The ravens are looking a bit sluggish. Tell Malcolm they need new batteries.
Thursday, May 16
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha And A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Also known as Inari Kon Kon.
I was scrolling through AnimeLab (Australia's equivalent of Crunchyroll) and stumbled over this. Five seconds into the opening credits I was hooked.
The sound is a little distorted on that video; the actual theme sounds better. But that's probably why it's still up on YouTube. The only other version is 240p.
There's also a trailer, which is very nice but does contain spoilers.
Fortunately the spoilers shouldn't spoil your enjoyment, because the quality of this show lies in how it does things as much as the story itself.
It's a little predictable, sure (if like me you've watched entirely too much anime), but it also gets everything right. Including the ending. There's an OVA that was released in the Blu-Ray collection, but it fits in at episode 5.5 or thereabouts, so it's just a little more story and doesn't change the ending at all.
It's very short - just ten episodes - and I would have liked more, but I'm glad for what we got.
What's it about? See the opening credits, and the trailer if needed. It's exactly what it says on the tin.
Four leaf-tailed squirrel foxes out of four. Highly recommended.
The anime apparently only covers half the manga, but it does put an ending on the end, so if they were to do a second season it would have to be a Non Non Biyori style equel, speaking of which -
VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Five nyanpasus out of four.
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Monday, May 13
Akanesasu Shoujo
Remarkably uneven, but it sticks the landing.
Not sure how to rate this one. The ending is perfectly in sync with the beginning - not predictable, but the mood and outcome, which problems get resolved and which do not, and how they get resolved - exactly fits.
But the path it takes to get there is not one describable by mere language or mathematics.
As for the costume designs, well....
Most of it isn't like that, though.
Oh, what is it about? The girls in a high school radio club (not the broadcasting club, their bitter rivals) play along with this urban myth that if you tune in to a certain frequency at the right place at the right time - 4:44 PM, specifically - you can pick up radio broadcasts from other places and other times.
It never works, of course, and none of them really believes it. Then snow bunnies show up, and you end up with chocolate bananas and eight headed dragons and gun horses and also a serious drama about how taking personal responsibility for things outside your control can be as destructive as avoiding responsibility for your own actions.
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I very much enjoyed Akanesasu Shoujo, but it is one of the those series where the story required a least an additional six to twelve episodes more to properly tell it. The series was created by the same guy behind the Infinity series games at KID, so a long road filled with twist and turns would be required for it - but that was not what it got.
Also, as a flagship show for Animax's 20th anniversary, it felt somewhat underwhelming...Though at least it avoided being the train wreck of boredom that was The Price of Smiles.
One thing that pleased me was the long, extended single shot action/fight sequence in the first episode, which was very well done. Even studios with better talent and resources (I am looking at you, ufotable.) do not produce a fight sequence that looks that good.
Posted by: cxt217 at Monday, May 13 2019 04:13 AM (LMsTt)
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Yes, I think this would have made a great 24-episode series. Also if they hadn't hired the costume designer from Morning Musume for the combat suits.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, May 13 2019 11:37 AM (PiXy!)
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)