If you blog and do something horrible people will find your blog and post it as news – both list themselves as Christians, but the real Christians will be the people visiting them in jail.

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Hello Kitty Guitar and Base

I got Amy kind of hooked a few months ago – we’ve watched Kokoro Toshyokan, Maria-sama ga Miteiru, Princess Tutu, and Rose of Versailles, and started in on Shoujo Kakumei Utena (until I ran out of DVD’s during the Black Rose arc), and some other random stuff (mainly Ghibili movies).

The new fall season is upon us, so we watched a few first episodes on fansub (links are to the japanese sites for each show):

Ginban Kaleidoscope – Figure skating girl who goes to catholic girls school has a hard fall on the ice and gets possessed by a dead Canadian boy. Go figure. It’s not as weird as it sounds. Amy and I made it all the way through this one. The animation quality is pretty poor but watchable.

Black Cat – Fighting show. Turned it off after about 30 seconds.

Aria – Sci-fi show, but very slow. Girl works for little alien, helping with a gondola business in a venice like city on a different planet. Goes faster than Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, but slower than Kokoro Toshyokan, and has a very nice color and character designs. We got about half way through before Amy decided it was too slow and I stopped it.

Prayers – Sci-fi fighting show with music. Lasted about 5 seconds longer than Black Cat.

Blood + – Watched this with Lucas a few weeks ago. It’s basically a remix of the Blood OVA, so it’s a vampiretastic mahou-shoujo horror show. The dialog needs work – if you think the main character is going to say “BLOOD”, she will. May possibly be interesting, depending on if a plot actually occurs.

Paradise Kiss – (also watched with Lucas) Studious high school girl is accosted by a bunch of fashion/design school students, and gets persuaded to model for them. Very high production values, and interesting characters. Quite possibly worth watching – I think I might try this out on Amy.

Mushishi – (watched with Lucas) Guy hunts forest spirit things called Mushishi, who only he can see. Pretty show with unusual character designs, but kind of creepy. May be interesting.

So, there you have it – a little slice of what I like and don’t like. As a note, I don’t really mind mech or fighting shows, provided they have a good plot. The problem is that’s a rare combination, found only in shows like RahXephon or Gundam 08 MS.

Overall, this season looks like it’ll be ok – 2 or 3 watchable shows is a pretty good ratio.

Morning Musume vs Lizard

Basically, Morning Musume is a very popular (and very generic) girl group in Japan that takes in new members and graduates the old ones. It also has some splinter groups, like MiniMoni which focuses on songs for kids (and has a really wacky movie out…).

But this… strapping meat onto their foreheads and letting a lizard loose, now that’s just cruel and unusual (for the girls or the lizard, take your pick)!

(mini Japanese lesson – “musume” (?) = daughter)