What anime are you watching?

[ShiroiHikari]

Finished up Hokuto no Ken 2! Now I'm on the hunt for something else to entertain me.

WE ARE LIVIN'

LIVIN' IN THE NINETIES

Seriously that's the only thing I know about that show. XD

[Atria35]

Fractale 1-3- Wow! I like Nessa! She's just a fun character. And it really went down in Ep. 3. That seems to be the magic number for shows these days. Madoka went down in 3, Fractale....

Kimi ni Todoke 4- HMMMM I wonder how this will play out!

Madoka 5- still fascinated. I have no idea what's gonna happen!

[TheSubtleDoctor]

Seriously that's the only thing I know about that show. XD

You should totally amend that.

[Jake]

I've stopped watching fansubs, so most of the stuff I'm watching now comes from Crunchyroll, AN, or Funi/Hulu. The rest is on DVD.

From the current season, I'm watching Gosick, Level E, Beelzebub, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?, Dragon Crisis, and Infinite Stratos. All good shows, but my favorites are Level E and Gosick.

For the DVDs, not sure right now. Finished Birdy the Mighty Decode a while back and then knocked out Nyan Koi. I'll probably work through Chobits or what I have left to watch of GTO next.

[Mouse2010]

I'm still watching Monster. Just finished episode 34, so I'm not quite halfway through. The only thing I can say is "wow, how can it still be this good?" I am in awe.

What amazes me most is that it's a genuinely dark and creepy show which is also remarkably positive about the human condition and the possibility that people can change for the better (so far, anyway).

[christianfriend]

WE ARE LIVIN'

LIVIN' IN THE NINETIES

Seriously that's the only thing I know about that show. XD

Ahaha, yeah, that song is still stuck in my head! XD I don't know why it's so catchy...maybe when you listen to it 43 times it just grows on you XP

[Doubleshadow]

Working on Soul Eater. Yes, I'm behind the times. XD

[blkmage]

Kara no Kyoukai epilogue is 30 minutes of lol nasu.

Break Blade (3) is getting better as it goes along, but I'm also getting more convinced with each installment that it shouldn't be a bunch of movies.

[Riggidig]

I JUST finished watching 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' and I must say I found it a VERY enjoyable movie. Got tired of just seeing Studio Ghibli titles in the DVD store so when I saw this tonight I figured I'd give it a try. I'm glad I did :-)

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

I JUST finished watching 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' and I must say I found it a VERY enjoyable movie. Got tired of just seeing Studio Ghibli titles in the DVD store so when I saw this tonight I figured I'd give it a try. I'm glad I did :-)

Mamoru Hosada has made me much less satisfied with Miyazaki films.

[Riggidig]

Mamoru Hosada has made me much less satisfied with Miyazaki films.

I don't follow.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

After watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, I don't think Miyazaki can match the guy's films.

[Riggidig]

After watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, I don't think Miyazaki can match the guy's films.

Ah ok. I should try to get hold of this Summer Wars.

[Atria35]

Ah ok. I should try to get hold of this Summer Wars.

Pre-orders shipped yesterday from Rightstuf. The official release is Feb 11th

[ABlipinTime]

Summer Wars looks like it will be fun to watch, but I'll wait on that.


Just finished Trigun 18 - Rem Saverem, which exposed a ton of the mystery and gave me a pack of new questions.

[jsav777]

Just started Samurai Deeper Kyo and I'm almost finished Fruits Basket

[ShiroiHikari]

Rewatched some more Zeta Gundam. Kamille got his butt kicked. Kai showed up. Good times.

[AnimeGirl]

Watched "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" a few nights ago. Oh man...for a movie that not much went on, this was A MASTERPIECE! I liked the twist and the emotion at the end, I actually cried!! It started out a bit slow, but hey, once it starts rolling, you won't want to miss it!!!

Also watched episodes 4-6 of Ghost Hunt. Wow...."The Doll House" arc is what officially has pulled me into this show! It was just done so well. It gave me chills and freaked me out a bit!! Can't wait to see how the next arc plays out!

[Lilac#18]

[color="Plum"]Watched Dragon Ball Kai episode 92 little while ago.

Watched the first episode of a new pretty cure anime called "Suite PreCure" just a little while ago.[/color]

[Wolf-man]

Started watching Cowboy Bebop. I'm up to episode 8 now. I am liking it. It is certainly keeping my interest.

I watched the 7th Detective Conan movie: Crossroad to the Ancient Capital. These movies never disappoint me. Even when they are not as good as some others they are still amazing.

Pre-orders shipped yesterday from Rightstuf. The official release is Feb 11th

The site says that they haven't been shipped yet and that the official release date is the same as all the other stores: February 15th

[Atria35]

The site says that they haven't been shipped yet and that the official release date is the same as all the other stores: February 15th

All lies. I got an email saying that it had shipped and have the tracking code that says that it's on route to IL as we speak, having left the postal office in ID. In fact, it's being delivered to my house today.

Technically, they aren't allowed to say that they ship until that date, but it's fairly common practice with DVDs. I've gotten many of mine day- sometimes weeks before they're technically supposed to ship out.

[Edward]

I have just started watching The Slayers. I'm on episode 3, and so far I am enjoying it.

[AngelicTotoro]

Clannad 5 and 6.

[pikmintaro]

I've been watching an Anime called Elfen Lied, I had a dream about it, and remembered somebody mentioning it a couple years ago so I decided to go ahead and watch it.

I've been watching a few episodes a day, and so far I am on episode ten, it's easily one of my favorite anime, I started watching it on Sunday, so hopefully I'll finish all the episodes by tomorrow, since there are only like 13, but then I will check out the manga.

[MangaRocks!]

Vampire Knight 1-13 (sub) and Vampire Knight: Guilty 1-13 (sub).


