Of Funimation! and Netflix!
So I’ve recently come into the glorious world of Netflix. And the lovely world of cinema and anime (though limited) it has to offer.
:D But it has also become very apparent that Funimation and Netflix are friends. And that Funimation…likes to use the same voice actors for their anime shows. And after watching them all in a row…it becomes difficult to do so with a straight face, because I’m used to this man:
but he is also this man:
as well as this man:
and this man:
and it’s sort of funny.
Or there’s this man:
who is also this man:
and this man:
Or this woman:
who is also this woman:
and this woman:
(She’s also this woman:
but I’ll not count that one, because she actually changed her voice, and I couldn’t hear Keiko.)
But, still we know that this man:
is this man:
And also that this man:
is this man:
.
(Remember, by the way, when this man:
was also this man:
? and it was amazing?)
My confusion, you see, was that
was attracted to this person
who in turn was in a battle with this guy
to win the affections of this girl
(who, btw, in either show could kick your ass)
ANYWAY
I wanted to also talk about these shows! I'll do a few here, but I don't think the journal will like me if I don't split it up, so
,
, and with
to follow another time. :D
Because Funimation has been so kind as to offer them (with the exception of Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0, which I found on Youtube) up to the world so anyone with Netflix can watch and critique them! So I shall!
TRIGUN:
With all the hype that went with Trigun (because its genre is space western, and really...that is kind of amazing.) I had been anxious to see it -- especially since I started reading the manga in high school. (**STARTED. Didn't finish.) With that said...I was actually a tad disappointed in how everything turned out. They saved the big reveal of finishing the backstory for the very last episode, leaving so much open for something else (ANYTHING else, really) but they were all, "Meh, whatever. The end." TT.TT
I shall give it the amazing bromance award, as well as the awkward romance award:
CHOBITS:
Oh, what can I even say about this weird, weird, show...Umm...Underpants?
The premise of computers looking like cute girls is very anime! I thought this to myself. I liked Cardcaptors, so Clamp can't be all bad! It was so strange, though! Even getting through the first episode, which was awkward, and riddled with moments like this:
I found very difficult to keep interest. I finished the series, though, but its ending was so ambiguous I wanted to slap someone! Basically, watch this show for Sumomo, the portable unit persecom.
The show's message: Keep an open mind, guys! Computers are pplz too, and they can LOVE!!!!
Seriously, though, one of the things that bugged me was the way the show was emulating the fact that relationships with computers could be just like relationships with people. For example, the woman whose husband was essentially ditching her for a persecom. It's sad and all, and even creepy, but the way it was handled was not right.
Shinbo, who was HER STUDENT found out that she was in this loveless marriage, and so what does he do? He starts dating her.
1) Did I mention he's HER STUDENT at this point?
2)So he cheats on her and her MARRIAGE is suddenly null and void? It's okay to cheat on him because he cheated first?
Then, when the main character, Hideki, is trying to make sense of this, he asks his (porn)buddy Shinbo: 'Does she have a problem with Persecoms now? Since her HUSBAND is all in love with one?'
His answer was something like, 'I thought it was disgusting at first, too -- like, who would prefer a computer to a person? -- But then I thought to myself, well, what if he'd been cheating on her with a person? It would make her just as sad as him cheating on her with a persecom.'
THE MORAL, FOLKS: It's OKAY to have an affair with a married lady, (WHO IS YOUR TEACHER) if her husband is cheating on her with a computer. BUT IT'S ALSO OKAY IF HE WERE CHEATING ON HER WITH A PERSON.
...Anyway...
YU-GI-OH! SEASON 0: um....there's more of this:
and more of this:
(What is this madness?) and more of this:
:D I read the first manga series, so I basically watched until I saw my favorite chapters animated...perhaps I'll go through sometime and finish the season, lol. I liked how the story began, and how there was a tad less crudeness in the show than in the manga. :) And I like that they made Ribbon (Miho) an actual character, like she was in the manga. And Yugi is just...so cute. :D He tries to be so polite and nice, and gets picked on for it. He's a sharp dresser, though. :P I'm surprised the Japanese school system lets him wear that Millenium Puzzle. Here in America, that's classified as unneccessary Bling.
Um...OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB
This show...Was recommended to me in 2009 for the first time, by a mission companion. And again, by another mission companion. And then again (multiple times) by a friend of mine. And then again by celiasaurusrex. And Netflix had it. So I gave it a whirl. Watched it twice, and decided, ultimately, that I did like it. :D It was hard to make up my mind, because I didn't know whether to take it in stride as it made fun of itself, or take it seriously. :P
The twincest thing was a little awkward, but I liked best how, toward the end of the series, you actually got to go in depth to everyone's character, revealing that they're not as two-dimensional as they'd like you to believe. (Well, except Mori...but the viewer is...oddly okay with this.)
The voices, as mentioned, threw me off. We had all sorts of inter-show crossovers going on, from Edward Elric, to Amy Yeager. But it managed to work itself out. It was actually almost refreshing to hear Edward be so silly. :D
END! (TO be continued...?)