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The way this anime flip flops between deeply philosophical and total nonsense is baffling, and I mean that in a positive way. At the end of espisode 8 they re-enact Usagi at parties.

Girls' Last Tour, episode 7. Yuu and Chi find a former industrial bakery and leftover ingredients. They bake new rations with what they find. And yeah, except for a bit of Chi and her fear of heights, this is actually all that happened in the episode. Oy, spoilers. Woops. Sorry! Episode 5 had this song:

This is why I suggested watching the 35 minute OVA between 4 and 5. While it came out after the 13 episodes of the series, it does bridge the time gap. If I remember correctly, the light novel begins with what is seen in episode 5. You wouldn't expect her assignment to be a total disaster if you had seen the OVA, and... it actually explains why Violet got the job, of all people. And nah, Princess Charlotte of Drossel is way too old for Pedosus.

Is that supposed to goad me into watching? Hah.

Netflix keeps suggesting me that, so I'll eventually end up watching it, I guess. Too much still to watch for now, though. edit: Thanks for the suggestion with Girls' Last Tour. Even if that should devolve into GIANT ROBOT MECH battles at the end it was still worth it. Done with episode 6 now. 5 was a little depressing even.

Cup't help you with that, then.

Mrs. Evergarden had nice cups too, but Violet ruined them. See?

Mine too. Come at me, then.

Yeah, I'm afeared I can't really say anything yet. But do keep watching, glad you like it. Also, what the hell, I leave for like an hour and this thread blows up. Heretic beats sociopath, I guess. I'd call that a win. Heh.

I'd love to get the cinema experience for this one, just like, in a real cinema. Looking at Germany in envy here. Guess there's a first time for everything, huh. edit: Our film and TV rating system keeps being ridiculous when it comes to animation. Not only did they put Grave of the Fireflies into the FSK 6 category (i.e. suitable for children of 6 years and older), but they did the same for Violet Evergarden. Hilarious. How inept can you get?

It's not easy coming up with ratings for me either, mostly because I usually tend to be the odd one out. I noticed that in the Music Club, even if we had universally beloved picks (interestingly enough they were almost always from the guys introducing classical music) I was the one liking the things the most that the others enjoyed the least. But in general, it's just a number instead of words, I guess. Average, above average, good, great, outstanding and once in a lifetime experience, for instance, could just as well be 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Like grades at school. Just with numbers, like we have (although for us, "1" is the best grade you can get). Have you ever seen the animeted Trek? If yes, is that anything good? Should I close that gap in my Trek knowledge?

Oh dear, I need a separate category for that, where it can rot together with American Pie and ever movie Adam Sandler ever "starred" in. -1/10? Funny, I had the feeling I was missing something from the "list", now I know what it was. I guess that's a genuine case of repressed ratings. That's not it. I didn't like Akira all too much when it was new and shiny either. That's why I said the rewatch did not improve my opinion. I stumbled upon it on Netflix, seems to have been added to our library recently. That also does not mean I can't regonize its importance.

I barely ever rate anything. For movies, if I rated something, I'd even have a "horseshoe" rating system where the points are given out on a scale that correlates with enjoyment the further away the points get from 5. 5/10 would be the worst thing, totally forgettable and perfeclty average. That's because I really enjoy watching films that show up on Best of the Worst. However, if I had to rate what I've watched since the Sailor Moon rewatch, it would look a bit like this, films and shows combined... well, in the spirit of the post, as it were: That's only because you're procrastinating and not getting to Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie 2. I'm not entirely mooosprised by that. Sure seems like something Ikuhara would do. I'm fully aware of how ridiculous that sounds, but Utena opening that casked with Himemiya inside and later turning into a car to drive off with her explained so much it all started to click together, as long as you sift through all that white noise that was probably just there to pad out the runtime. Which comes back to the bad pacing. A little less white noise, perhaps, and this could have been legitimately, dare I say it, good. That might be lingering trauma from school. My poor mind was tortured with Kafka by my teachers. I can fully recommend The Metamorphosis! Can't say no to food when it so readily presents itself, hm?

That one is easy, just use "disgusting people who go against the natural order of things as mandated by god!" or DPWGATNOOTAMBD! Much easier to remember, and more on point.

Quick post because I really need to go to bed, otherwise tomorrow (well, today) will be bloody hell, but... I get that. CCS is so ludicrously well made - for the most part - that you can't help put place it above other shows that might have had more impact or meaning if you had to give out a number. Funny how you haven't even seen the episodes I would consider the absolute best of the series yet. Except 16, of course.

Well, that's it, this is going to be next after Girls' Last Tour, Stardust Crusaders and Ts... a screw that title, that other show with Sakura and Shaoran.

A fake moustache would be an improvement. The current incarantion is just Clark Kenting. Without glasses.

