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Last edit: 2025-05-01
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)
Edit: 2025-04-06
In Case of Despair, Break Glass: Anime for the Tired Soul
by Leaked Experience (D.A.)
Edit: 2025-05-01
The Beginner's Guide to The King's Avatar by Rebecca Silverman
Seen/Read All (public list)▲▼ Rating▲▼
A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd (TV) Very good
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  1. 12 ep.s (23 min.s/ep.) Here is the review.
  2. I have a soft spot for libraries and bibliophiles; so I'm surprised that I rated it at 8/11. Still, I ask you, my dear reader, to consider giving this series a shot. Read the review and the comments.
  • CON: High School setting; ALMOST a harem AND girls are in miniskirts (red, no less).
  • PRO: Bibliophile
  • PRO: Erik Satie used in OST.
  • CON: The last ½ of the last episode breaks the set magical rules.
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Good Luck Girl! (TV) Very good (dub), Excellent (sub)
  1. Set up. Had me grinning. 10/11
  2. A dozen laughs a minute. I'm luvin' it!! 10/11
  3. Not so many laughs per minute; but I'm still luvin' it! 10/11
  4. The plots of the episodes are unwinding uniquely for each episode. Unexpectedly good! 10/11
  5. I keep laughing while hoping that Sakura develops some empathy! 10/11
  1. while the last 2 ep.s have resulted in far more tears of sorrow than tears of joy, both ep.s ended in hilarity. 10/11 rewatch#6
  2. A lot more tears of sorrow than tears of joy, but it's all good! 10/11
  3. Sakura dispatches a different god of misfortune with lethal cooking! Good stuff. 10/11
  4. This time Momiji tries to use a cute-as-the-dickens kitten; the results are hilariously the same. 10/11
  5. The de rigueur bath house episode. Hilarity in spades. 10/11
  6. Because of the de rigueur bath house episode, Momiji's personality has been turned inside out! Now what happens?! 10/11
  7. I love the way the series just toys with my expectations! 11/11
Gotōbun no Hanayome* (special) Excellent
This is not a recap/compilation; it covers a time period from the second cour.
Gravity Rush: The Animation - Overture (special) So-so
It's a 17-minute commercial.
(The) Great Passage (TV) Masterpiece
Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions (TV) Excellent
Gunbuster (OAV) Very good
At six episodes, it is eminently bingeable. The sexism is to be expected. The death flag is to be expected. I am having difficulty between rating it either at 9/11 or 10/11. I'm going to go with 9/11 because it seems to me that it serves as an introduction to something as opposed to being a complete story.
Gunslinger Girl (TV) Excellent
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (TV) Decent
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (OAV) So-so
Gunsmith Cats (OAV) Good (dub), Very good (sub)
It presents a very nice '70s feel..... I wonder what the manga is like!
Gushing Over Magical Girls (TV) Excellent
Haibane Renmei (TV) Masterpiece (dub & sub)
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  • I think that the kind of people who will like this will be the kind of people who enjoy (no, savor) character development. I think that the kind of people who will be most disinclined to like this will be people expecting any sort of action; even the plot development is slowly paced (i.e., world-building) through episode number six and does not actually kick into gear until the middle of episode number seven ─ and it is a thirteen episode series.
    • And I'm not the only one who loves this series. Look at the ratings!
  • Ep. #6 foreshadows the plot getting kick-started in episode #7.
  • The Soundtrack is simply to die for ─ Ko Otani is brilliant (in my opinion, at least).
  • Here is an AMV that I like.
  • Those who enjoy the slice-of-life of this series's first six episodes might also enjoy Girls' Last Tour.
  • Reflecting back on this series, it reminds me of my own lonely childhood.
    EDIT:
  • So I was re-watching parts of the series and I was struck by the realization that the 1st and last episodes neatly bookend the series: The 1st episode shows Reki finding Raka's cocoon and the last episode shows Raka finding two cocoons sprouting. I am shocked that I never made the connection before!

  • Voice Direction: Jonathan Klein
  • Adaption: Taliesin Jaffe
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    • Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 1 (movie) Excellent (dub), Masterpiece (sub)
    Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 2 (movie) Masterpiece
    haven't seen dub there is no dub
    Con:
    Was the term "U.F.O. even in usage in the late 1910s?
    (34:30) This plot hole had better be explained.
    (45:00)Amnesia? And then he recalls his memories?! CON
    Love triangle. I guess that's some kind of drama.....
    Production values seem pretty damned good.
    (49:45) Clock as allegory.
    (50:45) Clock as allegory again.
    An excellent shoujo romance.
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