Much Ado About Everything

An interesting sign at BCIT.

[Read more →]

Prey is like a summer blockbuster or a summer fling (I actually have zero experience on either of those categories – I’m merely throwing around stereotypes here) – a brief, reasonably fun diversion that only rarely turns out to be more substantial.

[Read more →]

Guess where else did you see this?

[Read more →]

After the first episode that was a recap, the second episode was very good, as good as any season 1 episode. A well-balanced mix of humour, romance, slice-of-life and Morita-san mystery, akin to middle episodes of season 1. I’m quite glad and I hope they keep up this good work. I do see a few [...]

[Read more →]

As I’m finishing the last few episodes of Maison Ikkoku, it’s hard to disregard how irritated, pissed off and all-round annoyed I am at this anime. I thought I’ve read somewhere a while ago that this was a milestone in mid 80′s anime – after all, that would be the only reason why an old show like this would end up on the “to watch” list anyway. If that were true, then I would have to conclude its influence is the chief reason for many bad attributes of the likes of Kimagure Orange Road, or more importantly modern ones like Love Hina. However, a friend that has been with anime since late 70′s has just told me that she doesn’t believe Ikkoku was a role model. In which case it’s not a cause of all that is bad in anime. But it’s still bad by itself.

[Read more →]

That’s a bit pretentious title right there. I only used it because I hate inventing titles, names and such. This little post is simply a short commentary on a recent discussion about “worst anime” people have seen. There are plenty of similar discussions (though far more heated usually) around the web on any given day.

[Read more →]

What the…? Is this for real? I just went to Best Buy Canada website as I do almost daily, and what do I find? Preorders for Halo 3, scheduled to be released on Nov 30, 2006!! For the love of XBOX360! That can’t be… can it?

[Read more →]

And so ends the arguably best anime of 2006 Spring season.

[Read more →]