I watched one or two episodes, or sometimes half or a quarter or just the opening credits of some others. There's still a lot of mediocrity and outright trash you have to sift through for the gold. Irozuka Sekai no Ashita kara is gold.
I've now moved on to Bunny Girl Senpai, which is better than one might expect from the title.
1Bunny-Girl Senpai is, hands down, the best thing I watched in the autumn-2018 cohort. The primary couple's interactions are like high-grade Kyon/Haruhi snark but neither character is nearly as insufferable as either of those two.
Posted by: GreyDuck at Sunday, April 14 2019 03:31 AM (rKFiU)
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Yes, that was my impression from the first episode. The relationship is deftly handled - they're teenagers, but they're not idiots.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 14 2019 04:54 AM (PiXy!)
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Speaking of launching things into orbit, The Pond appears to be in the middle of a visit from the Spam Fairy.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, December 14 2018 05:27 PM (PzbzM)
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I let our Akismet subscription lapse because it didn't seem to be doing much. I'll resubscribe, maybe on a cheaper plan. That last 1% of spam is still worth cleaning up.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, December 14 2018 06:45 PM (PiXy!)
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Don't kill yourself, Pixy! If you let it lapse, you did it for a good reason. Just sayin', it's not THAT important.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, December 15 2018 06:02 PM (PzbzM)
Was poking through things today looking for something to watch. I know there are some good shows airing right now, but I prefer to wait until there's a full season available.
And I tripped over The Great Passage a.k.a Fune wo Amu.
I didn't look it up, just watched the first episode cold. That was the right decision.
This won't spoil anything, but will give you a feel for it.
You've probably guessed just by looking at it that it's Noitamina.
Here's the opening, which I quite like too.
There's a lovely scene in episode two that just involves two characters sharing a glance, but speaks volumes about their personalities and history and also has perfect comedic timing. They don't need to say a word. I won't say who or why or what, but you'll know it when you see it.
So, I took a break from what I was doing - which was building indexes - to watch some Index II, having just finished Railgun. And I wondered if anything was happening with the series, or if it had ended a few years ago with Railgun S.
Turns out...
Index III starts airing October 6.
I read it for the articles.
It was announced a while ago, but I genuinely did not know that when I started watching the show recently.
Just finished watching this - only took me ten years.
It's good for the most part, but the pacing is terribly uneven. It ploughs through six volumes of light novels in 24 episodes, but some of them take up six full episodes, while one is dispatched in just two. And because of that the story never entirely jells. (Also partly because the story is complete nonsense.) The first arc - which is given the most time - definitely works the best, but even that is somewhat rushed.
Those quibbles aside, they do manage to do many things well. Every character in the rather busy opening credits is shown, fleshed out, and placed in context in the respective halves of this first series. Except for the maid girl, who is mostly still just a caricature, and Uiharu and Saten, who are major characters in Railgun but I don't recall ever seeing in Index, not even in the background.
Onwards and Railgunwards!
Don't recall any pengis, though. Sorry. Here are some substitute pengis for you.
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I wandered off from both Index and Railgun after a while... but DANG those theme songs are so very in my wheelhouse. I still put them into the phone's rotation playlist every so often.
Posted by: GreyDuck at Monday, August 27 2018 12:56 AM (rKFiU)
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Speaking of rotation, did you notice the wind farm turns the wrong way? The straight edge of the blades should be the leading edge.
Posted by: Mauser at Monday, August 27 2018 03:18 AM (Ix1l6)
I like the show well enough, but the elephant in the room does annoy me a bit. If you just stick to "how a different girls become a solid group," it does rank highly.
Posted by: cxt217 at Tuesday, August 14 2018 11:40 AM (BcQU4)
