Posts Tagged Drama
This post reviews: Death Parade, The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls, Assassination Classroom, The Rolling Girls, Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor: Exodus, and Yoru no Yatterman.
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Action, Aldnoah.Zero, Analysis, Animation, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Art, Characters, Colors, Comedy, Comparison, Competition, Death, Death Billiards, Death Parade, Direction, Disappointment, Dog Days, Drama, Durarara!!, Fighting, First Impressions, Food, Gundam Reconguista in G, Idol, Idolmaster, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kamisama Kiss, Mecha, Mystery, Observations, Opinions, Personalities, Positives, Puchimas!, School, Sequel, Setting, Shounen, Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor, Story, Storytelling, The iDOLM@STER, The Rolling Girls, Yoru no Yatterman
Timeskips are among my favorite narrative devices in anime. In fact, if I were ever to write an anime myself, I’d definitely have a timeskip in there somewhere. Hell, maybe even two. Timeskips are a brilliant means to advance a continuous story between two periods of time, allowing the plot or characters or setting to transform radically without showing the unrelated events in-between. And that’s exactly what happened in Nagi no Asukara. At the midpoint in the anime, following a climax at the end of the Autumn 2013 season, Nagi no Asukara experienced a timeskip where everything changed. The characters, setting, and plot were all different between the first-half and second-half of Nagi no Asukara. However, there is one significant detail about this unique timeskip that makes it one of my most favorite timeskips ever.
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12 Days of Anime, Characters, Conflict, Drama, Friendship, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Nagi no Asukara, Racism, Romance, Setting, Society, Story, Storytelling, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Time Skip, Water, Weather
This post reviews: Magic Kaito 1412, Cross Ange, Sora no Method, Grisaia no Kajitsu, Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis, and Gugure! Kokkuri-san.
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Adaptations, Analysis, Animation, Art, Characters, Chibi, Cinematography, Clichés, Code Geass, Comedy, Comparison, Cross Ange, Cute, Detective Conan, Development, Direction, Disappointment, Drama, Ecchi, Entertainment, Eroge, Fantasy, Favorites, First Impressions, For Fun, Friendship, Grisaia no Kajitsu, Gugure! Kokkuri-san, Harem, Kakumeiki Valvrave, Kill Me Baby, Light, Lighthearted, Lupin III, Magic Kaito 1412, Mecha, Melodrama, Moe, Mystery, Negatives, Observations, Opinions, Over the Top, Panties, Personalities, Perspective, Positives, Purpose, Questions, School, Setting, Shingeki no Bahamut, Sora no Method, Sound, Story, Writing
Whenever Week 4 was, probably a long, long time ago: thoughts and observations on the symbolism of darkness and light in Zankyou no Terror, questioning the accuracy and reliability of Touko’s special ability in Glasslip, becoming unhappy with the direction Tokyo Ghoul is taking in relation to its story and its content, and a short rant on student governments and school clubs inspired by Hanayamata.
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Action, Akame ga Kill!, Aldnoah.Zero, Animation, Art, Captain Earth, Characters, City, Comedy, Curiosity, Differences, Direction, Distance, Drama, Entertainment, Fighting, Future, Glasslip, Government, Hanayamata, Harem, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Landscape, Light, Mystery, Nature, Negatives, Questions, Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?, Romance, Sabagebu!, Sakuga, Scenery, School, School Club, Shounen, Slice of Life, Sound, Space Dandy, Story, Storytelling, Style, Sword Art Online, Symbolism, Tokyo ESP, Tokyo Ghoul, Video Games, Weekly Anime, Yama no Susume, Zankyou no Terror
This post reviews: Hanayamata, Ao Haru Ride, Persona 4 the Golden Animation, and Zankyou no Terror.
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Adaptations, Animation, Ao Haru Ride, Art, Boring, Characters, Cinematography, Clichés, Comedy, Curiosity, Dancing, Direction, Drama, Entertainment, Fate/kaleid linear Prisma Illya, First Impressions, Hamatora, Hanayamata, Kimi ni Todoke, Misunderstandings, Observations, Opinions, Persona 4, Rivals, Romance, School, School Club, Setting, Slice of Life, Story, Terror, Video Games, Zankyou no Terror
The Summer 2014 anime season is already upon us! With no time to spare due to all the thrilling and sensational anime that are already out or going to air soon, this Summer 2014 Season Preview will provide a glimpse of what I have planned for the season and some of my initial expectations for all the new shows and sequels this season. So what exactly am I looking forward to the most for the next three months? Let’s find out!
