Monthly Archives: December 2008

A certain series diluted, spliced and distilled

Now that we’ve had the Biri Biri arc that Railgun fans have been clamouring for, I’m left with the ever so slight but undeniable taste of disappointment. Keiri’s contention that the characters were diluted went some way to explain my … Continue reading

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Driving force not to blame for vehicle breakdown

Evirus’ puzzlement about the lack of a category for Ouran Host Club in hontou ni sou omou? is now a matter to be addressed in the past tense. I vaguely remember dropping Ouran very late in the series. That was … Continue reading

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Finessing the Shizu-sama Doctrine

Theological finessing of doctrine is important. It’s been said that: ‘Theology is a device for helping agnostics to stay within the Church of England.’ Likewise for anime doctrines.

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Strike Witches, The Steven Den Beste Cut

If you want to give yourself a chance to see the whole rest of the series, skip 5 and 7. Come back and watch them later. Thus spake SDB. I’m here to report that, having done so, I enjoyed this … Continue reading

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Mai Otome 0 S.ifr 3

Things got a bit emo in the second episode but I’ve been won over by the surprisingly strong (for SUNRISE, that is) ending. Most important for me was how much respect I gained for Sifr; in contrast, I could never … Continue reading

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Preaching to the UTF8 converted

With the dashboard nagging me to upgrade to WP 2.7, I decided that I might as well clear the UTF8 conversion issue first. Doing it the hard way turned out to a bit of a disaster. It didn’t help that … Continue reading

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The classic entry that leapt through domains

I’m not sure if jpmeyer and hinano will entertain requests (‘Mendou dakara!’ LOL) but my now-broken links to their former blogs itches like bugs on my brain. Of course I’d love for both blogs to be resurrected in their entirety … Continue reading

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