Achieved quite a bit over he w/end. Moved my stuff around, sorted through a lot of boxes. Got four box-crates of stuff to sell on e-bay, chucked 3 or 4 black binbags worth of rubbish away.
I didn't quite achieve everything I wanted to on that front, though. It's always more knackering than you think it's going to be sorting though stuff. There's all the heavy lifting of course, but when you have limited space like I do you end up shuffling lots of things back and forth to make room and then there's all the thinking things through - "should I keep this, should I sell that?" Ah well, I'm sure there will be more opportunities.
Anyway, I also did a shed load of scanning while I was off. All I have left are two animage mags. Animage is the one that is glued, so I spent time unglueing it rather than scanning it, so it's all ready to go now. The next target is the huge pile of artbooks that are waiting for scanning. There are literally more than a dozen of them, though some have more images than others.
And obviously I've been watching fansubs while I've been scanning. Here are some thoughts:
- Kure-nai: watched a few more of these and I quite like it. It's more of a character piece than an action piece, but seems well realised.
- To Love-Ru: it's a fairly standard hot alien girl comes to earth and causes havoc in a young boys life series, but it's quite well done. Also doesn't seem to take itself too seriously and echii shows are never a bad thing in my particular book.
- Macross Frontier: Yeah, pretty good. This one seems to suffer with the same issue I've always had with macross series, though, being unusual pacing. In macross shows there always seems to be huge action sequences that are really exciting, but then you get equally huge periods of almost nothing at all happening. It unfortunately ends up making the quite bits seem more boring than they actually are.
- Penguin Girl (Penguin Musume Heart): I ended up just not quite liking this one enough. I dunno, it seemed like it didn't quite meet its potential, somehow. I mean, it's a comedy with a character who is anime/manga obsessed and there seem to have been a lot of those recently, so maybe that's why I found it a little disappointing.
- Kamen No Maid Guy: Again, I felt a little disappointed for some reason. This one has a really nice premise of a big tough guy (think fist of the north star chara) whose working as a maid for a hot, young heiress. However, I dunno, it never really seemed to get going. Not there is a slight caveat to that - the translation in the fansub translation was really poor, and also character tend to speak very quickly, so the text would be quite difficult to read anyway, even if it wasn't badly written. So perhaps that hampered my enjoyment.
- Nabari no Ou: I didn't find it all that engaging. I was also a bit confused by what it is - I wasn't sure if it was aimed at boys or girls, as it seems to have that classic "yaoi pretty boy" character design, but the subject matter is distinctly shounen in nature (ninjas and hidden powers and prophecies - not really my cup of tea) and there's a couple of female characters that sort of seem like love interests for the male lead. It was a bit sort of jumbled up.
- Junjo Romantica: didn't get very far with this. It's, well, let's just say it's not a show aimed at me :). I guess if you're a fan of the whole yaoi/boylove thing this is a good example of the genre, but it's not my cup of tea.
- Vampire Knight: Ugh. It's got vampires and a girl lead - it's like a distillation of all that appalling hormonal teenage girl dribble that I roll my eyes at on Urbis. Sorry, I'm sure it has it's fans and not wanting to slate it - it's probably better than all that - but count me out.
You'll also notice the last three were kinda shoujo type series. There seem to have been a lot of these this year. Maybe it's just that I happen to have watched three of them (I tend to be utterly random when picking what order to watch things in).
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