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elabyOkay, so Gankutsuou joins the ranks of "best anime I've ever seen." Nothing compares (or ever will, I imagine) with the glory and perfection that is Utena, but Gankutsuou reminds me of it in some ways... not story-wise, but in the way it's put together and the way things play out. Utena, however, doesn't have a short section where everything goes to hell in a handbasket and Very Bad Things (tm) happen*, but the Gankutuou's story (that is, The Count of Monte Cristo) really requires such Bad Things. Anyway, down that road lay spoilers, so I'm not going to say any more.
We saw the last DVD tonight, and it was very good. The art in Gankutsuou is very different, but beautiful and really deserving of more scrutiny than I could give it, having to read subtitles at the same time as watching it. This is when I REALLY wish I was fluent in Japanese. At any rate, the last episodes were satisfying in that it both ended up the way I felt it should in accordance with how the plot had gone (that is, it wasn't unrealistic considering everything that happened) but it was also happy-making without, again, being unrealistically warm and fuzzy. It was good, anyway.
And OMFG, in the extra features on each DVD they always have the voice actors do little recaps (without really telling anything) about each episode, but normally they only had a particular handful, not counting Nakata Jouji** who plays the Count. But for this DVD, they had him do one (and he was in the end-of-production interviews).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redatt recently mentioned something about aural sex... YES. *melts into a little pool of seiyuu-fangirlishness* He really is one of my very favorite voice-actors ever. Gah. And in the interview he was wearing one of those bucket-hat things and sunglasses and was being slightly goofy. And he's not one of those seiyuu whose character-voice doesn't sound like his real voice - his actual speaking-normally voice is just as resonant and meltifying. *squeeeee*
Ahem.
We cleaned like whoa today - tons of laundry, cleaned out closet, dumped masses of ancient school crap I had been saving for god only knows why, and put all the books I actually am interested in keeping into the closet instead of stacked up against the wall of my room. I kind of want to play Zelda now, even though I'm so tired my eyeballs are a little zingy. Ahahahaha.
*Very Bad Things happen in Utena, but in ways that sort of make you squee with guilty delight, not, um... feel sick. Yeah.
**For those of you keeping track at home, Nakata Jouji also voiced Alucard (Hellsing), Hijikata (Peacemaker Kurogane HOMG I hadn't remembered this one), and Folken (Escaflowne). Kosugi Juurouta of Akio fame also voiced Albert's (the main character's) father, if anyone's interested.
We saw the last DVD tonight, and it was very good. The art in Gankutsuou is very different, but beautiful and really deserving of more scrutiny than I could give it, having to read subtitles at the same time as watching it. This is when I REALLY wish I was fluent in Japanese. At any rate, the last episodes were satisfying in that it both ended up the way I felt it should in accordance with how the plot had gone (that is, it wasn't unrealistic considering everything that happened) but it was also happy-making without, again, being unrealistically warm and fuzzy. It was good, anyway.
And OMFG, in the extra features on each DVD they always have the voice actors do little recaps (without really telling anything) about each episode, but normally they only had a particular handful, not counting Nakata Jouji** who plays the Count. But for this DVD, they had him do one (and he was in the end-of-production interviews).
redatt recently mentioned something about aural sex... YES. *melts into a little pool of seiyuu-fangirlishness* He really is one of my very favorite voice-actors ever. Gah. And in the interview he was wearing one of those bucket-hat things and sunglasses and was being slightly goofy. And he's not one of those seiyuu whose character-voice doesn't sound like his real voice - his actual speaking-normally voice is just as resonant and meltifying. *squeeeee*Ahem.
We cleaned like whoa today - tons of laundry, cleaned out closet, dumped masses of ancient school crap I had been saving for god only knows why, and put all the books I actually am interested in keeping into the closet instead of stacked up against the wall of my room. I kind of want to play Zelda now, even though I'm so tired my eyeballs are a little zingy. Ahahahaha.
*Very Bad Things happen in Utena, but in ways that sort of make you squee with guilty delight, not, um... feel sick. Yeah.
**For those of you keeping track at home, Nakata Jouji also voiced Alucard (Hellsing), Hijikata (Peacemaker Kurogane HOMG I hadn't remembered this one), and Folken (Escaflowne). Kosugi Juurouta of Akio fame also voiced Albert's (the main character's) father, if anyone's interested.
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Date: 2007-01-14 03:41 am (UTC)Yay for Folken.
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Date: 2007-01-14 05:07 am (UTC)*Very Bad Things happen in Utena, but in ways that sort of make you squee with guilty delight, not, um... feel sick. Yeah.
Ohhhhh, yeah. Really must see this.
**For those of you keeping track at home, Nakata Jouji also voiced Alucard (Hellsing), Hijikata (Peacemaker Kurogane HOMG I hadn't remembered this one), and Folken (Escaflowne). Kosugi Juurouta of Akio fame also voiced Albert's (the main character's) father, if anyone's interested.
*swoons at sexy-voiced men.* Aural sex ... now there's a term I can definitely get into.
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Date: 2007-01-14 03:08 pm (UTC)And OMG the Count's voice is SO GOOD. The Akio-guy plays Albert's father, but the voice he does is more over the top than his Akio voice and so it's not nearly as sexy (unfortunately). But still recognizable.