Chris's Personal Wiki Commentshttps://cks.mef.org/space/?atomcommentsDWiki2020-01-03T22:58:06ZRecent comments in Chris's Personal Wiki.By Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Fall2019Abandonedtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2019Abandoned:2d4007adb7cfe3c8a68e34455f443c6b42fa7861Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I think it's actually been more manga than anything else that's been
eating my time (and I intend to write an entry on that). For some
reason it's just easier to burn through a bunch of time reading
manga (online) than it is to sit down and watch episodes.</p>
</div>2020-01-03T22:58:06ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Fall2019Abandonedtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2019Abandoned:63e636ad418ae47909807b57be32cbdcdb7f804aAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>Being consumed by the Gaming Borg is rather common. Still sad.</p>
</div>2020-01-03T22:14:39ZBy Vinny on /rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriEndingWordstag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriEndingWords:722c8d800a5e90aaee9545a3cafcae70662ca07cVinny<div class="wikitext"><p>I agree with this take. It spells out especially well the feeling of decline around the Cantu society. To me what the show did best was starting from a position of "these pretty kids are the oppressed ones who are going to rebel" and then start letting incongruities seep in in regards to how the heroes would brutally kill thousands of queerats with smiles on their faces if it helped them achieve some goal expeditiously, and how they accepted their own status quo more and more, eventually spelling out the true message in the last episode. There is a message there for Western audiences in how we look at the rest of the world.</p>
<p>The queerats, despite their strange colony life, have a boisterousness that a healthy society needs, even without their democratic tendencies. If there is a future it is with them. The one out the Cantu ancestors might have had was to limit themselves while not messing with the non PK genome, striking out as gentically pacifist wizards. It would even have been better to voluntarily end their line without procreating. Instead they formed a society living in paranoia both within and without and doomed to die in a small matter of time.</p>
</div>2018-01-13T02:37:51ZBy DP on /rtblog/anime/MadeInAbyssAndPaintag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/MadeInAbyssAndPain:c160678fda75b3558fcfa46efc06d6b90984952fDP<div class="wikitext"><p>While I can admire the general artistry and effort put into the production of Made in Abyss, personally, I find the narrative itself pretty cold and off-putting. Even setting aside the questionable use of what amounts to child torture in its recent episodes, while the artwork has been consistently engaging, the actual story-telling has been fairly clinical and oddly specific. For me, at least, Riko's detailed narrations about various aspects of the Abyss haven't amounted to effective world-building, but rather, a kind of distancing and detachment from the both the characters and their adventure. It's like the show is holding the viewer at arm's length, over-explaining things to the point where I'm watching it as some kind of fantastical nature show, rather than as the journey of discovery I'm assuming it's intended to be.</p>
</div>2017-09-16T08:01:04ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Winter2017Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2017Midway:095a46128c800a21b0ab387b086006b050540820Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>My notes from <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/Winter2017FirstEpisodes">my first episode tweets</a> say
that I didn't bother watching the first episode of Minami on the grounds
that it apparently had too little actual biking. I've watched people
watching it on Twitter and while there are some interesting biking bits
(including apparently a flashback to 70s era bicycle touring in Japan),
my impression is that the amount of interesting biking is still way too
low compared to <em>Long Riders</em> (where a lot of most episodes has the cast
bicycling or very close to it).</p>
</div>2017-03-13T05:39:26ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Winter2017Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2017Midway:2fe7432eb761817173bf7a5807b96b8b0e9b07b0Author<div class="wikitext"><p>You are not watching Minami Kamakura Girl's Bicycle Club?! Burned out from the previous season, I guess.</p>
</div>2017-03-13T05:01:11ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/YomigaeruSoraPraisetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/YomigaeruSoraPraise:35047c35ed99cf8e9ffdbb02aed864c68ff15f5fAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>Lawson liked it, back in June 2006. But my database says "Pilgrimage. Contrieved."</p>
</div>2017-01-02T18:37:00ZBy Plain Pasta on /rtblog/anime/BikeLightsInAnimetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/BikeLightsInAnime:1ef0bc25f47663c9e007916ef95b7161871c9afaPlain Pastahttps://plainpastaandplainrice.wordpress.com<div class="wikitext"><p>I'd say that lights on road bikes are pretty common in Australia too. I believe that it's not only legally required, but also enforced, though of course that doesn't stop people from not doing it (it also doesn't stop them from riding on the wrong side of the road, not wearing a helmet (also legally required here), or not dismounting if using the pedestrian crossing at traffic lights without a specially marked bicycle crossing). Generally speaking though, those who are serious about cycling normally do have lights. It may be a bit different for people who use their bikes to race, but I mostly know people who cycle to commute and tour, but still use a road bike as it's easy to go faster and smoothly travel long distances.</p>
</div>2017-01-02T13:34:37ZBy Don on /rtblog/anime/AncientMagusBrideMangaPraisetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/AncientMagusBrideMangaPraise:3e7820bbae8f11405c79ec429d9fb3787dc30b23Donhttp://shuffly.net/zoop/<div class="wikitext"><p>I haven't read the manga, but even so the OVA worked well for me. I enjoyed it very much and would rate it one of the two best shows I've seen this year. (The other is Flip Flappers.)</p>
</div>2016-12-23T03:13:05ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Summer2016FirstEpisodestag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Summer2016FirstEpisodes:daed14bdcb0aeeb7f5e08c3e72c4e996882b8471Author<div class="wikitext"><p>The S&L has super annoying issues with art. Looks like they blew almost all of their attention budget on the little runt, left a bit for the JK, and the dad teacher got nuthin'. Also, I looked at the manga spoilers, and it's unfinished. We're going to get another annoying SoL with no ending, it seems.</p>
<p>Syki is a riot of hilarity and I'm super hooked. It's like Handa-kun with a future.</p>
<p>Agree about Planetarian.</p>
<p>The LoveLive Sunshine was pretty great after 3 episodes. The funny part is yes, it repeats the original, but it's like a new release of your favourite app that fixes bugs. I can't wait to see if the new crew ever interact with Muse.</p>
</div>2016-07-19T15:21:24ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midway:e8aef6e3b9fafeb9c636a1038c74454846ecefb0Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I tried out <em>Dagashi Kashi</em> at the start of the season and found that
it wasn't for me (mentioned <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/Winter2016Brief">here</a>). I didn't look at
<em>Galko-chan</em> initially for various reasons, but I've since heard a bunch
of praise for it (including from you) so I may try it out even though it's
in <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/OrdinaryLifeSettings">a setting that doesn't usually work for me</a>.</p>
<p>(In general I have an irrational blind spot where it comes to shorts;
I almost never seriously consider them regardless of nominal setting,
genre, and so on. This is a mistake given things like <em>Galko-chan</em>
and <em>Pupipo!</em>.)</p>
</div>2016-03-09T15:35:07ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midway:14fc135dd8a97df893743589de474fcc35256cd8Author<div class="wikitext"><p>I follow Galko and Dagashi, neither of which is mentioned.</p>
</div>2016-03-09T07:31:16ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midway:f2adbb5e1b081626b07b1681e4ba8bb2f1c8d203Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I think you can have good fights without the girls being more than scrubs;
it's a matter of staging and animation and so on. <em>Grimgar</em> is a great
example of this in my opinion; the early fights go terribly for the
protagonists, who are very bad at it, but they are exciting to watch.
