Posts Tagged ‘First impressions’

I continue to fight.

Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 02:05 | 17 comments
Categories: Anime

First (late) impressions of Library Wars, Real Drive, and Himitsu – Top Secret — with all-new joke-free 100% sombre content.

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 23:57 | 11 comments
Categories: Anime

Rurouni Kenshin is for girls. Real men watch Shigurui.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 04:09 | 12 comments
Categories: Anime

Moe-free reviews of Allison & Lillia, Golgo 13, Wagaya no Oinari-sama, and Amatsuki.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 23:57 | 16 comments
Categories: Anime

I know, lumping in Macross F together with Special A and Itazura na Kiss is indiscriminate. Nevertheless, I didn’t want to make a post with just Macross F or write a post about it with merely Code Geass as its sullen companion because it would be like comparing a Portobello Mushroom burger and a Wagyu [...]

Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 23:57 | 16 comments
Categories: Anime

First impressions of Kanokon, Soul Eater, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, and why taking these shows so seriously make me not take you seriously.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 03:56 | 23 comments
Categories: Anime

First impressions of Kurenai, a loli argument, and how context assigns value to an aesthetic.

Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 22:57 | 18 comments
Categories: Anime

Inside: Actual Kaiba content! Detailed commentary on the exposition and conversations that take place in the first episode, of which no other blogger has written about so far! Now with 100% less faking Japanese knowledge!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 at 21:49 | 18 comments
Categories: Anime

The problem with anime references or puns is that they usually fall apart quite miserably when you attempt to throw two or more of them together. It’s the sheer futility of making a Yoko Kanno reference in a Nanoha post title (a Venn diagram would easily illustrate the naivete behind this), or stringing together similarities [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 23:55 | 8 comments
Categories: Manga, Omake, Visual Novel

A short update for those of you who were wondering where my blog went, and why Sasa’s feed was flooding AnimeNano earlier: Ikimashou.net is currently in the hands of a squatter, no thanks to the registrar screwing Randall over by conveniently “forgetting” to e-mail him about the domain lapsing. As a result, everything broke, and [...]

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 05:34 | 4 comments
Categories: Anime

A reference-laden quote needs a little something to give it context, and considering how I’ve learned to not look at harem and its deriatives with derision anymore (I credit CCYoshi partially for that accomplishment, who, coincidentally, has an awesome new blog over at Mega Megane Moé — we’re hosting buddies now!), it seems all the [...]

Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 23:48 | 2 comments
Categories: Anime

Spice and Wolf has what is possibly one of the most vivid and breathtaking OPs, with gorgeous animation not seen since Byousoku 5cm, although for all purposes, this high-quality YouTube can only come so close to capturing the enrapturing experience on a full-screen.

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 at 23:48 | 11 comments
Categories: Anime

This was a real exchange between Jeff Lawson and J. Valdez:
Jeff Lawson: I watch a lot of slice-and-life shows.
Jeff Lawson: And by “slice-and-life”, I mean “slice-of-life”.
J. Valdez: Do you mind if I start calling shows like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and School Days, “Slice-and-Life?”
Fun times. I reserved the slice of life shows for [...]

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 23:42 | 7 comments
Categories: Anime

The following are a bunch of shows that wouldn’t really fit anywhere else, or stuff that I got lazy of thinking of categories to pigeonhole them in, and therefore making this quite the mixed bag. Some might say I already ruined the whole category thing by throwing in Blue Drop there with my previous post. [...]

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 19:36 | 4 comments
Categories: Anime