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Anime reviews

Hellsing Ultimate I & II

By admin | November 13, 2008

Well, I watched Hellsing Ultimate I followed by Hellsing Ultimate II (both were from disk since Netflix doesn’t have them available for streaming).  They were short as disk’s go at only about 45 min viewing time each.  Or I guess you could say each episode is long compared to the normal 23 min TV episodes… [...]

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Netflix "Instant View" – NOT for full length movies

By admin | November 5, 2008

While the Instant view steaming is great for anime (short episodes), it doesn’t work too well for full length movies. I tried watching two, and both times, after about 10 min, I get the following:   Here is my bandwidth speedtest right after the error: So, its not very likely the bottleneck is on my [...]

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Netflix "Play Instantly"

By admin | November 4, 2008

I recently signed up for the Netflix 2 week trial.  By far the best feature is that there are a lot of movies you can stream and watch immediately.  This is especially great for anime since its so episodic.  I just started watching Kurau Phantom Memory, and have almost completed the entire series in about [...]

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When They Cry

By admin | November 2, 2008

I watched Disc1 (all my local shop currently has), and this is a bit of a departure from my classical understanding of the normal serialized anime.  The first set of episodes, end with the death of the main character (drats, I gave it away), however in the last episode on Disc1, he is back with [...]

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