Sunday, June 15, 2008

History in Person

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes."
- Charles Baudelaire

That quote from Charles Baudelaire really explains how I’ve been feeling lately. Travel is my favorite thing to do on earth. It really is. This might come as a surprise to some of you and for others it might be a bit redundant, but it’s the truth. Travel opens your eyes to who you are. It teaches you about yourself while at the same it introducing you to a new culture, a new people, new experiences, and a new way of looking at life. It makes me feel whole to know that my little world back in the U.S. is part of a much bigger world. We are all interconnected and we are all part of God’s great plan. This is what I have come to learn so far, and I pray that my experiences this last week here in Japan only further enlighten me. I just wanted to start out with this statement, because as a whole this last weekend had a rather large impact on me and as I write this post, I am only further reminded that my time here in Japan is rapidly coming to a close. I am really going to miss this place.

Friday, June 13th
As you may recall, this evening is the night my colleagues in the design department at NLL chose to take me out for dinner. So, the entire day of work today really led up that one big event. That isn’t to say that the rest of the day wasn’t of any interest though.

As I had planned, I finished all of the activity book that I could possibly finish. I have laid out all the pages that I had the materials for and now just wait for the rest of the images to be sent to me from Kelly-san. I finished with about and hour and a half left in the day. With the last of it Narafu-san enlisted my help with a new project of hers. She’s working on a new evangelical tool that NLL is creating about the differences between Christianity and Buddhism. For the front cover she wanted to show this contrast by using the hand of Christ and the hand of one of countless Buddha statues. She wasn’t sure exactly what the hand of a Buddha statue looked like, so she asked me to do a bit of research into the matter. I gladly accepted her request, because being in Japan I am surrounded by Buddhism of a sort. I wanted to know more about the religion so I could gain a greater understanding Japanese culture. We ended up finding good information on the different Buddha statue hand gestures and the distinction between the different types of statues. She was satisfied, but wanted a picture of one of the hand gestures from the side. I ended up failing at finding that particular picture, but she found one. Though despite having found everything she was looking for, she still worried that the image on the cover would not illustrate the difference between the religions well enough. Ai-san, who had been observing our quest from her corner of the room, then interjected with an idea. She suggested Narafu-san increase the contrast by drawing the hand of Christ as a hand of a living person (which it is) and draw the hand of Buddha from a statue. A brilliant idea from the mind of the deceptively diminutive Ai-san. There was much awe and praise and I went back to my desk to continue research for another 15 minutes before the ending bell rang.

Dinner was a treat! We went to a restaurant called Tarugen. According to Narafu-san it is a restaurant that takes traditional Japanese food and modernizes it. Honestly, I didn’t really taste much of a difference between it and the rest of the Japanese food I’ve had. It all tasted good, but still very Japanese. There were a few things that I could tell were different from the norm, but only barely. One of those things was the dish we started out with: sashimi rolls wrapped in Vietnamese rice paper. The Japanese don’t typically eat Vietnamese rice paper, so that was an addition. The rest of the meal consisted of a salad, a fried potato fritter, tempura eggplant and noodles, baked tofu, and the end all discovery of the evening, nikujaga. Nikujaga requires a bit of an explanation. Ya see, I thought it looked a bit familiar, and when I put it in my mouth I was sure of it. I had tasted this dish before, but not at a place you would have assumed. The dish is comprised of beef, potatoes, onions, and carrots in a broth. Do the ingredients of that dish ring any bells with those of you in my family? They should because they are the exact ingredients of Mam-ma’s beef stew. That’s right, nikujaga and Mam-ma’s signature beef stew are one and the same!!! It was crazy! I’m eating this dish and I’m actually ecstatic! It had been so long since I’d had it and it brought back so many memories. Now, I’m not sure how Mam-ma got a hold of the recipe, but it’s a traditional Japanese dish going back many years. So yeah, I ate Mam-ma’s beef stew at a restaurant in Japan. HOW SMALL IS OUR WORLD!?

