“Because the world isn’t as cruel as you take it to be”
Category: Anime/Manga (Page 10 of 11)
*quivering sigh* Leave it to Aria to paint that moving picture of the impossibly rare, and the indescribably amazing.
Here’s to your miracle, and to mine. May we know to relish it when our time comes.
(yes, I just got to this episode. :) )
The I-thought-would-be-awesome show that underperformed.
And the I-thought-would-suck show that kicked ass.
More than a little late now I know. I saw all the seasonal anime awards being given out all across the blogosphere, and then noticed that I haven’t posted an anisong for awhile. So I thought hey, why not :)
Personally I thought fall had been a season of really good music. A decent number of OP’s and ED’s captured me quickly and sufficiently so that I sat through them every week instead of skipping them. On top of that a couple of insert songs too were surprisingly good. There was plenty of competition for my favorite track of the season, but in the end I chose Only my Railgun for its upbeat and ringing sounds, its really great tune-lyric synchrony, and its simple, sheer electricity.
I suspect I’m gonna need a good bit of that electricity to survive the coming semester :(
Anyway, here it is. I make an exception to my ‘only post soothing, background-music-ish tunes’ rule to give you the Anisong of the Season. In case you don’t actually know, Only my Railgun is the OP to To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. Because the TV-size version of this song just isn’t awesome enough, I have posted the full-length version :)
Hit the jump for pic, lyrics and translations. Then hit F8 to play the song. Enjoy :)
So I was just down at Yin Obsessed Crazy Guy’s place trying to find some solace from the mindf*** episode 12 of DtB2 just put me through. And as usual, he and his throng of DtB apologist commenters did wonders to help disentangle the web of inconclusive nuances that malicious Bones keeps throwing at us. Sasuga desu!
Unfortunately I don’t have much to add to all of that discussion except a number more irresponsible questions. Hit the jump if you’d like to benevolently attempt to explain them to me. I should warn you though that if you’re here seeking answers, you’ll likely be disappointed :)
Who the HECK are you?
Finished Otoshimono! And here at the very end I must say I’m pretty glad after all that I didn’t drop this one. Who would’ve guessed, that character who started out as meh generic cutepoints jailbait blue-haired loli ended up becoming my favorite character in the show. It was the oldest cheat in the book – make a character look really adorable, give her some minor but cute and sweet developments, make the story treat her really (like really, REALLY) bad, then bring on the over-the-top-awesome we-will-save-you-cos-you’re-our-precious-friend thing. And oh did it sucker me :( I mean, even with all the nonsense we had to take watching this show up to this point, how can we help not tearfully smiling along when we see Nymph like this:
Oh, and I should add that that final episode at long last met and surpassed my bad-assery expectations. Good job Ikaros! And good job in general Sora no Otoshimono. You were actually pretty enjoyable, and if you ever reappear with a sequel, I’ll seriously consider picking you up again :)
“Life is but a fleeting reflection on the mirror of existence,
Permanence exists not, and if your heart speaks otherwise,
It lies to you.”
After epically failing my attempt at personally checking out all the new offerings last season, I’m gonna revert to my lazy-blogger’s method of doing seasonal picks – reading other people’s blogs :P I’m having too much fun with these other random shows to stop now anyway.
Episode 2 was another great episode. I’ll give plunging head-first into philosophy a pass for now since that’ll probably be further developed in later eps. So inspired by dai1313, I’m gonna attempt to do some geek-analysis of the going-ons instead.
Mild spoilers ahead!
ただいま!
I know it’s like two weeks late but what a beautiful end of arc right there. I wrote not long ago about how the uniqueness of the character relationships is the central draw of the series for me. Well, we came back full circle here at the end. I held my breath when Uiharu went up to meet a recovered Saten, and when they defined the moment with the skirt lift that was immediate gold for me. And then pan to Misaka and Kuroko for that necessary bit of Yuri cheek. For me it’s not just good fun there’s something amazing about these familiar acts. A channel through which feelings incommunicable in regular language could be delivered. Remember what I said about these little surface comedic interactions having developed latent, deeper meanings? Great, satisfying affirmation right there. And ooh that amazing amazing song in the background..
Is this show perfect? No. Does everything make sense? No. Are there flaws? Tonnes. But is it enjoyable? Hell Friggin yeah. And that indescribable, familiar glow it leaves you with at the end of the episode. Here’s that oft-quoted, cliched remark again: Reminds me of why I love anime.
*happy sigh* Okay! Back to clearing the backlogs.
PS. What what what what? Did I just hear that this show is gonna be two seasons long? Champaign anyone?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
-AAAAA OMG JUST ONE EPISODE DIDN’T EVEN PLAN ON IT JUST THOUGHT I’D TAKE A QUICK LOOK AND OH GAH BLOWN AWAY CAN’T EVEN TALK COHERENTLY JUST ONE EPISODE AAAAAAAA THE PREMISE THE AWESOME ANIMATION THE DETAIL THE SMOOTHNESS THE PRESENTATION THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS GAAAAH MUZ RECOMMEND TO FELLOW ASIMOV FANS NAO THE EXECUTION THE STYLE PREDICTABLE STORY BUT OH THE RICH SUBTLETY AND THE UNEXPECTED PRETTINESS THE SOUNDS THE FEEL OH HOW DESPICABLY TANTALIZING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Dustin this is all your fault.
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