Category Archives: Winter 2011

Fractale 04 – Departure

Damn! Say it a hundred times please. Some University requirements is pressuring me enough that I wasn’t able to write about Fractale’s EP4-6. I’d like to say it’s sheer awesomeness and immersing concepts makes it challenging to write about an episode within 4 hours. Blimey, it takes me 4-8 hours to write about it, not [...]

Gosick 07 – A Divine Revelation is Revealed at the Summer Solstice Festival

Perhaps, if I’ll go compare the freakiness level of the three arcs presented by this series, the scariest of all would be the “grey wolves” arc, as I would call it. My suspicion of Mildred was proven wrong but there are more interesting mysteries in this episode than ever. The village elder briefed their guests [...]

Gosick 06 – The Grey Wolves Summon Their Brethren

Sometimes I wonder what’s in the sleeves of the director/scriptwriter. Several surprises in every episode is in store for me. There’s something that changed, though. I can feel, or predict rather, some of the elements/events in the next episode, story-wise. Also, I wonder what happened to Kuiaran II in last episode? All we know is [...]

Gosick 04, 05

With the Queen Berry arc finishing last episode, we can expect a new arc unfolding in this fourth episode. This means brand new mysteries and there’s a couple of new characters introduced in this episode. A mysterious new exchange student, Avril Bradley, is introduced mainly in this episode. Kujo was ‘arrested’ by Grevil for ‘murdering’ [...]

Fractale 03 – Granitz Village

Oh dear, I cannot describe how I felt upon I finished watching this episode. Is that awe, inspiration or am I just stunned by this episode? Somehow, I was able to predict a bit in this show – that is the Shrine Priestess being one of the antagonists. More details about the setting of the [...]

Gosick 03 – The Hares Break a Promise Under the Morning Sun

If there’s anything that’s happening this week it would be my inevitable comparison between Gosick and Fractale. All right I admit it, these two shows are the only shows worthy of my time and effort given my tight and going tighter University schedule. Oh well, I’m slowly being bored to death by Infinite Stratos, if [...]

Fractale 02 – Nessa

500MB+ video file transfer for around seven hours? Looks painful but when you see the contents of that transfer, you would feel every effort you placed in snagging it is very well worth it. It’s art, soundtrack and voice acting imerses you to the world ruled by Fractale. Nothing can get any better than it’s [...]

Fractale 01 – Encounter

All hail the King! The King of the Winter 2010 anime season! Honestly, I’m basing that with my own preferences but one can’t deny it having potential! So far it’s destroying almost every bit of my interest to other shows. So, would I drop Star Driver, GOSICK, Yumekui Merry, Infinite Stratos and the rest? Nah, [...]

Gosick 02 – The Souls of the Dead Raise a Shipwreck

If there’s any Winter 2011 I’m poised to love, it would be Gosick. It fits my preferences for the concepts used. It’s set in Post-WW1 Europe and it has tons of mysteries, nope not on it’s overall plot, but it has them on each episode. Recall, on the first episode’s end, Victorique and Kujo got [...]

Infinite Stratos 02 – Class Representative Selection Match!

Honestly, I picked-up this show because of it’s themes having similarities w/ Vandread. A colleague, kuroshinko, warned me of it being just a typical harem show with mechs. It’s showing signs of being such but I’m still focused on the mech side. So far, I see promises of thrilling mech fights in this but most [...]