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ries in quality the elton john and his zombie army and human cannonballs with swords episodes for example are really quite entertaining unusually pretty much all the filler sits in the story s first arc after that most episodes contribute something however small to the plot and i suspect the final chapter only reaches the heights it does because you ve seen ken and the other surviving characters wade through blood to get there that final chapter kicks in with new narrative urgency around the eightieth episode it brings a new op which steps back a little from the excitement of its more famous predecessor and takes some time to remind us of some of the significant characters who ve already died fist maintains quite a small cast as important people tend to die and so has little of the onwards n upwards feeling you get in a lot of anime which share a similar sense for absurd action rather fist s plot is the fatal working out of grudges and desires which were instigated before the first episode often before even the nuclear apocalypse loss becomes a dominant theme the loss of friends of rivals of faculties and at one point the lived experience of loss as a source of power ultramuscled designs are the order of the day there are some excellently grotesque giants and mutants and super obese villains the show looks cheap but not awful stock footage is common though it s often intelligently laced in with new animation to keep the fights looking fresh characters sometimes seemingly change in size and i would like to believe that this is to indicate their importance threat and possession of combat momentum although a lot of the more excessive blood sprays are shiny rather than red the animators didn t hold much back in rendering the twisting slicing snapping splattering and detonating of the human body a skilled martial artist is a scary scary thing i enjoyed fist a lot i dug all the crazy enemies and their bizarre techniques and i bought into its story of a few deadly men clashing in a world that s gone horribly wrong its simplicity pleased me i m too young to have been around for fist s period of currency among anglophone fans mostly this was an advantage letting me come to the show knowing only what little i d picked up from reflexes of and allusions to it in other anime not sure i d just recommend this to just anyone who likes anime though if you enjoy simple heartfelt stories with wild fighting try it if you re just interested from a cultural literacy standpoint maybe give it a few episodes but don t expect it to blow you away leave a comment posted in review tagged fist of the north star spring 2013 the shows that matter posted on friday 26th april 2013 leave a comment valvrave valvrave has garnered lots of attention i probably don t need to describe it i take it as further confirmation of my belief that the ce gundam opening moves are now so familiar that they can be used as background gargantia so far gargantia hasn t been very good giant robot show but i ve been enjoying its fish out of water plot mildly wouldn t want to get too enthusiastic about something this forgettable majestic prince an interesting one it s not very serious and absolutely has a parodic edge to it but it s also occasionally sombre this probably won t work for that many people but i m buying into it for now maybe it s the surprisingly tentative opening song 3dpd the present age being one of petty diminished things all three use cg for their giant robots i find the work in gargantia least satisfying valvrave and majestic have the advantage of setting at least some of their fighting against the more anodyne background of space and majestic s robots are plasticky commercialised objects within the show s own fiction too southern cross really the mecha show that matters most to me at present is southern cross it s fun and there s no cg and i like the southern cross army s body armour leave a comment posted in commentary running commentary tagged gargantia majestic prince southern cross valvrave little witch academia posted on sunday 21st april 2013 leave a comment studio trigger have now put their delightfully animated confection on youtube with english subtitles there really aren t many reasons not to watch it unless you re allergic to little witches or to academia i imagine someone somewhere is accusing it of being just animation for animation s sake about nothing i m not sure being that is a problem but thankfully that s not a discussion we need to have cos lwa does have a subject it s not necessarily clever or if you ask me interesting but it is appropriate to the project it bounces craft as entertainment and pragmatic craft and craft for craft s sake off each other and then synthesises them leave a comment posted in commentary nostalgia and a parlour game posted on saturday 11th february 2012 7 comments give me says ghostlightning something you really want to see this exercise sounds amusing continue reading 7 comments posted in fanboy tagged navel navel navel nostalgia brief praise of stock footage posted on thursday 9th february 2012 7 comments i ve said this a couple of times but because it suits my prejudices i think it deserves its own post recycling material is fine so long as the material is good and often it is good especially when it s a more formalised expected component like a transformation or combination or launch sequence i don t mind watching goodness several times in my better moments i rather like the idea of watching goodness several times furthermore stock footage has a certain reliability however dull the rest of the episode is at least i can bank on the manly combination to be great this is an efficient way for animators to spend money and time and if you re not convinced that repetition has its place consider the two most commonly recycled elements of your standard anime episode which we all take for granted the op and the ed would i take much the same stance on grander kinds of re use like repeatedly using the same premise of course i would of course 7 comments posted in foundational tagged notes stock footage two quintessences posted on tuesday 31st january 2012 12 comments suite precure wrapped up last sunday it was an acceptable installment for the franchise with some nice silly concepts and a handful of good fights it played the revelation of the third and fourth magical girls identities well and cure beat s electric guitar hair was a brilliant little touch and for those who didn t watch it so everyone i m not talking about her appearance i m talking about the fact that her ahoge is strummable but it was never much more than acceptable as average as it gets for precure and contained little to entertain normal adults so what i m saying is i suppose that you dear reader probably shouldn t bother trying it that judgement makes me think about how we divide up the franchise as a whole there s a trend towards what i d call heartcatch exceptionalism the position that