in the shell

...and it contains 100% more w00tage

now what's the best way to say this...

!W00T!


...that should about cover it...

can't wait to find out more than the title, i wonder if I can blag some tickets to the TAF...

lol

well, all my local Borders, Waterstones/Ottakers have got at least a few of their bookshelves given over to manga, so I've been assuming that it's the same all around England, no?

I've seen that release date for it from dark horse in a couple of other places too.

well to be fair I was buying "hentai tentacle beast lovefest II" at the time. (J/K) :wink: It's nice to see that most of the bigname bookshops in the UK have got extensive manga/graphic novel sections now even if it is all mostly 'love hina'.... :roll: I suppose once more people check it o...

The film pretty much ends at the falling down of the gynoid kusanagi was using. But the scene afterwards when batou says his goodbyes to togusa and collects his dog is a strange one to me, i'm not sure i understand it as a way of wrapping up the story and prehaps that's why I view it as being a pess...

yay great news! was starting to get withdrawl symptons from no more hellsing (biting people at nightclubs, throwing things at priests to see them use their special magical powers). Someone should tell their writers that it wasn't a nice thing to do ending a series with so much unresolved..

character design doesn't look too bad if a little bit generic. this guy looks a bit like the cowboy bebop dude.

It's got to be grave of the fire flies or Jin Roh.

...or escaflowne but i don't think depression at having wasted an hour of my life on such pap was the emotional response you meant.

welcome back, it's good to see you both on your respective days and timezones.

^ has a strangely good memory about megadrive games that were made back when everyone was wearing shoulder pads and vanilla ice was the height of musical talent. < is a sucker for simian ladies who like to go Oook and aren't shy about it.(king Kong was totally a ladyape i saw no 'items' in any film ...

There was this extraordinarily nice fellow with a Bateau avatar that used to be a regular, but eventually completely died out. me? please be aware that if you say yes I'll be upset you didn't remember my name and if you say no I'll be upset you didn't miss me at all. either way I'm sulking. :P I wa...

hmmm.. end of the world. well let's get looting.

Didn't i read somewhere that Mamoru Oshii meant the city of the first film to be hong-kong rather than tokyo?

meh. seen one overdeveloped neo-urban enviroment seen em' all

I've spent most my life looking down on plastic surgery for some reasons that have already come up. I thought it was another way to get people to hate themselves and that by ironing out the creases in our physical bodies we make it seem as though those "imperfections"(sarcastic quote marks...