Muteki Kanban Musume was the only summer season series that I picked up and it’s been buckets of fun. While I like all the characters in the cast, especially the antagonism between Miki and Megumi, I eventually voted for Kayahara-sensei in the current AoMM poll. Apparently Jason is surprised that she’s in the lead. After all, she’s only a supporting character, doesn’t feature in the OP and doesn’t even have screentime for half of the series (1-3, 6-8). But almost every time she appears (出ã£ãŸï½žï½žï½ž!!!), I had a good laugh. Right from the start, with the use of TV static - and I just love The Ring parodies since the original movie scared me shitless. Plus she’s got the oneesama factor. ;)
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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’