Turning Japanese
Ladies and Gentleman, I need to come out and say this: I realize I have a collection addiction for Japanese anime.
For the past few years, I've been buying anime series with the intent of watching them eventually. (Hey, they're really cheap here.) Unfortunately, I've not yet had the chance to watch almost any of them such that-- like my books-- they're backing up like crazy.
Now, as of last count, there are 59 titles waiting beside my TV and I've only finished only one series: High School of the Dead. Here's a complete list:
For the past few years, I've been buying anime series with the intent of watching them eventually. (Hey, they're really cheap here.) Unfortunately, I've not yet had the chance to watch almost any of them such that-- like my books-- they're backing up like crazy.
Now, as of last count, there are 59 titles waiting beside my TV and I've only finished only one series: High School of the Dead. Here's a complete list:
- The Last Exile
- Full Metal Panic, Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, Full Metal Panic The Second Raid
- Perfect Blue
- Stand Alone Complex
- Samurai Seven
- Read or Die, Read or Die TV
- Getbackers
- GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
- High School of the Dead
- A Certain Scientific Rail Gun
- Ghost Stories (Bakemonogatari)
- Paprika
- Summer Wars
- Gatekeepers
- Shikabane Hime AKA
- Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls
- Queen's Blade
- Yukikaze
- The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
- Black Lagoon 1 & 2
- Cowboy Bebop
- Samurai Gun
- The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk
- FLCL
- Strait Jacket
- Jyu Oh Sei
- Gunparade March: The New Warsong
- Shakugan no Shana
- Night Wizard
- Peacemaker
- First Squad: The Moment of Truth
- Viper's Creed
- Divergence Eve
- Blade of the Immortal
- Chrono Crusade
- Tenjo Tenge
- Steam Detectives
- Maburaho
- Godannar Season 1
- Grenadier
- Full Metal Alchemist Season 1
- Canaan
- Speed Grapher
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Seasons 1 & 2
- Gunslinger Girl
- Gantz
- Tsubasa Chronicle
- Fate Stay Night
- Blood
- Tweeny Witches
- Witch Hunter Robin
- Boys Be...
- Samurai Champloo
- Ranma 1½
- Ghost Hunt
- Zombie Loan
- Those Who Hunt Elves, Season 2 (no season 1)
- Darker than Black Season 2 (no season 1)
- Hayao Miyazaki collection
I also have downloads of Nausicaa, Steamboy, Appleseed 2004, and the series Vandread burned on DVDs. My only consolation? I've not yet heard anyone being killed by overflowing stacks of DVDs. Thank goodness for that.
How do I know I have an addiction given that I've not watched any? The same way that I know I'm a certified bibliophile: I keep on buying even knowing I still have so many waiting for me back home.
To paraphrase an oft-repeated saying in this blog: so many anime series, so little time.
How do I know I have an addiction given that I've not watched any? The same way that I know I'm a certified bibliophile: I keep on buying even knowing I still have so many waiting for me back home.
To paraphrase an oft-repeated saying in this blog: so many anime series, so little time.