Saturday, June 14th
The morning started out a bit crazy. As has been happening the last few days, I woke up before my alarm. This happens when my body establishes a routine. It will anticipate the alarm and wake up ahead of time out of habit. But it didn’t happen exactly that way this time. Today I was shaken awake. Japan was rocked by decent sized earthquake this morning at about 8:30 or so. I was a bit disoriented at first. I wasn’t sure what was happening. So, I just lay there while the thing took it’s course. It didn’t seem that terribly large, but apparently it was larger further north. Up north six or eight people died in a landslide caused by the shake. It also knocked a couple of the train lines in Tokyo out of commission for the day. Crazy. It didn’t last very long either, at least not very long after I woke up. Who knows how long it had been going before I woke up. I sleep rather hard.

My plan for the day consisted of going to the Ghibli museum in Mitaka and visiting the places on that side of Tokyo that I had been to already but didn’t have pictures of. My entrance time for the museum wasn't until 2:00 PM, so I took my time getting out the door this morning. I left earlier than last Saturday though. I made it to Tokyo by about 11:15 and decided lunch was in order. I remembered having seen many tasty looking restaurants in Shibuya when I went there for the live, so I headed for Shibuya. It was hard finding something I was in the mood for, but I eventually stumbled into an udon noodle bar. It was good food. None of the people behind the counter could speak English and the menu was all in Japanese, so, as is the only thing I could really do, I pointed at a picture of something. The point got across and I was able to convey that I wanted the smaller size. It ended up being an udon noodle soup with beef. It sufficiently subdued my stomach and was quite tasty, though messy since being bound by Japanese culture I was forced to slurp. I clearly haven't mastered the noodle slurp yet because I got little droplets of soup all over the tray and a couple even made their way to my shirt. I'm glad I wore black.

As I walked back to the train station I saw many people shouting on the sidewalks in Krispy Kreme uniforms. This is a typical advertising technique in Tokyo. As it happens, a Krispy Kreme franchise had just recently opened up in Shibuya. Well, I couldn’t pass up a chance to have some Krispy Kreme, so I went through the 20-minute line, fought the crowds, and ate myself a chocolate glazed donut with coconut topping and a chocolate cake donut. I also thoroughly enjoyed the fresh glazed donut I was handed by a very cute and polite girl. I really didn't want it at the moment, since I was still quite full from lunch, but when a cute Japanese girl hands you a donut still dripping with glaze, ya gotta take it. I at it on the spot, though I didn’t eat the two donuts I purchased right away. Instead I stored those two in my backpack until later in the day when a sugar boost seemed necessary. I felt that need as I was walking through Mitaka on my way to the Ghibli museum.

Mitaka was quite the beautiful neighborhood. In fact, it is the most beautiful neighborhood I've seen yet in Tokyo. I would consider it to be like the Long Island of Tokyo. It isn’t far from the bustling downtown area but is nice and quiet even on the weekend. It seemed to be a nice place to raise a family because there were many people out playing with kids, walking dogs, riding bikes, playing tennis, etc.. If I were to move to Tokyo, I’d move to Mitaka. The Ghibli museum is on the edge of a large park right in the middle of Mitaka called Inokashira park. Its beautiful location added to the picturesque nature of the museum.

