From RunningKid:
I hope there will not be any more geass users since I think it’s becoming too common… won’t be long before they start selling them in shops.
Lelouch and C.C. killed the last guy who tried to copy their style, so perhaps there is still hope. Can’t believe the Geass has gone mainstream; now [...]
From Owen:
Drama aside, I think there’s something to be said about the point of The ABA, and how a lot of clueless, misinformed, egoistic, or just plain stubborn people have missed it by a mile. My blog turns a year old tomorrow, and it’s been a great process of learning and sharing in the 122-odd [...]
From Owen:
I can’t speak for my absent fellow bloggers, but my recent inactivity? It’s Laziness, spelt with a capital “L”, and would be the only rationale I can think of for not writing as much as I should have recently, unscheduled blog outage aside. While it’s always nice to be able to say that “real [...]
From Shirukii:
Ai-chan didn’t ask him to go out with her on the spot, she simply asked him to look at her, not as a childhood friend, not as a sister figure, but as a girl, one that he may come to like one day. Yet Shin shuts her down, tells her that he could never [...]
From Ogiue Maniax:
I’ve also seen some people accusing Tama-chan of being too powerful, similar to say, Ryouma from Prince of Tennis. I’ve never really had a problem with those kinds of main characters, as not every main character has to be an underdog.
I don’t have a problem with Tamaki’s power, as Bamboo Blade is rarely [...]
From Hinano:
I feel like the manga is stuck in one big genjutsu pancake. I mean the last 6 chapters were just genjutsu on top of genjutsu. It was cool… the first 3 times. Now it’s like can we see some REAL fighting? Enough with this genjutsu. It’s like is that all Itachi can do?
Seriously! [...]
From Hinano:
So yea that’s my list of those who have left the anime blogging world. It’s sad to see sometimes a blogger you’ve known for a while decides to quit the hobby but I am glad to see there’s still some blogs still going strong that were around when I joined this whole shabang. Here’s [...]
From Bateszi:
I like recommending anime, telling people when something is worth watching; it’s taken me nearly two years to understand that about myself and this site, but I can only say “this is good” so many times. Much like web forums, episodic blogs are more about in-depth commentary and discussion; simultaneously, they attract hardcore fans, [...]
From Furu Anime Panikku:
This brainless e-fapping, as I would call it, is a total waste of time. I don’t see anything to benefit from when the character whom you support is crowned victorious. There’s not even the slightest form of intellectual discussion, or even humor, but mere mindless clicking and recruiting of more people to [...]
I have a confession to make; I was never able to master the “simple” art of pen-spinning, which seems to be quite popular. Certainly not for lack of effort; I’ve spent countless lectures fruitlessly flipping my pen into the face of the person sitting next to me, which I suppose was remarkable in its [...]
From Washi’s 2007 Anti-Spiral Awards:
Biggest Pile of Overrated Garbage:
CLANNAD
If we’d known you damned spirals had this faux drama in the works we would have fought harder to defeat you!
This almost makes me wish I had watched Clannad. But you know, if it’s not good enough for Anti-Spirals, then it’s not good enough for me.
From Rachel:
Bakeries do a booming business with Christmas cakes, up until the 24th, and then they discount their cakes on the 25th to get rid of ‘em. There’s a horrible analogy comparing marriageable women to Christmas cakes: Both are good until the 25th, then it’s hard to get rid of them, i.e. it’s difficult to [...]
I was reading Bateszi’s latest post about how older shows seen in the springtime of youth are glorified in your memory, a topic waxed upon many-a-time by Jeff Lawson. Indeed, upon a second viewing in modern times, many of my favorite older shows seem to have aged quite poorly, revealing heretofore unnoticed [...]
