Yeah, I cringed. He hits a couple of hard Rs and the rest is all hovering into an English accent.
Yeah, I cringed. He hits a couple of hard Rs and the rest is all hovering into an English accent.
I have always maintained that Carl Macek tends to get a lot of IMO unjustified grief from the anime community, especially back in the 90s. Some of that grief was because some fans perceived that he somehow "destroyed" Macross by marrying it to Mospeada and Southern Cross (something that he was forced to do because…
Richard,
I didn't go into Child of Light expecting the story to hit me on the same level as similar fairy tales like, say, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials or C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, but I also wasn't expecting the story to leave me feeling quite as disappointed as it did. Visually, Child of Light is flat-out…
It is too short.
No combination of silly mods will ever top this:
Pretty spot on. The fight choreography really shines but the voice acting is kind of whiny and most of the characters are just tropes. The villains especially are way too cartoony even for a show like this; you can't really take them as serious threats at all. The humor is hit or miss, some of it is funny and some of…
However, that is not to say that the characters are unlikable or unsalvageable. Rather, this first season has done an adequate job of building a character base—full of stereotypes as it may be—that subsequent seasons can build upon.
In general, the art style of RWBY (computer animated anime-style) works quite well—as long as you can’t see the feet. When the characters are walking or running, they never seem to move the right distance for the size of their leg movements. It makes them seem like they are either trying to run on ice (and are getting…
Slightly off topic, but having had the pleasure to see his latest - very much the successor to Porco Rosso in terms of completing Miyazaki's fascination with planes of the early 20th century - I'd like to deliver one more kindly reminder to all Miyazaki fans to check out the Wind Rises as soon as you can! A…
Porco Rosso is one of my personal favorite Miyazaki films