Quick anime notes

[petronia]

Fell asleep 9:30PM - 12:30AM again. =_= If (as my mother maintains) this is what happens when I go on caffeine purge, then I'll have to make sure to drink a cup of tea at least on Sundays.



Monster: mmm, Werther's Originals... The manga of this is out in French. So I could theoretically waltz into a bookshop and pick it up (physical books trump scans with me), which automatically drops it a few notches down the must-have-now scale. XD I'll just follow the anime until I hit my tolerance limit for suspense / flist spoilers / sweet sweet pain, I guess.

It's extremely effective story-telling, though. I look forward to the ride.

Kenran Butoh Sai: I keep downloading this because I can. Or something. But yeah, underwater mechs are fun.

Tenjou Tenge: They did rewrite it quite a bit. Now it's the saner and more usual fight-characterintro-foreshadowing-fight-exposition-fight-flashback-fight, as opposed to the manga's fight-fight-fight-fight-while-mangaka-figures-out-WTF's-going-on-exposition-characterintro-flashback-flashback-exposition. (In a non-spoileriffic nutshell.) So characters like Isuzu ("Manx and Omi's lovechild") get introduced by the second ep, yay. They also toned down the Coinland scene, which I was expecting and am thankful for, as I was probably more disturbed by that than anything else that happened within the series. =_=

Animation's great, with most of the budget put toward the over-the-top fight sequences.

Initial D Fourth Stage: Finally got to see this... The CG's improved to the point of near-seamlessness, and Ryousuke's shirts are still horrendous. In other words, the universe continues to unfold as it should. Sort of miss the naff dance music, however; though it makes sense that they've taken it away, not only because I'm sure Avex's run out of said fad juice by now, but because it signals a change in tone to the series. At heart I have slightly mixed feelings about the Project D arc, despite the massive RyouKeiTaku goodness, because... well, it's so professional. ^^; You don't really have that newbie wonder, what's-next-around-the-corner-for-Captain-Clueless sense of First Stage, let alone the teen drama aspect. Really all it means is I suspect I wouldn't have gotten into it quite, if I'd started following the series at this point instead of from the beginning.

This is going to be 26 eps, right? At the standard two eps per race plus various *cough* romantic subplots they've got easily enough material for it.

Comments

[tsutanai.livejournal.com]

14, actually. A mere 14, and the next episodes won't be out until June. (It's practically an OVA this time out....)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...? o_O But... but there's too much manga to be covered in 14 eps... *iya na yokan*

I heard about the release schedule. Odd, that; what sort of TV station airs two episodes of a series every two months?

[incandescens]

Have now started reading Tenjou Tenge (titled Enfer et Paradis in the French -- they've done 9 vols so far, I've got the first 2) and may well try to get the anime given what you say. Though if by the coinland scene you mean the one in the room with the washing machines (I forget the term for it offhand) then I'm very glad they toned that down.