Sunday, December 27
Went out shopping today, found zero copies of Ponyo on the shelves.* There was a gap in the P's at JB Hifi, though.
I did find volumes 5-8 of the Midori no Hibi manga, so I snaffled those. (I already had 1-4, then it went out of print. Looks like it's been reprinted, yay!)
And picked up a few things on the Steam sale:
Some of those (Space Trader in particular) didn't get great reviews, and others (Prince of Persia, Beyond Good and Evil) are a few years old, but when you are paying as little as $1.49 a game, it can't hurt to take a few chances.
2.49 USD 4.99 USD 3.39 USD 2.50 USD 2.49 USD 4.99 USD 4.99 USD 25.84 USD
2.99 USD 1.99 USD 9.99 USD 1.49 USD 1.99 USD 4.99 USD 23.44 USD
Update: Poop. Wasted $5 buying the Heroes of Might and Magic 5 pack just now, instead of just getting the expansions as I'd intended. I realised about half a second after I clicked Confirm. I will now go and kill something virtual to make myself feel better.
* Maybe because it's not due out until Tuesday...
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Thursday, December 24
Why is Ponyo being released on DVD the week after Christmas?!
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Monday, December 14
And just like that, everything was alright, everything I'd been stressing out over was put back into perspective.
This is such a good show.
WATCH IT!
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Monday, November 16
That Anime Blog reviews episode 6 of Kimi ni Todoke.
SMASHED INTO ATOMSSpot on. KimiTodo is the second coming of Gurren Lagann.
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It's no Kimi ni Todoke, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. At least they have someone who can cry for the crying part.
Update: Okay, you got me. I roofled.
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Sunday, November 15
Take your standard high school teen romance angst-fest... And attach a JATO unit and smash it into the side of a cliff at 600MPH where it explodes into a shower of rainbow-coloured sakura petals.
This one is actually good. Double bonus points for teenagers who aren't all jerks and/or idiots by default.
Update: Okay, so Sawako's pretty much a poster-girl for but the show carries if off with such grace and charm that it... Um... Comes out charming and graceful.
Update: Oh, and some really gorgeous artwork.
This is also a 12-episode series, but unlike Nyan Koi, I think I'm going to miss it when it's over.
Update: I'm quite taken with the score as well.
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This is actually enjoyable. Not ground-breaking, but fun. The incipient harem is countered by the fact that our hero knows who he likes, and so do most of the girls. And the cats are, well, cats.
It's only a 12 episode series, which is a good thing - the premise couldn't sustain much more (or at least, not without more inventive writing than we've seen so far). Will keep watching this one.
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Friday, November 13
Meh.
You seen one flock of rocket-propelled panties overtaking an SR-71 Blackbird, you seen them all.
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Saturday, October 17
La la la, la la la, and she eats a lot of ham.
Awesome film. Go see it if you can. Buy the DVD when it comes out either way.
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Monday, September 14
I've been reading Berserk.
It's definitely one of those can't-look-away things. After a two-volume flash-forward, we go back to watch our hero, Guts (yes, really) grow up. From his humble beginnings as a battlefield orphan born during what TVTropes aptly terms the Dung Ages, Guts works his way up to lieutenant of a successful mercenary company before everything goes - quite literally - to hell.
Manga is the perfect medium for this story. In the hands of any less than the most brilliant of authors, as a purely written work it would lose much of its impact.* And as live action film or television, it would be unwatchably horrifying.
There's an anime of it, which covers the first part of the flash-forward and then what's known as the Golden Age arc. This did and didn't make sense to me at first. On the one hand, the Golden Age arc - the flashback to Guts growing up and the adventures of the aforementioned mercenary company - are certainly the least disturbing part of the story, and the best suited for animation... Up until the end of the arc, which is possibly the most disturbing part of the story.
So either they left out the real ending of that arc - and there's no other sensible place to end it - or they animated something really horrifying.
Oh, who am I fooling. This is Japan. Here are the descriptions of the last three episodes, with spoilers removed: (Warning: Squicky stuff after the jump.)
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