Tuesday, November 21, 2006
I've been watching Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex for what feels like several weeks now, but I finally sat down last night and watched the rest of it. By the time I finished, though, I almost felt like I needed to go back and re-watch everything from the beginning just to make sense of the ending. It really wasn't the direction I expected the anime to end.
Of course, that's anime for you. So many anime series end in ways the viewer simply couldn't expect.
Anyway, I'm happy I finally finished watching GITS: SAC. I can be a really bad anime watcher. I start watching a series and then I find excuses not to continue watching it. Too often, the series start far too slow and aren't all that interesting -- or they have characters that grate on my nerves, like GITS' damn Tachikomas.
Now that I'm in anime-watching mode, though, I'm going to try to get through the discs of Vampire Princess Miyu (the TV series) I picked up at Wal-Mart earlier in the year. When Wal-Mart tried to offload them, they only the third through to the last discs, so I'm missing the first two discs. However, I've seen the entire series before, so it's no big deal.
I watched an episode on the third disc last night, and I cringed. I seem to recall that the entire series was mediocre to poor, with a few good episodes (mostly the first ones and the very last ones) thrown in for good measure. And oh, the voice acting! Don't get me started.
Of course, that's anime for you. So many anime series end in ways the viewer simply couldn't expect.
Anyway, I'm happy I finally finished watching GITS: SAC. I can be a really bad anime watcher. I start watching a series and then I find excuses not to continue watching it. Too often, the series start far too slow and aren't all that interesting -- or they have characters that grate on my nerves, like GITS' damn Tachikomas.
Now that I'm in anime-watching mode, though, I'm going to try to get through the discs of Vampire Princess Miyu (the TV series) I picked up at Wal-Mart earlier in the year. When Wal-Mart tried to offload them, they only the third through to the last discs, so I'm missing the first two discs. However, I've seen the entire series before, so it's no big deal.
I watched an episode on the third disc last night, and I cringed. I seem to recall that the entire series was mediocre to poor, with a few good episodes (mostly the first ones and the very last ones) thrown in for good measure. And oh, the voice acting! Don't get me started.
// posted by Chris @ 8:22 AM 
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