Quote:Nope - stuff happened this week, so I decided to go with something that was probably a "feel good" show and that I probably wouldn't have to think about, in order to calm down. Thus...
I have two more series left from this order, and three from the previous one. Next up: Mermaid Forest, Serial Experiment Lain, Haibane Renmei, Black Heaven, or Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar? (Yes, I do have eclectic tastes. Why do you ask?) Decisions, decisions... but probably Lain, since I've watched the first half of the series already.
Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar: A pre-teen girl with some repressed issues meets an apprentice "snow fairy", and they both learn to live in the human world.
A simple premise for a simple children's story, with characters painted in broad brushstrokes... and I couldn't stop watching it. It's that good. (Mainly because the writers, unlike too many North American media writers, actually assumed their audience aren't idiots. They introduce an important not-quite-McGuffin to the plot early in the story, and by the end of the series they still haven't said what it is... but there's enough shown in the story that anybody could figure it out.) And I love the soundtrack...
If you've got children, you might want to pick up a copy of Sugar - this is a show you can watch together.
Next up... maybe Lain?
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012