Is the Furuba anime worth checking out? I like the manga a lot, but how is the animated version? I'm asking because I spotted the Finnish/Scandinavian box set of the anime fairly cheaply at a store recently and was wondering whether I should get it or not.

It's been a while since I was handed out these meme questions (by scottishlass and hakeer), but now I'll finally answer them :).

( Answers to a couple of topic memes )

Appleseed Ex Machina is an anime action movie that is set in the future where the pacific city-state of Olympus is suddenly beset by mysterious terrorist attacks that seem to have no other purpose but to cause chaos. And this in the eve of a major summit that would place all the world's satellite systems under Olympus's control ( Read more... )

Vexille is an anime film set in the near future after a period of 10 years where Japan had been closed off from the rest of the world. A US special unit called S.W.O.R.D. is sent on a covert mission to investigate what has been going on in the country for all these years. The findings are pretty bleak, reminding of the consequences of humans trying ( Read more... )

Just watched the first episode of The Dresden Files. I haven't read any of the books, and in fact had never even heard of them, but meganbmoore said to watch it, so I did as told :). The first episode looked pretty cool. I'm definitely going to keep watching it! Thanks for the recommendation!

In other tv news, it looks like the Finnish tv channel SubTV is ( Read more... )

( Huang YiDa - Love Under the Microscope )

Does anyone know of any dorama, manga or anime that centres around figure skating? A friend of mine is a big figure skating fan and she asked me if I know of any Asian/Japanese manga/anime/dorama on this subject. There should be at least something, since figure skating is pretty big in Japan.

Yes, it's from Asia, but no, it has nothing to do with doramas. What I'm talking about is the CD Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts: Cowboy Bebop Tank! THE! BEST! which contains music from and inspired by the anime series Cowboy BebopI fell in love with the music while watching the series, and have thought of getting hold of it every now and then, but ( Read more... )

I just watched the second DVD collection of the anime. Previously I'd read the first book of the manga. I'm quite liking this series, and will probably try to get my hands on some more episodes. I just have a bad a feeling that this is going to be another one of those stories where, despite occasional humorous episodes, nothing ends well and ( Read more... )

The first trailer for the forthcoming Studio Ghibli version of the Tales from Earthsea is now out. Nausicaa.net has some links to the trailer and a translation of it. The animation is very much in the traditional Ghibli style. It looks interesting, and from the translation it seems that the story will be a combination of The Farthest Shore and ( Read more... )