--> [color="PaleTurquoise"]Short opinion:[/color] Read the manga (...well, at least first, anyway).


--> [color="PaleTurquoise"]Long opinion:[/color] I do have two positive things to say about this adaptation. The first is that the music is great, and fits the series' tone quite well; and the other is that the voices (in the sub) are excellent (all the characters are perfect).

That said (very long rant + full spoilers ahead!)... [spoiler]As my friends can attest, at 5 minutes into the finale of the first season I had said I was liking the adaptation so far, and hadn't really minded most of the stuff that they had added and changed since (...at that point!) they were just basically giving you more of the characters' backgrounds or feelings or whatever. However, that was before I had seen the very end of that ep. (...and, for that matter, the second season). I mean, what? In the manga, Zero did not fall that far then! Yes, Kaname does make him drink his blood, but Zero never fell to Level E (and thusly is also never chained up for doing so). And, actually, the act of Zero taking Kaname's blood only happens once-- just during their fight with each other later on (which is how they should have kept it; I mean, considering the fact that Kaname had already consumed the blood and powers of Hio, having Zero drink it twice makes no sense!). And, later on in the second season, the orders from the society when Rido was about to attack the academy were just to detain and imprison Zero, not outright kill him (well, yet, anyway)-- so Zero never attacked his teacher in return; in fact, all Zero did was simply let him lock him up, without any resistance whatsoever! *AND*, he (again) did *NOT* 'lose control' during the battle with Rido Kuran-- for heaven's sake, the entire point of having to consume his poor brother beforehand was so that he could gain the control he needed!!

So, unfortunately, they did change Zero's character at times, which they shouldn't have. (...And while Zero's character changes were the biggest, even Kaname is portrayed a little better in the manga.)

Indeed, the large number of additions as well as the many, many changes of detail increasingly annoyed me as they piled up. Particularly in Guilty. I mean, like I said, I was okay with it in the first season (well... up until the end of its finale, anyway), but the stuff in the second season-- *those* additions and changes to scenes, dialogue, and character were definitely not necessary... at all! I mean, first there were all the aforementioned changes with Zero. And then they totally changed the scene where Kaname and Yuki argue about her staying (which was so great in the manga-- and even included a kiss, which is initiated by Yuki, no less)! And Ichijo's grandfather didn't kill the Hunter President-- it was *Cross* who killed him, after exposing to all the other Hunters there that the President had done a deal with the Senate in exchange for vampire blood! And sheesh people, it's a TV14 show; rather than (or in addition to) just having Kaname walking around evaporating the lower members of the Senate and then destroying the building, why didn't they show the actual execution of the High Senators as per the manga? They could have, with that rating, and it was way more powerful of a scene. And, finally, the most vehement "?!" of all goes to the final ep.-- seriously, what in the world were they thinking (...or perhaps drinking? ) when they wrote the script for that?!?!! Sober or not, some resounding virtual 's are definitely in order. For one, Kaname never 'released' the other vampires, nor did he say something so mean-sounding to them (and, of course, thus neither does that silly thing happen with Aido and the marble to 'decide' whether he'd follow Kaname or not )-- rather, they simply ask if he trusts them because he's leaving Yuki with them for the moment, and he just tells them to believe what they want. For another, the main cast of vampires were actually not at the battle with Rido in the manga because they were either too busy protecting the students (who had not evacuated yet in the manga, either) from Rido's servants, or in Aido's case was told by Yuki to leave so Rido couldn't try to control him-- so actually the only people in that battle were Zero, Yuki, and Rido himself. ((And re-insert aforetyped mini-rant about Zero losing control again here.)) For yet another, in the manga Kaname does not return from his cleanup of the Senate until after Rido is destroyed-- at which point Zero is vowing to end the problem by killing all Purebloods, and is thus pointing his gun at Yuki (but can't fire it because he still loves her), and of course the sight of that sets Kaname off, so he and Zero begin to fight (but Yuki ends up stopping them)-- all of which was cut out of the anime! And, finally, the entire scene where Yuki and Zero have to say their goodbyes is completely, totally, and utterly different!!! In the manga there was no weird "I don't believe you're a vampire" (?!) dialogue, nor does Yuki say that she'll wait for him to kill her-- rather, she says she'll run from him forever to give him a reason to live!! Plus, according to explanations in volume 11, she couldn't have even used her fangs at that point because of her mental state (indeed, the only reason she could right at first was because she had just awoken, and had used them out of desperate, overpowering instinct), so she never drank Zero's blood, either (indeed, it's actually Zero who drinks hers)! *AND*, topping it all off, in the manga, Zero actually kisses her!!! (How they could cut that out of the anime is truly beyond me.)

*Sigh*... the manga is so much better!!![/spoiler] In the end, I guess I don't really regret watching it, if only because (as mentioned at the beginning) I liked the music and the voicing was perfect (I will definitely 'hear' those voices mentally when reading it now, and that's a good thing)-- but I *really* didn't appreciate how much stuff they changed (and the increasing severity of those changes), particularly as it went along (re-cue rant... ). (Man, that stuff was frustrating! I think I'm going to go reread the manga again now... )

[Falx]

Kimi ni Todoke season 2 episode 05:

Miura Kent is the devil.

[Blitzkrieg1701]

I'm finally getting around to watching the rest of Moribito (if memory serves, I'm at episode 14)

[ABlipinTime]

@MangaRocks - That huge gray area is quite amusing.

[MightiMidget]

Rewatching Darker Than Black...again. Slooowly. Since I now have it on DVD (wheeee!!!!). I'm having too much fun. Watched eps. 1-4. =)

[MangaRocks!]

@MangaRocks - That huge gray area is quite amusing.

You mean its size, its rantiness, or both? :grin: