Over at Steven’s place, a discussion of payola in blogging turned to animé reviews, and one blogger in particular got mentioned because he’s the only one who seems to have given a positive review to the latest offering from ADV: 009-1
Yech. I watched the first episode from the link at ANN. It was silly and just not interesting. Waaaaaay too derivative of early James Bond.. In a nutshell: “Big-breasted robot girls with bad 1960’s hairdos fight the Cold War 100 years from now.” Although I did appreciate it for the opportunity to make Ropponmatsu jokes, thanks to the ol’ rocket-launcher-in-the-knee trick.
Funny thing is, when Hung did his first review, I thought to myself “Darn! Nobody sends me free copies of anything to review! Maybe they don’t like what I have to say.” Then the real reason occurred to me: “Y’know ‘Ubu,’ maybe that’s a drawback to this whole anonymous thang.”
Bah! Bah, I say!
Update: I thought Steven was a little harsh… but the truth is, I stopped reading Hung’s reviews after the first one as well. If I go into a review with low expectations and then like a show for exceeding them, I’m going to say “I went in with low expectations.” In fact, this is exactly the case with He is My Master, for which I have the review written, but haven’t added the screencaps yet.
I’m terrified that I got an Excel Saga reference and a New Cutey Honey reference in the same sentence right off the bat. Damn it, I’m becoming one of them!
I’m checking for giant seed pods under the bed RIGHT NOW. Hang on, is that a tentacle? Kind of looks like -URK-
Hi, guess what, it turns out it was nothing! Ha ha! Happy smile hello!
What’s really scary is that the New Cutey Honey reference was unintentional. Though I wonder, because I did happen to be browsing my downloads and re-watched the OP just before doing that post….