Samurai Anime Go!

My anime for this month is Samurai Deeper Kyo. So far, after two disks (10 episodes) it isn’t too bad. It reminds me a little of Rurouni Kenshin, especially the stuff about “a man with a cross-shaped scar on his back (or face).” This comparison is bad, however, since Kenshin is one of the best manga ever; all others pale before it.

SDK begins promising with the idea of two samurai who are fighting get struck by a mysterious meteor. Their souls are trapped in the same body (the extra body is hidden away somewhere.) At first I thought the two fighters would be switching back and forth, but after one or two times of that, it has stopped. “Demon-eyes” Kyo is the one in charge now and we get a chance to discover that he isn’t so bad after all. It’s the other one (whose body Kyo is occupying) that seems a bit of a baddy. Whew! This is difficult to explain!

Anyway, I like the demon-monster thingies and the characters are fun too. Also, the outtakes are hilarious! I’ll keep watching.

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www.netflix.com provides me with all the DVD’s I can handle.
As for books, my thanks go out to www.amazon.com, Borders (a chai latte, please!) and all the used book sales I can get to.
For anything I can’t find in any of these places, I go to my local library. (Interlibrary Loans are SHINY!)

LIBRARIANS: the GPS locators in a wilderness of information.