Monthly Archives: January 2008

At arm’s length

Isako isn’t a nice character; you might even say that she’s mean, but mean to who? Her lackeys are hardly willing collaborators and would leave as soon as they felt they had learned as much as they could. It’s not the only one out there, but the iron fist is one form of [...]

Hertz for the heart

[Via U.Blog]
It’s kind of cute, but the clip doesn’t appear to be cached, so it has to be downloaded each time. Admittedly it’s pretty short, and maybe not something worth hitting the replay button for, but what if I do did?
The more I loop Heart Station, the less it screams Distance Days and the [...]

But all the cool kids are doing it

I seem to be perpetually behind the curve, the result being that 3 weeks into the new year and the new season, I have one post in the pipeline, and it has nothing to do with any of the new shows. It’s not even that long in word count, but it’s taken about that [...]

Pieces of Coil space

If I had to choose between Dennou Coil’s OP or ED, Prism and Sora no Kakera respectively, I’d opt for the latter as more representative of the series as a whole. Prism has a synthesizer element that is made more apparent (and prominent) in its full length version.
Unlike other series or movies where the [...]

A circle of children goes round and round, round and round

Owen has seen through Dennou Coil as one would read and comprehend a research paper. The verdict: rejected for not making a significant contribution to the exploration of those who would sooner run from their demons than exorcise them.
There is no scale for fear, but much like a scale it is used to lay [...]

Slice of mecha

Wack machines be stepping to our crew
Conspiracy side plot: underwhelming. Last battle: underwhelming. Sky Girls just seems too bright for shadows and danger.
As far as final bosses go, the series had a - what else? - underwhelming one in the form of an island with large cave flies, organic torpedoes, and a giant [...]

If Kato had a brother…

He would be Hong Long.

Yes, I’m watching Gundam 00. Yes, the fights are ridiculous. Yes, the world building is laughably bad. No, I don’t like being preached to. Yes, the exploitation is well done. Yes, that’s about the only thing that is.
That is all.
(No idea what I’m talking about?)

zomg Raptor rush

I always thought that Raptors on the Rush was a bit like a nerfed Command and Conquer 2 Orca assault: expensive, a bad idea, and subsequently embarrassing. But it turns out J. C. Staff didn’t try too hard when writing and drawing this flashback.

Well, who knows how bad the war was at that stage. [...]

Now you’re thinking with Mojos

Forget the Weighted Companion Cube; it’s obvious from the above that several Mojos are infinitely more useful. A few Portal style signs are needed to spread the word. I tried, but all I ended up with was a black and white trace, minus the missile label.
But I don’t see how the ability to [...]

Get to the gallows

And now for some cynical comments concerning Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. I’m sure Nozumu Itoshiki would approve.
If you were to condense everything down - the teacher does spew a lot of hot air - you’d be left with rants. It could be long, it could be short, but it’d be a pretty good rant [...]