.
Alpha's got it right.
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January 03, 2015
Yes You Can
While I'm putting the finishing touches on the fourth "First Episode Writeup", I want to address something that our friend
Steven said a couple o' days ago. To whit: "
You can't go wrong with red half-rim glasses."
Steven, Steven, Steven... oh, my friend, have you forgotten?
THIS IS ANIME! Saying things like that are like poking a duck-billed platypus with a stick... everything is fine until it leaps at your face, wraps its front legs around your head, then jams its ovipositor down your throat while it rips at you with the spurs in its hind legs, spurs that are coated with a strong neurotoxin that'll leave you in agony for months, during which time its alien babies dig their way slowly out of your body via the soles of your feet.
Here, let me show you what I mean.
-My Neighbor Seki-kun, Ep 19
Is
that going into your collection, Steven?
IS IT??? Why do you make me do these things, man, why???
*sob*
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Sorry, but this is wrong. Platypodes don't lay their eggs in
live prey.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 03, 2015 09:01 PM (PiXy!)
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I saw some grey half frames in a show I recently finished watching, but I know they don't count. And even if they did, I'd keep it to myself. It's a horrible, shameful fetish that I can't believe someone would actually be open about....
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Sorry, but this is wrong. Platypodes don't lay their eggs in live prey.
Oh, Pixy... that's what they
want you to believe.
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You can't go wrong with red half-rim glasses
on a girl.
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December 13, 2014
Random Anime Picture #89: Company
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ARIA the OVA: Arietta
It still gets me every time. The combination of wonderful joy and quiet introspection (and occasional sadness) that is the
ARIA franchise. I was considering doing S01E01 for my next episodic writeup and found that I just couldn't. It doesn't deserve it.
The show isn't flawless, but the flaws are buried so deeply by the good that you don't care. Or it's too slow-paced and sappy for you, one of the two. That's okay, too. It'll be waiting for a time that you need it.
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It'd be hard to do an episode write-up for any given Aria installment anyway, since it's not a show where a lot happens, even in the "big" episodes.
And it works just fine that way, I hasten to add.
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December 09, 2014
Random Anime Picture #89: Endless
I forgot just how good
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was. Even "Endless 8", which I really enjoyed.
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I still haven't watched the second season or the movie. I really should.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2014 12:30 AM (2yngH)
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I stopped subtitling in the middle of Endless Eight. (Not so much "oh god, I can't take any more" as it was "you know, these days I make better money at my day job"...)
The show is great. Just high quality all around, clever dialogue, a great dynamic, and a plot that lets them go nuts without running into the x-of-the-week issue. Though eventually the novels did have that problem - they had to figure out a way to take Nagato out of the equation in order to build up any tension, since she's kind of the ultimate trump card.
Not that ultimate trump card is bad - I just read all of One Punch Man...
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I liked
Endless 8. I guess I get the consternation from some people, but the one criticism I didn't really understand was the allegation that KyoAni did it to save money on animation. They changed so many little details in the animation from episode to episode, I don't see how they could have saved money.
Still haven't watched
Disappearance, though.
Posted by: Ben at December 10, 2014 09:55 AM (S4UJw)
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The movie was decent. I was not fan of Kyon losing his pants at the beginning. His overreaction seemed unwarranted. Also, the idea of him liking his role enough to go to length to get it back did not agree with me. I prefered his Stockholm Syndrome being more ambiguous. Otherwise, decent. Nice animation, albeit not as good as
Hyouka.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 10, 2014 10:26 AM (RqRa5)
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I thought the first series and movie were pretty good, if not as good as everyone and their brother were making it out to be (One guy who appeared on Bang Zoom!'s short-lived anime review series, called it the best anime of the decade...Before the decade was out.). The second series made me not give a damn if the whole franchise got junked into the garbage disposal. Endless 8 was something that should have ended in two episodes, not 8.
The best thing that ever occurred from Haruhi was Haruhi-chan. That is truly great. But at least we can say Haruhi was not like Infinite Stratos...
