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Phew. I *finally* finished getting all my artbooks from 2007 logged in my little database/website thingie. I'm going to try to have a moratorium on frivolous spending for a couple months. I've finally got my credit card bills completely paid off for the first time since last summer, and I want them to stay that way for a while. (She says, completely ignoring the fact that she spent half the night browsing Totoro stuff on ebay last night. =P )
In the new anime season, I've only checked out Bus Gamer and The Tower of Druaga so far (and Blassreiter, but that one wasn't on my "planning to watch" list, and it didn't impress me much, so it doesn't count.
In the new anime season, I've only checked out Bus Gamer and The Tower of Druaga so far (and Blassreiter, but that one wasn't on my "planning to watch" list, and it didn't impress me much, so it doesn't count.
Bus Gamer
I wish I had some idea of what the thought process was of airing only three episodes of this. Did they intend to go longer and production problems caused them to stop? Is it just a marketing gimmick to draw interest in the manga? Why airing on TV rather than an OVA? WHY?
Considering the short length, I think the time devoted to things like the "mysterious flashbacks" and introducing the lady cop in the second episode (neither of which is likely to get fleshed out much in the one episode left) would have been better used fleshing out the three main characters in the *present*. If this were going to be a longer series, I'd be liking the element of mystery, and the lady cop was a hoot, but not in three episodes.
I'm betting that the point of the final episode will have Saitou doing something to definitively prove his worth to the other two, thus completing a "How we got to be a real team" arc, so I guess they'll have accomplished *something*. I guess I'm just bitter because I think I could *really* like these guys. Saitou was on-screen all of 20 seconds before I started buddy-shipping him *hard* with the Aya-ish dude whose name I'm forgetting. But knowing how limited the anime run is going to be and knowing that there's such a small amount of manga in existence, and knowing how thinly Minekura's attention has got to be spread with the various series she's got in mid-stream, it's pretty durn frustrating.
Tower of Druaga
I watched it on YouTube first, and then paid the two dollars to BostTV to rent/download the ep. It's hard to say anything about the series as a whole, as the gimmick of the episode means that we didn't really get a good picture of where the series is going from here, but the episode itself was hilarious. Laughed out loud, definitely. I'm looking forward to seeing where they go with it from here.
Blassreiter
Blah. Nothing of interest to me here. The CG is distracting. The motorcycle thing is a turn-off. Theboomers demoniacs are derivative. And every time someone says the name Hermann, it gives me flashbacks to "Cabaret" ("You know the funniest thing about Hermann? There's nothing funny about Hermann!") Just too earnest and bland for me to pay much attention to it.
I wish I had some idea of what the thought process was of airing only three episodes of this. Did they intend to go longer and production problems caused them to stop? Is it just a marketing gimmick to draw interest in the manga? Why airing on TV rather than an OVA? WHY?
Considering the short length, I think the time devoted to things like the "mysterious flashbacks" and introducing the lady cop in the second episode (neither of which is likely to get fleshed out much in the one episode left) would have been better used fleshing out the three main characters in the *present*. If this were going to be a longer series, I'd be liking the element of mystery, and the lady cop was a hoot, but not in three episodes.
I'm betting that the point of the final episode will have Saitou doing something to definitively prove his worth to the other two, thus completing a "How we got to be a real team" arc, so I guess they'll have accomplished *something*. I guess I'm just bitter because I think I could *really* like these guys. Saitou was on-screen all of 20 seconds before I started buddy-shipping him *hard* with the Aya-ish dude whose name I'm forgetting. But knowing how limited the anime run is going to be and knowing that there's such a small amount of manga in existence, and knowing how thinly Minekura's attention has got to be spread with the various series she's got in mid-stream, it's pretty durn frustrating.
Tower of Druaga
I watched it on YouTube first, and then paid the two dollars to BostTV to rent/download the ep. It's hard to say anything about the series as a whole, as the gimmick of the episode means that we didn't really get a good picture of where the series is going from here, but the episode itself was hilarious. Laughed out loud, definitely. I'm looking forward to seeing where they go with it from here.
Blassreiter
Blah. Nothing of interest to me here. The CG is distracting. The motorcycle thing is a turn-off. The
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