[merylsilverburg]

Originally posted by Cannibal Clown

Oh, and regarding innocence, do you happen to know whether or not it's directly tied in with the first movie as a sequal, or if it's just another movie all together. I have only seen trailers for the second movie, but nothing else, mainly becauae all of the sites i've ever bothered to visit are in japanese. It seems to me though, that the lead character has moved from Motoko to Batou. And with that note, i was wondering if the series had any relevance to the first movie, or if it's just from the manga and nothing more.

Sorry, I have no idea whether it's connected to the first film or not. It does seem to be an entirely new film, but I could be wrong. Not much info has been released on this.

With the samurai thing, there seems to be a lot of them comming out recently. I rememeber seeing nothing more than a small glimps of Champloo, which was also being advertised with another one called Afro Samurai. I couldn't rememebr if they had anything in common, like creator or director, but they both seemed to be really good. And if it's Watanabe directing it, i'm sure it won't be anything short of fantastic.

Yeah, I agree about Watanabe...Samurai Champloo is defintely one on my list I must see.

And a minor thing, full metal alchemist, yes, it is very good. Il Palazzo first told me of this one. I have only seen a few episodes from the last anime con i was at, but it looked very good. I also couldn't help but notice that it seemed to share many simularities with Naruto, comedy and visual wise anyways. And Naruto is unbelievable, so i'm expecting even more from this one as well.

Heh heh, for me, I thought that Hagane no Renkin Jutsushi reminded me more of King of Bandits Jing while Peace Maker Kurogane reminded me of Naruto. In "Peacemaker", the main character, Ichimura, reminded me so much of Naruto and a little bit of Yahiko from Rurouni Kenshin. I also got Gungrave, Gilgamesh, and Chrno Crusade but I still need to see those. So far, they seem pretty good.