heartcatch precure is quality wise just better than the other iterations reluctantly i agree reluctantly because while i like heartcatch very much it s not probably not my favourite i think i prefer the original which was my introduction to precure a year or so ago heartcatch is also one of the bits of the franchise most easily enjoyed by more normal anime fans i ll put it another way i ll cheerfully watch a boring cheaply animated bad episode of precure because there are things in the franchise s central concepts which i enjoy entirely independently of the quality of their execution you are probably not like this heartcatch is better placed to appeal to you the all stars dx movies are the other bit of the franchise worth checking because they are short and endearingly mad oddly enough heartcatch s position within its franchise reminds me of a very very different title macross plus i think plus is easily the least macrucian macross apart from anything else it is as i m sure a zillion people have said before me substantially more pessimistic about music love and transforming mecha the three legs of the macross tripod every part of the franchise gets to play a part in deciding what s macrucian true even macross ii hell if you were introduced to macross via robotech i wasn t that too will have influenced you but at less than three hours plus is too short to much affect the impression left by the tv shows i suspect there was a time when plus had enough prominence among anglophone anime people to counteract that but nowadays the fan on the torrent tracker thinks frontier when one says macross plus is also good like really good solid good fun and great itano circuses it s my favourite macross thing but i don t really enjoy macross s central tripod that much i m not a macross fan perhaps i should say not yet a macross fan because i suspect that might change as i grow older but that s by the by i m no authority on the subject but my best guess at the show which is most macrucian is macross 7 you will note that it is unusually long for macross which i think gives it influence as it just wears people down into its way of thinking 12 comments posted in running commentary tagged macross macross plus pretty cure suite precure mecha declaration of year start posted on saturday 28th january 2012 5 comments i don t normally follow anime as it airs gundam and lately precure excepted i m looking forward to smiley s precure apparently the cure colours will be grey brown and grey brown following a few seasons behind and gleaning up titles recommended by trusted minds more or less guarantees a steady stream of things i enjoy while trying to catch things as they air would doom me to running into something i dislike oh and gundam again excepted robots seem rare at the moment however january brought a bunch of things i d like to keep up with and two of them even have robots continue reading 5 comments posted in running commentary tagged allow me to mark your card aquarion evol godannar not mentioning tatsuo satou rinne no lagrange xii thank you for blogging thank you for reading posted on tuesday 10th january 2012 4 comments i usually end my twelve christmas posts by thanking the bloggers and readers of the anglotakusphere you guys are great well all the bloggers could stand to proofread and redraft a bit more and a lot of you have aesthetic criteria so unconsidered that it s a miracle i still subscribe to your feeds but i do so well done you guys aren t great but for a bunch of humans you re alright readers you re great i don t really post any more and reading back through this blog i m dissatisfied with most of my old posts i do miss blogging with ideas though despite the fact that they were usually rubbish ideas continue reading 4 comments posted in fanboy tagged blogsturbation twelve days of christmas 11 mantles and sabres are so passé nowadays posted on sunday 8th january 2012 1 comment writes ak of mouretsu pirates s first episode and of course the fact that space pirate captain harlock was referenced is good the password that ririka trades with her old friend is the very first line of the harlock op song this is indeed good and as he goes on to say it would be almost ungrateful not to acknowledge harlock in a space pirate anime what interests me is that this isn t just thrown in the background somewhere it s being used as a passphrase in a show more po faced than mouretsu a passphrase would be something inocuous and definitely not related to piracy but that show would be boring in this show the phrase is a bold identification taking the opening words of spch s opening which is i think fairly obviously a creed from harlock himself as the phrase the pirates use to identify themselves to one another suggests that what makes an anime pirate piratical is that they are in some way harlockian or more narrowly restricting this to the phrase itself that they have the harlockian attitude to space not a threatening final frontier but a manageable ocean and moreover my ocean for my yacht taken this way i think it functions as a nice tribute intentional or not and was that first episode as a whole any good goodness i don t know ask someone else 1 comment posted in commentary tagged apparently the only mouretsu post not using the word anachronism captain harlock mouretsu pirates space pirate captain harlock xi others posted on saturday 7th january 2012 2 comments i don t have an image from dennou coil and i ve chosen not to find one because i don t have copies legal or illegal of any of its episodes thing is you see i ve been watching it at an anime club i used to avoid those but having returned to university after graduating and working a desk job for a spell i was feeling sociable and gave this one a try it s true that these societies don t have the practical function that they used to allowing the efficient showing of rare vhs material but it s fun everyone i ve met seems to be able to hold down a conversation people make jokes i couldn t have thought of myself which i think is one of the most excellent most gracious functions that humans perform for each other speaking of humour the club also solves one of my anime watching problems usually i only find comedies funny if i watch them with other people and the club is also a useful device which makes me watch titles such as dennou coil i ve known it s good for ages but left on my own i d never have managed to tear myself away from my solid diet of giant robots for long enough this is likely a short term membership because the wheels have been coming off my postgraduate career lately i think i ve become a bad investment and i ll probably be leaving again within the year but i m nevertheless glad i returned to university i ve learned i was wrong about a lot of things and one of them was my judgement of social watching 2 comments posted in fanboy tagged dennou coil soppy meatspace stuff twelve days of christmas 11 older posts search 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