I’ve been Netflix-ing and sloooowly watching the anime Last Exile over the last few months, and finished it over the weekend. It’s all very pretty, but I really don’t understand what the hell happened at the very end. Some fun stuff along the way, though.
This means that I have once again run out of Japanese cartoons to watch, and the mystery anime I was recommended in Japan are not available from Netflix at present. Which means I need new stuff to watch on Friday nights after happy hour, when network tv sucks.
So, oh all-knowing Internet types, what should be on my Netflix queue? Serial format things are slightly preferable, as they require less of a committment, but movies are good, too.
If you’d like to know what I’ve already seen, there’s a list here, to which you can add:
Trigun: Great fun. Awfully slapstick-y in places, but a good overall plot, good characters, and nice visuals.
Last Exile: see above.
Princess Tutu: Not my thing, but Kate loved it.
My Neighbor Totoro: There are little Totoro dolls and figurines everywhere in Japan, so we figured we really needed to see what this was about. It’s basically a Japanese Disney movie, without the treacly musical numbers.
I think that’s about it.