Coburn’s analysis was a fascinating reading, but I cannot help thinking that Ahmey offers more. It can be just a prank by GONZO, but I’m haunted by the kerchief on the water. Surely he must see Ahmey’s dramatic role? Perhaps he was just tired by the end of the long essay.
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So I finally got around to watching the two last episodes of Druaga no Tou and it’s not a lie to say I wasn’t disappointed. That is, I didn’t exactly have sky high expectations of it from the start and that’s probably why I kind of enjoyed it all. I mean it won’t win any [...]
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GONZO’s new tv series Strike Witches has begun airing, and GONZO, as it did with Blassreiter and Druaga, is putting the show online with a good translation for the enjoyment of English-speaking anime fans. It’s an mp4 file, approximately 200mb, with hard-encoded subtitles. It’s even free of Digital Rights Management shenanigans, which is a big [...]
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I have been eating up Daughter of Twenty Faces every week. I anxiously await the next episode and I love that feeling. I was really happy to hear DoTF was given a 26 episode run after initially having only 13. Being a lover of detective fiction, it is not hard to imagine me glomming [...]
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Jil continues to try and fight against Druaga on the top floor of the tower.
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NOT! There’s a whole lot of stuff that I can’t stand about the game. One, lag. The players in Japan are probably all having lag-free fun, while I’m in Singapore lagging the daylights out in the town central. Getting out of the town central and into the wilderness gave me a headache. Two, the graphics. They’re pretty unbelievable [...]
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As always, I thank Animesuki and WarriorKK for posting the results. Thanks for being so up-to-date, you guys make these posts possible.Also, doing a direct modem connection does not work, APPARENTLY IT IS ALL ISP SIDE, either that, or I'M NOT DOING IT RIGHT.Anyway, today's column is rather uneventful.Tsumaranai~~~~OBLIGATORY SOUSEISEKI TRIBUTE, SINCE BOKU AND DESU ARE GAY FOR EACH OTHER.(And Rozen Maiden is not in this year, so no DESU.)IN MAI /U/? MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK.Anyway, that out of the way. Thoughts on today's column.Coppa from The Tower of Druaga ~ The Aegis of Uruk goes in with a rather....large amount. 15 votes. This one REALLY FLEW UNDER MY RADAR. HOWEVER, I EVEN REMEMBER PLAYING THE GAME ON MY GAMEBOY COLOUR.Ironic, ain't it?Also, True Tears comes out strong, two of the characters come in at 2nd and 3rd in nomination count: Hiromi Yuasa and Noe Isurugi.I did not have the privelege of playing the game, even though I can get it easily (which I plan to, actually) but I CAN say I did see some of the anime. And those are votes well-deserved. Nuff 'Said.Yin from Darker Than Black also makes it in, with...9 votes. WTF. Wow.Smiling Yin is scary.....To all you Shonen fans, good news, Lenalee Lee makes it in too, from D.Gray-Man, 2 votes to boot. But I actually expect her to go out very early on, she may be kick-ass, but not in mai Saimoe 08 she isn't. ^^Excellent Seiyuu she's got there too, Itou Shizuka is win.Also I see Yuki Kusakabe from ToHeart2: OVA. 5 votes.And that's about it for now. Uneventful day is uneventful.
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Druaga no To is slightly odd, and slightly good. A lot of the most fun ideas the writers threw in were nothing more than nifty baubles. Golfing wizards, 8-bit sidetracks, piss-take episodes - they kept me happy. But it’s a narrative medium, and Druaga should be judged as a story, not as a procession of [...]
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I have just finished re-watching Last Exile and, I’ve been wondering what it was like for fans of the show in 2003. Did they look at the future of Gonzo with high expectations? Were they impressed with what the studio had put out so far? If so, I feel so sorry for those poor bastards. [...]
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Oh GONZO, why am I not surprised. (Warning: Spoilers etc) Summary: Needless to say I was pretty much expecting an ending like this. Le’see what happened in these final few episodes? So, Kally died, and then Ahmey dies trying to kill Druaga. The remaining climbers (minus, Pazuz and Neeba the fheg) band together to [...]
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