For our Italian readers, Ren Books discuss Yuri and the upcoming release of the Italian edition of “Rica ‘tte Kanji!?” by Rica Takashima.
Archive for August, 2011
The Advocate talks to JH Williams about Batwoman
The title is pretty bad, the interview is not terribly good, but the artwork is good and it’s relevant to our interests. The Advocate talks to JH Williams about Batwoman. (Wish they had bothered including Amy Reeder, the artist, though.)
Batwoman: The Allure of the Lesbian Caped Crusader | Features | The Advocate:
New Yuri Manga on JManga.com
JManga.com is going to be updating weekly. I won’t report updates all the time, but to get you all in the habit of checking their updates, I thought I’d report that there are some new crappy Yuri titles up at JManga this week: Zettai-Shojo Seiiki Amunesian, Shin Koihime Musou -Otome Ryouran Sangokushi. ^_^
Experiencing minors delays
So, we got hit by Hurricane Irene, and lost power for a few days and for a number of reasons, I won’t be posting for a few days. Power’s back, we’re fine, some very minor cleanup needed and we hope all our US East Coast readers are fine, too.
Thanks for your patience while we get ourselves organized here at Yuricon Central.
Sound of the Sky Anime, Disk 3 (English)
On the third disk of the Sound of the Sky box set we get short glimpses into several of the characters’ pasts, and a heap more through random expository scenes.
Filicia’s tragic past, ominous hints of Rio’s secret, Kureha’s history, even Claus’ past, all of these are laid out like cards in an attempt to draw us in deeper to the story and make us care about the characters. And it might have worked too, except…
…I have never watched an anime so bound and determined to make me dislike it.
There’s one deep episode, where we actually get some exposition of the war…followed by two episodes so utterly idiotic that there is no excuse for them, followed by a cliche’-ridden piece of tripe that anyone over 15 years old should be ashamed to have written.
Once again, I am being beaten with the fear so many anime studios have of *telling us an actual story.* It’s as if they cannot, will not and obviously do not feel comfortable with a female cast in a serious drama, and must relentlessly infantilize them so we can never, not for one second, take them seriously. I’m almost relieved at the egregious panty shots, because for a moment there I thought we were going to get some character development and obviously don’t want to get my hopes too high. Phew.
Yet again, we are confronted with the emotional manipulation of “Amazing Grace.” Episode 9 of 12 and that and a few basic bugle calls are all we’ve heard, with the exception of Rio playing some extemporaneous jazz as a way of acting out.
I know that many of you enjoy this series and I swear, I’m trying to like it…but I’m finding it work to just *watch* it, much less enjoy it.
Three episodes to “get better.” It’s not impossible. As I said, I didn’t like the original Nanoha until episode 10, but what a bloody waste of talent, money and time this was. Instead of 9 amazing episodes, there was one-ish. That’s a pretty bad percentage in my book.
Ratings: When complete
I’m going to try and watch the last episodes soon, so we can wrap up the contest for a copy of the box set. Get your entry in before I write that final review!
