I'm getting square-eyes

[kaliha]

Blimey, it's a bit nippy at the moment. Of course it doesn't help when someone switches OFF the central heating. *shivers*

Thanks to Anime Central I'm working my way through a few different animes at the moment. And for free, hoorah.

Currently I'm mostly watching:

.hack // sign - It's okay, but I'm not really getting into it, it's a bit like watching someone else play a MMORPG. Although it seems to be very sparsely populated. Maybe it's a quiet server.

Wolf's Rain - I missed the first two episodes and have had a bit of trouble getting up to speed, but I do quite like it. it annoying clashes ith loads of other stuff, so I'm having to catch up with episode guides ere and there which is of the suck. The opening theme is 80s MOR Soft Rock-tastic though.

Cowboy Bebop - Really liking this one. Love how fluid all the movement is, especially all the fighty stuff. Again it clashes with other stuff so I am dropping episodes left right and centre, but because they're all pretty much self contained you're able to dip in and out.

Afro Samurai - It's got Samuel L Jackson and Ron Perlman in it. What is there not to like? Amazingly violent, really well drawn and coloured, very stylised. Liked it very much.

Bleach - dubbed Bleach is so strange. I've got so used to watching the subtitled version, it does take a bit of getting used to. (Not really watching it (unless I'm waiting for something else to come on and there' nothing else on t'telly). But Anime Central are onto Season 2 (aka the one with my favourite theme toon) so I can sing along at home.

I am watching some normal telly too.

Loved Top Gear last night, and I don't even like cars all that much (other than using them to get from A to B). I think Richard Hammond being in love with his 43 year old African car (Oliver) is so sweet. I worry that Jeremy is going to drop it into the Bristol Channel though.

And Long Way Down does have the added bonus of Ewan McGregor, even if it is a bit bikey. :D I didn't realise you could actually go into the pyramids, I always thought you could only admire them from the outside. The tombs that were carved into the banks of the Nile are really cool too. I'm enjoying this more than Long Way Round.

QI is still awesome. But that's just a bit obvious.

And of course, my beloved Prison Break, Prison Break is on tonight.

Happy that Never Mind the Buzzcocks is back on Thursday;
May give The Mighty Boosh another go because their trailer makes me LOL so much;
Screenwipe is back Wednesday, I've really missed Charlie Brooker being all miserable on mah telleh.
And best of all Omid Djalili's show starts on Saturday. I luff him. He makes me laugh until my sides hurt a bit.

Oh, and I've heard there's some three-minute thing with David Tennant on Friday. I may watch that. If I can be bothered. :)

Comments

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

I love Cowboy Bebop with the fire of a thousand suns.

Mmmm Spike&Faye.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I quite like the little dog too. I love the fact their future is sort of grubby and battered and not all white and pristine. Oh and casino satellites that look like roulette wheels are made of awesome.

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

There is no bad, except maybe Julia or whatever her name was. That was one animelodramatic subplot yo.

[khallandra.livejournal.com]

Loved Top Gear last night, and I don't even like cars all that much (other than using them to get from A to B). I think Richard Hammond being in love with his 43 year old African car (Oliver) is so sweet. I worry that Jeremy is going to drop it into the Bristol Channel though.

It is so cute isn't it and Richard looked so happy :) I just found The Stig on public transport way too amusing for my own good. My next layout for khalls_stuff is going to be Stig based ;)

My sister went into the Great Pyramid (I think) though it is some tight tunnel that I would not make it down ;)

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Richard/Oliver. It's the new OTP.

[kaffy_r]

BB and I still think that Cowboy Bebop holds up as one of the top five anime titles of all time. We've watched it I don't know how many times and everything - the still-not-bettered sophistication of the titles, the scripts, the characters (Ein forever!)- remains entertaining and still moving. There *is* a plot line that runs through it, and by the last five or so epis, it's good to keep engaged. Damn thing still can make me cry at points.

I'm the one person in my family who loves Wolf's Reign, and I do. The whole feel of that world is intriguing, and there's a cool Kanno Yoko tune several epis in that I love.

Bleach rocks the Casbah - it's what Inuyasha wanted to be, except with, you know, brains, learning curves, monumentally good art, fascinating world and plot, and a lead character that isn't sucky. Loud, yeah, but not sucky.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I love Bleach very nearly as much as I love Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm up to epsidoe 81 or 82 now on the subbed version and about episode 35 on the dubbed. It's interesting to see the differences in the translations, plus it is very rewatchable.

[kaffy_r]

MMMMMmmmm...Fullmetal Alchemist [/Homer]

[si-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Afro-Samurai may well have been made for me.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah. If you can get Bravo (http://www.bravo.co.uk/adultswim/show.php?id=39) on Cable you may be in luck and it may be repeated fairly shortly. If not, it's out on DVD now.

[lanaya1980.livejournal.com]

Bless Richard Hammond. If I ever get another car, I'm calling it Oliver.