This week I posted second thoughts on the three Summer 2012 shows that I'm currently watching.  A bad case of the Deedlit effect has heavily damaged Sword Art Online, Kokoro Connect is drifting south, but Tari Tari is steadily improving.

Yesterday I looked up the Anna Russell routine on the Ring Cycle.  For those who haven't heard this, I ( Read more... )

With transcendancing's help I finished the semi-ranty post on Bumper Sticker Feminism.  I'm still not entirely happy with it, but it will do for now as a statement of where I stand.

I also finished the anime blogger game post, and a long overdue instalment in the Twenty Days of Anime Movies series with a review of Junkers Come Here (1994)Last week's session of ( Read more... )

There are couple of things I'm trying to write at the moment but which are not ready for publication.   transcendancing has been helping me with one of them, and part of her advice is to walk away from it for a bit until I can look at it with fresh eyes.  It is a post in an area that I've been wanting to write about for almost a year but just haven't been finding ( Read more... )

Not a great deal to report for this week.  Tari Tari is continuing to impress overall, but is currently attempting to tackly body image in girls (spoilers, and possible triggers, in that link).  The setup for this plotline was somewhat flawed, and there's a risk of a bad message depending on the next episode.  Watch this space ( Read more... )

I managed to write up the reviews for Oh My Goddess! Volume 23 and Volume 24.  The remaining volumes to 30 will come as fast as I can write them (not very) as the script pacing through to about Volume 27 is fairly fast.

I had my first run in the Pathfinder game on Wednesday, the hilarious highlight involved the bard trying to buy a saddle for a ( Read more... )

I saw The Avengers again on the flight across from Canberra on Thursday night.  The strength of the movie in such less than ideal viewing circumstances says a lot about the quality of the story.

The distraction of The Avengers meant that I only finished reviewing Oh My Goddess! Volume 22.  I'll update this post later if I review Volume 23 today ( ( Read more... )

This week I started getting back into roleplaying (yay!), and also picked up a new board game Sky Traders (not so yay, at least not with three players).

Anime wise I gave Sasemeki Koto away. Sasemeki Koto is a fairly tasteful, non-exploitative, Yuri but for some reason I hit the Eight Deadly Words and stopped.  In terms of currently screening anime ( Read more... )

During the week I bounced off Kanamemo after four episodes.  I'm not likely to go back.  Although it was a borderline case at three episodes, Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! improved strongly after that point, but still won't be to everyone's taste. I'm currently watching Sasemeki Koto (TV Tropes page), and I'm reserving all comments at the moment ( Read more... )

Sora no Woto (The Sound of the Sky) is the latest series to be reviewed.  I enjoyed it, but Sora no Woto is a series that is confused as to what type of story it is.

I'm currently watching Kanamemo, and will be considering Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai! later.  As I mentioned on twitter this makes three recent series (including Usagi Drop) where ( Read more... )

I spent a good chunk of the last week watching, and greatly enjoying Hanasuku Iroha on CrunchyRoll.  Along the way I mused a bit about CrunchyRoll, and how I love living in the future.  NB: I still want my jet pack, so long as no one else gets one. :) I'm currently watching Sora no Woto (aka The Sound of the Sky), and should finish that this week ( Read more... )