Category Archives: Japan

New Good Smile Company CM

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Space #01 — I Don’t Think So, HAL

  

Why don’t AIs ever stay sane?

New Season Disclaimer:

I’ll make a post for almost all new series (barring sequels) with a wrap-up and bullet point opinion of each once the premier week is over. Remember that these are just my kneejerk reactions to the first 20 minutes of shows, many of which in genres that I don’t even particularly like, but I do believe in giving every new series at least an episode to at least try and hook me.

Impressions:

Uh… huh. My guess that this is a Keroronian plot may not have been far off. Instead of being some kind of sci fi adventure or space opera, this is more of a slapstick harem comedy.

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More Comiket 75 Figures

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Ga:Rei-Zero Series Review

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Guys and Figures (they’re not Dolls!)

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I’ve talked about my love of manga, now I talk about my appreciation of anime figures.

Figure collecting to me is something intriguing, and a source of exercise as I jog to the local Anime shop three times a week if I can find the time. I am not as experienced in figure collecting as some other people such as Actar in the above video, but I have experienced some of what Winston Churchill defined as “blood, toil, tears and sweat” because of my figure collecting hobby. My mother and brother occasionally poke fun at the figures which decorate my room, but so far it hasn’t been so bad that I’ve had to condemn them in a treatise like the pretentious bludger intellectual Ignatius J.

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Kotobukiya’s Corti Preview

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Absolutely Lovely Children - Double Face Recap Special

    

As expected, just a clips episode plus recap from Hotaru and Natsuko while they played a lot of the character themes and insert songs as they talked about each one. They used the fancy version of the second ED, so assumably we’ll be getting the new one next week. The only new shots were the eyecatches of Double Face, and the next ep preview above. Back to real episodes next week for Fujioka’s challenge.

Minami-ke: Welcome Back #01 — He’s a Witch!

 

Burn the witch!

Impressions:

No real surprises with this one. I enjoyed the first two seasons, and I’m sure I’ll like the third. Unfortunately, while there’s always quite a bit to talk about, there remains very little substantive to be actually say, especially after 20 some odd episodes of the relatively same thing. It did seem like the production values may have taken a bit of a hit for this opening episode as compared to the opening episode of the first season and the entire second season, although they did revert back to the first season stylistically. There were no blacked out faces or even the super detailed SERIOUS faces though, so who knows if that’ll stay. I really love the OP.

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Alter’s Subaru Set For 2009

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Max’s Yuki Extragavanza Preview

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