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The director of Summer Wars, Mamoru Hosoda, also directed several Digimon anime, so there's probably some influence noticeable for viewers familiar with Digimon.

Not exactly, just similar plots.

[spoiler]In the digimon movie there was a virus thing that hacked all the computers in the world and was going to make a nuke hit Tokyo. In Summer Wars there was a computer program that the US was experimenting with and unleashed it on the internet and it made everything go hay wire and almost made a satelite crash into a nuclear plant.[/spoiler]

... and in .Hack, Pluto's Kiss was a virus that was about to launch nuclear missiles...

I think the Japanese are more nuke-happy than we werein the Cold War.

.Hack is alright. XD I like it to a point. It's just a bit too absurd.

Just finished rewatching Gurren Lagann, who the hell do you think I am?

I like some of it, but I find most of the spin-offs pretty lame. G.U.+ and XXXX are really good, but the rest aren't really. I've only read the manga, but if I get a ps2, I'll be sure to get a few of the games.

I feel awful. My favorite manga series gets an anime and I don't even hear about it until now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejectC1SVU[/youtube]

Doesn't capture what I like about the original artstyle. But it looks beautiful.

I'm also going to pre-order the manga when I get paid, on Amazon. Hardcover. I don't even think it releases in America until 2011.

2011 is like... less than two months from now.

DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND

nope

I recently (well a few weeks ago) finished watching Tantei Gakuen Q. I hadn't watched anime in quite a while and felt like watching something completley different from what I normally do. I actually found it quite interesting and, although the characters were mostly very stereotypical, I liked the group dynamic. I also found it really cool that, unlike most mysteries, you always get given enough information to solve the case before the main characters do.

I also started rewatching Saiyuki the other day. I think its funny how almost everybody hates Saiyuki, but most of us who do like it love it to death. Hell, if I had to ignore any personal bias (ie all my SaiyukiOMG!!!11ness) and rate it, I would probably give it a 5/10. And 3 of those points are just for its awesome soundtrack. It has the worst animation I have ever seen, by a very large margin. The comedy whilst hilarious is incredibly repetitive. The plot is a cool take on Journey to the West, but that has been done many times before (although maybe not as well).

Despite all this though I absolutley love the show and, once I force myself to sit through an episode or two, I never want to stop watching it XD. I'm still raging that Reload Gunlock hasn't been released over here.

Oh, and not something i'm currently watching, but literally everyday I have to supress mad urges to watch Getbackers for the hundredth time (not an exaggeration. Actually probably an understatement).

I liked Saiyuki until I realized none of the characters were going to canonically fuck each other.

That's just how I roll.

Watching a certain studio Ghibli film. No points for guessing which.

All of them.

I should have left more of my DVDs unpacked ;___;

Also I need to own My Neighbor Totoro as I currently do not. Such a shame.