Aaah! The Illusion of Life is amazing. Really lovely book, lots of gorgeous art, interesting stories and once you've read it nothing you watch will ever look the same again (well. . .animated stuff). Also, so much stuff about Disney in there and. . .yeah. ^^ I love it.
I have bought The Animator's Survival Kit for two different people but still don't own it. XD; I like it a lot, too, though - you need them both together, it's just that I haven't looked through it for a while. Well, that and I find thinking about The Animator's Survival Kit sort of depressing because of The Thief and the Cobbler.
All of which is to say. . .good reading choices! ^^;
(I like Coraline a lot too, and I don't generally like Neil Gaiman
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Yeah, I saw those two mentioned on this week's Answerman and how it was highly recommended both by Brian and the people on the forum...well, I figured it'd be a good thing for an animation geek. XD I saw the cover for The Illusion of Life on Amazon and it looked familiar, so I think I've read at least part of it for a school project (my last year of highschool was the beginning of my "OMG ANIMATION IS AWSUM" phase that got me back into both Disney and anime), but it'd probably be good to read again at my own leisure.
I've heard great things about Coraline and it seems to be my sort of book...and, well, I really liked Stardust, so.
Ooh, no, I don't think I have read them! Although the name sounds familiar. But "light and clever" with good characters sounds like something right up my ally, so I'll definitely add them onto my list. Thank you!
Looking through your Anime Planet thing I see quite a few anime I watched and enjoyed, so that looks like a good list to me. XD; A couple standouts would be Aria (though it is. . .terrifyingly sentimental and optimistic, be warned), Baccano! (though it gets really, really gory and I have not actually finished it yet), Beck (has an excellent dub for what is kind of an un-dubbable show, so you get a really interesting take on stuff depending on what language you watch it in), Clannad, and Emma. There are others, but then this would get really long. ^^;
I ended up dropping both Nanoha and Someday's Dreamers, though.
Kanon has one of the best dubs I've ever heard, but the show itself is mostly fluff. It's inoffensive fluff, though, and still fun to watch.
On a side note, I had been using ANN for this sort of thing but I think I will switch; this set up is a lot more convenient.
Aria is sort of a must-watch for me because it's directed by Junichi Sato. I'm wanting to see everything he's directed, if I can manage it, since I've enjoyed everything of his that I've seen so far (which I think is Pretear, Princess Tutu and the first season of Kaleido Star). Baccano! is sort of a must for me, too, since I've been craving more anime set in the 20's or 30's after Chrono Crusade. And Beck...well, Greg Ayres, singing. Plus I think my Dad would like it, too. And Emma I've got some of the manga of and like it, even if it's a bit...slow sometimes. XD So yeah, I'm sure I'll watch all of those eventually.
I've heard really mixed feelings on Nanoha, but I feel somewhat obligated to at least give it a try because it's the newest popular Magical Girl show. I can't even remember why I put the other one on the list, so maybe I'll put off watching that one...
Hey, well, Kanon has Chris Patton in it, so I figure I'd enjoy it for that at the very least. I saw the first episode when it
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OH! I knew I was forgetting something. XD Thank you very much! I think I might go ahead and stick it in my Netflix queue, since I really really really wanna see it.
(Oh, The Dark Knight, that's another one I need to see, too.)
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Woah, that's an epic to-play game list. XD How much Mass Effect have you played? Because I will promote the heck out of that one over pretty much any game in the world, hahaha. I'm obsessed. (I've played through it TWICE, which is pretty rare for the girl that had completely finished exactly one video game as of a few years ago and has been playing determined catch-up ever since
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Yeah, I've owned most of those games for a while, too. xD;;; At least since Christmas. Last summer I meant to beat a bunch of games, and I didn't beat a single one. Nada. So this time around I'm determined to at least beat SOME of them. As for Mass Effect...I think I played, like...the first five hours. XD; I watched my brother play and it was good! I just have so many hobbies that while I'm in college it's hard to know how to balance them all.
YES that was probably me! XD I forget who I friend and why all the time, it's awful, so don't feel to bad. I'm glad you mentioned it because now I know who you are, too! XD
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Yeah, I just recently got into a section where Costis is with Gen more. Which is nice. But I still wish it was from Gen's POV. I am really not sure why Megan Whalen Turner did The Thief in first person, QOA in third-person from multiple (though mostly Gen's) POVs, and then KOA in Costis's limited third-person POV. With a few random scenes where he isn't there scattered throughout.
