Because clearly they’d have to be to enjoy thi… nah, just kidding.

In lieu of anything of particular substance to post about recently, I suppose I may as well stick to posting about the show for now, though there’s increasingly few things to talk about on a weekly basis without repeating myself to an excessive extent.
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From episode 15 of Little Busters, though I gather it frequently appears as a makeshift table in prior episodes. I think the fact that the show has been airing for over three months now and the first that I’d actually heard about it was when I spotted it in a random picture in my Twitter feed this morning probably speaks volume about this show. Well, at least speaks volumes about how few damns people give about it.

The show did just get picked up on Crunchyroll, who’ve decided to start at the half-way point and run catch-up on the earlier episodes at a later date. Arguments about rewarding piracy and penalizing the law-abiding aside, I would like to praise it as being a rare example of realistic thinking within this industry – as far as these things go, the people who’d be willing to start the show at the beginning at this point will still likely be willing to do so some weeks or months from now, but those who’re watching the show in “realtime”… not so much. In a world where things don’t magically translate themselves, it’s the logical move if you want people to actually watch your stream instead of choosing alternative methods.

But… yeah, no-one seems to particularly give a damn about Little Busters anyway. At least the OP and ED are catchy, I guess.

Because clearly the thing to be doing when people are making fun of (an admittedly entirely dumb) feature on the internet is to go at it with renewed aplomb.

Saying that, I actually uploaded this image six months ago and promptly forgot about it, meaning that I’ve absolutely no idea what I was going to write about Yurunmates at this point. Ho-hum.

From the second episode of Tamako Market, first brought to my attention by Calaggie on Twitter, who runs the almost-as-odd-as-this-feature Anime Tokei tumblr. Not that it’s particularly hard to miss it in this particular case, but credit where credit is due and all that.

I’d been expecting a Mikan Box to show up in the show at some point given it’s setting – I mean, a shopping district is inevitably going to have a produce store of some kind – but this isn’t really the context that I’d been expecting it to turn up in, used as a perch for an overweight talking bird. Now that one has turned up, though, I can stop paying way too much attention to what’s going on in the background.
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Because I can’t think of six things to comment on this week.

To get the preface out of the way, I’m still strangely luke-warm about the show, and I’m still not entirely sure why – Omo seemed to report similar feelings coming out of the opening episodes, so I’m not the only one in that position, but I’m not really sharing the same love for the show a lot of people on the Twitters seem to have.

Again, though, I’m not really sure why. To a certain degree, it might just be that I’m over-thinking it, and a lot of the criticism I think to lay at the show strikes me as maybe coming from a weird hypocritical place of defending my iM@S fandom in the light of supposed competition. I mean, the main thing what strikes me about Love Live is that it’s all perhaps a little too calculated in it’s execution – in parts, it comes across as a peculiar composite of popular things from popular shows, and outside of that dance sequence at the end of the first episode it hasn’t really displayed enough of it’s own character yet. That’s hardly a complaint that can be pointed at Love Live exclusively, though, being that it’s true to a significant degree of a lot of anime these days, but Love Live is all just a little too smooth – it’s been lacking a bit of the rough edge or conceptual weirdness or just something that gives these shows some actual flavour.

Not that I don’t like the show or anything – it’s fun, and there’s a lot that’s legitimately great about it, but I just don’t love it as much as I was expecting. It’s still early days yet, though.
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