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Haven't been watching a lot of anime lately; however, I did see Tekkonkinkreet. Not too bad. Definitely a different animation style from standard Japanese anime.
I also watched PAPRIKA on Blu-ray. Wow, that show was surreal. Kind of hard to follow. Satoshi Kon is in a league of his own when it comes to anime.
Finally was able to see the entire GUNSLINGER GIRLS series. I know this series was heavily criticized. I thought the premise was actually out of the ordinary. For the most part I liked it; however, I also think it was a missed opportunity. That series could have really developed into something if it had had a longer run. As it was, 13 episodes was not enough to really develop a really involving show. The whole thing wrapped up too quickly and the ending was somewhat disappointing.
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Speaking of anime on Blu-Ray: What's a good source? I definitely want to pick up Wings of Honneamise, & I liked Paprika quite a bit when I saw it in the theatre.
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Well, I don't think there is a lot of anime out on Blu-ray yet. I picked up PAPRIKA from Amazon when they were doing a 50% off promo for Blu-ray discs. TEKKONKINKREET was also available on Blu during that sale. I didn't pick it up because I wasn't sure if the film would have enough rewatchability. I'd like to get WoH on Blu, but I didn't see that one on the Amazon site.
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Not a lot of anime talk anymore. Anyhow, I watched some old Ranma1/2 episodes on youtube yesterday. I found that I still think the series is quite funny, even though I have not watched any of it for years. It got me to thinking that I would like to pick up some of the DVD sets.
I noticed that a "Digital Dojo Box", consisting of 161 episodes, is available for 160 bucks on Amazon; however, someone noted that the box set consisted of Chinese boots. I'd like to know if that is the actual case, since I'm not interested in buying bootlegs.
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Hey, looks like Bandai announced the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex complete series, for release in Japan, August 25th, 2009 (I think that's the date).
It includes TrueHD japanese soundtrack, english DD51 soundtrack. However, I did not see anything other than Japanese subtitles on their website.
MSRP looks to be 21,000 yen.
BTW, finished watching the first season of Skip Beat. Pretty decent shojo!
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Oops - after running the translator, it looks like each box is 21,000 yen each. Ouch!
Translated version of http://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20090416_125542.html
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him...a super-callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
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Ouch indeed! That's over $200! I like the show but I don't know that I like it that much.
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The only anime I have seen recently is Oshii's "Sky Crawlers". It is typical example of his filmmaking. The film is quite slow moving, and it seems like a lot of the time not much is happening. Aerial sequences are CGI and are quite well done: although, they are also fairly short. I thought it was a good film, but I'm partial to his stuff anyway. There is a scene that takes place in restaurant. During the scene, there is a portrait, depicting several men, hanging on the wall behind one of the characters. I'm curious whether anyone would know whether the picture was an injoke and was basically depicting some of the crew who worked on the film.
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