anime news...

ok, part 2... cos i realized it'll be too long to put everything together in one entry...

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in anime news...

summer is upon us... well, technically, it's upon japan, not sg... so new anime series are out...

here's the few that i've watched so far:
W = can watch, but not to keep
WK = can watch and keep

1) Zero no Tsukaima (W) - feel like i'm watching Shakugan no Shana again... which, is true to a certain extend since the 2 main leads are voiced by the same seiyuus in SnS... magician-in-training girl summons boy, who juz happens to be sucked into a portal while walking on the streets, as her servant... he wants to go back to japan and she wants a better servant, but for now, they're stuck with each other...

currently on ep2, so not much progress yet with the plot... hoping for story to develop more...

2) Bokura ga Ita (W) - typical shoujo manga series... high school setting, girl likes popular guy... how they got together blah blah blah...

not that interesting... i'm on ep2, but if things dun pick up by the next episode, i'm gonna drop this...

3) Angelique (WK) - girl brought to foreign planet where she's in training to be the next queen... helping her along, are her 9 guardians... this series is supposed to mark the 10yr anniversary of Angelique the game... not sure how they're gonna play out her relationships with the guardians, since it is based on a love-stimulation game...

bishonen-galore... only to be rivaled by Saiunkoku... i've been trying to find the previous OVAs for years... finally, something worth keeping...

4) NHK ni Yokoso (W) - hikikomori (people who shut themselves in) man who thinks that everything around him is a conspiracy, tries to break out after 3 yrs of isolation in his apartment... based on the increasing number of hikikomori, not only in japan but also in other parts of the world...

looks promising... a look into the lives of hikikomori... slight ecchi-edged, but i'm gonna ignore that... i'm interested though, to know more... i mean, how do one isolate oneself so exclusively anyway? i like being on my own, but i still want to go out with friends and haf a social life...

there's still many more summer anime, which i haven't gotten to watch yet... more on them if i ever do...

here's something else to recommend...

Zegapain is a spring anime that i started late on... currently at ep15, though i've only watched until ep7... but the story plot is intriguing (go to ANN for synopsis), and the mechanics looks good... not gundam-type mechanics, but it still looks quite cool... the story has a slight Matrix feeling to it...

for mechanic-style anime, i'm watching the english subbed version... easier to get the names correctly... do not like the literal translated chinese names for machines... it's as bad as them translating celebrity names...

anyway, for anyone interested in mechanics, Zegapain is for you...

movies movies movies...

lots of new movies for the next 2 month or so... and almost something worth watching every week...

latest movie was catching Superman Returns... i think i'm one of the few people who actually did watch the old Christopher Reeves ones, cos almost everyone i ask did not watch it before... they only know him is the superman-guy, or the superman-guy had the terrible horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed...

seriously... nobody watched the old superman movies? where, i distinctly remember, Gene Hackman, as the evil Lex Luthor? no? anyone?

*sighs* generation gap...

my dad used to have tons of movies and cartoons all recorded on video tapes... and my sis and i would spend practically the whole day watching, and rewatching, every single tape in the house, so much so that we would even memorize the script lines of everyone in the show...

too bad we dun haf the tapes now... i can only say, fungi grows...

well, i'm looking forward to watching Pirates tmr with some of the church members... been quite long since we had a movie outing...

and i'm looking forward to Keanu and Sandra's The Lakehouse, coming out next week...

den there's The Fast & Furious 3 (wohoo! RX-7!!) the week after...

so many movies... so little time...

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