Blogging Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 9

The Marquis Klopstock with his cane before taking his dose of methadone. Sorry, wrong show.

This week’s episode of Legend of the Galactic Heroes takes place within a single day of typical court life in the Galactic Empire. At least it wasn’t real time or I really would never really be able to finish a summary on it. The episode takes a look at the darker side of court life under a Kaiser who reluctantly holds his position.

The Week That Was February 19-25

It was a week in which a crater and volcanoes in general became a contentious political issue.

After last week, I was always going to watch more this time around. However, I may actually have a bit less to say than I did last week. Blame Norman Cook for it if you want.

Entering the Dilemma

Pic unrelated, I thought you deserved a nice picture of the Townsville, Australia skyline before reading this.

So ghostlightning worries about the anime blogging microculture. It seems a bunch of blogs have halted and that this may point to a trend. A while back I read that there were probably millions of blogs that were dead and no longer being updated (including 4 of my previous efforts I’m sure). People losing interest in something is pretty much human nature considering the workload some put themselves through.

For me personally, the idea of someone blogging anime as a profession is patently absurd. Maybe in 20 years time, but not now. So for now, it exists mainly as the passion of those who write them. There’s a certain level of utility at which someone will keep writing. Commenters and other factors may increase that utility, word count and brainstorming may decrease it, but at some point someone will stop.

With this blog, that pattern fits me. I know I can’t do an episodic blog for the fact that it would seem more like work than actual fun. What I can do is watch a show the best part of 2 decades old once a week and put my thoughts together, and put up a weekly summary of new shows filled with references that no one has yet acknowledged as getting. Though I wish I could actually get comment discussion going, it’s not really essential for this to be the fun exercise it’s meant to be.

While rewatching episode 8 of Gurren Lagann a billion times may be mandatory, I've rewatched this episode at least 12 times.

And as of now, there are no plans for this blog to stop despite the groans I can’t actually here from my non-existent readership.

Redeeming Factors Are Everywhere

Google Image Search put this up as the first result for "Redemption." Can't say I really disagree with the result.

As a response to this entry, at a site I will from here on out refer to as Rebranded Anime Blog, I’ve put together a list of redeeming features of various not-so-high quality anime. It reflects on the fact that nearly everything bad has a redeeming feature, though it’s hard to say that they actually make it any good.

Blogging Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 8

The founding of the Alliance, you would struggle to think this story was set in space.

The eighth episode focuses on three main issues, Reinhard’s plans for his ascent to power, the Empire’s reaction to defeat at Iserlohn and its ramifications and the history of the Empire itself.

Celebrating a Milestone Without Revealing What it is

Even Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink is outraged at my decision to write this post.

I crossed a milestone yesterday on my hit count. You think it is the stale meme of OVER NINE THOUSAND!, but alas I might be finished with my Legend of the Galactic Heroes posts by the time I hit that. Instead, I will look back at the approximately three months I’ve been writing on this blog which yielded a nice round number of 30 posts. Plus, some pathetic attempts at comedy too.

The Week That Was February 12-18

Rebranding at it's finest, you'd hardly think that this company sells tobacco would you?

Let’s just call this a week where I struggled for motivation to watch anything. With a grand total of 2…TWO new episodes watched this week, this post will surely not be very long [or interesting - Ed.]. So read on as I cry hot tears of shame as I pad the length of my interpretations of two episodes.

The Worst Stuff I Have Ever Watched #1

Who had 3:14 in the comedy death pool?

Mars of Destruction

Strengths:

• Less than 20 minutes in length.

• Remarkably, someone actually got work after appearing in this

• From a production standpoint, the music budget of zero looks a real bargain

• Unintentional comedy level of 88 out of 100.

Weaknesses:

• Public domain music is actually the best aspect of the sound

• Amateurish directing complete with a plot that can be described as the destitute man’s Evangelion.

• Looping animation…in something that lasts 20 minutes…Jesus wept.

• I’ve already spent more time on this post than I did watching it

In conclusion, you pretty much have an adaptation of a game which combines too many genres, directed by someone by someone who watched the entire Gainax back catalogue in the week before production started, but still did not know what they are doing, dialogue which sounds as though someone put a towel over the mic, BGM which could probably be improved by using my random classical playlist and pretty much failing at every sort of conceptual level possible. Yet, I don’t think this is the worst thing I could ever watch.

Any suggestions on what I should masochistically subject myself to next can be put in the comments…assuming anyone actually reads this.

Blogging Legend of the Galactic Heroes Episode 7

Running into an axe wins the comedy death sequence of the month for February.

Episode 7 of Legend of the Galactic Heroes sees the conclusion of Yang’s plan, some Holocaust decision-making by Imperial admirals and thinly-veiled references to the end of World War II. In all, it was an episode with a solid beginning and end, but with a baffling middle section.

The Week that Was February 5-11

Rafael Marquez sent off in another 2-0 defeat for Mexico against the United States. Even with how much the world has changed in the last year, some things never change.

The sixth week of the year went by and I watched a bit more than last week. Overall, I’d put it at merely average, though, my opinion may actually over the course of this little recap.