Cruel Angel Theses

I continue to fight.

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

Rurouni Kenshin is for girls. Real men watch Shigurui.

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

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 [...]

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

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

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!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]