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The intense suffering of dub watchers
I had an urge to rewatch Magical Play 3D and since Crunchy was dead, visited Youtube, where apparently remains of ADV made their last stand. The advertisements are not the worst part at all, but the horrible performance was a real pain. Spinning dots kept appearing even while the gauge ...
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CKS on Bakemonogatari
Seen today (short enough to quote essentially in full): Here is something that I did not see and understand until the last (aired) episode of Bakemonogatari smacked me in the nose with it: Bakemonogatari is really a love story. A romance, like Toradora. And like Toradora, I think that it is a ...
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Funimation licenses Sekirei
I received a tip from DiGikerot that Funimation acquired licenses to Sekirei and Birdy, as announced at their panel at AnimeUSA. There goes my "Funi only licenses shit" mantra. I realize that with the dominant position Funi enjoys, it was only a matter of time before they grabbed something ...
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Kampfer 09 Preview
I think that white Kampfers must be hench[wo]men of Moderators who do not fight as such, but beat up colored ones and make them fight like gladiators. Shizuku is going to have it tough.
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Ha Neul Seom on Oh Edo Rocket
The post focuses on the evocative backgrounds, but also mentions the characters. IMHO, the best thing about Oh Edo Rocket is the portrayal of the life in the long houses in general, and not specifically anime backgrounds or other technical components. In fact, the layout of Oh Edo Rocket is ...
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Mushishi Live Action
If anything, it was worse than the anime. Stitches between story arcs were annoying. Acting was super-weird, certainly not Kurosawa-like. More like theater than cinema, if you ask me. Uninitiated got confused by the flashback in the end.
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Hung opens K-ON
Better late than never at BasuGasuBakuhatsu: I just finished watching the first episode of K-ON! I guess they forgot to add the “ROC” to the first part of the title. Yes, I am going through my anime backlog by just picking the most popular (according to Anime Nano) series. I knew ...
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Omo and the M-word
It was a pretty readable post, as far as Omo goes. Discerning his point was some ways easier than finding where Derrida stole the slippage of the signifier from Lacan. I noted this: Trying to define moe is a trap. Because you can’t really do it beyond a personal context, so ...
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K-ON CD loot
The sheet music is calling for me. My mother made me to play piano when I was little, and I hated it so much. So, maybe a guitar? I think K-ON would probably be not half as good if topic were different. I'm not knocking GA:GADC here, but it certainly was ...
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SDB on Index
Actually the article at Chizumatic is more about Railgun than Index. In any case, spoilers are morbidly fascinating: tens of thousand murdered etc. Outside of spoilers: Railgun's situation really is amazing. No wonder she's got a tortured soul. Clearly an anime for fans of Nanoha. I'm quite ...
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Please unconfuse me about Kampfer 07
Why did Kaede (Sakura) lose consciousness? Quoting Damien, fuushigi mystery. I suspect we just don't have enough material in the anime yet to form a good guess. The pajamas transformation thing was weird as well, if not to say bogus. I am inclined to write it up as Natsuru's imagination ...
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Let’s unconfuse Damien Kellis about Kampfer 07
At Moe Check: Do people in Real Life actually play that Pocky game? [...] For some reason Spin The Bottle is popular in fanfics, but I don't think I've seen an occasion in an anime itself. I cannot vouch for Japanese, but American teens play all sorts of innuendo themed ...
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Let’s unconfuse DS about Kampfer 07
Heavily spoiling remarks included a question: Natsuru has not yet taken showers/baths as a girl. And this is supposed to be a real full-blooded hetero adolescent?? What gives?? He wasn't able to keep the transformation or transform at will previously, so showering was out of question.
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My fabulous anime club
I'm back from a club meeting, which would not be all that remarkable if Saturnine didn't share a whiny post on the topic, written by a guy with nickname suspiciously similar to his own. I paid my $5 duties and received new and shiny membership card for the term, which is ...
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Pixy on Kimi ni Todoke
The benevolent dictator of Meenuvia is also an anime fan, but unlike our own overlord Maestro, he finds time to blog about it (albeit infrequently). Take your standard high school teen romance angst-fest... And attach a JATO unit and smash it into the side of a cliff at 600MPH where ...
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Moogy on the 2009 Autumn halfway
Our master troller and famous editor of game translations continues to apply expletives better than Cunningham ever done. Agree or disagree, it's worth a smirk at least — when reading the whole thing. But I'm going to ruin the fun and rip quotes. Kiddy Girl-and – Honestly, I’m not quite sure ...
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The master technique to watch Kimi ni Todoke
Starting with ep.2, every episode ends in a cliffhanger of sorts, which is extremely irritating for a supposed iyashikei. So, my answer is not to watch the last 2 minutes, but instead suspend the video. I resume it when next week's episode becomes available, thus negating the cliffie. Take that, ...
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Moe Check on Kampfer 06
Damien Kellis hits bulls-eye with this question: Why are most of the customers in the Maid-ish Cafe female? Fushigi mystery. On second thought, Kampfer is so full of manifest impossibilities, that this one should count as something very minor. Thanks to the opening and ending animations, the ...
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Megumi Nakajima and me
I pirated the recently published album of Kampfer's ED remix, in secret, since I only do it for sampling purposes... It's not like I'm a fan enough to buy R2s. Oh wait, who am I kidding? Anyhow, a post at Transientem made me leave the closet because of the following ...
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English-only anime
ani-nouto.animeblogger.net — DiGiKerot produced a long addendum for today's Unfunny, from which I understood one thing: someone is trying... to sell a dub-only anime release in America, on BD no less. We all knew it had to happen sooner or later. And it's not all that ... (more) English-only anime
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