For those avoiding spoilers, this is a classic (ie, older and respected) anime in which a tarot card reading, sprinting, long-jumping schoolgirl is spirited away to the world of Gaea, where she is immediately embroiled in a war. This combines the "girl in fantasyland" and "giant robot pilot" genres, as Gaea has knights who fight from inside giant ( Read more... )

Note: please do not spoil me in comments for developments occurring after disc 4 of Escaflowne.

Oyce and I also watched a randomly selected episode of Wolf's Rain to mock the horrible subtitling that translated "Paradise" as "amusement park." The episode we picked actually translated it as "Fairyland." It also used randomly selected Chinese ( Read more... )

This show has grown on me a lot after the first few episodes.

( Here be spoilers )

I have had absolutely nothing of interest happen lately, except for non-crisis-level things that are too depressing, infuriating, and/or business-or-legal-matter-related to discuss, and so have achieved the unusual state of being both behind on everything (as usual) and bored ( Read more... )