Quotes February 2013, Part 1

Shaenon Garrity on Yumi Tamura: ". . . but virtually every page contains something more incredibly hardcore than you have ever seen from characters with giant sparkly shojo eyes and even more ginormous shojo hair. Most of Tamura's other work, including her current series, 7 Seeds, is still untranslated, leaving English readers deprived of much vital badassitude."

Sean Gaffney on Blue Exorcist: "Renzo having to face up to the fact that doing the right thing is really annoying and hard . . ."

Jason Thompson on Sekine's Love: "It's clearly not just the main character who has a thing for frail and damaged characters; but this is nothing surprising for a manga published in Manga Erotics F, a manga magazine not only edited by fellow skinny-fetishist Naoki Yamamoto, but known for printing manga like Ristorante Paradiso that MIGHT turn into porn at any moment but generally choose not to."

Brian Hanson on the anime industry: "Artists and directors are like animation ronin, aligning themselves to no one but their work itself."

Sara K on A Deadly Secret: "A scene: Why, it’s a wedding!  It’s a wedding in front of a tomb.  See, both the bride and the groom are dead, so the wedding has to take place at the bride’s tomb.  In wuxia stories, if you promise to marry somebody, you marry them. Death is no excuse.  He’s drinking because he is so happy that his best friend is finally marrying the love of his life (who apparently is also the love of his afterlife).  And he’s swinging his sword around with joy.  Anyway, since the groom and bride are dead, he needs to help them get together. This is the problem with getting married when you’re dead – there’s no privacy when the newly married couple finally gets intimate physical contact.  Wait a minute … why are the bride’s arms stretched up like that?  And there’s writing on the inside of her coffin. That’s only possible if she was put in the coffin while she was still alive.  The writing says that, as a reward to whoever reunites her with the love of her life (afterlife), she is revealing The Deadly Secret (which is not exactly a favor, since people who learn The Deadly Secret have a tendency to die young).  The groom’s cremated ashes are poured onto the bride’s body. What a romantic wedding!"

Daryl Surat on Casshan: "Leading the robots is BK-1, who is so megalomaniacal that he has rechristened himself the “Buraiking Boss” (or “Black King Boss” in the dub) and only bothers to clothe himself in a cape and a hat. When you’re both king AND boss, pants are optional."