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Asteroid in Love (2020) and Light Pollution

04 Saturday Jan 2020

Posted by John Samuel in anime, Anime Reviews, reviews

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Asteroid in Love, Rocket Girls

Asteroid in Love Key Visual

Asteroid in Love Key Visual

The premiere episode of Asteroid in Love starts with a boy and a girl making a childhood promise to find and name an asteroid, and ends as an amusing cute girls doing cute things show*.

The only problem is that Asteroid in Love is set in Tokyo. Continue reading →

Sunshine Blogger Award 2016

24 Saturday Dec 2016

Posted by John Samuel in anime

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anime, board games, Gall Force, games, Hibike! Euphonium, Kimagure Orange Road, Kimi no Na wa, Robotech, Rocket Girls, Sound! Euphonium, Your Name

sunshine-blogger-awardI’m surfacing after an intense but successful project[1] and finally noticing some blogger awards that have come my way. These are basically a fun way to prompt posts with a bit of a Q&A format, so here goes.

The first order of business is to thank the lovely Artemis over at Otaku Lounge.

The “rules”[2] here are basically: Continue reading →

Log Horizon Season 2 (2014-2015): An Alternative View

09 Monday Mar 2015

Posted by John Samuel in anime, Anime Reviews, reviews

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Bodacious Space Pirates, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Girls Und Panzer, Hanayamata, Log Horizon, Rocket Girls

Look at all the shiny new toys!

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/log-horizon

I’ve been watching Log Horizon with friends, and caught them up to the latest episodes last night. As part of the discussion I expressed my dissatisfaction with the current season, and some debate ensued.

My friend’s view is that Log Horizon is taking a long, deep, view to its scripting, and that a western analogue to the approach would be Babylon 5. That there was never any intention to wrap things up this season, that this season is to a large extent set up for seasons 3 and 4.

In other words each season is essentially a chapter or two in a larger novel. The next chapter (season 3) is likely to be the looming war, and chapter 4 (season 4) is likely to be about getting home. Continue reading →

Well, That’s Disappointing

31 Tuesday Dec 2013

Posted by John Samuel in Book Reviews

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books, Rocket Girls

I asked Haikasoru on twitter if they were ever going to translate the 3rd and 4th Rocket Girls light novels. Alas, this is the answer that came back:

@arcadiagt5 Very unlikely at this time, sorry to say.

— Haikasoru (@Haikasoru) December 30, 2013

Pity. Oh well maybe things will change one day and I’ll get a chance to read the further adventures of Yukari, Matsuri, and Akane.

Thirty Days of Planetes – Day 1: Outside the Atmosphere

11 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by John Samuel in anime, Anime Reviews, reviews

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Planetes, Rocket Girls, Thirty Days: Planetes

Cover art for the volume 1 compilation DVD of ...

Cover art for the volume 1 compilation DVD of Planetes released by Bandai Entertainment (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Planetes is a 26 episode series based on a manga by Makoto Yukimura from 2003/04 [1], and is one of the hardest science fiction series out there. Now that Planetes is nearly 10 years old, I suspect that it Needs More Love from the anime community so here goes with Thirty Days of Planetes. Continue reading →

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