FFAC is probably not a film that would hold up on its own. I cant tell, because I dealt with BC CC and DC as well as FF7, so I know where they are, where they come form and so forth. (And yes, those are the REAL acronyms for the games; Before Crisis, Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus) FFACComplete miiight be able to stand alone, as it has more screentime and develops Cloud a little more. Oh, those names! Cloud... No, not Curaudo..... Cloud.... What is it with the english speaking people and wanting to NOT translate Japanese. Calling Cloud Curaudo or, for that matter, Death Note Desu nôto, is, in my humble opinion, DISRESPECTFUL! Clouds name is Cloud even if you can't pronounce it! And a Death Note is a Death Note... So, btw, if you dont find an anime on the big great database, try sounding it out and write what it sounds like i Japanese and not what it actually is named..... Blue Exorcist took me an hour to find.....
Where was i...? Oh, yes.... FFACComplete. This is a fan service orgasm, that's for sure. I'm not really supposed to be reviewing it, at least not today. Let me just say that if you're a fan of the franchise or just of reaaaally good 3d animation, take a look. I love the bike scenes..... and the fighting scenes.
As I said, i gave this a nine, but I'll push it down a notch. As a movie, it has problems standing on it's own. Or maaaybe i should give it a ten, just for Sephiroth. And as my own avatar is Vincent..... *Final Fantasy Fan Girl Mode Activated*
On to my Cartoon TVseries list, I find that I DON'T HAVE A SINGLE RATING! What's wrong with me, am I too busy, or......? Now, I separated Cartoons, meaning mostly Disney toons, and animé, or this list would have been HUGE. One exception; The Moomin animé from 1990. I think the reason it ended up among the "Cartoons" instead of the "Animé" is simply that it was aired on Swedish and Finish television when i was a kid and there was a total of 4 tv channels in sweden. Ok, not strictly true, if you had a satellite disc you had like a gazillion. but no one in my neighborhood had that. So when i was i kid we had 2 channels public service + Finnish YLE and, a bit later Swedish TV4. Ranting again..... *deep breath*. So Moomin was actually an animé, and i don't think ANYONE is aware of this. Simply because we never thought of it as kids, or rather, weren't aware that such a concept existed. The general understanding in Sweden was either it's 2d animation, or it's live action. That was all knowledge of movie making we had. Exception., of course, the movie buffs. Now, I've always loved Moomin, I grew up with the books and the animé and that scary Christmas Calendar. Not scary for any other reason than it was live action, big people in big costumes and for some reason it scared the sh!t out of me. Maybe because they had to make the people wear big costumes as well... I mean, if humans have to wear human costumes, something is just wrong. Anywho, one thing I don't like about the cartoon is that in Japan it's 1 SEASON LONGER! What happened, guys? Why didn't you dub that last season and air it in Sweden? Well, too late now, and I have still to find it in Japanese. Giving this series a score is kinda hard, and almost unfair. I haven't seen the whole series, partly because of that last season, partly because i haven't seen all episodes that actually aired. And i don't want to buy the Swedish DVD releases, because they're totally out of order. you know, it's the kind of release where they throw a few episodes on a DVD that are not cohesive and one of the episodes are actually a two-parter, but only the last part is on the DVD..... or worse, the FIRST.... and its like episode 1 29 37 and 40 or something... I hate it when they do that. And they will never ever ever release a whole season in a box, because then they wouldn't make any money or something. RCP sounds like a good idea on this point....
Ok, third and last for today, or this will drag on forever, my animé TV-series list..... And the first thing i see is: Vanpaja naito.... gah, it sounds like a cartoon about some scary circus clowns. Scary pretty like the jigsaw puzzle i have waiting for me, Misty Circus Carousell. No, the animé, and the manga it's based on is called VAMPIRE KNIGHT! See, much cooler, you get an idea what it is about, it doesn't sound like a two year old translated it. Moving on... I notice that this list has no ratings either. I could rate Vampire knight, but.... I think I want to see it again before I do. So I don't mix it up with other vampire things I've been watching. And ANYONE saying the word TWILIGHT out loud gets shot by Zero. There! Looking down this list, I realize there are no yaoi on it, but it turns out i'm just forgetful. I have a YAOI LIST. Yay me. Wonder how long it took me to get all that on a list. Crosschecking, most of the titles on the yaoi list miiiight have been able to go on the animé list, as the titles i apparently found was rather tame, on the shounen-ai end of the yaoi scale, but still yaoi. I don't really know what else to say about my animé list, mainly because there were a lot of titles i haven't finished watching. I mean, ok, i got sailor moon, i got Vampire Knight and Black Butler and Death Note and hack.//SIGN, but I'm watching a bunch of others, so it's hard to keep things apart sometimes in my messy brain.Ok, as usual a long-ass rant about things no one knows, and now i'm tired. I'll go through three more lists in a week....
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