With reck­less dis­reg­ard for obstacles such as plot, con­tinu­ity and san­ity; Say­on­ara Zetsubou Sen­sei is bizarre, satir­ical, cyn­ical and ram­bunc­tious and solid­i­fies SHAFT as a skilled and con­fid­ent studio.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• despair,
• humour,
• itoshiki,
• nozomu,
• review,
• sayonara,
• sayonara zetsubou sensei,
• sensei,
• shaft,
• sight gags,
• suicide,
• szs,
• zetsubou

Attack­ing those “ran­dom” files a couple of days ago provided enough of a chal­lenge to keep me inter­ested for a few hours, espe­cially as it seemed like I was tread­ing new ground in terms of spec’ing out pre­vi­ously unex­plored file formats. It turned out that the files had already been mapped and suc­cess­fully decom­pressed and […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• battle moon wars,
• bits,
• bytes,
• c,
• Code,
• compression,
• decompile,
• deconstruction,
• hex,
• lz77,
• php,
• xml,
• xvi,
• yanepak,
• yanesdk,
• yaneurao

Hav­ing a char­ac­ter in a series attempt to win an argu­ment using squir­rels seems like it would go down well around these parts; thank­fully squir­rel related tom­fool­ery is not all Minami-ke has to offer as it man­ages to break out of its well trod­den, all-girl-school-comedy premise and develop into a rauc­ous look […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• aho,
• Anime,
• chiaki,
• comedy,
• haruka,
• humour,
• kana,
• minami,
• minami-ke,
• review,
• sisters,
• squirrels

Out of curi­os­ity and a favour to someone, I decided to take a look at some ran­dom .dat files that were ripe for the trans­lat­ing; what ensued was a morn­ing of head scratch­ing, hex scry­ing and using some of the lesser used PHP func­tions.
Sample File 1, Sample File 2, Sample File 3
All screen­shots taken from data1.dat, […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• battle moon wars,
• bits,
• bytes,
• Code,
• data,
• decompile,
• deconstruction,
• hex,
• php,
• translation,
• werk,
• xml,
• xvi,
• yanepak

Given such an aus­pi­cious and con­fus­ing open­ing three epis­odes, it would have been easy for ef to fall into obscur­ity and abstrac­tion with deep sym­bol­ism and obscured plot; thank­fully this is not the case and the series man­ages to make the absurdly styl­istic sym­bol­ism part of itself while still a some­times unique, […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• abstract,
• art,
• beach,
• ef,
• ef a tale of memories,
• memories,
• review,
• romance,
• shaft,
• shinbo,
• skies,
• snow,
• stylish,
• sunset,
• symbolism