Tell me baby…
Friday, August 22nd, 2008So, I’ve been sort of MIA for a really long time. It wouldn’t hurt to say that with school starting in just a week and the infamous work load of junior year, I might be going on hiatus for even longer. I guess I’ve just been running out of steam lately, out of passion for the only thing I’m passionate about.
I coaxed one of my non-anime obsessed friends (don’t worry, he’s just addicted to Heroes) into watching Gurren Lagann. I re-watched a couple episodes here and there with him, but it was this Wednesday, when I saw, for the first time since they aired last year, the last two episodes of Gurren Lagann that I remembered why I absolutely loved that show. Even now, when I so much as to think back to say, the alternate universe dream sequence, when I think of Simon and Kamina, when I think of Yoko and Kittan, the bittersweet victory against the Anti-Spirals, I start remembering what it was like to watch something amazing.
With that said, I also saw a couple clips of the dubbed version of Gurren Lagann and was intensely horrified of the whole affair. I didn’t last two minutes. Kamina’s voice just doesn’t have the same manliness, the same edge, the same zeal and craziness that is essential to the show.
I have Shigurui, Toshokan Sensou sitting somewhere. I need to catch up on Soul Eater and Macross Frontier and Xam’d. I need to start torrent Natsuume no Yuujinchou and Ryoko’s Case Files and to preview the fall season. All I really want to do is just watch Gurren Lagann over and over again.
I guess Gurren Lagann was the show that really got me into blogging in the first place, the first real show I sat down and wrote about and ranted and rambled about, my entry way into the animeblogging thing. And I guess, though I’m certainly not leaving for good, it’ll be the one to hold my hand while I walk out the door.
Well, I have one thing to look forward to: the 3rd season of Black Lagoon.