I finally rented Run Lola Run. I saw about a half hour of it before my dad made me change the channel a while back. Now, I've rented it. Mwa ha ha ha! You'd never think that the events of 20 minutes could make such an entertaining movie! At first, I was thinking, "how the hell can they keep this pace up? But once you hit the 30^th or 40^th minute, you completely understand.

For those of you who haven't seen this German masterpiece, Run Lola Run is basically the story of a woman whose boyfriend lost 100,000 Deutchmarks (OK, I can't spell a foreign word, gimmie a break!) that belongs to a rather ruthless mobster. They have 20 minutes to come up with the money, or else... They manage to stretch out this by going over different scenarios, and through a work of genius, they manage to keep it interesting and enrapturing. God Bless Germany!

Well, after tinkering with subtitles, I realized I needed something to listen to. Well, nothing good was on. So, I figured "I've heard about FLCL, might as well catch an episode." I found it rather interesting. Bizarre, (but that's something you come to expect from Hedekei Anno) yet oddly entertaining. A degree of outright insanity, but with some level of logic. Definitely creative and new (I just happened to catch episode 1, no less!). I must say, I actually like it. I defiantly love the cat (It's name is Miyumiyu, apparently). To me, the cat is to FLCL as PenPen was to Neon Genesis... well, maybe not. PenPen actually has a cult (Everyone loves PenPen!), but I still love that amorphous blob constantly sleeping that they call a cat.

Samurai Champloo however... well, as long as I'm getting lucky, I had seen the first 3 minutes of this episode before. Having sat through this entire episode, I'm not really convinced of it's level of quality. I'm sorry, but 14^th/15^th century Japan and hip-hop/jazz combination just don't mix. The plot seems disjointed and just... bah. I was surprised to see the show introducing an openly gay character, as well as openly declaring how "pro-homo" (as Dave Foley puts it) Japan was at that time, but it still didn't convince me of the series' superiority.

s-CRY-ed is... WTF? I'm sure I'd understand it better if I were to start from the begining, but... the characters are a bit too weird. There's a guy who has hair worse than mine (think much larger, and baby-poo green). One of the characters, Cherish, whose voice, for a moment there, almost sounded like Kyle's from South Park. It just seems totally fucked up in a strange sort of way that's supposed to make sense, but really is just a bunch of guys making up shit along the way, acting like they had a plot complete the whole time (Like Neon Genesis, Full Metal Alchemist, Chobits, or Please Teacher) all while enjoying CG special effects (Oh my God, some it was just crappy too). If I wanted something with an out-of-control plot, weird characters, and stupid voices, I'd watch Dragonball Z.

Cowboy Bebop is... a bit more than what I expected. It manages to keep a decent amount of action without watering down the plot too much. Bandai nailed the voice acting (well, I'm glad they didn't fuck it up at least). Though, I'm not about to believe Jake that the Cowboy Bebop movie is the greatest thing ever to grace this side of the Pacific.

I'm sorry melodyriddle, but InuYasha isn't going to cut it for me. In a way, it's like DragonBall Z, but with improved animation quality, and marginally better plot. First a super-huge fight, then tons of talking, then more unbelievable combat, too much exposition. If you have to explain that much in a single sitting, then you probably need to work on your storytelling. "Oh no! Thousands of demons are flowing out of Mount Hakure!" right after a shot of thousands of demons swarming out of Mount Hakure. "Oh no! They're coming!" with a shot of several demons coming straight at Kagome. I'm sorry, but I just can't accept that.

Full Metal Alchemist is a pretty good animé in my opinion. It's nothing Hayao Miyazaki dreams up, nor does is it something like Please Teacher. It's a sort of show I haven't seen in a while. It's of the same genre of Cowboy Bebop, action/adventure, but with more of a guiding plot, like that seen in Neon Genesis Evangelion. But the dubbing! I CAN'T STAND THE DUBBING! Edward sounds like he's 22, or 23! The translation (or perhaps localization, God knows their reason). It's enough to make me go out and download fansubs just to avoid having to watch the televised dubbed version!

I've always said that Cartoon Network just licenses the shittiest animé and throws it on the network for the hell of it, but I'm going to take that back. They license some good animé, but it's all going to have bad dubbing (Well, ADV's works have decent voice actors, like NGE or FLCL). But I won't be happy until FUNimation has a seat in hell right next to 4Kids.

I think I need to go watch something pure and unspoiled now, like Shuffle!, an animé based on a hentai game! Oh, don't worry! They broadcast this stuff on Japanese television, where little kids can watch. How dirty can it be? Oh... right...

My cat thinks he's the slickest, sneakiest animal ever. On the floor is a plastic pencil box. In the front of it is a big hole, and Scout, the more adventurous of the three cats, just couldn't resist sticking his paw in there, knocking around the pencils curiously. Well, I decided to give him a little jump, so I hit the arm of the chair, and he jumps, and gets the point. About twenty minutes later, he tried again, trying to be a bit sneakier. He's not. Well, I smack the couch again, and along comes the cute act: withdraw paw, roll over (Otto does it all the time) then acts like he's been licking himself all along. Yeah, not suspicious at all. I'm on to you, cat! you're going to have to kill me in my sleep to keep my quiet! Oh shit... he'll take that as an invitation.