Let’s see if this style gains any traction. A lot of thoughts pop into my head every week, so let me try to condense them into bite-size quotes on a quasi-weekly basis.
Film blog: Random thoughts 1st week of January 2013
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
We’ve come a long way since blowing asteroids up with nukes. Films concerning themselves with the End of the World are not new, but productions on the apocalyptic genre have been ramping up leading to December 2012 thanks to the Mayans, misinformation, and general idiocy.
Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
This is Star Wars. Lucas’s franchise should be renamed to something else.
Review: From Up On Poppy Hill
Well that’s two lacklustre Ghibli movies under Goro’s belt. On one hand I can understand Hayao supporting his son in his career, yet on the other hand this blatant form of nepotism is doing nothing but showing that the Miyazaki magic will disappear when he does.
Stream of consciousness: What is this place?
A one-stop-shop? A CV? A refuge from stormy reality? A gathering ground for beatniks? What am I offering here?
What do I want the website to be? Beyond a showcase, and snapshot of time for posterity, I’m still trying to figure it out.
Music blog: Best of 2012
Top 20 (in order. Kind of):
Review: Macross
Aired just two years after the end of Mobile Suit Gundam, a show which defined the mecha/space genre in anime, Macross takes the ‘humans attacked and on the run in a super ship’ template and blazes forward a new path of its own.
Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars
Originally posted at myanimelist.net.
This is the story of how one young kid has everything taken from him, but vows to take it all back and then some. With the loyal childhood friend Kircheis backing him up, Reinhard Von Musel’s rigorous climb to the top of the empire food chain begins in this OVA; a prequel to the 110 episode Legend Of The Galactic Heroes OVA.
Review: Martian Successor Nadesico
Originally posted at myanimelist.net.
This show works on so many levels it can whizz right past viewers heads because of its frenetic pace and glorious slapstick behaviour, but make no mistake there was plenty of thought put into the script of this 90’s classic.
Review: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean
Originally posted at myanimelist.net.
Stone Ocean is another great addition to the JoJo saga, a brilliant shonen that has enough horror traits to almost veer it into seinen territory. The battles are ingenious and often brutal, packed with body mutilation and as usual for an Araki manga; featuring climaxes that are the result of characters acting intelligently and not because of contrived power-ups, as seems to be the rage in the post-millennium decade.
Cihan Narin 