Bob’s Plain ‘ol Blog

The spring season is still a good month or so away, so I would normally not really start worrying about the Spring 2010 shows for another few weeks- but it seems that some companies have begun to realize that catching people’s attention early on is a good idea, and one way they’ve gone about doing that is by posting the first episode early. They did this with Macross Frontier, and have now done it for a show that really wasn’t even on my radar for the upcoming season: Working!!. In this particular case (as it was for Frontier), it’s definitely a good thing… Read the rest of this entry »

There’s little doubt- the name is kinda corny-sounding. But past that- it’s pure, unadulterated original-continuity/universe UC Gundam- the best and one true Gundam universe. And they look to be aiming to keep it that way for another 30 years. Read the rest of this entry »

With having finished up Super GALS! and having kept at least passing track of just how long I have ended up taking to watch most of the discs over the last 6 months or so, I’ve put my Netflix account on hold for the 90-day max that you can do so. I still have a massive amount of DVDs that I actually OWN to watch through, and I expect that when I hopefully get Makoto back in the next month and buckle down on getting her back on the road I’ll have even less time than I do now to watch stuff, and if I’m not going to have the time to watch it, there’s no real reason for paying the $10/month on it. I kind of wish that you could put a hold on indefinitely- but I’ll see after the 90 days how hard it is to extend it, or perhaps I’ll try and blow through another show really quickly before putting it back on hold.

I initially started watching this show a LONG time ago- I know this for a fact because I’ve had the audio file of its opening theme (A I TSU) for a very long time as well, as it’s one of my all-time favorite opening themes. It was just earlier this week though that I finally finished up the full 4-cour series, making it one of the longest spans that I’ve watched a show over.
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The 7th (and 8th in a few cases) episodes of all of the shows I’m following have now been watched, and not a whole lot has, realistically, changed in my opinions of them. Not that I don’t mind the excuse to type more about them.
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After seeing several AMVs using Detroit Metal City that I rather enjoyed and talking about it with Greggo and co. at Ohayocon (and making a number of jokes about it), I finally got around to actually watching Detroit Metal City (DMC).

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So, technically this should have been written up nearly a week ago, but it’s taken me up to this point to find the time (and the desire) to actually write it up- and I’m only really doing it now as a sort of cautionary tale…

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What, did you think I’d forgotten about the stupid backlog of DVDs that I have sitting on my shelves to watch through? Far from it, they sit there mocking me every time I’m down watching something on the TV, laughing at my inability to watch all of them. At least though the backlog generally isn’t growing- these days I’m only buying DVDs of shows that I’ve already seen (fansubbed most commonly- I have far less moral issues with not buying a series that I’ve paid to watch via Crunchyroll than one I’ve not in any way given anything back to the creators in at least some small way). Technically, Code Geass R2 was next in the alphabetical approach I’ve taken up until now, but seeing as how I don’t have the final volume yet, I opted to put it off until I can watch all of it and moved on to the next show in line- Comic Party.
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From the same original creator as Bakemonogatari, Katanagatari is a show with a rather interesting release schedule and premise. It follows a quest to retrieve 12 legendary swords, with one sword per episode (presumably- though there were several swords shown together so there may be some arcs to retrieve sets of them…) for a total of 12 episodes- each released (generally- there’s only 2 weeks between ep. 1 & 2) a month apart.
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The first three episodes of all of the series that I’ve been trying to follow have now aired, so I’ve got updated thoughts on them after they’ve had the chance to somewhat settle into where they’re going to fall.
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