A normal day at Azure Flame. It’s been a year of ups and downs, of anime gems and utter disappointments- a year when I’ve alternated between craving more and feeling utterly fed up with the continuing deluge of episodes that take no account of the fact that people might have other things to do than stay [...]
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Yes, so everyone does these and they do them a lot better than I can be bothered to, but since I’m opinionated enough to want to write this, and it turned out to be too long to be absorbed into Tuesday Rumble, a spring preview has come to exist anyway. If you want pictures and [...]
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Part 3 of my Spring 2007 anime preview contains facts (or made up lies) about sola, Princess Resurrection, Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo, THE SKULLMAN and Nagasarete Airantou. Can you separate the fact from fiction? I can't! sola At the time of me writing this, there isn't a translation anywhere for the plot of sola, and I'm finding it hard to translate myself since the text on the website is embedded in the image instead of actual text. Here is what I got without using a dictionary (because I'm lazy): Something about a first year high school student who is a boy who likes "the sky." And ummm, then something about a present, and something something "gothloli." Sounds interesting all right! I'm guessing "sola" is referring to the "sora" (sky) in the anime description. But I could be wrong. Other than that, the character designs do look good, and anidb says it's a collaboration between the writer(s?) of Kanon and Da Capo. I'll be watching because it looks pretty for now.
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