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Despite how much I like anime, I’ve never been a big fan of incredible events with no viable scientific explanation. This includes things like flying through the air with no apparent form of propulsion, creating vast quantities of energy from nothing, and penetrating the armour of a vehicle using a weaker material by using shear willpower. This is one of the reasons why Martian Successor Nadesico was and still is one of my favourite anime: it used the latest theories of quantum mechanics and newest technological advancements of the 90s to explain how things like instant transport and the terraforming of Mars was possible. When there was no way to explain something (like the generation of particles to perform a gravity blast), the topic was simply avoided rather than trying to make up something fake and untrue.

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Well, it’s Sunday so here are the interesting anime screenshots that I’ve taken over the past week.

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Anime: Kara no Kyoukai

Episode: 6

Why I Took It: Hey, its got pretty lights, and pretty lights are well… pretty. (more…)

Recently I’ve been taking screenshots of anime that I’ve been watching, and when I was thinking of what to do with them, I thought why not make a post about them on my blog. So from now on every week (or when I feel like it) I’ll post some screenshots that I’ve taken over the past week that I thought were cute, cool, funny, or just plain wtf?

Some of these are from a couple weeks ago, but sinc this is my first batch I might as well include what I’ve taken so far:

Screenshot 1:

Anime: Hayate no Gotoku 2
Episode: 23
Why I Took It: This is exactly what I do when I have a ton of work to do, except Hinagiku actually looks kinda cute doing it. (more…)