Oh look more Planetes posts: Scenery with a Rocket, Gender, Diversity and Politics, Turning Point, In Her Case..., and finally Ignition.

That's about it for the week, although I have been watching Xam'd: Lost Memories with some friends recently. I'm enjoying the rewatch, and so far  I'm standing by my original review.

Well, it is all Planetes all the way this week. The posts for this week reviewed the Extraterrestrial Girl, A Place To Cling To, Regrets, A Sky of Stardust, Boundary Line, and A Modest Request episodes ( Read more... )

angriest has recommended AKB0048, and now that it is on CrunchyRoll I may have to take a look at it. However this depends on my To Review pile being reduced from Leaning Tower of Pisa levels to something manageable. I did however manage to complete ef: a tale of melodies (spoiler free).

I've also started Thirty Days of Planetes with Outside the Atmosphere ( Read more... )

In about a week or so I'll start posting Thirty Days of Planetes, I've got about 4 posts drafted so far.

The Hanabee release of ef: a tale of memories was missing the last of the textless openings. I did find a YouTube comparison of it with the standard version.

Finally, I discovered that the reality of the Idol Culture in Japan is worse than ( Read more... )

I know this is a day late but I was at Cancon playing boardgames, and I have a bit of a mixed bag to report.

ef: a tale of memories proved to be much better than I was expecting. I also read Admirals: The Naval Commanders who Made Britain Great, an excellent book that does not include Nelson (and for the right reasons IMO).

Finally I saw the ( Read more... )

I made the mistake of watching Chihayafuru season one last week: I should have waited 6 months so I could have watched season 2 immediately. As it is I'll have to put up with one episode a week for a while.

Hanabee's blu-ray release of the first half of Bodacious Space Pirates is a nice piece of work. I'm looking forward to seeing the second half ( Read more... )

One of the stories about changing the Monopoly tokens amused with an inane quote. It prompted me to lis 10 board game things more innovative than changing the Monopoly tokens.

I also got round to reading, and greatly enjoying, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin.

I did watch the anime movie King of Thorn last night but I'm struggling ( Read more... )

I'm back in Canberra but still dealing with overly hot weather. Back to work tomorrow.

On the review side, I finished Say "I Love You" (the ending is good, the final episode isn't) and finished my Rocket Girl posts by reviewing the anime.

I did the obligatory 2012 in Review post, discussed a proposed panel for Continuum (suggestions and co- ( Read more... )

I am now in Perth and on holidays. On the flight over I finally managed to complete my review of Oh My Goddess! volume 25.

In the last fortnight or so I reviewed Toradora!, posted second thoughts on Girls Und Panzer, and ranted about the decay of Sword Art Online into Harem Art Online ( Read more... )

This week I began to correct the lack of Rocket Girls reviews (a shocking oversight on my part) with a review of the eponymous light novel, and the first sequel. Alas, a review of the anime may be some time in coming.

I have received review copies of Toradora and Arakawa Under The Bridge Season 1 from the nice people at Hanabee, and I will be ( Read more... )