GAINAX: fucking with generic conventions since forever.
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So, it’s been a while! You know the drill - school, women, making money, card-slinging, fighting epic battles in the armadas of the Southern Coalition, etc. The weather recently has made going outside a pretty terrible idea, though, and in the midst of my relative inactivity I’ve decided to start writing a little again. We’ll [...]
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Haven’t written one of these (or, in general, lol) in a while. First, the tl;dr translation and some numbers: Storytelling Narrativet: 6/10 Characters: 9/10 Setting/world: 5/10 Gameplay Battle system & controls: 10/10 Interface: 9/10 Difficulty: 9/10 Presentation Visuals: 8/10 Audio: 7/10 Localization: 8/10 Overall: 8/10 Completion time: approximately forty hours
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Watching Moogy and Shu watch and mock it in IRC was actually rather amusing, much more than the show itself. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that the show seems quite entertaining! [01:39] <Moogy> NP: [CoalGuys]_Akikan_-_03_[7BDE94EB].mkv [01:39] <Moogy> GOGOGO [01:39] * Shu 14»»7 MPClassic 14«»7 [75¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦7] [CoalGuys] Akikan - 03 [7BDE94EB].mkv 14«»7 00:02 / 23:44 14«»7 [...]
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White Album: The second episode is some improvement, but probably not enough of one to convince me to continue watching this series. I guess I should’ve known better after the first. Ride Back:  Definitely a well-executed enough first episode to make me want to continue watching. The CG isn’t terrible, though it isn’t a completely seamless [...]
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Maria Holic: Somewhat amusing. It kind of reminds me of Ouran, but with shitty Shinbo shenanigans slapped on. This can go either way, and I’ll keep track of it for a bit - it’s not every day you see a trap and his maid blackmailing a lesbian at an all-girl school. Akikan: I hope this didn’t [...]
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I guess I never got around to finishing the end-of-year awards stuff. Oh well, I couldn’t think of anything else to say really.   More importantly, spare yourself time and mental anguish and don’t watch Akikan. That is all.
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Prettiest animation of 2008: Kara no Kyoukai It has been said of this series of movies, “You can use any frame as a wallpaper.” This is no exaggeration. Kara no Kyoukai wins this award by a ridiculously large margin, and I can’t imagine anyone with a functional pair of eyes disagreeing. Let’s narrow things a bit… Best television [...]
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Love/Hate Award: Code Geass R2. The general impression of Code Geass R2 seems to be a negative one. It definitely has its shortcomings, to be sure: unnecessary and uninteresting story arcs, excessive nonsensical spontaneity, and so forth. Yet, it manages to accomplish what every work of art seeks to do - create some sort of intense [...]
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I’ve been kind of lacking inspiration lately, but this is something pretty easy to do. Let’s see if I can keep it up all the way to the end. Every day from now on until I exhaust my reserve of ideas, I’ll be giving one or more shows some form of “XY of 2008″ award. [...]
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