Well, it’s been a few days since I said I’d update tomorrow… but then, when I finished typing last time, it was tomorrow… so meh. Justification is for sissies. ;)

I’ve begun an addiction again in the past few days… the addiction to KDX anime servers. Perhaps sadly, my bandwidth usage in the last few days has begun to soar again, as I start to once again leech fansubbed material from a few servers… noticeably Nowhere Now and DragonSong, both old favourites. I’ve also visited the House of Pot Pie, and MagicFTP, for the interested - these can be found on the Bug Dave and JoshuaMac™ Trackers, on both 1.0 and 1.11 versions of KDX… anyway.

Enough of the technical jargon that no-one cares about… what have I been downloading? Two things, really - Noir, and Witch Hunter Robin. Noir is something that I’ve seen on DVD in Electronics Boutique and almost picked up because it sounded interesting, and the chicks on the cover were… hot? Yes. hot. ^_^. However, I didn’t buy it… for the primary reason of the volume I saw being Volume 5, without a volume 1-4 in sight. Instead, I think I bought Voices of a Distant Star that day… which as interesting.

Anyway, Noir is about a French assassin and a Japanese schoolgirl. The French Assasin, Mireille, receives an email from a girl named Kirika asking her to take a ‘pilgrimage for the past’. Mireille deletes the email… but is overcome by curiosity, and flies to Japan to meet this Kirika. She walks in to a rather violent adventure, where a gang of men reminiscent in appearance of Agents from the Matrix are hunting Kirika with the intention of inflicting grievous bodily harm (™) upon her. Mireille aids Kirika in, um, killing them all… yeah. It turns out that Kirika has lost her memory, and is slowly learning about herself… and has learned that she both knows how to kill and is adept at it. She manages to convince Mireille to help her find herself, and the two of them reluctantly join forces as the assassin duo called ‘Noir’, the angels of death.

Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Chicks in miniskirts and school uniforms with guns shooting guys in suits and doing awesome acrobatics. Mmmm. ^_^

Witch Hunter Robin… is very interesting. Very darkly animated show, this, good use of greys and dark colour. I haven’t yet finished downloading the first episode (bloody Nowhere Now, stop resetting your damn shared disks!) but I’m about two minutes off the closing credits, and so far so good. It’s about, logically enough, a group of Witch Hunters in Japan, the title character is, of course, Robin, a fifteen year old girl who happens to be a ‘Craft user’ - which, from my present experience, means she can magically set things on fire. :)

Other than that? I’ll have to wait and see. I’ll probably start downloading the rest from Dragon Song - I love Nowhere Now, but Dragon Song has better uptime on it’s drives… :)

As for life etc? Well, I’ll talk about that tomorrow, maybe. Now I’m off to watch some Witch Hunter. One last thing about this show - I love, and I mean love the title music. It’s beautiful - if I knew what it was called, I’d download the full version of it and probably buy the OST when it comes out (not as an import). As is, I’ve hacked the part of the song used in the opening titles from the actual episode itself - sound quality is, surprisingly, excellent.

Anyway. Off to bed now. Later. :)

-Andiyar