I like the glimpses at that relationship's development too, but I wish there were more of them particularly in the first half of the book where it's mostly Costis and the other guards. I did sort of like the scenes with Costis and his friend. And obviously anything where Gen was there, like the sparring.
Yeah, we saw a clip of it in Intro to Film and it looked absolutely awesome.
AND YES, GOALS! Meaningless, goofy goals, BUT GOALS NONETHELESS. (Well, the book reading/writing goals aren't meaningless. Those are related to my writing career aspirations! ...But everything else is, yeah.)
Nah I don't think any of them are meaningless~ -^W^- <3333 It's good to know and learn different things from different sources, especially for writing~<3333
That's true! Although the best source to learn from is LIFE, really. XD I mean...when I was out of work and missed a semester of school, my motivation for writing (...or anything) just dropped to almost nothing. It was bad.
YES I'm in the middle of playing Riviera and TOV already, but BKO is at the top of my list to start playing once I'm done with those. I really really want to play it.
I've heard so many great things about TWEWY that I just gotta try it. XD
And yes, it's been WAY too long since I've played BK, so I definitely need a replay.
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I have bought The Animator's Survival Kit for two different people but still don't own it. XD; I like it a lot, too, though - you need them both together, it's just that I haven't looked through it for a while. Well, that and I find thinking about The Animator's Survival Kit sort of depressing because of The Thief and the Cobbler.
All of which is to say. . .good reading choices! ^^;
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I've heard great things about Coraline and it seems to be my sort of book...and, well, I really liked Stardust, so.
Ooh, no, I don't think I have read them! Although the name sounds familiar. But "light and clever" with good characters sounds like something right up my ally, so I'll definitely add them onto my list. Thank you!
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Looking through your Anime Planet thing I see quite a few anime I watched and enjoyed, so that looks like a good list to me. XD; A couple standouts would be Aria (though it is. . .terrifyingly sentimental and optimistic, be warned), Baccano! (though it gets really, really gory and I have not actually finished it yet), Beck (has an excellent dub for what is kind of an un-dubbable show, so you get a really interesting take on stuff depending on what language you watch it in), Clannad, and Emma. There are others, but then this would get really long. ^^;
I ended up dropping both Nanoha and Someday's Dreamers, though.
Kanon has one of the best dubs I've ever heard, but the show itself is mostly fluff. It's inoffensive fluff, though, and still fun to watch.
On a side note, I had been using ANN for this sort of thing but I think I will switch; this set up is a lot more convenient.
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Aria is sort of a must-watch for me because it's directed by Junichi Sato. I'm wanting to see everything he's directed, if I can manage it, since I've enjoyed everything of his that I've seen so far (which I think is Pretear, Princess Tutu and the first season of Kaleido Star). Baccano! is sort of a must for me, too, since I've been craving more anime set in the 20's or 30's after Chrono Crusade. And Beck...well, Greg Ayres, singing. Plus I think my Dad would like it, too. And Emma I've got some of the manga of and like it, even if it's a bit...slow sometimes. XD So yeah, I'm sure I'll watch all of those eventually.
I've heard really mixed feelings on Nanoha, but I feel somewhat obligated to at least give it a try because it's the newest popular Magical Girl show. I can't even remember why I put the other one on the list, so maybe I'll put off watching that one...
Hey, well, Kanon has Chris Patton in it, so I figure I'd enjoy it for that at the very least. I saw the first episode when it ( ... )
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(Oh, The Dark Knight, that's another one I need to see, too.)
...This icon is horrible to use for something about WWII. I shouldn't be using it. *uses it anyway*
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I like the glimpses at that relationship's development too, but I wish there were more of them particularly in the first half of the book where it's mostly Costis and the other guards. I did sort of like the scenes with Costis and his friend. And obviously anything where Gen was there, like the sparring.
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*stalks down the person who made the icon to see if there are others XD*
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and yaaaaaay goals~<333 Ganbare~~<333
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AND YES, GOALS! Meaningless, goofy goals, BUT GOALS NONETHELESS. (Well, the book reading/writing goals aren't meaningless. Those are related to my writing career aspirations! ...But everything else is, yeah.)
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I've heard so many great things about TWEWY that I just gotta try it. XD
And yes, it's been WAY too long since I've played BK, so I definitely need a replay.
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ffff now you're making me more pumped up to play it, too!
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