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Lucky Star: You’re Fine, Just Don’t Emulate Haruhi

April 20, 2007 in Anime by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 7 comments

There has been a surprising disparity of love and hate for the first two episodes of Lucky Star within in the blogging community, the “drama” of which I am certain will be a topic in my panel at Fanime next month. After watching the first couple myself, I have to say that I fall in the middle of the pack. For me, the anime so far hasn’t been laugh out loud funny nor has it been so lacking in humor that it was painful to watch. I’ll still watch it for the comedy and framing but, barring anything super spectacular, it won’t be residing in my favorites and I won’t be blogging it on a regular basis. Read the rest of this entry »

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Potluck: AAA Errata, Haruhi DVD Ordering, Show Suggestions

March 2, 2007 in Potluck by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 2 comments


There was also a head-on camera angle.

Okay, first off: I have two corrections to make to Monday’s AAA post. #1 is that the individual awards are also called Mechas. I could have sworn I had read about that name a couple months ago and just plain forgot until I looked at some of the stories published after the ceremony. #2 is that you CAN stream the ceremony online, according to ANN. (Windows Media Player handled it well for me.) After the jump: my experience watching the awards, comments on the Haruhi R1 dual-ordering, and a call for suggestions of anime to show during empty spots in club. Read the rest of this entry »

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Itsuki “suki”, Kyon “moan”

February 24, 2007 in Music, Reviews by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 3 comments

OK, this hopefully will be the final set of reviews for Haruhi character singles I will write because I’ve started to look back at how I rated previous songs in aiding me with scoring future ones and I shouldn’t really doing that. Anyway, volumes 8 and 9 of Koizumi and Kyon, respectively, finished off the ennead (group of nine) on a good note albeit with one thing that annoyed me. Also: I changed the poll question to “which MoSH character had the best single?” because the Kickoff ’07 one has been up for about a month. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kyon’s Sister, Emiri, Drama CD Review

February 11, 2007 in Music, Reviews by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 3 comments

Every time a Haruhi character single comes out, I feel the need to review it. It’s almost like a tradition, one that I’m slowly starting to dislike. That said, I hope that the eighth and ninth volumes, Kyon and Itsuki respectively, will be the last ones because (i) the character pool is starting to look VERY thin if Lantis decides to publish a tenth volume (would Shimasen sing old samurai songs?) and (ii) Kyon’s sister underwhelmed me. Also, I enjoyed the Haruhi drama CD even though I couldn’t understand much of the spoken dialogue. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dammit, Now I Have To Eat My Salty Words!

January 30, 2007 in Anime, Commentary, Licenses by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment

Last week was full of appetizing announcements regarding licenses and release dates but now that I think about it, I realize I’ve written some interesting posts about some of the anime involved in those press releases and that I have certain obligations to buy each of them (Tsubasa, Haruhi, Solid State Society) — or at least the first volumes of ‘em. Come along with me and look back at what I now slightly regret writing.
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