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Sing till the dawn

Zyl — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:43:06 +0000

I was LOL when Yuki took out the kiddie electronic keyboard with microphone. And when she started belting out 'Paradise Lost' against the simplified tune, I just lost it. Great seiyuu in-joke. And that Ga-Rei Zero OP song was my second favourite thing from the series. Other songs I'd love to hear on the Yuki Minfong Ho repetorie would be Junpaku Sanctuary, mokutt minami growing (LOL) and, of course, Yuki, Muon, Madobe nite. Suggestions for duet with Achakura?

But I was still surprised that a song from an anime by another studio (in this case, AIC Spirits & asread). Yeah I know KyoAni did that too for the Lucky Star EDs with the closed karaoke room door but I don't think those were recent anime. Paradise Lost was comparatively much more recent. Other animes, like Hayate no Gotoku, seem to take great pains only to sample its own music - minimize royalty payouts and maximize pimpage of own stuff?

Big Mo’/slow mo

Zyl — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:36:52 +0000

In US politics, having the Big Mo' (momentum) has sweep candidates to power. But the British have a saying: 'A week is a long time in politics.' Likewise, for anime series, momentum can diminish, even disappear, over the span of a week or two.

To Aru no Majutsu no Index

My former hot favourite, it has been weighed down by extended dialogue, conversation, exposition. I'm moderating my expectations and buying into Aroduc's forecast of 'another episode or two of mediocrity before it gets good for 6-8 episodes and then finishes sort of awkwardly.' And his proposed solution. But that's for another post.

ToraDora

Though Stripey has abandoned this series, Evirus's title hit the nail on the head WRT to how this series has made a strong comeback. Ami's definitely the missing spice all this while, a catalyst that has speeded up and enriched the inter-chara dynamics. Loved her speech to her stalker that personality doesn't matter if She's Got The Look. But it's precisely because of it's the Power of her Dark Side that I'm looking forward to forthcoming episodes.

Kannagi

The lead-in and build-up have been pretty consistent. We're introduced to the core relationship between Nagi and Jin first. The rest of the cast gets inducted at a reasonable pace and we're starting to see the complete ensemble bounce off each other in credible and enjoyable ways.

Ga-rei Zero

Interesting use of the 'starting in the middle' device for the first two episodes and then going back chronologically to lead back up to the climatic point at the end of the second episode. I'll like how it's been handled thus far; we know how where all this is going to lead to but we don't know how. The details of everyday life and relationships become ominous signs for the coming avalanche.

The voice was struggling to articulate words that Maxi heard without realising they were a warning: they were foretelling the radical change that his life was about to undergo. It is normal he did not understand this, because these discreet signs that destiny sends us can only be read with the passage of time, when it is already too late for them to act as a proper warning...

Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Moldavian Pimp

And what a pumped up Minorin OP!

Mouryou no Hakou

This is very disorientating, there's definitely strong momentum but it doesn't seem to obey the normal laws of physics. And, the possibility of yuri aside, I seem to be drawn to it for the exact same reasons that Author is repelled by it.

Well, I did enjoy The King in Yellow precisely because it was macabre, dripping with peeling decay, the vanished echo of lost glory and the crying and laughter of mental illness. Certainly agree with Keiri that this is the dark gem of fall.

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Pushing this Zaku's buttons

Zyl — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:34:07 +0000

Given how Stripey and I like to discuss anime, we often skirmish to get the other to pick up a series he wasn't otherwise going to watch. The shima-shima tanuki can claim a victory for the fall season WRT Ga-Rei Zero.

Stripey: Pick up leh. Exciting story, good chara design, supernatural battle!
Zyl: I got bike prejudice. Aroduc says it's slowing down too.

Stripey: Shocking twist at the end of Ep 1.
Zyl: *suspicious* Oooooh no, not your KimiNozo Ep 2 trick again.

Stripey: It's by asread. You liked SHUFFLE!, right?
Zyl: *sceptical* But Minami Ke Okawari wasn't that good.

Stripey: *sigh* Got yuri between two main characters.
Zyl: Ga-rei release. Byakuei, eat up all the yuri.

P.S. I'm also kinda getting the feeling that Kiri-chan has the hots for Chairwoman Jinguuji. GG!