December 21, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Dennou Coil was the first thing I caught up with following my “break,” and it has been one of the most engaging series I have ever seen, let alone this year. The last nine or so episodes have left me at a loss for words. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the same effect has carried over to [...]
December 20, 2007 – 4:39 am
If you would humour me for a moment, please consider the following graph and its accompanying observation. Shares in RASU tumbled following downgrades from numerous analysts after a disappointing first quarter. However, the company executed well and has since established a base of support above its recent low. Now that you’re either scratching your head [...]
December 12, 2007 – 2:18 am
This has been percolating for a while as I made an attempt at sorting out the strikes against StrikerS. I do give a higher weighting to story and dialogue than execution in other departments, to the extent that it took side by side image comparisons between the DVD release and the broadcast version before noticing [...]
December 10, 2007 – 7:00 pm
I was on a bit of a screen shot hunt. It was semi-fruitful. We all have heard about the fight or flight response, but there is clearly a third facet at least, characterized by deadlocked threads and a failure to act. The TF2 sniper’s taunt crystallizes the cynical perspective towards this perfectly. I will never [...]
December 10, 2007 – 12:18 am
Before the CEVO TF2 finals got underway last Monday evening, I popped in on the second last round of a UT3 broadcast on DM-Deck. That round isn’t available on demand as of post time, but check out the 12 minute mark of the final round for a priceless moment. Having almost exclusively played just one [...]
December 4, 2007 – 12:54 am
An effective setup and subsequent exercise in irony with an iron fist. If interested the sequence is documented starting here. It may shock and horrify you to know that I’ve been following Naruto Shippuuden since the beginning, unless you’ve been AnimeSeen stalking me, and even then you may be shocked and horrified anyway. I’ve been [...]
December 2, 2007 – 11:42 pm
Off the top of my head, I can think of 4 shows about university students, in university. This estimate is easily dwarfed by the number of series set in and/or around a high school. I know that high school was really the last time that “we were all together”, so the high school character is [...]
November 30, 2007 – 5:15 am
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 she doesn’t know, [...]
November 26, 2007 – 4:00 am
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 [...]
November 24, 2007 – 5:47 pm
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, was [...]