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"PAL Anime Fans!"

Virgin have got a sale on a lot of ADV DVDs, usually about £19.99 they are selling for £12.99 or 2 for £18, including the first 4 volumes of Noir, Burn up w and Burn Up Excess, Hellsing, Boogiepop Phantom, Bubblegum Crisis, Dirty Pair Flash, Neogenesis Evangelon, Vol1: Pretear, Vol1: Angelic Layer, Spriggen, Sin, Vol1: Najica Blitz Tactic, and some others, I can't remember them all.

Unfortunaly it meant I HAD TO spend £200 on getting a few things I wanted.

My uncle has told me a LOT about 'Spirited Away'.

It MUST be good, so, anyone got a copy, and is it worth the money?

Might get Metropolis next.

sorry I didnt mean you wouldnt understand Spirited Away, but you know some people who arent anime fans would probably wonder where all the talking animals are and the musical numbers etc.

I can understand that though, everyone has different tastes, Ghibli movies seem to be in a different catagory altogether I suppose.

As for Excel Saga that can get confusing and the dialog is very very fast, probably best to watch it raw if you know Japanese or the English dub which I enjoy. Reminds me of FLCL, my ex insisted on watching it subbed but during some parts like the manga style she found it far too difficult to follow. So we switched to the dub which was also rather good. Do you like FLCL?

I seem to like all animes really, when Pokemon was first on tv I watched that all the time, same with Dragonball Z. I watch all the romance ones Fushigi Yugi etc, all the comedies, I enjoy movies like Akira, Patlabor and the like. Ah yes the ones I dont really likes are some of the more violent animes, I prefer not to watch those. Though of course I love ones such as Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll and Fist of the North Star.

I understood Spirited Away no problem, but not seen any other Ghibli stuff - Kiki's delivery service, Laputa, etc just don't appeal to me for some reason although Grave Of The Fireflies does (just waiting for this to reach me through the ever wonderful postal service) probably because of the WW2 setting/storyline more than it being Ghibli.

Which is strange because its not like I'm an anime fan who only likes mecha/fights/violence orientated stuff, I like Oh My Goddess, Love Hina, Chobits, Macross, His And Her Circumstances, Noir, Sakura Wars etc - pretty wide spectrum of stuff.

Stranger In Paradise wrote:
> It's okay, but I never quite understood what the fuss was about the
> film, it's probably helped get more people interested in anime so
> that's good at least.

Are you a Ghibli fan Belldandy? It's a good film I can see it can be a bit confusing for some, I suppose a movie like Laputa would be a lot easier to follow and understand. Or perhaps Whisper of the Heart I quite enjoyed that having only seen it raw with a script afterwards.

It's okay, but I never quite understood what the fuss was about the film, it's probably helped get more people interested in anime so that's good at least.

My fav animie film would have to be Spirited away, a 5 star film indeed!

Could never really get into Excel Saga, Excel talked soooooooooooo fast sometimes it just gives you brain overload! I prefer to watch Jap audio and eng subs and I don't think Excel Saga really lends itself to that because of the dialogue/speed.

Here's a site for downloading episodes of lots of didfferent Anime' shows like Blue gender, Cowboy Bebop (and the feature film of CB).
[URL]http://aftermathanime.net/index6.php?id=fulleps[/URL]

Agh! I'm missing Excel Saga now. Might have to go and buy it. It's just so crazy.

Yay more Sailor Moon *sarcasm*

Gunslinger Girl has been available in Tokyo Pop's range of manga stuff for some time now though not seen anything about the series, I'd think the two will be vaguely similar.

Notice that AD Police even gets a small feature in the new GAME store magazine so maybe Manga Entertainment have finally decided to make an effort after the balls up that was the Ghost In The Shell tv release... (or lack of).