Category Archives: Editorial

The Wilderness Downtown

Posted on August 31, 2010 by hikago

Found via a friend, an interesting experiment in visual media, dynamic rendering, and GIS: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ (I’d recommend opening in a separate browser as it is resource intensive — minimize impact of crashing xD) A great example of taking several pre-existing … Continue reading →

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Shukufuku no Campanella

Posted on July 20, 2010 by hikago

Relentlessness has a great three part write-up on Campanella from the standpoint of someone who actually played the damn thing… Why bring this up now? Because… Continue reading →

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The moon in arm’s reach

Posted on July 16, 2010 by hikago

Been a long time reader of Ani-nouto so was a bit surprised to see Author with some strong bias towards loving Amagami, and the consequent strong objection to “the haters”. Continue reading →

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Nurarihyon no Mago Initial Thoughts

Posted on July 6, 2010 by hikago

Honestly a rather underwhelming first episode, I will admit the source manga did not come into its own until somewhere during the “Tanuki arc” when Rikuo mans up. Not to excuse the first episode for sucking, but it wasn’t unexpected either. Continue reading →

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Aniblog Tourney Thingy What

Posted on April 19, 2010 by hikago

Via Zait who quoted from a comment on Kuro’s blog (meta meta meta): Continue reading →

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Angel Beats OP Discussion

Posted on April 13, 2010 by hikago

After hearing about some controversy around the Angel Beats OP, I decided to give it a try. Some thoughts as I listened through:

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Decision Trees

Posted on March 18, 2010 by hikago

Important stuff, mang. Continue reading →

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Age and sage

Posted on February 14, 2010 by hikago

And that’s how you get good rose wine (oh, and a dash of lemon). While looking up what 下敷き meant, I (quite randomly) came across: 上げたり下げたり and a shortened(?) form 上げ下げ (agesage). I guess this is where the imageboard terms … Continue reading →

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Comparing K-ON and SoroWoto

Posted on January 11, 2010 by hikago
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New decade, old spoofs

Posted on January 4, 2010 by hikago

A post not inspired by Azumanga but nevertheless (as this is tending to be an anime blog) I will make reference of it.
Certain things do indeed come back into vogue. Continue reading →

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