Recently I bought Desert Punk in the slim pak, and I used to dislike it for its crudity, but all of a sudden I love it. It grew on me, and sometimes it's just fun to lose yourself in weird, pervy humor. And the English dialogue and script is way better IMO. Purists will be mad, but frankly humor doesn't always translate well, and the English script is really snappy and funny. Also re-watching Rune Soldier again for the upteenth time, but it never gets old.
Desert Punk is one of my favorites. There are two lines that always pop up in my head, and they're both from the same episode:
"I can't believe I'm going to die in a room that smells like hot garbage."
and, for some reason, "Aaahhh! There's nothing like a cold glass of orange water on a hot day!"
I don't know why, I just like the way they were said in the series.
I just picked up the Rune Soldier slim-set for $35 (not a bad deal). I have to wait to finish watching it, though, as a friend of mine is also into it. He has a lower tolerance for animé and he has very poor vision (I can watch for a few hours, he can only watch a few episodes). Rune Soldier is great.
Watched The Girl who Leapt Through Time--pretty good.
I agree, good movie!
Tried to watch The Place Promised in our Early Days, but the beginning bored me and I never got back to it.
I thought it was nice. The pacing was slow, but that didn't bother me. You might want to give it a chance some other time.
Saw the first disk of UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, which was fairly good.
Saw it one Animé Network. Really funny, but I don't think I would buy it. I will watch it again, if they put it up again.
I'm also gradually watching xxxHolic, which is a lot of fun so far, but very popular in the library right now, so that I have to wait for the disks to come in.
xxxHolic is definitely on the top of my list of favorites. Great, great series. It's almost a shame that it couldn't be directly related to Tsubasa, but I don't think it takes anything away from the story. Besides, I have the manga of both to check out the crossovers.
If you like xxxHolic, I highly recommend Mushi-Shi. It has the same kind of spooky feel to it, but it's way different. I also really dig the opening theme to Mushi-Shi. It's very pleasant.
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Finished Madlax, and was really impressed. The whole series is so mysterious and weird, but it really gets interesting toward the end. A fitting ending, too. Tastefully done, with no cop-outs. I enjoyed Madlax a lot more then I had originally presumed I would.
Watched the whole Negima! series. It was fun, for the most part. I'm working on Negima!? right now (gotta wait until the next set to finish it). I like them both, for different reasons. Although, the animation and backgrounds of Negima!? kind of suffers from ADD. Almost like the studio was trying really hard so that you don't notice there isn't really much actual movement going on. I like the balance of comedy and drama of Negima! and the downright silliness of Negima!?.
Also watched Vol. 5 of Lucky Star. I love Lucky Star. It never fails to make me laugh.
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