Posted by: cxt217 at December 11, 2014 02:18 PM (ztr46)
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It never bothers me when a show or movie or whatever is declared "best of the decade" before the decade is over. Statistically, they're more likely to be correct at that point than they will be two years, five years or even nine years later.
I remember when the Steve Martin comedy L.A. Story came out. They started advertising it late in 1990, and one of the reviewer blurbs was "Best comedy of the '90s!" And I thought at first, "well, that's rather bold" but then it dawned on me that, at that point in time, that claim could in fact be correct. Sure, I know it's just advertising, but if you look at it philosophically...
Posted by: Ben at December 11, 2014 06:44 PM (S4UJw)
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It never bothers me when a show or movie or whatever is declared "best of the decade" before the decade is over. Statistically, they're more likely to be correct at that point than they will be two years, five years or even nine years later.
I think what bothered me was less the timing, and more the attitude of certainty especially for a series that while entertaining (At least for the first season and movie.), did not strike me as outstandingly good, heads and shoulders above everyone else even at the time. What is more, it is striking that a lot of the excitement and praise were being lavished the series using a novelty (Randomly ordering the episodes.) that in the end, is a cheap gimmick which does nothing to improve the story.
Novelty is not inherently better - as anyone looking at the news could attest.
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There have been a lot of things which were worse. No question about that. But in the pantheon of "reasonably good series" I can think of a lot which I consider to be better. I thought the hype for it at the time was overblown and I still do. (My review includes commentary about that exact thing.)
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November 13, 2014
Random Anime Picture #88: Do I Need A Reason?
-Fate Stay/Night Unlimited Blade Works, Ep05
I don't even really need to say anything here, do I? Nah, didn't think so.
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Rin Emo Facial Distortion.
Hmm. I give it a 7.
Posted by: GreyDuck at November 13, 2014 08:16 AM (AQ0bN)
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The disgusted face when you find out that someone you thought was kind of stupid, is in fact really, really stupid...
Ah, Rin makes life good.
Posted by: Avatar at November 15, 2014 06:27 PM (ZeBdf)
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Into every life a little Rin must fall.
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No caption? How am I supposed to know what to think?
(Hmmm, I've been trying to put up at least one new post every weekend, but I don't really have anything this time.)
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November 06, 2014
Au Contraire!
"That blonde sure is nicely built. Is she a candidate for my top rotation?"
"Is there a reasonable supply of cheesecake mixed in with all the lunches?"
"It looks like most of the pictures of her also include at least one guy."
"Oh, well; too bad."
I think Shaga has made a case for top rotation, Steven!
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Now you
know he doesn't like suggestions.
Posted by: Rick C at November 06, 2014 09:41 PM (0a7VZ)
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He asked if she was a possible candidate. I'm just confirming it. That it means I can post cheesecake has nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Wonderduck at November 06, 2014 10:26 PM (jGQR+)
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I've learned better than to make suggestions.
Posted by: Mauser at November 07, 2014 05:14 AM (TJ7ih)
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I downloaded the show, and it's on my list of things to go through.
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Which one did you get, out of curiosity?
Posted by: Wonderduck at November 07, 2014 09:31 AM (jGQR+)
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I was just making a joke.
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There's still something not quite right about her...
Ah, that's better. Now she's perfect.
(I got the AtoZ BD rip.)
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Very good. I'm using Zurako's BD rip with Evetaku's translations... I liked having the clean OP/EDs.
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Let's try that again.
Could you delete the other one, please?
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August 05, 2014
Random Anime Picture #87: Say Hi, Jiro!
I just finished watching
The Wind Rises, Ghibli's fictionalized account of the life of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of both the A5M "Claude" and A6M "Zero" fighters. I have mixed reactions. As far as Ghibli films go, it's far and away my favorite of all of them. Its no coincidence that it's also the least preachy of all of Miyazaki's films: the two go hand-in-hand.
