Month: November 2008

Miscellaneous

Winter 2009 Preview

Before we start, let me say this: there is no way I can possibly enjoy the upcoming season more than the current one, even aside from ef. Fall 2008 has been one of the best seasons I remember in quite some time, and so it would be unfair to expect the same level of quality from the upcoming Winter. However, that doesn’t mean that my hype is totally dead; I’ve got a couple things I’m looking forward to, and a few more that look promising. Either way, read on for a quick browse of what we’ll be watching in a month’s time.

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Episodic

ef – a tale of melodies [ep 7]

A mere week after the biggest twist of the series – and still one of my favourite scenes ever – the Kuze/Mizuki arc shoots forward in leaps and bounds. If you thought it couldn’t get any better, then…well, I suppose you were half wrong. Melodies hasn’t gotten better in my eyes, but then again, how could anything that I perceive as perfect possibly become better than perfect?

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Merchandise

Artbook Review – Happy Soda vol 1

For those of you who may have missed the news, super rats of Happy Soda recently released a figure photography doujin, sold for only a week at lulu.com. I believe the final statistics were that 25 people ordered a copy, and as one of the 25 who happens to run an anime blog, I felt obligated to write a post about it. Besides, for any of you who have visited Happy Soda before, you’ll probably agree that the man’s photography skills are superb – and like always, things look better on paper than they do on a monitor.

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Episodic

ef – a tale of melodies [ep 6]

The story seemed pretty innocent so far, didn’t it? Considering the genre, as well as the first season, we all knew that a few heartbreaking twists were bound to come at some point – forgotten memories, a painful childhood, something of the sort. We’ve seen these things all too many times in Key anime to be surprised any more. On top of that, I myself assumed (and hoped) that we would get another awesome love triangle in the second season, because even though my choice was made from the first episode, I throughly enjoyed – in a perfectly ordinary manner – watching Kei and Miyako fight over Hiro. It added a little flair to an otherwise ordinary plot, and the romance overtones are something that can bring me to watch almost anything.

But this…this isn’t ordinary. Nor is it cliche, or romantic, or in any way moe. This is one of the best episodes of anime I’ve ever seen in my life, and this is serious business.

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