More anime talk.
Aug. 12th, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenI've become kind of infatuated with No. 6 since I mentioned it earlier. This week's episode wasn't even that great (well, Eve was pretty amazing) but just seeing Nezumi and Sion together makes me happy. I found out that the novels are over at 9 -- just finished in June -- so the animators have the whole of the story to work with. Don't know if they're going to try to capture the whole thing in 11 episodes, or just pick a good stopping point within the canon. Or maybe neither.
Anyhow, I'm going to be in SF next week anyway, so I think I'm going to stop by Kinokuniya and start collecting the novels. Kino's inventory is kind of crazy for No. 6. Volume 1 is available only in their New York store. Volume 2 is unavailable except from Japan. Volume 3 is available only in the SF store. Volume 4 is available only in the San Jose store. So... it's going to be a while before I can really sit down and read it, but that's okay. I won't have solid time for reading Japanese novels until next month anyways.
Plus I should really finish Ginban Kaleidoscope first...
On the Prince of Tennis front, I guess I spoke too soon about Tezuka not killing dinosaurs. The surfing was a little less overdramatic, but only a little. Of course, I can't complain because Tezuka was super-cool. <3 I think I am a fan now. But with 7 OVA episodes and at most one match left, what am I going to get out of it? (They couldn't possibly make him sit out the finals, right? Right? But who is he going to play? Sanada? Boooring. I assume they will save Yukimura for Ryoma, plus Ryoma already beat Sanada. But I'm sure they'll find some way to make it suspenseful and exciting anyway.)
But with all the Tezuka awesomeness lately, it makes me that much more annoyed with the TV series ending. Bah.
Anyhow, I'm going to be in SF next week anyway, so I think I'm going to stop by Kinokuniya and start collecting the novels. Kino's inventory is kind of crazy for No. 6. Volume 1 is available only in their New York store. Volume 2 is unavailable except from Japan. Volume 3 is available only in the SF store. Volume 4 is available only in the San Jose store. So... it's going to be a while before I can really sit down and read it, but that's okay. I won't have solid time for reading Japanese novels until next month anyways.
Plus I should really finish Ginban Kaleidoscope first...
On the Prince of Tennis front, I guess I spoke too soon about Tezuka not killing dinosaurs. The surfing was a little less overdramatic, but only a little. Of course, I can't complain because Tezuka was super-cool. <3 I think I am a fan now. But with 7 OVA episodes and at most one match left, what am I going to get out of it? (They couldn't possibly make him sit out the finals, right? Right? But who is he going to play? Sanada? Boooring. I assume they will save Yukimura for Ryoma, plus Ryoma already beat Sanada. But I'm sure they'll find some way to make it suspenseful and exciting anyway.)
But with all the Tezuka awesomeness lately, it makes me that much more annoyed with the TV series ending. Bah.
