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 [...]
November 18, 2007 – 2:57 pm
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 never looked [...]
November 9, 2007 – 3:14 pm
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, [...]