Part of the joy of being a member of Netflix is in discovering and watching their vast collection of foreign and independant films. I can spend an hour alone searching through the Instant Watching selection just trying to decide what to add to my queue and maybe what to see next. Then of course there’s my small addiction to Japanese animation, or anime. It showed up on Netflix last Spring and I’ve been devouring the stuff since. Sure, I really wish they came included with subtitles, but I’m not going to dismiss a perfectly good series just because it’s dubbed. Unless it’s horribly dubbed. There have been a few of those.
I’m running out of anime series!
I’ll have weekends were all I do is have movie marathons and throw in some anime to mix things up a bit. Actually, once I get obsessed with a series, I drop everything else until I’ve finished the last episode. It’s so bad. But then again I tend to be that way with books too.
I finished watching Princess Tutu today. What an endearing little series. Netflix recommended it because I enjoyed Ouran which to this day I still can’t understand why I enjoyed that one, but still. Tutu was cute and funny, but never in a way that made it seem like I was watching something meant for little kids; quite the opposite, by the third episode there were themes that were very adult. The series deals with love and hate, loss and acceptance. And the music is amazing! It’s a magical girl transformation series that uses classical music for its score. As a music nut, I just loved to watch and identify the composers. Mahler, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, etc. I’m really going to miss watching it.