Yeah, something’s ‘off’ about that sculpt. The mouth and nose just don’t seem to fit together or with the rest of the face. The laughing one is slightly better. Maybe the nose is slightly too small/indistinct? Not enough color in the lips, so the whole thing blends together too much? I dunno, but something isn’t [...]

Let me guess, the author’s “charm points” are her hands/fingers and her calves. She doesn’t mention anything about the face except the lips. Nothing about eyes, or general shape to the face (heart-shaped? oval-shaped? triangular?) or my personal favorite: large foreheads. She only mentions ass and calves, not the whole leg from hip to feet [...]

“13. It’s obvious she’s faking being an airheaded bimbo”

So are they mad that she isn’t really an airheaded bimbo when that’s what they want, or because she pretends to be one when they want an intelligent woman?

And why I am fairly confident it’s more the former than the later?

Inori was kind of cute and I know the out fit is iconic to her character, but it just doesn’t work on a Nendoriod.

Nendoroids are cute, but this outfit was supposed to be sexy/reveling, and a sexy Nendoroid is a contradiction to me.

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And [...]

That is spectacular. I just hope the actual production figure is close to it.

“…over the last 28 years 114 children have died in school judo accidents.” And how many students have died falling down school stairs over those 28 years? How many have died in class-room lab accidents? In fact, what are the statics for deaths at school? This is what happens when people can’t be bothered to [...]

I’m impressed! That’s a whole lot of art-fail going on there. I’m guessing these are carefully selected sampling of the worst of them?

If she consented to having sex with him, why didn’t he claim that in court? Why the absolutely bizarre claim that she “somehow” got his semen and smeared it on her cloths while masturbating? Which is more believable, that he gave in to an illicit attraction of a girl trying to seduce him or that [...]

Anon 21:50 You’re still trying to pair him up with someone, no matter how you try to avoid saying it outright. I’m getting the impression you want this more for ‘shipping’ purposes than story conclusion. Let me ask you something. Why did Akamatsu make Negi a 10 year boy (well 9 at the beginning)? If [...]

@Dirty_Dingus008: “The boy’s BIGGEST reason to quickly learn magic was to FIND HIS PARENTS!” I suggest you re-read those first volumes again. He didn’t know his parents might still be alive until the Festival arc. He worked so hard in magic school so that he could be as powerful and help people like his father did. [...]

What part of “He’s ten years old” did you not understand? He didn’t have a ‘favorite’, he cared for all of them. Because he’s ten, and thus not old enough to be more than vaguely interested in girls. Did you have to have giant flaming letters at the beginning, middle, and end of every chapter [...]

It vastly amuses me to see people whining about Negi not choosing a girl. He’s ten years old. Akamatsu was never going to have Negi choose a girl. He hammers the reader over and over and over and over again about this. Hell, I’d estimate that Negi’s age and lack of anything beyond platonic feelings [...]

Yozora is neither slapping or bullying Maria, obviously the one who posed the figures and took the picture has never watched or read the series.

So, they’re mad at her for singing it badly? Or something like that? They better hope they never go into an American karaoke bar then. Ever. Even when it’s closed. During a massive power-outage. Because if they’re offended by that, their heads will explode in a karaoke bar. And so what if she’s singing it [...]

All I’ve seen of that was the OVA released back in April.

Well, it was directed by Anno…

High School of the Dead is the only one on that list I’d want to see a true sequel for. Everything else was either finished satisfactorily, or wasn’t all that good anyway. But HOTD’s source material would have to continue first, probably. I’d have expected Full Metal Panic would top that list. But then I [...]

That’s what they do in the books…

Also, new Arm Slaves, especially Sousuke’s. It makes the ARX-7 Arbalest look like a wuss. Named the ARX-8 Laevatein.

It also has some pretty big events for most of Mithril. Really, what was animated was only the first third or so of the series.

@Taylor: First, I don’t “hate” it because it’s popular. I dislike it because it’s nothing more than a standard fighting series. That’s MY evaluation of the series based on having watched/read it up through the beginning of the Arrancar Arc. I stopped because at that point it was blatantly obvious that it was doing what every [...]