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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Winter 2018 Shorts Roundup

April 18, 2018July 24, 2018 HainiryunAnime Shorts, Existential terror, Extremely Ominous Koalas, gdgd Fairies, gdmen, Hataraku Onii-san!, Kaijuu Girls, Mitchiri Neko, Nobunaga no Shinobi, Straight Title Robot Anime, Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono, Wooser's continuing quest to have more screentime in other shows than his ownLeave a comment

This is actually being written in a somewhat timely manner for once? Wonders never cease.

Sadly this season was pretty thin on the ground in the shorts sphere, there weren’t that many to start with, and only four actually got picked up for streaming. But on the plus side they were fairly consistently decent, and in some cases pretty great, so it could be far worse. Continue reading “Winter 2018 Shorts Roundup” →

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” →