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2nd Anime Oscars?

2nd Anime Oscars?

More mock awards on the anime blogosphere (as if there haven’t been enough), this one being a sequel of the one I did last year. Just like the last effort, this set of awards will be structured to (somewhat) resemble the real Academy Awards, cheekily timed to coincide with yesterday’s ceremony. Again, these [...]

Random Comedy is Not Clever Comedy

Random Comedy is Not Clever Comedy

This post is largely inspired by a Twitter debate largely between Sea Slugs! Anime Blog’s Jesus159159159 and The Cart Driver’s Scamp, over the respective merits and flaws of Excel Saga and Seto no Hanayome. For the record, I sided with Jesus159159159, but it’s quite a stretch to say either is an exceptionally funny, let [...]

Facial Expressions in Anime – The Extreme, The Effective…

Facial Expressions in Anime - The Extreme, The Effective...

…And the extremely effective.
Recently I’ve taken to watching video reviews from The Angry Video Game Nerd. I find his work hilarious… he has that college internet style of humour that online satirists like Maddox from The Best Page In The Universe have, except the “satire” itself has been replaced with extreme crassness delivered with [...]

Disagreeing With Reviews: Except, Not Really…

Disagreeing With Reviews: Except, Not Really...

It’s the busy review writing period, which is the excuse I’ll offer for the lack of updates on this blog. For those who follow the main site, you’ll probably have noticed a steady stream of reviews covering anime from the recently finished Fall season, which I wrote earlier was one of the better seasons [...]

Anime Oscars?

Anime Oscars?

Like I mentioned earlier, I (sadly) have more than a passing interest in these types of awards. The 2008 Tokyo Anime Fair Awards were just announced to, as far as I can see, reasonable disinterest. I can see the logic behind the choices behind these awards, even if I don’t particularly agree with [...]