Thanks everyone for comments (and especially thanks to Kittens for clearing up what was written on the strip of paper around Karin's head while she was studying).
Cordelia and
Roboflonne: I have no idea what those darn things are. At first, I suspected they were durians (a smelly, spiky fruit popular in Asia). But durians don't come with metal handles. TB is one of those shows that really seems to have stretched animators' sense of what can be done with animation. Yet it's not all India rubber fun and games, at TC points out: at times it can be remarkably beautiful. (I personally like "Sheik" Takuma with the dramatic not-quite-black background.) Thank heavens, fansubs are starting to pop up on YouTube!
Thanks, too, to
Keropi, JWR, and
TC for your comments on
Sasami. All I've seen was the opening episode, which was ... nice ... but not as engaging as the opening episodes of series that I really like. I gather that once the characters are introduced, the plot picks up steam and can go rather dark at times (like CCS and TnN). All I really know is what the blogs say, which is mostly in like with Keropi's comment, except that I hear that there's an emotional crisis dealing with Misao late in the 2nd season that hits pretty hard. Anyhow, the art is more-than-nice and will keep me going until Funimation lets us all see what it's like.
In a follow-up that's just a twitch more mainstream, I've just added:
- From TnN, two dramatic oversized cels of poor Mikael Screaming at the climax of Step 25 (link is to the B7, but don't miss the even nicer B10 next door).
From Tonde Buurin, yet another amazing WTF cel of Buurin Stuffed in a Bag wearing Shades
And my one nod to cel-collecting orthodoxy, a beautiful Vampire Princess Miyu OVA cel (my first from this version of the series), showing Miyu’s Eyes Close Up
This may be my last update for awhile (an academic conference starts to loom), but I'm working on a 40K hits celebration with a new Buurin henshin cel, some pretty Hyper Police sketches (some ecchi) and, as always, lots more PPGZ.
Enjoy!
