Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
School Days (TV)
School Days
(no pictures, it's intended, watch the anime)
Finally, another controversial anime. Ever since the hugely destructive emo soap opera in the name of Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien left me breathless, I've been clamoring for some other show that has all the angst of a mature romance story in anime form. Alas, no other anime ever [...]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
5 Centimeters Per Second
Byousoku 5 Centimeter
"a chain of short stories about their distance."Again, Makoto Shinkai blew me away. He is really the master of "wide open spaces" in animation. It is not so much the attention to detail as it's really the cinematic scope of what he draws. The backgrounds have this sort-of emotion that conveys the beauty [...]
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Hidamari Sketch
Hidamari Sketch
Slice-of-life, one of the more difficult genres of anime in my opinion. In this genre, it is important to have not only great characters, but great chemistries of characters. Because your story will remain in the sidelines for the most part, the characters must be interesting enough, and not only that, the characters must [...]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Genshiken OVA
Genshiken
Episode 13
In about two years, I feel like I have learned more about all this otaku stuff. I just replayed the first Genshiken series in sheer anticipation of the new OVA, and now I get most of the things that they say. I would say that this anime helped me understand the whole subculture from [...]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
6 episodes, 24 minutes, impossibly short. Packs a lot of punch though.
Translated as "looking up at the half-moon", Hantsuki the animation came from a series of written novels, detailing a love story between two patients in a hospital. The guy, Yuuichi, is hospitalized because of hepatitis, which I think isn't [...]
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