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Today is Funeral’s 22nd birthday, and for the past 5 days or so, he’s been cramming down Legend of the Galactic Heroes. 25 episodes in, he’s saying that he’s ‘more into it than he can remember being for anything’ and is already considering it among his top favorite anime of all time. When it came time for my mom, who designs cakes and cookies for all of our birthdays, to make him a birthday cookie, he didn’t even suggest any of his other obsessions throughout the year, such as Inglourious Basterds or Green Lantern, but went straight for Reinhard von Lohengramm. The rest, my friends, is legend.
Continue reading LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES FANS: I GIVE YOU THE REINHARD COOKIE (+ Anime Cakes)
I don’t think that there is anything inherently wrong with Ghost Hound. It is the kind of show that is only going to appeal to the most niche of niche audiences, and no one else. This is not surprising – the show was largely created by a veritable tour-de-force of cult favorite names, having been directed and storyboarded by Ryutaro Nakamura (REC, Serial Experiments Lain, Kino’s Journey) and written by the inimitable Chiaki J. Konaka (The Big O, Serial Experiments Lain, Mononoke, Texhnolyze, and some less weird stuff). But don’t get confused. I personally love every single show I just mentioned (half of them are favorites), but that does not necessarily mean that I fall into the same niche as people who like Ghost Hound. It’s a niche all it’s own.
Continue reading Finish or Fail 8 – Ghost Hound – You Can’t Please All of the People All of the Time
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Playing again… I’m still bad. It’s starting to irritate me. I know I’m trying my hardest to sound like Rio-sempai, but… I’ll keep practicing!
Continue reading Sora no Woto -Four- & -Five-
Seriously. I’ve been neglecting buying this thing for a while, and thank God it was only when my dad offered to get me something at Barnes and Noble that I finally picked it up, cuz I’d hate to have spent my own money on it. There are no shortage of reasons that this is a disappointment, some of which come from the Bandai release in particular, and others inherent in the manga that prove, in my opinion, the vast superiority of the anime.
Continue reading Bandai’s Lucky Star Volume One is the Most Disappointing Thing I’ve Ever Read
 art by nanamura - http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=nanamura Omo has always wanted to do a list like this, and so have I. I think both of us have taken our frustrations out on the What Are You Watching/Reading This Month threads on Megatokyo for long enough. If he sticks to this monthly, I’m sure I’ll manage to follow. As for what this is a list of, it’s a nuttbladder-breaker list. There’s really no way of explaining that if you don’t understand, though Omo kind of tried. This is for January 2010.
Continue reading The NuttBladder Massacre – January 2010
So I somehow found myself on Drastic My Anime Blog today and spotted this post that I missed before that talks about a pair of music videos by self-taught animator Kousuke Sugimoto, one of which you’ll see above. It’s a truly cool video, and it’s style reminded me of a certain Australian artist/animator that I know of named Paul Robertson. Here’s a sample of Paul’s work.
Continue reading Epic in an Instant – Creating the Casual Fans
Kuuchuu Buranko was my favorite show of the last season (fall 09), and I would probably have blogged the whole thing episodically if OMG-Life hadn’t intervened. No matter, I knew I’d finish it before too long because there were only 8 eps left, and I got the drive to do so when I started listening to the OP and ED like crazy over the past week or so.
Continue reading Finish or Fail 7 – Kuuchuu Buranko – A Feel-Good Hit
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