--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Gregory Himes <gdhimes@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Gregory Himes <gdhimes@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [tenchi:106376] Re: [OT] Any of these titles you'd recommended?
> To: tenchi@usagi.org
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 11:32 AM
> > On Tokyo Toshokan, someone put out a batch release of
> > episodes 1-6 for sure.=A0
> 
> Just searched.  Unfortunately the files are stupidly huge
> and unplayable on
>  ALL my computers. F'n matroska idiots!

D'oh!  That's too bad.  I grabbed 1-9 last night, though I haven't had a chance to
test them out yet.

> Well, I guess I'll wait until they are released here,
> and then find a bootl
> eg copy to review.
> I'm a big Slayers fan, but the lack of story quality,
> and poor humor of thi
> s series (that I've seen so far), means I'm not at
> all willing to shell out
>  my cash. 

I'm in general agreement that this series just isn't as good as the previous ones
- which is a shame since there's plenty of material to work with.  It's just that
the writers aren't taking advantage of it, imo.

Gundam 00 ends in just a few more weeks (I grabbed episode 23 of season 2 of that
series last night as well), and I'm not sure if I'll be watching anything after I'm
through with that.  As I mentioned before, I'm not overly impressed with it (though

season 2 is a lot better than season 1).  But I do have to admit that if I wasn't
watching out for that then I probably would have missed Macross Frontier.  And THAT
series was one of the best series I've seen - great action, good characters,
excellent pacing (the art's a bit uneven, though - two different studios were involved
in the art and sometimes it shows; ironically, this is an issue that it shares with
the original Macross TV series, though it's nowhere near as bad as SDF Macross's
"bad art").  It's a shame that it won't ever legally appear in the US due to Harmony
Gold.


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