Message-ID: <35496576.E1FA611A@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:02:30 -0700 From: Ruben Adviento Rosario To: Ranma 1/2 ML Subject: Tangency (MI, MI marathons, KOR LD set, KOR manga) Reply-To: ranma@ML.usagi.org Albert Lunde wrote: >Maison Ikokku is a great series if you like romantic comedy, and it's in a >fairly realistic setting: no aliens, no magic, gravity usually works. It >also has a fairly satisfying ending, and it seems well rounded. (MI's) one of the more down-to-earth series that I've seen. >(I got "hooked" on a MI 15 episode marathon an an anime club just before >the anime started coming out from Viz... One of my friends was able to acquire the entire fansubbed series (before Viz acquired the rights). This was about a year and a half ago. Around 12 of us spent one three-day weekend watching the entire series, ordering take-out (every-so-often), in between breaks playing multi-player PC games on the 6-station LAN we had in the household , and getting (very, very) little sleep. >When I finally get a laserdisk player, getting the last couple of MI disks >is high on my wish list. But while I've got on the Kimagure Orange Road >laserdisk pre-order, I don't have a player yet. (Heh heh) you got on the pre-order list, huh? Yep, I just called Animeigo today to confirm my order ^_^ (LD or tape, name, address, payment type, payment option). I was one of the 1312 people that signed up on the original KOR LD preorder list. I told them to (take) my money and they were (more than happy) to set me back $420 ^_^; I, too, have no LD player (yet). I was shopping around today. I searched the Internet, also. A lot of the online stores don't even sell LD players (only DVDs and a scant few with the DVD/CD/LD combo). I also looked for used LD players. Anyone selling theirs? >Which reminds me: KOR is another good romantic comedy. I don't think anyone >is talking about translating the manga commercially, but it isn't real hard >to get the originals, and nearly complete fan-translations of the manga >exist. I have all the tankoubons. I have a friend who bought the wide-bans. He even printed out (*All*) the KOR manga translations (a pretty huge stack ^_^). (Now that I think about it, I should've gotten the wide-bans. The availability (for the wide-bans) at the time wasn't so good, but all the tankoubons were (just) there).