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Let’s Just Face It, Tytania is Crap
An exaggerated, sensational post title? Yes. I don’t really think Tytania is crap, but I do think after fifteen episodes, it’s been a major disappointment. There was a lot of hype around this title because it’s source came from the original creator of the almost universally acclaimed Legend of the Galactic Heroes. To echo and [...]
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 [...]
Trying to Understand an Alternative Approach Towards Anime Commentary
This post is basically a reply to a response to a comment I made on a blog post on When Anime Past Meets Present. Kaoishin Sama (whose reputation precedes him) basically made a troll post that I fell for (as he put it) “hook, line and sinker”. We, I guess, share a lengthy history and [...]
Disagreeing with reviews: Jibun wo!
Here at The Nihon Review, we’re all civil enough to have the occasional respectful disagreement on anime (although it doesn’t actually happen all that often, arguably to do with the fact that the site possibly attracts like-minded people). Just yesterday we uploaded a review written by Kavik Ryx in which he panned Gasaraki, one of [...]
