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I had no idea Stuart David had written a book - I will absolutely find it and read it immediately (along with the "soundtrack" Up a Tree")! ^_^ Thank you for the recommendation!

To answer your question I have far too many favourite authors, but some of the greatest are: Neil Gaiman, Shaun Tan, Peter S Beagle, Ben Loory, David Mitchell, Murakami Haruki, Jane Austen & the Brontes, Audrey Niffenegger, Kawabata Yasunari, T.S. Eliot, Shikibu Murasaki, William Shakespeare, Tim O'Brien, Cao Xueqin, Dianna Wynne Jones, Ursular K. LeGuin, Shirley Jackson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, C.S. Lewis,Madeleine L'Engle, Freidrich Nietzsche, P.G. Wodehouse, Amy Tan, Anita Diamant, Edward Gorey, Jonathan Evison, James P. Othmer, James Morrow, anything dystopian or utopian, Cheng'en Wu, Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll.

A-hem... And that is just a taste... What about you?


I am watching Clannad right now and I LOVE it, but it's also making me cry! I am not usually a crier, but in the last two years I have noticed that I am much more sentimental then I ever have been before, so perhaps I am becoming one of the people who cries at silly, sentimental things. *Haha* There are worse things to become, I suppose. ^_^

I tried to watch the Ranma sub long ago, but no one could match the talent of Myriam Sirois, Sarah Strange, or even Venus Terzo. And that's only our protagonist's voice actors! There are extremely few dubs I consider to be worthwhile, but Ranma will always be at the top of my list!

So, you're a Ranma fan, eh? That is one of my favourites too! It's also one of the most nostalgic anime for me as it was one of the first I saw as a girl. I have very fond memories of laughing with my sister during that series. It's nice to see others who love it as much as I do. It also has one of my ultimate favourite OP songs!

Please Save My Earth is also high on the list and the ending theme will stay with me forever.

That's some collection you have by the way! I just began watching Mermaid Forest with the anime group I belong to and I am really enjoying seeing this new layer of Takahashi Rumiko's work!

Hmmm I've seen some series on Crunchyroll back when the site started some years ago and also another one on its French counterpart Wakanim but I must admit I've always had some difficulties watching a streaming for some reason (well, I did watch some fantastic South Park episodes in 1080p with virtually no buffering time back when it was still possible to see them for free on the official website - now limited to North American IPs only :/).

Anyway, regarding Claymore, it sure is a great series until the last 5 or so episodes when the story totally changes compared to the original material. I don't know if you read the manga but this part was handled much, much better and is still ongoing (there's a 7-year gap right after the events depicted in the anime).

And as true as I'm a huge fan of Ghibli and Takahata, I must admit Only Yesterday is probably one of the best if not the best of his movies (along with Pompoko). I really love the feelings of nostalgia and the return to nature that goes with Taeko's journey. Beautiful. By the way I watched Kokurikozaka Kara by Goro Miyazaki (his father made the script and produced it) on the big screen last week and I think you'll like it seeing your favorites. Very sweet and heartwarming movie too.

And then coming to Persona 4, in fact after I watched the first episode of the series and couldn't resist the urge to buy the game and finish it (that's why I have yet to catch up on the series :)). So that's what I did and I truly liked the game, the characters, the music etc... and I must say the studio is doing a great job adapting it, maybe too good a job because most people that haven't played the game seem to be a bit lost at the moment. The storyline is adapted stricto sensu, the dialogues are identical to the word, the music are the same as in the game (they're re-using the OST), the OP/ED are very similar to the original songs and even the voice actors are the same (the voices could even be taken directly from the game but I don't know for sure since I played the game in English). In terms of construction, they're going on a base of 2 completed social links per episode apparently plus the main story events of course and even some dungeon action. The only downsides are the art and animation which are not that good (chara-design is a bit strange too) but for the rest you can't ask for a more faithful adaptation !

I just finished season 2. What I like the most about the series is that there are no crappy fillers sop far, well, except maybe for the episode with Tofu's mother and the one with the bath house. I assume that they were fillers because they were the weakest episodes so far. I plan on checking the manga to make comparisons with the anime once I finish it :D Also, amusingly enough, I expected to like Shampoo and hate Akane since I heard a lot of bad things about the latter, but what happened is the opposite and Akane is becoming my favorite heroine from a Rumiko series next to Kyoko. My other favorites include Kuno (I love his interaction with female Ranma), Nabiki, Cologne, Ryoga and the parents.

LOL! The one anime soundtrack that I've been obsessed with to the point of hunting all the CDs that I could get my hands on is Revolutionary Girl Utena. I'm also a big fan of Yuki Kajiura (the one who did the music for .hack, Mai-Hime and Mai-Otome) to the point of buying all the soundtracks of animes that she worked on that I've never watched. I also love Yoko Kanno's work on Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in a Shell.

I'm enjoying the music from Ranma and it has one of the most memorable soundtracks that I came across in recent years. The first opening song is one of my favorite anime openers ever.