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   XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: blissNO@SPAMcalifornia.com   
      
   Ping Kuo wrote.   
      
   > In article <10092115531480881.NC-1.56.blissNO@News.Individual.NET>,   
   >  "bobbie sellers"  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Ping Kuo wrote.   
   >   
   > > > hormone and phermone start to kick in...  in this case, I don't blame   
   > > > Hikaru, I blame Kyosuke and Madoka.   
   >   
   > >     Why assign blame to this.   
   >   
   > because it did not have to turn out that way in the movie, it is true   
   > that all three people could have taken steps to avoid it,  so they all   
   > are at faults, but the less of them all is Hikaru,   
      
       The whole thing is a device for dramatic tension.  Young people   
   don't know any better and the story is a device to inform them of   
   the pain they can cause by being indecisive and not straight forward.   
   If Hikaru is not blowing air she has said that knew that Madoka   
   loved and was loved by Kyosuke.  But she said also that she was   
   trying to take him away from Madoka.  Or at least that is what   
   the subtitles in the first movie had to say in her climatic   
   scene with M in the Abaca coffee shop.   
      
      
   > >     I don't know if you are familiar with my history of interest in   
   > > Japanese sequential narrative but I only started to allow myself this   
      
   snipped   
      
   >   
   > and there are many, many more animanga for you to explore, better late   
   > than never.   
      
       Seems to be more access at this time than ever before.  The market   
   may choke on the amount of new titles but...   
      
   >   
   > >     I will start watching KOR again from the beginning in next week   
   > > or so, one disk a week for 16 weeks though I may rewatch the final   
   > > movie in English before that just for the difference of the   
   > > experience.   
   >   
   > you are very good, my usual speed is about 30+ manga or 13 30mins   
   > episodes a night, I can't wait to finish them if I have a complete set   
   > in my hand.  so I can do it all over again the second night.   
      
       I have no choice because I cannot sit still that long and have   
   other things to pursue.  If I could find an ideal portable media   
   player with a viewing screen that fit on or worked like spectacles   
   then I could watch more often but I have to exercise daily(not as   
   much as I like because it makes me sick to do that) but at least   
   a few blocks or down on my knees scrubbing a bit of kitchen floor. etc.   
       Cooking for myself, manual dishwashing etc use up a lot of   
   this old woman's time.   
      
       I have lot of other things to look at and read as well. Finished   
   off five books this week including a sfpl manga and add in Tramps Like   
   Us #6, Kare Kano #17, Doubt!! #3 and Kodocha #5.  Manga are only good   
   for about an hour at best.  But by Friday I was tired and didn't   
   get AYA #9.  Yes I got my renter's assistance check but it don't hold   
   up as well as the manga.  Lots of inputs and falling behind on my   
   timeshifted stuff, going to try to rewatch more of dubbed "Oh My Goddess"   
   movie tonite, the one with Celestine and Morgan messing with the   
   protagonists(to make a world with less suffering).   
      
   > >     Besides KOR I really like Maison Ikkoku and am getting each box   
   > > set of DVDs as it comes out.  Right now I am getting toward the end   
   > > of the 5th box set.  I have read the Viz Graphic novels version of   
   > > MI but am intending to get the rest of the 2nd edition in the right   
   > > to left format as they are more complete.  MI is the best but still   
   > > I haven't seen the final volume so I shouldn't be so sure but the   
   > > manga is unsurpassed of its kind in my opinion.   
   >   
   > it hit the right notes for being true and wacky at the same time,   
   >   
   > or, as someone else long ago says on RAAM, it is about people falling in   
   > love and turning foolish.  which we all can identify with.   
      
       Or about foolish people falling in love and learning what it   
   really takes to sustain a relationship, with several fools behaving   
   naturally in the background.   
      
   > make sure you watch MI the movie, (not the beach OAV) very different   
   > atmosphere/mood compare to the TV/manga, original story, too.  I think   
   > you would enjoy it.   
      
       Whatever I can find to rent or buy on MI I will be watching.   
      
       Latest viewing "Dry Leaves"  whooo ultra-violent, catering to   
   scatological and other possibly purient interests.  Will watch   
   in English later today and finish watching the features before   
   adding it to my personal log but will never buy and rewatch   
   I am afraid.  Have read more nihilistic fiction in my time than   
   the simplistic "Dry Leaves", such as Jonathan Littel's   
   "Bad Voltage" where none of the protagonists survive.   
      
       later   
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