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Don't worry about it; I assumed you had either entered /ignore mode or were very busy doing, you know, things in the land of the real. I was hoping for the latter and expected the former.

If I read more, my 'writting' would probably improve, and my word count would more than likely increase. It's just, I lack motivation. I kid you not - these days I see it as a job to sit at my desk and watch anime on my monitor instead of chilling on my bed, watching it on my TV. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Buying too much junk (literally) on DVD has ruined me.

The Twelve Kingdoms: The Taiki arc is my favourite. As I said to fabloony the other day, I found it fascinating how nature works in TTK universe, with a Nyokai being born to raise and protect a kirin - a creature with only kindness in its heart. Seeing and growing to understand the inner workings of TTK world from the perspective of an unknowing kirin made for excellent viewing, and that arc - like the first - had some excellent characterization. It's too bad that SP never finished Taiki's story, instead opting to leave it hanging, despite giving six episodes AND a recap. SP have always been hate worthy.

I'm not too fond of the lengthy third arc, though. It's dull with the political talk and switching between characters who don't matter, and TTK has its own language which is quickly becoming more and more diffucilt to follow. Annoyingly, I have to refer to Wiki if I want the definitions of these TTK onry words. Right now, I don't feel like watching the last third of TTK, knowing there's still around half of the third arc to go, followed to be what's said to be the weakest arc in the series.

I'm glad I own the first set on DVD: it appears to contain all of the great episodes!

With regards to TTGL, what about the ladies irked you? Was it the fact a supposed 14 year old had boobs (most likely) bigger than you and prefered not to wear anything, or role-playing as a teacher?

TTGL was created with the intent of being a manly, penis over logic sort of series. Manly dialogue, topless guys, power charges, etc. I don't think creating respectable female characters was on the agenda.

Ohhh, I see. You're one of those evil people who dosn't support the industry? Hmph. To think people would prefer getting anime for free, often in HD these days, rather than paying money for DVDs...

(...But, seriously, you SHOULD buy at least buy your top titles. Acquire a sugar daddy in order to support the industry?)

Most people on MAL are 13 year olds who enjoy one-liners. The rest enjoy twenty paragraph LotGH arguments. I'm not sure where I fit into it all, really, me not able to understand the concept of short messages and also unable to deal with people who go on for longer than myself.

Me, stressed? No, not right now. Bored would be a better description. I haven't found any hobbies that I've been able to sink my teeth into, my love of anime and games having died to a certain extent awhile back, and 'normal' life is generally dull. I've been watching a lot of anime of late - I'm trying to make up for lost time after seeing people younger than me with 4x sized lists - but it's rare for me to find anything I think very highly of.

How about you? (I'm limiting you to one paragrap here.)

Ah, that dead owl from the forest of death part of Wolf's Rain. I remember now. It didn't click when I looked at your profile, for whatever reason.

I've watched so much it'd be hard to list it all. Recently, I've watched the Kara no movies, which you've also seen. Only the third and fifth movies were worth it, but they did all look pretty and have some amazing music. You gotta love Yuki Kaijura. I think I prefer the third as it was more involving and disturbing, though the fifth was an excellent mindfuck.

Apart from those films and a few series, I've mainly been DVDing. I've saw a few 9/10 titles (Paradise Kiss, School Rumble) but, mostly, I've watched watch and forget series. I finished The Devil Lady today - an episodic monster of the week anime, with some lesbian goings on and a very silly God vs. Devil ending. I forgive it for the lesbianism, though.

Hmmmmm, what haven't you watched that I rated highly...

...well, Macross Zero ticks all the boxes you wanted ticking: It looks amazing in HD, with some jaw dropping aerial duels and lovely, vivid colours. It doesn't have any moe; it's a serious business war title - a prequel-sequel to the original Macross. It focuses on its characters - like all Macross titles, one of its mean themes is love, and there are two relationships on the go in the story. You can't go wrong, really...

My only other suggestion would be Noein because it looks excellent, has top draw characterization - involving different versions of the same character interacting - and, once again, no moe. I'm pretty sure I've suggested it and Now and Then, Here and There to you before, though.

*bangs head on keyboard* I just remembered that we talked about Gankutsuou just after you started stalking me. Sorry - I have mentioned before that my memory is god awful. :P Don't be offended if I forget your name; I love you...honest!

The movie is Hollywood trash. I'd love to add more detail to that comment, but all I remember is that the plot was simplified to the extreme and Albert was turned into the Son of Edmond...and it had a fake feeling happy ever after ending. I watched, I deleted and I cried.

