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Such a sweet composition, really. But sadly, I can’t say the same about this anime.

However equivocal the title’s claim might sound to you, I think it makes most sense in the case of Basquash. Not so much for its actual tragic content, but for the painful, epic tragedy my viewing experience of this whole anime has become.
 
Here’s a couple of thoughts I want to share with you.

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What a nice sight, nevertheless!

The usual tsundere-provoking embarrassing situation. I wouldn’t doubt it’s a nice sight, though!

Basquash! is moving onto the last stage! Everything is set – but first, here are some impressions of the last episodes.

(I know, ep 22 aired a couple of days ago, and it just got subbed too, but I already had this post done. Couldn’t publish it because of this unexpected and unprecedented Animeblogger downtime. If anything in episode 22 conflicts with what I’m saying here, please omit it.)

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Insert random 'Stop! Hammer time.' joke here.

Insert random “Stop! Hammer time.” joke here.

After watching this episode, I feel torn. More like, disappointed. It was so… rushed. So superficial.

I’m not saying that Basquash was never surrealistic and fast-paced before, but this episode kind of blows it out of proportion.

And I’m still having a sore throat. Plus I’m tired, but I can’t yawn because of throat. So I’m obviously very grumpy right now.

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Remember this image? (By the way, I misread the name the first time (Katsura), but already had saved the image... self-explanatory.)

Remember this image?

It is a screencap from Basquash! episode 15, a newspaper reporting the death of Sela’s father. I already noticed yesterday this interesting notice on the lower left part of the newspaper about a certain Catsuka reaching 10 years of existence already. Google told me about a page called Catsuka which is a French anime site. Since the language and the time frame (Catsuka being 9 and a half year old) seemed to match, I was intrigued, and mailed the webmaster of Catsuka, Tsuka, to confirm this relation. And indeed, there is a link between Basquash! and Catsuka that explains this brief cameo. This link is called Thomas Romain, who is none other than the co-creator of Basquash himself.

Thomas Romain, who was the director for the French version of the TV anime Oban Star Racers (2000), is an old regular of Catsuka’s forums. He placed Tsuka in charge of managing the official website of Oban, and had him organize panels on this series for anime cons and expos. With this strong a bond, it is almost self-evident that Catsuka would eventually be referenced in such a great anime that is Basquash!

Read the original announcement of the Basquash Project on Catsuka, which includes an exclusive interview with Thomas Romain himself. (Only in French, though.) There was also a discussion thread in the Catsuka forums, but some lowlife dipshits decided to hack their forums so they are currently inaccessible. I will update this post once more info is available.
– Jul 20: The Catsuka forums are back up. Here is their Basquash thread. (My post is mentioned on page 40! :D)

Well, this makes for a nice trivia! Teaches me to pay more attention to the creators and the staff behind a certain anime series; I tend to omit those a lot these days…

The epic continues! ...though please, refrain from urinating. Thank you.

The epic continues! …though please, refrain from pissing urinating. Thank you.

My last post on Basquash! was on episode 7, so I had 8 episodes to catch up to. I thought I would not catch on immediately, but one episode was enough to get me back into this adrenaline-filled mood. And then I couldn’t stop until I ran out of episodes.

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BASQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

BASQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I was right, that name is meant to be screamed out loud. :D

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