Although I have have bad expectations, the <em>Maho Girls Precure!</em> fights
just felt flat and straightforward and very stock magical girl show in
a way.</p>
<p>(I'll have to watch some Precure movies at some point, since I've heard
lots of praise for various ones.)</p>
</div>2016-03-07T00:19:08ZBy Evirus on /rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2016Midway:eb5498e26e90ba31b44612678910548170016489Evirushttp://karmaburn.com<div class="wikitext"><p>Go! Princess Precure aside, the early episodes of each Precure franchise tend NOT to have good fights, because the girls are all still scrubs. In contrast, take a look at the final three-ish episodes of Max Heart or Splash Star, or the first two All Stars DX movies.</p>
</div>2016-03-06T23:52:24ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Winter2016Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2016Brief:42784f4731672cd7ce23ac2a881d0e9ad2317fa0Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Although it was LN-based and not exceptional, I found <em>Asterisk</em> to
be a fully enjoyable show that was well put together, engaging, and
decently well written. The base may have been generic and nothing that
we haven't seen before, but its execution definitely elevated it into
something that I quite liked. <em>Luck & Logic</em> is basically <em>Asterisk</em>
but without that elevation; there is nothing objectionable (unlike
various LN-based shows that do have terrible aspects, such as <em>Heavy
Object</em>), but its lack of any particular spark makes it flat, bland,
and fundamentally generic and disposable.</p>
<p>(I ranked <em>Asterisk</em> as my third rated show in the fall season <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/Fall2015Retrospective">here</a>; see <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/Fall2015Midway">also</a>.)</p>
</div>2016-01-25T02:17:57ZBy El Goopo on /rtblog/anime/Winter2016Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2016Brief:fe9bac9dcaf5f80109f73ae92fc06b08e139e355El Goopo<div class="wikitext"><p>>Watching this makes it clear just how much of a standout last season's Asterisk was.</p>
<p>Care to elaborate? Or is this just brilliant sarcasm that I failed to catch somehow?</p>
</div>2016-01-25T01:44:02ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/TsunderesAndTransiencetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/TsunderesAndTransience:387674ce5e72de3886b45c3ac91224c55f871741Author<div class="wikitext"><p><a href="http://zaitcev.livejournal.com/95033.html:">http://zaitcev.livejournal.com/95033.html:</a> "Akane, in a way, may be considered the origin of all tsunderes."</p>
</div>2015-11-03T02:08:42ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Winter2015Retrospectivetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Winter2015Retrospective:fc077ba9d8efe101418de2851921e01a77b0379dAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>Maria.V.W sounds like that episode of Power Puff Girls where girls get addicted to candy. The story follows them along the descent into the pit and then 3 minutes before ends the director remembers that this is a kids show and magic happens.</p>
</div>2015-04-14T03:04:36ZBy lesterf1020 on /rtblog/anime/MushishiFirstVsSecondSeasontag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/MushishiFirstVsSecondSeason:4009ef1506d361282ca605a594c82241c4ceef17lesterf1020<div class="wikitext"><p>I prefer the first season to the second as well but for a different reason. The first season was largely about the mushi and indirectly Ginko. There were many amazing scenes in the first season where people simply had to come to terms with the bizarre situations that mushi put them in. In short the star of the first season was the mushi and many of those stories could not take place without them.</p>
<p>The second season is largely about mundane human problems that happen to have a mushi's involvement. Several of those tales like the "red tide" episode didn't need mushi at all. A slight rewrite could have eliminated the mushi altogether. In short for most of the second season mushi were essentially minor characters. I thus found the whole thing far less engaging.</p>
</div>2015-02-05T17:05:52ZBy TheBigN on /rtblog/anime/LogHorizonWeakSpottag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/LogHorizonWeakSpot:c2e323ea79849c2b4a932ea4afa23d043886ec2cTheBigNhttp://bignanime.wordpress.com<div class="wikitext"><p>Well, part of what the show is trying to note is that Akatsuki doesn't really have much experience in things like romance, love, etc. (partially because of how her appearance in real life, like that in Elder Tales, is younger than she actually is). And to her, something like Minori's crush on Shiroe is actually a major threat, regardless of whether or not this actually true. If Akatsuki was a little more versed in this sort of thing, I'm pretty sure that the show would drop this thing quickly, but it's part of her character. Akatsuki still needs to grow up in a bunch of ways.</p>
</div>2015-01-12T17:33:24ZBy Hogart on /rtblog/anime/LogHorizonWeakSpottag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/LogHorizonWeakSpot:aaf38e6e304aebee3631acb9b4d70d3e12a58654Hogart<div class="wikitext"><p>To be honest, the story needed some real planning and possibly a rewrite to truly shine. The pieces for something great are there, but by season two of the anime it becomes clear that Minori really is the least of Log Horizon's problems. Unlike Akatsuki she actually has an arc that doesn't involve simply crushing on Shiroe, with a decent buildup and payoff. And even then basically all the material in season two so far has been poorly executed, and it's sad that it's not just another convenient case of "blame Deen for everything bad".</p>
</div>2014-12-29T01:21:42ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Fall2014Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2014Midway:6cc57f5e5263a1597a0d87d66792892d1db3ad71Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>If you mean KimiUso, I've been hearing that too. On the other hand I've
heard that it's a teenaged (melo)drama bomb of major proportions and
one has to be prepared to live with the overwrought results in order to
watch the show. I'm not sure I'm up to that; I usually have relatively
little patience for overwrought teenage romance melodrama.</p>
<p>(Still, it's kind of tempting. I always want to find more good stuff
to watch and it gets <a href="http://re-jinx.me/2014/11/28/supplementaries-thoughts-on-shigatsu-wa-kimi-no-uso/">such praise</a>.
