♦ Occult Academy To my delight, this turned out every bit as good as expected. There wasn’t this conventional and predictable feeling to it that almost all other anime of this season have, both episode 1 & 2 simply stood out in terms of directing and mood. I felt a whiff of old-school here [...]
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Summer Season Impressions
Posted in Animation, Impressions, Summer Season on July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
K-ON!! #4
Posted in Animation, Animator, Impressions, Kyoto Animation, Spring Season on April 30, 2010 | 9 Comments »
All four episodes of ‘K-ON!!’ that have aired so far were truly impressive in terms of production quality and very enjoyable as well. Somehow I feel that Kyoto Animation has changed a bit since their last series (Haruhi 2009), maybe it’s the experience of working on a theatrical movie. There has always been this [...]
Fall Season 2009 Impressions: Part 2
Posted in Animation, Fall Season, Impressions on October 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
♦ Kuchu Buranko The first episode undoubtedly meets my expectations of an innovative and refreshing visual experience with interesting script and concept, so it comes as no surprise that Kuchu Buranko is the most convincing anime of the fall season in my book. It’s interesting to see anime which push the medium into new [...]
Fall Season 2009 Impressions: Part 1
Posted in Fall Season, Impressions on October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
♦ To Aru Kagaku no Railgun It comes as no surprise that the first episode features some excellent work both on the directing and animation side of things, certainly one of the most impressive first episodes this season. There’s a whole army of animation directors on this episode (9), which says a lot about [...]
