Retsgip’s Anime Blog

Darkshaunz wants a homicidal croagunk.

Score: 8.0/10 (Gregal is The Bomb)

Holy crap what is happening to Bleach? Not just the anime, but the manga too. In fact, the anime is crapping so hard, I think the butts of the creators are sore with failure. I’ve never seen our friend Danny score an episode so low, truth is, I’d have scored it even lower (he’s really too patient). The manga, I’ve nearly given up on it, to be honest (longfight is longer than goddamned longcat). So in my depression and severe lack of Rukia, I turn to Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for any hope of an anime I could enjoy for the next few weeks, as I wait for Bleach to stop sucking harder than an LG Vacuum cleaner. I was pleasantly surprised, and figured that if an anime had to be filler, they should learn from Pokemon.
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Darkshaunz wants Bleach, not cake

Score: 5.0/10 (Hanatarou saves this from a total catastrophe)

What the hell happened here? You know something is wrong when they have to bring in Yamada Hanatarou in to save a Bleach episode from failing this way to Moscow. Do you see the five points up there? It’s all thanks to Hanatarou. The other missing five points is from the uber-faggotry we would all love to call the current fillers of Bleach. It’s not even a filler arc, and fails miserably when compared to what looks like a massively superior Bounto arc. Whilst episode 133 was done exceptionally well for a Filler, 134 and 135 looks to deliver yet more failburgers.

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Yet another wannabe cult ED…

The proper way to blog Lucky Star, which takes less than 5 minutes:

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When enticing fantasy becomes gritty reality

We’ve all imagined it, we’ve all dreamed of it. The thought of entering another dimension unlike our own, tasting, feeling and breathing the air of another space-time belonging to our biggest passion. The world of anime is the stuff of fantasy, and we’ve always dreamt of shaking hands with Frieza or dating Haruhi. Just like in Zero no Tsukaima, a young man walks into a dimension of magic and delicious flat chest, but its not all fun and games. What if you’re transported into the dimension of anime? Will you be able to survive?

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Darkshaunz is feelin’ Lucky.

Lucky Thoughts on: Episodes 1 and 2

I can’t hop from place to place these days, without bumping into KyoAni’s Lucky Star series. I know I receive the Slowpoke award for having a look into it only now when the series has already reached the halfway point of the season. Truth be told, the character designs were so alien (see: “WTF is this design!?” kind of alien) from what I was used to, I was put off just on the aesthetics. Rets managed to stomach it and finish it up to episode 13, so in true warrior spirit, I swallowed my doubts and tried my hand at the first two episodes. It’s no Azumanga Daioh, It’s no Genshiken, but Lucky Star puts a sometimes boring yet uniquely intriguing spin on the Slice O’ Life genre.

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Darkshaunz questions the business of anime

As it turns out, we hail from an anime age of conventions and formulae. It used to be that in the past, when animation companies were still finding out their own groove, there was always that little margin of error for their own individual flare and approach. Those subtle and unique flavours no doubt exist even today amongst different animation studios, but it may be the case that the diversity is being ironed out simply because animation companies are fighting for the same pie continuously.

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