I'm going to watch Kamisama no Memochou and possibly Usagi Drop at some point, but these are the shows I'm following as they air right now.

Hanasaku Iroha

This is probably my favourite show of the year so far since Madoka Magica finished up. The past six or so episodes have been especially good--for a while the show was kind of aimlessly trying out ( Read more... )

Imagine, if you will, the sound of a bullfrog croaking confusedly inside a church organ.

That is roughly the sound I was making starting about eighteen or nineteen minutes into the first episode of Mawaru Penguindrum and continuing through the second.

Ikuhara, you crazy-ass diamond bastard, welcome back.

 
( On 'Hitori kangae' (Solitary Thoughts), by Tadano Makuzu )

A scene from Philosophy Club:

Girl (name withheld since we're not on especially good terms and I don't want to be a total jerk to her over the Internet): *says something about Kannazuki no Miko*

Me: Oh, hey, I just finished rewatching that show! It's not really very good, but I have a bit of affection for it for reasons unrelated to its objective ( Read more... )

Titles of 2ch threads relating to one of the characters from Puella Magi Madoka Magica [BEWARE, potential spoilers]:

'Miki Sayaka is such a cute tomboy with her fire extinguisher (1)
Miki Sayaka is such a cute magical swordsgirl (2†)
Miki Sayaka is dangerously cute (3†)
Miki Sayaka is so cute when she's in love (4)
Miki Sayaka is a cute blue warrior ( ( Read more... )

In my class on Japanese women writers, we are now into the Edo period. The Edo period, which lasted from 1600 to 1868, was the worst time to be a woman in Japan maybe ever. First of all, education was completely segregated. This is not uniquely bad by itself, but in this case the main textbook for women, Onna Daigaku, contained such gems as ‘to you ( Read more... )

So, a few hours ago, I had a discussion with Maya about Aoi Hana. In this discussion, one interesting thing that we had decided to do was to reopen the topic of Chizu, the character who many of you will remember from my disgusted rant about her and how despicable she is a while back. In this discussion, we discounted a lot of our previous ( Read more... )

MY MAGICAL GIRL OUTFIT...TO THE STARS

(Yes. I seriously spent quite some time thinking about this to-day.)

Mami's hat from Madoka Magica (short, cylindrical, black, with a feather in it)
My glasses with girlier stuff on them (charms or something hanging from the temples, perhaps?)
A black cape (which I already have)
A cravat (already have)
A blue button- ( Read more... )

Is Madoka Magica more like Goethe or more like Kafka?

I know which one the obvious answer is, but after the last couple of episodes I'm not so sure any more.

So, a couple of days ago I watched the first episode (the only one out yet) of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It's a magical girl show with cutesy character designs that I was only watching because it's Kajiura Yuki's first full soundtrack in about two years.

Then I realised something.

This has the same director as Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei. And the same ( Read more... )