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Archive for the ‘Eye candy’ Category
Gurren Lagann 2?
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009What I Should Have Watched Last Week
Monday, June 1st, 2009As saturated as the blogosphere is with all the latest anime, it’s often the case that, every year, one or two really good series just seem to pass me by.
Most recently, this happened with Tetsuwan Birdy Decode (aka Birdy the Mighty Decode). For no good reason, I’ve been ignoring it since 2008. I’ve often wondered if it might be worth watching, yet, as of writing, I still haven’t tried it. So, last Friday, I ended up on YouTube (via the ED for Tokyo Tribe 2) and discovered all these clips of fantastic animation from the series.
It’s not that they are the most incredible or beautiful sequences of anime I’ve ever seen, but they have that certain, brash personality I’ve come to really admire in the more creative anime. This one scene in particular is reminiscent of something like Kaiba, as in the way the colour palette is so washed out by red, obscuring certain details, lacking shadow and depth. It feels so atmospheric and harsh, which isn’t what I was expecting from Birdy at all, and therefore, now I know I have to watch this series! (I hope I’ve convinced you, too!)
Children of the Sea
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
I don’t read nearly as much manga as I should and every time I come across this beautiful cover-art from Children of the Sea (by Daisuke Igarashi), most recently on the Anime News Network, I get the strong urge to just drop everything else right there and then and to start reading this instead. It’s difficult to pin down exactly what it is about this particular image that catches my eyes, I think the colours are beautiful, but colours alone are rarely enough. It could be to do with the subtlety of the facial expressions and those strange, staring eyes, and then I notice fish and the sparkling blue sea, too. Now it’s more like a sense of wonder. It’s so bright and full of life. I have so many questions.