Hey, I still listen after all... heheh...
At this point I'm just ranting for rant's sake. No cable for downloading things to speak of, so no chance to view anime since the last time. But... I need to finish some other, older series, first, anyway. And I have a rant on my mind that's itching to be posted, so here you go; stop me if I start unknowingly ranting about something I already ranted about.
As much as I hate to say it, I'm gonna hafta go back and finish NOIR and Ayashi no Ceres. Both of them had potential to be good, and I have a lot of time to waste, so I'd like to actually finish these series myself rather than read a review. Blood or no, I'm bored. Mysteries always get my attention, as long as they don't end in Magical Girl or Mech Armageddon. Those are things that occupy their own seperate niches. Yes, I realize Aya is like, possessed or whatever. But doing something and doing it well makes all the difference. And I don't think having the ability to deftly kill people qualifies as Baho Shojou, either, even if it does have its roots in mythology. So those two sort of pass under my radar, for now. I wonder why I get into so many series that get bloody... maybe it's a subconscious thing?
I guess I should look into my viewing history if I want the answer to that question. Robotech. That's what the name of that series on Cartoon Network, back in the day, was. Prolly the first anime I ever saw, sadly. Yes I hate the cliches, and the universe it's set in is actually a little too weird for me, but I loved their ship design for some reason. It's been years, and I was a kid; I don't know if my artistic sense today would still tell me it kicked ass, but there's no avoiding it - I'm going to have to hunt it down and watch it all for judgement's sake. And maybe without the English dubbing. Holy crap, I'm a fanboy. ^^;
I'll reiterate, since I'm gonna rewatch it, too: Spiral kicked ass. If everything had actually gotten resolved and gone into a Season 2, instead of ending abruptly because the creator had a lapse of faith (or money or whatever) in his series, I'd still be watching it. Even though it was short, there is not much in the way of an existing multi-season anime (that I know of) that has ever had so much potential before actually becoming one. Not that I have no criticisms of the series; In fact, there are enough loose ends that if I hadn't enjoyed it so much getting up to the end of the series, I'd have said it became sort of an existential failure, which is what the last episode almost makes you think. But the fact remains, if it had gone on longer, it would have survived. Fanservice, plz!
Anyway, that was short. Hehe. I had much more to say. But I'm all done.
; god did I hate the subtitles when I got my hands on the DVD. And on that note, I find Cid's English voice talent to be talentless. But we've all heard enough about FFVII, I think, so I'll just stop there.