Remember that “If I see something noteworthy I’ll blog it” from last week’s post? Well… OP: “Cloud Age Symphony” by Okino Shuntaro I have a simple message for the good folks at Gonzo: You better not fuck this up. The inevitable has happened, the elephant in the room has finally been […] Read more
Ewww – you got Kaji Yuuki in my Shana… Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam – 15 Try to imagine the “Star Wars” prequels if Jar Jar Binks had been the main character, and you have a pretty good notion of why Last Exile’s sequel is simply unable to take flight. […] Read more
Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam – 14 Believe it or not, I take no pleasure in the heaps of abuse Fam (the character, not the show) has been receiving lately. I really hoped she’d come around and vindicate her presence in the series. The fully duality of Last Exile: Fam […] Read more
That was the best episode of “Fam” for a while, because it was focused squarely on what the show is best at, by far – the machinations of Luscinia and the Ades Federation, lots of big space battles, and the ugly side of global power politics. When the series uses […] Read more
I wish I had better things to say about both these series, as I really want to like them more than I do – especially “Fam”. High School D x D – 02 The second episode of HSDxD didn’t do a whole lot more for me than the first one […] Read more
One of the shows in this digest made some real progress this week, and it should be pretty obvious which one it was… Gundam AGE – 13 This seems to have been the episode that Gundam fans were waiting for, and it’s easy to see why. You can look at […] Read more
A lot happened this week on Fam, including the long-awaited first appearance by yet another legendary character from the original series. But in introducing her, a new mystery was created involving two even more important characters via the passing words of Dio. I’m not crazy about the re-casting of Alvis […] Read more
It’s the “We Spent Too Much on All Those CGI Battle Scenes and the Creditors Are Still Out There” episode of “Fam” this week, so I’m not going to bore you with a long post. The only new footage is of Gisey writing a letter to her Dad – […] Read more
With episode 9 of “Fam”, it’s another case of taking the good with the bad. That’s pretty much become the norm with the series, so it doesn’t come as a surprise so much as a bit of a letdown. I’ve been pulling my punches for a while, and really trying to […] Read more
I certainly hope Gonzo has those little financial issues worked out, because they dropped a whole lot of yen on CGI with this episode. I’ll leave it to the military history buffs and technogeeks to dissect the relative merits of The Slivius’ armaments and defenses vs. The Silvana’s, etc. That […] Read more