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  1. Ah anime, my fourteen year obsession started innocently enough. My dad was a guest professor in Japan for a year. When I was four, my mother and I went over to visit him for a month. I was in love the minute I got off the plane. I especially liked the stuff on TV, including anime. I remember watching some of the more adult themed anime and having it all go over my head. The stuff I watched (which has probably never seen the light of day in the US) I don't really remember all that well. I remember there was this one anime where the main character was a chick with blue hair and ran around a lot. I called her "exercise girl." (And no, it wasn't battle athletes) But what I consider to be my first real anime (and manga really) is a children’s show/manga/merchandise-including-a-fried-chicken-burger-in the-shape-of-the-main-characters-head-which-I-loved-more-than anything called Anpan-man. It’s the story of an anpan (jelly filled pastry) imbued with cosmic radiation from the heavens, causing it to become a sentient being. However, the same radiation also brought intelligence to the evil Baikin-man (germ man). Anpan-man fights Baikin-man by giving pieces of his nutritious and delicious pastry head to those infected with germs and viruses (as illustrated bellow).

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    Coincidentally, Anpan-man is one of the longest running and most successful animes, having started in 1968. Read more about it here.


  2. http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-scifi-galacticaprequel,0,6083698.story?coll=zap-news-headlines

    The Sci Fi Channel will delve into the backstory of "Battlestar Galactica" with a new series that looks at the years leading up to humanity's devastation by the Cylons.

    The prequel, called "Caprica," heads a list of development projects the cable network unveiled Wednesday. Also in the works are a miniseries based on the book "Chariots of the Gods" and series from Jesse Alexander ("Alias"), Christopher McQuarrie ("The Usual Suspects"), Eric McCormack and Freddie Prinze Jr.

    [...]

    "Caprica" will be set more than 50 years prior to the events of "Battlestar Galactica" and focus on the lives of two families -- the Adamas (ancestors of future Galactica commander William) and the Graystones. Humankind's Twelve Colonies are at peace and on the verge of a technological breakthrough: the first Cylon.

    :o


  3. I have read two of the trilogies for Star Wars. I can't really remember which ones though. I also started reading the ones that focused more on teh twins as well. My parents had the original Star Wars trilogy books and the books that were about the early years of Hans' pirating career. I never got a chance to read those though. Maybe I should see if my parents still have those books...

    Those are probably

    I liked em.

    I've read every post RotJ book, and some of the prequel crap too -_-'

    NJO will be fun for you Sledge :D

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