Re: its alive!


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from Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (Albert Lunde)
subject Re: its alive!
date Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:48:07 CST
> Good to see a message from the good ol' ML!  (sorry i didn't get you the 
> email addie in time, wiz)  Lets see, I've been a bit busy to really watch a 
> lot of anime.  I got into Love Hina and Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar pretty bad.  I 
> also really like Ebichu the Housekeeping Hamster (not for the kiddies).   
> I'm up for some suggestions, however!  Hope everyone is doing well 
> and I hope to see more action on here!

Well, I'm still out here too. I've been preoccupied by a succession
of broken bones in one foot, which started with a single break
just before Anime Central, almost a year ago. But the last
set of X-rays were encouraging, and I hope to limp my way
to Anime Central this year. I'm wearing a custom-fitted "Darth Vadar"
boot, which would tempt me to come as a ninja borg or some such, had
I time to pull together a costume ;)

* I just got a DVD Japanese box of the first 24 episodes of "Mizuiro 
Jidai", also known as the "Bluegreen Years" as subbed by the Technogirls.

Techogirls did the first 12 episodes a while ago, from multi-generation
video source: this is the first home video release in Japan.

(see: http://www.quixium.com/technogirls/blugreen.htm)

They are going to sub another volume soon from the DVD source, and
go back and re-do the others as time permits.

Anyway, I'm not doing too badly listening to the raw Japanese
episodes: it's simple informal speech with lots of feeling and
relationship words, which is probably what I know best. And
I already know the main characters and the setting.

It's a junior HS romantic commedy, with a relatively realistic
setting (no alien invaders, no martial arts, no psychic powers, 
no parents doing strange things). It alternates between romance and
realism. The main "set-up" is that the male and female leads grew
up next door to each other.

Even though the romance is pretty much age-appropriate, I have
to say it looks pretty hot in comparison to Ranma/Akane (who
never did get around to kissing.) (Though not compared
to Maramalade Boy or Karekano.)

Anyway, I like it: and the second half is coming out in June.

* One way and another I've managed to catch up with enough
of the Love Hina anime and manga to at least see how they differ
and how they sort of are converging again. (I just got
the first US DVD and the first few TokyoPop issues, and
I've gotten the 8 available volumes of bilingual manga
(mostly from www.jlist.com)

Sasuga Books sells the Japanese manga as a set, for a better
price than the single issues, so I ordered that to get a copy
of the ending (I've seen a copy of vol 14 in Chinese, but I can't 
even _try_ to read Chinese, so I'm waiting to see the Japanese
version.

It's full of fan service, and the lead character has what
my friend refers to as a "Tenchi field", but the basic
premise of the plot is very romantic, and in a certian
way it reminds me of Maison Ikkoku. I like the manga
bettern than the anime: the same kind of comic exaggeration
happens in Love Hina that happened in Ranma 1/2: the basic
attraction/denial gets pushed futher in the direction
of thoughless violence, and the plot gets more sketchy.

* I hope to see some of Snow Fairy Sugar: I've heard interesting
things about it.

* Animego keeps cranking out DVD box sets, and I keep subscribing:
I'm almost through Macross, but running behind on Urasei Yatsura.
KOR DVD is due soon.

Maybe by the time I retire I'll have most of my collection
on DVD, if I don't go broken in the process ;)  This
year there's a flood of US releases, which I can't really
afford right now with all the cab fares.

* I just saw the first TokyoPop issue of "Chobits". I think
this is the series that caused someone on one of my lists
to refer to CLAMP as the "evil genuses of cute".

--
    Albert Lunde          Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                          Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)


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