January Lust List : DVDs

Hi everyone! As you remember (because I wouldn't shut up about it) I had a poll on one of my last posts to help me choose the next topic. Thank you so much to the two people that voted, you're awesome ^_^!! As requested, I am writing today about the 12 (with two bonuses) movies and shows on my wishlist that I am lusting over this month. I say DVD because I'm behind the times and still don't own a Bluray player (I know, so sad ;__;) This is in no particular order.

1. Hellsing Ultimate Vols 9 and 10 Bluray & DVD combo pack

I already own Hellsing Ultimate volumes 1-8, but the price of 9 and 10 has been too steep for me to justify getting just yet. I want this set so much to complete my collection. It had two of the most badass episodes of the series. Note: Amazon has stopped selling this themselves because of an apparent problem with the stock. The price has skyrocketed. I hope it'll be back and cheaper soon!!

2. The Purge 2, Purge: Anarchy

I loved the first Purge movie and I've been dying to see this one. I have heard that it's everything the first movie should have been. It was towards the top of my Christmas list, but I never got it.

3. Annabelle

I am a big fan of the Warrens. I absolutely loved The Conjuring so of course I had to check this out. I actually just watched it last night and I loved it! It wasn't as good as The Conjuring was but pretty damn close! I can't wait until The Conjuring 2 comes out, as of right now it isn't scheduled to be released until next year. 

4. Maleficent

I saw this in the theater and loved it. Maleficent has always been one of my favorite Disney villains. Angelina Jolie was SO fierce and badass in this movie and I love that Disney didn't make it well, a typical Disney movie.

5. Adventure Time season 4

Adventure Time is one of my many favorite shows. I don't own any of the seasons and would actually love to own them all. I chose season 4 for this list because Netflix doesn't have it and it contains of my favorite episodes: Fionna and Cake. I LOVE the Fionna and Cake episodes. I wish Cartoon Network would make us a spinoff or at least give us more than one of their episodes a year.

6. Descendants of Darkness vols 1 and 4

Also known as Yami no Matsuei. It is a lesser known anime series that I discovered while I was in middle school. My best friend and I were obsessed with this show, she owned volume 4 so we would have marathons of both of our collections whenever we had sleepovers. It's about an organization that handles the processing of souls after death. The main character Tsuzuki Asato and then his partner Hisoka Kurosaki are shinigami that work for the judgement division of the organization, having to get the dead people and bring them to trial for judgement of how they lived their lives. Tsuzuki and Hisoka are often mixed up in an investigation of some mystery that they have to solve. The show deals heavily with the occult, my favorite story arc being the Devil's Song episodes. It introduced me to my favorite classical piece, The Devil's Trill by Giuseppe Tartini.

It is gory, creepy and has some yaoi (I LOVE my yaoi!). I own volumes 2 and 3, but not 1 and 4. This  show is out of print and you can only buy the DVDs used now, for years I have been hunting for them and I just recently found them on amazon. I need to complete my collection.

7. Into The Woods

I saw this movie with one of my friends this past week and it was fantastic. I love musicals and of course I was bound to love it since it IS based on a sondheim (the composer to one of my favorite movies, Sweeney Todd) play. Although the plot was rushed (in their defense, they were cramming a possibly 3-4 hour play into a 2 hour movie) it was great and the music was great. Plus it had Meryl Streep. Meryl was fierce. Meryl is queen. Though this is still in theaters, it is up for pre-order and releases in March.

8. The Addams Family (1960s) vol 1.

I love the original black and white Addams Family TV show from the 1960s. Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams is queen!! It is one of the very few things I can stand in black and white. I would love to own any volume of this show, but volume 1 is what's on my amazon wish list.

9. Chrono Crusade: Complete Series 

This is another beloved anime I discovered in middle school. I was obsessed with this as well. My summary of this may not be so great, as it has been so long since I've been able to watch this show. It is about the Madgalene order, an organization that destroys demons. The main characters are a nun named Rosette Christopher and her sidekick (who happens to be a demon) Chrono. Throughout the series they are hunting for Rosette's missing brother Joshua, fighting demons and discovering dark secrets along the way.

