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Actually I'm from the States, but I studied German for about ten years so I'm pretty fluent. My German is about as good as your English it seems which is really good. I didn't mean to give the impression that I was from there if you understood it that way. I have family that lives in Geneva Switzerland and many friends in Italy, Germany;my best friend is from the Democratic Republic of Georgia so I also speak a little Italian and Georgian. It's actually been three years now since I've been back to Italy or Georgia so those languages are really rusty, but I still like to read and watch German works so I don't forget it. Japanese is my newest language project. I'm so busy lately though that it does become difficult to make time to do any formal learning like taking a class. I actually looked this Fall and if you can believe it, I couldn't find any in my area of Southern California. The recession has hit schooling here very hard. It's actually really sad that California once the fifth largest economy in the world is now struggling to even keep it's high school classes under fifty students per teacher. They are actually closing schools. College prices are quickly becoming something only the rich can afford, ok so they are already there, only the rich can afford university right now. The rest of us are in debt up to our eye balls trying to pay back our capitalist masters for our schooling. I'm so fed up with the situation here, I want to move so bad, I'm really contemplating dropping everything and just becoming an immigrant. I don't see anything getting better ether. Obama has basically been neutralized by big corporations and wall street it seems. The Health Care plan coming out of congress was written by the pharmaceutical and medical insurance industry, there wasn't a one single payer advocate consulted in the creation of the health care plan. As a matter of fact they arrested several of the top single payer experts for attempting to get into the a meeting in a Senate comity. It's really that bad! No shinning beacon of hope here that's for sure. Even a plan to create enough wind energy to power the entire country by a responsible billionaire was voted down. Old money is still very much in control and it doesn't seem they are going to let the U.S. be a place where people want to live anymore. Wow that was a little rant, sorry! I really do enjoy watching things in German though, it keeps me from forgetting my vocabulary.

As for the Gundam issue, I surely fucked that one up. I think I actually started with Gundam Wing. I then proceeded to watch it in random order. It wasn't until about a five or six months ago that I really go serious and started watching Gundam in the order that they were released. To be honest I guess I can hardly call myself a completionist considering how many shows I've dropped and or put on hold due to lack of attention span. But when I start something, I find it necessary to eventually watch the original source, preferably first. I haven't been to good about reading manga, it's something that I've only recently been attempting. But it becomes painfully apparent very often that manga's often borrow themes from other classical books. This is the way of modern media of course, no idea's are truly new, just regurgitated information in a different interpretation.

I was also very happy that [live-evil] was able to complete Captain Harlock. Ironically I've watched everything other than the original series before I found their version. I've stalled on Galaxy Express 999, but mostly because I've been forced to watch it streamed on Crunchyroll. I'd love to grab that somewhere but haven't been able to find the complete series as of yet. It always seems that new shows tend to pull me away from some of the great older projects I begin, but when I come back to them, I'm often asking myself why I waste my time with some of the newer anime coming out, but new is better for some reason right? LoL! The only shows that I'm really enjoying this Fall season so far is Kimi ni Todoke, Darker than Black II, Kuchu Buranko, and Inuyasha Final Act could end up being pretty good, but that's basically just nostalgia and being happy to see those characters again. It's quite sad that I still can't seem to stop watching other shows like Railgun,Kämpfer and Seiken no Blacksmith. Kobato, Nyan Koi and Sasameki Koto have also been eating some of my anime time lately. The new stuff really does just seem like a bad habit sometimes when I should be finishing up some really great series like the Aria's, Berserk, Paradise Kiss, and of course the other stuff already mentioned like the original Harlock series and Galaxy Express 999 which I really like.

I'm gonna try my hardest to get back to the classics as soon as possible. In the mean time I will just keep looking for them for archival purposes.

Great discussion!

Orion

I noticed on your page that Heidi was one of your first anime series you watched. I've been looking for a subbed version of that title for a while. I found one with a Portuguese dub but well in the words of John Depp, "I don't speak Portuguese man." There is also the raw version and since my Japanese is much better than my Portuguese, I guess I'll just have to attempt it with English/Japanese dictionary in hand.

Cutey Honey is another series I've been trying to finish for a while too. I know that [spork] was working on it, but I'm guessing they are having a hard time finding raws. This could be one lost in someones old vhs collection. I hope they give their collection away soon and I find it. I was able to find the manga on Baka though. I couldn't even find it on Amazon Japan. I did something called re:cutey Honey on dvd at Toei Animation. But according to ANN that's just a remake that was adapted from the live action movie. So your guess is as good as mine.

black flag, madball, minor threat, sick of it all, terror, clash, ramones, reign supreme, rancid, converge etc etc etc

desculpa só responder agora mas pensei que já tinha respondido >.<

Ok, que estranho, o teu comentário mutou-se depois de eu mandar o meu. Eu vi metade em mkvs e a outra por streaming (porquê nem eu sei). Os erros notavam-se mais nos mkvs... Mas se calhar a onde do momento e tudo mais não dava para notar. A cena é que eu já estava a ver aquilo sem atenção, de vez em quando ouvia uma piada que percebia e caia da cadeira a rir, depois olhava para os bonecos e perdia logo a graça.

Pena que eu não percebo quase nada. xD

Foi a animação. É que era mesmo muito má. Mesmo para 2004 (wth, 2004 foi há 5 anos...) Toda partida com frames a descoberto.

Não lhe estou a achar piada nenhuma, a arte mete nojo e o único personagem com metade de graça é o Harima (se bem que a interacção com a outra miúda, a irmã, também é interessante) Os gags são pouco originais e recorrentes de forma a que cansam sem fascinar. Nem sei se vou ver a segunda season.

*caugh* é um clube que se chama punk, mas não tem nada de punk, ou melhor nunca falam nem nada :( a única conversa recente que tiveram foi sobre os emos não entrarem no clube >.< é um bocado triste... sim eu vi dmc ^^ há um episódio com uma banda punk, sou capaz de dizer lá qualquer coisa.

yep tens gostos variados, mas mais underground ^^ bom gosto! eu ouço mais punk e hardcore, e prefiro também oldschool...