Enter the Furuya. Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen – 14 The action is definitely heating up with Argevollen, both on the battlefield and off. It’s becoming quite clear who the real bad guys are here, not that it hasn’t been looking obvious for a while. There’s some new terminology thrown around […] Read more
Better late than never… Diamond no Ace – 51 Thanks to a change in lodgings (with the sisters gone, I’m in a hostel) you can add crappy internet to the list of challenges facing my blogging prospects this week. I’m going to do my best to keep up but the […] Read more
Now that’s how you end a cour, right there. I don’t know what’s going to happen as regards Argevollen and my blogging schedule next season – there are a lot of variables at play here, both in terms of what happens with the show itself and otherwise. But given that […] Read more
Never trust anyone over Captain. It struck me in thinking about Argevollen this week what’s so odd about its structure. Basically, this is a mini-series rather than a “series”. It plays like on of those American TV mini-series about World War II in that each episode is like a little […] Read more
Wow – that guy actually has a name? Three cheers for the D List – this was definitely an episode for the backup singers to cover lead vocals. Jamie can still speak, so her fans can rest easy. She even finally got to an onsen. More military minutiae that gives […] Read more
I guess it’s getting close to pot-committed time here… Jamie who? Seriously, I’ve seen a ton of bitching about Jamie not saying anything this week. Well, first of all this was an episode mostly about the “enemy” (though not really), Ingelmia. And guess what, Jamie isn’t the main character – […] Read more
Argevollen is definitely growing on me – and that’s not entirely unexpected. In mecha terms, Argevollen is definitely the ultimate racing tortoise. I don’t think that so much makes Aldnoah.Zero the hare, because pretty much every other mecha show is the hare. The plodding, relentless imperative of this series seems […] Read more
Argevollen continues to be resolutely idiosyncratic if nothing else. While other interesting things happened, the episode is certainly overshadowed by the ridiculous moaning in the massage scene. Talk about awkward. A man named Quasimodo who calls Samonji “Marshall”? That’s certainly significant. I liked the dreary realism of the Argevollen firmware […] Read more
Did he at least try Ctrl+Alt+Del? The last bubble show of Summer still has me squarely on the fence, with each episode offering just enough upward movement to keep me invested. It isn’t so much the execution here that’s the appeal, but the unusually restrained and realistic style and the […] Read more
Still fence-sitting… I’m not ready to commit either way on Argovellen – not with it being a two-cour series and all. So if you want, think of this post as a place-holder – a dog-paddle. I’m still tuned in, still considering, still undecided. A few brief, er, impressions: Once you […] Read more