An interesting post by omo about the usage of the phrase ‘slice-of-life’ sparked a small chain of responses. So we did it the way we can, with our podcast. It’s not a breakthrough in thought exercise, but we’re happy enough to hopefully inform people about the rather ambiguous slice-of-life phrase we tag onto anime. If anything, we manage to add more criteria which lets one be more accurate when pinning an anime as slice-of-life.
And the image above is nekomimi mold. Of all the images I could have used, we went with an idea from the podcast. I’m too lazy to color it the proper cheese-yellow color, so you’ll just have to make do with a bad sketch.
I finally got the idea to use my dynamic compressor that’s actually meant for my guitar. Plugged it into the recording chain, and it seems it’s allowed us to be more relaxed about sound levels, instead of being paranoid that it’ll clip at any moment. Yay!
Normally I’d have to subject you to a long list of items that we talk about in the podcast, but since we’ve been largely talking about the 2010 Summer Season of anime, I can just link you to a site that contains a brief synopsis of the show alongside a preview image. Quite convenient if you just need a quick reference. And if you haven’t noticed the Black ★ Rock Shooter image, yes, we talk about the OVA. We also snuck in a gaming tidbit of a doujin game called Recettear, which I’ve blurbed about before already.
I’m just as surprised as the loli in the above picture why I’m still watching this show. It’s not breaking any ground, it airs at 9am in Japan (kid’s slot?), and nothing substantial has happened. The 4th episode is following the fast paced single episode of character development technique. Considering this show is only a thirteen episode run, they’ve obviously made some sacrifices. There’s only two things I’d ask of something like this: either it becomes a trainwreck at episode 7, or it continues its lovely alpha wave emissions.
And Dragonball has nothing to do with this post.. unless JC Staff decides to pull a truly strange trainwreck on us. (Which I will watch with glee and a hazard suit.)
Sometimes you just feel like throwing stuff. And it happened to me multiple times in the last few hours while I was QCing the last podcast for public consumption. I’m still not satisfied with the quality – I know it can sound better. I’ve already stalled it this long, and I figured to get back on track. So yes! Our podcasts are back, and now separated according to subject matter for better precision. Mish-mash of topics in a single podcast was only ever good if we were extremely professional, but we’re not. The best I can do is start making some music for the intros and transitions so it’s easier on the ears.
Come listen anyway, and burn away 2+ hours of your life.
The fairly new time slot, The Power of Anime (Anime no Chikara), has given us two original series. I liked the first show, Sora no Woto, while the second one wasn’t my taste. I can’t dismiss the efforts of these shows though. There was a while when a good amount of people were complaining about the amount of adaptation series. Consider that there are plenty of manga with an install base of fans that would watch its adaptation. Whether it’s good or not isn’t as important as realizing that these shows will air with a certain amount of people watching. TV Tokyo and Aniplex are doing us a great service by providing us that injection of original anime not based on differing source material such as light novels or manga. Here’s hoping that they can keep providing the goods.
I, for one, am super pumped for the third anime to be shown in this slot, which is Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin. The trailer is above if it hasn’t been obvious.