It is a great lesser known series. I normally dislike shows about nuns or anything religious but Rosette is a badass nun! I love the whole demon aspect of the show and how the nuns shoot them like crazy with their guns. I love that Rosette isn't a typical nun. Her and Chrono are like the black sheep.  I definitely recommend checking this out, especially if you liked Trinity Blood.

10. Modern Family: any season!

I love Modern Family! It is one of my favorite shows, I sadly don't own any of it but I want all of it. It is what I like to call one of my happy shows: a show that just comforts me and that I can watch over and over. I watch reruns of the show all the time and have seen some episodes probably 20+ times. I just love it so much!


11. Game of Thrones season 4

Game of Thrones is my favorite show (since True Blood is over and though I love it, went downhill as the seasons went on. The last season was bullshit). I own seasons 1-3 and need to own this one. Plus this season has the purple wedding, which was an oh so beautiful thing. 

12. The Fault In Our Stars

I haven't seen this yet, but I read the book. The book was so fantastic that I read the entire thing in a day. This book made me cry harder than any other book. I really want to see the movie and see how it compares.

Bonuses:

Sailor Moon season 1 part 2

I have this pre-ordered already so it technically can't be part of this list, but I am lusting over it SO much! I already own part 1. Part 2 contains my favorite episode (the episode where Mamoru discovers Usagi is Sailor Moon and Usagi learns she's princess Serenity), I'm really excited to see how it is uncut and with the new dub. It comes out February 10, I should have it in my possession on release day. Just a few more weeks!!! Would anyone like me to review the set when I get it? Or even review set 1? I also can't wait until Sailor Moon R is released, I am DYING to own it uncut. 

Black Butler: Book of Circus

This hasn't even been dubbed or announced in the US yet, so it doesn't truly count. But I loved this series so much! Black Butler is one of my favorites and they really did this justice with the manga. It was one of my favorite manga arcs and it was just great to see animated.

So that's it! Thank you for reading this post, I hope you enjoyed this. Any fans of any of the shows/movies above? If you would like any other lust lists or have any topic suggestions let me know in a comment or you can even tweet me! I should mention that you don't need to make an account to comment and you can do it anonymously. Hope you're all having a lovely evening (or day if you're reading this during the day) <3

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My top 6 favorite animes...because I'm SO indecisive!

Hi everyone! Yes, I'm back so soon! Did you miss me? It's been a whole few hours! Hehe. I decided to put this up quickly so that you will have a legit first post (my other two don't really count much) to read! Today I will be discussing my top 6 favorite animes (because I can't choose just 5). This is in no particular order.

                                                 1. Sailor Moon

This was the first anime I ever watched, I have watched it since I was a little kid further back than I can recall. I am a huge fan of it, it is very dear to my heart. I remember running home from the bus stop that I would get dropped off at after school every day to catch it at 4:00 on Toonami. I'm pretty sure I ended up falling and rolling down the hill I live on quite a few times but Sailor Moon was worth it! 

I literally cried when I heard that it was making a comeback, I had waited SO many years to have my beloved show back. I'm so happy to have it back as well as to have Sailor Moon Crystal ( I can write about that show too if anyone is interested).

Sailor Moon is an anime based on the manga by Naoko Takeuchi. It's about a young girl named Usagi (Serena if you watched the 90s DIC dub) who comes across a talking cat named Luna. Luna reveals to Usagi that she is Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon along with her friends of the Sailor Senshi (or scouts) uses her powers of love, justice and the moon to defeat their evil enemies, protect the moon, and the earth. It is the essential magical girl show and truly started the craze.

There are 5 different seasons or series to Sailor Moon, they are:

• Sailor Moon

• Sailor Moon R

• Sailor Moon S

• Sailor Moon Super S

• Sailor Moon Sailor Stars

Each season has its own villains and storylines. What I love so much about this show is it isn't a typical "damsel in distress" show. In this show, the women are the strong ones! Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Moon's boyfriend and "super hero" friend to the senshi usually is the one that has to be saved. He is kidnapped or captured at least a few times and the girls have to save him. Tuxedo Mask also doesn't always interfere; he many times has stood on the sidelines giving Sailor Moon the encouragement to realize that she does have the strength to get out of a bind on her own.

