A thoughtful response to current anime.
2011 has ended, as years often do. Soon the new year’s anime will be starting; I haven’t taken a close look at them, but I’ve heard there isn’t much to be excited about. So rather than worry about the upcoming year right now, let’s take a moment to stop and reflect on the year that [...]
Scientists at CERN seem to have measured a particle going faster than the speed of light, which if true would open the door to a reworking of the fundaments of theoretical physics, possibly leading to an ability to send messages backward in time. Article here. Now, before you get excited, things of this sort almost [...]
Last episode on Steins;Gate, Okabe got a mission (Operation Skuld) from his future self to protect Makise Kurisu from her father and, as a happy side effect, save the world from collapsing into war and anarchy. To be successful, he will need to fool his past self into thinking Makise Kurisu has been killed. It [...]
Last episode on Steins;Gate, Okabe finally broke the 1% barrier and returned to the original timeline at the cost of his companion’s life. Now John Titor has come back to tell him that his work is not done, that World War 3 is going to break out if he doesn’t do something. This seems like [...]
Last episode on Steins;Gate Okabe was still agonizing over which of his haremettes to allow to die in order to save the other. Now that I think about it, isn’t Moeka also dead in the current timeline? On a pure haremette maximization metric, we should prefer to return to the original timeline. In the original [...]
Last time on Steins;Gate, Okabe was faced with a dilemma – in order to prevent Mayushii’s death, he has to undo all his D-mails, but the next D-mail to undo is the one that prevented Makise Kurisu’s death! It seems like sort of a false dilemma to me, though. The timeline has already shifted once, [...]
I’m heading back home tomorrow morning, so I hope to be back to my regular somewhat-irregular anime blogging schedule then. I have watched some episodes of currently airing anime while I’ve been here, so here are some brief thoughts on them, almost twitter-style. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Episodes 5 +6: Funny enough. The jokes [...]
So! Last time on Steins;Gate we undid Feyris’s fondest wish and ruined her life, who is next? As I recall, the timeline shift prior to Feyris’s was the crossdresser’s? It seems likely to be a hard sell to turn her back into a dude. On the other hand, when you get right down to it, [...]
Last time on Steins;Gate, the future had consented to change. Okabe’s little numbers went up, but he still ended up short of the exciting divergence-level based reward of saving his girlfriend’s life. Or at least, that was how things had been represented to us, but Mayushii sure seemed to be alive. Maybe she was secretly [...]
Last time on Steins;Gate we were taking time off from fixing their time machines and fighting the evil agents of CERN to hunt down John Titor’s father. I guess time travel means never having to get your priorities straight. If Okabe were feeling up to it, he could do a brute force linear search of [...]
