Yuricon; The Legend Continues

Here's What I Watched, from best to worst:

Azumanga Diaoh (New Years). Azimanga Diaoh is based on a popular 4-panel strip comic, many of which have been translated into English by the San Jose anime club: Strips available here. This was one of the funniest goddamn things I've ever seen, but it is probably impossible for me to convey a feeling of the humor here. The strips I've read so far are OK, but not nearly as hilarious as the show.

Rose of Versailles 15-19. The fabulousness continues in Rose of Versailles episodes 15-19, even though the focus is off of Oscar and more on ancillary characters. One of the episodes had the best change-of-heart scenes I've ever seen. A girl's estranged sister is killed (in an awesome way), and Oscar and friends look to the girl for her tragic reaction. The girl is all, "Who cares? I barely knew her." and then a split-second-turn-on-a-dime reaction, "OH GOD MY SISTER IS DEAD!" It was totally awesome.

Plastic Little is a classic sci-fi anime with very plastic character designs that I liked a lot. I only caught the end, but I'd love to see the whole thing. Iczar 3 is also classic sci-fi in short format with nifty character design, although not nearly as good. Iczar 3, although it is second-rate anime, is not boring at all.

Haibane Renei 5-8 got really depressing. It's the show about the weird angels. Kamikaze Tsukai Ran 5-9 picks up a little later in the series, particularly in episode nine. It's a decent show, although not one I'd spend money on.

I My Me Strawberry Eggs is, as expected, pretty run-of-the-mill standard stuff. You got your sex jokes and a Bosom Buddies plot there, and that's about it. It's nothing special. Cleopatra D.C. on the other hand, is action anime with an almost-soft-core-porn character design. It had humorous moments, such as the explanation of Cleopatra's name - "In the United States there are two Washington D.C.'s!"

G-Taste was really cracking up the audience, so I peaked in to see what it was about. It turned out to be hentai that focused on spike heels and nylons, and happened to be subtitled in really bad Engrish. For example, at one point the woman yells, "Abnormal!" when she obviously means to say "Pervert!" Other than that it was plotless, with a strange disembodied-voice narrating some parts.

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June 20, 2003 08:03 AM, Rick said:

Isn't Plastic Little Hentai?

June 20, 2003 04:24 PM, N. said:

W-e-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. . . It isn't hentai, but there are a few breasts. Sci-fi breasts, yes, but still. In fact, the artist pays so much attention to the aureolas that amongst the AWOL crowd the show was known as 'Plastic Nipple,' and AWOLers advised others not to get the mousepad with art from the show because it was so tough to avoid the bumps.

There is also a lot of barely restrained homosexual subtext, which is why it was shown at Yuricon in the first place.

However, it does feature - however briefly - a space whale. And that makes up for the rest.

June 21, 2003 12:01 AM, Erin said:

Nope! It's just sci-fi.

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