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A (weak) Attempt to Justify the Ending of Clannad After Story
A lot has been said about the ending of Clannad After Story (not surprisingly, since it’s probably in the top two or three most popular shows currently airing), but most of it has been negative. I’d say the reception has been mixed on the generally staunchly pro-KyoAni AnimeSuki Forums and almost universally negative on the [...]
A Few Thoughts on Clannad After Story
Since I won’t be formally reviewing Clannad After Story, I’ll take the opportunity to express a few thoughts about it in the much less rigid format of the blog article. I think it’s not unfair to say it’s a different anime to its predecessor, particularly with regards to tone, since the drama in this season [...]
AnimeSuki 2008 Choice Awards: Picking Winners
I’ll admit it, I do have more than just a passing interest in these types of awards. Obviously one affords as much credibility to a set of awards like these as one agrees with the results, and it always surprises me just how much people RAGE when they don’t, c.f. SaiMoe and its multiple incarnations. [...]
Lamenting sequels
We touched on it a bit in our Year in Review article, but 2008 did have a lot of sequels and 2009 so far seems to be following that trend. Is it more sequels than usual? Well, I haven’t bothered sorting through the data, but it sure feels that way. The difference between last year [...]
About the lack of new posts
It’s the busy review writing period, so most of the activity in the next couple of weeks will be on the front page. Just today we’ve published reviews of the recently finished Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~ and Detroit Metal City, which ended in October, and we’ve got reviews of Kannagi, Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka, Rosario [...]
