Exclusive Insanity

Well, I just made an 'Anime Reviews' section in my Memories, so I decided I'd do yet another review that I've been meaning to for a while.

( Ghost Hunt: Scary Stories in Animated Form (and yes, most of them are actually scary) )

I recommend this series for anyone who likes ghost stories, mysteries, and good anime with fun characters. It was a really good show. I'm hoping like hell for a second season. And a third. And so on. This one could go on for a while, and I'd still love it.

The first opening video can be found here. There's not much difference in the second video. I really like the creepy song, but the video doesn't tell you anything about the series (except that it's kinda creepy - and somehow the song really fits the ghost hunting theme).

On a completely unrelated note, I absolutely adore this song I'm listening to. It plays during the very last moments of the very last Kaleido Star OVA (Legend of Phoenix), and it's beautiful.

Been a while since I updated... I've just been lazy, really.

I haven't been lazy about my anime viewing, though - and here's another one of those reviews to prove it. This time for an anime I haven't actually finished yet. I usually don't do that, but I felt like it this time.

( Kaleido Star )

I watched ten episodes in one day for this series... That should tell you something about how much I liked it. I intend to watch more of it on my day off tomorrow, too. Maybe I'll even finish the series off.

Openings themes can be found here: the first half of season one, the second half of season one, and season two.

Funimation licensed Ghost Hunt!?!?!?!?!?

Fuck. That means no box set for it either.

Goddamnit! I hate Funimation and their lack of neat compact little box sets! Don't they know my shelf space is limited?

Icon Meme - ganked from cats_eye

( Icons Under Cut )

I have an issue with Funimation.

I've recently become a sort of collector of anime sets - I like to buy box sets of anime I like on DVD. ADV is my favorite for this because they make those nice thinpak sets. Other companies have made similar, neat little sets that I can store easily and use for access to all of my favorite episodes in any particular series.

Funimation has been pissing me off recently because they don't seem to understand the concept of 'compact'. They released four box sets for Fullmetal Alchemist, which would basically take up about three quarters of the space that the complete set of DVDs takes up. It could have easily been just one or two box sets instead, because FMA is not that huge of a series. I suspect Funimation just likes the idea of squeezing as much money as they can from the many, many fans of this series more than providing convenience for those of us who don't have much shelf space.

Two other series I really would like to purchase, Mushishi and Utawarerumono, have been fully released on DVD (with cardboard "artboxes" included at ridiculous extra costs) by Funimation, but no box sets have been listed yet. I'm starting to think there won't be any, and this pisses me off to the point where I don't even want to buy the series from them. And now Funimation is releasing Shuffle, to which I respond with 'goddamnit!' because that means I won't get a neat little box set for it either.

It isn't about saving money. I'd gladly pay the same amount for the box set that I would for the whole set of DVDs. It's about convenience. I collect box sets, not individual DVDs, because the less space the series takes up on my shelf, the more I have for other series.

I like to support the official licensors of anime (that way they'll bring more anime over), but I'm at the point of looking for bootleg sets of the sub/dub for Funimation's series because they fail so utterly at providing me with what I want.

I'm watching a new series. It's called Ghost Hunt. I like it very much.

I'll post more when I finish watching it, but so far it's been great to watch. Supernatural activity + mystery + fun characters = good anime. I'm going to be sorry when I've watched it all.

I'm sure I'll end up buying the manga once I'm finished with the anime. It really is good.

This is the second to last post on this little time-waster... It's been fun. But it's almost over now.

( Hikaru no Go vs Mushishi )

( Hikaru no Go vs Uninhabited Planet Survive )

( Twelve Kingdoms vs Uninhabited Planet Survive )

( The Wins Tally so Far )

From nighteevee:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick three of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

( Icons under cut )

Ganked from chrysan

Comment to this entry with any fandom. If I'm knowledgeable enough in the fandom to have ships, I'll tell you one non-canon ship I like, one canon ship I like, and one ship I really don't like (either canon OR fanon). Then post this in your own journal to offer up the same responses.

The next bit of my top five anime showdown thing.

( Mushishi vs Princess Tutu )

( Mushishi vs Twelve Kingdoms )

More to come!