12 Days 2020, Day 6: Short Awards 2020

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Anime Shorts, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, CG anime is good actually, Eagle Talon, Existential terror, Grand Blues, Hentatsu, Inexplicable dunking on Shimane, Kapibarasan, That is the Bottleneck, When all is ash Teekyu will remainLeave a comment

As is now something of a tradition for my 12 days posts, day 6 is our 5th annual Short awards. Every year I use this day to highlight some of the more interesting short anime that aired over the course of the year. In any year the quality of short anime tends to vary wildly and that held true here for the most part. On the plus side there wasn’t much in the way of actively unpleasant stuff like some previous years have had so good job on that front 2020. Anyways, lets get into it shall we.

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12 Days 2019, Day 10: Graduation – the Existential Desolation of Sega Hard Girls

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Arbitrary milestones, CG anime is good actually, I am legaly required to refer to Straight Title Robot Anime at least once per 12 days series OK, Sega Hard Girls, That title is maybe a bit pretentious but it's snappy so I don't care, The unknown is scary sometimesLeave a comment

So this year I hit a bit of a milestone; 500 finished anime. While ultimately pretty arbitrary and not indicative of anything much it’s still a big number, so I decided the 500th entry should be something momentous and well regarded. Gotta hit those big milestones with big series, right? Just kidding, I watched Sega Hard Girls.

If there’s one very specific subset of anime that seems to exist to appeal to me specificly it’s janky CG shorts literally animated in MikuMikuDance. So what could be more on brand to hit a milestone like that with? It was great choice, it’s a cute little series which affectionately pokes fun at old Sega games, the cast are a lot of fun and it’s consistently funny. It also broke me a little. Continue reading “12 Days 2019, Day 10: Graduation – the Existential Desolation of Sega Hard Girls” →

Fall 2018 Shorts Roundup

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 HainiryunAnime is corrupting the youth, Anime Shorts, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, CG anime is good actually, Himote House, Jingai San no Yome, Pushing the medium of anime in directions it should probably never be pushed, Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San, Space Battleship Tiramisu, THE IDOLM@STER SideM Wakeatte Mini!, The IM@S franchise has too many characters and I know about five of themLeave a comment

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Well it sure has been a while. Between real life getting in the way and a sort of collapse of my desire to write after I couldn’t keep up with the weekly Endro! posts (Obviously those are no longer happening, but I do have a post about a specific character in the works which may or may not see the light of day at some point). I’ve been sitting with this half finished for a couple of months now. But it’s still technically the winter season so I’m not late with this yet! Fall was an unusually solid season for shorts, although I went in with unrealistically high expectations for one specific show the generally solid performance of everything else helped to cushion the blow of its being merely good.

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12 Days of Anime 2018, Day 12: Run Diva Run – Minarai Diva and Pushing Nonsensical Boundaries

December 25, 2018 Hainiryun12 days of anime, CG anime is good actually, Galaxy Brain Idea: Learn JP to watch the rest of Minarai Diva, gdgd predicted virtual youtubers tbh, Meta shenanigans, Minarai Diva, Minarai Diva is the most important anime to air this decade and you can't convince me otherwise, Pushing the medium of anime in directions it should probably never be pushed, Sub the rest of Minarai Diva you cowards, Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono1 Comment

Minarai Diva totally predicted virtual youtubers back in 2014 tbh

In yesterday’s post I talked about the gdgd shows as a whole, today I want to focus in on what might just be the most interesting of the lot, and also the most obscure; Minarai Diva. So what’s so interesting about Minarai Diva? What makes it entirely unique and pushes it beyond its cohorts in terms of meta weirdness? It’s live. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2018, Day 12: Run Diva Run – Minarai Diva and Pushing Nonsensical Boundaries” →

12 Days of Anime 2018, Day 11: Atarashi! – Exploring the gdgdverse

December 24, 2018December 24, 2018 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Anime Shorts, Anime that are too clever for their own good sometimes, CG anime is good actually, gdgd Fairies, gdmen, Himote House, Naria Girls, Straight Title Robot Anime, Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono, The "nobody's schedules lined up" episode of Tesagure is a masterpiece. Actually a lot of Tesagure episodes are masterpieces1 Comment

Over the years short anime have kind of become my thing. I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for them but it’s only in the last few years that I’ve switched to “watch nearly every short every season” mode. Because of that there are naturally some gaps through which shows which are extremely my sort of thing have slipped. This year I filled one of those gaps. Despite Straight Title Robot Anime; one of my favourite series ever being a part of it I had previously missed out on the rest of the gdgd series.

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12 Days of Anime 2018, Day 9: That time Chuchu was evil for about five minutes

December 22, 2018 Hainiryun12 days of anime, CG anime is good actually, Pyuru!, Shingancrimsonz are probably banned from like 5 different ramen joints at this point and that absolutely won't stop them, Show By Rock!!, What's a temporary turn to the dark side between friends?Leave a comment

Show By Rock!! is a series with a lot going on. Juggling half a dozen secondary sets of characters around central band Plasmagica, and it manages for the most part. An issue a lot of shows this crowded run into however is that individual events can often feel rushed, as the story tries to hit the beats it needs to while not sidelining any of the extensive cast. Show By Rock definitely runs into this at points, with the most noticeable example being Chuchu’s turn to the dark side in episode 11, which happens and is resolved in about 5 minutes. In any other series that probably wouldn’t work, but I think it actually adds to this one.

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12 Days of Anime 2017, Day 12: Welcome to Youkoso Japari Park

December 25, 2017 Hainiryun12 days of anime, CG anime is good actually, I didn't watch a lot of anime this year. Hopefully that'll change next year., Kemono Friends, SugoiLeave a comment

Every now and then a series comes around that in adition to its own strong points is elevated by something entirely seperate. The atmosphere. that rose up around Kemono Friends was one such elevation. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2017, Day 12: Welcome to Youkoso Japari Park” →

Straight Title Robot Anime: Laughing Till The End

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 HainiryunAnime Shorts, Anti Humour, CG anime is good actually, Shows that nobody watched, Straight Title Robot Anime3 Comments

Time to talk about one of my favourite shorts ever. Making that kind of declaration about a series literally made in MikuMikuDance about a group of characters standing in the same place failing to make jokes for 11 episodes may seem odd, but it’s true.

Note: It’s more or less impossible to explain just how well made Straight Title Robot Anime actually is without giving away the punchline, so by necessity I’ll be spoiling the ending here. I’d highly recommend watching the show first, even if it doesn’t look like anything special. Continue reading “Straight Title Robot Anime: Laughing Till The End” →

12 Days of Anime 2016, day 8:Majin Bone

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016 Hainiryun12 days of anime, CG anime is good actually, ducks, Majin Bone, Shows that nobody watched, Shows where everyone is a huge dork are good and importantLeave a comment

A whole lot of anime comes out every year, naturally this means stuff slips under the radar. Prior to this year I had no idea Majin Bone existed, because nobody remembers that Majin Bone exists, and that’s a real shame, because it’s great. Continue reading “12 Days of Anime 2016, day 8:Majin Bone” →