IJN Nagato in background
It should come as absolutely no surprise that it's a gorgeous film. Again, it's a Ghibli. That's to be expected. There's just something about
The Wind Rises that doesn't sit right with me, and I think it's the main character. Jiro Horikoshi in this movie comes across as a completely dispassionate, yet heroic, leading man. Brilliant, relatively athletic, a leader of men, and he does it all with the same nearly blank expression on his face. Only when he's discussing airplanes does he begin to show some emotion... not much, but some. His wife is dying of tuberculosis? Blank look. Tokyo destroyed by an earthquake? Blank look. In Germany? Blank. The voice acting of Hideaki Anno, who sounds like he has a stuffed nose, doesn't help a whole lot, either.
Still, it's got the
Hosho in it. Which is always nice.
All in all, it's certainly worth watching. I'll give it 3.5 stars. It just could have been so much more.
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I recall some famous movie reviewer being really pissed at this movie because it didn't make him out to be some kind of monster.
Posted by: Mauser at August 06, 2014 02:27 AM (TJ7ih)
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I can believe it.
This review here basically says just that. I don't agree with everything he says, but there are parts... the dispassionate nature, for example.
I can't rate it lower than I did, but I can understand why someone else would. I just don't agree with it.
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The voice is provided by Hideaki Anno?
*The* Hideaki Anno?
Posted by: Ben at August 06, 2014 08:48 AM (S4UJw)
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None other, in his first major role. He's as good at this job as he is as a director of *Eva*, which is to say, not all that great.
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I'm glad you finally got to see this movie. I think the portrayal of Jiro Horikoshi makes him out to be sort of like Wernher von Braun — a single-minded visionary with selective awareness of just what sort of people he's working for. The love story had its moments, but ultimately it ended up just demonstrating that nothing really mattered to Jiro except his airplanes.
Posted by: flatdarkmars at August 06, 2014 05:34 PM (0h1CL)
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Well, the dispassionate thing is pretty accurate to the desired well-to-do or educated manly Japanese attitude between the wars. A man (and often, a woman of good breeding or noble training) never showed his true feelings on his face or in his conversation, and particularly if things were going badly. At the same time, people of sensibility were supposed to just suss out what these stonefaced people around them were feeling. And there was a lot more elliptical conversation consisting of significant uses of "Ah," by all accounts.
I mean, even the English thought the Japanese took it too far.
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August 03, 2014
Random Anime Picture #87: Say Hi, Tony!
For the most part, I really don't much care for Leiji Matsumoto's WWII OVA entitled
The Cockpit. Of the three parts, only the middle one, "Sonic Boom Squadron", is any good. Which doesn't mean that the other two don't have a bit of eye candy.
This is from part 3, "Knight of the Iron Dragon," and that's a Kawasaki Ki-61 Army Type 3 Fighter, better known as the "Tony". It was the only Japanese fighter in WWII to use a liquid-cooled inline engine and proved to be pretty good, all in all. Over 3000 were built, and served all the way until the end of the war.
I still don't recommend
The Cockpit, but it's not all that often planes like the Ki-61 get any love.
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I've read that by the end of the war, the Tony was the only fighter the Japanese had which was still competitive. (The Zero had long since been outclassed by the Hellcat and the Corsair, because American pilots had learned how to exploit its many weaknesses.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 04, 2014 11:16 AM (+rSRq)
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Of course, by the end of the war Japan's pilots were inferior to America's pilots, due to lack of fuel and thus inadequate training. No plane can surmount that disadvantage.
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It's the only early-war plane that was still competitive, yes, but not the only Japanese fighter that could fight on an even basis.
The Kawanshi N1K, better known as "George" was probably
at least as good as a Hellcat in both speed and agility, not to mention armor and self-sealing fuel tanks. It wasn't even with a Corsair, but it was in the same area code. There just weren't that many made (around 1000 of all types, including the floatplane version that gave birth to the design), and they all suffered from reliability issues. More were lost to operational problems than to combat.
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Given that the Tony was powered by a licensed version of the famous Daimler-Benz DB 601 (The same engine used by the most common - and popular - marks of the Bf 109.), it is not surprising that it could hold its' own for so long. The Italians also licensed the DB 601 and built a capable fighter around it, the Re.2001.
As a side note - Eric Brown regarded the Bf 109 as close enough in performance to a Corsair that victory in combat would depend mainly on the pilot skill and the conditions of battle. That suggests the same would be true of the Tony, let alone the George.