I may give in to the temptation to watch at least the first episode to
see if against all odds it works for me.)</p>
</div>2014-12-03T06:17:19ZBy A on /rtblog/anime/Fall2014Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2014Midway:842b0c54955dc33dc33d9a96ea1126794bb6cadbA<div class="wikitext"><p>ShiUso was getting heavily positive press recently.</p>
</div>2014-12-03T05:43:27ZBy A on /rtblog/anime/Fall2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2014Brief:96095ca62f3d4614e3e4715782f7e6af6f48e673A<div class="wikitext"><p>You lost nothing by not watching Denki-gai, but I thought it was prominent enough to be at least listed among the rejects. Also, your excuse for dropping it is quite unusual.</p>
</div>2014-10-29T00:24:26ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Fall2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2014Brief:e7a0bb3249134a0f2ef76149a01e8d4689111f40Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Denki-gai falls into <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/OrdinaryLifeSettings">my historical lack of success with shows that have
an ordinary life setting</a>, and also it didn't get
particularly glowing praise from what I saw.</p>
</div>2014-10-28T19:28:34ZBy A on /rtblog/anime/Fall2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Fall2014Brief:00231b2f8c312cb4236d746b79abc89d0039f62eA<div class="wikitext"><p>No Denki-gai?</p>
</div>2014-10-28T18:41:13ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/JoshirakuInterestingtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/JoshirakuInteresting:d4f4485768d074fcadd009b97388554865385feaChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I haven't tried it raw because I'm don't have any sort of even low level
BRW skill. The extent of my ability to handle raw Japanese is basically
nonexistent; I can recognize a common word here and there (if I'm lucky)
and that's about it.</p>
</div>2014-09-21T04:16:47ZBy Pete on /rtblog/anime/JoshirakuInterestingtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/JoshirakuInteresting:4d235342840fd409a3f94f43ffbffaafcfe0bde6Pete<div class="wikitext"><p>Did you try it raw? It's a riot even for low level BRW. I mostly rewatch it raw nowadays, even though I plainly don't understand half.</p>
</div>2014-09-21T03:33:25ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Summer2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Summer2014Brief:a12c7e1b9bcbbdad3355d5916bc57ead87805c69Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Basically, the idea of a show about people climbing mountains appeals to
me, especially if it's geeky about the equipment and the process and so
on. The problem with the first season of <em>Yama no Susume</em> was that it
didn't have enough of this side of things and was more CGDCT. But it did
have flashes of it, with a surprising amount of time spent on equipment
and so on.</p>
<p>(This is pretty much the same impetus that made me watch some of
<em>C3-bu</em>. To put it one way, I'm okay with 'cute girls doing something
interesting'.)</p>
</div>2014-07-23T23:32:25ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Summer2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Summer2014Brief:491c0d6f37127168f40c5339536148bbca57d37bAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>I don't see what makes Yama no Susume any different from CGDCT series that you "historically did not enjoy".</p>
</div>2014-07-23T23:00:48ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Spring2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Spring2014Brief:efd09b70606a8036af14a893c17a79d1477405d2Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I haven't looked at either because they're both in genres that almost
never work for me, Gochiusa in 'cute girls doing cute things' and
Mangaka-san in whatever you want to call it (it doesn't seem to be
quite exactly 'harem comedy' but that seems close).</p>
</div>2014-04-23T01:48:58ZBy A on /rtblog/anime/Spring2014Brieftag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Spring2014Brief:a7f2221e32b4116d3059bd4efd2bef3976363a94A<div class="wikitext"><p>No opinion on Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka and Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to?</p>
</div>2014-04-23T00:16:02ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Memorable2005tag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Memorable2005:b3143c3493c568403e544706dd35f2daa9788bc6Author<div class="wikitext"><p>I don't think Kamichu decays by the end, but rather than it decays by ep.3. The ending is okay.</p>
</div>2014-02-08T15:52:42ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Memorable2004tag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Memorable2004:c908be5423260acfa48e75676b445e5767aab509Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I can't remember if J2 starts with a quick reminder of J1, but even
if it does I suspect a new watcher would miss at least some of the
relationships and not fully know who some characters are. I'm sure that
they'd miss a number of subtle nuances; for example, if you've never
seen J1, some of the things that Jiyu does in J2 will not make you
twitch anywhere near as much as they did for me (and bits of J2 will
seem more unjustifiable than I think they actually are).</p>
</div>2014-01-19T01:16:56ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Memorable2004tag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Memorable2004:812cb748fa965e40f3b05fae0d042801b17f7aa0Author<div class="wikitext"><p>Of course J2 can be watched by itself. Could be even better that way.</p>
</div>2014-01-18T02:40:43ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/FlashbackProblemtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/FlashbackProblem:f8e563e5c6373d7b1483a7475891a1d09faebac4Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Assuming that you mean episode 15 (based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RahXephon_episodes">Wikipedia's episode list</a>), my memory is
that it didn't so much lose the momentum as not give me a clear reason
to care about it. Doing a whole-episode flashback in an episodic show
avoids directly breaking the momentum (assuming there's no cliffhanger
from the last episode waiting to be resolved), but in <em>RahXephon</em> it
pulled me out of the overall flow because I didn't immediately see how
the episode related to what was going on in the show.</p>
<p>(Possibly I was slow here and most people caught on immediately to who
the three kids were and that it was a flashback.)</p>
