Archive for the 'anime/tv' Category

More of the same

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

So yeah, I’ve pretty well settled into a sort of flow of stuff. I’m still figuring out what goes where, how, and so on at work, but getting more useful by the day. The other guys who’ve been there a lot longer than me tend to do most of the routine day-to-day stuff, [...]

NHK ni Youkoso! (Welcome to the NHK)

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Started watching NHK Ni Youkoso like … 2 days ago. Finished it just now.
First of all, this is an excellent series. It’s got a cute romantic touch, it’s got action, it’s got inaction, it’s got a great ambling guitar melody, it’s got excellent character design and well-applied art styles.
But what really makes this [...]

Dokuro-chan

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

So, among the random anime I’ve downloaded over the years that I’m starting to go through, I found this series “Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan” (“Club-to-Death Angel Dokuro-chan”). It’s a 4 episode OVA, and … well … you never can tell with those. They could be great, they could be terrible.
This was … umm … [...]

fast food and coyotes

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Watched Fast Food Nation yesterday. It was …. interesting. I was sort of expecting it to go somewhere, and really it kind of sat still and festered. It was … graphic, interesting, and built some decent storylines and character depth, but also pointed out idealism and how the harsh brutality of the [...]

Jigoku Shoujo, and strategies for coping with unhappiness.

Friday, January 19th, 2007

So, I’ve been randomly entertaining episodes of Jigoku Shoujo for a while, and just watched a couple. I’ve also been entertaining the book The Paradox of Choice for a while, and recently read another couple dozen pages.
Round about page 111, Schwartz summmarizes a bit of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty, explaining that in [...]