| Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| some cat is for fiet too. |
Hi folks, I'm in New Hampshire. I'm visiting my sister with my mom and my uncle and generally causing havoc in a state I can escape from in a few days. I'm about to have a wizard turn me into a whale. I mean go see some whales. Is this awesome? (y/n)
We shall find out.
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| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| Natsukashi, ne? |
Yes, very nostalgic. Inuyasha. The first anime I watched with gusto. I have Andy to thank for that. I tip my hat to you, Andy, for adding the catalyst that has started a chain reaction of excellence. It's been about four and a half years now since I saw the first episode of Inuyasha, and since then anime has consumed a goodly portion of my life and time.
Can I just say, hell yeah? I can't quite explain it, but perhaps you can relate. When you come across something that fits so perfectly with your thoughts and ideas that you just know it will impact your life forever, you'll know about how I feel.
At any rate, the reason this is on my mind at this particular moment is because I have delved into the vast Sea of Intarwebs™ and uncovered something magnificent. The complete Inuyasha manga series to date.
A short history: About two years ago, I lived in Iowa. I watched anime as much as I ever do. (a lot.) I was still watching Inuyasha at the time, and it had grown past 150 episodes by this time. Finding out that it was to end at episode 167, I was rather shocked and excited. I was hoping to see an amazing ending, resolving the ever present plot that had driven the show since the first episode. As I reached nearer to that final episode, I began to notice something was amiss. It wasn't moving to resolution. On the contrary, some of the last episodes were nothing but filler side-plots, as I had come to expect to see between the larger main plot segments. Upon seeing the first part of the double-episode final, I was apprehensive but hopeful. It seemed that it was possible to finish the series in the next 25 minutes... even if it was done quickly.
Alas, it was not to be. Upon watching the final episode veer completely away from resolution, and indeed back to the plot point at which every main plot segment inevitably returned, I fell to my knees with astonishment and bewilderment. I was told by the last episode that "the manga in Shounen Sunday still continued."
What the fuck did I care about the damn Shounen Sunday!? I was an anime man to the end. Manga had never been any part of my life. Don't get me wrong, I love reading. A good book can put my mind into another existence. Manga, however, seemed to me like a poor man's anime. Just a comic with no color. I love color! So, that was it for Inuyasha. I dismissed it as though there simply was no other way for me to find out what else was happening to Inuyasha and his stalwart crew. It was as good as gone and unresolved.
Until now. At the persistence of Mr. Nick Stella, I have succumbed to procuring the Inuyasha manga. I would like to reiterate my appreciation of the magical internets, as I was able to find and download all of the Inuyasha manga in one fell swoop.
Now, two full volumes into the manga past the point at which the anime left off, I'm once again hooked. I have quite a few to get through to catch up, and they continue to come out. Who knows, maybe I'll embrace manga as I have embraced anime. What better place to start than where I started in the first place. Inuyasha.
And so, as this seems to me both a new beginning and a look back at old beginnings, I thought it a fitting place to document my appreciation to anime. To those who've brought me anime, and those to whom I have brought it. To the places anime has inspired me to see, and to the ideas that it spawns in my mind. Its impact on me in these four shorts years is astounding, and everlasting. It seems hard to remember a time without it, and that makes me grin.
Arigato, anime. Arigato.
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