Once again months have gone by, seasons have passed, and I haven't updated this blog at all - but since it's a slow day at work, it's a good enough time to post some random thoughts on the spring anime season that ended a few weeks back, and the nascent summer season. I'll start by saying I really liked the spring season - and I'll admit, I didn't watch what was probably the most popular anime
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Watching Sakurasou's finale caused a few thoughts to go in and out of the transom of my mind (Do people even know what transoms are anymore?  Not that it matters, Google knows all anyway): - Is Mashiro somewhere on the autism spectrum?  Or are all artists a little crazy and not completely well-rounded because if they were normal, well, they wouldn't be artists? - Is it better to keep
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Enjoy it while you can, Disney is already calling their lawyers... I don't normally watch short one-shot movies, but I did watch Little Witch Academia today, and although you might have low expectations like I did because it's a training project for young animators (sponsored by the Japanese Cultural Affairs Agency), it was actually amazingly good.  The animation quality was pretty
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Love Live is over - and I'm left with the thought Kotori's the one who really should have gotten smacked upside the head instead of Honoka.  The evidence against her?  Kotori dragged her feet telling Honoka she was studying abroad.  When Umi called her on it (and God knows how much longer it would have taken her to tell Honoka if Umi hadn't forced the issue), Kotori then tried to blame not
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I swear every time I blink, an entire season of anime passes - between work, building Lego towers and coloring with crayons (having a four-year old is an awesome way to get to play like a little kid again), and then the fact watching anime takes priority over writing about it, this blog is once again turning into a desert.  Was that a run-on sentence?  You'd think after almost 40 years I'd be
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Da Capo has a lot of nostalgia for me - I remember watching the original series back in 2003, in crappy Divx 3.11 fansubs, and being mesmerized by the world, the story, the characters, and everything else.  It had Shirakawa Kotori, bishoujo extraordinaire, who would knock off the heroine in any other game-to-anime series - but in Da Capo she's only a side character.  The original Da Capo
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It's hard to believe I started this blog in 2005 and it's somehow 2013 already, a year that in my mind belongs squarely in the distant future, a time when we'd all be living in colonies on the moon, ideally under the benevolent rule of Feena Fam Earthlight.  But time flies, as they say, and 2012 is gone already - which means I might as well throw a few thoughts about the past year out into
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Real life has a way of making it hard to write an anime blog, but this afternoon though I might as well arise from a Cthulu-like slumber to spew out some thoughts on the summer season, since it's better than working on TPS reports: The Good Tari Tari - What can I say, I've been completely sucked in, helped by the fact I like the whole cast.  It's not the most dramatic story ever, the guys
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Maybe it's a sign I need to stop blogging, because after praising Kokoro Connect to the heavens last week, this week's episode had me looking at the clock for when the madness would stop.  Taishi...wow.  I guess you could say he has guts, but how his statement was involved in "solving" the "problem" of the week...seriously? What bothered me about Kokoro Connect's fourth episode is hard to pin
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I really didn't expect another series in 2012 to suck me in the way Ano Natsu de Matteru did - I'm a sucker for the rom-com/drama genre in general, and Ano Natsu did that exceedingly well.  I'm not saying Kokoro Connect tops it so far, in part because I think Ano Natsu had more geniunely funny moments (Kaitou's "MY GOD!" in Kanna's delusion about him and Ichika always cracks me up even
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