Monthly Archives: May 2011

Sai Mecha Round 2 Voters Guide: BURN IN HELL WITH OBAMA, HITLER, AND STALIN by ghostlightning SPQR

Over the course of this tournament I have discovered the remarkable range of perversion, bad sense, and full retardation of people who watch anime with robots in them. I find myself rather alone, unique, special in that I actually vote … Continue reading

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Cho Jikuu Yosai Macross (13-16) Unwelcome Home

There is an interesting set of parallels that takes place in these episodes. The episodes themselves give both a feel of winding down (a set of stories) and setting up the next big events. The parallels we see consist of … Continue reading

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The Ghosts of The Flower Whose Name We—alshdlghldshlhhglg DAT ANARU ANIME (AnoHana something something)

Rightly or wrongly I’ve lumped two shows together this season for their melodramatic conceits and their eye-popping character designs for some of their female characters: Hanasaku Iroha, and AnoHana. It’s also unfair because Iroha has more than one eye-popping character … Continue reading

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Cho Jikuu Yosai Macross (09-12) Everything is in Place

The pendulum swings wildly in these four episodes, both in terms of mood and of production quality. SDFM has always had major problems with character designs going off-model (something that happens in TV editions all the way to Macross Frontier … Continue reading

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