Comments on: This Week’s Animé http://www.dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/ Home of the Prattling Pratfall Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:45:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tom http://www.dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-85 tom Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:51:26 +0000 http://dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/#comment-85 Just giving you a hard time, Doug -- I'm not really a Mac bigot (yet). I would *assume* that there are more Windows machines with QuickTime than Macs with MediaPlayer, but then again, it's probably a safer assumption that there are more Windows PC's with MediaPlayer out there than anything else. Works fine here (Windows), and I did get the second video just by pressing play again. But I wouldn't have guessed there was another one coming without the hint. Just giving you a hard time, Doug — I’m not really a Mac bigot (yet). I would *assume* that there are more Windows machines with QuickTime than Macs with MediaPlayer, but then again, it’s probably a safer assumption that there are more Windows PC’s with MediaPlayer out there than anything else.

Works fine here (Windows), and I did get the second video just by pressing play again. But I wouldn’t have guessed there was another one coming without the hint.

]]> By: DogRat http://www.dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-84 DogRat Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:51:44 +0000 http://dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/#comment-84 Tom is an MIT grad, so don't worry about it! The 2-disk deal from Netflix is what Marianne has gone with. Buying all of this stuff would cost a fortune. Anything that isn't Hollywood's latest hit, like Animé, is where Netflix really shows its value. Tom is an MIT grad, so don’t worry about it! The 2-disk deal from Netflix is what Marianne has gone with. Buying all of this stuff would cost a fortune. Anything that isn’t Hollywood’s latest hit, like Animé, is where Netflix really shows its value.

]]> By: jeanie beanie http://www.dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-83 jeanie beanie Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:43:41 +0000 http://dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/#comment-83 P.S. Your whole reply to tom was Greek to me! HA! I'm hopeless. P.S. Your whole reply to tom was Greek to me! HA! I’m hopeless.

]]> By: jeanie beanie http://www.dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-82 jeanie beanie Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:42:42 +0000 http://dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/#comment-82 Thanks, Dougie! I'll check those titles out. Molly's series, "Fruits Baskets," is also a "coming of age" story, heavy on the interpersonal relationships (all very innocent, except for some very minor kissing on the cheeks, pecks on the lips, lots of blushing, and lots of verbal bullying by the boyz to each other). I agree that the appeal of anime (Moly insists on call her series "Shojo anime" or "Manga" picky, picky) is that it isn't the shallow tripe fed to kids on Nick or Disney teen shows. These kids have deeper, more complex issues than "Oh, GAWD, I have, like a PIMPLE, gasp, what AM I going to DO? Like, Josh will NEVER EVER look at me again!" Thanks, Dougie! I’ll check those titles out. Molly’s series, “Fruits Baskets,” is also a “coming of age” story, heavy on the interpersonal relationships (all very innocent, except for some very minor kissing on the cheeks, pecks on the lips, lots of blushing, and lots of verbal bullying by the boyz to each other). I agree that the appeal of anime (Moly insists on call her series “Shojo anime” or “Manga” picky, picky) is that it isn’t the shallow tripe fed to kids on Nick or Disney teen shows. These kids have deeper, more complex issues than “Oh, GAWD, I have, like a PIMPLE, gasp, what AM I going to DO? Like, Josh will NEVER EVER look at me again!”

]]> By: DogRat http://www.dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-80 DogRat Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:32:58 +0000 http://dograt.com/2006/09/29/this-weeks-anime/#comment-80 This particular Animé title isn't a series. You're probably thinking of "Last Exile," which we finished before the school year started. "Whisper of the Heart" is superb, and I greatly prefer it over the more fantastical stuff like "Spirited Away." Most of these titles are "coming of age" stories, with a great deal of universal appeal. This particular Animé title isn’t a series. You’re probably thinking of “Last Exile,” which we finished before the school year started. “Whisper of the Heart” is superb, and I greatly prefer it over the more fantastical stuff like “Spirited Away.” Most of these titles are “coming of age” stories, with a great deal of universal appeal.

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