Birthday • 1982-12-17 Gender •
Male Location • Chicago Member Since • 2006-01-30
Personal
Achievements • In grad school! WAO Anime Fan Since • Early '90s. Favorite Anime • Musashi Gundoh. Goals • A university teaching gig! Hobbies • Reading Heidegger. Talents • Not really.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
The Adventure Continues!
New scorecard is up. I think I've actually marked the majority of these things one way or the other now, and a lot of the ones left look like they're either OVAs or things that don't have a chance of getting subbed anyways. So, it looks like after I've trimmed the circled ones down a bit (the second episodes will tell the tale) I've pretty much got my fall mapped out. And uh... wow, it's not really all that promising. Kaiji, of all things, looks to be the best by a good margin.
Couple of notes. Gundam 00 is absolutely gorgeous, which we all kind of knew going in; on the other hand, it is deliriously stupid, has burgeoning didactic tendancies, and just plain smells way too much like Gundam Wing. PASS. Ninomiya-san is remarkable for having all of the elements one could possibly ask for in a wacky romantic comedy adventure harem series, yet still coming across as completely joyless. PASS. Lastly, in spite of my better judgment, I am holding onto Kimikiss (for the moment) because the character designs for the various archetypical mating choices are, and I do not use this word lightly, perfect. Watching such things float about in the OP creates an experience kind of like hearing Geza Anda breeze through the second Bartok piano concerto: it just seems too flawless to be real. The show itself isn't bad either, but the spotlight is definitely on the girls and only on the girls.
Anyways, let's see what happens in the next week or so. BONUS!! The single manliest video on Youtube:
