For the record, Samurai Champloo is awesome. I’m particularly impressed with how well-drawn all three main characters are–even though eight episodes in, I know very little about their pasts. I still almost know why each is traveling, and I can accept them traveling together. Minor spoilers below the cut.
What can I say? Besides feel the Wrath-love, anyway. No, seriously. Je t’aime. The movie made up for the end of the anime. I would have been a lot happier with one not-so-minor change, but the most important things–oh yes. They were there. *is satisfied* Oh, review? Umm…watch the show. ALL of it. Then watch
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I’ve figured it out. The purpose of anime–beyond telling great stories, wowing us with awesome characters, etc,–is to sell TVs. Think of any anime you’ve watched to the end. Go ahead. Now–want to throw something? You do, don’t you? I’m told it’s a cultural thing, but I don’t believe it. I think the anime guys
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Whee! That was fun! Bishie, bishie everywhere! Bishie, in case I’ve never explained it, is short for bishounen. Beautiful young man. Anime bishies and real-life babies turn my brain to goo. Which is definitely better than the other way around. Advent Children What a blast! It’s–okay, if you’ve never heard of it, you’ll laugh. It’s
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Today I wrote 716 words on Keen, plus 262 on the scene before the bad ending. The worst part, done. yay. Excuse me while I go get drunk. Conveniently, it’s Bly’s birthday next week and she bought a bottle of vanilla Absolut to celebrate with. Also, it’s movie night. So I’ll go drown my sorrows
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Why is there only one DMV office open on Saturdays? Does this make sense to anyone outside the DMV? We spent five hours there. They had Bly take her Ohio plates off the car, and she broke her swiss army knife doing it (no doing it for you or even having a damn screw driver
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Yeah, so I stayed up till 4:30 in the morning watching anime. It was worth it. And I’ll keep telling myself that when Hope’s jumping on me in three hours. grr, so much for writing again. I gotta get back into karate. I clearly need kicked.