Bones
Sword of the Stranger and 2D Power
Producer Masahiko Minami and director Masahiro Ando of studio Bones created Sword of the Stranger as a desire to show the strengths of hand drawn animation in an action film. This is a particularly interesting goal to put forth considering hand drawn animation shrinks in relevance every year. Advances in technology have rapidly eaten up [...]
Finding the Action, Soul Eater
One of the things that I like about the niche anime we tend to get on dvd is most of these shows weren’t expected to run very long (12-26 half hour episodes), so they would end in a reasonable amount of time. This preference meant I passed on the action/fighting-type shows like Naruto, Bleach, and [...]
Eureka Seven vol.10
Goofy episodes in non-wacky shows, do you love them or hate them? I guess it depends on the episode or series itself, but generally I like the goofy episodes much of the time. In Eureka Seven the goofy episodes are helped out by some of the fun stuff that goes on as normal in every [...]
About Holland and Talho
Volume Eight of Eureka Seven to me was about Holland and Talho. Sure, some big plot things happened, revealing the big bad evil plans of Colonel Dewey (just a colonel?), but evil Dewey stuff is kind of backburner to me at this point when watching this show. What makes Eureka Seven awesome to me are [...]
