Butt numbing disappointment

[skydark]

yeah so..this afternoon the two aforementioned teenagers who had been providing my steady drone of N64 inspired background music decided I had to take them to Oxford Comics and DVD

yeah so, ok I did, like I had anything better to do and being mother to one of them gives him an advantage

well, so there I am browsing while they run around the store and I pretend I don't know them

Oxford has an incredible anime selection, have I failed to mention that I'm an anime whore, well in case I have consider yourself informed

They get in the chinese bootleg DVD's, the ones with chinese and english subtitles and are sometimes poorly spelled or in the Yu Yu Hakusho DVD's I had Hiei and Kurama's names were mixed up..anyways

So there I am and there it is...The INUYASHA Movie, well I just about have a cow! Come on, fluffy white haired hetero goodness I can actually stomach

Being so close to christmas and all and swearing I'm not giving my teenager, or that other teenager who just seems to be hanging out with my teenager, a dime, I guiltily buy the damn thing

Yeah..so, I bring it home and hope my girlfriend doesn't flip [she doesn't] and we make pancakes for dinner after getting rid of the teenager I didn't give birth too and decide to watch it



Well...

First off, I can't find any damn english subtitles anywhere,even thought it says they are there on the box. I'm an old pro at bootleg anime, I know how to manipulate my DVD player and I tried ever setting on god's black electronic box and nothing..so I'm taking the damn thing back

But while I have it...

I decide to watch it anyways. It makes me afraid, it makes me very afraid. I makes me nervous that anime is getting WAY too popular in the states and becoming profitable. Because.. it's not that good. I rank it up there with that extremely disappointing Cowboy Bebop movie. I feel the japanese anime engine is falling prey to the american 'I'll buy that for a dollar!" attitude and cranking them out as fast as they can. HELLO..did Takahashi even watch this? I hear she's a control freak with her characters. OkOk, the animation is disappointing, it looks hacked and done by several cheap anime houses, now the plot may be good, but I don't know, I was listening to it in japanese and looking at chinese subtitles. It had it's share of funny moments. And it's LONG. Freakin' long.

So maybe I'm jumping the gun and should reserve judgement until I can see it in a format I understands.

But goshdarnitall...[snort]

Comments

Re: prepare to be bombarded by comments...

[scico.livejournal.com]

Cool. I don't have YIM yet, but my aim is scionuva. If you have msn messenger, right now I'm (I think) scionarc.