Since this seems to be the week for me to make references to retro US TV commercials that almost no one gets, anyone remember this one – “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature…” Of all the series that are ending this month, it’s hardest to wrap my brain around […] Read more

RDG presents a pretty unique set of issues for a blogger. There was a little delay in Red Data Girl’s web stream making its way to the usual places in subbed format this episode, and that made the decision to keep blogging that version even tougher than usual.  At this […] Read more

The slow and steady climb up the season rankings continues for Red Data Girl. RDG is a pretty good representative of the old “Tortoise and the Hare” fable – the tortoise half, anyway.  It was definitely a little slow out of gate, but where shows with flashier (and better, to […] Read more

This series just has a way of focusing on the right animal at the right moment. Metaphors can be taken too far, I know, but they are useful in trying to illustrate a point, and so I’ve found it with RDG.  A couple of weeks ago I noted that this […] Read more

Somehow, I think a horse-themed episode came along at the perfect time. To borrow from my post on Red Data Girl #6, this anime reminds me of a “large, majestic animal languidly striding from place to place – lots of ground is being covered, but there’s no sensation of hurrying.”  […] Read more

Slowly but surely, RDG is staking its claim to be one of the top shows of the Spring, just as I expected. What an odd show this is, in so many ways.  I don’t know how many people are watching it, and when they are if they are (pageviews for […] Read more

I don’t know how many people are watching Red Data Girl – and when – but if they aren’t, they’re missing a very good series.. It’s not unique to anime, but anime is one of the most obvious examples of just how important premiere episodes are.  I fear that Red […] Read more

The sense here is that the prologue is over, and we’ve moved on to the main event. We’re a third of the way through RDG now, so I’m feeling pretty much pot-committed on watching it via the pre-airs at this point.  I re-watched the first episode in HD just to […] Read more

I still see some warning signs, but Red Data Girl continues to command my interest after three episodes. There are certainly times where my views diverge from mass opinion when it comes to anime, and it’s beginning to look as if RDG may be one of them.  Considering the amount […] Read more