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Huhnn, you know how it is when you have a lot to say, but then manage to forget everything? I seem to have been like that lately. I think I know why as well. That's sort of a lie. I think I know the thing that's been eating my brain, but not why said brain is being eaten, or rather the origins of the brain eating virus.
Oh, well, anyway. I'm at home at the moment for the Christmas break, and have actually been for about a week. I would say there's not all that much to do, but that'd be a lie. I have reading; I'm currently reading Devil in a Blue Dress for AmeFic, then I was going to start on the Bell Jar. Beyond that, I still have a crapload of DVDs to watch; the current thing, it'd seem, is series one of Haruhi Suzumiya, which has been sitting around all summer. I've seen it before through unscrupulous means, so it's easy to watch while exercising without missing much important. Bizarrely, while my buying patterns are neatly sorted now, the only new TV anime I'm certain I care about is Noitamina stuff, as it's fairly consistently fresher and more interesting than the majority of what's on; the rest is fairly secondary (or worse). Mind you, none of the stuff I'm buying at the moment is of the Noitamina block, but then again, the different approach makes it harder to market to the masses who demand BLOOD, GUNS, WHORES! (Insert your own joke about ADV's marketing department here)
Which reminds me, some prick who was in HMV, an employee, the other month while I was looking for something. I think it was a Christmas present for someone, and I thought I may as well have a quick look at the anime section out of curiosity, and the guy in charge of the section was there. He got to talking at me, and was all "so which are you into, comedy or gore?" And I just thought, "Wow, everything falls into those two catagories? How sad." He proceeded to berate me for not having watched Elfen Lied, mispronouncing it, and said some shit about it being banned in Japan, which is one of those things that, if it were true, which it isn't, would not be esoteric knowledge. I tried to make a hasty escape.
Anyway, I have my buyings arranged, so there'll be no more situations where I have a load of unfinished series, and there's only one new series in the spring that I'm intending to collect (xxxHolic, as I quite like the manga; in fact, it's probably the only thing CLAMP have written that I can say, without reservation, that I like). This might be a lie, as the Wallflower is looking likely to be a late addition to the schedule, making it the first series I've gone into blind for over a year (well, with some other conditions applied; not counting box sets and other things where you get the whole thing at once), sort of to support western releases of shoujo anime, though it was almost certainly licensed on account of being directed by Nabeshin than on some attempt to toss shoujo fans a bone. This, in and of itself, is a bad reason to buy something, but the show does seem fairly amusing (the first disc came out in America this week, and arrived for me yesterday; it comes out over here February). I suppose I can see why it got that 12 rating; it's hilariously gory for a romantic comedy. In token Nabeshin fashion though, it seems a bit hit and miss; episode 5 just went on and on, while episode 3 was wonderful (provided you like the absurd as much as I do). Part of this was perhaps the mistake of marathoning the disc, though I think part of it might be the focus on the secondary characters; the heroine is great, but most of the other characters seem fairly dull. I guess we'll see.
Oh, dear. This turned into some nerdy rant about anime. Sorry. What I was actually going to say was that I have all this stuff to do, so I'm not really bored, but somehow I feel hollow.
Oh, well, anyway. I'm at home at the moment for the Christmas break, and have actually been for about a week. I would say there's not all that much to do, but that'd be a lie. I have reading; I'm currently reading Devil in a Blue Dress for AmeFic, then I was going to start on the Bell Jar. Beyond that, I still have a crapload of DVDs to watch; the current thing, it'd seem, is series one of Haruhi Suzumiya, which has been sitting around all summer. I've seen it before through unscrupulous means, so it's easy to watch while exercising without missing much important. Bizarrely, while my buying patterns are neatly sorted now, the only new TV anime I'm certain I care about is Noitamina stuff, as it's fairly consistently fresher and more interesting than the majority of what's on; the rest is fairly secondary (or worse). Mind you, none of the stuff I'm buying at the moment is of the Noitamina block, but then again, the different approach makes it harder to market to the masses who demand BLOOD, GUNS, WHORES! (Insert your own joke about ADV's marketing department here)
Which reminds me, some prick who was in HMV, an employee, the other month while I was looking for something. I think it was a Christmas present for someone, and I thought I may as well have a quick look at the anime section out of curiosity, and the guy in charge of the section was there. He got to talking at me, and was all "so which are you into, comedy or gore?" And I just thought, "Wow, everything falls into those two catagories? How sad." He proceeded to berate me for not having watched Elfen Lied, mispronouncing it, and said some shit about it being banned in Japan, which is one of those things that, if it were true, which it isn't, would not be esoteric knowledge. I tried to make a hasty escape.
Anyway, I have my buyings arranged, so there'll be no more situations where I have a load of unfinished series, and there's only one new series in the spring that I'm intending to collect (xxxHolic, as I quite like the manga; in fact, it's probably the only thing CLAMP have written that I can say, without reservation, that I like). This might be a lie, as the Wallflower is looking likely to be a late addition to the schedule, making it the first series I've gone into blind for over a year (well, with some other conditions applied; not counting box sets and other things where you get the whole thing at once), sort of to support western releases of shoujo anime, though it was almost certainly licensed on account of being directed by Nabeshin than on some attempt to toss shoujo fans a bone. This, in and of itself, is a bad reason to buy something, but the show does seem fairly amusing (the first disc came out in America this week, and arrived for me yesterday; it comes out over here February). I suppose I can see why it got that 12 rating; it's hilariously gory for a romantic comedy. In token Nabeshin fashion though, it seems a bit hit and miss; episode 5 just went on and on, while episode 3 was wonderful (provided you like the absurd as much as I do). Part of this was perhaps the mistake of marathoning the disc, though I think part of it might be the focus on the secondary characters; the heroine is great, but most of the other characters seem fairly dull. I guess we'll see.
Oh, dear. This turned into some nerdy rant about anime. Sorry. What I was actually going to say was that I have all this stuff to do, so I'm not really bored, but somehow I feel hollow.