Posted by Skrud at Sunday, January 4th 2004 at 10:10pm
Woohoo! Lunar Anime (fansubbing group) has finally released the final episode of Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien. Now I can finally get some peace of mind! On a related Anime note, Full Metal Panic kicks ass. I highly recommend it to anyone, especially if they liked Outlaw Star.
Posted by Skrud at Sunday, January 4th 2004 at 12:11am
I always knew this anime existed, and many people have told that it was awesome, but until now I never even bothered trying to watch Full Metal Panic. Big mistake. Seven episodes straight now and I can say with confidence that Full Metal Panic kicks ass. Strange though, I never thought I’d get into the whole Mecha (aka Giant Robot) thing. But shows like Neon Genesis: Evangelion and even Scrapped Princess went quite a way in making me warm up to the idea of giant robots battling each other. I’m not entirely sure just how exceptional Full Metal Panic is as of yet, but rest assured it is one of the most purely entertaining animes I’ve seen since Scrapped Princess.
In other anime-related Skrudness, I finished watching Shingetsutan Tsukihime (The True Chronicles of the Moon Princess) today. Although this is more of a serious anime, it has some pretty cool action, and story line that goes to interesting places. Anime has a tendency to create randomness as well as brilliance and imagination and Shingetsutan Tsukihime is as imaginative as they come. It has to do with vampires, and vampire hunting, and secrets involving the son and daughter of an upper class family as well as an immortal vampire hunter, Ciel, played by Orikasa Fumiko.
I also finished watching Onegai Teacher with Harley last night. I thoroughly enjoyed the series, which was pretty much a love story… between a student and his teacher. But before you judge, the teacher is really an alien from outer space, and she lives next door to the student. Also, the student tends to randomly fall into comas and once he was in a coma for three years so he’s really 18 years old but everyone thinks his 15. Oh yeah, and he has to marry his teacher so that no one finds out that she’s an alien from outer space because that’s the only way they can keep it secret. On top of that, there’s this really cute little thingy that pilots the spaceship… See? Anime kicks ass.
One more series that I have only one episode left to watch is Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (The Eternity That You Desire). This is one of those really-depressing-love-story animes that attract me for some reason and I can’t really say why either. I love the depressing love stories and as far as KimiNozo goes, this is one of the most insanely sad love stories I’ve seen. It kind of reminds me of Kanon. Actually it reminds me a lot of Kanon (those of you who read MegaTokyo are certainly aware of Piro’s obsession with all things Kanon). I would love to tell you about KimiNozo some more, but there isn’t much I can say that won’t spoil it for you. Also, avoid any descriptions or summaries you mind find on the web if you indeed plan to watch it because there are major plot twists in some places and it’s difficult to avoid them. All I can say is that it’s a really awesome anime and keeps me watching, cliffhanger after cliffhanger. So why haven’t I seen the last episode yet? I’m desperately waiting for it to come out. In fact, I still can’t tell you with any degree of certainty whatsoever what I think might happen in this episode and all the better. Luckily the series is balanced out very well by a couple of ridiculous waitress characters who also provide a post-credit insight that usually has nothing at all to do with the show but is hilarious for the sake of … well, cheering you up after another really depressing episode of KimiNozo. Either way, the series has managed to easily barge its way through to the top of my current favourites list and if you ever get a chance to see it, I highly reccomend it. (Of course, if you’re the kind of person that cries in movies for example, make sure you have a room full of kleenex handy).
