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Last edit: 2024-6-10
Edit: 2024-6-10
It looks like I've triggered an algorithm that has identified me as someone who consistently tries to manipulate the percentages either up or down. Oh, well.....

I try to add enlightening commentary, but let's face it:
I'm far from perfect.
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    EDIT: 2020-12-31
    I have seen two three videos that examine the concept of "classics" from distinctly different perspectives:
  1. Gigguk | Garnt Maneetapho

  2. Mother's Basement | Geoff Thew

  3. Bonsai Pop | Mike ?
EDIT: 2020-04-11
In this video YouTube user Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho) talks about SAO in the context of gateway anime.
    2 Videos That Share a Common Theme:
  1. "The Greatest Thing Anime Has Done"|Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho)
  2. "A Love Letter to a Place Further than the Universe" | Isla McTear (Line/link added 2020-06-24)
EDIT: 2020-06-10
3 Different Perspectives On the Importance of The Ending EDIT: 2021-05-10
Geoff Thew ("Mother's Basement") has a fascinating video essay on the concept of "sakuga".
EDIT: 2021-12-27
10 Anime That Are Fantastic But Hard To Recommend
Anime only continues to get more and more mainstream, but these are 10 anime we wouldn't want to recommend even though they're great.
By Jacob Buchalter (posted on cbr.com on 2020, Mar 30)
Seen/Read All (public list)▲▼ Rating▲▼
Sound! Euphonium 2 (TV) Masterpiece
Episodes twelve and thirteen neatly bookend each other.
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Sound! Euphonium 3 (TV) Excellent
I disagree with Christopher Farris about the last episode as I do not believe that it sticks the landing -- which is a shame, as I adore the entire series to pieces.
Sound! Euphonium The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day Excellent
There are lines of dialogue that affected me personally. I will have to copy them here sometime in the future.
Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest Arc (OAV) Excellent
  • Rated at 9/10 on a scale of 0-10
  • No review as of this writing (2024-11-03)
  • Follows the band at the beginning of the new school year.
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    Sound! Euphonium: May the Melody Reach You! (movie) Masterpiece
    compilation film of cour #2
    Sound! Euphonium: Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band (movie) Masterpiece
    compilation film
    Spice and Wolf (TV) Very good
    Jeff Thew (Mother's Basement)compares & contrasts the 1st light novel with the 1st 6 episodes of the anime.
    "How Spice and Wolf Changed from Book to Anime - Adapt or Die"
    Spice and Wolf II (TV) Very good
    Spirited Away (movie) Excellent (dub & sub)
    Starlight Promises (ONA) Very good
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    The samurai element of the plot is utterly unnecessary. [CON]
    The purpose of the festival is emotionally moving -- they should have devoted more time to it. [PRO]
    I find the OST to be memorable. [PRO]
    https://www.milkcananime.com/2018/08/starlight-promises.html
    Shoma Mihara gets a text, and call, from his old friend Fujii Atsushi, who he hasn't heard from in over three years. When he goes where he's directed to for the meetup, somehow he winds up in a village where people are preparing a medieval-style Tanabata Festival (though with oddly high-tech direction.) He meets a girl named Shiori Senozawa, who's also there to meet someone. He also encounters the director of the whole affair, an apparently younger girl named Ai Kana, who turns out to be a bit unusual. Shiori and Ai try to gently correct Shoma's mistaken view about what's going on here, a somewhat difficult task since he's a bit slow to take their hints.

    "Aren't you forgetting something important?" - Shiori, to Shoma.

    --THEM Anime Reviews

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    Steamboy (movie) So-so
    Stink Bomb (movie) Good
    A dark comedy. Part of the Memories anthology. Art house film.
    (La) storia della Arcana Famiglia (TV) Very good (dub & sub)
    There are 2 reviews.....
    1. The setup is given;
      Felicitá is the one-and-only daughter of the Papa of the organization, maybe even mafia, known as the Arcana Famiglia. The Famiglia is made up of people who have made contracts with the Arcane cards, and have received special abilities due to this. The Papa has decided it's time for him to retire and give up his seat to a new male who has control over an Arcane. To decide who in the "family" gets this seat, he calls for a tournament between Arcane users. To the winner, he promises the "Papa" seat, a wish of the winner's choice...and his daughter's hand in marriage. Refusing to accept this, Felicitá decides to fight to choose her own path, with her friends Liberta and Nova fighting for her freedom by her side. [From Encyclopedia entry]
    2. White kitten?
      Filler episode?
    3. So, there's this annual children's festival.....
      There's a relationship between Jolly and "Elmo".
    4. The history of Dante and Libertà.
    5. The history between Nova and his parents' attempt to betray Mondo.
    6. A test of the Arcana powers of Nova, Libertà and Felicitá.
    7. Luca, Pace and Debito hike to harvest a herb garden.
      "Gli Amanti" -Felicitá
      Filler?
    8. Jolly explains to Nova, Libertà and Felicitá that Elmo is a humunculus.
    9. Felicitá decides to heal Mondo even though she will lose her memories.
    10. Felicitá regains her memories, yet Mondo is still in peril.
    11. The 3 make their own decisions -- and get closer, as a result.
    12. The very end of this episode negates all of the taut drama that occurred leading up to and through most of this episode [CON].
    Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry (TV) Decent
    Strait Jacket (OAV) Very good (edit.dub), Masterpiece (sub)
    I must confess that I disagree with the reviewer; oh, well, viva la differance! One person's coolness is another's mediocrity.
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