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The groans! The pain! I suppose the end of this episode wasn’t bad, but for the most part I felt like the first 3 episodes of this series could have been rolled into two. There was a lot of faffing … Continue reading →

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I see. Begining with Episode 40, Eureka sevenN starts its final opening sequence for the series. … Continue reading →

[Cowboy Bebop Session 15 “My Funny Valentine”] Several things strike me about this session. 1. This is a story of old men. Even during the flashback, the characters were already old, or rather at the prime of their respective detective … Continue reading →

I’ll eat a little crow on this one. I did tweet that I was gonna enjoy “oldfag” hating on Gundam AGE before the series got started. I figured that with the kiddie designs and some of the mecha designs I … Continue reading →

[Nisemonogatari 03] Hanekawa is powerful. She is a joy to watch. It is revealed how she dominated Senjougahara over the phone in the previous episode. She told her basically “Do as I say or I will ask Araragi to be … Continue reading →

[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 15] [Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 1-15] Asemu Asuno is 17, making him one of the older lead characters to ever pilot a Gundam for the first time. What’s interesting to me as well is that it … Continue reading →

[The Complete and Ultimate Post on Aquarion EVOL Episodes 1 & 2] First, it was Neo Venezia… It’s a challenge for me to rewatch Aria the Origination now (even worse is Aria the Animation) because Aquarion Evol illustrated and animated … Continue reading →

The fictional name Lucius Modestus is rather interesting. The praenomen Lucius is derived from Lux (light), and Modestus means moderate or restrained. The hero of the funny and delightful Thermae Romae is this restrained guy who brought the light of … Continue reading →

I’d be a con man too. Nice monogatari bro. Don’t fool yourselves. It’s smut. Now that’s out of the way. It isn’t merely smut. It’s a sweet, tender moment of fraternal relations. If Bakemonogatari was all about love and friendship, … Continue reading →

[Gundam AGE Episode 16] Ever since I’ve seen Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in The Pocket some three years ago I’ve thought it transcended not merely Gundam shows, but robot anime itself. I thought it was a small, but powerful … Continue reading →

[Cowboy Bebop 16 “Black Dog Serenade”] What’s interesting about “Mushroom Samba” is the dissonance of the elements mashed up. You have your inner-city Blaxploitation drug narrative set in a Cowboy Western milieu. This comes to a head in how one … Continue reading →

I’m very lukewarm when it comes to hype and anticipation. Sure I get excited about new shows coming out, but every season the past 3 or so years my behavior has been uncannily consistent: I end up trying out up … Continue reading →

[Nisemonogatari 05] The manipulations of this show lends to an amazing symmetry. No, I don’t want to talk any garbage about “trolling.” Here’s the manipulation: There are two value propositions in Nisemonogatari that on the surface at least, work at … Continue reading →

[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 17] Despite the presence of a mobile suit battle, last week’s episode portended a massive slowdown in pacing for this show. I feared it would be a weekly dose of Zeheart’s erstatz Cyclops Team failing at … Continue reading →

If you have not seen this film by Studio Ghibli, this blog post is not for you. Spoilers abound after the jump. I made a heartfelt request for recommendations of anime love stories and/or romances a year ago, and I’m … Continue reading →

Space; anime’s true frontier. These are the episodes where true creative genius can thrive. To boldly let plot and character go where no man or woman has gone before. I’ll admit. I’m a space nerd. Growing up, my parents were … Continue reading →

It doesn’t seem like a lot, but over the last 4 years, 5 days not watching a single episode of anime is the longest time I’ve gone without. It’s been my primary leisure at home (including blogging anime and manga) … Continue reading →

[Nisemonogatari 06] This episode crammed half a season’s worth of content in it. It felt long, it felt meaty. At 20 or so minutes it’s neither longer or shorter than any episode before it, but it’s time to wrap things … Continue reading →

[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 18] Asemu Asuno’s first battle as a soldier of the Earth Federation Forces is nothing short of a spectacular success. Not that he didn’t make rookie mistakes, he did. He put his flagship in unnecessary risk … Continue reading →

As I previously lamented on this blog, Outlaw Star ranks highly in my favorite anime list. It is an action filled series, that takes you through a wide range of adventures and humor in its’ 26 episodes. And it starts … Continue reading →

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