1 I guess that's me, then, because I thought it was terrible.

2 No problem.  You also don't like K-On! so I already had you chalked up as incorrigible.

3

I thought it was utterly hilarious, especially if you are interesting about the craziness that goes on in the industry.

Unfortunately, I do acknowledge it is requires a taste for the 'insider' part, otherwise the comedy loses much of the entertainment value.

C.T.

1

Subbed, I presume?

C.T.

2 I dunno. I got about half way through it and lost interest. I bought that DVD more than a year ago, and I never finished it.

3 C.T. - Of course.

Steven - I did say it takes a little while to get going.

4 I don't know, personally, I was in love with the movie by the end of the credits, and that was in raw Japanese back in 1991.  I think it's one of those shows where you're either on board with the aesthetic - that combination of headlong exhilaration and infinite-focus mono no aware - or you're not. 

It doesn't have all the sci-fi or fantasy bells and whistles that later Miyazaki movies have to offer, it's just pre-Ghibli Miyazaki & a kinder, gentler Lupin experience.

5

It is a fun movie, but I can understand people not being keen on it.  It was definitely entertaining for me, but I still would not go out of my way to watch it even after seeing it for the first time - the only reason I actual did see it was because the friend I went to the convention with wanted to see the showing.  And the fact the the character models made me want to watch the movie next to Porco Rosso was a bit disconcerting.

Also, for me, listening to the dub as oppose to the sub would be a surreal experience after listening to the Pioneer/Geneon release of the TV series, since practically the entire staff changed (Only one of the English language VAs came back - voicing a different character.).

Non sequitor - sadly, my attempt at trying to keep my entertainment and my politics separate took another blow this last week, since the (now former) voice of the GEICO Gecko is a VA who worked on anime dubs and still work on video game dubs.  Makes subs more attractive all the time...

C.T.

6

The news reports were garbled. It wasn't the voice of the gecko who got canned, it was the guy who did the voiceovers.

7

It may have been the guy doing the voice-overs instead of the voice of the Gecko, but since the VA behind the scheme still has anime and video game dubs credits (And apparently was not shy about remarking on his performance on Twitter.), it annoys me at the disappearance of entertainment and politics.

And I did not know there was a soundtrack to MOM...

C.T.

1 They did blow up the Moon in Gurren-Lagann, or at least the outsides of it...

2 Miss China's Ring is one of my favorites.  They've got the whole series over at BakaBT, though one of the OVAs isn't subbed.  (It's a short, anyway.)

The other main ep is The Scientific Boys Club (I think that's the ep's name) about a crew of guys who go to Mars in the 1950s using an outdated "etheric current" theory which nonetheless works.  Miss China has only a cameo in that one, but it's a good cameo.  (Boobzorz FTW!)

3 Yep, I plan to watch Scientific Boys Club later today.

1 It was all over blogs. Heck, I posted about it. Hmm, I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

2 If the pattern is that I'm a year behind everyone else, don't have time to read blogs, and then pick up on things only when Steven does, then yeah.

Good to know it didn't go unnoticed at the time!

3 Just followed the link on your blog to Aroduc.  I understand why I didn't catch on to this last year, being dead and all, but I wonder how I missed it in '08, when I wasn't...  Oh.  Yeah, if I hadn't discovered it by August, then from August '08 onwards I was toast.  Being a Miffy production it wasn't on AnimeSuki, so I just never noticed it.

Well, at least I get to watch it now!

1 I'll have to check that, but so far BH (GataKei) reigns supreme in the funny. Basically it's the ecchi Kimi ni Todoke which is funny.

1 Okay, so it wasn't just me, then? Whew.

(Short impression: If you're going to go after the KyoAni fanboys, you might want to at least try making your recycled tripe the slightest bit entertaining.)

2 It wasn't just you.  They took a possibly interesting premise and crapped all over it for 23 minutes.

3 So you're saying I shouldn't rush through my backlog for this one, then?  It can't be as bad as Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani.

4 I haven't seen Nyaru-Ani, but hey, Nyarlathotep as a cute schoolgirl, what's not to like?

The first half of Angel Beats ep 1 might as well have been a slide show of MS-Paint GIFs.  Well, MS-Paint GIFs overlaid on stock photography.  The character artwork and animation was just terrible.  And don't get me started on the dialogue or so-called story...

5 What's not to like?  How about repeated stabbings of said cute schoolgirl with a fork by the apparent protagonist?  The only reason we're given to think she's Nyarlathotep is the name.  It's like those flash Haruhi shorts except not at all amusing.  And shorter.

6 Okay, I guess that's not to like.

1 I think you need to tell me how to tag my pictures so they'll expand like that when clicked.

2 Use the [slide] tag: [slide=http://ai.mee.nu/images/moesplosion.jpg size=300x] will give you:


Multiple slide tags in the same post will give you a slideshow.

3 Though I'm not 100% sure it will work in your blog - it requires a Javascript library introduced in 1.1.  If it doesn't work, it just needs a minor change to your templates though.

4 Yuno kinda looks wrong, but a nice picture otherwise. I would use the cast of Sketchbook instead of K-ON.

5 Yes to both points.

One with Hidamari+Sketchbook+GA, and one with K-On+Sora no Woto.