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TOMMYGUN

                                               December 12, 2004

                                               From a post to alt.gothic


I just dropped by Muddy's this evening, where Tommy
(the gothic-industrial barista) was in a talkative
mood, and recommended some newish anime stuff that
he likes:

  "The Last Exile" (which
  sounds like some odd,               Kaos of alt.gothic remarked:
  alternate universe, a
  steampunkish mixture of                 "Airships, a breach in the honour
  high and low technology)                of warfare and two young 'pony
                                          express' inspired messengers who
                                          race... whatever their plane was
                                          called in their downtime?"

                                          "It almost broke my addiction to
                                          mecha.  Steampunk airships = way
                                          cool."

                                          "'Witch Hunter Robin' is having a
                                          similar effect, particular given
                                          it's almost exactly like the story
                                          I've been dreaming about since I
                                          was 13.  And I mean 'dreaming'
                                          literally, like REM cycles and stuff."

  "Hellsing" (about the
  Hellsing Organization,
  dedicated to fighting the
  undead, founded by Van        "Helsing" is a pretty odd name for
  Helsing).                     Dracula's opponent, isn't it?  I should
                                break out the Stoker and see if I can
                                work up a Borgesian reversal of the
                                story... Dracula dies for the crime of
                                bestowing the gift of eternal life.

                                                 Though actually, I'd
                                                 rather look for the
                                                 Burton translation
                                                 from the Hindu of
                                                 "Vikram the Vampire".

                                                        http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2400

                                                  One of the original sources
                                                  of the contagion, I would
                                                  think, though you could make
                                                  a strong case for Polidori
                                                  being the primary vector:

                                                       VAMPIRE_TIME

  "Devilman"

  I balked at that one.

  This is one of the cheesiest, most
  dorky, useless things I've ever seen,
  and if anyone doubts my word I can
  easily be talked into mailing you my
  copy of the video tape.

  Then he backed up, and said that the
  *second* Devilman was good, the first
  one was a little lame because it was
  all "just set-up"... I remain              (Aug 13, 2021) Though I've only
  skeptical, though.                         seen one episode of something that
                                             purports to be "Devil-Man"-- it
                                             could've been a knock-off, or
                                             perhaps Devil-Man is a case where
                                             a childish, stupid property got
                                             reclaimed by someone interested in
                                             doing a Frank Miller with it.

                                                 I'm told there's a take-off
                                                 of "Westworld" now that's
                                                 okay-- who would've expected
                                                 that one, eh?



   Another alt.gothic person
   recommended "Samurai X"--
   I remember thinking that was
   watchable, but just.

         They specified "OVA"s though,
         which might not be what I
         looked at.

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