The anime Gunslinger Girl may have a disturbing premise — school age girls turned into assassin cyborgs — but the music used for the opening credits, by the Scottish band the Delgados, is outstanding. I especially love the ethereal part after 3:30.
http://youtu.be/L-Slx60x3Hw
Gunslinger Girl
Ghost Hound
http://youtu.be/2VTpsfru0ak
Summer Wars (better on Blu-ray!)
Some years back, Panasonic had an ISP business in Japan called hi-ho. They had a series of bizarre, addictive, animated commercials that Eric and I enjoyed watching. I remember Eric wasn’t even a teenager yet, so it had to have been a while ago. This one has a winter theme.
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Eric liked this one…
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…and this was my favorite.
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Tech note: these are the first videos I have made using CamStudio.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit is about a woman warrior who has been hired to protect a boy prince sentenced to death by his father for being possessed by a water spirit. Hey, Stephen King story summaries sound silly too! 😉
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This series is another one that looks particularly good on the Panasonic video projector. We’re disappointed, however, by the DVD box set of Mushi-shi, which suffers from the excessive video compression required to fit seven episodes on a single disc. The original release had only four shows per disc.
Greetings from the Dunkin’ Donuts in Winchendon, MA, where around the corner is the end of a dream. Tokyo Game Action was Andy McGuire’s dream of turning a vacant bowling alley into a video arcade that was so good it would be a destination for serious gamers — and for Eric it was.
Nearly six hours after the auction began to liquidate all assets, it’s still going. I’ll post more about this later from home.
Eric and his cousin Kate are somewhere here in the Hynes Convention Center, where we’re attending Anime Boston. The Hynes has a very good free WiFi network, as I just found out.
Unlike last year’s Anime Boston, I have only good things to say about the registration process, because it was 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter! Yesterday, as pre-registered attendees, it took all of one minute for us to get our badges. Dealer space has been doubled, making navigation much easier, and there are lots of well-trained volunteers. Bravo, Anime Boston organizers! Thank you.
I’ve been hanging out in the video rooms, partly to check out the various projectors. One of the Animes being featured is Kino’s Journey, which Eric had us watching a couple of years ago. Here’s a shot of the room taken with the Acer netbook’s webcam.