<p>I think I thought this was one of the weaker episodes of the show,
but a lot of that has to with the content more than that it was a
flashback. Even after I worked out what was going on I felt more or
less uninterested in the childhoods of all three of them and the
whole thing felt like a relatively graceless and irrelevant way to do
characterization.</p>
</div>2014-01-17T16:15:53ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/FlashbackProblemtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/FlashbackProblem:57e9117149b9743c9344853af4c648ea6583c3a8Author<div class="wikitext"><p>What about RahX 16? That one did not keep with the momentum... or did it?</p>
</div>2014-01-17T15:16:41ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/LearningFromSchoolRumbletag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/LearningFromSchoolRumble:e0941c2c0bba1ed2260335180a490dc5f0b2d0abAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>I wasn't a big fan either. Lasted for 4 episodes.</p>
</div>2014-01-06T22:08:29ZBy nothings on /rtblog/anime/CharacterDeathViewstag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/CharacterDeathViews:da84e7eeab51862d46aa2c6ee52194b5a3cd5662nothings<div class="wikitext"><p>And then there's <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClimacticBattleResurrection">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClimacticBattleResurrection</a></p>
<p>-- nothings</p>
</div>2014-01-05T20:19:03ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriRebellionMoralitytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriRebellionMorality:8a22e36b92998a97499f7a675111614934a94b52Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Setting aside the philosophical for the practical, I think that it's
far from established in the show that there is anywhere inhabitable
outside of the grasp of the Cantus humans or that the Cantus humans
consider the queerrats dispensable. Given how much work and attention
the Cantus humans devote to controlling the queerrats, I think in fact
that queerrat labour is probably quite important to the lifestyle of
Cantus humans.</p>
</div>2014-01-04T23:21:11ZBy lesterf1020 on /rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriRebellionMoralitytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriRebellionMorality:e19cead44dff136763e034766c62ba93db622ed6lesterf1020<div class="wikitext"><p>I have never been a fan of binary options. I believe that false dilemmas have lead to a great many tragedies over human history. The Quearats had many other options beside slavery or genocide, the best of which was probably simply escaping. The show established that there wasn't a very high "human" population and that there were many areas that "humans" didn't live in or were even aware of. While the humans would probably have taken action if all of the quearats fled they would not have noticed if a colony or two disappeared. If the quearats engaged in a long distance migration I find it hard to believe that the humans would have hunted them just so they could have slaves they barely needed.</p>
</div>2014-01-04T13:21:09ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Memorable2000tag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Memorable2000:0781d2c6e59eabb17f5cb14adc1ec33c01688eb0Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p><em>Dai-Guard</em>'s just out of scope for this, but I have it queued up
based on past recommendations (partly due to being directed by Seiji
Mizushima). I think you were even one of the recommendation sources.
I don't know when I'll get to it (although I did recently watch the
first episode).</p>
</div>2014-01-04T04:06:02ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Memorable2000tag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Memorable2000:2a13b8203de7c0636c669e9f5ea3a3196c43230fAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>Dai-Guard straddles 1999 and 2000.</p>
</div>2014-01-04T00:38:47ZBy lesterf1020 on /rtblog/anime/GilgameshBadViewtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/GilgameshBadView:582f8e4e534a3764b00f1e554ff6bded6efbd40dlesterf1020<div class="wikitext"><p>I agree totally! However, unlike you I can still watch the show up to the last episode and just pretend that episode didn't exist. I truly hated the ending. Not only did the heroes lose and be humiliated but the woman whose iron will kept everyone fighting just gives up, worse yet after everyone dies and the villains win outright there is a scene after the credits that even gives a middle finger to the villains who won. Ultimate nihilism.</p>
<p>You may not have noticed because the ending either angers those who are not into all out nihilism or leaves those who love everyone dies endings in glee but the ending actually produces a lot of character and logic plot holes. For example, why did the Gilgamesh spend all of that time with Kiyoko and Tatsuya when they were in the end irrelevant while ignoring the only person that mattered, the countess? For that matter why did Terumichi even want to see his kids when all he wanted to do was end all life on earth? They weren't even very powerful as users go and their eventual meeting was anything but warm. I could go on but I wont.</p>
</div>2013-12-23T20:02:47ZBy Guy on /rtblog/anime/AdaptationBlametag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/AdaptationBlame:741a76f71883d24c006cc76c0f2fe1fda6449224Guyhttp://geekorner.wordpress.com<div class="wikitext"><p>In this case, the fault lies pretty clearly with KyoAni, I'd say.</p>
<p>First, from people who've read the LNs, apparently KyoAni inserted all the comedy and witticism nonsense into the show because that's how KyoAni shows operate since Haruhi, which resulted in wildly changing the characters' nature, their relationships, and impacted our ability to take the characters and their relationships seriously - the last few episodes, save the last one, had done great work to rectifying the situation somewhat, but always fell short due to the damage that had been done by the early episodes.</p>
<p>Second, the show was full of poor directorial decisions, especially the final episode, for which you can hardly blame the LN author.</p>
<p>Third, I think the show's composition was poor, and had they re-organized the events differently we could've taken things much more seriously, considering the characters. Even if the LN is told in the same manner and order, when one adapts it, one has a choice on how to treat it, and they've made the wrong decision.</p>
