Grumpy Jii-san Drops the ball

Grumpy Jii-san's been watching cartoons for way too long. Today, he discusses an unimpressive recent return.

This time, the narration was recorded at dawn in Arizona's Joshua Tree forest.

You can find a transcript of these remarks here:
http://grumpyjiisan.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/grumpyjii-bdrop/

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Film & Animation

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[Alaskaslim]

Evangelion? Is that some sort of jibe Oji-san? ; ) And here I thought the pile was made of the anime you've already reviewed.

[GrumpyJiisan]

Would I dare jibe Eva? :)

The pile is whatever it is. Sometimes I have out related DVDs to watch, sometimes it's just wherever I'm watching at the time.

(I had Eva was out last week to compare the TV to the Eva 1.01 "You Are Not done paying" movie that just came out., just to see how identical it looked. Now that I could jibe.)

[Alaskaslim]

Ah, then was my warning too late? Or did you decide it was worth getting(/belittling) now anyway?

[GrumpyJiisan]

I decided it was worth renting, at least.

[Alaskaslim]

Watchoo talkin' bout Jii-san? No such thing as rentin' anime, next you'll tell me you can rent the DVD player you'd play it in, or better yet, a car WITH a DVD player.

[GrumpyJiisan]

I wish I could claim I only bought the "good stuff". Thanks to Netflix and internet streaming, at least I have some idea what I'm buying these days.

In the old days, we'd look at the pictures in Newtype and Animage, pick some LD numbers that looked interesting, call Nikaku in San Jose to ask them to import it for us, and a month or two later we'd get it and find out whether it was gold or dross.

I prefer the new world order.

[bfe456]

Can you please be my new grandad?.

[GrumpyJiisan]

I'm interested in Sentai's February scheduled release of Skull Man, mostly because of GraplerJMo's review (I'd point you to it, but it seems blocked in the US now.)

[girl122]

Thanks for the review, made my day.

[Levitz9]

Hmm. I suppose we can hope that Sentai gets itself out of its beginning rut. Although, I have to admit, Funimation's current near-monopoly is most disconcerting. Despite not being an anime-fan per-se in Geneon's heyday, I miss the off-beat titles they usually released. It's as if Atlus and NIS stopped releasing games in the U.S., leaving us with E.A. Games...

Anyway, thanks for the review, Gramps!