I thought the episode was pretty good, and a fitting end for a rollercoaster of a series. It was almost tragic, I suppose, but anyway there are spoilers ahead.
When I first gave Tower of Druaga: Aegis of Uruk a try, I didn’t think it was that great. The joke first episode (Jil’s dream episode) wasn’t that great and next few after that were kinda boring. However, once we started getting some mystery and betrayal, I got really interested in the plot, [...]
I wanted to find some other pages about Blassreiter to comment on, and I was really disappointed to find that very few (if any) bloggers covered Blassreiter. I was also guilty of assuming that Gonzo + CG + Motorcycles = Fail, but so far the show has been very engaging. This post will [...]
Recently I’ve been watching Taiwanese drama series nonstop. My objectives were twofold:
1. To see whether TWDramas had outgrown their status as el-cheapo cousins of J-Dramas.
2. To improve my Mandarin listening skills. To this end, I would be limiting my choice of series to ones with relatively straightforward dialogue. That [...]
I’m a noob at ping pong. Dabbled a bit in college, but sucked pretty bad. Back in the day, Kungfucius schooled me during a Thanksgiving holiday “celebration”. Of his total domination over my pathetic ping pong skills. I stuck to it though - whenever the opportunity arose (usually random and infrequent), [...]
The second episode continues to impress. The cinematography is oodles better than anything GS/GSD had to offer, and this episode is full of neat angle shots, zoom tricks, and tight action scenes. The action scenes in Seed/Destiny felt very generic and mass-produced for the most part, as if the producers went to the local [...]
Finally, the new Gundam is out! Time for another season of trashy plot twists, angsty pilots, and melodramatic death scenes. Gundam 00 opens in a war-torn Middle-eastern city, where the child Setsuna is waging a fruitless resistance against Mechwarrior-style walking tanks. When all hope is lost, a Gundam with sparkly exhaust wings [...]
Absolutely superb, and ultimately more satisfying than Shinkai’s 5cm/sec, which was a bit too maudlin for my tastes. Tokikake skillfully integrates many of my favorite themes: time-travel, wistful high school nostalgia, blissful slice-of-life, and understated romance. I personally enjoyed this film very much, but your mileage may vary - it certainly isn’t for [...]
From the title, I thought the princess was the one being murdered, but it turns out it’s the other way around. Alita Forland is the kindhearted princess of her kingdom, but the sneaky royal scientist stages a coup d’etat with the aid of demonic creatures and his strangely cute robotic constructs. Alita’s friends [...]
Souta frequently has this dream where his mother is telling him a story about a nerdy guy gaining magical powers. Unfortunately the dream always ends with his mom getting molested by tentacles and snatched away by monstrous spiders (before she can spoil the ending of the story). The only thing saving him in [...]
After several recommendations/dire warnings from commenters, I decided to see what all the hullabaloo was about. They’ve ousted Belldandy from the BlogSuki banner, they’re plastered all over blogs everywhere. Killer lolis up the wazoo. I had figured this would be another Elfen Lied type of series, and I definitely needed a break from [...]
Akane has an absolutely horrific dream where she feels guilty about everything that went down with Takayuki. She is afraid that she actually wanted to suck some face with stupid Takayuki, and it’s not a second too soon before she wakes up crying. Anyway, it’s time for the school festival, and Gouda spends [...]
I recently saw Grave of the Fireflies for the first time. Yeah, seriously I hadn’t seen it before. It was definitely not my usual fare, painting quite the poignant portait of life in Japan towards the end of WWII. Even though it isn’t the sort of thing I usually like, I have [...]
