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My dad has tentatively agreed to record the English dub of FullMetal Alchemist for me when it starts airing in November on the Cartoon Network, since I won't get cable in my dorm.

When I think of where the show is right now, at episode 48, I get shivers.

When I think of what it's going to be like to watch it all again from the beginning in English, and observe the reactions of new fans as they fall in love with it...I'm practically getting goosebumps from excitement.


That is one good thing about watching stuff in subs first, I think. You get to relive the excitement of the entire first experience again when it comes out on tv in English. It's not quite the same if you watch it in English first and then the dub. Although there are some series, like IY, where if you don't watch the dub from the very first, you'll probably never bond with it.

GAH! So exciting.

And by the way, did I mention I'm moving in 3 days?

::screams:: ::faints::


It's too much! I can't take it!

Rewatching the last 3 episode of FB just for kicks...

You know, every time I rewatch the end of Fruits Basket, I get all sappy and emotional and wanna hug something and maybe cry.

Cause it's JUST SO DAMN ANGSTY! And all the characters need hugs so badly.

::wibble:: I love this series. It's so good.

Fruits Basket: it's like a competition for who's got it worse.

On my way back from picking up some medical forms from the hospital, I ranked the members of the Sohma family (Fruits Basket) in my head by who is the most tragic. They're all cursed, but it has turned out worse for some than for others. See under cuts for reasoning (VERY ANIME SPOILERY, and one manga spoiler in the comments).

1. Akito - ( Read more... )

2. Kyo - ( Read more... )

3. Momiji - ( Read more... )

4. Yuki - ( Read more... )

5. Hatori - ( Read more... )

6. Kisa, Hiro - ( Read more... )

7. Haru, Shigure, Ayame, Kagura, Ritsu - ( Read more... )

That's based on the anime, and volume 4 of the manga.

International Rec a Movie Day (from girlwithjournal)

International Rec a Movie Day

Perfect Blue (1997) - a horror/myster/suspence/slasher movie that will cure you forever of the idea that animated films internationally are as kiddish as animated films in America. I reccomend having something to munch on when you watch, or at least a pillow to hold. It has a slow opening, but once you're into it, it starts to become kind of fascinating, and then it becomes kind of unnerving, and by the end you're left feeling icky and creeped out and blinking a lot and going, "Damn. Well. Damn. That was different." Which is how all suspence films should leave you feeling.


Pleasantville (1998) - Many of you have already seen this, but I feel it's worth reccing again. This film is a work of art in terms of visual design-- it's fantastically beautiful to watch. The concept of the film is simple: take two modern high shcool siblings and transport them into the imaginary 1950s suburbia of old television shows. It could almost be a Mary-Sue fic from Leave It To Beaver fandom (if such a fandom exists). It could be an adventure, and stop there. It could be a story about the kids learning to appreciate the real family they have over the plastic family of television, and stop there. But the movie *doesn't* stop there. It takes the scientific truth that you can't study something without changing it, and adds the romantic truth that a life that's not colorful (in all meanings of the phrase) is not life at all.

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Last night in a moment of fan nostalgia I downloaded a Sailor Moon music vid. I watched it just now-- turns out it's all from the last episode.

You know, I had forgotten that nearly all the main characters actually died at the end of season one. Then again, that was the best season. Though not for that reason.