As the thread you posted in prior to adding me revealed to you, I've had the feeling I've been growing out of anime for a long time. I'm either left feeling annoyed with the lack of depth/huge amount of ecchi or even more annoyed with plots that try to come across as complex by revealing as little as possible. There are very few series out there that I can be bothered with at this point.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but I've turned towards manga and light novels of late. It's lovely to escape from the anime evil known as fillers and poor art/animation. If I'd started Love Hina by watching the anime I would've hated it due to how bad the studio behind it did with the sauce, but the manga is going to go into my top 5 when I finish reading it. There are very few anime series that do manga justice, and I simply don't have the motivation to bother with poor adaptations these days.

But, like I said before, you should check out 'Now and Then, Here and There' before 2010. It has a story you've probably seen many times before - a story about someone normal getting warped to another world - but no other series like that has the main character deal with war, rape, slavery and lots of other lovely things. It was made for adults, so I can't see why you'd dislike it.

Not to worry, I'll get over it. It's just an annoyance in my case more so than with most people because I use the MAL review system to improve my uneducated brain; learning to be more concise and learning to be better at English in general. It's like a slap in the face for my effort to be rewarded with poor scores, thanks in no small part to people who went all down my reviews and kept clicking 'Unhelpful' without reading them.

MAL does have an awful lot of Narutards and members of the GAR army; the forums reveal that much. However, there are also some people who use the site as a source for informative reviews and opinions...it's just that those people are far lesser in number than the Narutards.

It's very true that some of my reviews are too long. Lately, like with my Bitter Virgin and Saikano reviews, I've been trying to get to the point without typing endlessly - I am slowly learned from the sort of mistakes I made with my Death Note review. But, sometimes, I lstill et my enthusiasm (sp?) take over, ending up typing more than was needed.

Anyway, enough about reviews. I'm sure this is all boring and a bit pathetic for you to watch. :)

Have you read the 'Welcome to the NHK!' novel and/ or manga ...or have you watched the anime?

Ah, sorry. Don't take it the wrong way; I enjoy chattering/typing with you. It's just that I'm a moody AND lazy sod, so I end up losing motivation and then never get around to replying back. Depression makes it hard to be socialable, even on the internet.

Currently, I'm a bad mood because of my reviews. I think most of them are pretty good - I spent a lot of time typing them and made sure to make them detailed - but I either have lots of people who dislike me or I'm wrong. 3 times now I've had someone rate all my reviews unhelpful (although some were left unrated the third time). And, to rub salt in the wounds, the Gankutsuou review with a score of 11/18 that I deleted and reposted now has a score of 4/8... I'm at a loss with regards to what I'm doing wrong. After reposting the Gank review later tonight, I think I'll be giving up reviewing to avoid frustration.

Anyway... *looks at your last message*

No, I never got around to watching Code Geass R2. I planned to do so, but, as ever, the motivation wasn't there to watch it when the series finished. Annoyingly, I've seen various Code Geass GIFs over on NarutoFAN; GIFs that practically reveal the plot.

The series is supposed to save itself towards the end. Just yesterday someone commented on my profile, telling me that the quality decreases each episode until the last five, where the series raises in quality. In my case, I doubt the last five episodes being epic will save a series that disappointed for 20 episodes.

About Light: His intelligence, which 99% of the population in the DN universe couldn't match, isolated him. He was like an alien, viewing everyone around him as inferior lifeforms that only existed to serve as stepping stones as tried to become God. Even though he was surrounded by people, and had a warm family, I think of him as one of the most lonley characters I've seen. L himself wasn't very different - he just fought on the side of 'justice' and worked to stop criminals with the brain that isolated him from others.

Note: This message will probably be slightly inferior to the one I was going to send yesterday. Blame MAL for having a stupid pop-up message box.

In a way, I'm jealous of you not having the time to read manga. Reading manga, watching anime and other activities are great but there needs to be a balance between free time and busy time - too much of a good thing is bad. The lazy majority of the inner me is pleased to have so much free time, though.

What part of your life is "killing you", or is that too much of a personal question for a possibly deranged anime fan to ask? I'm almost afraid to ask after seeing the lengh of your last message but, being the kind hearted soul I am, I thought I would. It can't be that bad if you have the time to hit me with lengthy messages. But, on the other hand, I'm honoured if you think so much of me that you'd spend your tiny fraction of free time typing endless messages...messages that result in my poor back aching worse than it already does. :D

About Shoujo stuff, I'm starting to think that I have a delicate feminine side hidden away somewhere - I seem to have a thing for romance stories. Love Hina is currently highlighting my love of romance; I can forsee me being geekishly happy when Keitaro and Naru FINALLY get it on, and not for the perverted reasons any sane male should be thinking about instead. Maybe I'm a manly woman inside a mans body?

