Anime Watching

I have to admit that I always liked anime. While I was still a little kid, I used to watch some anime on the television. Back then and till now the anime broadcast on Greek tv stations, are always dubbed in Greek. Well back then I really didn’t mind it. After 2004 when I moved in the city and I got my first broadband connection, (a DSL with 384kbps download and 128 upload) started downloading stuff. Back in the town I grew up, the only possible option for me was a 56k dialup connection (I have to admit that an ISDN at 64k or 128k was an option too, however the cost was higher, and it was actually forbidding for the 128k).

At that period, at the end of 2004 I finally got the option to download whatever I wanted. Sometime in 2005 i started asking people I knew and people in forums to give me hints about anime to watch. The first anime I got to watch were Hellsing, Berserk and Last Exile. After this, sometime in 2006 I got Full Metal Alchemist from a good friend, that period I was working at an Internet Cafe. It happened to have a day off so I ended up watching the 51 episodes of FMA in less than 48 hours. In the 15th of May 2006 I finally stopped working. I spent the following summer in my hometown, but before I leave the city I got about 15 DVDs full of anime episodes (most of them using the avi container). After a month I was out of anime to watch. Fortunately in July I was able to get my first broadband back in my parents home so I started getting more and watching more.

In October 2006, I started using AniDB.net in order to keep track of the downloaded/watched anime. The AniDB-O-Matic client was very helpful. It can be used to hash the downloaded anime and add them to your anidb list.

Following there is my statistics graph from AniDB.net, depicting the downloaded and watched anime, since I started using AniDB.

My watched/downloaded anime statistics

As you can see in November 2007 there is a really large number of added anime… There reason for these is that back then I moved from my 2mbit DSL to a 24mbit ADSL2+. From February 2008 the number of the watched anime reduced a lot compared to the year before. This was due to me spending more time on World Of Warcraft. Around that time I started leveling a draenei hunter, after this i started leveling one alt for each class, (at the moment I have my lvl 70 Priest, a lvl 70 Hunter, a lvl 62 Rogue, a lvl 46 Mage, a lvl 33 Warrior and a Druid at the same lvl, and also a Paladin, a Warlock and a Shaman at lvl 30, all these on the server I am playing atm, i also have a lvl 70 Bloodelf pala on another server) also I did some 10 people raiding around that time with my priest.

However back in August I started watching more anime again an the same goes for this month, I found some stuff that got my attention like Zero No Tsukaima Season 3 and a few other.

Rosario+Vampire

Rosario+Vampire

After a long period of time, I finally decided to watch the rest episodes of Rosario+Vampire. I had watched up to the 8th episode, and as I recall, I used to download the new episodes as soon as they were fansubbed. I was downloading each episode, subbed by Ayako-BakaWolf till the end of the first season but I stopped at the 8th episode around February and I did watch more till now.

Generally for a long period of time now, I tend to prefer funny, easygoing ecchi anime so that was the reason I started watching Rosario+Vampire too. While watching the first episodes, I decided that I kind of liked the story so I decided to have a look at the manga on which the anime is based. At the manga I stopped at the 13th chapter of the story, but that was enough to make me realize one thing.

The anime creators… completely fucked up the original story, and the eliminated some of the nice, in my opinion, twists of the original story. Well i usually don’t expect the manga story to be exactly transfered on screen, but what these guys did with Rosario+Vampire was beyond normal. I have to admit, that I was kind of disappointed by the anime, and that I really liked the manga version of the story better.