Current anime/animation experiences

[amanuensis1]

I have given Fullmetal Alchemist (the original series) three episodes, and that's one more than I gave Bleach, and it doesn't have me, so, I'm stopping. I will give the new version of the series a try.

And I had thought 07 Ghost had me with the first episode--military-in-training BFF boys! Lost amnesiac royalty! He-killed-my-dad revelations!--but then episode two changed the setting and started inserting the supernatural stuff in handfuls, and that's a story I no longer care about so much.

Who was it who asked me to check out Soul Eater? I watched the first episode. It's cute and well-done! But it's not dark enough to hold me. (No, I can't explain why something needs to be "dark enough" and yet I can't get enough of Chi's Sweet Home/Chi's New Address. The rest of you are free to tell me why.)

Those of you gleeful that I'm watching Avatar, I've finished the first season and am squee-dancing as I wait for more discs to arrive. It's wonderful.

Back to mainlining Hikaru no Go. I've read the manga and am reliving the joy and tears all over again now that I'm watching the anime. (The manga's so huge I can't even remember how some of this s**t goes down and I'm on the edge of my seat every episode. That's a series.)

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Are you going to go see the live-action Avatar? It's going to be so insanely horrible, but I have to go see it anyway.

Have you seen the trailer that's out now? From what little there is to see (the movie is a year away), it actually has my hopes up.

[shiraz_wine]

Yes, I've seen the trailer, but I'm so disappointed/offended by the casting of the characters that it'll be hard to enjoy the movie.

It would have been one thing if they had said, "Look, we're going to do color-blind casting," but I have a friend who actually went to audition for the role as the Fire Lord. He said the waiting room was filled with large black men (who all had to do a stereotypically deep-throated evil laugh as part of their audition) and they specifically told him to his face that the Fire Nation people all had dark skin.

I don't know what show they were watching, but the people with the darkest skin were the Water Tribe people (since they were modeled off the Inuits) and the water-benders from the Swamp. Hell, I think even the earth-benders were darker than the fire-benders.

*takes a deep breath*

I'm going to stop now, before I launch into a full-blown rant. I'm just really sad that Hollywood squandered a chance to highlight Asian actors, for once, when the cartoon did such a good job of researching Asian culture and incorporating it into the show in a non-offensive manner.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, the whole racefail wank thing. *pats lots* I know it's upsetting lots of folks.

[shiraz_wine]

*looks up hopefully* Can I have a cookie too?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Of course! *shares* :)

[shiraz_wine]

YAY! *om nom nom*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I thought the trailer looked like one of those fake-serious trailers with Serious Voiced Narrator doing the "IN A WORLD..." thing and the hooded guy would turn out to be Jack Black and he'd fall on his ass in a pratfall. I can't trust serious-voiced narrators trailers any longer!