Archive for May 2009
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After All the Kadokawa Bullcrap, At Least She’s Still the Same Suzumiya Haruhi
In all honesty the years of speculation and wrangling and rampant fanboyism and cynical publicity from Kadokawa made me pretty despondent about the prospect of a sequel to KyoAni’s smash hit, Suzumiya Haruhi. Add in my natural apprehension towards sequels and it became pretty difficult by the end of it all to even feign [...]
Review Writing as a Balancing Act
I had originally written an article titled “What makes a review valuable?” which involved proposing that very question and then listing a few of my own ideas about possible answers while exploring the constant compromises and balancing acts one must strike as a reviewer, but the article came off as confused babble so I trashed [...]
