Guilty Crown – Ep22

Well, that’s over. A rather bland and forgettable show on the overall. If anything, my thoughts on this series can be summarized in four sentences:

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Fate/Zero – Ep 01

I was drawn to ufotable only because of Kara no Kyoukai. I haven’t really watched much of the studio’s productions. Of the few I have seen, they were rather forgettable; not bad, but neither memorable. That aside, the first episode of Fate/ Zero certainly looks really promising and it resembles Kara no Kyoukai in more [...]

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Gintama – ep 218: Nostalgia’d

Oh wow, an Ikkyu-san reference? Even though Gintama has been known to have shout-outs of a whole bunch of obscure stuffs, it is still kind of a pleasant surprise to see such an old series being mentioned. Good times, I used to really enjoy that series – I even had the VCD set in Chinese [...]

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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu 2nd Season – episode 2

This episode was disappointing.

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Gintama’ – ep212

Real man drink Strawberry Milk.

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Gintama – ep204

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Gintama – ep203: Repercussion of Effort

- there’s some obvious upgrades in terms of animation quality (let’s see how long they can keep this up. – gosh, even though I’m following the manga as well, seeing it in anime again doesn’t reduce the enjoyment value. – in hindsight, I’m berating myself for not expecting Gintoki to be the only one unaffected, [...]

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Gintama – ep202

It’s been barely a year and the cast is back! Right of the bat, the episode begins with the usual medium awareness dialogues that fans are already familiar with… but wait! What’s that, a white background? Those lazy animators, give us back our signature Still Image of the Yorozuya dammit! Time is a funny thing. [...]

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anime of 2010: fav series poll & summary

It’s here again: the poll for fav series @ anime-source.com In the meantime, I’ll just make a summary post of sort for titles I’ve watched.

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[Bakuman - Ep01] The spiral paradox of meta-fiction

‘sup dawg, we heard you like meta-fiction, so we wrote a manga about people writing manga, so now you can read a manga about how they are writing a manga to get you to read it while they are writing it. heh.

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