Sword Art Online Episode 8

“This plate armor… it’s so soft…”

There comes a time in every blogger’s life when he/she comes across an episode beyond redemption.  I have been able to sit through seven episodes of this kind without rageblogging, but now that episode 8 of SAO proved to fail miserably in every single frame, I have no choice but to kick and scream and break shit until episode 9 breaks my expectations of how low an anime can get.

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How to Time Travel

Banana.

The latest episode (7) of Jinrui featured fairy banana-induced time travel with the goal of making cakes.  This is certainly Jinrui-esque: a very complicated procedure to achieve an ironically trivial result, making it funny.  But what I want to focus on is not why Jinrui is the best anime of 2012 (which it is), but why its take on time travel is IMPECCABLE!

Or close enough.

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On Kokoro Connect

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Sankarea: What a Shame

The phrase “hit or miss” is often used to describe shows which appeal only to a very specific group of viewers.  In Sankarea’s case, a more appropriate term would be “hit and miss,” with just barely more hits than misses.

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Space Brothers

I’m only watching two shows this season: Eureka Seven AO and Space Brothers.  If you guys could recommend some other good ones (not crappy jazz), that’d be great.

Eureka Seven has the best music I’ve heard in an anime in a while.  Repetitive, yes, but when the music starts, you know Ao’s going to kick some ass.  Space Brothers, too, has some great music.  It’s got some string stuff that comes in at important times to say “hey, this is touching.”  And, surprisingly, it works!

But besides that, Space Brothers is a failure.

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