The museum itself was clearly geared towards the younger generation, but was entertaining nonetheless. As I entered the gate I was greeted by a life-sized plush of Totoro standing in the box office. It wasn’t clear which way to go to enter the museum, so I just followed the crowds. At the entrance I exchanged my ticket for a “film ticket.” I call it a film ticket because it had three film frames from a Ghibli movie embedded in it. Every film ticket is unique, and my particular section of film comes from near the end of Howl’s Moving Castle. Inside the museum was a spacious lobby that stretched to the very top of the three story building. On one side of the lobby was a spiral staircase that led up to the third floor and on the second floor there was a bridge that spanned from one side of the lobby to the other. I went up a larger staircase on the opposite side from the spiral one and started my tour of the museum on the second floor. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense, but it happened. It ended up being the perfect starting place though, because the first room I visited explained the process of making a Ghibli movie. The rooms were literally covered in scraps of paper and trinkets from every Ghibli film. The walls were thick with watercolored sketches and concept drawings. All of them were just tacked up there with thumb tacks. In the room connected to the first they had storyboard books and sample film strips. They had cels on the walls in every stage of production and models of workspaces, character walk cycles, all kinds of stuff. I could have spent hours in just those two rooms alone, but with the mass of people shoving their way through there I could only linger for a few seconds at each item before I was forced to move on. As it turns out, those two rooms were the most interesting in the entire museum. Another room that was interesting was the room of their temporary exhibition called “Petit Leuvre.” The name actually explains it. They had full-sized reproductions of all of the more famous paintings form the Leuve, including such classics as “The Oath of the Horitiati” by David, “Magdalene” by Georges de la Tour, and of course “Mona Lisa” by the great Leonardo da Vinci. At first I thought the paintings might be the originals, but the manner in which they were displayed and the mere quality of the artworks presented suggested that they were reproductions. When I rounded a corner and saw Mona Lisa staring at me, all doubts were thrown aside; they were reproductions. Nevertheless, I enjoyed looking at them. I’ve never seen any of those pieces in person, so to see them at full scale, despite them being reproductions, left me in awe. Other areas of the museum included the cat bus room with a massive plush cat bus from Totoro on which about twenty kids were running around and playing. At the back of that room was a door that led outside where a spiral staircase led to the roof on which they had erected a small garden. In the garden were two statues of the iron man and the levitating box, both from Laputa. They were popular attractions and I had to fight the crowds to get a decent look at them. It’s a miracle I was able to get pictures of both without being obstructed by onlookers.

By far the highlight of the museum was the original Ghibli film that played every 20 minutes down in the theater. There are four original works currently playing in the museum, a different one every hour. The one I ended up getting the chance to see was the one I most wanted to see anyway (lucky!). It was a short movie related to Totoro in which Mei encounters a kitty bus. The whole 15 minutes of the film were her scampering around and playing with the kitten. It was interesting and of course Totoro had a reprise role. Thankfully there was little dialogue and the story was simple to follow because there were no English subtitles. I enjoyed the film and I enjoyed the museum. I left feeling I got my money’s worth.

From the museum I traveled back to Harajuku to take pictures of the locations I had already seen, so very little explanation will be provided for these locations. On the way back to downtown Tokyo from Mitaka I ended up hopping on the wrong train. It took me two two stops further down the Yamanote line than I wanted to go, but the mistake was easily corrected. My first stop in Harajuku was the Meiji Jingu (shrine). Yet again I consider myself quite lucky because I hit the shrine at the perfect time of day for picture taking. The sun had just dipped below the level of the trees and thus the shadows being cast were perfect and the ambient light wasn’t too much for my camera to handle effectively. I got some amazing pictures. Unfortunately the large torii gate at the entrance of the shrine was under maintenance on this particular day, so I wasn’t able to get a picture of it, but that’s the only thing I wasn’t able to get a picture of. I got pictures of the barrels of consecrated sake, the barrels of consecrated French wine, the secondary torii gate, the entrance gate of the shrine, the shrine itself with people practicing their worship, the ema tablets on which people write out their wishes to be blessed by the priests, and I even got to take pictures of a happy couple on their wedding day. The only exceptionally eventful thing that happened at the shrine was an encounter I had with a Japanese gentlemen who seemed to be just hanging around on the shrine grounds. I’m not terribly sure of his ultimate goal in doing this. He spoke perfect English. He came up to me, asked me where I was from (he guessed Canada), and when I told him I was from the U.S. (a mistake I will not make in the future) he went off about the corrupt nature of the American government and how my votes really don’t matter but that the future president has already been picked. I considered debating the issue with him but realized debating would not get us anywhere. He seemed quite steadfast in his views and didn’t sound to me like the kind of man who could be swayed by friendly debate. When he first started talking to me I was worried he might be one of the right-wing political crazies who speak out against anything western. Chieko-san cautioned me about crossing the street in front of black vans, because these particular folks like to drive around in them and blast their propaganda out loudspeakers. Apparently it's not against their character to run a white guy down just for the hey of it. Though, given the casual and non-threatening manner of this particular gentlemen I concluded that he was not a right-wing activist, but I did my best to pull away from him anyway so I could continue my visit of the shrine. I managed to get away after about five minutes, but on my way out I passed him again, and he accosted me once more. This time he started the conversation by asking me if I was a Christian. I answered yes of course and then he went on a rant about how Christianity is the only religion and how the people at the shrine are pagans (yet more proof that he wasn't a right-wing nut. They're all buddhist or shinto). He then abruptly switched the conversation from religion to literature and asked me if I appreciated haiku. I figured I’d indulge the man, so I answered yes (though I’ve only read about four haiku poems in my life). As it turns out, he’s a struggling haiku author and just happened to have a copy of his poems for me to purchase! GASP! Whoodathunk he wanted money!? HAHA! I declined his offer and tried to walk away, he then proceeded to explain that he was homeless and only needed 300 yen for a bowl of rice. HA! He expected me to willingly give him money from my pocket after he insulted my government and my country and called me an ignorant American?! I don’t think so! I said no and turned and left, abandoning all courtesy at this point. He yelled at me that I was a typical American who was just greedy and selfish. I just kept walking. ^_^ Insult me, and that’s what you get.

