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  • ef me

    okay, I am torrenting ef. The repeated mention of it was like endless drops of water carving down the mountain into sand.

  • Dennou Coil 3-11

    Yeah, ok I’ve just been zoomig through these. Too entranced to even take screencaps, except for these.

    dennou coildennou coil

    Is it just me and my blatant bias but do I see an analogy between Illegals and Haibane developing?

  • Ubu!!!

    for shame.

    More stuff to toss on the unwatched pile with Pumpkin Scissors, Haibaine Renmei, and the rest of Ikkitousen. Poor Haibaine, what bad company.

    I call on the Otakusphere to apply appropriate pressure.

  • Jack vs Shinobi

    Season 4. Unbelievable. I have never seen anything like this in animation before. The battle fetween light and dark, black and white, taken to a literal level instead of merely symbolic.

  • Jack and Ikra

    From season 1. A short clip but captures so much of what made the series so great, stylistically speaking. The music was just superb in this segment. Title of the episode was, “Jack and the Warrior Woman.”

  • Dennou Coil 2

    Some screenshots from episode 2.

    dennou coil 2

    Sort of a cute and fuzzy Maximillian. well, shiny, not fuzzy. I love that smiley face.

    dennou coil 2

    Reki! already my favorite character.

    dennou coil 2

    Tribbles! Man this is the best series ever.

    dennou coil 2

    There are exactly two anime I’ve seen where children aged 3-4 were portrayed with any accuracy. Totoro was one, and this is another. Poop.

    dennou coil 2

    I use tis face all the time. And I got my fair share of it as a kid.

    I am having a blast. It’s like watching Shingu.

  • Dennou Coil OP

    I’m watching the Ureshi sub, which provides translit/translate of the song. I am transcribing both below by hand:

    daremo ga sagashiteru
    dareka wo sagashiteru
    te wo nobaseba itsudemo
    aru hazu no nukumori wa
    osonai hi no maboroshi
    mabushisugite mitsumeru koto mo
    dekinai taiyo
    hikari ga afureru kono michi ni
    itsumo kage wa hitotsu
    asu wa soko ni aru no daro

    everyone is looking for…
    …looking for someone
    whenever you stretch your hands
    the warmth that should be there
    is an illusion of your childhood
    a sun that’s shining so brightly
    to be looked upon
    on this street, where the light is overflowing
    there’s always one shadow…
    The future is probably there.

  • Dennou Coil 1

    I got a little bored with Sayonara Zetsubu Sensei, so I watched the first episode of Denmo Coil, and was wowed. I love it. It’s like a wierd mix of Totoro, Serial Experiments Lain, and Haibane Renmei. What a fun show! The OP was also particularly good. I can see this one holding my interest.

    And I need to get me one of these phones when they come out:

    denmo coil 1

  • the future is Blu

    Congratulations in advance to Ubu for joining the Haibane Renmei renmei. Almost as noteworthy are his comments about the state of the R1 anime industry, partly in response to Steven’s earlier comments about the size of the market and even earlier commentary about the impact of fansubs. Ubu writes,

    At nearly 40 times the going rate for an American series, fansubs be damned: they aren’t giving value for their money, and they will go out of business if that’s their plan.

    In fact, I worry that it is their plan — to self-justify retreating from the R1 market. […] there’s obviously a fundamental disconnect between Japanese management views and R1 market conditions.

    I have to agree that the problem isn’t fansubs. The disconnect is at least partly because of region-coding. However, it should be noted that Blu-Ray (the likely victor of the nextgen DVD format wars, at least as far as anime is concerned) compresses Japan and the United States into a single region. I’ll leave informed speculation as to the ramifications of that to the experts, but it’s definitely time to start taking Blu-Ray into account.

  • welcome back

    Astro couldn’t stay away 🙂 He’s back at http://anime.theastronomicon.com/, though for brevity I’m dubbing this the Animenomicon. Blogrolled accordingly. He’s already got a lot of good stuff about Kino and SZS, so check it out!