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So, this week, i finished watching the anime series "Nana", and ".hack//Roots". Nana just ended its run, but .hack//Roots is a story...

I started watching .hack//Roots a long time ago (Japanese, subtitled in English) at the suggestion of a friend. For whatever reason, i slacked watching it for a bit, caught up with it for a bit, and slacked again. By time it was ending its run, i was kind of getting sick of watching anime on my PC (which i can hardly do anymore. The PC is where i hover over the keyboard and and *do* things. It's uncomfortable for me to just sit back at my desk with my little monitor, and simply watch something. I'd much rather do that on the couch, or the bed, in front of a bigger tv. Plus, on dvd i can watch it with other people, if i want.) So around the time i got a dvd burner, and could put the remaining five episodes i'd never watched on disc, to put in a dvd player, the show came on tv, in English. (I can't remember anymore which came first, getting the dvd burner or .hack//Roots coming on tv...) The episodes i had weren't in a format i could burn to dvd, so this was the perfect opportunity. I could watch it again, refresh myself on the story, see it where it's more comfortable for me (tv/bed/couch), and in English, so the second time around i could enjoy the visuals more, without having to read the dialogue. It was easily available, on every week, convenient. Cool. Great.

Only Cartoon Network, the station airing .hack//Roots, stopped airing it *AT THE EXACT EPISODE I HAD STOPPED WATCHING*. For some reason the series went into reruns at that point, and the second time it aired, they didn't even get THAT far before they took it off the air. (No idea why they would air a series and show repeats instead of the last five episodes. A deal with the dvd distributors? Don't show the ending of a series so people will go out and buy it? Hope that doesn't become a trend.)

So after putting off watching almost the entire series, putting off the ending, watching it all again, and getting screwed out of the ending, i'd resigned myself to watching the last episodes of .hack//Roots on the PC. Which i never did.

Just so happens the other day, as i was looking for another series i'd read about and wanted to watch, i found .hack//Roots in avi format, which CAN be burned to dvd. Nice! So i got them, and i burned them, and i just finished watching them (finally).

Two series on a huge list of to-watch series finished this week... Awesome. And another will probably be finished soon.*

You know, it's a little sad to see the end of some of the first series i actually chose myself to watch all the way through, that weren't just shows that happened to be on tv that i ended up liking. Actually, thinking about it, Nana and .hack//Roots, were the first anime series i actually did actively acquire and watch on my own, instead of seeing somewhere else first, except "Chobits". No wonder i miss them now that they're over.

*And i've only got four episodes of Chobits to go, now. I began watching it a long time ago, but stopped in the middle for whatever reason, so i got determined to finally finish it now.


Oh, and "Paprika", an anime movie about dreams, is incredible, See it if you can.