Category Archives: anime

Somewhat Derivative Anime

Posted on October 27, 2010 by baudattitude

I really quite liked Urusei Yatsura, which is fortunate because anime studios seem to keep remaking it in one form or another.  Tenchi Muyo was probably the best remake, swapping out the generally unlikable Ataru for a main character who … Continue reading →

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Weird 90’s Anime: Weathering Continent

Posted on September 30, 2010 by baudattitude

I have a long and complicated history with a rather forgettable bit of 90s anime called “The Weathering Continent”, or Kaze no Tairiku if you want to get all Japanese on me. Like a lot of anime, I ran across … Continue reading →

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Photography revisited

Posted on September 18, 2010 by baudattitude

So, almost three years ago – dear god, it’s been that long? – I put this post up where I griped about having trouble getting good photographs of, well, stuff, specifically anime figurines. Anyway, I got some useful comments on … Continue reading →

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Rants about manga

Posted on September 12, 2010 by baudattitude

Summer’s pretty much ended in Oregon, we’ve got rainy days and cloudy skies in our future for the foreseeable future, and the temperature is dropping down into the low teens celsius.  In addition, I just read an article at Colony … Continue reading →

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It’s 80s Anime Week!

Posted on March 12, 2010 by baudattitude

…well, apparently it is. After watching “Angel’s Egg”, I got to thinking. Back in the early 90s, I used to trade anime with a gentleman in Arizona who had an amazing list of anime – both subtitled and raw – … Continue reading →

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Well, curiosity sated.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by baudattitude

Over the years, I’ve occasionally seen the question “Is Anime art?” and I’ve always stayed well away from it because the people arguing both for and against the concept were generally scary people who were taking things Just A Little … Continue reading →

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Weekend recap

Posted on March 8, 2010 by baudattitude

Movies & anime from the weekend, with thoughts: The New God (Atarashii Kamisama) I didn’t know anything about this – apart from the title, and that it had English subtitles – when I checked it out from the school library, … Continue reading →

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Good Intentions

Posted on March 2, 2010 by baudattitude

I realized recently that an awful lot of posts of late had been about, well, fan-service-heavy anime and games, and I wanted to try to offset that in some manner, to point out that I wasn’t a complete perv and … Continue reading →

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Random Bits & Pieces

Posted on March 2, 2010 by baudattitude

Some things here that didn’t deserve a full post. Watched “Tokyo!” last night, which is a collection of three short films set in, well, Tokyo. The first of the three, titled “Interior Design”, was pretty good, though I thought it … Continue reading →

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This SEEMS educational…

Posted on March 1, 2010 by baudattitude

I’ve been taking a Japanese literature series at school this year, and I’m in my second term.  The last first term covered everything from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki to Muromachi period writings, so this term started with the Edo … Continue reading →

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