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Rather Liking: Couple of things to recently enter my musical radar if anyone's heard of them - Field Music - In context - newish band to add to the current clutch coming out of the North East Koop - Koop Island Blues - difficult to pigeon hole - jazzy-electronica-hiphop? Heard both on...

Is the term ‘fanservice’ acknowledged as covering both sides of the male/female equation? I think the term 'exploitation' is a little ambigious in this context, especially as we are taking about 2D images rather than real people, so it's not obvious who is exploiting who - the anime...

Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket if you needed telling. Reminds me a bit of myself - hair and eye colour if nothing else - just wish I still had quite the same quantity of hair :roll:

I’m not sure I can agree that 1 volume of manga can say quite as much as a novel, maybe one of the more detailed mangas (GITS?) comes close to a shorter/thinner novel, but £6-7 can get you 300-400 pages. I have an extreme example on my shelf – Stephen king’s The Stand ‘Uncut’, £8.99...

I was meaning to put a post on this earlier - the post from a fellow manga-newbie harkins’s reminded me. I bought my first manga the other week (2 volumes X/1999 and STONe vol.1 for £15 @ FP), and its apparent pretty quickly, even at a discount rate, how much entertainment that money...

Not sure if it warrants a separate posting, but if you follow the link to LIFF website you’ll find that they are also showing all <b>13 episodes</b> of <b>Paranoia Agent</b>, split over 4/5th November. There is a whole bunch of Japanese live action films in the list as part of the Festival...

It's an odd thing, but i find exactly the same myself. Ever heard or listened to any Tindersticks?, particularily their II album - I've found them strangely cathartic when I've been down in a hole - can't go anywhere near it at any other time - it's just too damn depressing! Hope you're...

Ahh...thanks for that Arbalest - I have much to learn! Still battling with my way from 1868 Japan onwards - begining to think its not the best written book - thick and lumpy - doesn't make for a flowing read.

Sounds like a slightly random choice of historical time frame - were there significant developments in that period?

Well it's not anime, or Japanese, but <b>Film4</b> have a <b>Korean 'Season'</b> coming up kicking off on this thursday night (5 Oct.) Looks like they are showing one each night at around 11pm-ish, give or take, starting with <b>Lady Vengeance</b> Thursday at 10:50pm followed in order each...

In line with my recently developed fascination with all things Japanese I dug out a couple of books from my local library: <b>The Japanese - Strange but not Strangers - Joe Joseph</b> Enjoyable read giving a nice snap shot of Japanese society and culture from the view point of a westerner...

Haven't watched that much anime yet by most peoples standards, but here's a few that have made me chuckle so far: <b>FMP? Fumoffu</b> Kaname: I'm Kaname. Kaname Chidori. Masatami: Miss Kaname. Oh, what a beautiful, elegant name! Like a quiet, unassuming slug, the sound of your name crawls...

Not today, but yesterday bought <b>Cromartie High School vol.1</b> Wanted to save reading it for later but couldn't resist sampling a little: Got as far as the incident of applying adhesive to the 37,042nd domino - anyone familiar with CHS are possibly chuckling to themselves at the...

Insight into the life of a struggling currency trader... Work starts here; start of a new 24/5 week, currency markets open (10pm gmt) after weekend close, Australia/Japan awake by now. To be honest, nothing much happens generally till Europe wakes up tomorrow morning, so just a case of...

Oh my...storm in a tea cup anybody? Seems pretty simple to me - rather ask the question 'why no wrestling?', just post a topic with something interesting to say about it and wait for some replies. The question seems to propose there some sort of wrestling censorship going on. Is there??

Thx for all your welcome-s I managed to find the "how old are you all?" thread - so now i know roughly where i stand now! Nice to know there at least a few of us at these lofty levels of 'maturity' - and one or two above :wink: Found a nice quote from an 'older' anime fan in the ANN...

I was perhaps lucky to see 2046 before In the Mood a few years ago and was really impressed with the whole visual style of the film, although i have to admit i left the cinema not entirely certain of how it all fitted together. Managed to watch In the Mood for the first time the other week...

Perhaps not, the jury is still out...in any case, as I'm fast discovering, I’m sure I don’t need to convince any of you that anime has a lot more to offer than mere 'kids cartoons' Anyway, a welcome hello to anyone listening, I'm Jim - 32, hoping to share some views/opinions/thoughts/joy...