My episodic notes, reactions, and commentary from Barakamon, which aired during the Summer 2014 anime season.
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Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Thirteen Season Shutdown
This Week: Barakamon, M3: The Dark Metal, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
Game over, for everyone, in multiple ways.
Next week: an entirely new board!
As a reminder, after weekly shows conclude for the season, I now collect my episode remarks and move them into separate posts with the other episodes of the same show for future reader convenience. These will be coming out over the next several days one at a time, so as to avoid flooding feeds.
They are not being released in any particular order relating to my opinion of the shows.
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Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Twelve
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, M3: The Dark Metal, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
The last episode of Free!, while every other show in this lineup moves to the diving blocks so they can set up for their finales.
As a reminder, after weekly shows conclude for the season, I now collect my episode remarks and move them into separate posts with the other episodes of the same show. This way, if readers new or old ever want to check out what I thought of a particular show as it was airing, they can do so without having to click through the weekly posts and be surrounded by unrelated series.
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Eleven
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, M3: The Dark Metal, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
The last week before anything covered in these posts comes to their conclusion, for all the dread or joy that entails.
There are even final episode counts finally out now for Gundam-san and Matsutaro, so this entire board will indeed be wiped out after the next two weeks! I will get to rebuild completely next season, rather than anything carrying over, which should be pretty freeing when it comes to selecting what to write about.
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Ten
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, M3: The Dark Metal, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
I make it a point to ensure every show I cover gets a featured image in these posts at some point during a season, or at least before its end of run for larger series. I thought I was doing a lot worse than I was, as the second season of Space☆Dandy holds five of the spots so far! But there are one shot distributions amongst most others at least. Only M3: The Dark Metal and Barakamon remained unaccounted for when I tallied them up.
This does not itself actually mean anything, I just like to maintain leading image variety and it is so easy to lose track of things in the middle of a season.
I am going with M3 this week, as I would get to use a sunset shot rather than gambling and then later having to use something from the murky grey Lightless Realm. Even M3 can manage sunsets.
Always be on the lookout for positives! The summer season is almost over.
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Eight
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, M3: The Dark Metal, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
Some other bloggers have already been floating the specter of season previews for fall coming up, which is kind of surreal when you get to thinking that means I and many others also will end up trying to hammer out some kind of personal end of the year lists by the time that final calendar year season wraps up.
One thing at a time though, by all means.
Really, I’m just looking forward to fall so I can go back to my “Autumn Anime” header in these posts. I appreciate the alliteration a lot.
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Seven
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, M3: The Dark Metal, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
Hanamonogatari has also seen its full airing, as mentioned in the first week of this season. Also as I had brought up there, I would not be covering it in these posts because by it being a five episode simultaneous release, it would probably be better served just getting its own space than being crammed in here with one off episodes of everything else.
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Six
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, M3: The Dark Metal, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
Halfway through the season, and thankfully that means some of these productions will be mercifully drawing to a close in relatively short order.
Some good stuff will also end up getting board wiped in that future process too through, which means I should value my time with them while I still can.
This post is a day later than it normally would be for my usual schedule, but personal circumstances delayed it coming together sooner.
The only series this impacts would be Tokyo ESP, which has already aired a new episode in the time since. I do not see this causing a significant enough issue to push the post back any further, so episode six of that production will be covered next week as it normally would be.
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Five
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, M3: The Dark Metal, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
In a quality of life upgrade for readers, I made a new category over the last week, where I collected my previous episodic opinions on shows as they were airing and placed them with their series friends. The goal is to make things a lot easier for folks to read past opinions from these posts without needing to flip through a dozen or two separate pages, which is especially helpful if someone only picks up a show after it has ended.
So, if you ever wanted to refer back to my longer Ping Pong The Animation write-ups from last season, experience my pain of Pupa all over again, among many others as they were in their weekly formats here, now you can!
Given that my other categories have Things I Can Find In My Closet naming schemes, the section is merely called Notebooks. While I backdated these entries so as to not flood the blog in the present, going forwards I will merely publish these as shows or seasons end. M3: The Dark Metal lacks one for now due to insufficient previous material, and Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!! has an uncertain series length I am willing to wait a few more weeks before collecting its prior write-ups together.
By the same token, I wheeled this out two months ago without an announcement, but while I am here: There is also now an Index page and related sub-pages, which contains a much easier to navigate collection of lists and links back to previous material across all the categories on this blog.
Ideally these enhancements make for a more convenient reading experience, especially with the number of posts in the archives.
Now then: TV shows and stuff!
Hangers: Summer 2014 Anime, Week Four
This Week: Barakamon, Free! – Eternal Summer, Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!, Space☆Dandy Season Two, and Tokyo ESP.
A surprising three shows this week end up with prominent birds in their screenshots. Two of which are penguins, and another being an Angry Birds gag involving the Principality of Zeon’s most prominent user of red mobile suit paint.
I feel I should grant featured image rights to Gundam-san this week, should I want to avoid having that face call to have my residence pelted with crazed avian creatures.
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