Recent Anime Purchases

Four things within the past couple of weeks.

1) Lupin the 3rd: Missed By A Dollar (aka "$1 Money Wars")
-- A really good Lupin movie... but it's bugging me how the call him "loo- PIN" and not "loo-PON".

2) Box Tin -- Fullmetal Alchemist "Journey to Ishbal" DVD and FMA OST 3.
-- I blame false advertisement for this (and failure to return due to the store of purchase being in PA while I am in NY). I *thought* I was buying a box tin (which is decorated FMA style) with all three OST's for the FMA series. Turned out I only got the DVD and one of the OST's. However, I like the CD and I like the DVD. Plus I got it half-price.

3) Neon Genesis Evangelion set:: Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion
-- I blame curiosity on this purchase. I've seen maybe 4 episodes of NGE on Adult Swim (when they actually had it running)... and since the wikipedia [and everybody else] said the ending was a "brain-F@#%", I thought I'd test my endurance. Well, I survived. A very good set of movies from a director who had a sinful amount of free time on his hands. The audio commentary was quite insightful and also diminished the "brain-F@#%" quite a bit.

Hellsing OVA. Part one. In a collecters tin. IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

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Originally posted by +KIRA+ 3) Neon Genesis Evangelion set:: Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion -- I blame curiosity on this purchase. I've seen maybe 4 episodes of NGE on Adult Swim (when they actually had it running)... and since the wikipedia [and everybody else] said the ending was a "brain-F@#%", I thought I'd test my endurance. Well, I survived. A very good set of movies from a director who had a sinful amount of free time on his hands. The audio commentary was quite insightful and also diminished the "brain-F@#%" quite a bit. I survived!

I actually watched the movies first before the series and the movie isn't all that much of a brain f*** (its tries too hard in my opinion). Death and Rebirth is pretty much a clip show, with a little bonus at the end leading into EoE. And EoE is actually pretty simple to follow, regarding all the visuals Anno throws at your face. But its still f***ed up nonethless and because of that, Big O's ending made sense to me. Don't ask me how, it just did. So yeah, curiosity aside, I myself never would have bought those. >_>

Um... this thread has over 1,000 posts. Shouldn't be stickied by now? Just asking.
Peace.