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AniFriday Issue #26 – Autumn Manga Special pt2: Bleach
Oh god! Here I came into this supposedly final arc, expecting answers and revelations. Instead, I’m seeing a lot of the same stuff that made me hate the previous arcs, and call this series a bloated formulaic mess. Everything I love and find cool about this show can be boiled down to a few characters. Any love I once had for this series is dangling from a metaphorical string made of three to four personalities. It’s almost as bad as when I was watching the original InuYasha anime once it got past the first 60-70 episodes. At this point, if there’s anything good and memorable to be strung from this series’ last arc, it will have to come from Ichigo – again!
Since I haven’t been able to put together weekly AniFriday posts for most of the summer, I thought I’d take the material that I could and compile it into specific posts for each series. While I couldn’t squeeze in time for some much desired anime watching, I did have time to read my favorite manga week t0 week. For this post, I’ll be focusing on the chapters (591 – 603) I read during that hiatus for Bleach and its final major arc, the war with the Quincy. At the end, I’ve given my general overall thoughts on the material, while on the way there you can see my chapter by chapter thoughts on the series. Though I think I may have given away some of thoughts in my initial rant. Pardon me, while many may have abandoned this series, I still hold some semblance of passion for it. Read more…
AniFriday Issue #25 – Autumn Manga Special pt1: Hajime no Ippo
It’s been quite a while since I last talked about Hajime no Ippo in length. And quite happening to be revisiting a discussion about this series in chunks. It allows for a clearer, elongated perspective where I get to notice trends and not get so distracted by the moment to moment set ups of each chapter. This post will be covering the final chapters of Ippo’s fight with Alredo Gonzales, the current #1 contender for the flyweight championship of the world, and the only man standing between Ippo and his ultimate goal of the world champ, Ricardo Martinez. However, I’ll be talking about this fight as a whole at the end, from chapter 1030 to 1071.
I’m so hyped for Ippo! God, I love this manga! Read more…
AniFriday Issue #19 (June 27th, 2014): Chaotic Neutral vs. Neutral Evil
Had to adjust my AniFriday schedule a bit, even if it meant pushing back the post a whole week. I just couldn’t allow to call this series AniFriday, and all my posts go up late on a Saturday night… Damn you JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure! But I won’t dwell on that.
I will say, it feels great to be in a groove with a couple of series again. Tokyo Ravens is fun as hell, Chaika is damn near my favorite thing to watch right now, and even though Stardust Crusaders has been a little stale for a bit in my opinion, it’s still better than most shounen battle material I’ve watched or read this year. As for the manga, I’m pretty much hyped for everything except for Umi no Misaki, and you’ll see why. I don’t know what it needs more of. Perhaps more tits and/or plot – wait! That’s the same thing isn’t ?!
Here are the anime and manga I’ll be covering in this post, in order:
- Stardust Crusaders ep12
- Tokyo Ravens ep18
- Chaika the Coffin Princess ep4
- Naruto ch681
- Bleach ch585
- Hunter X Hunter ch342 – 344
- One Piece ch750
- Team Medical Dragon ch105
- Umi no Misaki ch6
AniFriday Issue #17 (June 6th, 2014): all you can eat buffet of creepypasta
There must be a special on creepy this week. Almost every anime episode I watched this week had some creepy as hell sh*t in it. From some guy bragging about how much he enjoys using a toilet that uses a pig to clean your butt, to evil mirror hopping murder monsters, to government lackeys who enjoy being way to far inside an alien girls personal bubble, to a magical familiar who just stares at teenagers with murderous intent. It’s anime, so it’s a rule that it’s always weird, but even that stuff has its awkward moments among the awkward moments. And all this crap is obscuring the death of a character I really liked! Damn you anime weirdness! You make everything uncomfortable! Read more…
AniFriday Issue #15 (May 23rd, 2014): Victory Through Anti-Hype
I dare say that I’m almost getting back on schedule. I may be two days late posting this (killing my thought out defense that it’s Friday somewhere when I post these), but at least I’m almost regularly watching anime and reading manga now. I’m still in the process of figuring out where I’m at in regards to the current anime world though. In the process of doing this, I’ve tried taking up a little show called Captain Earth. Let’s see how this goes, because I’m not exactly in the mood for a super robot show right now. Read more…