Time to review three short series that all ended recently! Kure-nai: I wanted the Hollywood ending. That said, the show did do well to stick true to its sense of realism right down the end, but they could have at least indulged us a bit, right? I guess they did that with episode six, though. Kure-nai was [...]
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Director Kou Matsuo (Rozen Maiden, Kurenai) has taken the unusual step of publically criticising some of his less than worshipful seiyuu, in a Kurenai radio broadcast, singling out 沢城みゆき / Miyuki Sawashiro (Zetsubou Sensei, Persona 3, Utawarerumono, etc.) for particular opprobrium; though he doesn’t mention her by name, some arithmetic with their ages and the [...]
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Well, I finally saw the whole series. I may have been behind for the most part, but as the saying goes “Better late than never”. The episodes leading up to the finale weren’t as strong as the rest of the series, but I think that in the end, the last episode pulled through. So, Kurenai [...]
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One episode left until I call up all my friends and start screaming! One more episode to go until I finish the series and I must say “If Shinkurou doesn’t shank every living soul in the Kuhouin estate with his elbow horn and save Murasaki, then I will be overly pissed.” This episode [...]
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I liked kure-nai. Liked, not loved. There were many flaws with the show - I regret that it was only 12 episodes long which meant lack of development for side characters like Ginko and Yuno, there were more plot holes than a piece of Swiss cheese and it had a final episode that bordered on [...]
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I had to make a double post because the last episode already basically came out and I don’t want to be behind on this series like I am for Kurenai(Special A will have to wait, I have time to catch up with that series). I didn’t make a catch-up post either because I have a [...]
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What! JLeeson didn’t already have episode 10 done? I sincerely apologize for not having blogged this show properly (previous 8 episodes do not qualify), I missed episodes 10-12 as you can see. I recently moved and had not had internet since this past Thursday or so, plus I have been at freshman [...]
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tldr? Could’ve been great, managed to be good. I’m hoping not to be the last person to wrap up Kure-nai — quite a few people already have — but I needed a little time to collect my thoughts about one of the most interesting series of Spring ‘08, a pretty good season. Story Kure-nai has a fairly simple, [...]
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(As a side note to people coming from animenano, my last post wasn’t listed on there for some reason - so if you want to read that as well, please do and find out why I’ve been derailed by spore.) The precocious child, Murasaki, was the fire behind what made this show good but her circumstances, [...]
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It is as the title says. And this time it returns with a new BGM set: BOING vs. BOING.[-Thanks to Deathie at Animehistory-]SO GARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0xHQROAdsrQ&amp;hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0xHQROAdsrQ&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>1. WTF REMINDS ME OF KURENAI. DEATHIE WASN'T KIDDING2. Enki looks GARer.3. WHO'S THE CAT? A CAT IS NOT FINE TOO.4. ZOMG VIRAL THE SHINOBI.
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