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May. 16th, 2011 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpHaving finished Utena, I now need another anime to watch while I use the treadmill. Suggestions?
("Go outside" does not count. It's muddy.)
Stuff I've seen all the way through:
Princess Tutu - ****
Haibane Renmei - ****
Baccano! - ****
Excel Saga - *** 1/2
Darker Than Black - ***
Requiem from the Darkness - ***
Serial Experiments Lain - ***
Last Exile - ***
Gankutsuou - ***
Ouran High School Host Club - ** 1/2 (sorry, but for me, it will always fall short in comparison to the manga)
Fruits Basket - ** 1/2 (same)
RahXephon - ** 1/2
El Hazard - *
Descendants of Darkness - I DON'T KNOW
X - My feelings about it are colored too deeply by my dysfunctional relationship with CLAMP's work as a whole for any useful evaluation to be possible.
Now and Then, Here and There - This is one of the most unrelentingly cruel narratives I've ever consumed in any format. For what it is, it's well done - I just hate what it is.
Stuff I've watched a little of before stopping:
Fullmetal Alchemist (1st series) - Yeah, yeah, I know.
Mushishi
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E'S Otherwise - THIS IS SO TERRIBLE. Though I might finish it to see just how much it eventually ends up ripping from X.
Stuff I refuse to watch:
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - I watched the first episode, searched for synopses, discovered that my predictions were basically accurate, and decided against it. I've already watched Now and Then, Here and There once; I don't need to see the shoujo version.
Saiunkoku Monogatari - Shan't!
Edited to add a couple things I'd forgotten.
("Go outside" does not count. It's muddy.)
Stuff I've seen all the way through:
Princess Tutu - ****
Haibane Renmei - ****
Baccano! - ****
Excel Saga - *** 1/2
Darker Than Black - ***
Requiem from the Darkness - ***
Serial Experiments Lain - ***
Last Exile - ***
Gankutsuou - ***
Ouran High School Host Club - ** 1/2 (sorry, but for me, it will always fall short in comparison to the manga)
Fruits Basket - ** 1/2 (same)
RahXephon - ** 1/2
El Hazard - *
Descendants of Darkness - I DON'T KNOW
X - My feelings about it are colored too deeply by my dysfunctional relationship with CLAMP's work as a whole for any useful evaluation to be possible.
Now and Then, Here and There - This is one of the most unrelentingly cruel narratives I've ever consumed in any format. For what it is, it's well done - I just hate what it is.
Stuff I've watched a little of before stopping:
Fullmetal Alchemist (1st series) - Yeah, yeah, I know.
Mushishi
NeiA_7
E'S Otherwise - THIS IS SO TERRIBLE. Though I might finish it to see just how much it eventually ends up ripping from X.
Stuff I refuse to watch:
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - I watched the first episode, searched for synopses, discovered that my predictions were basically accurate, and decided against it. I've already watched Now and Then, Here and There once; I don't need to see the shoujo version.
Saiunkoku Monogatari - Shan't!
Edited to add a couple things I'd forgotten.
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Date: 2011-05-18 01:48 pm (UTC)Oh yes, so this!
(And speaking of Natsume, I really owe you some thanks on that front! That music discussion on Sartorias' LJ last year where you linked the lovely Kousuke Atari closing theme was the first thing that seriously put it on my radar, and while I'm way behind on the anime as I'm more of a reader than a viewer, I have been enjoying the manga immensely.)
Aww, that makes me so happy to read - karma seems to come around this year a lot in a good way there: I find nifty stuff from all kinds of various recommendations on the blogs and sites I read and now I have obliquely sent another person in the direction of the good crack, yay!!
I still totally adore that song, it's on my "zenny relaxation" mp3 playlist - it just calms me right down when I'm all up in arms. And I collect the manga, too - anything I can legally get shall be supported. I thought the anime did rather faithful adaptations, as well.