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This is one awesome kid’s show.

Watched Gurren Lagann episode 4 again, and I do have to say that the character animation was pretty dismal. I do appreciate that there is a degree of artistic merit and style in the work, but it’s just totally unappealing to me. This kind of work only works in context. Basically, keep the Studio 4c in Studio 4c, please. Not in my Sunday morning cartoons. Work like this really has no place in mainstream works in general, especially coming out of the blue like it did here. I can understand the desire to experiment, but when you’ve already set a standard, something like this is totally off putting.

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Anime Boston sketch dump. Quick and easy. Comics like these aren’t really funny, I guess. They’re just things that happened. You kind of had to have been there to divine any kind of humour out of these situations. I’d write more about the con but I kind of forgot it all. That, and I don’t feel like it. Check this blog post instead. NSFW, btw.

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I generally don’t enjoy being serious here. In fact, I generally don’t enjoy being serious at all. But sometimes, certain things just need to be addressed. I’m sure by now anyone who lives in the US would have heard about the Virginia Tech shooting. Usually something like this wouldn’t dwell in my mind for too long, but this one hit a little close to home. I have a cousin that goes to VTech. Thankfully she is ok, but it kind of made me realize that these kinds of thing do have a chance happening to me and people I know. It’s kind of a scary thought.

Anyway, moving on to more pleasant matters…

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The art site has been updated for the second day in a row (!) with an erotic picture of Yoko from Gurren Lagann. Check it out.

Gurren Lagann was fucking incredible. Much like Kanon 2006, it didn’t betray my expectations at all. However, I feel when one expects a well produced, cute and somewhat slow bishoujo game adaptation, it’s not that hard to deliver. However, when a show promises pure energy, epicness and well done insanity, it’s kind of a tall order. Sadly, many shows fall short when they promise things like epicness and excitement (Hello, Fate/Stay Night.) Gurren Lagann’s opening installment delivered excitement (with a hint of epic) in spades. Then again, Gainax is helming the project, so I suppose it’s not that surprising.

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http://www.gurren-lagann.net/spe/index.html

First link on that page. You need to use IE, because Japan hates Firefox. It looks pretty wonderful, if you ask me. I cannot wait.

Thanks to Harakiri for the headsup.

edit: YouTube version.