You know I was just about to start working on this weeks comic reviews...but you know its seemed wrong considering I hadn't posted anything else here and...don't really know what to say. OOh I just thought of some little things. KaZaA finally finished downloading Haibane Renmei on Friday, Episode 9 has been holding me back for what seems like months. But I promptly finished watching those last 5 episodes of the series very much. Its a very different series than most anime, and not different like Furi Kuri where its just insane(not that I don't like it :-P) but just different. Let give a brief synopsis...well let me goto the official website for one anyway.
"In a long-forgotten walled town, humans coexist with the Haibane, angelic-like beings of unknown origin. Rakka becomes the newest Haibane, after she awakens from a strange dream and finds herself hatching from a massive cocoon. With no memories of her previous life, Rakka struggles to adjust to her new surroundings, however burning questions remain in the back of her mind. What is Haibane and what is their purpose? What lies beyond the huge, forbidden town walls? Thus Rakka begins her wistful journey of self-discovery and wonderment."
It's different in that there is no real struggle in the story (at least untill the end) and no "bad guys" Its really just about the main character Rakka learning who she is and how she adjusts to her surroundings and finds her purpose. I just find the idea of the Haibane interesting, they are born from cocoons, some as children, some as teenagers. They acknowledge that they come from somewhere else but don't know where, or why because none of them can remember from before they came out of the cocoon, just that they were somewhere. Wings sprout from their backs, but they are not big enough to use them to fly, the wings are grey not white, and of course the Halo's which are made for them. They live within this great wall, which holds the place where the Haibane live and a town of normal people, but no one is allowed outside the wall. The series is very full of symbolism. :-P
Not really sure where I'm going with this...hmm I think I might have cut my nails too short, blah.

Also a couple Dreamcast games finished downloading, consisting of Segagaga, yes thats spelled right. That game is a RPG based around running SEGA in the future, it looks pretty funny, its got anime cutscenes and everything. I soo wish I knew Japanese cause I bet its a very funny game, its more of just something to have, cause its nifty.
But the real find is ShenMue 2 - Disk 1, the sequel to Shenmue(obviously) so I'm still looking for the man who killed my Father, Lan Di. This search has now taken me to Hong Kong to find answers. Some kid stole my bag and took my money, got the bag back...but now it looks like I'm gonna have to get a job. One can obly hope its being \fork lift driver like the last game, that was suprisingly fun. I'm not even gonna try and go through the headache of explaining why someone would want to work a job while their goofing off playing a game. Not to mention Ryo's obsession with Sailors :-P. Now I just have to wait till Disk 2, 3, and 4 are done. Its the European version, since only the X-Box version was released in America, so the game is subtitled and not in English like the last game. This game doesn't have fully voiced conversations just with important ones, but I'm not sure that might be because its a CD copy the voices might be cut out to save space since this isn't on the Gigadisk like a normal Dreamcast game. Amd Shenmue really fills up all those Discs chok full of goodness, so something had to be left out.

Guess thats all I got for now...oh yeah and there was a wierd controversy if you read the comments of the last 2 posts of my LiveJournal. Pretty crazy stuff, people trying to drive me nuts...or they are just stupid.