Leonard Shelby had his tattoos and Polaroids. Minitrue had its doublethink (and Kane had…Kane). Chihiro Shindou has her Life Note.
“If it wasn’t written down, it didn’t happen,” so goes the bane of programmers everywhere. But if it was documented, does that mean it happened? The diary defines what she knows, what [...]
After the first episode, so was I
I made the decision to start from the beginning, going back and slingshotting forward. Not having much breathing room for the past two weeks has left me with my own memory gap, and really the only thing I can remember with any clarity about ef - a tale [...]
Uguu?
Sky Girls has been pretty good about giving at least a cursory explanation for events, either in advance or shortly after the fact. If not, it’s usually because the consequence implies the cause. It’s not that big of a stretch to claim that the room that Ryohei ducked into, and narrowly escaped from, [...]
Knowing more than some of the characters know has two relevant uses: it sets in motion two trains that just happen to be on the same track and facing each other, or it is a portal through which irony is delivered. The latter option is preferable, and the setup for the sixteenth episode of [...]
Searching for streetcars in the darkness of winter’s day.
The leap in the chorus that caps the short opening run was what got me thinking that Mitsubachi to Kagakusha sounded like something I had heard before, and I eventually narrowed it down. The full length version of MtK creates quiet verses and fuller choruses by adding and subtracting instruments, but Maaya’s voice sounds [...]
La Corda d’Oro is currently the only series that I’ve started and subsequently stopped with no desire to continue. I started because Brand New Breeze is pretty, and somewhere in the series description, there were the words “music” and “performance.” In between the four episodes I watched, Nodame Cantabile came along and I [...]
Check out the full PV on the promotional site.
The last time, Maaya went 1 for 6, not counting the remixed version of 30 minutes night flight. This time, chances are good she’ll go 1 for 2, but because of the B-side. From the preview, Mitsubachi to Kagakusha sounds like old hat, and I [...]
Dennou Coil, Aria. Two series (in the case of Aria, a franchise) that spend a considerable amount of time worldbuilding, but in different ways.
Were it not for episode 12 of Animation, someone could have told me that Neo Venezia built itself one fine day on rainbows and sunshine and my response would have been, [...]