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12 Days of Xmas: Day 12 – Lucky Star’s Breadth of Conversations

December 26, 2007 in Specials by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment


Bet you never thought of this way of giving presents?

Yes, I am aware that today is Boxing Day but I won’t consider this twelfth and final entry in this year’s “12 Days of Christmas” retrospective (sponsored by the Anime Blogging Collective) to be very late since I got some of my presents, including a new wristwatch, today, For this last highlight, I will return to Lucky Star and not focus on any particular moment (e.g. the Inital D parody, Comiket, the cosplay cafe) but rather something that spanned the series and carried it through its twenty-four episodes – the variety of topics that were discussed between Konata, Tsukasa, Kagami, Miyuki, and others.
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12 Days of Xmas – Day 11: Romeo & Juliet Redux

December 25, 2007 in Specials by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment

Once again I refer to an anime I began watching in anime club for my eleventh anime-related thing I’ll remember from 2007 but then again it’s been that kind of a year for me with regards to watching stuff. The loose reimagining of Romeo and Juliet by Gonzo is better in some parts than the original and worse in others but it has been entertaining to watch so far for the first eight episodes, something that might not last long considering it’s Gonzo.
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12 Days of Xmas – (Late) Day 10: The Fanime Panel

December 24, 2007 in Specials by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments


This is actually the Pangya panel that was before mine at Fanime

I couldn’t think of something not personal for what was supposed to be the tenth thing for yesterday’s intended “12 Days of Xmas” post so I conceded to write about the experience of putting on a panel at Fanime, the steps I had to go through, and why I am reluctant to devise holding another one at any convention unless I have a really great and structured idea.
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12 Days of Xmas – Day 9: Piecing Together Akira Kogami’s Backstory

December 22, 2007 in Specials by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 3 comments

Okay, the ninth anime-related thing that interested me in 2007 is something that actually hasn’t been revealed that much: Akira Kogami’s life before Lucky Channel. The basic fact we find out about Minoru’s co-host is that she was a former idol but not much else. I was interested in the mystery so I rewatched Lucky Channel segments and took note of all the references Akira made to earlier in her career in an attempt to construct a short back story for her.
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12 Days of Xmas – Day 8: Bokura Ga Ita’s Awkward Moments

December 21, 2007 in Specials, Video by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment

In yet another “12 Days of Xmas” look at a show currently running in anime club, the eighth anime-related “highlight” for me this year has been the awkward moments that turned into laughs in Bokura Ga Ita. Yes, I know that the two main characters suffer from “missing eye syndrome” (as exhibited above), the music is average, and Nana Takahashi is dumb as a brick. But her naivety and dimness paired with Yano’s latent sex drive and childish aloofness make for some funny moments and save the anime from being brought down by the emotional flashbacks about Yano’s previous (and now deceased) girlfriend Nana, who annoyingly looks like she was Takahashi’s older sister. Srsly, guys.

Anyway, I went and made a bunch of clips (15 in total) from the first third of the series and embedded them below.
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