I spent the rest of the evening roaming around Harajuku. I took pictures of Takeshita-dori, browsed the kimono flea market, saw the cosplayers on the bridge outside Meiji Jingu, and generally acted like a tourist. It was fun, I wore myself out, and I headed back to Hatoyama around 7:30. On the way through the train station I caught a whiff of fried fish and noticed a pub off to the side. I felt a beer would be nice and worth the purchase. I had myself a half pint of Bass Pale Ale and a fish fritter. I got back to Hatoyama at 9:00 or so and talked on AIM for a bit before heading to bed after my long day.

Sunday, June 15th
Chieko-san arrived to pick me up at 9:00 this morning for church. She ran into NLL for a bit to print out something for the translating she had to do at church later, and then we headed out. Church was nice, but I didn’t get much out of it because the man next to me didn’t have very good control of his kids and they were squirming and kicking and whining through the whole service. I honestly can’t remember what Pastor Stan spoke about, but I know it was something in Daniel again, that much I remember. I am fairly sure it had something to do with Father’s Day, considering that is what today is.

After church they held their monthly potluck lunch which was quite good yet again. There was an abundance of rice dishes today, so that was most of what I ate. I enjoyed them very much.

Today Chieko-san gave me yet another choice. I could go to Kawagoe and do some shopping, or I could go to a place called Yoshimi Hyakuana. I chose the latter of the two. Yoshimi Hyakuana, called Hyakketsu for short, is a hill about 45 minutes outside Hatoyama in the small town of Yoshimi. This particular hill is special because it is actually an old burial site. The name Hyakuana literally means “hundred caves” and when you get there you can see why. The hill is a figurative swiss cheese of burial caves. It’s covered with them. The name is deceptive because there are actually over two hundred little caves on the hill, but who’s counting. ^_^ Each cave is only about six or seven feet deep and the tallest of which is probably only six feet tall at it’s apex. It’s wide enough to hold two bodies, one on each side of the entrance. They were all dug about 1300 years ago and were used for the burial the the highest upper class. The Yoshimi Hyakuana is the largest concentration of such burial chambers in all of Japan and is considered a national historical monument. Why I wasn’t informed of a place like this before, I don’t know, but I enjoyed myself thoroughly. We walked around on the hill for about 30 minutes or so. Chieko-san and I sat at the top and looked out at the surrounding area, discussed ice cream of all things, and had a good time in general. At the bottom of the hill is a large network of caves in which the Japanese army constructed weapons during WWII. It was freaky walking into that place. I absolutely love history, and being in and around these caves gave me such a sense of awe. I loved it.

