Hm. Took some time out to watch another couple of DVDs -
Arc the Lad and
Soul Hunter (well, first 3 eps anyway).
Arc the Lad is based on a game, apparently. Not my plate of sushi: it's messy, pretty much incomprehensible, and the animation is primitive.
Soul Hunter, on the other hand...
I've never seen anything quite like it. It's...
bizarre. Pretty, and the animation isn't at all bad, but...
Story goes, the Chinese Emperor Zhou has been entranced by the demon Dakki, and now panders to her every whim. Dakki has given top jobs to all her fellow demon immortals. The people are starving and the land falling into ruin, as taxes go to support the Court's extravagant lifestyle.
A disciple of the Immortal World - I can't remember the name, all the important people have Chinese and Japanese names with 3+ syllables and I have enough trouble remembering English names with 2 - a young man who'd rather sleep and eat than study and train (shades of Tenshi Muyo) is given the job of hunting down the 365 demon immortals now working in the mortal world (shades of
Brimstone?) To help him on his way he's given a spiritual beast (they can all fly and have disproportionately large heads) that's supposed to be a hippo, I think, though it looks more like a Moomin. Its name is Sibuxiang, which I can remember as it's usually shortened to Sibu. No, I don't understand the logic behind that, either...
The narrator is himself a demon immortal ... sod this, where's the DVD case, that has the important names on it... Ah, right... Shinkohyo (pic to right), whom I thought was either a clown or a doll to start with. His spiritual beast is a ruddy great white cat, Kokutenko. [shakes head] There's a good synopsis
here, for anyone who's interested.
It's very strange indeed, but quite compulsive for all that. There's enough quirky humour to offset the wierdness - for those who find wierdness offputting - and enough pretty bishies - for those like me who can't resist them - to make it worth a look. Not sure if I want to collect it, though: in 3 eps Taikoubou only manages to catch one soul, which suggests that the series might be quite long...
The walls of our room are now clear, and I've bought the green paint for the joining wall; hoping to make a start on the room tomorrow.
This is what the room looks like before redecorating.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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