G-Boys 4 eva

I had a very brief look at Now and Then, Here and There before deleting its punk ass off my machine. It may be highly acclaimed but with artwork that cheap and old the story would have to be fucking ground breaking to make up for it, and I am pretty sure it's not that good.

I've started working my way through the films on my list of things to watch, as opposed to spending most of my time trawling through series. I always want to find the next really epic series to get into and absolutely lose myself in, but the problem is that these series are few and far between. Titles with the quality of Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo and Haruhi Suzumiya are rare to say the least, for the most part anime series have relatively low production costs and are just cashing in on a successful manga series. Films on the other hand are only an hour or two long, so have much improved animation and direction with none of the filler used to pad things out in between.

The night before last Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade took the stage, and I'd say it was alright. It felt rather reminiscent of Ghost in the Shell, with the heavy political discourse broken up by the odd action scene. Of course it's nowhere near the level of excellence that GitS stands atop, and is not particularly a film I can see myself going back to watch any time soon, but it was still enjoyable.

Last night I sat down to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which was pretty damn good. I'd describe it as kinda like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya on ritalin, in being a pleasant slice of life comedy with sci-fi undertones. The characters were rather generic with routine plot development, but for something as banal as it was there wasn't much fault to find in it other than its mundanity. A quality film overall, enjoyable viewing for all audiences.

I also finished watching Ikebukuro West Gate Park the night before last, which had manly tears streaming down my face, so epic. I seriously love this series, not just for the fact that it has some absolutely fantastic characters, but for the sort of curt realism in which each episode doesn't end happily ever after, but also doesn't purposefully go out of its way to be overly morbid. It's definitely one of those sort of great series that doesn't simply fit into any genre, and I am sad to see it end. Hell, I'd go as far as buying it on DVD if it was subbed and released over here, not that it ever will be, crime.

I finished My Boss, My Hero today, it really milked the feel-good ending for all it was worth, but that's what the whole series was all about, a silly happy-go-lucky series made to put a smile on your face. And that's exactly what it did, lovable characters where everything turns out alright in the end and leaves you all cheered up. A frivolous comedy, good times.

On a completely unrelated note, you know what's an awesome word?
Mega.
After seeing a picture of Mega Blocks on 4chan it's made me realize how underused that word is, you only ever hear it in product names like Mega Blocks and Mega Man. Is it even possible to use it in a sentence as anything but the prefix to a noun?
"Hey, check out that 4X4, that is mega."
Hell yeah, that's a word I'm totally going to have to use more often.