Hey guys I got a lot of anime watching done this week and I am not quite sure which one I am going to review.  I finnished off Tenchi Muyo, Eureka Seven, Aquarion, Origin, and the Air Movie.  This all comes despite my very busy work schedule that didn’t seem to end this last couple weeks.  I spent last week with company over for the most part upstairs banging around and keeping me from sleeping.  Meanwhile I have been sick with a cold.  I spent last night sitting in a H&R Block trying to get my taxes done.  I had an appointment set for 7:30.  My account lady was with someone so I sat and waited for an hour and a half and they finally told me to come back another time.  I was so pissed I just left so I wouldn’t scream at them.  I also have a sick friend in the hospital that I haven’t been able to see since I have been sick so much.  With that all being said I think I will review Tenchi Muyo here as opposed to on the podcast.

Tenchi Muyo:

Overall rating: Just like March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb.

I was down right pleaded with by many individuals to watch this anime.  I think a lot that Tenchi has going for it is the fact that it was the first of it’s kind that a lot of people saw.  It kind of falls in the Dragonball Z/ Cowboy Bebop range.  That being said, as a person who has watched many anime series now and is kind of looking back at Tenchi Muyo I gotta say it does hold up pretty well.  I did notice that the first half of the series was a tad more interesting than the last half.  There towards the end it turned into more of a hereim show.  Both aspects have merit but I think I would have enjoyed it more had I seen what they started with go all the way to the end and then they could do the whole hereim crap with the other series that they have spawned afterwards.  I did like the characters and generally enjoyed it.  I think for me personally I avoided watching this series because I knew it wouldn’t live up to the hype that people had put on it for me.  There are some series you can do that with and some you just can’t.  I think we as anime viewers need to work on being a hair more subtle when recommending shows for others to watch.  It’s always best to take into consideration who your talking to first.  I have a friend who could care less about anime but I at least was able to get him to watch Hellsing and Beserk just because of the adult violence.  I think if you keep this stuff in mind you’ll find that you’ll get people sucked in a lot easierthan if you start them off with something like a Neon Genesis Evangelion for which they may never talk to you again until you apoligize.  Anyways I think I might review Air the moie or Aquarion this week I haven’t decided yet.  I also actually purchased the Box sets of Yukikazee and preordered the Shuffle thin pack.  I know that might make some of you roll your eyes but one of these days I will give you a full review of Shuffle.  Podcast should record on Friday whether or not anyone else got some anime watching done cause I think I could do a review show all on my own.  See you guys then.

Howdy,

Little bit of an update here.  I did in fact get Darker than Black Vol 3 and Aquarion season1 part2 disc1.  I am about up to date with Aquarion and I would say it’s a standard giant robo but I wouldn’t say that is very fair.  I will put out a full review as I continue to get the final discs that are coming out.  I have gotten some other series and will attempt to get them finnished before the next show that I hope will appear before our next taping.  Slunker has felt a little under the gun which isn’t very fair to him so when he finnishes it will come out and I will do my best not to preasure him.  I will try to calm down doing my research on web building long enough to finnish a few series since it’s already beginning to be a problem to get some of the folks on the show to get some anime watching done.  Doing a weekly swhow might be a tad ambitious so I wouldn’t be surprised if we switch to a biweekly show just so we can get some of these long running series watched on time for the recording.  We all love anime but we are all gainfully employed so time constraints can be kind of steep to get a 24 hour series watched in the span of 7 days.  I have been able to keep up since I don’t much in the American vein.  I only watch a few regular shows and usually that is when they hit hulu.  I sit over here with cable and I barely use it.  Anywho.  Hopefully you guys will like the show and that there will be enough people who can even find the show.  Hit us with some feedback and give us your ideas for the sho9w.  Thanks

Well this week I was able to catch up a little bit with Code Geas.  I also unwittingly asked for the first volume of 0091.  Code Geas is actually one of the best anime I have watched in a while that actually got me excited to see what was gonna happen next.  I kind of dig a guy who relates all major world events to chess and creates some serious havoc in the process.  I can’t wait to see how it ends even though I accidentally heard how it ends I kind of want to know how it gets to that point.  I watched the first volume of 0091 which just seems like a adaptation of 007 James Bond with a cyberpunk twist.  Not a terrible idea.  It blends some pretty good animation with a seemingly simplistic art style.  The character designs themselves don’t really pop and I have never really been to been a big fan of the over exaggerated features and big rounded noses that they have on the Russians.  All the girls have lovely large breasts but they are so round that they loose any feeling of being real due to the fact that they seem like perfect circles.  I am still not completely convinces that they aren’t drawings of the robotic women in the Austin Powers movies.  It is a interesting throwback kind of style though and definitely has a hand drawn look to it with more frames per second than a standard anime but the style kind of ruins it for me.  They do some clever things with the action and add some of the over the top things you would expect from a James Bond movie.  So far this is just a first volume review so I will keep watching it and see if I can’t amerce myself a little better so maybe the art style won’t bug me so much.  I also watched another series to it’s fullest last week but since we didn’t even record a beta for it yet I will just tell you the title and save my review for Fridays recording.  I watched Shingetsutan Tsukihime which made no sense at first and slowly caused my brain a little less pain.  Details will follow with our first real show.  Any who that’s my blogging for now hope you guys like the show but if not I am sorry but I am far too lackadaisical to make too much improve mt in a big hurry.  If it bothers you that much I put a good ol’ hate mail section so you can bash us and let everyone know how much you hate us.  I said I was lazy not inconsiderate.