Archive for August 2005
Scrapped Princess DVD 1-2 — Episodes 1-8
August 4, 2005, 3:56 pmI first got interested in this show way back last summer, before it was licensed by Bandai. I downloaded all the fansubs, but never got a chance to watch them, and burned them off onto discs. Then it was licensed and I got unnaturally excited, considering it was a show I had never even seen. Then, last winter, I had to send in my computer for repairs and borrowed my boyfriend’s computer, which didn’t have any of my current anime stash on it, so when I got bored, I put in a disc of Sutepri and watched the first three episodes (all that was on the disc). I was even more interested in the show after that, and decided to buy the DVDs when they came out (the fact that Crispin Freeman was directing the dub was a factor in that decision, too), but I got my own computer back and got distracted.
So I acquired the first DVD in the series. In fact, I preordered it, and got the version with the LE figure. I can’t even understand myself why I did this for a show I’d only seen three episodes of, but there you are. I rewatched the first two episodes on the DVD, then got distracted again. And now, finally, after getting the second DVD as well, I finally sat down and watched all the episodes in my possession on DVD.
It’s like I psychically knew how much I would adore this show. I mean, it’s Studio Bones, and I’m a huge Bones whore, so of course I love the animation and such. But the characters are just so endearing in ways I can’t even put my finger on entirely. Even Zefiris, who is such an enigma at this point, is just fascinating to me. I can’t say that I’ve enjoyed a show on this many levels so quickly since I first started watching Fullmetal Alchemist, and people who know me realize that that’s saying a lot.
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I got really sucked in during episode 6, where Shannon merges with Zefiris and they fight the Peacemaker. The show had just seemed so cookie-cutter up until that point; well, maybe “cookie-cutter” isn’t the word for it, but there definitely wasn’t really anything to set it apart from other shows. And then when that happened, and Shannon just cut the Peacemaker down with a few quick swings of his sword, I was sold, totally absorbed, and couldn’t wait to finish watching the disc (I watched disc 2 all in one sitting, but I got a phone call at the end of episode 6 and thought it would kill me.)
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I think I’m lucky that disc 2 ended where it did, and not on some kind of cliffhanger. (In that respect, I really feel for the people who are watching Fullmetal Alchemist on DVD only; some of those waits killed me when I only had to wait for a week, so I feel for you.) I think I’ll be able to wait it out until disc 3 comes out, and not delve into my fansubs in the meantime. That might not be possible for the rest of the series, though; I’m far too excited to see how this is going to all play out.
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