A Closer Shave
Nov. 4th, 2013 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAfter contributing to a DVD set on the "crowd-funding" site Anime Sols to join in the final rush and try to ensure its grand experiment didn't come to an end right away, I suppose my completionist urge kicked in and I contributed to the second set of the same series, still feeling sort of awkward about mentioning the title "Creamy Mami." (This feeling was sort of alluded to in Mike Toole's latest column for Anime News Network.) It might be similar to how I'd acquired "fansubs" of series I supposed wouldn't be licensed over here only for them to be picked up after all, whereupon I bought their DVDs sight unseen. However, funding for the second set seemed to stall out after a while, and I started worrying about whether it was worse to not have anything at all or to have something incomplete as various people started clucking on message boards about how it would have been better to have at least shipped the first set out before asking for follow-up contributions and an actual Kickstarter to put Bubblegum Crisis on Blu-Ray easily racked up its necessary amount...
There was a rally in the final days once again, though, and the second set squeaked over its goal with two hours to spare. What will happen for the third set I don't know, but at least this wasn't a "one-time only" success. I've also noticed another set on the site is getting pretty close to success, and I even watched the first episode of it before deciding to contribute. "Dear Brother" is at least less embarrassing to mention, and I've noticed it described an earlier and more melodramatic version of "Maria Watches Over Us," elegant and refined interactions among high school girls that just might be read one way or another. The comparison seemed apt to me, but I was inclined, with a few of the older students, to remember the Mystery Science Theater 3000 "riff" "She's an attractive man, isn't she?"
There was a rally in the final days once again, though, and the second set squeaked over its goal with two hours to spare. What will happen for the third set I don't know, but at least this wasn't a "one-time only" success. I've also noticed another set on the site is getting pretty close to success, and I even watched the first episode of it before deciding to contribute. "Dear Brother" is at least less embarrassing to mention, and I've noticed it described an earlier and more melodramatic version of "Maria Watches Over Us," elegant and refined interactions among high school girls that just might be read one way or another. The comparison seemed apt to me, but I was inclined, with a few of the older students, to remember the Mystery Science Theater 3000 "riff" "She's an attractive man, isn't she?"