<p>Fourth, we don't even know how the LN ended, but how much the final episode screamed of Sequelitis was sickening, we don't know whether the LN ended the same way, but two things to be said here - one, that's often how LNs are, and KyoAni organized an LN competition and adapted an LN knowing these things. Two, they probably emphasized the sequelitis themselves, to leave room for another season. Third and finally, they could've easily cut it out, or changing it, they own the adaptation rights, and the LN, they could've given us any ending they chose to - see my first point - they already changed the LN considerably.</p>
<p>The fault clearly lies with KyoAni, who have a serious need of a good author, but it seems even a good author might not help them, if they don't respect what they actually write and change it willy-nilly.</p>
</div>2013-12-22T18:19:09ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/AdaptationBlametag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/AdaptationBlame:b57cbc4f50ff3605d9bd014fbac02475cddb9fa0Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>To be clear: KyoAni didn't write the story, they just publish
the light novels (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Boundary">per the Wikipedia page on the series</a>).</p>
<p>I agree that KyoAni fumbled the directing of KnK as well as at least
tolerated its bad writing, but I see this as two or three different
things (directing, overall plot, and the actual script writing). If
the overall plot of the ending came from the light novels, there's
only so much that KyoAni can do to it without making major or even
drastic changes to it. On the flipside, I've now read that there's some
not insignificant differences between the light novels and the anime
(including in areas where I think KyoAni made the anime worse, such as
Mirai's early clumsy moeness). This points to KyoAni actively being to
blame for a significant amount of the writing and at least some of the
plotting.</p>
<p>(This is especially so if the light novels have not yet explained just
how the ending twist happened. KyoAni's choices then become either
to leave it unjustified or to step on the toes of the LN author by
inventing their own explanation. Of course all of this assumes that the
ending twist and several other aspects actually come from the light
novels. If they don't, oh boy is this one KyoAni's fault.)</p>
<p>But that's the specific issue for <em>Kyoukai no Kanata</em>. I find the
whole line of thought interesting in general. Can one really blame
an animation studio for 'bad writing' if they're doing a straight
adoption of a (bad) light novel, or just blame them for choosing
bad source material? I can see arguments on both sides.</p>
<p>(As for the raw layout of the blog: there's a bit of CSS sprinkled
discreetly here and there but yes, it's pretty much pure text and
pure HTML. Of course the <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/dwiki/DWiki">actual software</a> that produces it is
<a href="https://github.com/siebenmann/dwiki/">kind of heavyweight</a> by now,
but let's not look behind the curtain.)</p>
</div>2013-12-20T23:31:16ZBy Kinza Datteri on /rtblog/anime/AdaptationBlametag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/AdaptationBlame:5078d6159d4e03727b9f9cfb1549afea723a0e18Kinza Datteri<div class="wikitext"><p>I am impressed by the raw layout of your blog, I don't remember when I last saw pure html, notepad-written webpage. This or my browser just got broken.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't think that LN author is the only one at fault. You can make good adaptation of mediocre work if you are good director and have good scriptwriter. Unfortunately, the direction of KnK sucked so badly it hurts. It failed to induce any sense of attachment to characters and the story, it was just no fun at all. Nothing more than sum of its parts which is disastrous in a supposedly good and HQ show. I suppose it might've been because this was first full-time direction job for the guy.</p>
<p>If it's true KyoAni wrote this story themselves, it's even worse. They should learn from SHAFT which actually really ADAPTS LN into Anime medium - always in a unique way, always giving something extra in exchange when stories have their weaker moments. As it goes, the best of KnK are those short "I will judge you" videos, especially the one with naked Hiroomi. Those were sincere, funny and had some substance.</p>
<p>It feels like KyoAni had a leash put on them sometime around this whole Endless Eight mess. I weep for them.</p>
</div>2013-12-20T22:38:12ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/RahXephonReactionstag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/RahXephonReactions:2e4f76aa1ded1169d2405b2458fa7b85a42f8633Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Oh wow yes. The comparison didn't occur to me when I was watching
<em>RahXephon</em>, but now that you point it out that is a twitch-inducing
potential similarity (especially given <em>Gargantia</em>'s writer, <a href="http://ani-nouto.animeblogger.net/2013/12/15/gargantia/">as you
alluded to</a>).</p>
</div>2013-12-20T21:37:31ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/RahXephonReactionstag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/RahXephonReactions:01c7feb6ba8e24da34cc9992f7291a73fe9a9942Author<div class="wikitext"><p>Now you know why I almost crapped my pants when I saw Ami flying into the boss battle in the finale of Gargantia.</p>
</div>2013-12-20T17:28:26ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/Memorable2001tag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Memorable2001:30d10dd062ea5421deae7aa05b08288beecb6629Author<div class="wikitext"><p>I would not be "amazed" that enviroprop is licensed. If anything, it's the opposite. As the liberal elite rules our lives in the U.S., the "anime industry" is part and parcel of its lapdog entertainment complex, and they would force-push Arjuna even if it lost money.</p>
</div>2013-12-18T23:11:02ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/CharacterDeathViewstag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/CharacterDeathViews:08c953d84be3abc4c014810eee075cd40e879d5aAuthor<div class="wikitext"><p>Can't wait.</p>
</div>2013-12-18T19:05:01ZBy Deadlight on /rtblog/anime/Summer2013Retrospectivetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Summer2013Retrospective:8bd511b117835375f90c6f07b92860973171ac77Deadlighthttp://deadlightanime.blogspot.com<div class="wikitext"><p>I got to give Space Battle Ship Yamato a chance sometime</p>
