"Dude, I've had a countdown to departure in my tagline for, oh, a month."
Sigh--I knew I was opening myself up for that :) Yeah, I've been following the countdown, but I didn't know if your countdown was inclusive or not, hence my question. I'm not *that* unobservant. . . :)
"I think Cartoon Network shows anime late at night, have you checked into that?"
I have, but it's not the same as *real* anime. . ."Cowboy Bebop" is pretty good, but I've seen almost all the episodes now. Most of the other stuff they show seems to be various "Dragon Ball Z" spinoffs. No "Kenshin" or anything of that quality, at least not that I've seen.
CN used to broadcast Kenshin. That's where I first encountered the show. Amazingly I saw the potential in the series beneath the bad dubbing (I know, you liked the dubbing, but English-Kaoru's constant "KENSHIN!" got on my nerves, and the guy who dubbed Sano sounded like a moron).
The big problem was that to get past the censors, they had to hack the Kyoto-arc to death. Bad metaphor - what they did was remove any scene of anyone being hacked to death, or being dead, or being wounded to the point of death, or saying "death", or looking like they might cause someone else's death...