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...Then get back to me in about a million years when I have enough money for that...*sigh*

Well, I finally got around to watching it, and here's what I have to say: I am never watching it again. Not if it was the last show on earth. Mostly, it's the little Super Deformed Gundams. They look like Legos. And their voices. The voices don't match the things at all. And has anyone else noticed that the lip-syncing couldn't possibly be more off? And the colors, and the humans (let's not even START on how they look), and the fighting...the fighting is pathetic. Oh GODS the fighting is pathetic. And...I'll stop before this turns into a rant.

Yeah, that about sums it up. To me the Buu Saga seemed like this: there's an enemy who wants to destroy/take over the universe. The good guys fight him. They realize the enemy is impossible to fight. They train. They fight him again. Same thing. They train. Buu kills most of the good guys. The remaining good guys fight. They get their butts kicked. (Etc., etc.) And finally, they come up with an idea that has been effective in the past, they try it, it works. Just like that. And it gives them a good moral. ("If everyone works together, great evil can be defeated" or something.) But I just thought it was ridiculous. So they had a really, really big energy blast. OK. Shouldn't Buu have just regenerated again? I mean, supposedly he can regenerate no matter HOW many pieces he gets blown into. So...why did the Spirit Bomb work? It seems like a lot of build-up, then they got bored and came up with a more or less plausible way to cut it off.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Hittokiri Zero [/i] [B]...it just takes the Rurouni Kenshin ending one step further than even the manga did x_X.[/B][/QUOTE] OK, I was following you right up until then. Then you lost me. I get the part about showing Kenshin and Kaoru's relationship in a new way, but how does animating only part of a perfectly good manga arc take the anime further than animating the WHOLE arc? *is completely lost*

Actually, Sora's at a pretty high level, right? Maybe most of the monsters are too easy for him. Or boring---it's pretty easy to predict what monsters will do. With people, not so easy. I can see why he kills other PCs, but I don't get why he has to kill BT all the time. -_________________-

Zechs? Nnnnnnnn...I guess he had his moments. He WAS fighting the pilots at the end, and he shot the huge cannon (I forget the name :sweat: ) at Earth at the end. So he actually probably beats out Treize as a bad guy. ((I will get off the Aoshi thing after this, I promise, but I don't think beating up Okina was very evil. [i]I[/i] have been tempted to beat him up many, many times. He bugs me. And he woke up and everything was OK, so how is that a sign of evilness?))

OK, the Jinchuu Arc was kind of LONG, and you're telling me they condensed it down to 20 minutes worth?!? Pathetic. Truly pathetic. And I bet they left out all the parts with Aoshi, didn't they. -_________________- Aoshi is my favorite character from any anime, and they can't even be bothered to show all the parts when he was a good guy... Oh, I heard Samurai X was better than the rest of the series. A LOT of people have told me that. Which is why I will be buying it, next time I have any money. If for no other reason than to see Tomoe.

Whatever do you mean, they cuss PLENTY in the dubbed version. Sano, mostly, but Kenshin said the d-word once...that was kind of OOC... As far as the Arcs go, that's the different parts of the manga. So I don't know what the first one was called, but then there was the Kyoto Arc, then the Memory Arc (this is basically a really LONG flashback to the Revolution), then the Jinchuu Arc. And for the anime, there are 3 parts: Wandering Samurai, Legends of Kyoto, and Tales of the Meiji. I'm not sure of the episode number when Wandering Samurai ends, but Legends of Kyoto basically started when Saitou showed up for the first time. Then Legends of Kyoto lasts until episode #62, then it's Tales of the Meiji until the end. But Tales of the Meiji is basically filler for the Jinchuu Arc, because it was never animated. -____________________- I think Samurai X (the OVA) is the animated version of the Memory Arc, somebody please tell me if I'm right, because I haven't seen it.

Hmm...tough one...it would be a tie between Aoshi (Rurouni Kenshin), Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho), and Spike (Cowboy Bebop). Aoshi: aside from the fact that I just love him, I really like the fact that he uses two swords, and that they're shorter than normal and not usually used for offense. It's more original than most of the other characters on RK, and the fact that kodachi are usually used for defense can make people underestimate him. And, most importantly, he kicks butt with them. Hiei: because I love all of his attacks. Every one. After seeing the Dragon of the Darkness Flame for the first time I just loved him. Plus, once he starts fighting he doesn't screw around, he just kills whoever he's fighting (or tries to, anyway) and gets it over with. Quick and to the point. Spike: I admire Spike's ability with a gun. (And with a grenade or flamethrower on occasion :devil: ) And even without it, he can fight several people at once and usually win, though he does tend to get beat up during the process. Also, I would think a close-range fight against someone using a sword while you're using a gun would be pretty hard, but Spike wins against Vicious. And while this has nothing to do with Spike as a fighter, I enjoyed the part in Toys in the Attic (Session #11?) where he tried to light a cigarette with the flamethrower. (Hint: it didn't work :D )

I don't tape stuff unless I won't be able to just watch it. So sue me. (Actually, please don't, it's just an expression.)

Ah. Right. I see now. I totally forgot about that. :sweat: It REALLY hasn't been on in a while...

I like Kikyo's personality just fine. I mean, what's wrong with it? *looks around for a Kikyo-hater so that they can explain* I don't know why he's called that, but enough of my friends call him that that it stuck...so now I call him that. I think part of it is that Sesshomaru is really long, and Fluffy is a lot shorter. But I really don't know. I think I saw a fanfic somewhere that explained why, but the site was down...

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Syk3 [/i] [B]The anime has been very enjoyable so far; not my favorite, but good nonetheless. They've come up with some really good plotlines, when almost every episode is a new scenario, and it just amazes me to think that they could draw it all the way out to 95 episodes with so much detail in each episode. Some of the characters [i]do[/i] look a bit similar at times, but that is to be expected, and it doesn't happen that often.[/B][/QUOTE] Yeah, the series is great. Though, from what I've heard about Tales of the Meiji (the 3rd part, after Shishio is defeated) it isn't very good. Personally I like the Jinchuu Arc a lot, but that's only in the manga, and of course the manga hasn't been released in English. So the only way to know about that is to read somebody's manga translation online. -_____________-

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Aoshi Shinimori [/i] [B][size=1][color=crimson] But you have to admit that the animation is extremely well. I think the story line is terrific and the fact there is another girl that likes the main character. [/size][/color] [/B][/QUOTE] Yeah, the animation was pretty good. Wing's animation was good, too, though, so it's not a unique thing. (Not trying to diminish 8th MS Team there.) [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Aoshi Shinimori [/i] [B][size=1][color=crimson] I think the story line is terrific and the fact there is another girl that likes the main character. [/size][/color] [/B][/QUOTE] ? OK, this hasn't been on CN in a really long time, so maybe I'm just missing something, but what does the part about another girl liking Shiro mean?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by AzureWolf [/i] [B]He did lighten when Mimiru was talking to him, but that's not enough for me to change my view. He's just not amiable, you know? I think the .hack dictionary has a picture of Silver Knight - under the word "[B]LOSER[/B]" (written just like that, with the caps and bold).[/B][/QUOTE] I completely agree. The guy got better as the series went along, but he still bugs me to death. And I did think that conversation was kind of funny, just because Silver Knight is capable of joking occasionally doesn't mean he's not annoying the rest of the time.