</div>2013-10-09T03:37:56ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/WesternAnimeFuturetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/WesternAnimeFuture:c1c9b73dd5332a4a8e786fadd10e6aeae7f43660Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Sadly I'm not. I've heard that it's good and I've also heard people
suffix that with 'for an American cartoon'. My lack of knowledge
there is one reason I talked much more about manga in my first entry.</p>
<p>(There is also apparently at least one or two French cartoons that
may be on the level of anime, but in their own style.)</p>
</div>2013-09-10T01:07:29ZBy Author on /rtblog/anime/WesternAnimeFuturetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/WesternAnimeFuture:1fbd88bc013dcaba023f94c0ea74fa8fae56a0a7Author<div class="wikitext"><p>Are you familiar with Avatar (the last airbender)?</p>
</div>2013-09-10T00:59:09ZFrom 66.41.70.177 on /rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriSquealertag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ShinSekaiYoriSquealer:78c3ed86d8370caea98037a762a04059e044baa8From 66.41.70.177<div class="wikitext"><p>I actually found Shin Sekai Yori's ending to be a little painful for the very reason that Squealer died without accomplishing anything significant to his goal. He might have affected the way Saki sees things a little, which is important since she's Tomiko's replacement, but all that does is leave some vague hope that one day things might get better.</p>
<p>I agree that his actions were justified. Violence is bad, etc. but there was obviously no hope for anything to change for the queerrats through peaceful measures. The fact that they were transformed and enslaved in the first place just shows how little empathy those in power had for them. Even Kiroumaru, benevolent and loyal as he was to the humans, admitted he would have done the same if he thought he could succeed.</p>
<p>Sandra</p>
</div>2013-04-15T18:59:56ZFrom 76.113.49.212 on /rtblog/anime/InitialDUncertaintytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/InitialDUncertainty:c4cac4ccfd5f9665bf8667d5c7c5ea72dfb95ff0From 76.113.49.212<div class="wikitext"><p>My absolute favourite episode of Naruto is 22, which deals with this dichotomy among other things.</p>
</div>2013-02-11T05:48:46ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/GirlsUndPanzerSportsAnimetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/GirlsUndPanzerSportsAnime:5593adb4874088de80247770167fe61a3575fe47Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>It's an easy, bad trap for any action series to fall into (well,
any action series that has non-realistic stuff going on, which is
most of them). <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/LastExileFamBattles">I had it happen to me with <em>Last Exile - Fam</em></a> and I'm sure I've seen it in other shows too.</p>
</div>2013-01-02T04:15:51ZFrom 76.113.49.212 on /rtblog/anime/GirlsUndPanzerSportsAnimetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/GirlsUndPanzerSportsAnime:b35b574177dabe2faa6c26dd060d2a800f64ccafFrom 76.113.49.212<div class="wikitext"><p>The magical no-rules-but-the-railroad-plot combat ruined Starship Operators for me.</p>
</div>2013-01-02T03:38:25ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Sakurasou04Wishtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Sakurasou04Wish:87d748869b168ca51deab213ac7cd28378b3bf4eChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>On the exploitative cynicism issue: I call the first reading of
<em>Sakurasou</em> this not because of its premise (as you note, <em>Honey &
Clover</em> shows that the 'spacey artist' premise isn't intrinsically
that way) but because of the specific execution. To put it one way,
laundering Hagu's underwear was never even on the radar in H&C.</p>
<p>(I've seen most of H&C and I'm quite fond of it, so comparisons came
to mind right away. The first draft of the <em>Sakurasou</em> bit in <a href="https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/Fall2012Brief">my
initial season impressions</a>, written after I'd only seen
the first two episodes, contained a slam that basically said 'if the
premise sounds attractive to you, go watch H&C instead; it does this
much better'.)</p>
<p>I agree with you about general stuff around artistic drive. It seems
clear that his housemates are perfectly well aware that Sorata has been
half-assing it and coasting for a lot of his time in the house and
they're all for this changing. And the show has made it explicit that
Sorata coming to understand Mashiro is a major theme.</p>
<p>(The whole Nanami storyline is so multifaceted that I'm not sure if the
show has a single message in mind; it feels like the show is making a
bunch of points at once and some of them are deliberately at odds with
each other. It certainly didn't take the easy way out with the
conclusion.)</p>
</div>2012-12-08T01:49:09ZFrom 24.1.136.244 on /rtblog/anime/Sakurasou04Wishtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Sakurasou04Wish:9afd185002c7e0cc13b9493ff2dad303c9237f56From 24.1.136.244<div class="wikitext"><p>The first reading you bring up doesn't necessarily equate to exploitative cynicism, I don't know how much you've seen of Honey & Clover but let me try to explain.</p>
<p>H&C was a love polygon amongst a group of talented college students at an art college. One character, Hagu, decides to be with a particular person that caused a lot of grief and consternation amongst the fanbase who were pulling for another pairing to succeed. But the reason why the pair that won out in the end makes more thematic sense for that work, is because all involved in H&C understand the compulsion of artistic expression, and that pairing that won out was the one that would be most conducive to that further compulsive expression. Even if it isn't necessarily the most romantic option.</p>
<p>Shiina wishing for Sorata to succeed is indeed a sign of her wishing for his success, but I also feel it's partly for him to embrace & understand the kind of compulsion that drives her to expression. That's why when Shiina was dropped from the competition and Sorata tried to console her by saying "it didn't really matter", that wounds her more deeply than the loss itself. And Sakurasou being the collection of artists that it is, also chafe at Sorata's "consolation". It's also why Shiina was dead set on Nanami making it to her voice actress auditions despite being in failing health. An artist understands a fellow artist's suffering for their art, and the regret that would have dogged her for not going to the audition would likely have eaten at her soul even more in the long run.</p>