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July 13, 2014
Random Anime Picture #86: Tiro Cinque!
-Magical Girl Madoka Magica the Move III: Rebellion
It looks beautiful, at least as good as any anime film ever. Truly,
Rebellion is an awesome movie to look at.
It's a darn shame the Powers That Be decided to ruin the thing via the story. Just criminal.
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So what you're saying is, watch it with the subs and sound off?
Posted by: GreyDuck at July 13, 2014 10:49 PM (CUkqs)
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Actually, what I'm saying is that if you liked the TV series, you probably shouldn't watch it at all.
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 13, 2014 11:01 PM (eZEOc)
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Meh...Seems the movie is polarizing. Either you like it or you hate it. I rather liked it.
Posted by: cxt217 at July 14, 2014 12:21 PM (f1ZL+)
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I don't know if "liked" is the word. I watched and admired what "Madoka Magika" accomplished, but I'll probably never watch it through again. Hmm.
But, I am duly advised against going to any particular effort to chase down this movie, so there's that.
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But, I am duly advised against going to any particular effort to chase down this movie, so there's that.
Not everyone felt that way - I think Steve even quoted Peter Payne's (Who actually saw it in the theaters in Japan.) favorable reaction to it.
But the third movie also caused an earthquake in the fan-base. It was very polarizing.
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July 09, 2014
Random Anime Picture #85: Station-ary
-Rail Wars! Ep01
I have hopes for
RW. Through one episode, it hasn't sucked. It won't be legendary viewing, but that's okay. Just keep givin' us red-hot coal shovelin' action, and us railfans'll keep watchin'.
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The descriptions I read made it sound like Yet Another School Club Anime. Truth or fiction?
Posted by: GreyDuck at July 10, 2014 07:17 AM (CUkqs)
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Fiction. There's no school.
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 10, 2014 08:09 PM (wd10W)
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Falsehood! There was, in fact, a school!
I mean, kind of. For part of the first episode, anyway.
(...I'm going to end up watching this whole thing, aren't I? Yeah. Probably.)
Posted by: GreyDuck at July 10, 2014 09:52 PM (CUkqs)
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Training! Not school, training!
In a show about TRAINS!
HA!
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There were desks, there was the "Stand! Bow!" routine, the tsundere poked our k-drip with a pencil... close enough to a school scene for these jaded anime-viewing eyes.
They, uh, did not quite play out the boy-lands-on-girl bit as I expected, though. Who knows, there may be some meat on this story's bones.
Posted by: GreyDuck at July 11, 2014 07:09 AM (CUkqs)
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Should I jump in and start watching now, or wait till all the episodes are available. I know some anime are torture waiting for next episode to come out...
Posted by: Siergen at July 11, 2014 02:38 PM (8/vFI)
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This is not an anime that'll make you wish the week was two days long. Jump on in.
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 12, 2014 06:24 AM (C2wZE)
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This is not an anime that'll make you wish the week was two days long. Jump on in.
Shouldn't that have been "All aboard!"?
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April 26, 2014
Random Anime Picture #83: Dangerous
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Black Lagoon Ep22
It's a dangerous show,
Black Lagoon is. I went looking for a quick screenshot and wound up watching three full episodes instead. Happens all the time when it comes to the series; it's just that darn good. Not everybody's cup of meat, sure, but if you like a little bit of "dark" and "grim" and "grimdark" in your anime, there's nothing better. And Revy's voice in the original Japanese is pure liquid sex. Don't get me wrong: she'll kill ya soon as look at'cha, but when she's not trying to speak English, her voice sends the right kind of chills up a guy's spine. And then she shoots you, but nobody's perfect.
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That's been in my NetFlix queue for a while, but I have to keep pushing it back because one of the disks is missing. It's like they never replace it.
Posted by: Mauser at April 27, 2014 12:49 AM (TJ7ih)
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Unless it's the first disc, you should watch it anyway. Then you'll go out and buy the series and you won't need to wait for Netflix.
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 27, 2014 02:04 AM (feFyF)
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There's a fair chunk of Black Lagoon available free on Funimation.com, but Hulu is probably easier to get working. Means there's commercials, of course.
