By super rats on July 21, 2010
When the character sketches for the first four Hyakka Ryoran figures were shown, Senhime was the one I was most looking forward to. For more than I year, I’ve been into the way of the spear. My barbarian in D&D used a greatspear, Moribito had some wicked fight scenes featuring spears, and martial arts movies often feature spears. I think the blind spear fighter in Samurai Champloo kicked off my whole spears are cool thing, though I do remember the spear chicks in The Wheel of Time books had some serious mystique going on, but lost interest in the series halfway through the fourth book and the spear chicks were more talked about as awesome than shown as awesome at that point in the series.
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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1:8-scale, Alter, anime figures, Hyakka Ryoran
By super rats on July 15, 2010
At the end of last season it looked like Major Sakamoto lost her ability to generate a barrier able to block Neuroi attacks. Just as long as the Neuroi or something worse doesn’t come back, she’d be fine. Bring on season 2 and the Neuroi are back. Oops. Actually, no, not oops, but a sweet opportunity to make her more legendary. This is what episode 2 does. Instead of raising a barrier, Major Sakamoto raises the blade she forged to cut down and deflect attacks. She’s a Jedi now (screencap grabbed from Random Curiosity).
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Posted in Anime | Tagged action, AIC, fan-service, sci-fi, Strike Witches
By super rats on July 8, 2010
Taking a cue from ANN, the above sums up my impression of Strike Witches 2.
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Posted in Anime | Tagged action, AIC, fan-service, girls and guns, Gonzo, sci-fi, Strike Witches
By super rats on July 6, 2010
Posts about High School of the Dead episode 1 are piling up like zombies, and why not? Zombie smashing is fun. Throw in the fan service and this looks like a winner. We need more decently animated stupid zombie violence in our lives, at least I do. Thanks, Madhouse! When this goes to dvd/bd I hope that they kick things up a notch on the zombie thumping front, then again we’re just starting, so maybe it escalates from here. I can only hope the commitment to zombies and tits does not waver. The level of fanservice is about right for a cheesy zombie apocalypse fantasy, any more and it starts to skew toward a fanservice show during a cheesy zombie apocalypse fantasy and that’s just not the same thing at all.
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Posted in Anime | Tagged fan-service, Madhouse, zombie apocalypse
By super rats on June 25, 2010
This is probably the prettiest I’ve seen Tamaki in figure form. Figure makers do like them some Tamaki, and why not? She’s pretty and has a killer body. She does suffer a bit from a flood of really crappy figures. Here she’s comfortable, serene, and maybe slightly embarrassed, the tell the blush on her face and covering herself even though she’s undressed for you. It’s very idealized.
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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged anime figures, Elliot, Max Factory, nice rack, school-uniform, thigh highs, twin-tails
By super rats on June 17, 2010
While it doesn’t sound like a normal thing to say about a Mamoru Oshii film, watch The Sky Crawlers for the air to air combat sequence eye candy. They’re cool, worth waiting for, and serve as anchors for the exploration in the film. However, from a director with a reputation of thoughtful films, The Sky Crawlers doesn’t seem that well thought out (or I just don’t get it). It felt like another half-empty bag of cynicism about modern life, which if it believed in it’s own premise, the world within the premise couldn’t exist.
[Most this post winds up being a tangent].
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Posted in Anime | Tagged douchebaggery
By super rats on June 2, 2010
Strike Witches feels a lot like one of my all time favorite anime, Battle Athletes Victory. There’s similarities, a convenient excuse for teenage girls to be the only hope for mankind, an international cast of characters, aliens, the dead parent of the clueless main character as a central figure, and the girls in Battle Athletes Victory were almost as allergic to pants as the Strike Witches. Also, both shows are ridiculous in a good way. Ten years separates the two shows and it’s kind of fun encountering similarities and seeing differences between them as far as characters go, such as the stereotypes that persist or have fallen off.
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Posted in Anime | Tagged action, fan-service, girls and guns, Gonzo, sci-fi, Strike Witches
