{"id":3776,"date":"2011-04-17T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:57:52","slug":"last-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/last-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Last impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perhaps it’s because I’m in a sour mood, but nearly everything I’ve sampled recently has bored or annoyed me.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera<\/b><\/i> \u2014 A Go Nagai creation with a high-gloss finish: juvenile humor, mild smuttiness, a manic pace and no subtlety whatsoever. High school sophomores will love it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hanasaku Iroha<\/b><\/i> \u2014 One narrative motif I loathe is the protagonist making a spectacularly bad initial impression on her new associates at the beginning of the story. Hanasaku Iroha<\/b><\/i> might actually be a good show, but I couldn’t make it through the first episode. Update<\/strong>: It’s just as well I didn’t. Yeesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tiger and Bunny<\/b><\/i> \u2014 The first half of the first episode was fun, but then my interest flagged. The premise does have some satirical potential, and I might give it a second chance when I’m less grouchy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dog Days<\/b><\/i> \u2014 I wish I could like this \u2014 there are dog-girls and cat-girls, all very cute, no one gets killed, and the hero actually does have some genuine ability \u2014 but it just hasn’t caught my interest. Perhaps I haven’t played enough video games.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Tetsuko no Tabi<\/b><\/i> \u2014 A show about train otaku for train otaku from several years ago. Someone decided to sub it. Why?<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Epic of Zektbach<\/b><\/i> \u2014 A female warrior in a land where women bare their midriffs wields a sword that makes her invincible. There is a downside to using the sword, and all ends badly. The creators tried to make the story a parable about science and technology by flashing numbers, chemical diagrams and mathematical formulae on the screen whenever the sword is drawn. It doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

It looks like C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control<\/a><\/b><\/i> is the only spring show worth watching, and that’s assuming that Nakamura focuses on telling a story rather than editorializing.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps it’s because I’m in a sour mood, but nearly everything I’ve sampled recently has bored or annoyed me. \u2022 Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera \u2014 A Go Nagai creation with a high-gloss finish: juvenile humor, mild smuttiness, a manic pace and no subtlety whatsoever. High school sophomores will love it. \u2022 Hanasaku Iroha \u2014 One narrative … Continue reading “Last impressions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-viewing","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-YU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}