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kiriska

Claimed Blog: Opinion Prone

AnimeBlips Member since May 18, 2009

Dropped: Kimi ni Todoke
op.deadend-detour.com - 15 days ago
Dropped: Kimi ni Todoke
— op.deadend-detour.com — So I haven’t updated this poor blog for the past two months because classes and conventions and other obligations have been keeping me thoroughly occupied. I’ve avoided writing any sort of hiatus announcement because I hate the word hiatus. It implies that you can’t update ... (more) Dropped: Kimi ni Todoke

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Bakemonogatari and the Reaction Guys
op.deadend-detour.com - 9/6/2009
Bakemonogatari and the Reaction Guys
— op.deadend-detour.com — All in all, I’d say their reference of this particular meme was highly appropriate considering the scene directly preceding it. It’s really too bad there weren’t two other people in the scene to complete it (though I guess no one else in the series would be quite as ... (more) Bakemonogatari and the Reaction Guys
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Review: DOGS OAV
op.deadend-detour.com - 9/4/2009
Review: DOGS OAV
— op.deadend-detour.com — I finally got around to finishing up my review for the DOGS OAV. (MAL mirror is here.) I put off watching the last two episodes for a while just because the first two were so… underwhelming. It’s fairly rare for me to discover a manga before a corresponding anime is made since I ... (more) Review: DOGS OAV

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Spider-Man? In MY Kingdom Hearts?
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/31/2009
Spider-Man? In MY Kingdom Hearts?
— op.deadend-detour.com — Well, I kid, but by now I’m sure you’ve all heard the breaking news: DISNEY BUYS MARVEL, and I’ve always wanted to use the “[Noun]? In my [Other Noun]?” format. :P There are only a few naysayers, and most either confused or cautiously speculative, but I honestly ... (more) Spider-Man? In MY Kingdom Hearts?

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Review: Solanin
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/27/2009
Review: Solanin
— op.deadend-detour.com — It’s always hard to ignore a title after someone writes an excellent post about it, but Solanin is also a highly attractive two volumes in length — perfect for my limited time and short attention span. And I guess there was also some masochistic curiosity to it because I knew Solanin ... (more) Review: Solanin

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Eight OPs, EDs, and Inserts in English, not Engrish
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/22/2009
Eight OPs, EDs, and Inserts in English, not Engrish
— op.deadend-detour.com — I love Engrish. I really do. As uptight as I can get about the rampant misuse of English by native or theoretically fluent speakers, I find it ridiculously endearing when obviously non-fluent foreigners try, even when they get things wrong. Or maybe especially when they get things wrong. So it ... (more) Eight OPs, EDs, and Inserts in English, not Engrish
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First Impressions: Ayumi Hamasaki’s NEXT LEVEL
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/21/2009
First Impressions: Ayumi Hamasaki’s NEXT LEVEL
— op.deadend-detour.com — NEXT LEVEL Ayumi Hamasaki’s 11th album 25th March 2009 It blows my mind how quickly Ayumi Hamasaki seems to come out with new music, especially considering the number of tracks she puts onto each album, the number of remixes on each of her singles, and her slew of remix albums (holy crap, ... (more) First Impressions: Ayumi Hamasaki’s NEXT LEVEL
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Those Very Particular Spellings
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/16/2009
Those Very Particular Spellings
— op.deadend-detour.com — You’ve noticed it. Those series’ titles, those band names, and those Japanese celebrities with very particular spellings. CANAAN is CANAAN, all caps, and not Canaan. LUCKY☆STAR has that star in the middle if you can manage to remember the keyboard code for it. Love★Com has a ... (more) Those Very Particular Spellings

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Dropped: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/15/2009
Dropped: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
— op.deadend-detour.com — I kind of saw this coming considering what I thought of Higurashi, but it’s still a bit disappointing, I guess. Umineko started off feeling more promising to me because it felt more like a classic murder mystery and less of a weird series of events that happen to annoying schoolkids. I ... (more) Dropped: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
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Review: The Sky Crawlers
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/14/2009
Review: The Sky Crawlers
— op.deadend-detour.com — I finally finished my review for The Sky Crawlers (MAL mirror is here). I think definitely think it’s one of those movies that I’ll need to watch again to fully appreciate, but as usual, I like to convince myself that I don’t have the time. I will check out that book of ... (more) Review: The Sky Crawlers

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Fanart, Attribution, and Usage
op.deadend-detour.com - 8/6/2009
Fanart, Attribution, and Usage
— op.deadend-detour.com — Wow. This is a topic I’ve intended to write about for a while, but I never imagined that it might cause such rampant drama across the community. Of course it had to start while I was out of town. I’ve only skimmed through a majority of the posts made thus far about fanart and artist ... (more) Fanart, Attribution, and Usage
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First Impressions: RURUTIA’s Seirios
op.deadend-detour.com - 7/30/2009
First Impressions: RURUTIA’s Seirios
— op.deadend-detour.com — Seirios RURUTIA’s 6th album 27th February 2009 RURUTIA is one of only a handful of artists that I wasn’t introduced to by the “usual means,” which are 1) exposure via anime or related media and 2) direct recommendation from friends. Until recently, I was so negligent of ... (more) First Impressions: RURUTIA’s Seirios
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Sampling and Buying VS Not Buying at All
op.deadend-detour.com - 7/25/2009
Sampling and Buying VS Not Buying at All
— op.deadend-detour.com — The fansub and scanlation debate is an old debate and not really something I feel like getting into. This post isn’t really about that, though it’s certainly related. What I want to address is more general: in this economy especially, how much of the entertainment people buy have ... (more) Sampling and Buying VS Not Buying at All
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Dropped: Needless
op.deadend-detour.com - 7/24/2009
Dropped: Needless
— op.deadend-detour.com — It’s really no surprise, I guess. I think this is one of those shows that everyone checks out for an episode or two then promptly dumps because the laughs don’t last that long. I hadn’t been interested in picking it up at all (then again, half the series I’ve picked up ... (more) Dropped: Needless
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Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie)
op.deadend-detour.com - 7/21/2009
Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie)
— op.deadend-detour.com — You know, it’s funny. I went into this with the full intention of not taking the film adaptation too seriously so maybe I could enjoy myself for once. A lot of people who haven’t read the books tell me that the movies are fine, that they aren’t confused or lost, and that they ... (more) Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (movie)
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