25 January 2008

larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Yotsuba chomps)
The difference between feeling like crap and feeling like crap warmed over is small but immensely frustrating.

*honk* *snrfl*

OTOH, catching a cold means also catching up on random anime.

Planetes ep 1-5: If this isn't the anime poster-boy for the Mundane SF Movement, it ought to be. It's blue-collar office drama set in the orbital debris cleanup section of a corporate space station. There's the usual assortment of characters, including the naive newbie paired with the cynical sempai, and not just one but two pointy-haired boss types -- fortunately more ineffectual than anything. The science fiction is pretty hard, though sometimes the orbital mechanics are not always quite on,* and things don't tumble quite enough in zero g, but otherwise the animators seem to know what they're doing. Hasn't snorked me in, but I'm looking forward to more.

Someday's Dreamers ep 1-4: I was not impressed by the manga, despite it looking like exactly my sort of thing. The anime, by expanding the cast and world, plugs many of my concerns by expanding the consequences of having mages in society -- by increasing the regulations involved. It doesn't do it perfectly -- Angela is an interesting character, but adding her to a story that is Yume's alone in the manga weakens the episode considerably. I may continue, if I can do so cheaply enough.

My Neighbor Totoro: Comfort watching. I still loves this to pieces, but I'm not sure it's a complete story. There's a beginning, and a middle with a bunch of episodes, but the end seems to be entirely the conclusion of the last episode than of the whole. It would be interesting to watch this as a double-feature with Grave of the Fireflies, as they were in theatrical release, but that would mean watching Grave of the Fireflies again, and I'm not yet up for that -- the parallels and contrasts are interesting.

His and Her Circumstances aka Kare Kano ep 1-6: Not comfort watching. Has to be the most frenetic and surreal high school romantic comedy drama I've seen, and I include Kodocha in that. Though that's partly because in Kodocha the frenetic is done for comedy and here's it's for drama. The anime was done by the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion right after producing that, and, well, it shows. I likes, but, um, not restful. Definitely looking for the rest.


* You do not easily rendezvous with an object in a cometary orbit from near earth orbit. Just sayin'.


---L.

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