shinigami’s blog

Ok, when I say “Sekirei - worth watching just for references” I meant that this show will remind you of many, many others, which is to say that it’s derivative to the extreme.
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AnimeBlogger.net has always been supportive of new writers all over the world to establish their blog for free. As we continue to expand and include new bloggers to the anime blogosphere, we have reached a point where advertising dollars are not enough to pay for the hosting services.
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I’m a bit of a Inoue Takehiko fan. A bit since I like his drawing style, “REAL” is one of my favorite manga, but “Chameleon Jail” not so much. I also like Eiji Yoshikawa’s book (this link contains some spoilers; check Amazon for info without spoilers) though it lacks subtlety and it borders at times on flowery, at least in the translation I read, and I rec it to people who like history, samurai, Musashi, even Zen. I also rec (and even provide a handy link to random translations I found ^^) Musashi’s Go Rin No Sho translated by Victor Harris, complete with notes and Sun Tzu’s Art of War with annotations that Wikipedia considers dated and a link to the annotations-free version.

All right, Go Rin No Sho obviously has a connection with this post, but what about Sun Tzu? Well, Sun Tzu’s Art of War is in fact mentioned in “Musashi”, though the scene was changed beyond recongnition in “Vagabond” (see bellow, no 3).

The post(s) will be about the differences between the book and manga. Some things have to be said first. One, while this is an anime/manga blog, and I do like Inoue Takehiko, I am not partial to some of the changes the manga made. Two, I won’t get much into the changes that are either explained by the different medium (no matter how much we talk about “visual novels” a manga is not a book and many details are lost to accomodate the format) or probably due to a need for brevity - at least when the first volumes were written.

Great. Let’s get to it.

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This post is all about the “girls with guns” Bee Train trilogy, so it compares El Cazador with Noir and Madlax, but there are no spoilers for those 2 series.
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Combo entry, more on episode 4.
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Subaru conveniently recites the letter to her family. It’s been 2 weeks since she’s been trolling at the6th Mobile Division.
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This rant has one and only one purpose: to explain why I dislike StrikerS for reasons that aren’t “26 eps series VS 13 eps series pacing”. It’s easier than to reply in comments again. It’s written quickly as soon as I woke up and saw the comment for the ep 3 post, so I might add to it later on.
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“It took quite awhile for my dream to be realized” is a funny line to use when you show the now adult Nanoha/Fate/Hayate “half naked in bed” threesome. Too bad the rest of script doesn’t keep up.
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Clare gets saddled with another annoying task: infiltrate the Vatican! help lousy humans who don’t want her help (seriously though, The holy city of Rabona = Roma, see if you can tell me otherwise). So she goes undercover. Of course, when you are known as a silver-eyed witch you can’t exactly use a wig and call it a day. As contacts were not invented in this medieval-like world, Clare gets to take pills that supress her Claymore-ness.
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Their oh-so-fortunate travelling south ends with them stranded in the desert. The beginning of the episode is all about Ellis = Aspergers R Us, but she is so darn cute…
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