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Well, earlier I completed the first exam for World History. Now, since I came back, I've been working on the second exam for Sociology. I've almost got it done. I just have to think of a bureaucracy and give three reasons based on book info to prove that it is one. That shouldn't be too hard.
On Wednesday we had to take stuff back to the library. This time, since I finally got my adult card registered with the city system, I got the Cowboy Bebop movie there and then found that volume one of Fullmetal Alchemist came in at the county system. I wasn't expecting it to be there already. The last time I checked, I was still third on the waiting list.
I watched approximately half of the Bebop movie yesterday morning. It was slightly odd to hear that one bad guy talking like Valon. XD Also, I realized that the Bandai Sunrise company seems to have a bad habit of putting more swearing into the English versions of animes than was there originally. **was watching the movie in English, but with the subtitles that went with the original version, in order to get both stories.** I wish they wouldn't do that. It's highly irritating. That's what they did with Gundam Wing, too. The problem is, I prefer the English cast for both those shows. XD They just sound wrong in Japanese.
I also broke down and decided to try to find the Saiyuki movie at Best Buy, because neither library system is getting anything related to that fandom. None of the Best Buys here seem to carry it, according to the computer. Blah. I wonder if Circuit City would have it. They're pretty much like Best Buy.
I realized that usually the shows I like to hear in Japanese are most of the magical girls shows (with the exception of Magic Knight Rayearth). The girls just sound a lot cuter in Japanese, and it suits the mood of the shows better. MKR isn't your typical magical girls show, though. They fight with robots that look like Gundams, and there's lots of blood. XD; I was really surprised when I was watching it and suddenly blood splattered everywhere. I was like, "I thought shoujo shows didn't have blood."
Saint Tail is really cute. XD I wanna see more of it so bad. And I want to get the rest of the mangas. Borders has stopped having them on the shelves, but I think I can still order them from their warehouse. It's really partially a romantic comedy, with the kid who's trying to catch the thief slowly falling in love with her, and vice versa. Saint Tail actually isn't a "magical" girl at all, since she uses illusions based on her dad's magic tricks and such. I'd like to know how she first got started being the Robin Hood-type thief, though. The series opens after her adventures are already well underway, so there's no tale of how it began, unless that's a flashback in a later episode.
Oh yes, I don't think I mentioned this, but last Saturday I finally bought The Cat Returns. Since the sale isn't on anymore, Fred Meyer's price of $19.99 was the cheapest I could find, so I decided to grab it up before it disappeared just like Grave of the Fireflies did. We were out looking for fans last week and happened to be uptown, so it was the perfect opportunity. (Wal-Mart was actually out of fans. @__@ We had to wait till Monday to get another one.)
And we saw this fascinating old movie called Paper Man. XD It was about these five college students who invented a fictitious person after mistakingly receiving a credit card made out in the name of the fictitious person. Then one by one they start dying mysteriously, and it looks like the computer they're using might be acting on its own to cause the problems. It was awesome, with a surprise twist at the end. I like it when movies lead you to believe one thing only to discover it's something else entirely. And it made me wonder: what would happen if someone reprogrammed Kaiba's supercomputer? o.o
On Wednesday we had to take stuff back to the library. This time, since I finally got my adult card registered with the city system, I got the Cowboy Bebop movie there and then found that volume one of Fullmetal Alchemist came in at the county system. I wasn't expecting it to be there already. The last time I checked, I was still third on the waiting list.
I watched approximately half of the Bebop movie yesterday morning. It was slightly odd to hear that one bad guy talking like Valon. XD Also, I realized that the Bandai Sunrise company seems to have a bad habit of putting more swearing into the English versions of animes than was there originally. **was watching the movie in English, but with the subtitles that went with the original version, in order to get both stories.** I wish they wouldn't do that. It's highly irritating. That's what they did with Gundam Wing, too. The problem is, I prefer the English cast for both those shows. XD They just sound wrong in Japanese.
I also broke down and decided to try to find the Saiyuki movie at Best Buy, because neither library system is getting anything related to that fandom. None of the Best Buys here seem to carry it, according to the computer. Blah. I wonder if Circuit City would have it. They're pretty much like Best Buy.
I realized that usually the shows I like to hear in Japanese are most of the magical girls shows (with the exception of Magic Knight Rayearth). The girls just sound a lot cuter in Japanese, and it suits the mood of the shows better. MKR isn't your typical magical girls show, though. They fight with robots that look like Gundams, and there's lots of blood. XD; I was really surprised when I was watching it and suddenly blood splattered everywhere. I was like, "I thought shoujo shows didn't have blood."
Saint Tail is really cute. XD I wanna see more of it so bad. And I want to get the rest of the mangas. Borders has stopped having them on the shelves, but I think I can still order them from their warehouse. It's really partially a romantic comedy, with the kid who's trying to catch the thief slowly falling in love with her, and vice versa. Saint Tail actually isn't a "magical" girl at all, since she uses illusions based on her dad's magic tricks and such. I'd like to know how she first got started being the Robin Hood-type thief, though. The series opens after her adventures are already well underway, so there's no tale of how it began, unless that's a flashback in a later episode.
Oh yes, I don't think I mentioned this, but last Saturday I finally bought The Cat Returns. Since the sale isn't on anymore, Fred Meyer's price of $19.99 was the cheapest I could find, so I decided to grab it up before it disappeared just like Grave of the Fireflies did. We were out looking for fans last week and happened to be uptown, so it was the perfect opportunity. (Wal-Mart was actually out of fans. @__@ We had to wait till Monday to get another one.)
And we saw this fascinating old movie called Paper Man. XD It was about these five college students who invented a fictitious person after mistakingly receiving a credit card made out in the name of the fictitious person. Then one by one they start dying mysteriously, and it looks like the computer they're using might be acting on its own to cause the problems. It was awesome, with a surprise twist at the end. I like it when movies lead you to believe one thing only to discover it's something else entirely. And it made me wonder: what would happen if someone reprogrammed Kaiba's supercomputer? o.o
