Posts Tagged ‘Retrospective’

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 23:58 | 17 comments
Categories: Manga, Review

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

Going through a period of chronic exhaustion while forcing myself to write this post hasn’t exactly been pleasant thanks to my lack of knowledge about Claymore itself — but that all fell away when I finally decided to read all 12 volumes of the manga yesterday morning. Fun times.
I came away from the aftermath shaken, [...]

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 at 23:59 | 4 comments
Categories: Manga

I read 19 volumes of it yesterday. It’s nice to revisit what I’ve been proclaiming (to anyone who’ll listen) as the “best shounen series ever”, and by “shounen series” I mean of the fighting type. I went off on a tangent on BATESZI’s poll in his blog about it until I realised he was talking [...]

Thursday, June 21st, 2007 at 23:47 | 14 comments
Categories: Anime, Manga
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