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Arslan Senki
May. 26th, 2015 08:26 amI've been wanting some expensive toys lately. I am desiring a graphics card (seeing cool-looking PC games and always concluding "Nope, can't run it" is getting old). I'm also wanting a copy of Anime Studio to play with --- and decided this just as a new version is coming out, like, literally tomorrow; I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky.
But anyway, anime! I'd been off of it for awhile and this season I felt like I could get back into simulcasts --- and picked up approximately one show. I haven't fully given up on the idea of watching Seraph of the End (I ran into the manga awhile back and found it breathtakingly formulaic but fun, which the reviews of the anime seem to bear out), but the only thing I actually have been watching is the new adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
( Thoughts behind the cut )
So overall, I'm really enjoying this new adaptation, and I think it's a good introduction to a story that's something of a classic in Japan. If you want to get more into it after that, the old OVA is a fascinating contrast that will take you further along in the story, albeit in kind of a reckless rush.
But anyway, anime! I'd been off of it for awhile and this season I felt like I could get back into simulcasts --- and picked up approximately one show. I haven't fully given up on the idea of watching Seraph of the End (I ran into the manga awhile back and found it breathtakingly formulaic but fun, which the reviews of the anime seem to bear out), but the only thing I actually have been watching is the new adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
( Thoughts behind the cut )
So overall, I'm really enjoying this new adaptation, and I think it's a good introduction to a story that's something of a classic in Japan. If you want to get more into it after that, the old OVA is a fascinating contrast that will take you further along in the story, albeit in kind of a reckless rush.
