The Bipolar Otaku

Lately, I've been watching Read or Die, the TV series. The TV series introduces three new paper-masters, Michelle, Maggie, and Anita, as they get hired to protect Nenene Sumiregawa, a young writer and friend of Yomiko Readman, the now-missing paper-master from the OAV. Each of the three (adopted) sisters have their own special talents and work as a team to accomplish their missions. The series starts several years after the end of the OAV, with the British Royal Library burnt down, England as a rogue country, and a series of extremely rare edition books floating around Hong Kong and Japan. Though disc 4 is just starting to get to the point where the original Agent Paper reappears, I really think this series holds very well on its own, separate from the OAVs. Unfortunately, only disc 1-4 have been published so far, so I'm waiting for discs 5 and 6...

Also, following Steph's reco, I watched the Wind Named Amnesia. It was okay, I guess; the graphics were dated, the plot was kind of weak, the flow of time was atrocious... There was a car chase the spanned from DC to New York, for crying out loud. Might have made more sense if Wataru's wandering took place as a TV series instead of a movie, kind of like Logan's Run the TV series or something.

I also started watching Kaleido Star. Japanese girl travels to the US to join the Kaleidostage, a world renowned acrobatic stage. She misses her audition, somehow manages to still go on in a show, almost falls, but through after keen observation by the manager she still gets kept on as a trainee. Visually stunning, audially annoying (aren't most over-excited female characters annoying?). Maybe it's too early to judge after just one episode, but I was expecting more since it was one of the first anime TV series to get licensed in the US before it aired its first episode in Japan.

That's about it... Maybe I should take some time to rewatch KareKano, finish Gasaraki, continue GTO, continue Ghost in the Shell, start Kino no Tabi, or start Texhnolyze (all of which I own, but most of which I haven't watched). Maybe...