Not delish
Currently watching Rachael Ray make some kind of shrimp scampi dish. She doesn’t sound so good. She doesn’t look to good. What happened to the energetic girl we know and love?
She’s burning out.
5 cm/s
5 Centimeters Per Second is a short film anime about love and separation. The characters grow close, but slowly drift apart. They love, but can’t make a lasting relationship. They are.
This so captures many of the feelings I have in my dreams. That, when I was young, I had fallen for a girl. That we had some sort of relationship that was. That as I never told her my feelings, they and her drifted away over time. Then we grew up and became older, mature, adults. And these dreams and feelings of love could not be expressed again because of their childish nature. Then I wake up wondering where she is, what she’s doing, and wish to go back to those younger days. Yet, all that is left is the present and the future coming with no hope of re-establishing those days. And I feel sad.
The anime is divided into three stories following the character, Takaki Tono, as he ages. It shows the first blossoming of love and its end as it just started. Then it moves a few years to show him inspiring a surfer gal to love him, but not express that love. Finally, he is a programmer in Tokyo who may have seen the love of his life pass by. Regrets they have, but life is meant to be lived and only if.
5 of 5 stars.
The Birds II
Shit. Another set of birds have made my deck home. The questions from last time still hold.
Boys love girls
I wonder if this is the real version of the song.
#269 E La Nave Va
Post send off finds our gang, and in particular, Yakumo, adjusting to life with out Tenma. Seems that alls well that ends well.
Except for Harima who acts the loner.
Good for him. Good for Itoko-sensei for trying to knock some sense into him.
With this turn of events, does it feel like this series will last another several years?
queue myQueue;
Netflix queue is stuck.
I’ve been too busy watching School Rumble or The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Plus maybe I’ve reached my limit for wanting to watch a movie. I should just change my subscription to the cheapest one they got. I wonder what that is.
Melancholy
Here's my latest anime viewing: "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya."
Nothing can compare to School Rumble, for me, but this one isn't so bad.
It's science fiction and a very light touch. I seem to be drifting away from mecha. Big robots are starting to bore
me. I like the romantic comedies or even some kind of comedy or even
some stuff. But the robots are getting played out. Luckily, for me this one is just a plain anime. It's a novel in Japan,
so I don't think they'll try to translate it for the English audience.
Yet, it's going through as much change as other manga. It's like one of
young adult fiction stories you see in the bookstore. Too low for my
station? Yet, it's a fascinating tale. The first DVD is somewhat
boring, but the second disc delivers some bangs like a kiss. Nice.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya
Leatherheads
George Clooney acts and directs the roaring twenties football rom-com, Leatherheads. George Clooney in a film set in the twenties should remind you of “O brother, where art though?” And that should remind you of his work with the Coen brothers and their love for staging an exact simulacra of a period in America. Then you find out that Renee Zellwegger plays a fast talking career gal reporter and this may be some kind of screwball comedy homage.
Then you watch the movie.
It’s nothing like this.
Leatherheads completely missis the point of all that. Clooney, you would think, could’ve captured the magic of the Coens and served a throwback to screwball comedies, but decided to mix and match story and tone of the show. It was a mess. A romantic comedy that had no laughs. A grid iron story that lacked oomph. A sad spectacle as the final big game in the mud. It was 3-0 until the end. And it was a boring game. Same for the movie.
2 of 5 stars.
#268 The Terminal
I’m all caught up with School Rumble, the manga and the anime as well.
I’m reacting very differently between the two mediums. In the anime, I’m rooting for Yakumo, Imouto-san, but the manga makes me hope for Sawachika Eri. Perhaps, it’s the pacing of the read which gives more hints at what each character is thinking and provides more introspective moments. Or it’s the fact that it’s about 268 volumes that give a sense of what the author is trying to achieve.
Anyway, it looks as if the manga is coming to an end within the next few months. And it will be a bittersweet ending. I have to say that that is probably the only way it has to be. Of course, that’s me wishing for this type of ending. Perhaps, the author is smarter than me and will make it more interesting.