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Reviews on various media I've been consuming
I'm kind of amazed by how much I love the Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) anime, considering how much I didn't care for the manga. Of course, I'm only four episodes in and the plot has just hit the point where I then disliked the manga. Overall, though, I think I like the anime more because Hideaki Anno is an amazing director. I find myself fascinated throughout each episode. Also, I like the stronger focus on humor. The manga took itself too seriously, IMO.
I finished watch the Planetes anime. I have pretty mixed feelings about. I am unused to socially responsible anime. The premise of this show is that humanity has progressed into space. The main characters in the show collect space debris for a living, ensuring that it doesn't damage satellites or other ships. Pretty much everyone else looks down on them (except the people still living on Earth) despite the constant reminders how crucial their jobs are to human safety.
The show includes characters of many races, and their backgrounds are actually important to the plot. As you might imagine, the benefits of space travel are not reaped by every country on Earth.
The science in the show is also pretty awesome - former astronauts get sick from spending so much time in space/on ships; people born on the moon are abnormally tall due to the lower gravity; there is no sound in space, etc. It's pretty rare for anime, which will often waive physics to get across a greater emotional point (or a cooler fight scene).
In spite of all this awesome, I found most of the dialogue atrocious. Everyone was way overly dramatic, and it was irritating - here is such a believable future and believable science - and such unbelievable human interactions. Even by the end of the first episode, I was ready to kill every character, I think.
I want the same show but with a different script. (Although I'd probably make a few changes to what happens to Tanabe, too.)
I wish they had had a bigger budget for music. I was ready to kill most of the songs by the end of the series (much like Lovely Complex).
In the end, I'd say it was worth watching, but I don't think it's worth owning, for me.
Today I bought and read volume 8 of Sand Chronicles. I think that I love this manga unreasonably.
I finished watch the Planetes anime. I have pretty mixed feelings about. I am unused to socially responsible anime. The premise of this show is that humanity has progressed into space. The main characters in the show collect space debris for a living, ensuring that it doesn't damage satellites or other ships. Pretty much everyone else looks down on them (except the people still living on Earth) despite the constant reminders how crucial their jobs are to human safety.
The show includes characters of many races, and their backgrounds are actually important to the plot. As you might imagine, the benefits of space travel are not reaped by every country on Earth.
The science in the show is also pretty awesome - former astronauts get sick from spending so much time in space/on ships; people born on the moon are abnormally tall due to the lower gravity; there is no sound in space, etc. It's pretty rare for anime, which will often waive physics to get across a greater emotional point (or a cooler fight scene).
In spite of all this awesome, I found most of the dialogue atrocious. Everyone was way overly dramatic, and it was irritating - here is such a believable future and believable science - and such unbelievable human interactions. Even by the end of the first episode, I was ready to kill every character, I think.
I want the same show but with a different script. (Although I'd probably make a few changes to what happens to Tanabe, too.)
I wish they had had a bigger budget for music. I was ready to kill most of the songs by the end of the series (much like Lovely Complex).
In the end, I'd say it was worth watching, but I don't think it's worth owning, for me.
Today I bought and read volume 8 of Sand Chronicles. I think that I love this manga unreasonably.
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I am flabbergasted!!! Does this mean if I come up to you at WisCon & sing "Kimi + Boku = Love?" at you, you'll make the D-face???
The Kare Kano anime--when it's good, it's really good. But they use way too many of those annoying shoujo flashback episodes (esp. considering the length of the series) & the last couple of eps just cram everything in ridiculous-style.
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At least I'm assuming the Kare Kano anime ending is better than the manga, which I've heard some dreadful stories about??
I did find the first two discs for $3 each, so I consider that to be worth it (for now, anyway!).
Arima is such an angst fucker!
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I totally want the Umibouzu ringtone from Love*Com, though... hahaha. It makes me laugh that they are so into him & his music is soooo bad.
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actually the director changed midway point, I think it was related to the mangaka disliking the greater emphasis on humour.
haha, mostly agree with you on Planetes (I don't remember minding the music though).
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Haha, maybe I appreciate this more because I spent the last week teaching -ing versus -ed adjectives in my 2nd year classes, but this is an excellent typo.