Chrono Crusade: Comfort? You like your comfort given depressingly if you find the story comforting!

My feelings for Rosette pretty much mirror how you feel about Chrono - I, as any normal male would, had a crush on the big breasted/loud mothed nun as soon as I watched the anime. Of course, the fact she was willing to sacrifice her own life and get on with it also played a part in me liking her. I have a thing for fiery woman in general; the red-head stearotype is pretty much my mental image of an ideal woman. Basically, it seems like any female character who is happy to hit the male she's closest to is ok in my book.

The part I found confusing near the end? That's tough to recall with my memory. I think what I was referring to was the origin of demons on earth and Pandimonium. From what I understood, Pandimonium died when the demons crashed on earth and the demons high up on the food chain decided to replace her with a human (Lilth?), not letting the rest of the demons know. I'm pretty sure it was revealed that Aion and Chrono were both born from this human, meaning neither were true demons and that Aion calling Chrono 'brother' had more meaning behind it than it seemed to...

The manga ending depressed me too much. I didn't like the thought of Rosette having to endure 7 years without Chrono, only being reuninted with her man when the grim repear came calling. I prefered the anime ending, which allowed them to live together in peace before they died together. It was still depressing but it didn't leave the same bad taste in my mouth that the manga ending did.

As for Karas, the first half wasn't great due to nothing whatsoever being explained. It was made way too confusing with there being more than one Yurnie, which I didn't realize until it was explained in the second half. I enjoyed the second half much better since it got right into explaining what the hell ws going on, even giving the main character a a gangsta back-story, which made him likeable. But, forgetting about the story, there's no doubt that Karas is a visual feast; it looks wonderful and has a lot of rewatch value as a result.

Now, moving onto Death Note (this isn't going to end...), my review was long because I tried to do the impossible and combine a detailed review of the box with a review of the manga itself. This resulted in the review being far too long and not detailed enough on the content side of things. What I should've done was create two different reviews, posting one for the box on Amazon and one for the manga on here, but that seemed like too much trouble when I don't like planning things in advance. :/

There isn't really a lot between the manga and anime - I rated the manga 9/10 and the anime 10/10. Madhouse did an amazing job of being faithful with the best and unfaithful with the worst parts of the story, which improved the last half of the story a lot. And, with Death Note having the best soundtrack EVER, it's hard not to think of the manga as slightly inferior to the stunning anime.

The first 1/3 of the manga is the same in the anime, just with excellent direction and music improving it. For example, there's a plan early on in the series that involves eating a packet of crisps, with a camera hidden in the packet. In the manga the scene was nothing special, but in the anime Light started laughing when he opened the crisps (the sort of laughter that makes you want to laugh along with him) and, with a combination of dramatic camera angles and top class voice acting (WITH MY LEFT HAND...I EAT...A POTATO CHIP!!!), the scene was transformed from decent to the most epic eating of packet of crisps ever. Madhouse, who clearly loved what they were working on, did lots of that kind of thing.

The main differences come in the last half of the story; the last 11.5 episodes of the anime. A huge amount was cut, such as Mello manipulating the American president and the president ending up killing himself. However, nearly all of what was cut was what made the last half of the manga dull in comparison to the first half. Madhouse did a wonderful thing when they removed all the boring crap and only kept the important/epic stuff.

...Fuck, that was too much typing for a simple message. You're cruel, sending me such a lengthy message knowing full well I had to reply. :'( Evil woman.

Hey, how have you been and what'cha been up to?

Sorry for not responding to your last message - I was too lazy. The message was about an anime I had no experience with, so I wasn't really sure what to type back in return. It would've been too much like hard work to think up a decent response. :)

As you can probably see, I've gone on a bit of a manga reading frenzy of late. Bitter Virgin and Chrono Crusade have been completed, I've read Berserk 1-4 and I'm now in the process of reading Love Hina, although it's currently on hold due to me wanting to wait for volumes 6-7 to arrive in the post (I started reading with 5/14 volumes).

As for anime, I've watched all my Rahxephon DVDs since I have volumes 1-7 plus the movie. I also watched Karas and Saikano. None of it blew me away in truth; my review of Saikano should give you an idea of my thoughts about that! The other two were 7.5-8/10's.

Since we last spoke I've typed up a fair few reviews: Bitter Virgin, Chrono Crusade, Death Note and Saikano all getting my review time. If you have time, tell me what you think of some of them! :D


Oh, and a random question: Do you keep a diary? I've picked up a diary today and I'm planning on using it. It'll be good to keep track of things, and it'll hopefully make up for my lack of memory.