Cross Game and Touch, and feminism in Japan (7)

1. Celeste on June 30, 2009: @batezi: I do tend to think of Aoba is being just a little bit annoyed with herself for being unable to fufill those stereotypes: who wouldn’t want to do what...
2. bateszi on June 30, 2009: @Baka-Raptor I’ve only seen the first two OPs, but I prefer the second one because it has that hint of darkness/drama to it; the lyrics are interesting too. Anyway,...
3. Celeste on June 30, 2009: Hmm. something to remember is that, even now, Aoba is the antithesis of the average Japanese girl. The impression I get is that Cross Game is set in the countryside (which...
4. gaguri on June 29, 2009: I can understand your craving for more Cross Game and resorting to Touch to fill that gap. Although like Kim, I think watching that much episodes of Touch can be saved for...
5. Sorrow-kun on June 29, 2009: What an interesting comparison! I think the idea is close to the money, but I don’t think Aoba is a “new” character, per se. She has a lot of the...
6. Kim on June 28, 2009: it’s interesting to note how the ideas of one man, and by extension, the institution that shelters him, have gradually shifted over the years. I think comparing changing...
7. Baka-Raptor on June 28, 2009: AAAAAAAA, MY EYES, THE SECOND TOUCH OP ANIMATION, AAAAAAAAA (My only complaint about the show.)

The scent of flames: Armored Trooper Votoms (10)

1. moritheil on June 27, 2009: I actually looked at two episodes of this, but I couldn’t really get into it. Part of it may have been that I wasn’t able to fully grasp everything (I only...
2. BigFire on June 27, 2009: Chirico Cuvie’s parting thought regarding the woman that tried to kill him on Susna encapsulate him completely: “I want to tell her that I didn’t kill...
3. bateszi on June 18, 2009: @Classic Maiden: Thanks. This took a few days to write, so it’s great to know you seem to be liking my blog! @anonymous: Always nice to hear from another Votoms fan!...
4. kopl on June 18, 2009: I love Votoms. It is a shame so many people dismiss older anime because it is “ugly” or has “bad animation” or whatever silly reasons they have. They...
5. gaguri on June 18, 2009: I feel the same way about walking that tight rope between accessibility and obscurity. But in a way, I think that is why people come to my blog, and I’m sure people...
6. IKnight on June 17, 2009: At the end of the day I’d also file Votoms under ‘far from perfect, yet written well enough to be remembered’, but since it hit the spot so well for me...
7. Knurek on June 17, 2009: What I loved about VOTOMs (other than the purest real robots this side of Patlabor) was that it felt like a classic 1940’s sci-fi book, in vein of Asimov’s...

Free skies, and endless land (11)

1. Akikaze on June 23, 2009: I just finished this anime today,it’s actually the first series i finish in quite a while and it only took me two days to finish it,i guess it is also thanks to the...

Slice of life (16)

1. bateszi on June 19, 2009: @Random Otaku - I cheated a bit and used a website to tell me the language (I guessed it was Russian at first, obviously totally wrong!) *** As for this Kaiji thing, I...
2. Johny on June 19, 2009: @Random Otaku Madhouse adapted only the first series of the Kaiji manga. As far as I know it ends the same way, so that might be the reason Kaiji had a bit of an...
3. Random Otaku on June 19, 2009: Didn’t know about a sequel being in the works - that does change things a bit, and at the same time it doesn’t, since a sequel is not a good enough reason...
4. bateszi on June 18, 2009: @Random Otaku: I must admit, the end was a bit ‘off’, but it has since been announced that a sequel is in the works, so I think that sense of disappointment...
5. Random Otaku on June 18, 2009: I have to disagree on the Kaiji note. The ridiculous anti-climax at the very end, which left a rather open-ended ending (In a bad way) - I don’t know. I felt...