Animedragon

I had a couple of good laughs at those two, they appeal to my sense of humour . Although I must admit that it took me a couple of seconds to work out the second one .

I don't like windy weather, it makes it difficult to keep my hat on and my bag keeps getting blown off my shoulder. It also tends to spoil the sound on my videos.

Thanks. It's a cool looking sleeping bag. "...bait your hook with shark merch" is a good line, I must remember that when I'm asked to do something (with an appropriate change to the sort of merch). I found a couple of other clips, it looks an interesting series, but not quite my style .

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High Performance

While I can relate, in a way, to that question, I feel that it's being said in a slightly sarcastic way. I'm also sure there is an interesting story behind why a girl is lying on the floor dressed in a shark costume.

Looking good. The forecast for the next few days is sunny, no rain and around 20c.

Pensionable

Thank you. It's a Bank Holiday Monday here and it's not raining and the sun is shining, which is most unusual for an English Bank Holiday.

I'm currently reading Insomniacs After School

As with all things, how much something is 'worth' very much depends on how much the buyer is prepared to pay for the item.

While rewatching Cardcaptor Sakura I realised that in class Sakura occupies the traditional "main character's seat", second row from the back on the right hand side by the window. I'd never noticed that before! Which only goes to show that no matter how many times you watch a series you can always spot something you'd not noticed before.

Old Age

Are you sure it wasn't from the Army surplus store?

If we're talking composers, my favourite is Tenmon. I really like his compositions for Makoto Shinkai's films and ef: A Tale of Memories. I have several CDs of his work. > The Place Promised in Our Early Days > 5 Centimetres Per Second > Voices of a Distant Star

These look great. I'm sure I've said this before, but it's worth saying again, you have an amazing artistic talent. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

Quite a few years ago I had a sort of similar experience. I bought the UK release of an anime film rather than the US release but when I started watching it I found that the "English subtitles" that were mentioned on the cover were in fact English subtitles for the hard of hearing, which are a totally different type of subtitles! Top marks to the company for thinking of people with hearing difficulties, but they should have made the type of subtitles clearer on the packaging.

Hello, and welcome to AF.

And the older you get the faster time goes by.

One of the really great things about this forum is that everyone accepts other people's choices and preferences, there's no "elitist attitudes", and that's how it should be. After all, we're all here because we like watching anime.

I've encountered similar attitudes in other areas, it's a kind of "elitism" promoted by a small group of people usually to make themselves feel superior. When I was a member of the local photographic club there were those who claimed that if you didn't use a certain make of camera you weren't a "true photographer", it was the same when CB was popular if you didn't have a rig from a certain manufacturer you weren't a "true CBer". I was once told that I couldn't take part in my employer's hobbies exhibition because my models were constructed from kits, and no "real modeller" made models from kits. ( I suspect that they didn't know how complicated and difficult to build a Tamiya kit could be!)

Ah, the age old perennial question, also known as the "Great Sub vs Dub Debate". When I first started watching anime everything was on VHS tape and dubs were all that were available from my local video shop* and as I got more into watching anime I was introduced to subs from another source, (no names no pack drill). After watching subs for a while I came to the view that I preferred to hear the original voice actors so now I only watch subs. Initially I had problems reading the subs quick enough, but now I find I don't actually read the subs word for word my brain seems to just 'absorb' the text, I do the same thing when reading books, which probably accounts for why I find it so difficult to read out loud in public. Ultimately there is no "right" or "wrong" answer to the question and people should be free to watch anime in whatever from they prefer and while I'm a sub only person I object to those who try to claim that you're not a "true anime fan" if you watch dubs. * For several years I had the advantage of working in London and within easy travelling distance of Tottenham Court Road where there were a couple of large video shops and a specialist Sc--Fi shop all of which had quite large collections of anime tapes and if I searched their shelves diligently I could occasionally find a sub release or two.

For home made pins they look very professionally produced. Excellent work.

I'm currently working my way thorough my Cardcaptor Sakura Blu-rays, and finding the quality of the story, artwork and animation to be every bit as good as it was the first time I watched the series almost 23 years ago.

It may only be a small collection, but it's a very nice collection. Sadly it seems that the days when you got extras like models, pencil boards and postcards with DVDs is long gone.