<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> I have not seen very much on TV, and tend to avoid series (though I have a couple written down I may rent to see if it would be worth buying all 27 DVDs. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
I'm lucky there is one place here that has a fair selection of anime (4'x6' section of shelves), and another with poor selection but sometimes good prices. I got a few from amazon.ca as well.
I liked ghost in the Shell, but couldn't see what was so amazing about it.
Same with Jin Roh; presumably a lot of people think it is wonderful, but I would not have got it had it not been on sale. It is good, but CAN$90 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> for the special edition, when most anime is under CAN$30 and some (rarely) as low as CAN$20? I got the regular DVD.
"final fantasy ... i kinda like it as it's darker & yet hopeful."
Me too.
"i've watched pat labor series on tv & it's nice as it doesn't concentrate 2 much on the labor bots, rather on the people who work with them."
I agree; I'm not usually into giant robots.
Grave of the Fireflies is way to poignant, and nocando depressing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />
I have the special edition of Akira as well. Aside from the popup bubbles with translations of graffiti and signs (none of which are interesting or useful), I don't think there is much difference between that and the updated re-release version. The special edition has an interview with the director using black subtitles, superimposed over his black and white checker shirt (making most of it unreadable). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> The description of the music production was interesting, when you could read it.
I have a list of DVDs that I am keeping an eye out for, or may get if they go on sale;
AD Police (all 12 episodes)
Blood Reign
Hellsing ?? (4 volumes)
Nausicaa
Neon Genesis Evangelion (??) 8 DVD series collection
+ 2 movies : Death and Rebirth, The End of Evangelion
(have to rent some of this first, but it is suppose to be really good)
Now and Then, Here and There
3 DVDs : Discord and Doom, Flight and Fall, Conflict and Chaos
Record of Lodoss War: Episodes 1-13 (Collector's Edition, 2 Discs)
Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight
Samurai X: Reflection
Wisper of the Heart
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
