the “best” anime of 2012

THE “AWARDS” WHERE I JUST MAKE FUN OF STUFF:

“Best” DUDE YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING ‘JAPANIMATION’! IT’S NOT KID’S STUFF LIKE DISNEY CARTOONS!: Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

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Hey guys, do you like sex and killing and killing with sex? Then I’ve got the show for you!

(Stuff in pink is by Hinano).

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hoisted from the archives: the complete minaide! hazukashii… coverage of dragonaut

(In “celebration” of the premiere of Symphogear, whose first episode was one of the most terribad anime that I’ve seen since Dragonaut, I’m republishing my posts from my old blog so that everyone can remember just how unbelievably bad Dragonaut was -jpmeyer)

fall 2007 day 3: boobnaut and goshuushousama ninomiya-kun (originally posted on 10/04/2007)

I watched Dragonaut: The Resonance first. I thought I was getting Starship Troopers. I coulda sworn that one preview that I read said that the show had “people fighting aliens with mecha”. What I got was…Divergence Eve. More than anything else, the one thing that stuck out the most (HAR HAR) from this show were the ridiculously enormous bakunyuu boobs on the mature ladies of this show. This of course made perfect sense when I saw that this show has the same character designer as Gravion and Witchblade.

ridiculous boobs #1


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the “best” anime of 2011

THE “AWARDS” WHERE I JUST MAKE FUN OF STUFF:

“Best” DUDE YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING ‘JAPANIMATION’! IT’S NOT KID’S STUFF LIKE DISNEY CARTOONS!: those terrible Marvel anime

Seriously, Tiger and Bunny did everything that these wanted to do a million times better.

My comments are in green. (Hinano)

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what i was forced to watch this week #73: someday’s dreamers

It’s going to be kind of hard for me to give a fair review of Someday’s Dreamers. The reason being that it’s an iyashi-kei show, and iyashi-kei puts me to sleep. Similarly, everything kind of flows together and it makes it hard to remember specific points to discuss later. I can really only remember feelings or moods, such as “Hmm, I think this has a little bit more conflict than these titles usually have”. Or perhaps the fact that I practically fell asleep and can’t remember specific stuff makes it good?

contrary to popular belief, i was not forced to watch this show because of the naked mans, but rather because the op comes up at random sometimes when foobar is set to random

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on genre as a process

The genre as a concept arises from the accrual of texts and conventions. This includes texts and conventions both within a specific genre and texts and conventions in otherwise unrelated genres. The addition, transformation, variation, alteration, and/or reproduction of these texts and conventions causes the genres to shift in composition, creating a malleable form which can vary significantly from viewer to viewer and when looked at during different historical contexts.


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