The One Thing Which Really Bugs Me About Vividred…

Posted by DiGiKerot in Random Stuff at March 3, 2013 on 9:18 pm


…Isn’t the hardburned subtitles or the permanent ident which are present on the Crunchyroll presentation of the show, though on the off-chance that someone from Aniplex is reading – if you’re going to insist on slapping your company logo (way larger than most TV channel idents, might I add) on foreign streams of your shows, than can I mention how terrible in terms of placement the bottom-right of the screen is? All what happens is that audiences attention is drawn to it by the frequent appearance of pert schoolgirl buttocks subtitles along the bottom of the screen.

Anyway, the thing which really kind of bugs me about the show is Rei’s scarf. I mean, not the fact that she wears a scarf or anything – scarves are cool, even when they aren’t amazingly heroic-looking red ones billowing awesomely in the wind – but the fact that it’s drawn in a fashion that doesn’t make any sense. I look at the thing and see something akin to a really stupid Professor Layton puzzle, where the aim is to mentally trace a line connecting the two ends of the scarf together, but I simply can’t do it. I can’t mentally parse it. It makes no sense to me. It’s something I find way more distracting than any absurd degree of male gaze on display in the show.

Clearly, I am just stupid, or am at least missing something really obvious. If anyone has an answer for this on, please let me know.
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Girls und Spam OAV2

Posted by DiGiKerot in Random Stuff at February 27, 2013 on 10:56 pm


I have to admit, had I not been informed about this beforehand, this really isn’t the kind of reference I would have expected to see in the new Girls und Panzer OAV…
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A Farewell to Katyusha

Posted by DiGiKerot in Random Stuff at December 6, 2012 on 7:31 pm


No, I’m not bidding farewell to the character Katyusha, who appears in the most recent episode of this seasons not-so-secret best show Girls und Panzer, but rather the Russian wartime song of the same name, sang by the character who shares it’s name in the same episode of the same show.

Or maybe not, depending how and when you watched it. You see, not just the song, but the entire scene in question was removed between it’s initial Japanese TV broadcast earlier in the week, and it’s streaming on Crunchyroll this morning – the episode up on Crunchy at the time of writing is in the region of fifty seconds shorter than the average anime episode. Which is kind of annoying for those of us who wait to watch things the entirely-above-board way, particularly when it’s the one scene that everyone else had been highlighting as, well, the highlight of the episode. Ho-hum.
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Volcano Collection

Posted by DiGiKerot in Random Stuff at June 18, 2012 on 5:39 pm


This is one of those things which would probably register as being “weird” as opposed to merely “curious” if it were happening in a different show, but the ninth episode of Sengoku Collecion threw in a bunch of references to the Korean martial arts movie Volcano High…
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DiGiKerot versus Random Film Clippings

Posted by DiGiKerot in Random Stuff at October 31, 2011 on 6:07 pm


So, my copy of the second Macross Frontier movie and my PS3 iM@S2 box turned up today. I was actually kind of surprised that I only ordered the regular edition of Macross Frontier rather than the LE, but given that I rarely do anything with those extras, I guess it was just a fleeting moment of lucidity on my part that’ll soon pass.

Anyway, the first pressing with both of these releases is a clip of film from both works. For iM@S, it’s a clipping from the first episode of the anime. For Macross Frontier, well… it’s supposedly from the movie, but given people have been reporting getting clippings from such exotic content as the anti-piracy advert that played before hand, I suppose all bets are off.

Not that the iM@S clippings are necessarily better, being that there’s always the risk of getting one of the scant few frames containing Producer-san (I’ve seen those on Japanese blogs as well) or worse. And given my previously reported luck on such random matters, I’m largely expecting worse. Much worse. And I say “expecting” as I’m writing this preamble without having opened them up.

Which does mean that, should they fail to be either particularly terrible or amazing, it’ll be something of a disappointment of a post. But, hey, let’s open them up…
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