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Yeah, Australia's anime fandom is at an all-time high. They released the second season of Higurashi, Ef: A Tale of Memories, Ef: A Tale of Melodies, Kids on the Slope, Bakemonogatari, Dennou Coil, Mardock Scramble, Ninja Nonsense, Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, Mysterious Girlfriend X and we are renewing the original Berserk series and re-releasing the .hack franchise, getting Yu Yu Hakusho, Genshiken, Maria Watches Over Us, Haibane Renmei and Texhnolyze back on board, Kaiba, MindGame, "Now and Then, Here and There", Planetes are being reprinted, and there has been talk of a release of lesser known titles such as Kemonozume, Utena, Garden of Sinners, Great Teacher Onizuka, Simoun, Cross Game and Ninja Scroll.
It's good to live in Australia at the moment. xD

It is all good, not everything is everyone's cup of tea. Everyone appreciates different things, it's why I like LIFE so much! xD

Thanks for the info... really helpful.

Oooh, the Berserk movies.
Well, head's up. The movies in my opinion are not as good as the series, (mostly because of the gumby 3D animation style.) Though I will admit as the movies continue, the animation gets slightly better.
But I may be biased for not liking the movies as much as the original series because I had seen the series first. But I have it on quite good authority that some people prefer the movies and some people prefer the series; so I honestly don't know which way you will swing.
P.S. The movies are different, because they follow closer to the manga than the original series did.

Final Verdict. I'd recommend watching the movies but I would not recommend purchasing them.
I have yet to see the 3rd movie.

Hope this helps. :D

Thank-you for adding me as a friend. :)

Yeah, don't worry about your tastes compared to me, most people have said similar things, in the real world I have no hesitation in admitting that I am highly eccentric and quirky; and I am proud of it. mwahahaha.

Probably one thing I noticed with you when comparing our lists was how reserved we both were when we're scoring, we rarely ever handed out 10s.

Right with you there on Cowboy Bebop; keep in mind I did like 3 or 4 episodes of the series, however that hardly made up for the rest of the series that I was almost bored to death with. I ended up dropping Samurai Champloo once I started watching that also.
The characters in both of them were a little vague and I felt they had very little ambition and personalities that I felt were average to below average; 'which is probably why people like the show'. But what annoyed me more was the story. 80 percent of them were like B-Grade stories that were hardly worth mentioning.
Yeah, we're blasphemers, the rest of the anime community can get over it.

An interesting one to. I also have listened to arguments that go against Elfen Lied and most of the time I can't agree with their arguments, some people I can agree with to a certain extent but that does not stop me from giving the series a 10/10. And quite frequently I feel that certain reviewers are more often than not - attacking the fan base rather than the actual show. Do you get a similar vibe?

I did not mean to imply that her actions were morally justifiable, simply that the fact that they take place is not dilatory to the story. The film shows a collection of things that actually happened. The fact that you hated every character by the time the movie was over shows that it succeeded in eliciting an emotional response from you, the viewer.

Merry Christmas!

Hey, just curious about Ga-Rei Zero being on your favorite list...i've seen some of its episodes, they were good (episode 1 was especially a shocker), but i dropped it because of time constraints as well as because my belated knowledge that it was a prequel (it kinda let me down a bit..)