After a two week hiatus, I’m back. And as they say, the show must go on. Fortunately, Mysterious Girlfriend X has been a consistent theme these last few episodes, so it makes it easy to jump right back in. But … Continue reading ![]()
She Drools in Mysterious Ways – Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 11
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The Succession Wars: AKB0048 Episode 08
[AKB0048 Episode 07] While I didn’t expect that this show will let go of the cliff it hung all of us on last episode, I didn’t think it would be this committed to the succession drama of Takamina. On the … Continue reading ![]()
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There’s Nothing I Can Do For a Dead Woman, Cowboy Bebop 25-26 “The Real Folk Blues”
[Cowboy Bebop 24 “Hard Luck Woman"] Let’s start with the women, and by now it’s just women because Ed left the stage in the previous session. I always enjoyed the narrative contrivance that let Faye run into Julia first. Faye … Continue reading ![]()
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Who’s the Pied Piper? – Eureka Seven AO Episode 10
[Eureka Seven AO Episode 9] A big thanks to Ghostlightning for filling in last week. And after a week’s hiatus, AO is back. And Pied Piper of Generation Bleu is on the offensive against another Secret in the American Southwest. … Continue reading ![]()
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 37: Behind The Propaganda
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 36] Kio gets captured, ends up looking like Lord Ezelcant’s dead son Romy, and is treated like a guest in Vagan. Ezelcant lets Kio immerse himself in the Vagan context in the main colony (Second Moon), … Continue reading ![]()
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Your Drool is All I Need – Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 12
[Myserious Girlfriend X Episode 11] This episode shows exactly why I was stoked to see this manga turned into an anime. The way this story has taken a relationship between two teenagers, and makes it enjoyable without being overly dramatic, … Continue reading ![]()
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Yeah Yeah I Got It, Takahashi Minami Is Supposed to Be Awesome: AKB0048 Episode 09 And The Meta Mary Sue
[AKB0048 Episode 08] I want to distinguish how I feel about the different things that are going on involving the same succession conceit in this show. The conflict and rivalry that exists in Takamina V’s head as she struggles to … Continue reading ![]()
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The Slope of Imperfection: Sakamichi no Apollon
I hold the works of Watanabe Shinichiro and Kanno Yoko in very high regard, and have done so for many years. Like many, as I imagine, I had very high expectations of Sakamichi no Apollon. It turned out to be … Continue reading ![]()
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Just Who Are You? – Eureka Seven AO Episode 11
[Eureka seveN AO Episode 10] [Full disclosure: I’m listening to the Eureka seveN AO Soundtrack as I write this post. Definitely a fantastic mix of styles and sounds] Elena has been one of my favorite characters from the start. From … Continue reading ![]()
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Dead Girlfriends as Plot Devices: Yurin & Lu x The Asuno Boys Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 38
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 37] Today I speculate on the consequences of Kio’s puppy love affair with Lu while contrasting it with the similarly tragic and death-filled affair of Flit with Yurin when Flit was young like Kio. Yurin’s death … Continue reading ![]()
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End of the Drool – Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 13
[Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 12] All good things must come to and end. While it was great that this manga was animated, it is sad to see it go. The directing on this show has done a great job of … Continue reading ![]()
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AKB0048 10: MY THEORY SOLVES THE MYSTERY EASILY
[AKB0048 Episode 09] Here’s my theory: AKB0048 is a post-Macross galactic story, wherein Sensei Sensei is none other than Lord Gepelnitch himself, who’s succeeded in creating an Anima Spiritia farm in the form of the AKB idol franchise. This is … Continue reading ![]()
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Introducing Myself to Muv Luv
[For something more detailed and yet introductory, check out this post by r042] @R042 @quattro_maeda it's kind of hard to go in cold to a show that's spin-off of a sequel of a sequel which is an AU spin-off of … Continue reading ![]()
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Not Part of This World – Erueka seveN AO Episode 12
[Eureka seveN AO Episode 11] Eureka Seven Astral Ocean has been constantly throwing the idea of Seeking the Truth at us each week. From the direct name of the arch nemesis Truth, to Gazelle’s role as an investigator, Bones makes … Continue reading ![]()
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Schenberg Was Dead, Zeon Was Dead, Ezelcant is Dying, But Their Post-Human Ideals Remain a Gundam Thing: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 39
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 38] No Patrick Zala? No. He’s no visionary. He’s just a butthurt hater. Zeon Zum Deikum proclaimed that from among the Spacenoids a new type of human will emerge, suited for the environment and context of … Continue reading ![]()
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MUV LUV ALTERNATIVE TOTAL ECLIPSE EP 02 AWWWWW YEAHHH TOTAL WARRRRRR
[Muv Luv Alternative Total Eclipse 01] I read some comments from I don’t really care where from complaining about the lack of character development (man I hate this fucking term) making all the deaths in this episode meaningless and lacking … Continue reading ![]()
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Being Mamoru: AKB0048 11
[AKB0048 Episode 10] There are a lot of things going on in this episode, with so many characters’ getting lines or scenes that either flesh out their characters more, or further their little stories along: from the Takamina succession drama, … Continue reading ![]()
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Time Travel Always Hurts My Head–Eureka seveN AO Episode 13
[Eureka seveN AO Episode 12] When a story starts delving into time travel, I start to get this ache in the front of my head. It’s not because I don’t understand. As part of my engineering degree, I also minored … Continue reading ![]()
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I Never Got To Take You To The Beach (The Fine Art of Character Death in Mecha Anime)
[This is a guest post by r042 from the awesome Ideas Without End blog. It should be obvious that this essay is riddled with dead bodies (read: spoilers). You’ve been warned!] Killing off a character for dramatic purposes is a … Continue reading ![]()
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What Gundam Amounts To: Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 40
[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE 39] Mobile Suit Gundam AGE showed me many things, and is still showing more – things I did not expect it to do or pull off – but more importantly, and perhaps most importantly, it just … Continue reading ![]()
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