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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 [...]
Welcome to the NHK, Finished
In between the crazy moments of Sato’s imagination, Welcome to the NHK lives in the sober moments of reality, when the soundtrack of lazy drums nudges the guitar along behind Sato’s wallowing, the unwarm sunlight through the window of the half desolate Tokyo train, a full ashtray, and a computer monitor as the light of [...]
Welcome To The NHK, Part One
Welcome to the NHK is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. The main character, Sato, is a 22-year old unemployed college drop-out and a hikikimori, a shut-in. From there it looked as if this might be something like Genshiken, an otaku comedy with a loving backhand. It does kind of start [...]
Finished Kanon
There was a bit of a snag in the last volume of the Kanon (2006) dvd release here in the United States, so I pushed off watching the last disc until I could marathon through the whole series when it was nice and cold. Kanon seems better watched wrapped up in blankets during December than [...]
Air TV vol.2
Something like Air TV would probably crumble if watched with other people, but I found the stories touching. I think these stories in Air are for sentimental people or people who understand loneliness — maybe it even panders to loneliness a little bit and sharing it. There’s certainly a feeling of late night conversations with [...]
Le Chevalier D’Eon v1 — Psalm of Vengeance
Le Chevalier D’Eon takes the story of a famous spy and tips the glass sideways to spill magic and gargoyles onto pre-revolutionary France. It is a France where power grabbing aristocrats play deadly games with each other at the expense of the citizenry, and on occaision, turns them into puppets to attack. The intrigue, mystical, [...]
