Don’t Miss It — But It May Miss You

ADV (through the Anime Network) has made the entire first series of Divergence Eve available for online viewing here. Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock, the genre is “big-breasted sci-fi horror” and despite the first hyphenation, it’s not a “dumb tits and blood” show. Essentially the writers took a damn good concept, good execution, and a great story, then slapped humongous jugs on all the girls in order to sell it. The CG sucks, but that’s its greatest flaw.

However, after several minutes of investigating, it appears that the offer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — because their player is defective. I could not get it to play, despite having javascript enabled and the latest flash player installed; it keeps saying “Javascript/Flash Required Your IP: 70.240.xxx.xxx Your Country:US.” It didn’t matter whether I used Firefox or IE. The screen looked a bit small, too, about 320×200, but if you can work it out, maybe there’s an expand option. It’s definitely worth a watch if their site will just work. There are several other series available, including Angelic Layer and RahXephon.

Although honesty compels me to admit that ADV is not doing itself any favors by having the website be defective. They’d have been smarter to put it on Crunchyroll.

Update: And just like that, I come back a few hours later and it works fine. Fullscreen option looks better than Crunchyroll’s too.

I just wish that Catgirls Gone Wild commercial was for real…