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Escaflowne: The anime I liked before I even knew what anime was. I loved it many years ago, but I'm totally failing to get into it now. My second attempt to get caught up by the series, and my second failure. Why? The music is amazingly wonderful, the art style isn't horrible, and the story is pretty good (other than the fighting robots). All that, and I can't keep my eyes open through one ep. Bah.
Read or Die TV. Two words: Ditzy females. Gah. I didn't make it through a full ep before I had to turn it off. (Alas, I have 13 eps of it downloaded. Delete, delete, delete.)
Last Exile: Eh. There's nothing awful about it, but it's boring and failing to hook me. This is my second attempt to get into it, second failure. I'll probably give it one more chance before deleting.
Naruto Mentos Commercial: If you spot this available for downloading, skip it. It is nothing more than footage of the Lee/Gaara battle with the Mentos song played over it. A total waste.
And the success: PeaceMaker Kurogane! Yay! It started off really well: Great music, perfect art style, tres good-looking male characters, and as I watched the first ep and saw the story, I liked it even more. The rest of the series is downloading, though unfortunately it doesn't look hopeful that I'll get it all (#5 has no seeds or other downloaders. Stuck at 0/0).
However! (Here's the secret Japanese plan thing.) I think anime makers are attempting to confuse and befuddle us. Is this a man or a woman? Long hair, big eyes, little mouth? Now, if this character acted like this and did this, what would you say? Probably "female", right? Wrong! And I'm tired of being wrong about characters' genders! Whine, whine. I learned that whole "telling men and women apart" trick back when I was a toddler; it's very disconcerting to be regressing back to looking at a figure and not being able to say 'man' or 'woman'. You tricky, tricky Japanese people! I'm onto your plan to confuse me!
Escaflowne: The anime I liked before I even knew what anime was. I loved it many years ago, but I'm totally failing to get into it now. My second attempt to get caught up by the series, and my second failure. Why? The music is amazingly wonderful, the art style isn't horrible, and the story is pretty good (other than the fighting robots). All that, and I can't keep my eyes open through one ep. Bah.
Read or Die TV. Two words: Ditzy females. Gah. I didn't make it through a full ep before I had to turn it off. (Alas, I have 13 eps of it downloaded. Delete, delete, delete.)
Last Exile: Eh. There's nothing awful about it, but it's boring and failing to hook me. This is my second attempt to get into it, second failure. I'll probably give it one more chance before deleting.
Naruto Mentos Commercial: If you spot this available for downloading, skip it. It is nothing more than footage of the Lee/Gaara battle with the Mentos song played over it. A total waste.
And the success: PeaceMaker Kurogane! Yay! It started off really well: Great music, perfect art style, tres good-looking male characters, and as I watched the first ep and saw the story, I liked it even more. The rest of the series is downloading, though unfortunately it doesn't look hopeful that I'll get it all (#5 has no seeds or other downloaders. Stuck at 0/0).
However! (Here's the secret Japanese plan thing.) I think anime makers are attempting to confuse and befuddle us. Is this a man or a woman? Long hair, big eyes, little mouth? Now, if this character acted like this and did this, what would you say? Probably "female", right? Wrong! And I'm tired of being wrong about characters' genders! Whine, whine. I learned that whole "telling men and women apart" trick back when I was a toddler; it's very disconcerting to be regressing back to looking at a figure and not being able to say 'man' or 'woman'. You tricky, tricky Japanese people! I'm onto your plan to confuse me!
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-16 08:30 pm (UTC):)
But all in all, I really like the series.
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:22 pm (UTC)Told you so. While it does get better, I figured that would kill it for you. That's what you get for ignoring the recs! Just because an OAV and TV series are the saem series, that doesn't mean that they'll be of the same quality, or even remotely similar. When someone says something like 'Watch the OAV, and the first and third TV series, but skip the second series and the movie,' they've probably got good reason.
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:28 pm (UTC)If I spot the other ones, I'll grab them and check them out!
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:27 pm (UTC)... Would you shoot me if I said I could tell it was a bish? ^^;;;
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:34 pm (UTC)You know, I'm going to have to adopt that rule!
... Would you shoot me if I said I could tell it was a bish? ^^;;;
If it is, then I don't really get women being attracted to them... Why lust after a man who looks like a woman? Why not just go after a woman if you like that look? (Eh, with an artificial add-on, if needed.)
Oh well, to each their own! :)
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:27 pm (UTC)An anime I would totally reccommend is Cowboy Bebop, it takes about 5 episodes or so to set things up, but oooooh is it worth it!
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:35 pm (UTC)They pretty much got sick of straight forward cartoons and went for the o.0;; factor methinks.
Heehee. Could be!
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Date: 2004-01-17 09:48 pm (UTC)I do like the series though, once I ignore Okita, and people have told me that Okita gets better (as in, we see that Shinsengumi side of him which earned him the title of one of the best swordsmen in Japanese history) later on in the series. I haven't really watched far in the anime as I didn't quite like the transition from manga to anime when I watched the first few episodes.
As for Last Exile, up to what episode have you seen of it?
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Date: 2004-01-17 10:22 pm (UTC)Makes sense!
What's the deal with the pig? Is it anything besides comic relief?
And on Last Exile I've only seen two eps, one per attempt to get into the series. Have you watched it? Did you like it? I don't dislike it, it's just not catching me...
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Date: 2004-01-18 10:38 pm (UTC)We've all decided that Okita is saving the pig for a rainy day. >3
*checks my icons* I have 7 Last Exile icons uploaded. ;D
I LOVED Last Exile. If you'd been reading my journal during the time the series was airing in Japan, you'd spot a Last Exile post every week, more than once. ;D I have great love for the series, almost as much as I did for Juuni Kokki. It's one of those series' I've watched on fansubs but still bought the commercial released DVD of.
I loved it from the moment I saw the opening theme, and even more after watching the first episode, so I may not be the best judge of the series, as I'm highly biased towards it. However, I know some people who also gave up on the series after the first episode, then gave it another try because I simply would not shut up about it, and ended up loving it as well. ^_^
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Date: 2004-01-19 02:46 pm (UTC)We've all decided that Okita is saving the pig for a rainy day. >3
Hee! Well, then I'll be hoping for that rainy day to show up soon! ;)
Good to hear about Last Exile! Next time I sit down to watch more, I'll have to give another ep or two of it a chance.
Thanks!