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Rin, Saki, and Natsumi realize by now that Yuka
with an idea can be a dangerous thing.
I've already explained why Natsuiro Kiseki is my favorite show from spring 2012. However, I didn't mention how shabby the animation looks at times. I'm really surprised to see such lapses from Sunrise, but the show is otherwise so good I'm willing to ignore those faults.
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Posted in Accel World, Acchi Kocchi, AKB0048, Aquarion Evol, Detective Conan, Fate/zero, Gundam SEED, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, Hyouka, Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Medaka Box, Natsuiro Kiseki, Queen's Blade: Rebellion, Sakamichi no Apollon, Sankarea, Smile Precure!, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia, Tsuritama, Upotte!!, WORSE THAN COSPRAYERS | Tags: All-Time Babes, Dropped Shows, Fan Service, Gainax, Giant Robots, Girls With Guns, Gundam, Mahou Shoujo, Mecha, OP ED, Otaku Virtues, Retroactive Continuity, Sex, Shounen Jive, Sunrise, TYPE-MOON, ufotable, war, War Is All Hell | Permanent Link
This blog post is presented in Feel-A-Round.
Summer 2012 is shaping up to be a quiet season of anime for me. Aside from shows continuing from spring 2012, not much from the current season interests me. This might be the quarter where I catch up on my re-watching backlog and finish reading those books on Byzantine history I've been meaning to complete. At the moment, I'm only watching Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, Smile Precure!, Binbogami ga!, AKB0048, and Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai.
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Posted in AKB0048, Binbogami ga!, Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai, Detective Conan, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, Gundam SEED, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, Season Summary, Smile Precure!, Sword Art Online | Tags: Fan Service, Hair, Hanazawa Kana, Mahou Shoujo, Moe Blobs, Nudity, Season Introduction, Summer 2012 | Permanent Link
The Hustler.
The preseason buzz for spring 2013 seemed fairly pessimistic. (Sort of seems that way more often than not lately.) Thankfully, this quarter is shaping out to be pretty decent, at least through the first third of the cour. I guess I was looking forward to Death Billiards from the name alone—turns out it's another excellent Anime Mirai short movie, by the way—and that show about giants eating people, and the second season of Railgun, so it's not as if I believed spring 2013 would be a total write-off. It turns out there are at least a couple of gems and one shiny rock to admire.
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Posted in Death Billiards, Dokidoki! Precure, Gundam SEED Destiny, Hataraku Maou-sama!, Kakumeiki Valvrave, Season Summary, Shingeki no Kyojin, Straight Title Robot Anime, Suisei no Gargantia, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun | Tags: Anime Mirai, baseball, Giant Robots, Literature, Manga, Retroactive Continuity, Season Introduction, Shounen Jive, Spoilers, Spring 2013, Sunrise, tsundere, war | Permanent Link
There was a time when I would have been so stoked to see this.
Until I watched Suisei no Majo (The Witch from Mercury), Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED) and its sequel Gundam SEED Destiny were the only two series from that venerable franchise I had ever watched. I did enjoy Gundam SEED and thought it was good enough to buy the giant DVD box, but I probably enjoyed blogging about Destiny more because it's easier to get more mileage out of deeply flawed shows. I wrote most of those posts before adopting WordPress, and never got around to properly migrating all of them. I keep meaning to, though, someday.
Kira looks normal.
At the time, I thought a third season of Gundam SEED would not be too far away. As it turned out, ah, a variety of reasons prevented that from happening. I won't go into it since I don't have a complete understanding of the relevant facts (or at least not a confident understanding). In any case, a 20-year-anniversary movie project is expected in early 2024 now. The details I've been seeing about it do not exactly inspire much enthusiasm, though, at least in my case.
You ARE the villain, right?
At a minimum, the way the already distinctive character designs have evolved appear distractingly silly. Maybe I'll get used to them, but I can't take any of the promotional materials that I've seen so far seriously. More importantly, I'm skeptical a movie project can cram in all the things I'm expecting it to include in any sort of coherent way. I suppose it doesn't need to necessarily wrap everything up as a single movie. I had my doubts when I first heard the GIRLS und PANZER follow-up would consist of six movies, and that is working out well so far. They sure are taking a long time, though. Perhaps, if the FREEDOM movie is popular enough, Sunrise will make more.
Posted in Gundam, Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM | Tags: Childhood Friend, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, Giant Robots, Gundam, Mitsuishi Kotono, Movies and OVAs, Recasting, Sakamoto Maaya, Sequels, Space Opera, Sunrise, Tanaka Rie, war, War Is All Hell, Winter 2024 | Permanent Link
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