Author Archives: Maipeisu

Mouryou no Hako, Episode #02 – The Tanuki’s Trick

By Maipeisu | Published: October 21, 2008

The tanuki's magic at work. What a gem...! It's fortunate that I've been immersed in literature driven by time-divergent narratives lately, because as exquisite as Mouryou no Hako's animation is, its narrative is the centerpiece and demands a nimble eye. It is based, after all, on an award-winning mystery/horror novel written by the youkai-obsessed Kyougoku [...]

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Chaos;HEAd, Episode #02 – “Shogun”

By Maipeisu | Published: October 19, 2008

Zero to moe in six seconds flat. C;H #01 made it clear that (o)Taku suffers from serious delusions -- there's no doubt about that. What remains unclear is when we are being shown another delusion and when we are being craftily fed the truth. There was some speculation that the murder scene in the first episode [...]

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Random Fandom: MOTHER 3 fan-translation is GO!

By Maipeisu | Published: October 17, 2008

SMAAAASH!! Okay, okay, so this isn't really about anime or manga... but I don't care! This is an important announcement aimed primarily at the numbered yet staunch fanbase of the SNES RPG cult classic, the one, the only -- Earthbound (known in Japan as Mother 2.) For all those who haven't heard the awesome news, I [...]

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Chaos;Head, Episode #01 – “Dark moe extravaganza”

By Maipeisu | Published: October 11, 2008

This show is mine, betch. Well, where to start? I have so many good things to say about this episode and I am so excited to follow this series that I haven't a clue where to begin. I watched it in several five minute snippets while rushing back and forth from the kitchen to cook my [...]

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Shikabane Hime: Aka, Episode #1 – “Undead girl with big guns… like, actual guns”

By Maipeisu | Published: October 8, 2008

Wag your fingers, scoff if you will, but my habitual expectation from modern Gainax is nothing short of a visual tour-de-force, the kind of show that makes an English-speaking fan like myself wish he was fluent in Japanese so he wouldn’t have to peel his eyes away from the intoxicating animation sequences for a single [...]

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Natsume Yuujin-chou, Episode #13 (END) – ‘Curtain call’

By Maipeisu | Published: October 4, 2008

Not all unpleasant, eh? Well, friends, we have finally arrived at the end. It feels like just yesterday that I picked this series up, so it is hard to believe that some months have already passed me by. Time has flown; and true to the adage, dare I say -- it has been a lot of [...]

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Natsume Yuujin-chou, Episode #12 – Five Day Mark

By Maipeisu | Published: September 29, 2008

Use the Fly Honey, Ness! Pretty dank contrast to the usual festivity of THAT's front page, wouldn't you say? Episode 12 is finally here (don't blame me, blame the subbers if you must), and for a penultimate episode, it most certainly doesn't disappoint. Perhaps the writers were very insightful, and realized that they had mixed in [...]

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