Birthday • 1982-12-17 Gender •
Male Location • Chicago Member Since • 2006-01-30
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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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Saturday, October 20, 2007
more new season stuff
First off, it turns out that every single Wonder Showzen episode is online (except for the unaired pilot). Go watch ALL of them right now, if you haven't already. I particularly recommend "Patience."
Second, not much new on the scorecard this time. Frankly, I was expecting that I'd end up dropping at least one of the circled shows, but just about everything's held up pretty well for their second episodes. Of all of them, Dragonauts is now probably the closest to the edge: it really looks promising, but the series has yet to settle down and find a steady tonic somewhere. It comes across a little like Geass by trying to please every conceivable person who could be watching, but ends up worse by also obfuscating what the hell is going on. When other shows do the latter - Lain is a good example - they often compensate by hitting their basic mood early and hard. Dragonauts is two episodes in and I still don't know how the hell I'm supposed to be thinking about it. I really want to like it, but unless they're going to pull a rabbit out of their hat in ep. 3 I'm probably going to just toss the thing. And yes, I'm planning to do that while keeping Bamboo Blade (god, why did no one think of crossing Rei and Utena before? no points for originality, but still) and Kimikiss (even though saxophone characters are even worse than violin characters). I'm not proud, people.
Also, I fixed the Genshiken 2 op. No, this is not a parody. Yes, I was genuinely trying to improve it from that godawful club song they have now. Halko seemed the ideal choice, and I think it works pretty well (better than before, at least).
