Eureka Seven

Aug 27, 2008 17:57

Having finally got around to watching more of this, I am itching to finish it - three more discs to go, and only from the more expensive video store, and uni starts again on Monday and I'm going to need to get to work. But...I wanna know what happens!

Don't you love it when a couple (an obvious from the start kind of one) gets together on a show, and instead of just making you sigh "finally!", or feeling cheesey and overdone, or ruining the characters, it just makes you really happy to see? A lighter, simpler example is when Daisuke and Riku get together in D.N.Angel - so kiddie and inevitable, and yet so sweet. The relationships in Eureka Seven (both successful and, er, strained...and turned-my-husband's-corpse-into-a-bomb-to-cover-my-escape) are just really getting at me, even Renton's, which I kind of figured would get insipid once it stopped being funny.

I still have on my MSN that somehow, after all I've learned so far and all that's going to be revealed soon, I still find Holland to be really rather cute. I'd like to amend that now that I've seen him in stealth paint (skinny bastard) and in SOF mode...scary. Eurgh.

Anyway, Eureka Seven is a great series, I recommend it to any anime watchers out there. I'm not sure how to classify it...it has moments were it seems like it's going to appraoch Evangelion levels, but it's kept moving away from it so far - brief freak-outs are followed by dealing with it, something Shinji & Co. were notoriously bad at doing! I imagine that when Anemone comes back, the weirdness with return. But it has romantic comedy moments, action/fighter moments, a definite major coming-of-age streak...and, y'know, giant robots.

{I understand that they're not really robots, but they rarely are in anime, or at least good anime, and it just works for notation!}

Flatmates back tomorrow...Louise not until Sunday...I have a pot luck dinner to attend tomorrow night, I was going to make fish cakes, but I'll need to go shopping - we'll see how much it'll cost me. I don't want to use the flat's whole stock of anything when no one else is coming to eat it. I'll probably go to Amalgamated Video tomorrow, then, and return these discs...and decide what to allow myself for next week...

Also watched more Mushi-shi today, definately one to show Mum - it has such a strange tone...sort of ethereal, very suited to the subjects, and I don't notice time oassing when I watch. The subjects are really interesting too. Fans of dark/dangerous faerie (as opposed to fairy) type things will enjoy, although it has a definate Japanese core to it.

Speaking of, I need to practice my Japanese. Which is a shame, because it's almost non-existen now. Except for random and not very constructive phrases I learn from anime...

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