04 Saturday Jan 2020
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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
24 Saturday Dec 2016
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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
I’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
09 Monday Mar 2015
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Bodacious Space Pirates, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Girls Und Panzer, Hanayamata, Log Horizon, Rocket Girls
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
31 Tuesday Dec 2013
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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:
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.
11 Monday Feb 2013
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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
Pirates of the Burley Griffin 