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Mahouka 20 — International Espionage at the High School Science Fair

August 20, 2014Mahoukaanime, mahoukadraggle

Well, this is a huge improvement over the last arc. I greatly prefer right-wing nuttiness to endless tedium and boredom.

Mahouka does have some interesting ideas, like this one of freeing magicians from their fate as weaponized humans.Some thought and development on this could lead to an interesting theme. Sadly the treatment is only superficial. The author’s vision is basically to replace magicians as warriors with magician drone operators.I fail to see how this changes anything of consequence.

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Aldnoah Zero 07 — Inaho Calmly Eliminates His Love Rival; My BL Ship is Sunk

August 19, 2014Aldnoah Zeroaldnoah zero, animedraggle

Inaho is great. So calm in the face of danger.

Doesn’t feel the slightest guilt about exploiting the princess either! And why should he? She’s practically begging him to use her. Continue reading Aldnoah Zero 07 — Inaho Calmly Eliminates His Love Rival; My BL Ship is Sunk →

Sword Art Online II 07 — Sinon Promises to Blast a Hole Up Kirito’s Ass

August 17, 2014Sword Art Onlineanime, sword art onlinedraggle

This is part 24 of my SAO summary / fanfiction. You can start with Part 1 here.

Kirito called his girlfriend, Asuna. Now that they were playing different video games, they were in a long-distance relationship. Kirito knew that communication was essential for any relationship, especially when the couple was forced to spend time apart. Kirito hoped that soon his work would finish and he could return to ALO.

“Kirito… I’ve missed you for the past two days. How are you?”

“I was only thinking I wanted to hear your voice.”

“I wish I could join you in GGO, Kirito. I miss you so much.” Continue reading Sword Art Online II 07 — Sinon Promises to Blast a Hole Up Kirito’s Ass →

Simple Storytelling

August 16, 2014Discussionanime, discussiondraggle

I was mentioning this in one of my upcoming posts on Narutaru as it relates to Kitoh’s art style, but I realized this would be of more general interest. Take a quick look at this short video. It’s only one minute and nineteen seconds:

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Zankyou no Terror 06 — The Terrorists Stop the Bomb

August 14, 2014Zankyou no Terroranime, zankyou no terrordraggle

I’m kind of annoyed with the direction Zankyou no Terror is heading in. I was really excited about this show when it first started— the main characters were evil maniacal terrorists bent on destruction, a grizzled cop was fighting against the banal evil of an organizational hierarchy, and all the characters were fighting their own demons of alienation.

Now our terrorist friends are trying to stop bombings and being all chummy with Lisa while they engage in a shounenesque chess match against their childhood friend a la No Game No Life? Sadly, No Game No Life worked with that approach because it had one thing Zankyou no Terror doesn’t— nudity. Continue reading Zankyou no Terror 06 — The Terrorists Stop the Bomb →