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    Wah! O_O I totally forgot this was on tonight. I guess it should be starting in a couple minutes. Good timing to pull this thread up. *runs off*

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    Well, that was an interesting show. The CG reinactments were great. Originally, I thought the photographs were pretty lame, but then they showed the CG of the squid and the camera. Since they showed some of the photographs with the CG, it put them in conext, and the photos became a lot more interesting.

    The music was intense. For a documentary, I mean. I seriously felt like I was watching a movie sometimes, like when the flag went down and they were scrolling though the pics.

    My favourite part had to be the sperm whale vs. squid commentary. Maybe I'm just easily amused tonight, but I found that pretty funny.

    "There is no record of any sperm whale being killed (? forgot what exact word they used...) by a giant squid. And no wonder. Giant squid sucker ring. [show picture] Sperm whale tooth. [show picture]"

    Okay, yeah, so maybe I was just really easily amused..

    Ah, but at least I learned how to pronounce leviathan correctly. W00t, w00t! :happy:

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    Hmm... I can't think of any anime that I've recently watched that's made me cry, probably since I haven't watched anything too dramatic lately.

    I got teary-eyed watched the end of Voices of a Distant Star/Hoshi no Koe. I'm still in denial of the ending, as proven by the debate I had with my brother last night. So sad, so sad.

    Poor, poor Noboru. He worked all that time to get to outer space, but he won't even be finding Mikako... why? Because she's DEAD! ...or so everyone tells me.

    Hey, it's not like they showed it. I can still deny it...:lookdown:

    The ending of Ayashi no Ceres is another tear jerker for me. If you've watched it, you can probably guess which part.

    The part where Aya's screaming and crying over Aki sacrificing himself. It's all about the scream. Just kinda strikes a chord.

    The situation wasn't helped by that Toya-could-drop-dead-anytime conversation that was shoved in at the very end.

    I watch that episode whenever I feel like getting bummed out, but I haven't even watched Voices of a Distant Star a second time. Good anime, but it bums me too much.

    Oh, and then there was Doggy Poo...

    Just kidding.

    The last time I got pumped up for a character... umm... I guess Saiunkoku Monogatari.

    When they Shuurei gets kidnapped and everyone has to go save her. I seriously thought Ryuuki was gonna charge them until the hair clip fell from the upper floor. Oh, and her dad. Who saw that coming? The guy actually kicks butt, so much for being a librarian...

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    You'd think this would have made national news or something.

    Hmmm... I know watcha mean. I think I remember hearing about how great it'd be to get one live and on camera on a show a while back. I'm surprised a bigger deal wasn't made out of actually getting the footage. Maybe I was in a box the week it happened.

    Do you think this article is about the same one?

    Scientists capture giant squid on camera

    First images of creature live in the wild

    The Associated Press

    Updated: 11:01 a.m. PT Sept 28, 2005

    TOKYO - When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big. Then it began sucking on his hands. But what came next excited him most — hundreds of photos of a purplish-red sea monster doing battle 3,000 feet deep.

    It was a rare giant squid, a creature that until then had eluded observation in the wild.

    Kubodera’s team captured photos of the 26-foot-long beast attacking its bait, then struggling for more than four hours to get free. The squid pulled so hard on the line baited with shrimp that it severed one of its own tentacles.

    “It was quite an experience to feel the still-functioning tentacle on my hand,” Kubodera, a researcher with Japan’s National Science Museum, told The Associated Press. “But the photos were even better.”

    For centuries giant squids, formally called Architeuthis, have been the stuff of legends, appearing in the myths of ancient Greece or attacking a submarine in Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” But they had never been seen in their natural habitat, only caught in fishing nets or washed ashore dead or dying.

    The Japanese team, capping a three-year effort, filmed the creature in September of last year, finding what one researcher called “the holy grail” of deep-sea animals...

    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/

    The article goes on, but it appears it happened last year. Guess, it's already been a while. Hmm...

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