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I haven't watched that much actually, I know some people who have watched 600 to 900 animes, they're the real monsters :l haha but yeah I used to watch a lot of animes, kinda stopped watching for a while and then got into it again :>
I'm in the last stages of a masters course in English, a kind of mad dash towards my dissertation deadline. If I do well enough, they'll let me stay on to do a doctorate.
Not a lot to report, really -- trying to watch a balance of old and new stuff, slowly, while finding time to get on with work -- something I've never been good at doing!
In a quest for brevity I whittled it down to essentially nothing, and realised that I could replace it with a cycle of internet-funny images. (Internet funny having the same relation to funny as e-famous has to famous.)
Yeah, it's a long show - I find even 24-26 episode-long efforts intimidating these days though. Not enough free time really.
My fave aspect? It doesn't sound like much, but the exotic South American locations and the imagination that's gone into the retro-futuristic tech both make for a story that's really unpredictable and inventive. Fundamentally it's a kids' adventure but the writers seem to have gone above and beyond what would normally be expected. Might be your cuppa, but it might not. I'm not sure if you've watched anything similar to this for me to draw comparisons with! Laputa crossed with Future Boy Conan perhaps.
MCoG is an old, old show so the animation's ropey and the script can make you cringe a times. Even so, between it and Miyazaki's Laputa is a large chunk of my childhood. The underlying conepts and the sheer imagination are both excellent, so your mileage may vary.
The English dub version (which is what my DVD box set is) was on BakaBT fairly recently...I'd be interested to read the impressions of those who watch it without the aid of Nostalgia Goggles.
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I haven't watched that much actually, I know some people who have watched 600 to 900 animes, they're the real monsters :l haha but yeah I used to watch a lot of animes, kinda stopped watching for a while and then got into it again :>
What about you, what're you doing these days?
soon?
that joke is never going to get old
My fave aspect? It doesn't sound like much, but the exotic South American locations and the imagination that's gone into the retro-futuristic tech both make for a story that's really unpredictable and inventive. Fundamentally it's a kids' adventure but the writers seem to have gone above and beyond what would normally be expected. Might be your cuppa, but it might not. I'm not sure if you've watched anything similar to this for me to draw comparisons with! Laputa crossed with Future Boy Conan perhaps.
The English dub version (which is what my DVD box set is) was on BakaBT fairly recently...I'd be interested to read the impressions of those who watch it without the aid of Nostalgia Goggles.