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Good Morning and Aloha: our first link of the day is from Wilma Jandoc of the Honolulu Star Bulletin
“The stereotypical uprightness and gentle virtue of the era as shown through the main characters give “Emma” a calm dignity that is often foreign in contemporary shoujo manga — there is no teen hyperactivity, no whirlwind of cliques and cat fights. Such gentility is made more vibrant by author Mori’s beautifully detailed artwork — from roadways to house interiors, from corsets to hairdos — and the inclusion of actual period items that show her passion for and extensive research into the Victorian age. In the face of this, we can’t help but hope that somehow, some way, it will work out for William and Emma.”
It’s an older article (Aug. ’08) but also includes a look at the first 12-ep. Emma anime box set released by Nozomi/Right Stuf
“The television version makes use of long stretches of silence and slow-moving animation at times — perhaps reflecting the many wordless scenes in the manga that rely only on well-placed people and items, detailed facial expressions and deliberate movements — but it never makes you impatient. Instead, it builds things slowly, allowing you to fully take in the beauty and pain of an impossible love.”
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On June 1, 2015 (after 6 years and 11 months) I needed to relaunch/restart this blog, or at least rekindle my interest in maintaining and updating it.
Rather than delete and discard the whole thing, I instead moved the blog -- database, cms, files, archives, and all -- to this subdomain. When you encounter broken links (and you will encounter broken links) just change the URL in the address bar from www.rocketbomber.com to
archive.rocketbomber.com.
I know this is inconvenient, and for that I apologise. In addition to breaking tens of thousands of links, this also adversely affects the blog visibility on search engines -- but that, I'm willing to live with. Between the
Wayback Machine at Archive.org and my own half-hearted preservation efforts (which you are currently reading) I feel nothing has been lost, though you may have to dig a bit harder for it.
As always, thank you for reading. Writing version 1.0 of Rocket Bomber was a blast. For those that would like to follow me on the 2.0 -
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