Anime
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 8: Here’s Johnny
Finally got to crack open my Eden of the East BluRays and marathon them. Totally was not expecting something as whimsical as a magic penis being the solution to a problem from a Kenji Kamiyama work. I expected something more subdued and restrained as a lot of this director’s previous works have been. It was [...]
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 7: Girls + Guns + Canaan
Jackie Brown was a so-so Tarantino. Okay, maybe it’s actually a decent movie, but after Pulp Fiction…it was a let-down. The main thing I remember about it was one of the character’s obsession with bikini girls shooting machine guns and kind of laughing at the guy for watching such cheesy shit. Being a too-smart for [...]
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 6: Eight Was Great
Maybe the Endless Eight section of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2 works better as a condensed viewing experience, eight episodes in two sittings, as opposed to waiting two months, one episode a week, because I thought it was an interesting watch, which is far from the reaction that the people who were watching [...]
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 5: Section23 Dubs Anime
Five years ago, anime releases in North America without an English dub were anomalies reserved for a Satoshi Kon film or two. Until this year, it was starting to appear that the anomaly would become the matter of course for anime released in North America. Fewer people buy anime these days and selling a number [...]
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 4: To The Poles
This chic has lots of sex and she’s the initiator of the deeds. In the context of anime and their squeaky clean perfect virgin main characters, this angel blew me away. Not to get carried away, since Panty is more a characature than a character, and in an odd way feels more fleshed out than [...]
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 3: Watched Clannad
Watching Clannad makes me wish I wasn’t such an ass in high school. For me, that’s where the fantasy in Clannad lies, not the cute girls. I really don’t have this urge to protect or rape the girls of Clannad as the prevailing Pavlovian “tastes great!” vs. “less filling!” response mechanism regarding moe goes on [...]
Twelve Days of Anime, Post 2: Holiday for a Witch
I’m not much of a classic Hollywood fan, but I am one of the many who has a spot for Audrey Hepburn. So in “My Romagna,” episode 5 of Strike Witches season two…as soon as Lucchini lands her kick and grabs the hand of the girl she “rescues” a grin spread across my face, because [...]
