horizon in the middle of nowhere episode 6 was bad and you should feel bad

Well, I too got recruited to watch and write about a random episode of Horizon. I accidentally watched episode 5 by accident since I just went and watched the most recent episode on the date it was supposed to have aired without realizing that the Olympics had pushed it back a few days. So I am actually doing double duty and talking about both episode 5 and my assigned episode, episode 6. This also meant that I ended up with a little more background than I expected to have. Previously, my online background was the very first episode (which I promptly forgot everything from except that it had an incredibly exposition dump over the end credits to barely scratch the surface of the premise), and a few glances at Wikipedia and TV Tropes solely to say “lolololol this is nonsense lolololol.”

nobody cares

japanese porno cartoon video game review: katawa shoujo

Hmm, how to put this…

after about 20 minutes so far, i have to say that liked katawa shoujo better when it was called deus ex human revolution—
  (@jpmeyer) January 27, 2012

Nah, that’s not quite it.

hoisted from the archives: the complete ex-fansubber hitorigoto coverage of zero no tsukaima season three

(And today, we have the final installment of Zero no Tsukaima, anime’s greatest examination of the resolution of Hegelian dialectic between the thesis of kissing and the antithesis of titwhores -jpmeyer)

Zero no Tsukaima III – 01 (originally posted on 07/06/2008)

Woo hoo! You know you’ve been blogging too long when you’ve blogged season 1 2 and now 3 as they aired in Japan.

on sena’s gigantic tits

So:

I see people not quite understand why I think the art in the Haganai manga is better than the anime, but to sum it up, it's expressiveness.—
No-Stances Emperor (@sdshamshel) November 05, 2011

@sdshamshel the manga uses the visuals to propel the story, while the anime relies almost entirely on spoken dialog—
  (@jpmeyer) November 05, 2011

@sdshamshel (Twitter being too brief to allow one to go into the film theory behind everything on the visuals)—
  (@jpmeyer) November 05, 2011

@jpmeyer More than that, the visuals of the manga make it feel like something is progressing, even if you're not sure exactly what.—
No-Stances Emperor (@sdshamshel) November 05, 2011

@jpmeyer @sdshamshel Tiwtter too brief? BLOG IT!!!—
Pete Zaitcev (@zaitcev) November 06, 2011

Looks like I gotta now!

what i was (not) forced to watch this week #26: macross 7

I had originally planned to watch Macross 7 first when I was starting this whole let’s-finish-off-Macross stretch last month. It was the longest one, so I wanted to plow through it and stop procrastinating. Unfortunately, I’d watch a few episodes and after facepalming repeatedly while my ears bled from the ninth time hearing Planet Dance in that episode, I’d give up and watch one of the other Macross anime. Repeat this for a month.

a hot patriotic wind: re-writing history in post-colonial south korean blockbusters

Michael Robinson notes a trend in New Korean Film, especially in the wake of Shiri (Swiri, Kang Che-kyu 1998) where filmmakers were using “politically or culturally charged themes as simple plot elements or settings in their scenarios for their dramatic effect, not to make a political point”¹ in a radical shift from the practices of the Golden Age of the 1950′s and 60′s and of the Korean New Wave of the 1980′s and early 1990′s and their portrayals of imperialist Americans or heroic struggles against Japanese colonists. In a recently post-colonial nation such as South Korea, this creates a complication of traditional post-colonialist ways of thinking. What happens now when a culture that has suffered a collective erasure of its memory and culture takes this position once it is no longer colonized?

what i was (not) forced to watch this week #22: baccano

Baccano is a lot of fun. It’s got an interesting setting, charismatic characters, and a tongue in cheek humor about the whole thing. It’s one of the better anime to have aired in 2007, which was a pretty good year.

what i was (not) forced to watch this week #18: gosenzosama banbanzai

So when I was talking about the kind of obtuseness that Oshii frequently finds himself turning into, you can label Gosenzosama Banbanzai as exhibit A. I’m not sure both what I was supposed to get from watching it, nor was I sure if I was supposed to get something from watching it.