I got Jane the traditional black cat for her birthday—a lovely kitteh in a snowglobe.
\nAnd I found a couple of Bleach movies on Amazon. Bleach is one of our favorites…we have stacks and stacks of it.
\nWe are so disappointed in most American drama…very little guts on the part of the storytellers; very simplistic plotting, suspense that unravels and becomes tedious on a re-watch; just a general lack of really good re-viewable material, so that if you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it all. And probably all its relatives.
\nWe disdained anime for a long time—all we’d seen was figures that looked like plump baby dolls. Then we found the right one or two, and found a) it’s not all transforming robots and flying kids and b) it’s got re-viewability. There are moments you just wait for. Convolute plot, complex characters, and very nice animation.
\nWhat Western viewers have to capish is the ‘chibi’ figure that suddenly takes the place of a character: this represents a childlike behavior, and is done for humor. Puzzled us for a long time, and then we got onto it, and find the chibis a lot of fun. They make great keychains.
\nSo we’re quite into certain anime: we’re very picky. Gotta have good-looking people. No robots. Minimum of ‘cute kids’. Gotta have a good storyline. We don’t tend to like kids as characters—but made an exception for Kyo Kara Maoh.
\nMost of the ones we like tend to have a mythic element: Bleach, or Saiyuki (Journey to the West).
\nThe other thing is—don’t use the English sound track. Go for the English subtitles. Trust me. The translations are not that good on the English track. Most people who watch a lot of anime do prefer the Japanese track. And you’ll pick up a little Japanese in the process. Very serious writers and composers devote their activity to anime—and manga. If you’ve never tried it, it’s worth your time. As a music form, I’ve gotten quite fond of Japanese pop.
\nWe also have a fondness for Chinese historical series, again, with the subtitles. Laughing in the Wind is one we own. <\/p>\n
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