Oh, I am glad to hear that about the Gundam. Have you seen the vid of Gundam Wing to Pat Benatar's 'Invincible'? That vid did the unthinkable and made me like Pat Benatar.
I have been going through a bit of a dry spell in terms of media in general, sadly-- for one thing, this anime season is worse than last year's, which I had devoutly hoped was not possible, and if not for Naruto Shippuuden and Spice and Wolf I don't think I'd've bothered keeping up with anime releases this year at all. New season starts in like a week, at least. Book and manga-wise I've been doing a lot of rereading, too.
Although it occurs to me that one of those rereads was of the best memoir I read last year, which you should very much read if you haven't, namely Kate Braestrup's Here If You Need Me, which is about the author going to divinity school after the death of her husband and becoming the official chaplain of the Maine Forestry Service. It's on my shortlist of memoirs now with Richard Hoffmann's Half the House and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart. It's very much about death, and grief, except that it isn't.
Oh, and manga-wise, did you ever read Japan As Seen By 17 Creators?
Oh, and I've been obsessively rewatching Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei because it makes me feel better about the universe for obscure reasons, but I have real qualms about actually recommending that to anybody, because I can't tell whether liking it is a symptom of some kind of grave mental problem on my part. But unless I'm crazy it was the best show I saw last year.
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I have been going through a bit of a dry spell in terms of media in general, sadly-- for one thing, this anime season is worse than last year's, which I had devoutly hoped was not possible, and if not for Naruto Shippuuden and Spice and Wolf I don't think I'd've bothered keeping up with anime releases this year at all. New season starts in like a week, at least. Book and manga-wise I've been doing a lot of rereading, too.
Although it occurs to me that one of those rereads was of the best memoir I read last year, which you should very much read if you haven't, namely Kate Braestrup's Here If You Need Me, which is about the author going to divinity school after the death of her husband and becoming the official chaplain of the Maine Forestry Service. It's on my shortlist of memoirs now with Richard Hoffmann's Half the House and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart. It's very much about death, and grief, except that it isn't.
Oh, and manga-wise, did you ever read Japan As Seen By 17 Creators?
Oh, and I've been obsessively rewatching Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei because it makes me feel better about the universe for obscure reasons, but I have real qualms about actually recommending that to anybody, because I can't tell whether liking it is a symptom of some kind of grave mental problem on my part. But unless I'm crazy it was the best show I saw last year.