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« on: May 25, 2007, 09:45:34 pm »
|D Oh yeah. I was ready to break out the champagne (if I had any) when I saw it on Amazon, and now I'm counting down the days till it gets here. I actually haven't seen it in years. Someone absconded with my VHS copies a long time ago, and that absurdly priced box set was never in the budget. I'm planning an all-day El Hazard party when the second volume comes out!
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« on: July 12, 2003, 10:58:09 pm »
We're pretty lucky that way. The library here has word processing, photoshop, and most of the Office stuff open to the public. I sometimes go in and spend the day just experimenting with pictures. 
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« on: July 12, 2003, 10:51:39 pm »
I was lucky enough to see Spirited Away in a theater. Wow.
*turns green with envy*
I've mostly read where people prefer PM over SA, but I like SA more myself.
I love both of 'em. I couldn't pick a favorite...it just depends on the mood I'm in.
Fruits Basket: Highly, highly recommended. Get it when you can.[/quote]
Fortunately I have my trusty fansubs, but I live in mortal terror that they'll wear out before I can afford to replace them on DVD. And now Tokyopop has announced they're releasing the manga! I'm torn between jumping for joy and beating my head against the wall.
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« on: July 12, 2003, 12:19:00 pm »
You're welcome to my collection if you want 'em, and I'd happy to make more. I have time on my hands right now and it's become a hobby/obsession of mine.
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« on: July 10, 2003, 10:56:21 pm »
Let's see...
Blue Seed perfect collection (one of my oldest favorites)
Ceres (for when I feel like being really, really depressed)
Mimi O Sumaseba (one of my favorite movies of any kind, ever)
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Nadia
Odds and ends of Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon S, CCS, and Vampire Princess Miyu
(and my goddess how I wish they had released Fruits Basket back when anime was still in my budget! The cruelty of fate...)
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« on: July 10, 2003, 10:41:38 pm »
I'm currently switching back and forth between two mushy Ifurita/Makoto wallpapers I've made. My photoshop is a bit amateurish, but if anyone wants to take a look you can find them here: http://home.bwave.com/starknight/ifurstuff.htm I'm always tweaking them and/or taking them into the local library where they have the shiny new photoshop with all the options mine lacks. 
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« on: June 13, 2003, 12:46:20 am »
I was wondering if anyone's ever done a fanfic focusing on Nanami and the Phantom Tribe? I haven't run across it, but I have an unparalelled capacity for overlooking things that are right under my nose.  Anyway, the idea that's been bugging me (but which I'll probably never get around to writing because I already have too many unfinished projects) is Nanami being dragged into an effort to bring the Phantom Tribe into the mainstream of EH society. Admittedly, a lot of them may be ticked at her for her role in killing Gallus, but at least she has a somewhat more positive attitude towards them than anyone else. Maybe her ability gives her an affinity for them rather like Jinnai and the Bugrom? Just a thought...comments/ opinions anybody?
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« on: June 11, 2003, 03:17:18 pm »
Way back when the scifi channel was showing anime marathons, a friend made me watch a few things. The next day I was in the video store, hanging around the anime section looking lost. One of the employees was a veteran otaku, and the next time i came in he handed me a stack of tapes and told me to see what appealed to me. (Maybe not entirely altruistic...I ended up buying a lot of the stuff he lent me.) EH was one of them, and it was just instant love. I called up all my friends, babbling incoherently, and made them watch it. It was just everything that attracted me to anime...the art, the characters, the way the plot kinda had everything.... I loved the way the plot never quite went where you might expect it to. And it has IFURITA-SAMAAA! What can I say? I still cry at the end of OAV1.
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« on: June 06, 2003, 10:40:23 pm »
Gack! That was rather horrifying. *shivers* I don't mind a certain amount of japanese, as long as they know what they're saying, but an assortment of misused words picked up at random is just scary. On the flip side,though, I defy anyone to name an anime that doesn't contain at least one bizarrely misused English word or phrase. I no longer lend anyone my Blue Seed collection without a warning, because the next person who asks me what exactly the phrase "pick me up foxy night game" implies is going to get the box set shoved down their throat.
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« on: June 06, 2003, 10:40:23 pm »
Gack! That was rather horrifying. *shivers* I don't mind a certain amount of japanese, as long as they know what they're saying, but an assortment of misused words picked up at random is just scary. On the flip side,though, I defy anyone to name an anime that doesn't contain at least one bizarrely misused English word or phrase. I no longer lend anyone my Blue Seed collection without a warning, because the next person who asks me what exactly the phrase "pick me up foxy night game" implies is going to get the box set shoved down their throat.
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« on: May 27, 2003, 08:36:02 pm »
I was wondering if anyone else around has read Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars? I looked it up after hearing it mentioned in a review of EH and fell in love with it's sheer over-the-top pulp melodrama. I've heard vaguely that the people who made EH had read it, but I'm not sure if it's true. There are definitely some parallels: the hero gets transported after stumbling into a mysterious ruin (or cave, at least) and finds himself super strong due to Mars's lighter gravity- in effect, being a fairly strong human he becomes Superman there. He also has to rescure the princess from the Bug Eyed Monsters right off the bat. The way the Martians have built their society over an older, vanished civilization is also very El-hazardish. Anyone else have any thoughts?
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« on: May 27, 2003, 07:57:18 pm »
I'd have to say I haven't met with too many annoying reactions when I mention anime, considering I live in a fairly small town. The one exception was a coworker in my old job...when I said I was an anime fan she gave me a VERY strange look and backed away. Later on I found out she'd once been to an anime screening at her college's film club. The film they showed was Urotsoki Doji...without any kind of warning first!  Way to live up to all the old stereotypes, huh?
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