Twelve years!
You hit me with a cricket bat!
Ha! Twelve years!
Wednesday, May 11
The girls in A Channel are riding the Enoshima Electric Railway:
This may be the spot where Run starts chanting Umi! Umi!
And this (Koshigoe Station in Kamakura) could be where they find themselves in the middle of the road:
The first one is an obvious perfect match that I just stumbled upon based on this post on AnimeSuki; the latter two are guesswork from what I can find on the net. All three pictures care of Wikimedia Commons.
Update: Um, a few posts further down someone did my detective work for me. Oh well.
Update 2: Ah, now I realise they're starting from the Kamakura end of the line, so I don't know if that sequence of photos makes sense. But it's definitely the same train at the same station.
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Tuesday, May 10
A young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of...
Railcars?
A Channel
Ano Hana
Denpa Onna
Iroha
I have no idea why, but the Spring season is definitely railcar season. All the anime I've watched so far has included railcars. In fact, when I saw the setting of the first episode of Ano Hana, I was just waiting for the railcar to show up, and was quite disappointed when it didn't. But then in the second episode my patience was rewarded.
Also, hell's bells, the background artists in some of these shows have been putting in the overtime. Even simply-animated productions like A Channel have some gorgeous background art.
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The name is a mouthful, but the anime is very, very good.
Score! Four out of four railcars.
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Wednesday, May 04
Genki-girl fending for herself is hardly an untapped theme in anime, and the first episode of Hanasaku Iroha doesn't overwhelm. It's by no means bad, and it picks up a little in the subsequent episodes and kept me watching, and there's some nice scenes of the countryside (and railcars are always welcome) but even when it engages it only does so on three cylinders.
Two and a half scary herons out of four.
Ohana channel at RandomC.
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Yet another girls-being-cute 4-koma, but unlike, say, K-On!, this one has no story whatsoever and tries to skate by on charm alone.
And... Pulls it off pretty well, actually. It's not going to set the world on fire, but so far I like it a lot.
Three rainy days out of four.
A Channel channel at Random Curiosity.
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Saturday, April 16
It's a Go Nagai story.
It's from 1973.
They've remade it almost untouched - it's still set in 1973, with 1973 sensibilities (i.e. none whatsoever).
The artwork and animation are surprisingly good; there are some lovely scenes amid all the craziness. Very much old school, but taking full advantage of modern digital production.
It's kind of awesome, and at the same time kind of unwatchable. That's a difficult combination to navigate, and whether you like it or loathe it will depend very much on your personal tastes. You'll know which way you fall in the first 15 minutes; it's not a complex show and if you hate it right away it's unlikely to win you over. But worth a shot; it's not like anything else I've seen recently.
Personally I give it three kappas out of four, will watch again.
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Sunday, March 20
It's possibly the least safe-for-work (safe-for-anywhere) site that anyone sane would have any reason to visit, but this was too cute not to repost.
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Wednesday, March 02
I've changed my mind about Hidamari Sketch.
We definitely need another season. Two. Two more seasons.
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Friday, February 25
Let me guess, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka is in a post-midnight timeslot?
(Checks.)
Yup.
But then so is Kimi ni Todoke, and that show contains hardly any zombies at all.
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Saturday, February 12
Sometimes you wonder why we crawled up out of the ocean, climbed up into the trees, climbed back down out of the trees, discovered fire, invented the wheel, the lever and the other one I always forget, fought wars, went to school, and work forty* hours each week for most of our lives.
Kimi ni Todoke is why.
The reason the Mayan calender stops next year is because Kimi ni Todoke is going to end, and then, the Universe, weary but satisfied, will fold back in on itself. The world ends not with a bang but with a sigh of happiness.
In the go go beta couple category: Doesn't Chizu clean up nice?
In the war dispatches category: Die, blondie, die!
* For varying values of forty.
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