Category Archives: Series Reviews

Where I chose to pontificate on the quality or meaning of an entire series. May overlap Fansub and DVD review categories.

Some More Thoughts on Vandred

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Ubu Roi

I’m rewatching parts of it, and I noticed some odd things as I viewed episode 2. Some of them, I already had noticed, but forgot about as the show progressed. I expected answers would show up and since they were … Continue reading →

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A Few Thoughts on Vandred

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Ubu Roi

Well, rather a lot, actually. I got on a bit of a roll. (Edit: I’ve come back to this post and put some of the spoilers in blackout. If you haven’t seen this show, you probably shouldn’t read them before … Continue reading →

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Vandread

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Ubu Roi

Well, as I mentioned before, something (the impending non-availability, or was it the bustlines?) posessed me to order the Vandred 3-disk Ultimate DVD Collection recently. It got in a few days ago, and after briefly considering holding off until I … Continue reading →

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Three Animé Series, One Confused Blogger

Posted on November 5, 2006 by Ubu Roi

Wonderduck had a comment on a prior post about liking Crescent Love, which I’ve been bagging on pretty harshly lately. It got me to thinking about why, because he sees the exact same things I do: one overused cliché after … Continue reading →

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Busou Renkin! Gensundheit! (Animé Fansubs XIII)

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Ubu Roi

Busou Reskin is a show that should be about as cliché as Crescent Love, yet I’ve found it to be much more watchable, even if the animation quality is not that good. It’s not bad, like some other series I … Continue reading →

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Crescent Moonie Love

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Ubu Roi

Well, for some reason, Nara Animation Studio decided that there hadn’t been enough bad harem animés made lately, so they decided to toss this one into the pile. How bad? Well, for starters, it’s horribly full of clichés. All of … Continue reading →

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Remake, Reimagining, Reject

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Ubu Roi

So it seems Steven Den Beste got his hands on Sol Bianca: the Legacy thanks to Geneon’s sale, and he couldn’t finish it. I’m not surprised. I never got past the first DVD.� My biggest problem is that it wasn’t … Continue reading →

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