Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Strawberry Panic 21

The final episode of the Shizuma Gets Over Kaori arc. While it’s been a bit draggy and Yaya-less, I’ve still found it enjoyable because it was fun to see Shizuma in all her seasons especially pre-Kaori when she was light and free and during her relationship with Kaori when she was so sooo in love. Best bits were the Miyuki parts as she actively cheerleads her beloved Shizuma’s romance with Kaori.

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Strawberry Panic 19-20

Miyuki: Hey Kaori, get ready to meet your first customer, ok? [Much apologies for lateness. Haven't had a functional broadband connection for a while and also recently crawled out from under a tonne of coursework. Am currently leeching off a neighbour's unsecured wireless connection. Also many thanks to Skane for his forays on Ep 19 and 20 thusfar.]

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Immovable as the mountain

Stripey was pimping the Negima 2 trailer to me on one of my visits to the den of siscon a few weeks ago and we both nodded appreciatively at this particular sequence. Having grown up watching lots of Hong Kong-made martial arts TV series which were, more often than not, adaptations of Jin Yong novels, it’s always a pleasure to see a good martial arts sequence. Especially since many of the HK-made series were mind boogling in their awfulness.

In the scene captured above, Asuna (I remember her name correctly) whips up such serious momentum into that attack and I really liked how the animation shows her throwing all her power right from her torso, up the shoulder, through her arm and projected from her weapon. Yet what I liked most was the rootedness of her lower body to the ground at the moment of release. Anyone whose ever had to hold a horse stance for an extended period knows how difficult is, much less combining offensive power with stability on your feet. Continue reading ‘Immovable as the mountain’




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