I typically have no interest in anime whose title can be translated as “My little sister can’t be this cute,” but since it was going to be Anime News Network’s first simulcast, I decided to give it a go. Not only is it short, but I could watch it for free legitimately, so why not?
{October 10, 2010}
Oreimo — Episode 1
{April 17, 2010}
Emma — Episode 6
Another reason I’m wanting to get back into Emma (aside from loving it) is that I’m in the middle of reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. While Emma doesn’t feel nearly as frivolous as that particular novel, there are enough similarities that I’m craving more of the same. I typically don’t just love classic novels, but for once I’m eating it up. Perhaps because I can actually understand it–the dialects used in Bronte novels are just incomprehensible for me.
{April 17, 2010}
Emma — Episode 5
I’ll admit it. It’s been 1.5 years since I watched this episode. All I have going for me are some hard-to-read notes and the screencaps I took while watching. This post will be fairly cursory–I just didn’t want to waste the lovely screencaps I have. Once I write up for 5 & 6 (also watched back in autumn 2008), perhaps I’ll finally get back to watching this series that I was loving so dearly.
{November 16, 2009}
Maison Ikkoku — Episodes 53-56
Just a quick post here, as it’s been a few weeks since I watched these episodes.
{October 3, 2009}
Ah! My Goddess–Episode 10
I finally found an episode that really seemed to work. Yes, Keiichi and Belldandy are nauseatingly sweet, but at least there was some actual direction involved.
{October 3, 2009}
Ah! My Goddess–Episode 9
I had originally planned on really trying to give this episode a chance. I’ve been harsh about this series. Unfortunately, that plan had to go unused, because this episode was just a mismash of complete incoherence.
{September 30, 2009}
Ah! My Goddess–Episode 8
It’s taken me a month to work up the will to stomach another episode of this. Alas, Urd did nothing for the series.
{August 29, 2009}
Maison Ikkoku — Episode 52
It’s been entirely too long since I last watched an episode of this series. Episode 52 was a great one to pick it up with though. Kyoko at her finest. Then again, when is Kyoko not at her finest?
{August 28, 2009}
Ah! My Goddess — Episode 7
I’m going to slightly alter what my husband said to me while I was watching this episode to make it a bit less tacky. Belldandy has gone beyond vapid to the point where I’m beginning to wonder if she isn’t mentally handicapped. It’s not cute. It’s not even funny. It’s just painful to watch her act so stupidly–particularly when she’s perfectly capable in most other settings. Naivity can be a very fun characteristic to work with, but when taken too far, it just piles on the misery.
Next episode will bring in Skuld and Urd, but I have little hope. I’m not sure even Hisakawa can rescue this train wreck.
Oh, and why is the art and animation so cheap and ugly? It’s not that old of a show, given the manga’s popularity, surely that had something of a budget to work with. Right? I guess not…
{August 9, 2009}
Kanon–Episodes 17 & 18
I’ll admit, I didn’t particularly enjoy the end of the Mai arc. It felt very forced and out of place. Shiori’s arc, on the other hand…
