27 CommentsAnime Analysis / 26th Jan 2012

Fam is a Giant Gormless Genki Wart on an otherwise great Last Exile

When a sequel to Last Exile was announced, it had a real air of des­per­a­tion to it. It felt like Gonzo were des­per­ately rum­ma­ging through their back cata­logue to find an IP with recog­nis­able qual­ity that they could rehash for some extra dough. The ori­ginal Last Exile was great, but it was also com­plete, and ended in a way that solved all the char­ac­ters issues and wrapped everything up in a per­fect pack­age. It by no stretch needed a sequel. But they did so any­way, set­ting it with new char­ac­ters and on a com­pletely dif­fer­ent planet, with only very loose con­nec­tions to what happened in the ori­ginal. That all said, Gonzo put an extraordin­ary amount of effort into this, pump­ing out some­thing that I would say could stand proud along­side the ori­ginal. That is, if it wasn’t for Fam.

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30 CommentsFuture Diary / 24th Jan 2012

Future Diary episode 15

I think some of Yuno has finally rubbed off on Yuki. Best case scen­ario here is the man ends up with a bus­ted iphone. Worst case scen­ario: He spins into a swirl­ing black vor­tex of noth­ing­ness. Way to be a dick Yuki.

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46 CommentsTerribad, Videos / 22th Jan 2012

Terribad Anime Website Review: Sankaku Complex

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I did cen­sor any boobage, but the video is still very much NSFW. I strongly recom­mend not try­ing to keep up with the text the first time around. Go back if you doubt that Sankaku would write some­thing to that effect.

I’ve spent way too much time on Sankaku for this video. My brain was start­ing to melt and my stand­ards for decency have dis­ap­peared alto­gether. Yet I still didn’t find that art­icle that claimed the Tokyo Youth Ordin­ance Bill would be “the end of late night TV anime”, a piece of hyper­bole if there ever was one. Which is a shame because the one that claimed Evan­gelion would be banned isn’t quite as stu­pidly over the top, and actu­ally has a small ele­ment of truth to it, even if it is totally blown out of pro­por­tion anyway.

15 CommentsNisemonogatari / 21th Jan 2012

Nisemonogatari episode 3

Just as I was load­ing up the new Nise­monogatari epis­ode, I paused it just as it began to get myself a hot chocol­ate. Lo and behold, what is the very first frame of the epis­ode? Shaft and their won­der­ful obses­sion with close up shots of people’s eyes. I won­der if every single epis­ode of the –monogatari series starts off with an ‘eye­c­atch’. Ged­dit? Eye­c­atch? Because eye­c­atch is the word you use for…oh never mind.

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32 CommentsLists / 19th Jan 2012

31–60 Favourite Anime

I made my top 30 anime post about 2 years ago. How­ever, as I watched more anime, more star­ted to enter the list, which inev­it­ably caused oth­ers to drop out. Instead of los­ing what I wrote about them forever, I cre­ated a ‘those who just missed out’ page, devoted to hold­ing those that got kicked out of the top 30 in favour of newer, shi­nier stuff. But that list was start­ing to show its age itself. I was start­ing to watch anime that were not quite good enough to make my top 30, but bet­ter than those that had since dropped out. So to finally give those anime the credit they deserve, I decided the best method was to simply extend the top 30 fur­ther. So now you have this: 31–60.

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25 CommentsFuture Diary / 17th Jan 2012

Future Diary episode 14

The winter sea­son has so far been the sea­son of extraordin­ar­ily shitty open­ing songs. Even Per­sona 4 changed it’s kick­ass ori­ginal song to some other dull thing. With all that com­pet­i­tion elim­in­ated, Future Diary takes the award for the best open­ing from an anime I’m cur­rently watch­ing. But hey, I talked about why it’s good before, so let’s try find some­thing new to write about. Oh who am I kid­ding. It’s just going to be yet another post about how awe­some Yuno is.

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29 CommentsNisemonogatari / 15th Jan 2012

Nisemonogatari episode 2

Well shit, I wasn’t plan­ning on doing this. I wanted to blog Nym­pho­gear, but the second epis­ode had the auda­city to develop a sense of self-awareness, which makes it a whole lot less funny to take the piss out of. I also wanted to cover Daily Dudes, but I’d prob­ably just spend my time explain­ing all the jokes and thereby killing them. Besides, it clashes with Future Diary any­way. So instead I turned to Nise­monogatari, giv­ing me the chance to dust down Ye Olde Tome of Shaft Jokes, which I haven’t had a real chance to use since Arakawa ended (Denpa was too reserved and Madoka was too well craf­ted to make proper fun of). So cue head tilts and close-ups of eyeballs!

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23 CommentsFuture Diary / 13th Jan 2012

Future Diary episode 13

Even though it was last year when I wrote my last Future Diary post, there hasn’t exactly been people clam­our­ing to see these return.  I think there was a grand total of one guy won­der­ing where my next post was. Thank you that one guy, for mak­ing me feel loved. I’m just going to assume there were thou­sands of silent lurk­ers des­per­ately seek­ing for the next Future Diary post. Yeah, that was what the recent spike in hits was. It had noth­ing to do with the usual new-season splurge of people read­ing first impres­sions and search­ing for the chart. It was just people who like Future Diary. Yeah.

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