Have skipped mention of three movies, but...

Yay for Korean psychological/supernatural horror flicks that finish past midnight. x_x The Uninvited, it's called (though I'm pretty sure the Korean title is nothing like); effective, albeit not in the knee-melting terror sense. More oppressive and tragic, like the last two films in the Ringu trilogy. Recommended watching, but only if you have high tolerance for dead babies. Seriously. If watching small children dying on screen disturbs you more than warranted (given that it's supposed to be disturbing, after all), this is not the movie for you. As garnish, you've also got dead adults, dead kittens, and one eerie kitchen table set. Laugh it up, laugh. How willing were you to be alone with your TV after first watching Ringu? My house is filled with those bloody futuristic-design chairs.

Of course then you - and by "you" here I mean "I" - walk out thinking something along the lines of, man, I bet Sumeragi Subaru sees a lot of *that* shit in his line of work...

(And proceed to make a beeline for the Tim Horton's down the block, in order to reinstill a sense of normalcy through consumption of caffeine and sugar. Sanity by TimBits: a Canadian way of coping! It's the second time this Fantasia fest I've had to resort to such.)

Unyuuuuu~

But whyyyy I have run out of GetBackers to read? T_T I was just settling back into the thing too. Wacky randomosity: Rena and her phallic mushroom misadventures, Ginji and his expired bento misadventures ("And then the fifth time I thought it was marbled beef but actually it was mold, ahahaha <3"), Ban's... well, it goes on, but what I'm trying to say is that the density of weirdness per surface area is what draws me into this series. It doesn't make it realistic, but somehow it makes it more believable, like if it's that weird it has to be real. ^^; Take the scene where Emishi goes and sits with Sakura, pops like a mile's worth of bubble wrap and tells her he's trying to get into the Guinness. It's heartbreaking, because it's not the sort of reaction anyone ever thinks to give a manga character. (It's quite obvious from the text that A&A only torture Emishi because they love him dearly, but that doesn't make it forgivable. They are such fangirls. =_=)

( On worldbuilding )

...But anyway, back to GB. How do they plan on translating all these bubbles into an alphabetic left-to-right language and still get them to fit? No, seriously, how? イヤな予感。 For once I can actually see an advantage to the awkwardly large English manga paperback format - if they raise the printing quality to Japanese standards. =_= Which will never happen.