Sailor Moon pushes girl power, that friendship is worth more than gold, that it's ok to be different, to stand against discrimination and to fight for what you believe in.

                                              2. Black Butler

 

I fell in love with this show at the very first episode, the very first time I watched it. It is based in Victorian London (which I have a major obsession/love for). Black Butler or Kuroshitsuji is based on the manga by Yana Toboso. It is about a young orphaned earl named Ciel Phantomhive. He is the queen's guard dog. He has the job of solving macabre mysteries that the queen would rather have cleaned under the rug. His butler who also happens to be a demon that he made a contract with named Sebastian Michaelist assists him.
This show has so much that I love. It has the Victorian setting, which is a time period I have always been fascinated with. It has a beautiful gothic design. It also has a horror element. A lot of the storyline is dark and deals with the occult, such as demons, cult sacrifices, ghosts and Jack the Ripper. There is also a good deal of comedy to balance everything out.

Black Butler has 3 Seasons: Black Butler, Black Butler 2 and Black Butler: Book of Circus. The second season unless you truly enjoy the show isn't really worth watching. It has nothing to do with the over all plot and wasn't even in the manga. Many fans despise it. Season 3 also ignores everything from season two, leaving the poor anime only fans very confused. I do have to point out there are subtle yaoi undertones here (and I love it!). Yana was originally going to publish the manga as a yaoi, but her publishers would not let her thinking it wouldn't sell. She actually does make her own yaoi doujinshi (fan made manga) and from what I've heard sells them at conventions. Way to stick it to the man, Toboso-sama! 

I do read and keep up with the manga, it is my favorite manga. I really hope they develop more story arcs into anime. Book of Circus stayed very true to the manga.

                                               3. Sword Art Online

The show that everyone loves to hate! As a heads up, please don't comment about how much you hate this show. I really don't care.

Sword Art Online is based on the light novel series by Reki Kawahara. It is about a boy named Kazuto Kirigaya who is known by his username Kirito. He is a beta tester for the virtual reality game called Sword Art Online. He enters the game on the first day it is online to the public and realizes something startling: he can't log out! The gamemaker has trapped every single player in Sword Art Online. They can not log out and if they die in the game, they die in real life. Although Kirito is a die hard solo player, him along with his friends Asuna (Also his eventual girlfriend), Klein, Liz, Agil and the many people they meet along the way must beat the game to free everyone before it's too late.

I love this show so much, it has a lot of action but also some romance and a little comedy. The characters do have layers to them. It also has a beautiful and kickass soundtrack. I love the whole Sword Art Online world - the whole sort of medeival setting where you fight monsters with swords. I'm a sucker for a good sword fight.

I also love that SAO has strong female characters. Asuna is one of my favorite anime characters of all time. She fights for herself and is a badass at it! She isn't always hiding or waiting for a man to save her. She's even had to save Kirito before. I do however dislike what they did to her in the 2nd half of season 1, about Alfeim Online. They turned her into the damsel in distress. I really wish they had done the opposite and made Kirito the damsel.

There are 2 (technically 3) seasons of SAO - Sword Art Online and Alfeim Online (AKA the fairy arc) are both in season 1, but feel like two seperate seasons. Then there is Sword Art Online II, which features the Gun Gale Online arc, the Calibur arc and Mother's Rosario.

I do in fact read the light novels! I am currently on volume 9, Alicization Beginning. These books are amazing and even better than the anime. If a lot of the haters (especially the ones bitching about Kirito and Asuna's relationship being rushed) read the books, they wouldn't whine so much!

                                 4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Pretty much every big anime fan has seen some form of Fullmetal Alchemist. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the re-do of the original anime, Fullmetal Alchemist. The original FMA anime veered drastically from the plot of the manga, so Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was born! It's based on the manga by Hiromu Arakawa, the whole point of the show was to do what FMA didn't...follow the plot of the manga! I haven't read the manga but I've heard it follows it to a T. 