The design comes straight from the manga by the looks of it. It's funny and kind of, hard to describe, fun to listen to, at least with the original Japanese voice acting. I'm having a hard time describing it, really. The way they talk is almost as if someone's talking really slowly and deliberately to a foreigner, and their speech patterns are noticably different from regular Japanese, so that's either a dialect or - more likely, I guess - to show that they didn't have much interaction with adults and simply retained their child-like speech. They meet another character in the third episode where this becomes readily apparent - they're saying the same words, just differently. Not that I have any idea how old they're supposed to be. Chi can drive a military half-track motorcycle that looks a bit like the ones used by the Germans in World War 2, and Yuu can haul large stones around and shoot her rifle with quite an astonishing degree of accuracy (Yuu also appears to be the more brawny, less brainy of the two, but then can be surprisingly perceptive). Then there's the absurdity of the two pondering life's existential issues in the wasteland in their special way. The third episode begins with Chi asking Yuu what she thinks the meaning of life might be, and Yuu just whacks her over the head with her rifle. Chi asks what that was for and Yuu says: "I thought you went cazy!", and silly stuff like that happens right after they both wonder if they have died long ago and are just trucking through the afterlife, only to later conclude that the afterlife surely wouldn't be this cold.

Hmm...

Girls' Last Tour, episode two. Warning, this post contains unmarked "spoilers"! Chi and Yuu drive some more through the wasteland. There's a snowstorm, and they come across an old, albeit apparently still somewhat functional, power plant (guess that means they're not the last two people on the planet) where they puncture a pipe carrying hot water, then take a bath. They weather the storm inside where Chi gets mad at Yuu for using one of her books to keep their bonfire going, then the weather changes and they spend the rest of the episode at the city's water drainage washing their clothes in the snowmelt, then find a fish that they grill and eat. And that's actually all that happens. Plus dialogue, of course. I take it all back. If nothing else would happen in this anime I'd still be good. Now I'm kind of afraid it will change for the worse. Still don't like the character design, but what can you do.

One of Shaoran's companions is voiced by Ira Gamagoori. That just adds to the overall feeling of confusion. Well, and it's a little hilarious. I don't see how it could. This is basically Sliders with Shaoran and Sakura. Sakura loses her memories and they're scattered throughout several different "worlds". Instead of a dimensional gateway they have this white fluffy creature you posted an image of a while ago that transports them between alternate realities. Shaoran is accompained by Gamagoori and someone named Fai D. Flowright, and with that name he's probably related to Kaito D. Whatshisface from Clear Card in some fashion. So... kinda expecting him to be a (or the) hidden villain. It's possible that the "real" Sakura makes a cameo at some point. Seems kinda logical that they'd do that. Tomoyo showed up too, she's a princess in a still feudal variant of Japan and banished Kurogane Gamagoori to a different dimension. Oh, right, and Shaoran has a weird fire based Pokemon that looks a bit like a fox that comes to help him after the dimensional vortex bunny dumped them in the middle of a gang war. There is one connection (outside of the characters): Shaoran's price for buying the dimensional vortext bunny is really similar to a plot point from the second Cardcaptor Sakura movie. Really similar as in totally rehashed. Here is one YUUUUUUUUUUUUGE spoiler (not really!) I don't know, but weird seems right, so far.

I'm currently watching the first episode of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. I couldn't help myself and jumped right in. I don't know where this is going yet, but Toya just called Shaoran a brat, and Sakura complained about it. Now Yukito just showed up. But everything is wrong. Everyone has different voice actors and this was animated by a different studio.

You're like a decade younger than I am, what we got on TV was a whole lot of Isao Takahata anime. That might not be as scary as accidentially running into Vampire Hunter D at a young age, but it sure crushes your soul properly. Although, to be honest, our traditional children's entertainment isn't happy either. It was supposed to teach us lessons in a humorously tragic way. Like the boy who would not eat his parent's food and starved to death, or the little girl that played with matches and burned herself to a little pile of ash while her cats mourned her passing. The most "lighthearted" one of that particular collection was a group of three boys mocking a person of color, and someone ended up painting them all black with ink as punishment. Eh. And that's without getting into fairy tales.

I watched a lot of anime as a kid without knowing it was anime - just really anything that was on TV. Which, as it turns out, was actually quite a lot. Took a very long break after Sailor Moon (not Sailor Moon's fault). Only just recently started again with the Sailor Moon rewatch. Regarding comics, I also barely had any exposure, unless you want to count me browsing through my father's Disney comic collection (there's a fairly long running series of German comics based on licensed Disney works from all around Europe). All of which I did before going to school at all. Come to think of it, I have no idea where those books are. Some of them were in fairly good condition, they should be worth something at least.

I'm sure watching more Violet Evergarden will fix that by replacing it with something a little more disheartening.