Dirk's Blog Thing

Totoro was on TV a few days ago (yay for arte and their Hommage to Miyazaki).
So I got into the mood to watch some more anime today. Laputa and Paprika.
I also listened to some of the OSTs I've collected over the years. Wolf's Rain, Bebop, .hack, Noir, Trigun, etc.
And I've browsed amazon. It appears that Wolf's Rain is being sold for 15 uk pounds now. I guess that's about 20€, including shipping and german VAT? Anyway, I recall paying 200€ for the entire show a few years back. Disappointing. That show deserves to be more expensive IMO.
I ordered Madlax from the uk shop. The price went down from over 60 to around 17 uk pounds, and it's sort of the successor to Noir, so I'm pretty sure that's not wasted money.

Anyway. Work tomorrow, bed now. G'night.

After finally having completed my list of chores for today, I sat down in the evening to watch Paprika.
I really liked the art work, and the story was ok. I feel it could've been better though. ( Basically it's about ... )

Oh well, I'm not complaining. The movie was fun, and I'm pretty sure I'll have the main theme stuck in my head for days to come ...

Why the hell are amazon selling Samurai Champloo DVDs for 13.97€ each?! (everyone else is selling them for around 25€. And by everyone I mean neotokyo.de ...)
I didn't even want to get that series until I saw an ad on TV just now. The animation looks cool, and according to some sources the dubbing is pretty good for a change.

And I can get the whole show for like 112€ now ...
hrmm ... Who knows how long amazon are going to keep those prices ...

I'm watching through my Wolf's Rain DVDs. Because, like, I can. I've got the whole show on DVD now after all.
(Please refrain from reminding me that the UK release comes on only 6 DVDs instead of 8, and therefore costs about half as much as my collection.)
...
(Darn, reminded myself now ...).

Anyway, I don't usually say that for anime shows, but the german dubbing rocks! And I think I've found out why, too: Experienced voice actors. Only two of the 8 most important characters are voiced by people I haven't heard of before. As to the others:
Kiba is voiced by the guy who does the german voice of Greg Sanders, CSI.
Tsume is done by Nick Stokes' german voice (CSI too).
Hige is done by JD's voice (Scrubs).
Quint's voice is that of Luthor, Sen (Smallville) and House, MD.
Hubb also does the main character from JAG.
And Cher's voice is the same as for 7 of 9 from Voyager, among others.

I'm up to the 6th DVD now. Past the recap episodes (aka The Boring Ones).
I also need to e-Mail the distributers I think. There were coupons included with the DVDs, one for each DVD. If you sent in all of them and some return postage, you were promised a neat box to put the DVDs in. I sent that stuff in more than a month ago, and still no box.
I also sent in the coupons for the Noir extras, and it took them a few days only to send those back to me ... |:

... yeah, what he said.
I watched my Jin Roh DVD this evening, and I liked it.
First time I watched it some years ago, I had a bit of trouble following it, since there's a lot of plot squeezed into one movie (afaik, it's a manga in its original form), but I think I got it this time.
Oh, and the dub is pretty well done. The main character sounds a lot like Nick Stokes, and I think I recognised the voice of Picard in one of the other characters.
The suits of armour the special unit has look real scary, and they got the sound of their guns just right too.
Little scary in places ... Very confusing too ...

I love the Innocence soundtrack so much I just ordered it from amazon.
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Arjuna
First time on tv according to http://www.tvmovie.de/tv-programm/sendung.html?SendungID=5696414
So I really wonder why I've seen this before ... O_o