we're finally notdotq anymore

Am I only watching the bad shows, or does anime just suck these days?

Back in the day, there was this show called Strawberry Panic, and it was fun to mess around and point out all the places where it had borrowed heavily from previous series. These days it seems like nothing is original. At all.

Macross F? Code Geass R2? More like, Macross (variable) and NGE.

What’s new? Where is it?

And why does the repetition suck?

I actually didn’t do that myself.

You thought it would never happen. After all, our last release was more than two years ago. You know, back when #animenano was active? Back before I quit animeblogging the first time?

Yeeah.

http://podcast.dotq.org

Download and grovel in pain. Hopefully there’ll be no more of this trash.

Has this blog -finally- been forsaken? Don’t discuss.

Seriously, when did this crap become Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha?

“I don’t know how to become friends.”
“It’s super simple, Genpou-chan! All you have to do is call my name!“

Great Guardians … it left me feeling like it lacked something integral, something promised by the name. Maybe the whole “great” part. There also weren’t any guardians. There wasn’t a whole lot of anything, in fact. Maybe after twenty-five episodes of shit I was desensitized to such things as pantie shots or cleavage but this time around even those felt scarce. I missed the conflict, I missed the resolution.

Hell, I missed the part where Ryomou forgave Ryofu for fingering her back in season one.

Um, does anyone care about Ryofu dying again? I think I was with this season for about two minutes when I thought Kannu was dying. That made me kind of sad. Then I watched the next episode and she was alive. I think there was a disconnect at that point. So Ryofu going again? Big fucking deal. Maybe Ryomou’s sad because Ryofu promised a flute for their second time but the second time never came.

When I say “Big Success,” I mean that the creators succeeded in creating something vaguely approaching value. By taking MGLN’s stellar premise and themes and applying those to their lame fanservice shit, they leveled up their product. “Big Success” in no way refers to the actual quality of Great Guardians. I’m throwing it into the ever-humongous 1/10 category on MyAnimeList.

I can’t bitch too much, though.

The observant observer might take the time to comment, “what did you expect, dipshit?”

Anyway, one last parting shot before I burn this show from my memory:

What is this—the non-existent wish fulfillment arc for Kimi ga Nozomu Eien?!

I referred to THAT’s amazingly helpful resource and compiled a list of all the anime I will try to watch come October. » Continue reading this…

By this I mean that I’m no longer running an experiment. As for the experiment’s implications for my life, I am no Mizunashi Akari but pacifism and kindness are definitely things I’ll be striving for every day. » Continue reading this…