Category Archives: Retroblogging

Great Teacher Onizuka episode 01 – Schooled

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: September 1, 2010
With most students going back to school lately, it’s a fitting coincidence that today I begin retroblogging Great Teacher Onizuka. Back in the last round of voting it tied with Kare Kano, and due to the popularity and enthusiasm displayed for both I promised to blog each in turn. GTO just happened to lose the [...]
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Kare Kano episode 26 – RAGEFINISH

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 26, 2010
I have watched the entirety of Macross 7. I have watched the entirety of To Aru Majutsu no Index. I have watched the entirety of Blue Gender. And through all of these trials I have never just quit an episode midstream. At 6 minutes and 38 seconds into this final episode of Kare Kano I [...]
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Kare Kano episodes 24 and 25 – Plot, Budget Cutting…Then Suddenly, Yuri

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 19, 2010
Aside from some more budget conserving recap segments, this week’s pair of episodes started off like any other ones. The characters are preparing for the upcoming festival and we confront some internal thoughts among them, this time primarily with Yukino at the start. Things continue onwards like any other enjoyable episode of Kare Kano. Then…something. [...]
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The Nobility of Realism in Legend of the Galactic Heroes

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 17, 2010
(Essay two of three on Legend of the Galactic Heroes. As they will cover the entirety of the series, there will be spoilers.) In the grand scope of its politics and conflicts, Legend of the Galactic Heroes definitely seems to favor one school of international relations theory for explaining how the universe works. Realism, one of [...]
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Kare Kano episodes 22 and 23 – Back to Normal?

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 11, 2010
The ‘14 Days’ arc continues the run up to the Cultural Festival and the characters’ preparations for it. Despite the drama of the previous episodes and a bout of Arima angst this time, things mostly seem to be coming back to Earth as far as the characters having fairly normal lives. The play is coming [...]
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes and the Weight of History

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 10, 2010
(Essay one of three on Legend of the Galactic Heroes. As they will cover the entirety of the series, there will be spoilers.) . Legend of the Galactic Heroes is epic in scope, in many senses of the word. It is an epic in terms of its story of great deeds, heroes, and villains. The scope of [...]
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Kare Kano episodes 20 and 21 – The Count of Monte Hokuei

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 4, 2010
Two more episodes counting down to the Culture Festival, and two episodes focuses primarily on a new character. Tonami Takefumi used to attend the feeder school for Hokuei High School years ago, but was a very different person at the time. Short, pudgy, sickly, and arrogant, he was picked on frequently until Tsubasa beat up [...]
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Kare Kano episode 19 – Minimum Cultural Standard of Animation

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: July 22, 2010
Another episode that probably needs a post unto itself, but for very different reasons from the previous one. Kare Kano is a series known to have some, um, issues in its production, and it seems like this episode was intended precisely to save money so that the rest of the series could be funded. Paper [...]
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Kare Kano episode 18 – SEX! Now That I’ve Got Your Attention…Oh Wait.

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: July 15, 2010
Considering the amount of important information and events of this episode (and the vastly different feel of the next one) this episode deserves its own post. Mostly Arima-centric, there are two big instances of background and development for him, and then the often absent or sidestepped in shoujo first sexual experience for both characters. Each [...]
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Kare Kano episodes 16 and 17 – The Parents’ Circumstances AND Arima’s Mid-season Upgrade

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: July 7, 2010
Mid season upgrades: they’re not just for mecha anymore. A sidestory and a return to the plot with these two episodes, thankfully with no recaps. Summer draws to a close and as the day of Arima’s return approaches, Yukino and her family go to visit her grandfather. The same one who objected to Yukino’s father so [...]
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