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BattleHork
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Akikan is to soft drinks what The Humanoid was to coffee.
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neocloud9
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I liked Un-Go too. I'll even be cosplaying Inga (little boy version) at a convention soon.
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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moving on... well it's nice to see un-go getting some lime-light. Also that collection this week.. pretty nice I am pretty jelly of those misaka posters... |
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Sailor S
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I was kinda hoping that with The Stream column that streams wouldn't be featured in this one anymore, seeing as you can't really put streams on a shelf. But, I guess there's only so much time in the week, and if you're watching streams, that's just that much less time to watch physical media, so it's here to stay whether I agree with it or not.
Anyways, I have to agree with Princess Resurrection. I'm currently slogging my way through the second collection (at least it's not a spindle pack) and if it weren't for the fact that I paid good money for it, I'd likely drop it. It just doesn't seem to be going anywhere, whereas the manga at least appeared to be moving in a certain direction. Ah well, not the worst title I've ever spent money on, and probably won't be the last stinker I pick up. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I've gathered that The Stream is a column that follows shows as they're airing, and in in Shelf Life it's to review either the whole think or large chunks of it at once. |
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Snomaster1
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I remember hearing about "Akikan." It was on another anime review site called THEM Anime Reviews. If I remember correctly,the reviewer didn't really like it all that much. More to the point,he hated the show. So,now it's been brought here. I doubt that that reviewer's going to like that.
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Apollo-kun
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But seriously, I don't understand how Akikan is rental worthy when it's a bunch of otaku pandering, whereas Princess Resurrection is a clever (if somewhat overly long) send-up of slasher movie tropes. Sometimes, I don't understand Erin's tastes... But hey, to each their own, I suppose 
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Apollo-kun
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Shenl742
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For some reason Akikan reminds me of some cartoon from the 90s/80s where toys would come alive...think one involved Creepy Crawlers.
Princess Ressurectioin...all I know is that I keep mixing it up with Murder Princess...which I actually got for cheap and I hope is good. Hope to get Un-Go someday |
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darkchibi07
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Know anyone else doing the female version? |
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Stark700
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Un-go is an underrated anime imo, it definitely deserves some praise or even a season 2.
This guy definitely has an interesting collection imo..the Shana posters, Misaka, Haruhi figures, and Un-go DVDs. |
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neocloud9
Posts: 1178 Location: Atlanta, GA |
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Yep! I'd cosplay the female version, but sadly I am neither 7 feet tall nor a D-cup. Alas. I'll be there with my little brother (who already towers over me) who may or may not be cosplaying as TK from Angel Beats. |
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LaFreccia
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I really liked Un-Go. It reminded me of deeply psychological / social criticism SF from the '60s/'70s. I'm looking forward to the release of Episode 0 (which covers the meeting of Inga and Yuuki (to be released in Japan on April 20).
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Animegomaniac
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"Writing about wolfmen, vampires and whatever's popular right now" or the 1930-50s Universal Film series as well as other movies, whichever's more insulting but hey, thanks for telling us that you know people who are doing some cashing in of their own.
You didn't like the show, got that, You're not the audience, I figured that even before I clicked the link, but I did expect a better written review or at least one that was better punctuated. Princess Resurrection was one of the few standalone series I could, well, stand. A series that had the nerve to take the "monster of the week" format to its literal meaning once again. It's campy fun if you're of the right mind. Or in the right mind or out of your mind, it's one of those. It's a spindle pack? Actually, that is perishable. What is wrong with these people? They use cases that make the Funimation SAVE editions look like they're the quality, first run releases. |
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Megiddo
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I think I've kind of figured it out. If it's really really bad like Akikan is, then Erin can find some sort of enjoyment out of it. This isn't the first pile of excrement that she has stamped a 'rental' on, and it certainly won't be the last. And yes, when a great studio like Brains Base, who did Durarara, Kurenai, Mawaru Penguindrum, Kamichu, Baccano, Natsume Yuujinchou, etc. puts in the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel animation/art, then I think it's pretty safe to say that even the studio didn't even enjoy working on the show. So yeah, if a show is really really bad, then it reaches some level of 'so bad it's decent' for Erin. Whereas if shows don't quite reach that level of terribleness, but that she has some issues over a portion of the content, then that's most likely going to teeter over into flushable territory. This is a show about anthropomorphized soda/drink cans that requires the protagonist to kiss them so that they can maintain a certain level of CO2. Girls are required to kiss the protagonist if they want to continue their existence. I don't know, that seems kind of... wrong to me. But I just have to facepalm that Akikan received higher accolades from her than Gunslinger Girl. Maybe Gunslinger Girl should not have dealt with all those moral quandaries and should have been some generic harem show about girls as anthropomorphized guns. Hey wait, that plot sounds similar. Oh yeah! It's actually happening in the spring with the Xebec adaptation of the Upotte!! manga. Can't wait to see another 'so bad it's decent' slapped onto that. Oh, and did Sentai's set not include the hot springs OVA? I doubt you could miss Grape's sexualization there. But maybe if she was just in a swimsuit on the beach instead of naked in an onsen then Erin would have spend 2 paragraphs about the definition of lolicon like she did for a certain other show's OVA. |
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