Anime Pilgrimage RTT

Progress Report One: As Batrock Sleeps

Seeing as everything’s been thrown out of whack this week and MovableType offers the worst tech support ever (at least if you don’t pay them), I’m going to go out a bit and digress from the straight up reviews that I do. Put some of the hated word “blog” back in the phrase “anime blog” and lose all of my readers.
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The Snow Queen – episode 2

“Aurora Town”

I would say that it took them long enough, but I’m in no position to talk. Perhaps there is a reason beyond control for everything.
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Tide-Line Blue – episode 5

“Attack – Offense”

This is more like it.
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Honey and Clover – episode eighteen

“He’s back”

I would say that this was the best episode yet but for two reasons: it’s likely to be surpassed and I didn’t really like the ending.
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RahXephon

Great sci-fi anime should polarise everyone, raise arguably more questions than they answer and have you gripping the edge of your seat. RahXephon is to some a great anime, but to me it’s only good for one reason: it only fulfils two of those criteria in my eyes.
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Tide-Line Blue – episode 4

“Roles – Share”

This is frustrating: Keel proves himself to be an impotent hero.

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Honey and Clover – episode seventeen

“I don’t even know how I feel”

It’s Christmas again! It’s like magic, the way Honey & Clover gets away with three Christmas episodes in the space of seventeen episodes.
On the non-festive front, this is an excellent Takemoto story: a relaxation from Yamada and Mayama that comes just in time.

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Play Ball – episode 1

“The Legendary Captain”

I love sports anime. I never play sport, but I love anime about sport. I also love the Dezaki brothers. Take baseball and Dezaki Satoshi, you’ve got Play Ball. You also get some suspect character designs, but what can you do?

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Honey and Clover – episode sixteen

“The Moon is Calling Her”

I love this series. There is too much about Honey & Clover that is simply intangible, like the feeling that I got when Yamada had her big realisation, and the tension between Hagu-chan and Takemoto.

The Fujiwara Brothers, Mario and Luigi (seriously, one wears red and the other green), have a falling out, so Mayama is sent to work in another office. He does not tell Yamada.
Meanwhile, Takemoto is working on his graduation piece and Shuu-chan helps behind the scenes.

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Standby … for action!

Due to snail’s pace releases, stuff will be online soon! Watch out for Honey & Clover 16, Play Ball episode one and RahXephon TV.

Not Tide-Line Blue, it seems.

UPDATE: Well, now Garten is ahead of me on Honey & Clover. That makes me sad.
… I mean good work on catching up, Garten.