Animania, its good, and its bad, and things to improve on...

Hey, people, great to be back...
Actually, i wanted to talk about the whole beijing trip and everything that happened there the minute i got back, but was a bit reluctant as i did not want to recall the terror of counting 26 people everyday during the trip, mutiple times in one day in fact...

But anyway,

Thanks to the fact that i'm back, i am able to once again indulge in my favourite form of entertainment, at least for the time being, Animania...

If you all had been paying attention, you all would have noticed that i have at least two post talking about this Animania thing on Art Central...
I think i am starting to see a connection...

The craze, for me, started when I realised that Shaman king was being aired. At that point in time, the 11pm show was inuyasha, and 11:30pm show was Shaman King. At that point in time, the two anime series was talking about shamans and spirits and the sort of thing although technically they were talking about different things.

After the two anime series ended, we had 11pm Peacemaker Kurogane (art central conveniently forgets the Kurogane and whatever parts in Jap all the time) and 11:30pm we had Scrapped Princess. Peacemaker Kurogane was rated NC-16 so it was a bit of problem for me to watch although it eventually was turned into PG for Art central. The two Anime series now focused on Peacemakers. Peacemaker Kurogane should be clear enough, while for Scrapped Princess it took some inferring. Scrapped Princess had peacemakers because of the presence of the Peacemakers, and the companions with the Scrapped Princess, and eventually in the last episode, Taurus herself...

So you could see the connection between the two anime series...

After this two anime series ended, we had 11pm Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!!(Art central forgot Shinkon Gattai as usual, and the exclamation marks) and 11:30pm Kita-He~diamond dust drops(Art Central forgot, you guessed it, Kita-He, which mean, to the North) and after Kita-He ended (around 12 episodes), 11:30pm became Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien (Can't blame Art Central for this one, which they named Rumbling Hearts. The fake title for the series is placed prominently in the opening screen, which is Rumbling Hearts...)(Anyway, Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien means, Kiminozo, the eternity you desire). The three anime series now focused on love story...

So i guess we all expect the next two anime series to be once again related in some way...

But that is not the main gist of the post. I am hoping that Art Central would finally get the titles of their Anime series right. Lets take a look at what had happened so far:
Peacemaker = Peacemaker Kurogane
Godannar = Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!!
Diamond Dust Drops = Kita-He~Diamond Dust Drops
Rumbling Hearts = Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien

I mean, they are giving me a bit of a trouble when i go searching the web for information on them. Rumbling hearts made me spend about a week trying to get heads and tails of what i am getting though google until i finally discovered that its title is actually Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien.

Art Central has done a wonderful job by changing the things that had happened over the film art vs Animania program shifting ceremony, and i guess we all are quite happy with that. I suggest that they can do a even better job by making sure that they stop forgetting to add the Japanese titles into the subtitles...

Oh ya, another irritating aspect of Art Central is that for Kimi Ga Nozumo Eien, the story characters leave notes for the other character. For people like us who can't read Jap, it get irritating when we can't find out what it means. The subtitle refuses to tell us what it means anyway, so we just have to guess...
For some episodes, the subtitles work and tell us what is on the notes...
So i guess it needs some standardization?

Art Central can do it, i am sure it can...

Discmon