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December 09, 2004
Kaleido Star, Comic Party, and Sentimental Journey
I've been watching a lot of Kaleido Star anime series lately. It's a great shoujo series about a girl named Sora who travelled from Japan to the United States to become a circus star. The name of the circus is Kaleido Stage. I anticipate a lot of Kaleido Star costume play at the anime conventions in the coming year. This is the best anime series I've seen in a long time.
Comic Party is also very promising, and is a series about a high school guy's descent into the world of manga producing. This guy has a 'friend' that acts as a catalyst to his total transformation to being a manga writer. Reminds me of the movie Animation Runner Kuromi, which was completely hilarious.
On the other hand, I also watched about six episodes of Sentimental Journey before I decided that I needed to move on to something else. The scenes are really slow, and the characters spend almost all of the episode agonizing about their pasts and unrequited loves. I guess that's OK, except some of those 'loves' would have had no way of ever knowing. So, it just seems kind of pointless to me, that's all. Maybe someday, I'll finish out the last six episodes - but not until I finish watching Kaleido Star and Comic Party first.
Posted by Kathy at December 9, 2004 07:30 PM