Take your pick.

Throughout the years, I’ve noticed that most anime only depict the first half of a romantic relationship. This doesn’t sit well with me.

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Post tags: Aoi Hana, Bakemonogatari, Bokura ga Ita

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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 awards are completely biased by what I’ve seen (as well as the small detail of my own taste), and I’m pretty much going to conveniently ignore ongoing series except where it’s utterly clear that there’s no worthwhile competition within cooie. The other anomaly is Bakemonogatari, which is near enough to completion that I may as well treat it as such. I’m also going to snub worthwhile series like Aoi Bungaku and Kemono no Souja Erin because I still haven’t finished either (which is unfortunate, because what I’ve seen of both series has been outstanding, but they’re not what I’d call “easy” shows to watch, which is why I’ve been pacing myself with them). Oh yeah, and seeing as I’ve had to try to recall an entire year’s worth of anime, songs and seiyuu, there’s almost certainly something or someone I’ve unintentionally left out, so feel free to point out if you think I’ve tripped up.

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Post tags: Aoi Hana, Bakemonogatari, Canaan, Clannad, Eden of the East, Kara no Kyoukai, Natsume Yuujinchou, RIDE BACK, Taishou Yakyuu Musume

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Not another blog post about Bakemonogatari.

It’s easy to complain. Fun too. But, equally important is being grateful. Obviously, this is easier said then done unless you have something to be grateful about, but I genuinely think that this season we, as anime fans, are spoiled for choice. It’s the calibre of anime which are on offer this season which reminds me why I became a fan to begin with. And those little reminders over the journey are necessary, especially if you’ve been in the game for a number of years. As an anime writer, it’s easy to become lost in the analysis and the details, to put the anime you watch and enjoy at arm’s length, which can make viewing them an unromantic experience. I mean, I still maintain that the onus is on the anime to provide you a reason to engage and to feel emotions while watching it… I’ll probably never move away from that viewpoint. But the idea that anime has the power to move you, to affect you in some way, to influence your thoughts and feelings… that’s a pretty amazing thing. And there have been a particularly large number of anime that have aired this season with that ability. (Minor spoilers for the tagged anime).

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Post tags: Aoi Hana, Aria The Animation, Bakemonogatari, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, Ouran High School Host Club, Spicy Wolf, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Umineko no Naku Koro ni

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It’s still early days, but I genuinely think that there’s much more of interest on offer this season than there was last season. Maybe it’s little more than a matter of perception, but what this season has which last season failed to offer are sequels from proven franchises. It’s not a brilliant thing, since sequels are often innately unambitious, but I can look at titles like Spice and Wolf II and Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and say “ah, yes, I want to watch these”, because their predecessors were so good. Also, there aren’t too many series I’m following so far which are just out-and-out crap: even the worst series I’m watching have at least something I can enjoy or look forward to, whether it be classy music or mindless, over-the-top action. There is one exception to all of this, which is fast turning into one of the most epic disappointments I’ve ever seen in anime. I probably don’t even need to say what it is, it’s been so thoroughly discussed that you probably already know what I’m talking about.

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Post tags: Aoi Hana, Bakemonogatari, Canaan, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Sora no Manimani, Spicy Wolf, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Umi Monogatari, Umineko no Naku Koro ni

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