what i just watched and what i thought about it...

[Heero]

Greg.

Fully aware of those features like the interviews on ZIP(NTV) surprisingly most of the foreigner in akiba can speak and communicate in Japanese and they all say the "expected" stuff.

I will say, that on my last visit to Japan I was briefly interviewed by some TV program (I forget the name, and didn't watch it because it was on my last day there). We were in Akiba, but it WAS all off-the-cuff, no scripting or anything. That said, they may not have USED any of the footage, but just saying, my ONE experience with a Japanese TV crew was not "fake".

[r-18]

i just finished Acchi Kocch i is the epitome of cute....if your a fan of ichigo mashimaro or azumanga ....then check out Acchi Kocch ....

[greg]

We aren't saying all is fake but the fake stuff is pretty easy to spot.
Ditto for all the travel and food programs, we can tell when a celebrity really thinks the food is tasty or paid to say so.

Oh, that gets old so fast. They freak out with every single thing they eat on those shows, their eyes bulging and they say "Ooooooooishi!" or "Uuuuuuuuuumai!" Learn some new adjectives, dinks!

[r-18]

i just finished c3 ...not a bad anime the character design was good and the action made sense...no real problems over all i would highly recommend it to any one who likes a good action /harem/school ish anime....

[llj]

Finished season 1 of Tsubasa Chronicles. A lot of anime fans elsewhere slagged it for being too slow, but I don't know, I rather liked it. It has a rather episodic feel to it in the same way that was done with Mospeada. A group of characters travel from place to place, meet up with new people, solve a problem, and leave. I feel like today's viewers are more interested in getting to the next plot point than to enjoy things on a moment by moment basis, and because this show is about the pit stops rather than the destination, people got impatient with it. That said, I've heard that the anime doesn't end even with the 2nd season, which brings me to my main gripe about too many anime TV shows today:

They're too slavishly devoted to following the manga. Some of this is the fans' fault, who constantly make comparisons between an anime and a manga of the same title, and complain when the anime deviates. Some of this is the fault of mangaka who are more interested in controlling all their properties rather than accepting that comic and film/TV are different mediums with different demands and goals. And some of this is the fault of the producers who mainly see the anime and manga as cross-marketing properties, so them being faithful to each other will keep the "fans" happy. But what about the casual viewers? One of the things that probably irks casual viewers is that so many anime end up unfinished because "there's no more manga to animate." Granted, this "follow the manga" has been an issue for a long time, but in the past it was less frowned upon for people in charge of an anime to simply make up their own ending. It may not be always be satisfactory, but at least it's out there. Nowadays they just stop. So you have a lot of otherwise pretty great shows that end up incomplete, which makes them pretty hard to recommend on a casual level.