Finished and loved Michiko & Hatchin (ミチコとハッチン). No surprise, since I loved the movie City of God ("Cidade de Deus") by Fernando Meireilles and Kátia Lund, which was the inspiration for this series. The clothes by Colcci and impressive voice acting by Yoko Maki (Ju-On) and Suzuka Ohgo (Memoirs of a Geisha) helped too. The series overall has lots of film-esque elements, but it's balanced nicely by a self-awareness of animation as the working medium. It just sucks that budget really undermined the quality of the animation in more than a couple episodes.
Now that Sunrise has acquired quality control rights to the script, I'm actually looking forward to Keanu Reeves' adaptation of Cowboy Bebop.
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It'd be nice to feel totally unabashed by the stigma of nerdiness. Like the Naruto fans wearing their headbands to the park, or the 40-year-old dude with the anime girl t-shirt on the train. But posting about this stuff under pseudonym to a blog is just about the limits of my ability. When Christian, Jan and I were discussing the content of our contributions to this blog, I wasn't sure what to post exactly. At first, it was going to be whatever I felt like. The household wonders of baking soda and vinegar, sliming with peanut butter, the insanity of U.S. anti-pedophile laws that criminalize dumb teens, and why Marc Jacobs sucks.
But it seemed a little too random and better suited for a personal journal. So I thought it'd be better to play between Jan's gamer geek and Christian's home and style posts. Dunno. Dude, you guys get posting!
Okay, I just have to say, I read the whole article through and through--but the only link I clicked on was the Peanut Butter one because I thought it said SLIMMED with PB. I love PB and it's just ingrained in me to think about losing any weight possible. Well, I guess it worked because I really don't want to eat PB right now...