Still Even More Quotes of Awesome July 2012

Michelle on Moon Child: "Early on, there are many comparisons to fish, along with visuals of the spacefishies returning to Earth, but at the time we didn’t know that this would also be their final journey. Though, I guess if I were really up on my ichthyology, I might’ve expected it."

Jason Thompson on Berserk: "Armor is useless against his sword; he can chop through stone and steel. In fact, he can chop through two armored men on horses, along with their horses, in one blow. He can impale four crocodiles in one thrust. And he can use it as a shield, to deflect blows, since it's apparently the only unbreakable piece of metal in the story. Actually, it looks like the weakest part of it is the hilt, and if it broke anywhere, it'd snap right above where he holds it, but that never happens. (Things like these make me wish there was a Japanese version of Mythbusters, so they could test the realism of things that happen in manga. They'd never run out of material.) "

Michelle on Drops of God: "Shizuku and his trusty sidekick Miyabi get up to various things, which usually involve tasting a whole bunch of wine and rhapsodizing about them, sometimes with unintentionally amusing visuals and dialogue."

Carl Kimlinger on FMA: Brotherhood: "This is what animation does best: bringing life to things that otherwise could only have existed in the imagination.. . .  That's a goodly part of what makes FMA:B great: it may be epic in scale, but it's always human in its consequences, and those consequences are rarely predictable. Especially here, as it draws to a close."

Melinda Beasi on Please Save My Earth: "[His] journey from annoying little rhythmic gymnast (what a funny little character note that was, I thought) to cold-hearted villain, and finally to romantic hero is one of the quirkiest character arcs I’ve seen, even in shoujo manga, yet it works surprisingly well."

Jason Thompson on Hoshin Engi: "Fujisaki sure is good at drawing weird-looking monsters. Some of them are positively abstract. His creatures look like the offspring of rogue Pokémon who had sex with Marchel Duchamp paintings."