Monster

Got quite a few new acquisitions in the past week. First of all, what my girlfriend got me for my birthday1:

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I've always felt that Who Framed Roger Rabbit was one of the most amazing films to come out of an American studio. The book was one I've been looking forward to read for some time now.

Then I had the following come in from Robert's Anime Corner Store:

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• 1. Not young anymore at 30... Yet I'm still watching cartoons.

So, it seems that someone took the opening to Monster and made a version using LEGOs:

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One of the best long-running1 series that I ever got into. Too bad it never got licensed into the U.S.2, I'd have been very interested in a German dub of it, truthfully...

I had turned 28 on Friday and received volumes 1 and 4 of the Monster manga as gifts.[img_assist|nid=2095|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=150] I went ahead and bought volumes 2 and 3 of Monster to fill in the missing volumes and volumes 2-4 of Berserk to continue it (getting both series and a Haibane Renmei t-shirt from Robert's Anime Corner Store).

[img_assist|nid=1880|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=143|height=200]A couple of days ago, I decided to subject myself to the English dub of Crest of the Stars, gave up and started rewatching Monster. The night afterwards, I put in the first DVD of Vision of Escaflowne and watched the first couple of episodes in Japanese with English dubs. A few things came to mind at the time concerning each of these shows.