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Oh, and now they want you to have a "free Hulu account" so they can sell your info and advertising demographics. Of course.
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Wow, WD.
For some reason that I can't recall, I skipped this show back in the day, didn't even give it the 3 episode test.
Now, I'm finally watching it, and....
Well it's just awesome. I owe you a beer. Maybe a Red Duck?
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October 17, 2013
My Brain At The Moment
Yep, that covers it.
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That would be my desktop wallpaper at work right now, if you could ever see my wallpaper on account of all the overlapping windows I keep open on both screens all day long...
Posted by: GreyDuck at October 18, 2013 10:46 AM (3m7pZ)
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I am right there with you. Three days of computer-based training--gah.
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September 09, 2013
Random Anime Picture #82: On A Horse
-Tari Tari, Ep11
I have no idea what's happened in this picture, since
Tari Tari is about a group of friends who want to sing in a choir. I'm assuming it's a fantasy sequence. I hope. Otherwise, the series appears to have become
Glee with horse archers.
Which doesn't sound like a bad idea, actually.
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 10, 2013 01:46 AM (PiXy!)
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The thing I find annoying about that picture is that her bikini is probably AC 5 at
least.
Posted by: Ed Hering at September 10, 2013 03:18 PM (aEOAA)
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It is probably made of the same magically enchanted material as the armor worn by Alias.
(FYI First fantasy novel I remember reading.)
Posted by: cxt217 at September 10, 2013 10:57 PM (WTGN2)
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It's for a cultural festival event, and the member in question is a horse archer - some sort of competitive thing, like jousting but with a
Japanese longbow?
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August 10, 2013
More Half-Frames!
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Megane na Kanojo, OVA #4
I wrote about this "series"
a few years ago. At the time, I reviewed just the first two installments, as that was all that was available. The remaining two were released shortly thereafter, and held up nicely to the standards set by the the earlier OVAs. For whatever reason, this evening I decided to rewatch the series, and lo and behold, there's a set of red half-frames in it.
More for Steven!
Y'know what?
MnK might be one of the
nicest shows I've seen recently. It's not great by any stretch of the imagination. There's dozens of better series out there. But you watch it with a half-smile on your face for the entire time, and when it's over, there's this little sigh of contentment that you'll inevitably emit.
It's very much focused on a certain fetish... glasses are hot!... and if you're one of those people who don't "get it," you'll probably have a substantially different reaction, but for those that fall into the correct niche? It'll be half-smile and sigh time.
They don't all have to be high art, folks. In fact, it's probably better that they aren't.
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August 07, 2013
Random Anime Picture #81: PIKA!!!
-YuruYuri Ep09
...and then the Science Lab blew up. Again.
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July 10, 2013
Random Anime Picture #80: I'm Confused
-Love Lab, Ep01
Love Lab is a perfectly inoffensive show, revolving around the wacky hijinks of the girls from the Student Council of Fuji Girls School. It's nothing earth-shaking, and it's also nothing that's forcing me to watch it. I might be losing my taste for "cute girls doing cute things in cute ways" shows, particularly when there isn't anything behind it, like interesting plot. The above character, Riko, has proven to be particularly hard for me to deal with, though. We all know about the "
cute little fang" trope, right? Riko is a rare example of someone with two of them... or, at least, she's
supposed to have two cute little fangs.
In reality, she just comes off as looking evil and demonic. She's
not, she just looks like it... which isn't a plot point, it's a mistake. She's a "sporty, athletic" girl, not the spawn of evil! The rest of the show was "meh," but the twin fangs drove me up a wall, confused and wondering when she was gonna shiv someone. I'll probably watch another episode to see if it gets better, but
yeesh.
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June 13, 2013
Random Anime Picture #79: Jack, You're DEAD.
-OreImo S2, Ep02
The last thing you'll ever see before she rips your throat out and punches out your blood. All of it.
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Ah, the lovely Ayase. Too much a yandare to pull the show by herself, but a good backup for Kuroneko.
Posted by: cxt217 at June 14, 2013 12:59 PM (y7Nbm)
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