The Wind Rises

"Le vent se lève !… Il faut tenter de vivre !"
I cannot write about this without spoiling be warned.

Oukami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki: First impressions

Just watched it at LFF, so review time. Trying to avoid spoliers (excepting what was in the 1 paragraph blurb)
First off, it was a 35 mm print, with noticeable judder. Strikes me as a bit odd for a digital film with such background detail but there you go.

The basic premise is that  Hana, a 19 year old student, becomes interested in a mysterious attendee to one of her University courses. They start a relationship, he reveals to her that he is half-wolf  daemon of some sort, they have two children, he then dies following the second's birth. She can't cope with hiding the children's wolfish tendencies within city life, and resolves to move to the countryside their father came from.

Film is in 3 clear acts, with time progressing throughout.

Fairy tail

Was trying to get this done a while back, the watching list still stands, this season held nothing new besides Fate/Zero.

It seems I dropped nearly everything last season.

Fair few promising shows I didn't try though: Kamisama no Memo-chou and Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth ~ The Animation. A few pieces of trash that might be fun too.

Dropped/stalled list:

Summer '11first ep views

And now the anime forecast, issued by the myself on behalf of the aniblogging comunity at 17:54 BST today

iM@S: very active character animation, lots of activity in every shot. Good.

Mawaru Penguindrum: FUCK YES IKUHARA!!! Heavy showers. Good.

Usagi Drop: Very real, hits damn hard. Good

Yuruyuri: Moe blobs, K-on! without the cake. Poor becoming moderate.

Blood-C: Noodle people, decent animation. Light showers. Moderate.

Some musings on the UK anime market

Some Q&A.
Tl;dr version:
Your product sucks compared to the US and or Fansubs
If it didn't suck it's OOP.

First impressions

Everyone seems to be doing a preview guide, bandwagon ahoy!

Hanasaku Iroha
ooh shiny....
Seriously;
great CG work on the reflection effects, that level of animation is normally reserved for films.
Characters are nice,...  well not nice, more actually have personality.
All realy fluid as well.

5 Centimetres per Scecond (3 year delay -_-;)

Finally got my copy of the UK (Australian) edition of one of my favourite anime "film"s.
I will not be reviewing the film itself, which I first saw over four years ago, but the shambolic dvd release.

Much as Manga totally failed in alleviating fears I had about video quality (actually give accurate product listings, Amazon still thinks it's sub only), it was actually a good transfer. The standard for UK (Australian) anime dvds is a transfer from the US release, not from the source film, which leaves very bad artifacts form having the frame rate changed twice (e.g. interlace between 3 frames).

had to repost this

My review of Isshoni Training, take this as the standard for what truly awful means

Okay, now having subjected myself to Isshoni Training.

It's like reused sequences the anime.

Think there's about 3 minutes of animation in the 25.
Possibly even less voice and music (it's very repetitive BGM).
Voice consists of a short intro/shower scene (and end scenes), and counting from 1-24 . The counting is mostly reused (all the stuff during exercises is). The other audio (my god there's so much reuse I can actually talk about all of it) consists of her breathing 24 times in a slightly more strained way, the very bad BGM and *boing*.

top 10 anime

I keep on forgetting which order I put them in, so will list for personal reference:

1.  Cardcaptor Sakura
2. Zeta Gundam
3. Clannad Afterstory
4. Kare Kano
5. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's
6. Clannad
7. Saki
8. Code Geass R2
9. Kanon (2006)
10. Shigofumi