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M19+20

Had been waiting for the Kara no Kyoukai OSTs to appear on Amazon.jp for ages. I might as well have been waiting for Godot. Only recently slowpoke.jpg realized, via canta per me, that the OSTs were only available with the DVDs.

I've bought Limited Edition DVDs before but this is the first time that I wanted the extra more than the DVD itself (my favourite so far is Paradox Spiral); I really enjoy the above-mentioned (post title) track so much - it's the BGM for the kick-off for the Shiki vs Fujino battle on the bridge and it's been replaying endlessly on my Winamp.

And I wouldn't have bought the R2 DVD of the third movie, Remaining Sense of Pain (????), if I hadn't already downloaded the fansub. Kara no Kyoukai's dialogue is really difficult to follow raw - to my ears, it's comparable almost (but not quite yet) to Ghost in the Shell in terms of level of difficulty.

Given my extremely limited listening comprehension, I'm now asking myself what possessed me to buy the first of The Garden of Wanderers and The Garden of Listeners drama CD series. And it's probably because I judged the CDs by their covers - they look hilarous! Would appreciate any pointers to other blogs and forums that discuss them.

P.S. re: The FT front page

Animated response: Tokyo fair salutes global growth Booth assistants pose at the Tokyo International Anime Fair, an exhibition of the animation productions whose popularity in Japan has now started to spread abroad. This year's fair featured displays from 14 companies in China, which participated for the first time, and others from US, Canada and Europe (Reuters)

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