Monthly Archive for May, 2013

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Here We Go Again

Hm, there went HFD up the street…. Hm, lot’s more sirens….

Yup, sure enough there’s HFD Air 1.

Oh man, that sucks! Da boys are hiking in all the way to the top, and one’s rucking in a stretcher!

I dunno if he just wanted to carry it or what, just about when he reached the top Air 1 hooked up the stretcher it had dropped off on previous pass and pulled out the victim.

A few minutes later it came back with the barf bucket and pulled a second person off the mountain.

Anime Briefs – Even More Spring ’13

Even more shows I’ve watched, and there are some pretty good ones still!

Aiura: Cute high school girls doing cute things. The little one gets mistaken for an elementary school student, then there’s the wacky one, and the subdued level headed foil.

root – yes, it’s that genre, but it’s only got three girls! Regardless, it’s great fun and well done. Nice art, nice designs, nice animation, an amusing OP that’s obsessed with crabs, and Steve Jobs. It’s too bad that at one minute, it takes up 25% of the episode! Way too short, wraps up a gag and makes you feel like it’s just getting started and then it ends!

risu – it’s amazing how little they get into each episode, but how much that little works.  The backgrounds are probably the best of anything I’ve watched this season so far.  The character art reminds me of the Ichigo Mashimaro TV animation (not the manga), though I don’t think it’s any of the same people involved.  It’s simple and wonderful, like last season’s Yama no Susume but better.  Time ot go eat some crab…  A-

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