I’ll actually make a conscious effort to avoid major and specific plot spoilers here, both because you probably haven’t read IO (literally イオ) and because I want you to. I won’t say I guarantee you’ll like it if you have an interest in harem, or can get past the harem veneer, but it’s worth a [...]
All posts for the month January, 2010
IO, and a harem protagonist like no other
Posted by Pontifus on 30 January 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/01/30/io-and-a-harem-protagonist-like-no-other/
Meditations on Sora no Woto and…lots of things
By “lots of things” I mean war and soldiering; mixed technology; “Amazing Grace,” music, and sound; art and the making thereof; and slice of life group dynamics. Each episode might revolve around the delivery of some sentimental idea — hey, it’s slice of life — but Sora no Woto is shaping up to be something [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 28 January 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/01/28/meditations-on-sora-no-woto-and-lots-of-things/
Seasons of giving in slice of life
Here’s something that occurred to me the other day when I was stumbling as usual through the fiction-writing process: speculative slice of life anime and manga, even those with some emphasis on festivals, rarely include an event analogous to Christmas as manifest in the United States. This is not to say that gifts aren’t given [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 22 January 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/01/22/seasons-of-giving-in-slice-of-life/
Zeta Gundam in the history of violence
I’m twelve episodes into Zeta Gundam (which is in turn the fifth series in my project to acquaint myself, finally, with UC Gundam), and I suppose it’s about time that I started collecting my thoughts. I’d probably misplace them otherwise, and that wouldn’t do. What strikes me (lolpun) about Zeta is the willingness of its [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 18 January 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/01/18/zeta-gundam-in-the-history-of-violence/
Mapping the interstice (Durarara!! continues)
I have no intention whatsoever of episodic-blogging Durarara!! (I won’t have time, probably). But as long as it keeps impressing me — by which I mean, necessarily selfishly, working for and with me — I’ll no doubt continue to devote a bit of time every once in a while to figuring the thing out via [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 16 January 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/01/16/mapping-the-interstice-durarara-continues/
Why so military, Sora no Woto?
So I’m checking out Sora no Woto (Sora no Oto? So・Ra・No・Wo・To? Sora no Whateverthehell, anyway) this season, because I like the humanity-in-decline slice of life with a touch of music angle, but there’s one thing I don’t get. Why the military motif? It seems unusual here; the last thing I’d imagine these characters carrying around [...]
Posted by Pontifus on 13 January 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/01/13/why-so-military-sora-no-woto/
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