And trusty steed.

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I have never seen a series which was as uneven as this one has been. My earlier impression remains in force: those behind the series never actually made their minds up as to exactly what kind of story they were trying to tell. As a result, it feels episodic, in the worst sense of that word.

That's what I expected after seeing the first episode - I don't know why, but I immediately concluded it was going to be that sort of show. And it was, so I was not disappointed. Or at least, far less disappointed, as even given that understanding the show doesn't quite live up to its early promise. (Also, I'm not nearly as allergic to middle-school angst as Steven.)

However, given that the early promise was of a TV series of the quality of Spirited Away, I'm not going to hold it against them that they didn't consistently achieve that.

I give it a 5/5, and rate it as the best show of 2005.

Oh, and the cat epsiode was silly, but Yurie-neko redeems all.

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You may have heard of them.

I started with Ace's Hoist the Black Flag, which I really enjoyed, but which has sadly slipped from weekly to monthly to, as far as I know, indefinite hiatus. Then I tried listening to Instapundit - who has some great guests, but is not a particularly interesting speaker himself - and some of the conservative radio hosts like Hugh Hewitt, but not being conservative myself I could only take those in small doses.

Then I discovered that Penn Jillette has a daily radio show - and that all the episodes since it started in January were available online. So that got me through the Time of Great Suck at work (August and September, basically, during which I pretty much disappeared from view).

And when that ran out, I found that there are even podcasts about anime. I've sampled about a dozen of them, but the two I keep coming back to are Anime Pulse and Electric Sista Hood*.

The girls at ESH like to hear from their listeners, so I stopped by their web site and told them how much I liked their show and that they had a listener in remote, exotic Australia.***

One of the things they do every week is give away candy - I think it's ESH custom M&M's - to someone drawn from the people who've left messages during the week. And this week they announced that the winner was... Well.

And yeah, I used my real name on the message.

The only thing is, what with me being in Australia and all, the M&M's would have to eat each other during the voyage to survive, and when the candy finally got to me all there'd be in the bag is one big mean-looking M&M that I wouldn't dare eat so I'd just leave it sitting in the back of my freezer for ever and ever.

So... Listen to the show. And one day you too might be a candybitch.*****

* The best** girl gaming and anime podcast.
** The fucking best -
*** Where I live is about as ordinary and suburban as you can get, and there are probably hardly any kangaroos within half a mile of my house.****
**** Possums, now possums we got. Bastardy things. Flying foxes we got. Kookaburras we go. Sulphur-crested cockatoos we got. Rainbow lorikeets, no worries. And I'm sure I could find an echidna or two if I looked. But mostly, what we got is possums.
***** Assuming that it really is me. Which confusion would have been avoided if I'd used my nom-de-blog, but that would just lead to other confusions.

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As Steven notes:

El Hazard: The Magnificent World (i.e. the first OVA) had a superb ending. (Which the second OVA promptly rototilled. And the TV series, a sort of remake, changed it completely.)

If, after the first OVA, you want to see more of El Hazard, go straight to the second TV series. That actually follows on from the OVA, not from the first TV series, and its actually fairly good. And the 13th episode is rather amusing.

[Goes back to installing operating systems, as he's been doing for the past two weeks. We hates operating systems. We hates them.]

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* I don't care what you say. It doesn't exist.**

** And have things ever turned out well when a show was revived after a ten-year gap?

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Dude, you just knocked the power cord out.

Doh.

Useful piece of information: With the Noontec Blue-Eye cases, the power light remains on and the USB hub still works even if you knock the power cord out. So check the power cord first, then panic.

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This is one of the first mainstream anime series about incest — here, a romantic relationship between siblings — to be widely marketed in the U.S.

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