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Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 22, 2005, 11:16:52 PM
Nothing at the moment, but I figured I'd get this thread started.  I'm technically watching Gun X Sword and the Snow Queen, but I got distracted there.

Probably going to give another watch to Tsukihime.

This thread, if you can't guess, is just for us to share what we're watching at the moment.  No reviewing and try to keep spoilers to the minimum, but no reason we can't share hints of what we are watching.  I know I'd appreciate hints without scanning everything.

Dracos
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dexie Oblivion on August 22, 2005, 11:18:34 PM
I finally watched Ghost in the Shell.  ^_^

Next is Appleseed, then I'll prolly watch Akira again.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 22, 2005, 11:22:00 PM
Appleseed was pretty fun.  I enjoyed it.  I have it somewhere around here on tape I think.

Dracos
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Ragnar on August 23, 2005, 01:26:26 PM
Do you mean old Appleseed or new Appleseed?

Well, I'm in the middle of Azumanga Daioh.

The other day at Otakon, I watched:

Gundam F91
Cromartie High School (Strange, but very good)
Bleach (Very good, but different)
Midori no Hibi (Excellent)
Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (Yes, it exists. Fairly good, too, and surprisingly in character)
Yakitate! Japan (Excellent)

and some others I can't remember of right now.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 23, 2005, 01:33:23 PM
I mean the old one, myself.

Azumanga is awesome.  

And bleach is really good?  Send me the first 3-5 eps couldya?

Dracos
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: thepanda on August 23, 2005, 03:11:46 PM
Ai Yori Aoshi enishi vol 1 right now. I loved the first series so I'm giving the second a try. I'll probably watch an episode or two of Rozen Maiden and PreCure since I've been doing so for the last few days.

What else.... Well, I have to se what the new shipment is like at Animax. Depending on what comes in I might watch something from there as well.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dexie Oblivion on August 24, 2005, 09:10:12 PM
/me has acquired item 'Appleseed DVD'
/me has acquired item 'Bleach Episode 1'
/me has acquired item 'Bleach Episode 2'

And lo, there shall be some fun watching soon.

(And I mean the new Appleseed, myself.)
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Ranma_007 on August 24, 2005, 09:17:07 PM
Well, I guess it counts as watching something...

Full Moon manga and Rayearth manga.

MOKONA = GOD!
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dexie Oblivion on August 24, 2005, 09:18:30 PM
If manga counts too, then yesterday I picked up Hellsing 3 and Naruto 4.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 24, 2005, 09:21:31 PM
I've started bleach.  About ten eps in.  Not awesome, but not bad.

Dracos
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Ragnar on August 25, 2005, 01:25:22 PM
I've been wanting to see old and new Appleseed, but I don't know where to get the old one.

The animation quality in Azumanga Daioh dissapointed me. The Japanese dubbing was off, too. The plot is excellent, though.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 25, 2005, 11:58:52 PM
I just sort of found it in an anime store one day myself.

Anyhow up to 15 in bleach.

liking it, even if they keep shrinking orihime's bust =P

Dracos
Damns them all!
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: kpjam on August 26, 2005, 02:36:05 AM
My HiME.  Get it.  'nough said.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 27, 2005, 09:06:34 AM
Heh, What's it about?  =P  Ye untalkative folks!


Watching bleach, up through 30 now.  It's getting a bit less awkward, even if there's little real grace in all of the stuff.  They're sticking pretty hard to their shonen formula in places and it shows.

Dracos
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: thepanda on August 27, 2005, 12:44:59 PM
What's My-HiME about?

*Pulls Dracos from under his rock*

Its about a bunch of women who can summon weapons called elements and mosters called Childs to do battle. Sort of. Hm, the first half of the show and the second half are so different that you'd really need them explained seperately. The first part is the gathering of said women together, filled with light hearted plots and fan service (not annoyingly so, though) while they begin establishing who these people are and what they are. Then around episode 8 the mood shifts. Soon enough it becomes a sort of Red Dawn knock off with a pretty fulfilling climax. Episode 13 happens and suddenly you're in a completely different show.

Personally, it was one of the better shows of the season it came out of, though everyone and his mother will tell you the ending sucks like a five dollar hooker. Still, its worth a watch at least one time through.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Dracos on August 31, 2005, 02:12:59 PM
Hit 46 on bleach.

It slows down a lot in the death god arc with tremendous amounts of backstory that sort of retcon earlier eps.

Dracos
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: baka on August 31, 2005, 02:31:24 PM
Cowboy Bebop for the first time. Shocking, isn't it?

On the manga front, just finished reading PlanetES, which is made of win and god, and Hikaru no Go volume 2. HnG manga just doesn't seem to be as awesome as the anime, which is probably the translation's fault.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: thepanda on September 01, 2005, 02:55:03 PM
Manga.

Love Hina volume 9. I have to say, this is FAR better than I had thought it would be. People said that it really drags after a while, yet I feel no drag. The male lead isn't annoying, and Naru isn't the bitch people seem to make her out to be. The cast is interesting, and the story actually moves somewhere. Guess I'll pick up the rest of the series tomorrow.

Also reading Kerero Gunsou (Sgt Frog for the English translation) and it is, by far, the most entertaining thing I've read all year. Gah! My volume 6 order had better come in tomorrow.

Watching more PreCure, Shuffle!, and Rozen Maiden.
Title: What are you watching today?
Post by: Ginrai on September 01, 2005, 09:43:04 PM
Currently watching Fantastic Children (up to ep10). So far it's been an extremely good series.

Great music (especially the ED) and the animation's old-school style works quite well here (after looking around I found out that the company behind this had also worked on some of Miyazaki's older series). If it stays this good up to the end, Fantastic Children will definitely be, in my opinion, the best recent anime series.