Much Ado About Everything

When I first started watching this anime back in January, I didn’t know anything about its background. Apparently, it is based on a role-playing game. But it’s a hentai (perverse, or more accurately, with sexual content) game – and if I’m guessing it right, it has harem and dating sim elements in it. That might not sound so strange, until you realize that the game actually has considerable depth – as much as any average japanese RPG!

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I built my own Freedom Gundam from a model kit! Well, it’s a small one but it’s still nice.

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Ah, this is more like it! This episode was way better than the last one, and I actually laughed a few times. I don’t know the reason for shuffling the episodes around – I really can’t see a good one – except that perhaps they are trying to mix bad episodes (like last) with good ones (like this one) in order to keep the ratings consistently up. No clue.

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Indeed, I am. Call it a guilty pleasure. Well, it’s not actually bad or anything. At least not yet – I’ve seen 25 episodes so far, which is exactly half of it. It doesn’t have the emotional power of the original but it does have the !excitement! of Gundam battles… And the plot, while appearing to be forced at quite a few junctions, isn’t really contrived – more like it’s badly told. Not really bad, but unpolished. But it’s exciting and I can’t say what is going to happen. So I like it! Mhm, perhaps I am turning into a Gundam fan? Though honestly, what guy wouldn’t be a Gundam fan, at least on some level?

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I watched three episodes of this anime so far and I’m intrigued by it.  The show has definitely succeeded in creating an atmosphere that a friend said reminded him of a Phillip K. Dick novel – to which I added that he should add William Gibson’s Necromancer to the mix as well.  I also heard [...]

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I just finished watching these first two episodes of the new season of Bleach as fansubbed by Lunar. Well, they didn’t waste any time introducing new set of villains. Once again, they are mysterious and elusive. And they’re kidnapping Ichigo’s friends left and right. What the hell? I hope they get to the bottom of [...]

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Steven was right, Life is a nice song to end an episode of Bleach.  While it doesn’t feature in latest episodes (its last appearance is the Episode 63 special), it did feature in best episodes.  I found lyrics for it as well.

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  Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora – final, 6th episode is out.  This is a short series dealing with a very sad subject, love where one person doesn’t have a long time left to live.  I just finished watching it, it’s fairly nice and touching, but sad.  It sidesteps most of cliches that are [...]

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