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*nom, nom* Anime
Having finished as much of Death Note as I’m going to, I’m now out of anime. I’ve recently finished Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Full Metal Panic, too (both of which I thoroughly enjoyed). Nothing else on Hulu sounds very good and/or is subbed (or I’d be snoozing my way through Mushi-shi now, at G’s insistence). I certainly don’t mind shelling out for anime (I did for GitS:SAC and FMP), but I want to be pretty sure that I’ll like it before I drop $50 on a series. Utena was going to be next, but it’s out of print, evidently. Where do I go now to broaden…
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Another hubris-eaten “hero”
I watched most of Death Note this weekend; the first 27 eps. I love(d) it. But the main character has hit his peak and is obviously going to fall in the same ol’ hubris-infected way. I’m told there’ll be good filler along the way, but the end is predictable and predicted. American Gangster did the same thing. Great character, same old crumbling under the weight of his own power. I want to see the bad guy win. Or at least not fail in that way. I don’t want a cheesy or easy win, but if Light had triumphed over L (and I mean really triumphed, not let himself get roped…
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…Some kind of cake…
Lu La lu La piano wa sekai no yumesaku nohara ni melody Kowareta tokei wo shinjite jikan wa dare no mikata? Doushite konna ni watashi no mune yasashii dareka wo matteruno? Oshiete sutekina mirai Moonlight, moonlight sleepin’ Lu La lu La Omoide ringo ni mezame no shoujo ga kiss shite Setsunaku hirogeta hon niwa futari no bell ga naruyo Dakishimetaikara itoshiihito Mou nakanaidene Good bye sadness Fushigina tobira no moji wa “Soramimi cake” Wonderland! youkoso kiminiwa Fairyland! ai no mahou nano Love’s all way! Mainichi fuwafuwa komugi no yuuwaku Cake for you! tabetene konya wa Tea for you! seiza no ochakai Mado ni tenshi no chorus kiminiwa soramimi? sukidayo sukidayo…
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Growth not unlike a fungal infection
So in the Anime club, we’ve been watching a series called “Last Exile“. I don’t know quite how to characterize it except to say that it’s very… Germanic. Many the characters are little blond-haired, blue eyed folks; the main character’s name is Claus; and–this may sound like an odd association–but a lot of the colors are beiges or military-bland greens and blues and greys. One of WO’s roommates described it as Napoleonic, which may also be accurate due to the steam-based tech. For the first couple weeks (7 or so episodes), I couldn’t stand the show. It seemed pretty focused on just two kids on their vanship (flying boat) running…