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Shelf Life - Starship Troopers

Now I'm even more excited to be getting Lucky Star Volume 1 LE soon. (It's in the mail and the mail isn't moving.) Considering how a combination of ultra social phobia and a school system convinced that talking while eating lunch was some sort of failure of public education, I never got to enjoy many lunchroom conversations. I look forward to the vicarious experience.

fuuma_monou wrote:

Seems a little weird that Sarah arranges the books in numerical order from right to left.

What's so weird about that? They are read right to left after all.

Slightly defensive because he orders his manga the same way.

I've been enjoying Shuffle from the beginning but I'm a harem addict. Reading Bamboo say it gets better means I'll be elevating the series even higher on my list of awesome harem anime.

spoiler[Like Evagellion, none of the Kanon girls remain mentally stable at the end of the series. Mai, the psychoctic samurai was determined to fight off all the "demons", but I belive there were no demons, but in the end, she died. Ayu, somehow existed in Kanon despite falling from a tree and dying seven years before the series starts, Shori had a unknown illness and tried to kill her self, but Yuichi indirectly stops her, Makoto was once a cat, but somehow transformed in a human, only to pass on later and Nayuki was in love with Yuichi so much, even though they were cousins. So yes, this series does compare to Evagellion.]

Teriyaki Terrier wrote:

spoiler[Like Evagellion, none of the Kanon girls remain mentally stable at the end of the series. Mai, the psychoctic samurai was determined to fight off all the "demons", but I belive there were no demons, but in the end, she died. Ayu, somehow existed in Kanon despite falling from a tree and dying seven years before the series starts, Shori had a unknown illness and tried to kill her self, but Yuichi indirectly stops her, Makoto was once a cat, but somehow transformed in a human, only to pass on later and Nayuki was in love with Yuichi so much, even though they were cousins. So yes, this series does compare to Evagellion.]

Pfft. I dunno what version of the show you were watching :/

spoiler[
Firstly, Mai isn't psychotic, she's psychic. There were "demons", they were just created by her subconscious. Never seen Forbidden Planet? Also, she doesn't die.

Ayu doesn't die either, she's in a coma in the hospital for seven years. When people meet her in the series they're interacting with the projection of herself. IIRC, it's strongly intimated that she's saved by Mai's psychic powers.

You got Shiori right.

Makoto was a fox, not a cat. She transformed herself into a human so that she could meet Yuuichi again, before dying.

Yes, Nayuki was Yuuichi's cousin. Nothing that weird about it really, I'm guessing you didn't read this thread.]

So yeah... while there's a lot of supernatural goings-on, it's all fairly simple - lots of the plots are a little cliche anyways.
Comparing it to Eva, which is deliberately obtuse, and people can rarely agree on what the hell was actually going on... dude, you be trippin'.[/spoiler]

fuuma_monou wrote:

Seems a little weird that Sarah arranges the books in numerical order from right to left.

What's so weird about that? They are read right to left after all.

With all the hype of Lucky Star I've been a bit reluctant to pick it up in fear it'll wind up in the hating it category.

I'm seriously starting to wonder though Richard if either you're stalking me or my long lost sibling. The similarities are starting to stack up.

We need to start our own club, HLA (Harem Lovers Anonymous). A safe haven for all harem lovers where we can safely meet without worrying about torches and pitchforks heh. I won't deny my own fondness for harem shows and I had already picked up vol 1-3 of Shuffle as is. I had been debating about what new show to start on next (once I finish Noein) and after seeing Bamboo elevate it a bit I agree with you Richard, it gets moved up the list. Plus with Witchblade done with I need my fanservice fix heh.

Richard J. wrote:

fuuma_monou wrote: Seems a little weird that Sarah arranges the books in numerical order from right to left. What's so weird about that? They are read right to left after all.

True, it is very much a matter of personal tastes. What I find weird about that method of organization is that is causes the order of the pages to be reversed with respect to the progression of the series (I apologize if my point isn't exactly clear, it's a little difficult for me to explain).

Baldr Force Exe is one that also appeared on my radar, but not knowing much about it, I really couldn't make heads or tails about it. So I am glad she reviewed it here.

I do have one question though about something she didn't hit on. How is the animation quality? And what kind of stylization does it use?

But can you honestly say, spoiler[at the end of the series,any of the Kanon girls were mentaly stable?]

This is why I compare Evagellion and Kanon, both become psychological at some point.

Did heads really explode?

And Shuffle I'll probably get when the boxset comes out. I've read that there may be an artbox released with the last volume, but I'm not buying 1-5 only to not get an artbox with the last volume, so I'll be waiting on that for a little while longer.

Yes. I've updated the column with screenshots.

One thing about hype, it seriously screws with a person's ability to enjoy a series. My number one rule of watching anime (or anything else) is to forget everything I've been told and just focus on how I, personally, feel about it. Plus I try not to analyze it on technical merits, just "do I like this story and these characters?"

By doing that, I've been able to enjoy a lot of series that people lambaste. It works wonders.

I've always wanted a cool brother.

Sadly, this means I still lack a little sister. (And get your mind out of the gutter, I just wish I had a younger sibling so I'd have an excuse to act like a kid. )

I'm all for that. It does get a bit annoying having to read posts blasting series when often that person writing hasn't even watched it.

The knee-jerk reaction of some fans is surprising. One of the reasons I like Bamboo's reviews is that the majority of the time she gives specific reasons for why she does or doesn't like a series, not some all-encompassing "it's x genre crap" that some do. Sometimes I can use what she didn't like about a series as evidence for why I will like the series.

belvadeer wrote:

Did heads really explode?

Yes. I've updated the column with screenshots.