I have a vexing question, Who actually thinks the panty shot animes are a viable source of entertainment. If you think they are what please post you response. I am especially looking for female replies. I am curios to hear there replies. since I'm a guy and most guys fit into the stereo typical guy category we pretty much like panty shot animes for one reason or another. If there is a girl friend we say something like, it has an enriching storyline.

I'm becoming a reading fiend as goes on. Today, I read about 120 more pages into my book, which is quite a feat considering how much shit goes on during a regular day here at school. I've never really been so gung-ho about reading and I think I know exactly why:

Back a long time ago, when I was a wee lad in Elementary school, I read quite a bit. Usually a Goosebumps book could be read in the amount of time school takes (a 7 hour period of time with class), and I would visit the library and get novels that librarians would reccomend or read hardy boys books (those were always my favorite), which was all fine and good, until sometime around 6th grade when I was relegated from the fun and easy literature of a young kid to the more "mature" reading material of the middle to high school level.

I think this is from where most people dispise reading. THe problem with the books they give us in this time period would have to be because of many different reasons. First of all, they don't have the childish mirth and easy situations that most early books contain (Hardy Boys books bordering on the line). However, they don't really contain the violence or interesting situations that most good novels contain considering they have to be decent (all except for Lord of the Flys, however, that's another story...). I remember more often than not, most of the books were dry reads about nothing in particular, as well as having us write up ditto sheets about the book... Everyone likes to read at their own pace and no one wants to be forced to answer stupid questions about the book.

THen came other factors. Reading short stories and learning about all the different types of writing styles (none of which were really distinct from each other, or stood out very well) as well as symbolism. Reading the Lord of the Flys is most teacher's forays into teaching Symbolism to students, which is awful, since if the book is actually symbolic of anything, it's so open-ended, that it doesn't matter what you say. The lesson plan for symbolism might as well just say: "attach random garbage to anything and claim it as 'deeply symbolic'". I will admit that I have found symbolism in things I've read (whether it's musical lyrics, poetry or a book), however, it's usually pulled from references that aren't quite so open-ended, or open to a wide interpretation.

I will admit that I had read a good book here or there, but the only one I can really remember is Things Fall Apart, which was totally sweet at how our hero Okonkwo goes from a man with everything to a shallow husk with nothing. All the literature I enjoyed while I was in middle school and high school more or less came from my own spare time, which were usually fantasy or sci fi novels which was also rather small since most of my lit classes had me reading their boring stuff.

Then came college. I was more or less free from reading crappy books for class. It was during my second semester in school that I decided to bring 'Brave New World' (which I found lying around somewhere) with me to dinner to read. Before I knew it, I was hooked. It took me a while to read that book since I had to get drawn into the book and want to read the book more and more. I've since read a lot more books than I usually would or ever would have read.

I blame school for my previous lack of a desire to read. Whether it's just shitty books, or the constant badgering for dittos is up in the air (probably both), I was always rather apprehensive of picking up a book I heard nothing of, especially ones with daunting page counts (the one I'm on now is 782 pages, and I'm on page 542). If there is anything to pull from this post, it's that reading is not bad as so many of my friends and I have felt for quite some time. It's just picking the right books of the genre, and not relying on the classics to really entertain us, if at all.

I personally Have a gameboy advance sp. I heard things about other handheld product in the close future that could over throw the maket that is the gamboy and thus start the demise of it. My question is ther anything better in the market out ther or anything in the close future that could effectively compete with the Gameboy Advance SP?

It was so bad that I could not finish it, I'm usually able to finish an anime but sumurai showdown lowerd the standard of crap in the anime world. Who agrees with me?

Microsoft has the ability and money to produce some of the best video games around, why does evyone dislike them so? I mean they did create many things that we use today and yet many people still hate them. Why?

I just wanted to know if there is some sort of anime Club in Hawaii? and if so, a club that deals with the darker side of anime not the pokemon type animes??

Are the HK people any closer to making an entire sellable collection of the dragonball and the dragonballz series??? I, personally, am willing to buy the set if it ever appears

PLease post your opinions on the new movie Dawn of the Dead. I saw it last night And it does the genre well. How do you guys feel about the movie?

Mac and FX have perfect sets for Utena out, but the FX set is considerably less expensive than the Mac set (but it has 2 more eps crammed per DVD than the Mac set). I already own the movie, so the FX set including that is not an issue. What does matter is pixellation and video artifacts. I am extremely anal about such issues, because they annoy me and distract me from the show.

I was wondering if anyone could give a comparison between the two Utena sets (Mac vs. FX) in terms of video and audio quality. I don't want to save $7 by buying the FX set, just to find out it has nasty pixellation in heavy action scenes.

Thanks!

(The Utena FX set only has one review, and I've found the reviews to be hard to trust, because some series with 4-4.5 stars for video have some pretty nasty pixellation, like FX's Gate Keepers set.)

I Recently heard the anime people were making a sequal to the original. Just wanted see if anyone Knows anything about this??