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Action, Adventure, Ai Mai Mi, Akame ga Kill!, Aldnoah.Zero, Ao Haru Ride, Art, Bakumatsu Rock, Barakamon, Characters, Comedy, Cowboy Bebop, Drama, DRAMAtical Murder, Ecchi, ef - a tale of memories, Entertainment, Fate/kaleid linear Prisma Illya, Fate/Zero, Francesca, Free!, Futsuu no Joshikousei ga [Locodol] Yatte Mita, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Glasslip, Guilty Crown, Hamatora, Hanayamata, Harem, Himegoto, Horror, Idol, Jinsei, KILL la KILL, Kuroshitsuji, Love Stage!!, Majimoji Rurumo, Mecha, Minarai Diva, Mirai Nikki, Momo Kyun Sword, Monogatari Series, Music, No-Rin, Nobunaga Concerto, Observations, Opinions, Persona 4, Pretty Rhythm, Psycho-Pass, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Rail Wars!, Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?, Romance, Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizokin, Sabagebu!, Sailor Moon, Sakamichi no Apollon, Samurai Champloo, School, School Club, Season Preview, Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance, Sengoku Basara, Setting, Shingeki no Kyojin, Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen, Shounen Hollywood, Slice of Life, Sound, Space Dandy, Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C3-bu, Story, Strange+, Sword Art Online, Tasogare Otome x Amensia, Tokyo ESP, Tokyo Ghoul, Trap, Wandering Son, War, Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!, Yama no Susume, Zankyou no Terror
Back sometime, whenever week 11 was: questioning whether Ginko is happy or not in Mushishi Zoku Shou, why the infamous grins in Akuma no Riddle were perfect, examining the contrast between the different Kaoris in Isshuukan Friends, and a candidate for the best episode of anime of the year from Ping Pong the Animation.
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Akuma no Riddle, Analysis, Art, Captain Earth, Characters, Colors, Comedy, Dark, Death, Diversity, Drama, Emotion, Entertainment, Fantasy, Favorites, Friendship, Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?, Isshukan Friends, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kemonomimi, Light, Memories, Mushishi, Mystery, No Game No Life, Observations, Opinions, Over the Top, Personalities, Ping Pong the Animation, Positives, Questions, Race, Romance, Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizokin, Selfish, Serious, Setting, Space, Sports, Story, Style, Weekly Anime
This post reviews: Death Parade, The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls, Assassination Classroom, The Rolling Girls, Soukyuu no Fafner – Dead Aggressor: Exodus, and Yoru no Yatterman.
Timeskips are among my favorite narrative devices in anime. In fact, if I were ever to write an anime myself, I’d definitely have a timeskip in there somewhere. Hell, maybe even two. Timeskips are a brilliant means to advance a continuous story between two periods of time, allowing the plot or characters or setting to transform radically without showing the unrelated events in-between. And that’s exactly what happened in Nagi no Asukara. At the midpoint in the anime, following a climax at the end of the Autumn 2013 season, Nagi no Asukara experienced a timeskip where everything changed. The characters, setting, and plot were all different between the first-half and second-half of Nagi no Asukara. However, there is one significant detail about this unique timeskip that makes it one of my most favorite timeskips ever.
This post reviews: Magic Kaito 1412, Cross Ange, Sora no Method, Grisaia no Kajitsu, Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis, and Gugure! Kokkuri-san.
Whenever Week 4 was, probably a long, long time ago: thoughts and observations on the symbolism of darkness and light in Zankyou no Terror, questioning the accuracy and reliability of Touko’s special ability in Glasslip, becoming unhappy with the direction Tokyo Ghoul is taking in relation to its story and its content, and a short rant on student governments and school clubs inspired by Hanayamata.
This post reviews: Hanayamata, Ao Haru Ride, Persona 4 the Golden Animation, and Zankyou no Terror.
The Summer 2014 anime season is already upon us! With no time to spare due to all the thrilling and sensational anime that are already out or going to air soon, this Summer 2014 Season Preview will provide a glimpse of what I have planned for the season and some of my initial expectations for all the new shows and sequels this season. So what exactly am I looking forward to the most for the next three months? Let’s find out!
Back sometime, whenever week 11 was: questioning whether Ginko is happy or not in Mushishi Zoku Shou, why the infamous grins in Akuma no Riddle were perfect, examining the contrast between the different Kaoris in Isshuukan Friends, and a candidate for the best episode of anime of the year from Ping Pong the Animation.
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