I discovered this title by accident when I checked the Coalgirls' webpage, hoping they haven't given up fansubbing/releasing for good. Turned out one bored encoder did some releases and Majo no Tabitabi was one of these. Judging by the cover and the AniDB summary it seemed like a simple, easy-going anime so I downloaded it. It took a couple weeks to watch the entire season though.  Continue reading

Have you seen the anime 彼氏かれし 彼女かのじょの事情じじょう (Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou; His and Her Circumstances) ? It's one of those lesser-known shoujo animes from the 90's despite being directed by Anno Hideaki, the genius behind Evangelion. Like Evangelion, this anime also had a noticeable budget cut, but unlike in Evangelion where the cut happened near the end Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou ran out of budget around halfway of the season. Because of these budgetary problems the makers had to resort to extreme animation reuse, double recap episodes and other shenanigans, resulting in an overall shitty animation. But the story is solid, so it's worth a watch.  Continue reading

Contrary to the title, quarantine is no longer in effect, it's just this post took me more than 2 months to finish. In the meantime I've abandoned my four-week marathons, partly because I lost interest in anime. But at the end of May I realized that summer is just around the corner and I have three months to get my shit together and complete everything I started, or I will probably end up procrastinating everything till I graduate two years later. So I got my shit together and worked on jpdream like there's no tomorrow. I will explain the details in a separate post.  Continue reading