As the title implies, this page is for miscellaneous, mostly anime-related
stuff that needed to go somewhere. It's also a good excuse to use the "Floppy"
logo, since this is a depiction of the kind of snuggly horror inserted into
children's anime shows.
Anime reviews:
These are writeups from the all-weekend animethons organized every
so often by some very dedicated Dutch anime fans, giving an impression
of all the anime I managed to catch while still more or less awake. As the
titles show, the first three were originally cc'd to Gatch fans (hence
the chatty tone and emoticons). Some corrections
have been made, and footnotes provided for relevant information I discovered
later about the series and films reviewed. Spoilers included. (NB. there
were some rewrites of paragraphs that were total nonsense, but I think the
reviews still show a progression from total anime newbie to not totally
anime newbie.)
It bears repeating that the sometimes stiff criticism of the anime shown
is not meant to disparage the organizers of these animethons! Their aim is
to show what's being watched in Japan, and as I've said in the third writeup,
it so happens that the Japanese do watch crap. Tastes differ, and when I
dislike a show, I may still enjoy gag comics parodying it. In all, the time
spent watching any anime is never completely wasted.