<p>Man, I have a LOT to say about this show...</p>
<p>-vuc</p>
</div>2012-12-07T23:55:41ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/Summer2012Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Summer2012Midway:b2a5c706caaff87954a9583e8cae6b9dc20fc31bChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I agree; out of what I'm watching, only <em>Jinrui</em> comes close to <em>AO</em> and
<em>AO</em> is ahead.</p>
<p>(It's hard for me to fairly compare the two because they are doing so
radically different things and I enjoy them in completely different
ways. But <em>AO</em> is much more compulsive watching for me and I find
<em>Jinrui</em> much more erratic and hit or miss.)</p>
</div>2012-08-28T01:46:12ZFrom 24.1.136.244 on /rtblog/anime/Summer2012Midwaytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/Summer2012Midway:95077d0da7d03d92dd7ee95eb0d863cb34097cedFrom 24.1.136.244<div class="wikitext"><p>I still contend that Eureka Seven is the best show currently airing.</p>
<p>-vucub caquix</p>
</div>2012-08-28T01:35:46ZFrom 50.88.53.61 on /rtblog/anime/GTOAnimevsLiveActiontag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/GTOAnimevsLiveAction:045a1c8acc52c540a86187143b772b3e3899026dFrom 50.88.53.61<div class="wikitext"><p>I wonder, having not read the manga, how dark and detailed that part of the story was in the source. For some reason I can understand more moderation in the animated adaptation for keeping overall tone consistency. I have a feeling the attempted date-rape was detailed in the manga but carries a serious tone that sticks out among other parts of the story. The drama may have decided to carry out the scenes to maintain the adaptation rather than the story's tone.</p>
<p>One of the things I find discouraging in fictional media is genre-shifting and tone-shifting to an extent. There's a risk of leaving the feeling that details were out of place or not belonging to a story.</p>
<p>-Ryan A</p>
</div>2012-03-19T18:52:42ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/SoraNoWotoProblemtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/SoraNoWotoProblem:4fd87ac0751849e32205a907dbedf6171ec16583Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Yeah, I've heard about that one. But in Juuden-chan it's kind of there
from the start (as I understand it) and the whole show is at that level.
Here, it's a peculiar exceptional moment in an otherwise quite safe
show that you could show to anyone without qualms.</p>
<p>(At some point I am going to write an entry about this.)</p>
</div>2012-01-17T05:24:06ZFrom 71.228.115.45 on /rtblog/anime/SoraNoWotoProblemtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/SoraNoWotoProblem:dac822f206d091b165fa6bbe40d38af74a7dec6cFrom 71.228.115.45<div class="wikitext"><p>Don't watch Charger Girl Juuden-chan, then.</p>
</div>2012-01-17T04:52:07ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/ISRevisitedIItag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ISRevisitedII:49797eb0879a4c2d87602025d2d5315a27e04539Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I noticed it on a re-read of the entry, slapped my forehead, and fixed
it.</p>
<p>(I try to do such re-reads a bit after posting for exactly this reason.)</p>
</div>2011-12-31T06:02:45ZFrom 71.228.115.45 on /rtblog/anime/ISRevisitedIItag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ISRevisitedII:221aadc7ecbdc126d03857f6dbe328ff5966f59aFrom 71.228.115.45<div class="wikitext"><p>Oh nice, Zakura is already fixed. I was pondering e-mailing about it.</p>
</div>2011-12-31T02:42:16ZFrom 71.228.115.45 on /rtblog/anime/UNGOStaffNotetag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/UNGOStaffNote:f50d0332c2aa4ad53e40599914f9f5abd9a0b403From 71.228.115.45<div class="wikitext"><p>Seiji Mizushima is the director of Dai-Guard. A well-hidden gem.</p>
</div>2011-11-19T16:13:45ZFrom 76.113.53.175 on /rtblog/anime/ISMilitarytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ISMilitary:28ed9b057be392fc5c2f41e1af31c70638ef5aa7From 76.113.53.175<div class="wikitext"><p>Apropos that, remember Stellvia? I can see Principal's friend saying one day: "Oh BTW, I have this giant robot built in secret that can destroy a (small) planet or moon... so could you keep it in your school's gym shed for me? Make sure it's well maintained and operational, in case... But please don't tell anyone. If anyone asks say it's `overspec' surplus."</p>
</div>2011-07-05T20:48:54ZFrom 24.16.57.110 on /rtblog/anime/TWGOKReactiontag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/TWGOKReaction:9cccd5e1a9c082235357f1bcca5370e849e99b3eFrom 24.16.57.110<div class="wikitext"><p><em>I think that a good part of this is that the girls don't stick around after their episode(s), and they seem to basically be interchangeable in terms of what's wrong with them.</em></p>
<p>Both of these become less true over time in the manga, though. (Unfortunately just saying this is technically a spoiler, but hopefully not a significant one.) But it seems like it would take many seasons of anime to get there (i.e. never). So if you don't like it <em>as is</em> it certainly wouldn't be worth waiting for.</p>
<p>And certainly the basic structure of a new-girl-of-the-interval with some problem for Keima to tackles remains common for quite a while, even if the way he tackles them gets some variety, and the excursions from that structure last longer. (A quick checkpoint: the third girl arc ended in manga chapter 10 and anime ep 7; scanlations are up to chapter 124. I really don't remember when we started getting things like the girls returning somewhat, the backstory, and the other less girl-of-the-week elements. It could have been chapter 20 or chapter 50 for all I know.)</p>
</div>2010-12-16T07:38:40ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/TWGOKReactiontag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/TWGOKReaction:5461836bcde87c9483d00e10ac663aa80dfb5aefChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>This is the point where I wave my hands, because what it comes
down to is that it feels like a 'girl of the time interval' show
(sensibly broken up by episodes where we do not have to be dealing
with someone's angst). I think that a good part of this is that
the girls don't stick around after their episode(s), and they seem
to basically be interchangeable in terms of what's wrong with them.
