I’m usually pretty prompt with these entries, generally doing them about a month out. I’ve been slacking off recently I guess, since next season’s only a week away and I’ve already been beaten to this by some far more thorough entries than my own. Anyway, here’s a list of the upcoming shows next season (beginning in July) which I intend to be watching or at least have enough interest in to check out seriously. As usual there’s a few others which I’m also going to keep an eye on and I’m sure there will be one or two that I won’t be expecting at all.
Continue reading ‘July 2008 Anime’
My anime watching habits seem to increasingly fall into a certain pattern. Whenever a new season starts I will invariably gorge myself on the latest shows, reveling in their general newness. Usually I justify this by saying that I’m ‘trying them out’ to determine which shows I’ll follow on a weekly basis. In actuality that choice is usually made well in advance, though in the end it is somewhat dependent on the mercurial whimsy of fansub groups and my own personal and exacting requirements as to when and how our subtitle pirates purvey them. But I digress. We are now well into the meat of the current season, and I find this is usually the point that I’ve pretty much abandoned most shows as a weekly indulgence, paring the list right down to just a few. It’s not that I lack time, though it is true that my temporal management skills are somewhat lacking, but if I desired I am certain I could fit other shows into my rotation. Instead, I find myself repeating the same pattern I went through in previous seasons: rather than watch what’s current, I find myself going through my ever-expanding pile of complete shows from seasons gone by. I’ll settle on a ‘new’ show and consume it completely in the space of a few days.
Anyway, this was an overly-long lead-in to what I hoped might become a semi-regular (hah!) thing here, wherein I talk about an older show that I’ve recently finished watching. Any semblance of content on this site is an improvement, I think. Admittedly it’s actually taken me several weeks to get around to finishing this entry.
I don’t have any intention to write this as a review or a summary. I assume that most people have actually seen these things by now. You can find that information in a lot of other places. My intention is more to just give general impressions and observations about the show in question and its significance (if any), since I think that actually has the potential to be somewhat more interesting than the usual overly-worded garbage I vomit up here.
Anyway, by now everyone knows that Slayers is getting a new outing next season. I can’t help thinking that the producers missed the bus on that one about five years ago, but whatever. Let’s talk about Slayers Next!
Continue reading ‘Old Animu: Slayers Next’
Today’s random thought: I like the way our current blog theme (slightly customised K2) looks, but it is pretty flawed. Everything feels a bit constricted, I’m really not a fan of the whole AJAX Archives system since it loses your position if you navigate away from the page and come back again, and most importantly the thing is tiny. It’s like a tiny little island of content afloat in a massive wide sea of pinku, at least on my monitor (1920×1200). It was built for 800×600 minimum, but does anyone really use below 1024×768 nowadays? The width really frustrates me too, as it means that any images used in posts have to be really small and given that a lot of our content is vector artwork that’s an unfortunate compromise.
I’m also still not 100% sold on Wordpress, though to be honest I doubt that there’s anything better out there. There definitely doesn’t seem to be a decent gallery plugin for it that would be right for what I need (one ‘image’ with links to multiple variations, i.e. resolutions).
Comments and thoughts are appreciated.
EDIT: Embiggenment complete. I can have decent sized images now, yay.
So, due to an interesting alignment of circumstances my father somehow ended up getting given a brand new camera, which he passed on to me since apparently I’m the only one that didn’t have one. Additionally, my Alter 1/1 Scale Reinforce Zwei arrived in the mail this morning so I had something to test it out.
What can we tell from this? Given that it’s pretty much the only half-decent photo of a set of about 30, we can assume that a) I am terrible at photography, b) the camera was free for a reason (though it’s not terrible and if I can figure out how to get it to stop compressing the damned images it’ll look nicer) and c) I desperately, desperately need new curtains. And also a new cabinet to store all these things in, they’re taking over my bedroom and my cabinet’s been full for months. I actually still have a couple in boxes because I don’t have space.
You know, instead of teasing fans with a project that’ll never happen, ADV should just take the 50 million or so they’ve raised for their hypothetical live action Evangelion and just put it to licensing the new Rebuild of Evangelion movies and promoting the everloving shit out of them. Get those into mainstream theaters, because not only has Anno soundly beat them to the punch at getting a cinematic Eva remake out there, but his is so well done that there’s really no way ADV could top it.
Continue reading ‘Rebuild of Evangelion: Parentheses in (THE) Title’
