Throwing problems. The problem: Shinichi Bando can’t throw the ball straight. The cause: Feels threatened by newcomer Seiya Suzuki. The solution: Get over feeling threatened by newcomer Seiya Suzuki. How-to of the solution: Realize Suzuki is just as insecure. Animal Head: Stallion. He is proud and competitive.
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At the moment, I’m probably more satisfied with the anime I’m following than I have been for a long time. Whenever a new season begins there’s always the temptation to try to see as much as possible, particularly as an anime blogger with the self-inflicted responsibility to talk about this stuff ad nauseum, but for [...]
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Kuchu Buranko OP/ED Theme Single -- “Upside Down”/”Shangri-La (Y. Sunahara 2009 Remodel)” by Denki Groove Upside Down PV (yep, this is actually the PV): Tracklist: 01 -- Upside Down 02 -- Shangri-La (Y.Sunahara 2009 Remodel) 03 -- Yarisugi Koji OP 04 -- Upside Down -TV [...]
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I didn’t blog on episode 04 because I didn’t find any specific angle to take on.  It was a nice episode, though, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It turns out that episode 04 and 05 are deeply interconnected.  04 had Yakult third baseman  Bandoh having trouble in the later stage of his career, and 05 has [...]
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Trudging on with these anime impression posts, next up is a trio of shows The Sacred Blacksmith, Miracle Train, and Trapeze. On first glance, this is a very diverse set of shows which would make it difficult to talk about them all at the same time but they all happen to share something in common [...]
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Kuchu Buranko (Trapeze, lit. Sky Swing) is like a late night bevy of cocktails: all bright colours and mind altering effects. The first three episodes are an all out assault on aesthetics, everything is awash with luminous colours and textured with polka dots or garish swathes of clashing patterns. Sometimes barely discernible [...]
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This statement for the image does not concern any James Bond movie, nor does this concern baseball or the episode, but “Diamonds are Forever”, you know… Again, Kuchu Buranko/Trapeze. You’ve bought me yet again. Why do I have to fall in love with a show so confusing, demented, and even maniacal to the point where I [...]
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After pulling off an all-nighter week for the sake of keeping my financial status up and running, I’ve begun to gobble down the backlog of shows that I watch this season. However, Kuchu Buranko/Trapeze still gets me to stop, think twice, and ultimately give in to the mindrape that will follow soon after. Irabu Ichiro [...]
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Meeeeeeeeeh. I’ve said a number of nice things about Trapeze (a.k.a. Kuchuu Buranko), but in the end the novelty factor of seeing an anime that doesn’t explicitly pander to 2D kiddy fiddlers isn’t enough to sustain my interest. Trapeze wants to be different, you can see it trying with the whacky visuals and the characters that [...]
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Trapeze is an interesting show in that it’s pretty much an episodic story, but if you remove episode 2 from the mix, all the episodes have parallels between each other—as psgels of Starcrossed Blog pointed out. It leads that the feel that while it’s an episodic, it’s also an on-going story, and that the series [...]
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The writing is really tight on this series.  Wow.  Check out the first 5 minutes: Our patient is a romance novelist.  His neurosis is a psychologically induced nausea.  Basically, he’s at the top of his game and he’s got loads of fans.  But he’s starting, like all successful writers do after a certain point, to plagiarize [...]
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We can make dicks out of people, though. Again, Kuchu Buranko never failed with the surprises. This time, we delve more on Irabu Ichiro’s symbolisms and personas, as well as the method of treatment for his next patient, Tetsuya. Interestingly, he provides psychological treatment on a sickness that should have been dismissed as something physical. Add [...]
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Trapeze, one of the few anime with potential struggling to stay afloat in the sea of shit that is Fall ‘09, still hasn’t lived up to the promise of it’s premise, but the second episode may have been a step in the right direction. Well the symbolism was a little more direct this week… In fact a [...]
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The story of my life…OH SHI- Okay, the second episode of Trapeze was probably the funniest shit I’ve seen this year. In fact I’d say that a person who didn’t find it funny has no sense of humor at all. If the show keeps this up, it will quite certainly rank as one of the best [...]
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Hard-ons Trapeze still goes on with the WTF-visuals accompanied by humor and straightforward storyline for this episode. This week, we have Tetsuya (CV: Takahiro Sakurai) who’s working for the government. His problem is that he has a permanent erection, which is probably caused by issues with his former [...]
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It’s a masterpiece of the mind. No, really, it is. Even with it slowly creeping into the array of shows, Kuchu Buranko, or most commonly known as Trapeze, caught everyone by surprise with its methods, characters, wit, and confusing yet effective way of telling the story. Okay, maybe that’s just me, but try finding people [...]
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Tetsuya, a government worker, is in a state of permanent erection.  That’s the short (?) of it.  The long, well… It’s complicated.  There are so many things going on here it’s hard keep track.  Events are occurring around the same time as the first “circus” episode and the tale looks both back to that installment, as [...]
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Things I understood about this episode: absolutely nothing. Will I keep watching this show?  Yes. Why?  I have no idea. Blue bird head man drops groceries for foreigners?  what is this i don’t even. ????? ?????. Where does the poop go for this outhouse thing?  ?????. What is this??  And then John was a Fukuicchi. [...]
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NO SPOILERS so WELCOME. Months ago, I came up with what I thought was a great idea for a post.  I was going to call it The Power behind the Throne.  It’d start off with a great big pic of J-Pop singer Ringo Shiina…I never got as far as deciding which pic to use but I [...]
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Because all Trapeze seems to be is an eleven-episode Denki Groove music video. I’m not kidding. Well, okay, it’s not entirely an extended Denki Groove music video–but given that nearly the entire background music was comprised of Denki Groove songs, and how fond this particular Toei team (I use the term “team” loosely, but I’m referring to [...]
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