Hige vs. Otaku

Closing Time

So it’s happened. I’ve succumbed to superior technology and become another Word Press beyotch.

The upshot of such is that I’m now hosted by Ikimashou and newly beauteous, in the words of Shakespeare and more recently Cinnamon Ass.

The higevsotaku.com domain should direct you to the new site and I now have a feedburner set up that points to the new feed. Please update your records accordingly.

Again, if you link me on your blog I’d greatly appreciate it if you could update the link to http://higevsotaku.com, as this Typepad site will no longer be updated.

ONWARDS TO SEXINESS

Tokyo Marble Chocolate - Zenryoku Shounen & Mata Aimashou

Production I.G., along with GAINAX, are bastions of my anime fandom. Without them the deep-seated passion I have for anime, the faith that it is capable of producing entertainment unlike any other medium, would be diminished to the point of nonchalance. I would be one of those irritating casual types that evangelises about how cool that ‘manga’ bit in Kill Bill part one was and presume everything else is either tentacle sex or animated for paedophiles (a phrase coined by Bateszi long ago and something still despairingly appropriate when shifting through AnimeSuki today). Luckily, Evangelion happened. Then Cowboy Bebop happened. Then Studio Ghibli happened. And then, most importantly, FLCL happened. The rest is easy to surmise; my journey of appreciation is nothing unconventional, even if it resulted in a preference for the darker, weirder avenues that I write about here.

So, I tend to associate quality with these two particular companies. Even though they’ve frequently, time and again, upset and shaken that faith, I’ve never wholly dismissed their ability to completely ruin the competition. Enter Tokyo Marble Chocolate and again I am astounded.

Ghost Hound – Harmonising Binaries [Episode Ten]

I initially wrote this as one post that covered all three episodes but Ghost Hound is proving impossible to analyse with any brevity, so I’ve split it up into one episode per post. This is the final part, episode ten.

Ghost Hound – Harmonising Binaries [Episode Nine]

I initially wrote this as one post that covered all three episodes but Ghost Hound is proving impossible to analyse with any brevity, so I’ve split it up into one episode per post. This is part two, episode nine.

Ghost Hound – Harmonising Binaries [Episode Eight]

I initially wrote this as one post that covered all three episodes but Ghost Hound is proving impossible to analyse with any brevity, so I’ve split it up into one episode per post. This is part one, episode eight.

Firsties – Macross Frontier, H20: Footprints in the Sand and Rosario + Vampire

In the spirit of a feature (II. III) I wrote at the beginning of the autumn season I’m introducing Firsties, an on-going column dedicated to first episodes of newly released anime. This time I’m looking over Macross Frontier, H20: Footprints in the Sand and Rosario + Vampire. Brace yourselves for lots of sighing and ambivalent shrugging of shoulders.