In message , Peter
Boulter  writes
>arielmad(arielmad@nowhere.com) added
>
>
>> anyway  - whats  - hot  - and whats NOT on the anime scene now -
>> I've just watched Dennou Coil and I reallly liked that.
>
>On the DVD front there's Kanon, which I think is really good.
>On the other front I liked Clannad, ef- a tale of memories and Myself:
>Yourself.
>But none of the current series interests me.

 Since Aria finished (and is now licenced, by RightStuf) the only thing
I'm following this season with any dedication is Kamen no Maid Guy, just
for its over-the-topness. The fanservice is not worth although the
producers are trying hard on that score. Really they should just let it
go and have Maid Guy Kogarashi carry the series from now on.
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Robert Sneddon(fred@nospam.demon.co.uk) added

> >> anyway  - whats  - hot  - and whats NOT on the anime scene now -
> >> I've just watched Dennou Coil and I reallly liked that.
> >
> >On the DVD front there's Kanon, which I think is really good.
> >On the other front I liked Clannad, ef- a tale of memories and 
> >Myself: Yourself. But none of the current series interests me.
> 
>  Since Aria finished (and is now licenced, by RightStuf) the only 
> thing I'm following this season with any dedication is Kamen no Maid 
> Guy, just for its over-the-topness. The fanservice is not worth
> although the producers are trying hard on that score. Really they
> should just let it go and have Maid Guy Kogarashi carry the series
> from now on.

Aria is on my 'to buy' list, I never got to see any of it, but I've heard quite
a few good reports of it plus they're releasing it as a box set, and I like
getting a whole series at once in a box set.

July looks like being an expensive month with box sets for both Haruhi Suzumiya
and Maria-sama ga Miteru being released along with the final disk of Kanon.


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In message , Peter
Boulter  writes
>Robert Sneddon(fred@nospam.demon.co.uk) added

>>  Since Aria finished (and is now licenced, by RightStuf)
>
>Aria is on my 'to buy' list, I never got to see any of it, but I've heard quite
>a few good reports of it

 Lots of fanboi squee in Aria but underneath it all there's a solid
structure of worldbuilding and narrative. Little or no drama, lots and
lots of feelgood and when they're hot the animators do some of the
prettiest screenwork (with the aid of CGI) I've seen in recent years.
People who liked Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (like me) are likely to enjoy
Aria, although I've seen some comments that it's also a bit like Haibane
Renmei in an odd way.

> plus they're releasing it as a box set, and I like
>getting a whole series at once in a box set.

 There have been three TV series in total (13, 26 and 13 episodes) plus
an OAV. The release RightStuf is doing is for the first series (Aria the
Animation) with no dub to keep costs down. I suspect that only if it
sells well will they bring out the second series (the Natural) and then
the third (the Origination). The OAV is not really a standalone -- it
fits between Natural and Origination so I'd expect to see it released
after/with the second series. There's one more Japan DVD-only episode to
come out for the last series and that's it.
>
>July looks like being an expensive month with box sets for both Haruhi Suzumiya

 I think there's a second season of Suzumiya planned since it had a
ridiculously popular first series, and the light novel series it's based
on is still ongoing. The Aria manga finished at about the same time the
anime series did.
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Quoting  Robert Sneddon  :
>People who liked Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (like me) are likely to enjoy
>Aria,

... both shows being agonisingly slow-paced. YKK isn't nearly so prone to
episodes of extreme heartwarming, though.

>although I've seen some comments that it's also a bit like Haibane
>Renmei in an odd way.

I really don't see that.
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In message <2ay*Tfaes@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, David Damerell
 writes
>Quoting  Robert Sneddon  :
>>People who liked Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (like me) are likely to enjoy
>>Aria,
>
>... both shows being agonisingly slow-paced.

 Episodic, not slow. The Aria storyline runs through about three years
real-time, even before the coda in the last episode which is at least
five years after the events of the main series. As for YKK it covers at
least two human generations in time, thirty years or more.

> YKK isn't nearly so prone to
>episodes of extreme heartwarming, though.

 Hasukashi serifu kinshii!
>
>>although I've seen some comments that it's also a bit like Haibane
>>Renmei in an odd way.
>
>I really don't see that.

 A girl falls from the sky into a nurturing community composed entirely
of females where she has to learn everything anew. Her environs are
strictly limited and she has to grow and develop under the watchful eye
of an all-powerful organisation while being marked out in appearance
from the other inhabitants of the local conurbation which uses windmills
for power generation. She is employed rowing on a canal, and finally she
earns a new name amidst emotional trauma and the loss of her mentor.

 Is that Haibane Renmei I'm talking about, or Aria? I can also point out
the similarities between Aria and Gunslinger Girl if you want...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5czzuh

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Quoting  Robert Sneddon  :
> writes
>>Quoting  Robert Sneddon  :
>>>People who liked Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (like me) are likely to enjoy
>>>Aria,
>>... both shows being agonisingly slow-paced.
>Episodic, not slow.

Episodic _and_ slow. I've seen all of Aria, and it's the rare episode
where more than one thing happens; and the second lot of YKK was
positively funereal.

>The Aria storyline runs through about three years
>real-time, even before the coda in the last episode which is at least
>five years after the events of the main series.

I don't see that the passage of pretend clock time is really relevant to
slow-paced episodes. If Aria's fast-paced for covering eight years, Furi
Kuri's slow-paced because it only covers a week or so, and likewise Kodomo
no Omacha where episodes are often on successive days.

Kodocha, slow-paced? I think not.

>>YKK isn't nearly so prone to episodes of extreme heartwarming, though.
>Hasukashi serifu kinshii!

If only they had enforced that rule.

>>>although I've seen some comments that it's also a bit like Haibane
>>>Renmei in an odd way.
>>I really don't see that.
>A girl falls from the sky into a nurturing community composed entirely
>of females where she has to learn everything anew. [etc]

But this is just the inappropriate descriptions thread all over again. In
Super Mario Bros a plumber with a dodgy moustache does turn up to help a
young lady and doesn't do any actual plumbing, but it's still not like a
porn flick in an odd way or in any kind of way.
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