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Banner of the Stars II: Who needs plausible when you have Spoor?

I finally slogged my way through the unrewarding first half of Banner of the Stars II and was rewarded with the significantly more enjoyable second half. I was already unmoved by the first few episodes (despite the Casino-like opening) when Narutaki rang the bell that can’t be un-rung, which is that the whole plot line [...]

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Twelve Thingies: Turning Point

This 12 Moments of Anime 2009, it is Char That’s the name of the 14th episode of Planetes and it means what it says in more than one way, some of which will spoil you if you haven’t seen this marvelous show, so don’t read on if that’s the case. The first half of Planetes [...]

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Planetes: It all depends on whose life you slice

Ah, “slice of life.” A loose categorization sometimes used in entertainment writing but rarely thought of as a genre outside anime. There in cartoon-land it lives a contentious existence being confused with other genres, added to other genres, and insisting that we’d like everything a little more if we thought of all our anime as [...]

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What’s On: Back to humanity edition

A couple months without a night or weekend off, then a week of some insane (probably non-swine) flu, a new TV season is here and nary a word. Blah, blah, work, vomit, excuses. What’s next? For me, Fall 2009 is like a ghost town in a western movie, sequel and spinoff tumbleweeds slowly rolling across [...]

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Geass is over!

Shout it from the rooftops! For now, that is pretty much all. I watched it with beer in hand — and I may have imagined this, but — I think my TV thanked me afterward. Then I had a steak dinner. Then I almost streaked naked through my apartment complex shouting about how Geass is [...]

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Code Geass R2, Episode 2

The Plan For Japan’s Independence Everyone is blogging Geass R2 this season. I was going to just count the Pizza Hut references, but instead I want to pose a few questions. 1. Are they giving out Geass in action claw machines, or as some bloggers have postulated, free with Pizza Hut orders of over $20? [...]

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