I've read the chapters Lililicious has translated, but I'd love to read more. D: Unfortunately my japanese isn't the best. Rose of Versailles is honestly my least favourite of what I've read of hers, but I've been promising myself to get back into it.

It isn't my favourite period in history, which may be the problem.

Oo, I just started watching the Maria-sama OVA - seems good so far (MariMite was always good, so this isn't shocking). I'm not entirely sure if I like the animation as much as previously, though, since its a little bit different now. I was quite suprised to see it had a new ending song, though.

Scortia wrote:

The manga for Rose of Versailles never appealled to me, but I love the anime.

OH OH. I want to see that!

I'm watching "Death Note". Before that I watched "Wolf's Rain" with my friend, I had heard it was very good. While it was indeed better than average shows, I was still a bit disappointed. In fact, after watching SKU, it's so hard to find anything that would stand against it.
So now I found I can enjoy anime that' are the best in their own genres. DN is very interesting. It's the sort of show where you constantly wonder what's going to happen next. Ohhh, the tension!

The only anime I'm currently keeping up with is Nana.  I love that series.

My memory of the plot is a bit fuzzy, but the name of the empire as well as my vague memories of the first episode lead me to believe that Britain conqured the area and then used North America as a launch pad to attack Japan.

I mean, from that image you could just as easily get the idea that Canada conqured the US and then chose to attack Japan. Canada still has superficial ties to the crown as well, so that would make even more sense. They're certainly more connected to it than we are.

I just checked Wikipedia and apparently this is alt-history where Britain remained in control of the Americas and expanded into a massive world power, so in a way we're both right if Wikipedia is to be trusted.

And a lot of animes have transient nationalistic moments, ESPECIALLY war anime, but that doesn't mean they aren't amazing by their own efforts. Look at Read Or Die.

Yeah, I can understand how you feel there. Groupism in general seems to be something people are particularly willing to die/kill for.

It's easier to ignore when you attibute it to ratings. "YAY US BOO THEM" always gets people excited. Anyone who'd go and try to pipe bomb an embassy over a teevee show in this day and age probably needed to be eliminated from the gene pool anyway. That's a surprising leap of faith in humanity coming from me. Gee. o.o

It seems like the new anime starting this January and February are rather unimpressive, sadly I have yet to find anything I can see myself watching from the 2007 Winter Season.

I'm sad, it seems like all the shows I liked from this past season are ones that the subbing groups don't care about as much as the heavy-weights like Deathnote and Code Geass - I have been watching Hataraki Man, Ghost Hunt, Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori, and Tenpou Ibun Ayakashi Ayashi, but the fansubbing groups working on them seem to be more concerned with the really popular series. I think its too bad that good series that are less popular don't get as much attention from the subbers - I mean, do we really need five groups subbing one show?

Hope no one thinks I'm trying to diss fansubbers - I know they're doing a tough job and not getting nearly enough credit in most cases.

Trench Kamen wrote:

Does watching an inordinate amount of Family Guy count for anything?

Family Guy could count as American Anime so I guess thats right.

I am aware that in Japan, all animated cartoons are classified as anime as opposed to Western countries where only Japanese(Asian) cartoons are classified as anime.

Edit: Grammar Fix.

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Alright, so I was looking through the new series coming up this season, and I guess I'll at least check these ones out, although I'm really not getting my hopes up:

Getsumen To Heiki Mina - Main reason I'm checking this out? Marina Inoue is doing the ending song - yeah, I know, really lame reason for checking out an anime, but, hey, she did amazing work in Petite Cossette.
Hidamari Sketch - Very, very slim chance I may check this out - I've been lacking some straight-up humor in my anime viewing as of late.
Yes! Futari wa Pretty Cure 5! - I guess this is more out of a morbid curiousity to see how much they have furthered the screw up of the Pretty Cure franchise (it really was a decent mahou shoujo property back in its original incarnation); also, I'm betting Mayumi Gojyo is involved with the opening, closing, and insert songs once again, and I can't help but love her ultra-peppy songs - they're downright infectious!
Moonlight Mile - Actually, I'm definitely gonna watch this one, but it's coming in March so I don't really consider it a Winter 2007 title.

Yeah, I kind of thought this one was more unimpressive of some of the past ones, though - I mean, at least last winter had Shinigami no Ballad and Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora, which were both two sweet little animes that I must admit to really adoring (even though Shinigami no Ballad did toe the moe line a bit with Momo, and the nurse in HanTsuki was a bit annoying).

I'm really disappointed about Saint October - when I initially heard about it, when all anyone knew was the title, I was kind of interested 'cause the title sounded cool. Alas, it has revealed itself to be just another in the long line of loli-fests

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