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Catching up to: Basquash! 21

nekosasu | September 9, 2009 | 3:34 pm
What a nice sight!
What a nice sight, nevertheless!

The usual tsundere-provoking embarrassing situation. I wouldn’t doubt it’s a nice sight, though!

Basquash! is moving onto the last stage! Everything is set - but first, here are some impressions of the last episodes.

(I know, ep 22 aired a couple of days ago, and it just got subbed too, but I already had this post done. Couldn’t publish it because of this unexpected and unprecedented Animeblogger downtime. If anything in episode 22 conflicts with what I’m saying here, please omit it.)

By the way, Hisa lost in a SaiMoe vote. Shocking news. You all suck for choosing Louise over Hisa.

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Basquash! 16 - Doing it wrong

nekosasu | July 23, 2009 | 1:13 am
Insert random 'Stop! Hammer time.' joke here.
Insert random 'Stop! Hammer time.' joke here.

Insert random “Stop! Hammer time.” joke here.

After watching this episode, I feel torn. More like, disappointed. It was so… rushed. So superficial.

I’m not saying that Basquash was never surrealistic and fast-paced before, but this episode kind of blows it out of proportion.

And I’m still having a sore throat. Plus I’m tired, but I can’t yawn because of throat. So I’m obviously very grumpy right now.

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Addendum to Basquash! 15

nekosasu | July 19, 2009 | 3:03 pm
Remember this image?
Remember this image? (By the way, I misread the name the first time (Katsura), but already had saved the image... self-explanatory.)

Remember this image?

It is a screencap from Basquash! episode 15, a newspaper reporting the death of Sela’s father. I already noticed yesterday this interesting notice on the lower left part of the newspaper about a certain Catsuka reaching 10 years of existence already. Google told me about a page called Catsuka which is a French anime site. Since the language and the time frame (Catsuka being 9 and a half year old) seemed to match, I was intrigued, and mailed the webmaster of Catsuka, Tsuka, to confirm this relation. And indeed, there is a link between Basquash! and Catsuka that explains this brief cameo. This link is called Thomas Romain, who is none other than the co-creator of Basquash himself.

Thomas Romain, who was the director for the French version of the TV anime Oban Star Racers (2000), is an old regular of Catsuka’s forums. He placed Tsuka in charge of managing the official website of Oban, and had him organize panels on this series for anime cons and expos. With this strong a bond, it is almost self-evident that Catsuka would eventually be referenced in such a great anime that is Basquash!

Read the original announcement of the Basquash Project on Catsuka, which includes an exclusive interview with Thomas Romain himself. (Only in French, though.) There was also a discussion thread in the Catsuka forums, but some lowlife dipshits decided to hack their forums so they are currently inaccessible. I will update this post once more info is available.
– Jul 20: The Catsuka forums are back up. Here is their Basquash thread. (My post is mentioned on page 40! :D)

Well, this makes for a nice trivia! Teaches me to pay more attention to the creators and the staff behind a certain anime series; I tend to omit those a lot these days…

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Catching up to: Basquash! (15)

nekosasu | July 19, 2009 | 1:52 am
The epic continues! ...though please, refrain from urinating. Thank you.
The epic continues! ...though please, refrain from urinating. Thank you.

The epic continues! …though please, refrain from pissing urinating. Thank you.

My last post on Basquash! was on episode 7, so I had 8 episodes to catch up to. I thought I would not catch on immediately, but one episode was enough to get me back into this adrenaline-filled mood. And then I couldn’t stop until I ran out of episodes.

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Catching up to: Basquash!

nekosasu | May 18, 2009 | 4:19 am
BASQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
BASQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

BASQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I was right, that name is meant to be screamed out loud. :D

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A certain “Belated” Spring 09 Preview - Part One

nekosasu | May 11, 2009 | 8:17 am
????

Inspired by Brett’s last post, I decided to do something I have always announced yet never done before: a preview, or more appropriately, my “first impressions”.

While others are already dishing out summer previews, I figure it is just a little late for a preview per se. But since I haven’t started watching any of the current shows yet, it thought I should share my first impressions with you guys. (And probably get rebuked by some for badmouthing a series that might turn out epic. Especially K-ON fanboys. Oh, I’m so looking forward to it :D)

Since there are approximately 20 shows to take care of, and since I don’t want it to become an unprecedented case of TL;DR, I’ll do it in 4 posts. Which makes… uh, do the maths yourself.

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