Don't forget, I'm charming

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I have now seen seven episodes of Mushishi (2005—2006), which Viking Zen and I started watching off Netflix last week. mamishka, did you recommend this show to me? It's absolutely lovely—quiet, enigmatic, genuinely otherworldly; its stories feel like riddles or dreams, some of which may be nightmares, but beautiful all the same. They chime like folktales. I keep feeling one or more of cucumberseed's characters are going to wander through the landscape. My only complaint is that we can't stream it with subtitles, but that's what the DVDs are for. I cannot imagine I won't want to rewatch the entire thing.

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[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Cowboy Bebop has a much more "western" (as in culture, though it does have an 'old west' feel to it as well) quality to it, mostly because of the music which is WONDERFUL. Very jazzy and bluesy with bits of country twang thrown in on occasion as well as some hard rock (which is episode appropriate). The voices that they got for all of the characters are just perfect. What's more unusual is that I tried to watch the show a few times in Japanese first, but it just didn't quite click for me and I couldn't seem to get into it, despite all the praise it had gotten. Then I saw the movie on the big screen in English, tried watching the series in English and BINGO! Perfect fit.

And yeah, you would totally have to see it as a different story. I saw the movie first and when I tried to read the book I just hated it, which is pretty unusual. I suspect you might have much the same reaction, but in reverse. Still, Christian Bale as Howl? So good.