Two-Mix: White Reflection

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Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force, Kiki's Delivery Service, music, Vision of Escaflowne

In her reply here to my questions re the Sunshine Blogger Award, Inrosegalaxy included this intriguing music video by Two-Mix for their 1997 single White Reflection. Before I comment on it, here’s the video itself:

Argevollen (2014): Second Thoughts With Some Spoilers

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AKB0048, argevollen, Key The Metal Idol, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Scrapped Princess, Silent Mobius, Vision of Escaflowne, Witch Hunter Robin

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/argevollen

Argevollen has continued to improve even as it inspires memories of other, older, anime. The biggest problem with Argevollen is the large number of balls it is juggling: will Argevollen be able to catch them all in the finale[1]?

When, and how, I write reviews, with a little bit of why.

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Card Captor Sakura, El Hazard, Haibane Renmei, Key The Metal Idol, Kurau Phantom Memory, Record of Lodoss War, Rurouni Kenshin, Vision of Escaflowne

A little while ago Starsamaria ^[1] wrote an interesting post about when not to write reviews.  I posted a quick comment but I’ve been thinking on the topic since.  So, naturally, I’m going to ramble for a while to get my thoughts down on screen.  What follows may or may not make a lot of sense.

Twenty Days of Key the Metal Idol – Day 20 – Looking Back at Key the Metal Idol

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Haibane Renmei, Key The Metal Idol, Twenty Days: Key, Vision of Escaflowne

Key the Metal Idol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

At the end of Twenty Days of Key the Metal Idol I have discovered that I don’t like this show as much as I thought I did.  

Despite the expert deconstruction of the idol singer fantasy, despite the internal consistency of the universe, despite the generally engaging characters, I only like this show; in retrospect I don’t love it enough to have justified this series of posts.

Twenty Days of Key the Metal Idol – Day 4 – Sub vs Dub?

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Haibane Renmei, Key The Metal Idol, Record of Lodoss War, Twenty Days: Key, Vision of Escaflowne

Image via Wikipedia

My default position for watching anime is to prefer the subtitled version. I do however listen to the dub track when writing episode reviews as part of a twenty days of X, thirty days of Y series of posts.

Thus far I have generally been pleasantly surprised – Lodoss War was quite good, Escaflowne was watchable, and Haibane Renmei was first class.