Tag Archives: kyoto animation

Making peace with that unnameable beast

How an ANN review provided the music to calm my savage breast, if not lessen my pure pure heart of rage. This is a long post, but stick with it until the end for Jun Maeda fanfiction.

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I watched Nichijou

Well, kids, it’s the second most important season of the year, and you know what that means: Kyoto Animation is back with something that the anime blogosphere are sure to get their striped panties in a bunch over. So how was Nichijou? I recognize that this is a manga adaptation, but let’s let a horse [...]

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Twelve Thingies: Do your homework.

Part of the 12 Anime Moments of 2009, and the horse it rode in on. 2009 was a big year for anime for one solid reason: Haruhi returned. Long baited, teased, and ridiculed, fans of the 2000s’ biggest series were finally rewarded for their patience. Turns out, they weren’t rewarded all that well, but at [...]

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Pervasive wrongness in the Haruhisphere

I was going to write an entire post on all the reasons why Haruhi haters are in the wrong, or at least why so many aren’t using their brains. But for the most part, my arguments were boring and I want people to actually read my blog on occasion. So I’m limiting it to one [...]

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I’m so excited… I’m so scared

Well. There it is. Confirmation. Haruhi‘s new run includes new episodes. Sad that there will be no pure reaction this time around. Everything will be tainted by backlash, fanboying, Kyoto Animation hate, Kadokawa’s seemingly-endless baiting, who knows what else — but most of all, by expectations. I won’t be watching until subs exist, but I’m [...]

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Springing ahead ’09, part one

Wow! Every one of my posts begins with something about how I haven’t been around, so I’ll just skip that and say hey… how about the new season? Lots of talk so far on these series, but so far I’m way more excited than I was last season. More legal streaming for US viewers, more [...]

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