I thought I had already recced this, but apparently not. Beautiful song, beautiful editing, beautiful imagery, just ... beautiful. I've never heard of half the shows in this but I still got a lot of enjoyment out of it. I think even non-anime fans would like this one.

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Live Action Akira shut down.

Oh ... bollocks.

Prose Books You Read: 

1. The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks (Book 4 in the Love at Stake series)
2. Twilight Fulfilled by Maggie Shayne (Book 19 in the Wings in the Night series)
3. Play Dead by Harlan Coben
4. Killing Rocks by D. D. Barant (Book III in the Bloodhound series)
5. Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks (Book II in the Night Angel Trilogy)
   

Sixth answer to the Top Five Fannish Whatever meme. silsmile asked after the top five anime moments that provoked a strong emotion in me.

Warning! This post is full of spoilers for some anime. You have been warned.( Warning! This post is full of spoilers for some anime. You have been warned. )

Peach Girl


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Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino may not be the best anime in the world, but it has one of the best musical themes ever.

Prose Books You Read:

Size Matters by Judy Astley

No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

Full House by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes

Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult

Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey

Movies You Watched:

Beaches

Three Men and a Baby

Three Men and a Little Lady

Blithe Spirit

Legally Blonde

Comics/Manga You Read:

Red River by Chie ( Read more... )

Back to school tomorrow. Poo. Obviously this calls for an overdose of anime I've owned for months but never watched before now. It's called escapism and I revel in it. Some might also call it the Ostrich Reflex, but I call them poo-heads and smugly inform them that, in fact, ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand, ACTUALLY.

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Tactics

The last episode really got to me. I mean, I did not see that ending coming - at ALL! After the drama of Ep23-24, I was expecting something anticlimactic for the finale that would spoil the whole premise of the series. The show itself was slow to get started, and did devolve into monster-of-the-week for a long time, but I actually liked it. ( Read more... )