Anime Binge

[liralen]

amberley has been lending me all kinds of anime, lately, including the Kamichu series. Which I went through in just two days straight. I really enjoyed them. They're about a girl who's suddenly become, for no given reason, a god, a middle-school girl as a god makes for some interesting stuff going on.

I really enjoyed the series, for the detail in the animation, and the imagination behind all the spirits and gods in the whole thing. Plus, the personalities of the people involved really drove how things went. I enjoyed that a great deal.

I finished that so fast, I was mildly jonesing for more, so I went back to the Saiyuki DVDs that incandescens gave me a long time ago. And wow... the first two are so much fun I wish the second set of DVDs had the subtitles better synched to the actual speech of the animation. Ah well. I'll keep peering as I go.

I still need to see the angel anime that folks gave me, too. I've just been saving it, but maybe I should just go for it.

Plus, Fruits Basket 9-16 landed on my front porch this afternoon. RightStuf was having a sale. I've resisted opening it, as I have class tonight. And as much as I might intend to ration it I'm sure I'm going to just go tearing through it like a house on fire. I am now tempted to see how the Saiyuki translations have been doing for the manga... oh, man... so there's the movie, reloaded, and reloaded gunlock.... *laughter*

Plenty for me to buy after the holidays, I guess. Always more...

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you're enjoying the sames stories we have been :) I'm guessing the "angel anime" is Haibane Renmei?

If you run through all your anime and want more, Princess Tutu is another one I think you might like a lot. And of course Ergo Proxy that we're watching now. :)

Fruits Basket 18 has me squeaking and jumping up and down. I don't think I can wait until March for the next volume...it may be time to look for scanslations on the net.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's the one both Carl and Genevieve gave me... so I really, really should see it. *grin*

Squeak! I've heard rumors of the end of Fruits Basket and will await it when it comes. *laughter* I like that Carl bought them in Japanese... there are plenty of scanlations from what I've heard.

Heck, from what I've seen at RightStuf I could afford a completely different translation of the first Saiyuki set, easily. I may have to do that, and give the mildly faulty one to the library or something.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I really liked Haibane Renmei, although it's difficult to describe exactly what it is. Have you seen NieA_7? Not quite as good, maybe, but I still liked it.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it, either! :-) I'll get to look for it next.

[marith.livejournal.com]

No, I don't remember hearing anything about NieA_7 - what is it about?

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

NieA_7

It's another Yoshitoshi Abe show; I think it came in between Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei. Like them, it's a little hard to say what it's about... there's an impoverished college student who has an alien living in her closet, for starters, but... hmm.

Think of it as a cross between Urusei Yatsura and Whisper of the Heart, and you might get close.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Not to pile *more* on your plate, but... :-) How do you feel about fansubs? I think you'd get a serious kick out of Denno(u) Coil, both for the characters and the overall feel of the show -- it gets cyberpunk more right-feeling than anything I've seen outside of maybe GitS: Stand Alone Complex...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.... I shall have to look for it.

Hey! I got time now. *grin* More on the plate!! More! *laughter*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

And I'm great with fan subs... :)

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Hee! In that case, and on the off chance that you haven't already managed to track it down, you can find episode-by-episode torrents of a fansub (the best I've seen) at http://www.ureshii-fansub.org/ -- or for a more direct link, http://a.scarywater.net/ureshii/. Let me know what you think!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I've always wanted to figure out the BitTorrent thing, anyway, so now I'll have the excuse. *grin*

thank you!!!