Animedragon

First snake: Are we poisonous? Second snake: No. First snake: That's good, I've just bitten my tongue.

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Welcome to the forum. I hope you'll enjoy your time here.

The hot, sunny weather is back and it's currently 27c. I.m not complaining, I'd rather have than .

Welcome aboard the forum. I hope you find plenty to interest you here.

I'm currently watching Itakiss and not really sure what to make of it, but it's quite good fun to watch. Curiously, while it was released in 2008 the artwork and character designs for the supporting characters make it look more like a series from the early 1990s.

Cardcpator Sakura Clear Card, which has a rather more serious and complicated storyline than the original series.

I don't think I would have thought about it if I lived in America. One of the oddities, or curiosities, between American english and British english is that the same words can be used to describe different things, sometimes with amusing consequences. And that's before we get into the fun of differences in spelling.

I agree with you about that, but to be fair it happens in subtitles sometimes as well, and as the substituted Western equivalent is usually a North American one as a British person I sometimes find these as obscure as the original Japanese reference. I totally agree with that. It also can have amusing consequences. Because I have no children of my own, and few friends with school age children, I know more about the Japanese school system than I do about our British school system, which has changed a lot since I went to school.

It's still hot, but not sunny. In fact there's a thunderstorm raging and massively heavy rainfall. The drains are overloaded and the road outside my house is almost a river, the centre of the road is clear but there's a lot of water at the sides.

Never forget that age is just a number and while growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

I had that last year, it took ages for the grass to recover and go back to being green again. Although the area of green that I call my lawn is probably largely made of what anyone with horticultural knowledge would class as weeds not grass. But it's green and it looks quite nice and that's all I care about. Oh, and it's got hot and sunny again, currently 28c.

Welcome the the forum.

I tend to agree with you about the 13-26 ep format, although I'm quite happy with 52 or more eps as long as the story is progressing and the eps aren't just an endless series of monster-of-the-week battles. I suspect that that's why most of the series I've watched recently have tended to be slice-of-life type series.

I've finished watching My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex I quite enjoyed watching it and found the interactions and relationships between the main characters quite humorous. I was a bit disappointed with the ending, the story didn't really end, it just stopped. I've seem various rumours of a second season, apparently there's enough materiel in the source for a second season, but when and if it gets produced is another question.

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy your time here with your fellow anime fans.

It's hot and a bit overcast as we've just had a brief thunderstorm, the garden needed the rain.

I agree 25 but less than 100 is the ideal length, but there seems to be a trend towards 13 episode series, which I find to be too short. There's also this annoying, to me anyway, habit of rushing the ending in the final 5 minutes of episode 13, or worse as a series of stills under the closing credits of the last episode, the worst offender in this respect is Tsuki ga Kirei where the stills showing how the story ended look like they were drawn by a different artist so the characters don't look quite the same as they did in the series.

I remember Serial Experiments Lain, it was one of those series that was very popular and regarded as a "must have" in everyone's collection. Released in 1998 when "The Internet" was slowly entering the conscious mind of the general public and people were starting to have computers on their desks at work, although few had personal computers at home*. Lain, along with some of the books by sci-fi writer Greg Bear, was one of those works that explored the idea that people could abandon their physical bodies and live entirely in the electronic on-line world. Sometime last year I rewatched my copy of Lain and found it to be every bit as good as it was when I first watched it. * At work my managers and colleagues regarded me as some sort of super geek because not only did I have a home computer I'd built it myself.

None of the anime series I like has 300+ episodes. The closest would be Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura, and even between them their episode count is less than 300.

Welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy being here and sharing your interest in anime with other anime fans.

It's currently bright sunny and 19c with a high of 29c being promised (threatened) for mid-day. Temperatures promised to be in the high 20's for the rest of the week. After enduring months of cold and wet the warmer weather is much appreciated.

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I've started watching My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex, it's a Slice of Life series with a slightly unusual storyline about a girl and a boy who lived with one parent each, and who were boyfriend and girlfriend until they broke up, and now find themselves step-siblings due to the fact that their parents getting married. What I'm liking about this series so far is the relationships and interactions between the various characters. I much prefer the verbal sparing and the devious schemes they come up with to stories with lots of action and battles. ... but perhaps that's because I'm getting older... ... but then again, who knows...?