Yay, another girl that has another daemon because she has some hidden
angst or trauma.</p>
<p>I kind of want to write something coherent comparing this aspect of
TWGOK with <em>Bakemonogatari</em>, which partly has the same structure but
is, to me, much much more interesting. My current short summary of the
differences is that first, the girls in <em>Bakemonogatari</em> stick around
and (vastly) influence further stories, and second, what's 'wrong' with
them varies a lot.</p>
</div>2010-12-15T16:03:20ZFrom 24.16.57.110 on /rtblog/anime/TWGOKReactiontag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/TWGOKReaction:1a563e2739879dee827a850adabae4579acca8d3From 24.16.57.110<div class="wikitext"><p>I've been reading the manga for a while, so I tried out the anime, but it's such an exact recounting of the manga it's impossible for me to tease the two apart, and I can't even judge how the anime stands on its own.</p>
<p>In the manga, I'd say about half of the girls-to-be-conquered are interesting and about half are blah, but the manga has slowly drifted from girl-of-the-week as the mythology and Keima's character have developed, but who knows what the anime will do.</p>
<p>That said, is it really character-of-the-week? My vague recollection of the anime structure is:</p>
<p>ep 1: first girl</p>
<p>ep 2,3: second girl</p>
<p>ep 4: no girl</p>
<p>ep 5,6,7: third girl</p>
<p>ep 8: no girl</p>
<p>ep 9,10,11?: fourth girl</p>
<p>It's still an episodic "character of the week" structure in one sense, but there's enough time spent on each one that, I dunno if that's maybe oversimplifying.</p>
<p>- nothings</p>
</div>2010-12-15T14:08:27ZFrom 80.15.44.135 on /rtblog/anime/OreImoBlindnesstag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/OreImoBlindness:e62f817fc702bd406323a98bed69c2710465f690From 80.15.44.135<div class="wikitext"><p>Yes! A nice way to call that phenomenon, and I think one good thing about OreImo is how accurate the depiction of these kind of things feels while the show remains a complete (and hilarious) fantasy.</p>
</div>2010-11-07T20:33:35ZFrom 24.16.57.110 on /rtblog/anime/WhyChangeAnimeStorytag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/WhyChangeAnimeStory:b688b2f07fdfa0105c48cbfdf255bf71003200caFrom 24.16.57.110<div class="wikitext"><p>This issue for adaptation is not unique to anime, unsurprisingly. Hollywood movies and TV shows struggle with the same sort of issues when they adapt material (although some books are written in an manner that is highly adaptable).</p>
<p>If a book is written with only the internal views of one character, it is possible to adapt that to visual media by including voiceover narration of that character. This can come across horribly or cheesy, but it can work. For example, for me it works just fine in Haruhi. In fact I find a strong analogy between Haruhi and Fight Club -- I consider both to be adaptations that transcend their source material (while preserving much that is good from the sources).</p>
<p>--stb</p>
</div>2010-10-04T09:23:52ZFrom 24.242.75.248 on /rtblog/anime/ToradoraViewtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ToradoraView:dc4bfd5ede70eab1a249720500410aca77fcde7cFrom 24.242.75.248<div class="wikitext"><p><em>Taiga and Ryuuji have gone from thinking of love as something that is found to thinking of it as something that is created</em></p>
<p>Very sound way to express it, I like it.</p>
</div>2009-04-23T00:17:09ZFrom 76.113.53.58 on /rtblog/anime/RidebackViewtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/RidebackView:3f121363be14f1a0e201409a0f6fbe4fa0acf169From 76.113.53.58<div class="wikitext"><p>The significance of the "Rewatch" field is how it determines if DVDs, DTOs, or other ownable media for the show is worth buying.</p>
</div>2009-04-12T18:33:31ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /rtblog/anime/DisposableFirstEpisodestag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/DisposableFirstEpisodes:7260d253973525dc1cc270f387e7032c594dd58bChris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>On the surface Haruhi 00 matches the pattern, but I don't think of it as
one; we're seeing things that we'll only understand the significance of
later (or only if you watch it again). It's also the anchor point for the
story to expand from; in way, a lot of subsequent episodes give context
to more and more things we see in Haruhi 00.</p>
<p>But I'll admit that I can't point to anything in specific about Haruhi 00
that makes it not belong in the category (except that I would very
definitely not skip it if I watched Haruhi again).</p>
<p>(At this point I wave my hands and mumble about the episode's impact on
the experience of watching the rest of the show. DFEs have little to
no impact, while I think that Haruhi 00 has a significant impact.)</p>
</div>2009-04-10T05:45:16ZFrom 76.113.53.58 on /rtblog/anime/DisposableFirstEpisodestag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/DisposableFirstEpisodes:5496737508a40dc950149f319d8f6d560117bff5From 76.113.53.58<div class="wikitext"><p>What about Haruhi 00? Does it belong to this category, or not?</p>
</div>2009-04-10T05:04:58ZFrom 76.113.53.58 on /rtblog/anime/ToradoraHasAConclusiontag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/ToradoraHasAConclusion:0fe9ec477398e5d86bdaf8be9e59ab6ad2d1597dFrom 76.113.53.58<div class="wikitext"><p>Indeed, best series are all like that. There's no Azumanga II or Haibane Renmei AS and cannot be.</p>
<p>BTW, I heard Itakiss is completely finalized as well.</p>
</div>2009-03-28T06:06:27ZFrom 24.242.75.248 on /rtblog/anime/SoraKakeViewtag:CSpace2:rtblog/anime/SoraKakeView:aaab96a5631dcd0cb781d00089aeecc21c14c3ddFrom 24.242.75.248<div class="wikitext"><p>Wow, wiki-text! Reading your take, brought another idea to mind about SoraKake. Personally, I don't feel the need to be critical when I sit down with an episode, and I think that's oddly enjoyable. I sometimes try to milk series for other perspectives or meanings, but I believe one advantage of SoraKake is being able to take it for what it is[, and having a ball].</p>
<p>I can't classify it well, but I'm quite glad the series exists at this point. ^^ Cheers</p>
<p>-Ryan A</p>
</div>2009-03-26T18:51:32Z