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I've mentioned before the trolling history of Kyoto Animation, the studio behind Haruhi. They've outdone themselves. They've succeeded in pissing off every Haruhi fan. The first time they fooled me, I thought: cool, it's nice to see expectations dashed and a major conflict left unresolved. Then they did it again, and it was fun to watch other fans ( Read more... )

    I first began watching Dennou Coil about a year ago, and dropped halfway through because it was too episodic for my liking. It didn't seem to be going anywhere. When the Dennou Coil gets mentioned on the retarded anime board I frequent, what excretes through my bullshit filter is that no one expected the way it wound up. Curious, I picked up ( Read more... )

( Haruhi season two and the marketing games used to promote it )

Mike: "Man, we're gonna be twenty-five soon ( Read more... )

Finally got around to watching 5 Centimeters Per Second. I can sum it up in three words: OH MAKOTO SHINKAI. To explain a bit more: take his previous works, remove the sci-fi, add a wee bit of actual storytelling, keep the same over-arching conflict of youths madly in love yet hopelessly forced apart, keep the lack of comic relief, keep the plodding ( Read more... )

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I finished watching Xam'd. All the while through I was judging this series as "high" tier, one step down from my top tier. But I was so moved by the ending I want to rate it higher ( Read more... )

I've always been curious just how many calories I eat in a day, and how many calories do I eat when I gorge on fast food, and how many when I get drunk....... And fitday.com is a pretty sweet tool that helps count calories. I learned that when I have that mild, bearable hunger that seemed to be a healthy threshold for weight loss I'm about 200 ( Read more... )

( Selected Anime OPs, round 2 )