FMA: Brotherhood is about two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric. Their beloved mother died when they were young boys, so Ed decided to use Alchemy to try to bring her back. In this show, Alchemy is the art of magic combined with science to manipulate and alter matter using energy. However, Ed failed drastically. Alchemy law calls for equal exchange and it is taboo to try to bring the dead back to life. Ed looses an arm and a leg in the process and Al losses his body. Ed happens to bind Al's soul to a suit of armor just in time.

As a result of the tragedy, Ed becomes a state alchemist to use his talent to help his and Al's quest to find the philosopher's stone to get their original bodies back.

This show is a masterpiece. The artwork is beautiful and so much better than the original FMA. When watching this show, it feels like you are watching a movie. It has such a rich plot as well as a fantastic score.

                                               5. Hellsing Ultimate 

 

 

     "The bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."

Hellsing Ultimate is like FMA: Brotherhood, another show doing what the original failed to do. Hellsing Ultimate follows the manga plot, by Kouta Hirano. It is a 10 episode (all episodes being about an hour long) OVA series.

Hellsing Ultimate is about the Hellsing Organization, which keeps England safe from supernatural threats. The Hellsing Organization is headed by Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing (who is a woman, despite being called sir) and she has a deadly tool - Alucard the rogue bloodthirsty vampire. She also has the badass police girl - turned vampire (by Alucard), Seras Victoria. In Hellsing Ultimate they fight their threat of the Millennium Organization  - a group of Nazis that transforms humans into vampires and their leader is obsessed with war, wanting war just for no other reason than to have a war.

This show is another masterpiece. Each episode is like a movie. It has so much horror in it. Very gory, which I love! Though is has very disturbing moments involving rape (I luckily was warned and able to look away from such scenes). This is the perfect show to any idiot that believes anime is just for kids. Alucard is a very badass character that is not to be messed with. He is also a sexy beast voiced by (the swoon-worthy vocal talent of) Crispin Freeman. I had always liked the original Hellsing, as soon as I saw this on Toonami I was in love. Right after Christmas I got myself volumes 1-8 (just need 2 more!!).

                                               6. Code Geass

 

 

Code Geass (or rather Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) is about a teen named Lelouch Lamperouge. He is a Brittanian prince in hiding in a place called Area 11 (formerly Japan), after his mother was assassinated. His real name is Lelouch Vi Brittania. Brittania invaded Japan and surpessed the Japanese people forcing them to live in poverty while they live a grand lifestyle (Hunger Games anyone?).

Lelouch had become very bored of his life and not only wants to do something meaningful but he is tired of what the Brittanian Empire has done. He wants to make the world a better place for his blind and disabled sister, Nunnally. As well as find out who killed their mother and take revenge on them.

On one of his gambling trips he stumbles upon C.C. (or C 2), who gives him the power of Geass. With this new power, Lelouch can command anyone to do whatever he wants. He uses this power to become Zero and starts a rebellion against Brittania. He has to juggle school, his secret identity as Zero and keep his best friend Suzaku, a member of the Brittanian military from discovering who he truly is.

This show is another masterpiece. It is very grand and has a rich plot which is extremely well written. It has a lot of suspense and action. It has a season two called Code Geass R2, but the first season is highly superior. In my fangirl mind I like to imply slight yaoi undertones between Lelouch and Suzaku, I love that  pairing.

Wow that was a long post! I hope you enjoyed it though ^_^! Would anyone else like to see 4-5 more of my favorite animes? Seriously, there are a lot I love.

Anyone watching this season's winter anime? I'm watching Sailor Moon Crystal, Tokyo Ghoul, Durarara 2 and Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! (AKA the magical boys anime). I also really want to check out Death Parade, but I haven't gotten to it yet. It's kind of nice not to be watching a ton...I watched so many (for me anyway) over the summer O___O. 

If you liked that post, want me to review anything else mentioned in this post or simple just want to talk to me, please leave a comment below! ^_^ <3 

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