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Negima! 247

post from Kurogane's Anime Blog on 07 April 2009 10:06:31 PM. © Kurogane's Anime Blog

My jaw… f*cking dropped. Seriously. God damn it Negi, that is sum serious hax thar. From double lightning absorption, close-quarters combat at lightning speed (should’ve done that from the start), his original spell ‘Titanslayer’ (damn that lightning Lance looks so awesome), luring Rakan in to a contest of strength to ABSORB his power and using [...]

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Basquash! Episode 1 - I Am Legend

post from Cinnamon Ass on 07 April 2009 06:11:00 PM. © Cinnamon Ass

I know what I’m SUPPOSED to say about Basquash. I’m a self-admitted Shoji Kawamori fan. The show has the most INCREDIBLE production design imaginable, and all sorts of crazy visual ideas, and I usually go all ga-ga for that sort of thing.

I’m sorry, though. I’m just too old for this shit.

The plot, such as it is, is the launching point of almost any shounen anime, sporting, mecha or otherwise, you care to name. I’m not even sure it’s worth me describing it, to be honest. If you know that this show is about basketball playing mecha, you know that the main character will end up playing basketball in a mecha by the end of the first episode; it’s just an irreversible law of episodic entertainment. Throw in a few side characters, a bit of backstory (which in this case is that the protagonist’s sister is confined to a wheelchair after an accident with one of these basketball playing mecha) and you’ve got the recipe for an anime with a couple of minor twists along the way.

It’s unfortunate, really, but I just can’t even bring myself to care about this show. It looks fantastic, and that’s all I’ve really got to say about it. I could complain about the stereotypical characters but I’m not even really that bothered by them; they serve a purpose, after all, which is to enable the snazzy CG basketball scenes, and that’s the whole point of the show.

As it is, there’s nothing to make me want to watch more from a narrative point of view. Where is the mystery? Where are the hidden depths to explore, beyond which girl Dan (the protagonist) will end up with - a story I have little interest in as Dan isn’t an intriguing enough character? Sheer visual audacity alone isn’t enough to keep me hooked on anything, regretfully; there will be other shows with good art this season (one can hope?) and as impressive as Satelight’s CG sequences are, my brain switches off entirely when they start going - you think I watched Aquarion or Macross for the mecha?

What this show really should be doing is airing in a sensible dinner time slot during the week or on a Sunday morning, something like that. This is a show for kids that just happens to have a notorious director and wodges of wonga behind it; even the occasional eye-rolling fanservice shot wouldn’t be out of place in something like Blue Dragon these days. It’s the sort of thing I might have watched ten or fifteen years ago after school, perhaps, but it’s basically got nothing to offer me now, and I don’t see why Satelight have ended up with the Thursday night slot on MBS except by previous association (it’s airing in the same timeslot that Macross F did last year).

I don’t mean all this in a pretentious way at all. I know that virtually all anime is aimed at an audience in their teens to early twenties at most (and the otaku that place themselves outside of time), but Basquash feels like it skews young nonetheless. I had a very similar reaction to Oban Star Racers, which was also directed by Thomas Romain who’s working on Basquash with Kawamori - it was a beautiful show, but squarely for ten to twelve year olds.

Thankfully, I’m no longer twelve.

(I had really bad hair when I was twelve. Full-on bowl cut. ’twas a horror.)

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Fullmetal Alchemist - Brotherhood - 01

post from Xebek?s Blog on 07 April 2009 05:25:00 PM. © Xebek?s Blog

Ed and Al must try and stop the Ice Alchemist who has turned his anger onto the city of Central.

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Tears to Tiara is

post from Kurogane's Anime Blog on 07 April 2009 04:00:03 PM. © Kurogane's Anime Blog

… HAHAHAHAHAHA LOL SO DRAMATIC!!!Well, for me and those who have played through the game, the anime sure does make the awakening scene extra melodramatic. But it’s not bad, not bad at all. Man I can’t wait to watch the next episode now. And Riannon really has some FABULOUS hat in this version. Much prefer [...]

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paint it red

post from blog?? on 07 April 2009 03:00:00 PM. © blog??

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Valkyria Chronicles 01

Summary:Back in the day, greedy Darksen hogged all the resources until he shishkabob’ed by Valkyria and her flaming blue spear. In the present, the East Uropean Imperial Alliance and the Atlantic Federation are at war over the mineral, Ragnite. Since Gallia has tons of Ragnite, the Imperial Army is marching in and it’s [...]

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Pizza Hut in my Soaring Cake

Heh, good to see even Pizza Hut’s in Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo. As expected from Sunrise, they lurve their pizzas. On another note, plot getting thicker and thicker in Sorakake. Srsly, the first good (in a positive way) series from Sunrise in a while. I am surprised to learn that Honoka is >50 years old [...]

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