Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari

Has anyone seen a new anime series called "Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari" (Hundred Stories)? Is being fansubbed by Ani-Kraze, and there's about 11 episodes out currently.

Neechan introduced it to me last weekend, and we've only seen the first 2 episodes and we're hooked. It's about an authour collecting Ghost Stories during the Bakumatsu Period (1853-1868/73). (Meiji Era: 1868-1912. Bakumatsu is the end of the military government). Unfortunately for him, he kinda ends up stumbling into a group of, well, supernatural beings who are travelling around and acting basically as a group of judges, catching and 'righting' past wrongs. Usually murder mysteries, solved with a ghostly bent. ^___^

From what I understand, it's based of the orginal Konjaku Monogatari (Tales of Times now Past), written in the Heian Period (794-1192). There are 31 volumes to it (three are missing) with over 1000 stories in it, from Japan and India.

er... not that we like anything supernatural, not us... ^^;;

But the opening and ending songs caught our attention. They're kinda bluesy, very haunting, and for some reason, sung all in english. Kinda hoping someone knows the group or the name of the songs. The first one is sung with 2-3 parts sometimes, very neat.

( Opening )

( Closing )

... the kicker to the whole thing is that it's the same animation group who does Detective Conan. ^^;; Go figure.

Way Weird

So I woke up this morning dreaming that Miss Piggy was getting sworn in as President of the United States of America, being the first to break both the gender and the species barrier.
... O_o ....

Then went to one of the closer libaries in the area and discovered that they have a graphic novels section. Read the first 3 books of Sandman by Neil Gaiman, and graphic novel versions of Mort and The Light Fantastic by Terry Prachett. Kinda disturbed at how different Ysabell, Death's Daughter appears in both of them. (Ysabet, is that how you decided on your name? ~_^ )

Dude... Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman is a way tripped out combination to get mixed up in your head... For one thing, there's 2 Deaths floating around now and they BOTH have senses of humour. o_o

Am going to have to start looking up books on puppetry soon, starting to try to design Diskworld cotumes and dammit, all of our mental costume designs lately have been giant puppets operated on the inside.
damn cool tho.

[drabble] One Piece: Lost Boys

Based off a converstation a few weeks back with Becky and a few others about mis-firing teleporters and what not.

( Drabble: Lost Boys )