The Hall of Fire

Sound priorities there, Impenitent.

Kudos to Mossy and Crucifer for including Neil Gaiman (and Terry Pratchett).

This is hard...

The Lord of the Rings
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett

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I was looking for clips from the anime, and I turned up this fan-made anime music video. I thought you might like to see what the animators made of CLAMP's style when it came to simplifying things enough to have them move.

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I think the language is a bit strong, but that's the only way you can use the law to change these things, I suppose. Making the bank notes different sizes won't do any harm - I didn't even notice until I started working as a shop assistant that all British notes are. It's a good thing to do, since i...

Rising For The Moon
I was brought up on all kinds of weird folky rubbish. I hope you enjoy it.

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(In one a guy makes mittens for everyone he cares about). Oh my gosh. Please tell me it was Watanuki. I think your point about target audiences is very valid, but at the same time I think that there are plenty of anime, at least these days, intentionally aimed at more than one of those areas. Trigu...

Thanks! Tosh got salmon'd in the name of a tester post. Just out of interest, are you familiar with the bowdlerised lyric in my sig? (Most people wouldn't be. )

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I didn't really realise that it was a big deal to me until I read this thread and started to feel all glowy and loved-up. :love: I had no idea that the provision for "same-sex unions" had left a mark on my subconscious - considering my feelings 'less' on some level than those in a heterose...

Impy, I don't think you're entirely off-line. There's an unfortunate tendency for anime, as with every other form of modern media, to oversexualise youthful traits. The merchandising aspect is capable of pandering to some fairly horrible whims, and there are some very creepy shows out there ( Kodomo...

Late to the party, but on the subject of flickable hair... reminds me of some big exam I had to do a few years ago, where I was quite stressed, and flicked my (then very long) hair over my shoulder, so it would stop hanging over my face - whereupon it swept across the desk of the guy behind me, taki...

Apologies for image-heavy post. Sure, nine out of ten anime might share a few common drawing tropes. Anime has its roots in a devastated post-war economy. It had to be as expressive as possible given a low frame rate and limited animation. That, and the love of one hugely influential artist for Dis...

Northerner, that sounds like something out of Hellsing... the vampire Alucard is a servant to the house of Hellsing, and hunts other vampires. He drinks only medical blood, under orders. The Vatican controls the secret Section XIII, a vampire hunting division, the greatest warrior of whom seeks to d...

Ones I've been recommended to see: tengen toppa gurren lagann code geass bleach weiss kreuz tsubasa (chronicles)? ergo proxy blood+ elfen lied monster trinity blood Bleach is so much fun. :D The Tsubasa anime I've watched so far (from the main series, not the OVAs) is pretty awful, but has a kind o...

I'm here upon my white charger.
I was just thinking... why does everybody think I watch Skins?
Prim, Wilma, this is a discussion I'm very, very much interested in having, but I'm afraid that we might go into depth too much. Would it be sensible to request a thread split?

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Well, Alatar cleared up the distinction between the various Other Boards for me, and both he and Wilma directly requested my presence, so... who am I to refuse?

I'm glad to see so many familiar faces.

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