I spent all of Summer 2011 obsessing over Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood to the point where I was running eps while I cleaned my apartment as background noise. That's reaching Buffy proportions, and over a manga-adapted anime series with English dubs! Never thought I'd see the day I actually liked a dubbed version, usually anime sounds ridiculous ( Read more... )

I didn't realize the 5th set of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood DVDs are the last in the series. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Finish it and have it be done, even though I haven't finished the manga yet? Save it for forever (even though I bought it) so it's perpetually going on in my head and never ending?

I want to watch some anime. Please give me some recs.

Some of my favorites are RahXephon, Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Fullmetal Alchemist. From those choices, clearly I'm not interested in high school drama-types. (For anyone who thinks Lain is a school-drama, you didn't watch past the first couple of episodes ( Read more... )

The only reason I got out of bed this morning was realizing I have no plans tonight. Utterly no obligations once work releases me. I considered a movie (probably Narnia) but I have enough entertaining bits at home, from dramas to Netflix movies to overdue library books. No need to spend money, and taking a night off from being around people is ( Read more... )

Hayao Mizayaki's Howl's Moving Castle came out around the tail end of my being hugely into anime. With not many series I was interested in available, I was relegated to looking for movies, so of course I saw Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. SA did less for me than PM but I definitely appreciated the movies as being radically different than ( Read more... )

I'm bizarrely hesitant to read Watchmen-or any other graphic novel, for that matter. And here's why.

When I started in on anime, I watched RahXephon which was pretty much everything I'd ever wanted from a series, or ever thought I did. Apocalypse, layers and layers of arced story, enough twists and turns to make my brain hurt and keep me from ( Read more... )

plateoshrimp isn't online and I'm dying for Komm Susser Tod (Come Sweet Death) from the End of Evangelion OST.

Any have it who can give it to me? Desperate.

I totally need to rewatch RahXephon. I've been listening to the few songs I have from the soundtrack, and "The Door of Adolescence" always gives me some bittersweet images. I don't know if I want to dedicate 13 hours to sitting in front of the tv, however. It's almost impossible to do anything else while watching anime, because I steadfastly refuse ( Read more... )