Friends, Romans, Countrymen, but not Norma (they’re less than human)! Lend me your ears! There was no rape or grope scene in this week’s episode of Cross Ange. But you DO get Ange pissing herself out of utter fear. So I guess that irons it out and you still have something to be offended by! I have yet to remember the last time a show really laid it thick on the protagonist that his or her new lot in life…
I’ve decided to take it upon myself to chronicle Cross Ange. This may not be surprising given how my impression of the first episode could be said to be the most ‘positive’ of the bunch (although I completely understand everyone’s revulsion to it). You are right to think I am crazy to cover this, but think of it as a public service. I watch this so you don’t have to; you get live your life of no inequality, poverty, war…
For my initial impression on Aldnoah.Zero, please refer to my entry on the Summer Clusterfuck Week 1. When I first experienced Aldnoah.Zero, I summed up my opinion piece *points upward enthusiastically*, with the note that this is Urobuchi at his most blasé. Well… little did I know Urobuchi would depart by Episode 3’s end, leaving the rest of the season under someone else’s responsibility. So, as a result what I saw after the first three episodes was not the intended…
One of my associates made a rather poignant statement when he expressed the appeal of Kenzen Robo Daimidaler. He noted it was a love letter to all the shitty OVAs released in the 1990s. I don’t think the word ‘love’ aptly describes the contents of the letter Daimidaler wrote. Instead of wistful nostalgia and gentlemanly kisses to a long ago love, the ‘love’ letter is written crudely with a lot of eager rhetoric detailing weird, bizarre things it wants to…
Of all the scenes I remember in the original How to Train Your Dragon, it was the moment where Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is confronted by his father Stoick the Vast (Gerard Buter) about befriending a dragon. Eventually it comes to a head where Stoick declares “They killed hundreds of us!” and Hiccup retorts “And we killed thousands of them!” I was struck odd by the peculiar disparity of the casualty numbers between Vikings and dragons; as if Hiccup was insinuating…
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has its fair share of formidable villains. No, I’m not talking about the Big Bads within the series but something a bit more abstract. Season 2’s true Big Bad was the absence of Lauren Faust from the majority part of the creative process; Season 3’s was a short 13-episode season that halfway as it was about to hit its stride, somebody started playing award show wrap-up music; and for Season 4 the show confronted…
Editor’s Note: Hello and Welcome to After the Cel Shading, where we down the triumphs and trip-ups of recently finished cartoons like glasses of iced tea/cyanide smoothies/whatever. Hopefully you didn’t understand the reference, but this is something I want to do to get myself off the ground as well as help to encapsulate a number of opinions that would either be lost on Twitter or on some random forum. So have fun, or not, but probably you should. Maybe get…