ADV translated the title of this film to “New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer’s Beginning.” That’s close enough, I guess. It’s an amazing film that I got reacquainted with at Anime Expo, and ended up buying for my collection. Yes, I cried during that one scene where Kyousuke from 1991 rescues Kyousuke from 1994 while Madoka plays Kyousuke #1. Shit, I bawled like a baby in 1997 when I saw it unsubtitled at AX97 on AXTV. Anyway, just though I would note that here, since I’m probably going to be watching at least one new anime movie a day.

Anime Expo rejuvenated my obsession with anime. More news about AX to come shortly. Give me time to digest and compose an accurate report. Thanks.

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I’ll express my concern over the latter, first. Holy fucking shit! I go away for a week on vacation and I come back to read that the company that my ex-wife works for is buying my company. Never mind we happen to work in the same damn department or anything. I’m actually trying to figure out if I get to keep my job or not. When two companies merge, they tend to ‘reorganize’ which is corporate shorthand for ‘laying off a whole mess of people’. Bleh. I’ll have worked at PayPal for a year on August 1st. I hope I’ll reach that day without incident. But I am pretty worried about this, for a whole lot of reasons.

Anime Expo, on the other hand, was pretty fun. I’ll have a full and detailed report posted here in the near future, but all I will say about it is that I think this was my last one. We’ll see about next year, but if I’m in Japan, I doubt I’ll be going to AX again.

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