Archive for June 2007
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A matter of aesthetics…
Both as personal preference, as well as a reviewer, I tend to take the characters and plot of an anime pretty seriously. The visual style of an anime cannot make up for a lack of story, development, and execution - the audio/visual aspects of an anime can probably have, at its maximum, an impact of [...]
Lucky Star in a nutshell: hit and miss
Since I’ve been “restrained” from writing a formal review on Lucky Star (long story), I figured I’d share my thoughts on it thus far (as of 11 episodes). Basically, the title of this post sums it up; as a comedy, it’s very hit and miss, and overall, rather inconsistent. Some episodes can extract [...]
Greetings All!
Salutations to all the readers of this humble blog. You probably (read: hopefully) know me as Kuma from reading my anime reviews. Since the old blog idea didn’t work out as well as we would have hoped, we’ve decided to try a communal blog with multiple authors to be more frequently updated and more varied [...]
The Rise of Narcissists
I’m bored of the old fashioned goody two-shoes protagonists. I hate the “I’m an idiot! Hear me roar!” types, and I’ll kill the next angst-filled teenager piloting a giant, fighting robot. Maybe I’m becoming jaded by seeing the same character personalities copied and pasted into a countless number of anime. Who knows? [...]
Why can’t all fantasy anime be as good as Seirei no Moribito?
Yes, it’s an inane question, but anyone watching this masterpiece-in-the-making is probably asking the same thing, and anyone who isn’t watching it is seriously missing out on what is, in my eyes, the best fantasy anime since Mushishi (and anime of the year so far… although time will be the true test of that title). [...]
