Me gushing about Wolf's Rain for the zillionth time in my life.

Daniell and I watched Wolf's Rain over the last two days, and...gah, I think I had forgotten a little bit just how much I love that series and just how beautiful it is. ;___; But that was my purpose in not watching it for a few years after I did so many consecutive rewatches, so mission accomplished.

Seriously, though, so amazing. There's good reason for it to be one of my absolute favorite anime series of all time. (And by "one of" I mean one of three--Pokémon, Wolf's Rain, and Cowboy Bebop are my three favorite series ever, though Pokémon's placement there is obviously more of a nostalgic factor than a quality one.) ♥ I've seen quite a few people who were dissatisfied by it or just plain didn't like it, and I recognize objectively that it has its flaws, but at the same time the series is just about perfect to me. It's one of those few series where I feel like it was made for me, in a sense--everything from the themes of the story to the background music to the way the wolves were animated to the character designs to...just about everything else just feels so right for me personally, and it strongly resonates with me every time I watch it.

One of these days I'm going to get in there and rip all the music that never made it to soundtracks, because some of those non-soundtrack songs are heartbreakingly gorgeous. I might even try to use a music editing program (specifically the karaoke creator things) to filter out at least some of the dialogue. I consider it a tragedy that so many of those songs aren't on soundtracks and most likely never will be. I actually made a music guide a few years back in which I spent about twenty hours compiling a list of every single song used in the series that didn't get a soundtrack. Including noticeable/significant variations on existing songs, it was something like sixty songs, though I have to go back and look at what the exact number was. D: And I swear at least a good fifteen or twenty of these were some of most amazing songs in the series, and this is coming from someone who worships and adores the existing soundtracks to no end.

Anyway, enough of my gushing. But, haha, it has to be said every now and then, you know?

Me gushing about Wolf's Rain for the zillionth time in my life.

Daniell and I watched Wolf's Rain over the last two days, and...gah, I think I had forgotten a little bit just how much I love that series and just how beautiful it is. ;___; But that was my purpose in not watching it for a few years after I did so many consecutive rewatches, so mission accomplished.

Seriously, though, so amazing. There's good reason for it to be one of my absolute favorite anime series of all time. (And by "one of" I mean one of three--Pokémon, Wolf's Rain, and Cowboy Bebop are my three favorite series ever, though Pokémon's placement there is obviously more of a nostalgic factor than a quality one.) ♥ I've seen quite a few people who were dissatisfied by it or just plain didn't like it, and I recognize objectively that it has its flaws, but at the same time the series is just about perfect to me. It's one of those few series where I feel like it was made for me, in a sense--everything from the themes of the story to the background music to the way the wolves were animated to the character designs to...just about everything else just feels so right for me personally, and it strongly resonates with me every time I watch it.

One of these days I'm going to get in there and rip all the music that never made it to soundtracks, because some of those non-soundtrack songs are heartbreakingly gorgeous. I might even try to use a music editing program (specifically the karaoke creator things) to filter out at least some of the dialogue. I consider it a tragedy that so many of those songs aren't on soundtracks and most likely never will be. I actually made a music guide a few years back in which I spent about twenty hours compiling a list of every single song used in the series that didn't get a soundtrack. Including noticeable/significant variations on existing songs, it was something like sixty songs, though I have to go back and look at what the exact number was. D: And I swear at least a good fifteen or twenty of these were some of most amazing songs in the series, and this is coming from someone who worships and adores the existing soundtracks to no end.

Anyway, enough of my gushing. But, haha, it has to be said every now and then, you know?