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Lucky Star Imitates Art, Part 15
Jul 22nd
Evil Miyuki not related, but highly interesting.
One of the most famous and/or infamous aspects of Lucky Star is the references. The constant allusions to past and present anime series either thrill or annoy fans. Somehow it almost seems like that like/hate ratio is similar to the percentage of people that can correctly identify the reference.
Part of the appeal is probably the game show factor, the “Aha! I know this” feeling when one can figure out some more of the obscure/hidden references, such as the Mayumi poster or any of the other massive piles of otaku mechandise in Konata’s room.
But, is there a point where, like in-game advertising, it goes beyond being neat and adding to the realism, and just becomes tacky? Perhaps. After the jump, etc etc.
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School Days 01 – Standing Corrected
Jul 20th
Hate to say this but…suddenly, after watching the first episode of School Days I can’t bring myself to the level of Burning Hatred for Makoto, or this series as a whole, that used to exist before.
Going into this series, I was hoping for something different. Given that this is based on the somewhat infamous eroge of the same nature, the ’something different’ for me refers to the surprising and gruesome BAD ENDs to the main characters.
Because, honestly, I was a bit misinformed going into the show. All I knew of the eroge going into this was that it a basic love triangle (I suppose ‘love V’ is more accurate) between two girls and one guy. That was supposedly about all there was to it other than 1) bad ends and 2) sex.
Now strangely enough for a warm-blooded male I try to look for more than the latter when I play eroge or watch eroge anime, which is one reason why I was quite glad that Mirron Moon released Tsukihime, for example, with a non-ero patch. Because it does seem that there is a second category of visual novels becoming apparent, of those which have scoring with girls as a second thought, rather than the first.
There will of course always be a market for mindless sex but now there appears to be a market, at least among some of the bigger-name titles I’ve heard in the US, for making us cry like pansies. Most things from Key and or Type-Moon (at least in Tsukihime) are supposedly in the later.
And School Days, at first, fell into the former.
It may still be there, but it has hope of struggling out of it and becoming an interesting eroge adapatation after all. Without bad ends? Why? After the jump for details.
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Autopsy: Regarding Shuffle Memories 12
Jul 17th
Report No.: 75
Date of Report: July 17, 2007
Time of Report: 11:22 AM
Subject: Shuffle! Memories the 12th
Age: 25 minutes
Sex: Unstated. Tests report “Yes, please”
Race: Japanese animation
Background: Known history of insanity in family, especially in earlier Shuffle! generations 1 through 12. Fanservice abuse often common through the years, leading to unhealthily low amounts of plotline and occurances of Type-II (a.k.a Hit or Miss) Humor. Suffered from Beach Episode Disease.
Cause of Death: Appears to be natural causes. Many suspicious suspects, better known as “main characters”, are currently being investigated as possible contributing factors to death, to be explored in “after jump” segment.
Doublepost: Kanon Kazahana + sola 1
Jun 21st
Luckily, before the downtime I was able to stock up a nice pile of anime to watch, a lot of them old and some of them new. Among the ancient we have Honey & Clover, Da Capo, To Heart 2, and ONE. Among the newer we’ve got Wangan Midnight and sola in the queue along with Lucky CHANNELUUUUUUUUUUUUU Star.
Although, I must say, with every series I’m getting more and more piled up in a jumble of names, hair colors, and relationships.
In this post I’ll cover briefly in text form Kanon Kazahana, the special OVA-ish thing that came after the TV run of Kanon 2002, as well as the first episode of sola, a series from 2007. Whoa.
Technically, I should warn for Kanon spoilers, as Kazahana comes after the canon Kanon (OK, I just like to say that word) storyline, not to mention me discussing the ending of Kanon for no reason than other to scare off people. Hit the jump.
episode_post = random(Lucky_Star_9)
Jun 18th
There really is no coherent intro to go with a Lucky Star episode to be honest. I mean, with most other anime I can talk about what happened last time, or in what direction it’s headed, or perhaps make a lame joke based on the content, but Lucky Star…can you imagine an intro based on the content?
I’m not half as ADHD-enabled as I’d need to be to go on random tangents like slice-of-life shows do. I can barely keep pace with the slow-witted Osaka. (or alternatively, Tsukasa) XD
And so the very short blog intro solders on as once again I rant about my lack of things to rant about. Oh well. There are plenty of screenshots after the jump – featuring the famous Tsukasa Stop Motion(tm) – so there’s your content for you. Go forth!
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