Holy Newsflash, Batman!
Oct. 5th, 2009 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mercy_angel_09First up, I'm going to buy the fabric for my party dress on Saturday. I found a coupon in the Jo-Ann's flyer for 50% off any single item in the store (which includes a single length of fabric) for Friday and Saturday. I did the math an realized that I could theoretically make this dress for about fifty dollars - and the cheapest pre-made dress would start at seventy-five dollars easy. Fabric (since I'm going with the plain silver and not the silver with the sparkles) will be about $24. The zipper around $5 (and that's guessing high). Thread will be $2-$4. The pattern was only $1. Add in tax, and you're looking at about $40-$45 dollars. Yes, I'll have to commit some time into cutting it out and then sewing it together, but I figure that's worth it. It also means that I can splurge on shoes. X3
Secondly, my friend Ryan informed me on Saturday night that Sunrise had announced that they were going to complete Inuyasha. The anime production stopped in volume 36 of the manga, allowing Rumiko Takahashi to finish the manga without having to worry that the anime was finishing basically as filler episodes. Now that the series is done, it's been picked up again by Sunrise with the original Japanese cast. Viz is then taking the episodes, subbing them, and then posting them on Hulu. So far only the first episode has been released, but I'm excited to hear that the series will be completed in anime form. I think that's what bugged me the most about Ranma 1/2. The OVAs brought some of the later story arcs to the screen, but not everything. Which is kind of a bummer because I rather liked the Saffron Arc and would have loved to see it animated. Though many consider these new episodes as Season Eight, it's actually Season One of Inuyasha: The Final Act. Needless to say, I'll be watching Hulu to keep up with the series, and since I really never had any complaints about the dubbing of Inuyasha, I can't wait to see them in English as well. (Though I will always have a preference for the Japanese cast to the English cast, regardless of how much I adore certain members of the English cast.)
EDIT - So regarding Inuyasha, I finally sat down and watched the first episode of The Final Act and afjklsdncypq ::epic flail::. Wow. Just...WOW. It's beautiful, with the original cast, and picks up immediately where episode 167 left off.
I also did a bit more research about The Final Act and decided to go to the best source, Furikan.com - a comprehensive Rumiko Takahashi fansite that always has the best information right from Japan. According to their reports, because of the It's a Rumic World Exhibition from last summer, fan interest in Inuyasha (and other titles) was renewed, helped by three OVAs produced for Takahashi's most famous works - Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha - covering arcs from the manga volumes that were originally not animated. Inuyasha, wildly popular both in Japan and in the United States (and many other countries, I've heard), probably fared the best as far as fan interest goes, as it had been off the air for only four years.
Taking the renewed interest to heart, Sunrise announced that they would release 26 more episodes of Inuyasha. Titled as The Final Act, it appears that Sunrise will NOT produce the anime clear to the end of the series, but if fan interest remains high - both in Japan and the United States and any country that allows the viewing of shows on Hulu - there is a possibility that Inuyasha will continue on through the end of the series. One can only hope. And if that happens, I'll probably keel over in epic fangirl joy.
Secondly, my friend Ryan informed me on Saturday night that Sunrise had announced that they were going to complete Inuyasha. The anime production stopped in volume 36 of the manga, allowing Rumiko Takahashi to finish the manga without having to worry that the anime was finishing basically as filler episodes. Now that the series is done, it's been picked up again by Sunrise with the original Japanese cast. Viz is then taking the episodes, subbing them, and then posting them on Hulu. So far only the first episode has been released, but I'm excited to hear that the series will be completed in anime form. I think that's what bugged me the most about Ranma 1/2. The OVAs brought some of the later story arcs to the screen, but not everything. Which is kind of a bummer because I rather liked the Saffron Arc and would have loved to see it animated. Though many consider these new episodes as Season Eight, it's actually Season One of Inuyasha: The Final Act. Needless to say, I'll be watching Hulu to keep up with the series, and since I really never had any complaints about the dubbing of Inuyasha, I can't wait to see them in English as well. (Though I will always have a preference for the Japanese cast to the English cast, regardless of how much I adore certain members of the English cast.)
EDIT - So regarding Inuyasha, I finally sat down and watched the first episode of The Final Act and afjklsdncypq ::epic flail::. Wow. Just...WOW. It's beautiful, with the original cast, and picks up immediately where episode 167 left off.
I also did a bit more research about The Final Act and decided to go to the best source, Furikan.com - a comprehensive Rumiko Takahashi fansite that always has the best information right from Japan. According to their reports, because of the It's a Rumic World Exhibition from last summer, fan interest in Inuyasha (and other titles) was renewed, helped by three OVAs produced for Takahashi's most famous works - Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha - covering arcs from the manga volumes that were originally not animated. Inuyasha, wildly popular both in Japan and in the United States (and many other countries, I've heard), probably fared the best as far as fan interest goes, as it had been off the air for only four years.
Taking the renewed interest to heart, Sunrise announced that they would release 26 more episodes of Inuyasha. Titled as The Final Act, it appears that Sunrise will NOT produce the anime clear to the end of the series, but if fan interest remains high - both in Japan and the United States and any country that allows the viewing of shows on Hulu - there is a possibility that Inuyasha will continue on through the end of the series. One can only hope. And if that happens, I'll probably keel over in epic fangirl joy.
