Long after this particular train has left the station, I'vedecided to climb on board. You can find me as cks_anime .

It's already proving vaguely handy for quick reactions and snarkycomments that are too short to make entries here, or at least to makeentries that make me happy. Expect more of the same and maybe someconversations with other Twitter people. I may someday start aggregatingthe standalone tweets here, but who knows.

(Entries here feel kind of heavyweight, since they need

noitaminA is a programmingblock that is either derided or saluted (depending on your perspective)for running 'arty' and experimental shows instead of your usual fair. Idon't usually pay much attention to things surrounding the shows that Iwatch (like staff ), so from anime blog reading so farI've vaguely had the impression that it was mostly uninteresting (andoften pretentious) anime with much more misses than hits.

(For example, Fractale was a noitaminA show. The general consensusis that it

Quoted from randomc's episode 6 writeup :

[Mizushima and Aikawa] have already proved themselves adept attranslating unusual source material to anime by the brilliant jobthey did with Oh! Edo Rocket , which was adapted from a stage play byNakashima Kazuki (who also wrote Gurren Lagann ) [...]

I generally barely notice exactly who the creative staff behind animeworks are, but this is a set of connections that genuinely startles andimpresses me.

(One interesting note is that according to ANN Mizushima also directed

Another season brings another set of shows that I've seen a few episodesof. Now I want to write down my impressions of them so that I can lookback later and reflect on how wrong I was. This is a smaller set thanI've done previously ; for various reasons, I haven'thad as much time and enthusiasm for watching anime lately.

Shows I've seen, more or less in the order seen:

• Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai : The first two episodes were goofy

It's easy for me to write an entry on my early impressions of a season,full of blind optimism that's based on a few episodes of a show. It'smuch harder to look back after the fact and admit to myself (and others)where I was wrong, where what I was watching didn't work out and was awaste of time that I should have given up on earlier. Staying silent isthe easy way, but I've come to feel that it'

This link requires a bit of explanation (if only so that I canremember it later). The person I'm linking to took a standardcolour checker test target and took a properly exposed shot thena series at increasing positive exposure compensations (ie,exposing to the right), postprocessed all of the overexposed photosto correctly expose them again, and then cropped strips of thecolour targets and stacked the same strips from each exposure.The goal is to clearly see any colour shifts caused by ETTR .

(As

This may be a good bike computer for someone, but it certainly isn'tone for me. My experiences with two units have been negative.

My first dZ4L lasted only a few weeks after I bought it; it failed tosurvive a relatively modest Toronto autumn rain. As far as I can see,this is intrinsic in the design of the computer; the transparent plastictop seems to be simply pressed very firmly on the main unit, not sealed.This is basically tailor made for capillary action around

In his usual curmudgeon way, Aroduc has beengrumpy about how the protagonists of Dantalian have just stood aroundfor the past two episodes and watched while things happened around them.This has led me to a realization about Dantalian 's genre.

Put simply, Dantalian is horror, not action. As horror, Huey andDalian are our viewpoint to witness things and explain them, butthey may or may not have to take any action to resolve the situationand return it to normality. In fact the running theme of the

(This is the kind of thing that I would put on Twitter if I had a Twitteraccount. Maybe I should get one. PS: spoiler, sort of.)

Boy, Saya was surprisingly cold-blooded in episode 3 when she juststood by and let the nice innocent baker walk into the monster to getunpleasantly killed. Especially since the show went out of its way toshow that the baker hadn't already been mentally consumed by the monster(he was just under its control or something) and