The Umineko anime is filled with AIDS
By Moogy on July 1, 2009
Good Parts
- Koshimizu and Horie’s performances
- The OP song
Bad Parts
- Everything else
Especially Bad Parts
- Natsuhi’s gigantic Dragonaut tits
- The awful pacing that makes it incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t played the game. Seriously, it just jumps around to random scenes and doesn’t even bother to introduce any of the characters. Good luck figuring out what the hell is going on.
- The terrible directing and low production values. The directing is rather hilariously insipid during the discussions between the adults in particular.
- Beato being visible on Ep 1 gameboard. This will probably confuse people later when Battler denies Beato’s existence, because people are dumbasses and will be like “WELL I SAW HER!!!”
- The OP animation, ED animation, and ED song. The OP animation is literally still frames, the ED animation is very… uninspired, and the ED song is Kinzou singing.
- Inconsistent and generally ugly character designs. There was no need to give everyone a boob job. At least Rosa’s chest looks pretty decent… I weep for the Siestas, Stakes, Bern, and 34, though.
- Complete failure at using music properly. At least they used ZTS at all, I guess.
This was rather more of a debacle than I was expecting, to be honest. I don’t really have any more hope for seeing cool stuff later on, but I’m obviously going to watch this trainwreck from beginning to end anyway.
By the way, the anime could be entirely redeemed if DEEN changes the ED animation to Kinzou shredding on a guitar for a minute and a half.
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Umi Monogatari is pretty interesting
By Moogy on June 26, 2009
Grab our subs here, on my recommendation.
I agreed to edit this show on a whim because it’s produced by ZEXCS.
Fortunately, I ended up enjoying the first episode quite a bit. I think the writing is pretty clever, and all of the main characters are pretty likable. It’s a bit hard to pin down the genre, though - it’s apparently billed as a “transforming mahou shoujo action” series, but this episode was decidedly downtempo until the ending.
Production values are above-average, as expected from ZEXCS at this point, really. Funny how they’ve turned things around since H2O… The character designs, color palette, and art in general are all very attractive, as well. I think they really managed to nail the aesthetics and atmosphere, if nothing else.
It has Hocchan turning in a very well-done performance, too, if that’s your thing.
Anyway, it looks like we’ll actually see what this show is all about in the next episode, so maybe I should hold off with my recommendation until then. I’m quite optimistic at this point, though.
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Reasons to fap to episode 12 of Hayate s2:
By Moogy on June 22, 2009
- The animation seen from 1:07 onward in this video. (Key animator’s homepage)
You will note that this list does not include Hinagiku herself! I am such a damn rebel.
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Informative Summer 2009 Preview Post
By Moogy on June 18, 2009
Or rather, I’ll just post what I find interesting and why. Read the rest of this entry »
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Umineko Ep 4 Theories/Speculation
By Moogy on June 9, 2009
Spoilers, duh.
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I like making things alternative
By Moogy on June 1, 2009
This is probably a very specific brand of humor. I wonder if anyone except me subscribes to it.
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IIDX has hold notes now
By Moogy on May 26, 2009
Dear god. What is Konami thinking!? Are we going to be playing O2Jam arcade version now!?
Well, it’s probably not that drastic, but I dunno how such a huge change in the way charts are constructed will fare at this point. I mean… 17 styles in and you’re adding an entirely new mechanic? I guess it’s better than DDR’s shit, though.
But I dunno. Not to be all gloom and doom, but this might spell the end of IIDX. It’s a shitty gimmick that should only exist in IIDX knockoffs, not the game itself. Konami is running out of ideas after sixteen damn iterations, I guess.
EDIT: Well, hmm, it looks like only certain songs have them. I guess if they relegate them to BPM gimmick status, it’s all right…? As long as there are only 10 songs per style with them or so, it wouldn’t be too bad. There’s also some shit called “backspin scratches” but idk wtf.
In other news, I was pretty surprised by the fact that Asura Cryin’ 07 actually took a bit of time out from the insanity to explain just what the hell was going on. Slightly, at least. It’s more like they were whetting the audience’s appetite for real explanations, I suppose. But still, surprising!
Also, Natsu no Arashi 08 has actually prompted me to talk about it. Astounding. I really thought the humor in this episode was top-notch, especially the argument about the god damn spoiled milk - I laughed my ass off at that. I also enjoy how Shaft can make a show that bounces between time-traveling WW2 romantic drama and reverse trap bodyswap shenanigans without missing a beat or evoking a sense of incongruity.
Regios 20 wasn’t as crazy as 18 or 19, but it was still quite enjoyable. You know, I wouldn’t be very surprised if this show continued past two cours or was already scheduled for a second season already, given the pacing. I really don’t think they can wrap everything up in four episodes. In fact, I’m just gonna say that they can’t.
I rewatched Cosprayers and watched Smash Hit with some friends this week. We’re gonna try and finish up the trilogy of shit with Love Love? pretty soon. It’s been… fun, I suppose. As fun as subjecting oneself to some of the most horrendous anime ever made can be. But, then again, I’m no stranger to that by now…
Guess that’s it for now. I should pick up Cross Edge or something, I’ve been wanting to play an RPG recently.
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Spring 2009 Revisited: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore the Haruhi
By Moogy on May 21, 2009
So I guess there’s a popular new episode of something out? Well, whatever.
Really, I just wanted an excuse to use the Dr. Strangelove title thing. Even though it fucks up my blog layout quite badly, it would appear.
Last night I stayed up until like 7 am watching LP videos of SO2 voiced by a cute Japanese girl (or, rather, a Japanese girl with a cute voice) on Nico. Woo.
Anyway, I’m gonna talk a bit about the shows I’m following at the moment. This includes two shows that are still running from Winter 2009; forgive me for the incredibly misleading title of this post.
Really, I think Spring 2009 is the best season in quite a while. It can’t quite stack up to Fall 2007, because that featured both CLANNAD (s1, admittedly) and ef memo, but I think it takes the cake for sheer prevalence of good shit.
And I guess you could consider this post my picks of the good shit?
So, without further ado, I present my full thoughts on everything I am following at the moment, in no particular order at all: Read the rest of this entry »
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aaaaaaaa too much anime
By Moogy on May 16, 2009
so tired
why are there so many good shows this season, i can’t possibly watch this much!
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What’s Nitro+ up to?
By Moogy on May 11, 2009
Nitro+ has put a bunch of their albums up for download on an English anime-fanbase oriented music distribution site.
This wouldn’t be terribly notable in and of itself, but look at what they put up… a bunch of OSTs spanning their entire back catalogue, from Phantom to Sumaga. And every game has both an official English name and an English summary (written in actual English - take note, MangaGamer)! Now, it’s probably too hasty to say that they plan on localizing any of their titles, but this is certainly an interesting turn of events.
I’ll definitely be keeping my eyes open for more news regarding Nitro+ reaching out to the western market.
Oh, and if you guys really are planning on localizing your games, I’ve got a bunch of people who would be willing to help you. We’ve even done some of your work for you already!
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