We did a bit of shopping after we left the Hyakketsu. I got some foodstuffs for the week to last me until Wednesday when I’ll go shopping for the last time. Then Chieko-san deposited me back at NLL and we called it an evening. Another full day.

Caesar1280's Anime Ticker

.hack//Legend of the Twilight, Air, Air: The Movie, Akira, The Animatrix, Appleseed, Aquatic Language, Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror, Beck, Black Lagoon, Blame!, Blood the Last Vampire, Bokurano, Burst Angel, Castle in the Sky, Cowboy Bebop, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express, Egao, FLCL, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala, Gankutsuou, Gatekeepers, Genshiken, Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society, Gin-iro no Kami no Agito, Grave of the Fireflies, Grenadier, Haibane Renmei, Hellsing, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, Hikaru no Go, Howl?s Moving Castle, Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Jyu Oh Sei, Karas: The Prophecy, Last Exile, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Midori?s Days, Milennium Actress, Mushi-shi, My Neighbor Totoro, Naruto, Naruto: The Movie, Nausicaa, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death And Rebirth, Ninja Scroll: The Movie, Other Worlds, Paprika, Perfect Blue, Pet Shop of Horrors, The Place Promised In Our Early Days, Prétear, Princess Mononoke, Read Or Die, Read Or Die: The TV, Samurai Champloo, Samurai Seven, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, She and Her Cat, Spirited Away, Steamboy, Tide-Line Blue, Tokyo Babylon, Tokyo Godfathers, Trigun, Voices of a Distant Star, Witch Hunter Robin, Wonderful Days, Wrath of the Ninja, X

Anime I've Seen - .hack//Legend of the Twilight - .hack//Sign - 5 Centimeters per Second - Air - Air: The Movie - Akira - The Animatrix - Appleseed - Aquatic Language - Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror - Baby Blue - Beck - Black Lagoon - Blame! - Blood the Last Vampire - Bokurano - Burst Angel - Castle in the Sky - Cowboy Bebop - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express - Doorbell - Egao - FLCL - Fullmetal Alchemist - Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala - Gankutsuou - Gatekeepers - Genius Party - Genshiken - Genshiken OAV - Ghost in the Shell - Ghost in the Shell: Innocence - Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society - Gin-iro no Kami no Agito - The Gokusen - Grave of the Fireflies - Grenadier - Haibane Renmei - Happy Machine - Hellsing - Highlander: The Search for Vengeance - Hikaru no Go - Howl's Moving Castle - Innocent Venus - Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade - Jyu Oh Sei - Karas: The Prophecy - Karas: The Revelation - Last Exile - Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi - Midori?s Days - Milennium Actress - Mushi-shi - My Neighbor Totoro - Naruto - Naruto: The Movie - Nausicaa - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death And Rebirth - Ninja Scroll: The Movie - Other Worlds - Ouran High School Host Club - Paprika - Perfect Blue - Pet Shop of Horrors - The Place Promised In Our Early Days - Prétear - Princess Mononoke - Read Or Die - Read Or Die: The TV - Samurai Champloo - Samurai Seven - Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal - Serial Experiments Lain - Shanghai Dragon - She and Her Cat - Spirited Away - Steamboy - Tekkonkinkreet - Tide-Line Blue - Tokyo Babylon - Tokyo Godfathers - Trigun - Trinity Blood - Vampire Hunter D - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - Voices of a Distant Star - Witch Hunter Robin - Wolf's Rain - Wonderful Days - Wrath of the Ninja - X Total: 93

Anime I Haven't Completed - .hack//Roots - Ah! My Goddess - Angelic Layer - Avenger - Baccano! - Bamboo Blade - Basilisk - Binchou-tan - Black Cat - Bleach - Blood+ - Boogiepop Phantom - Case Closed - Le Chevalier d'Eon - Chobits - Chrono Crusade - Code Geass - Coyote Ragtime Show - D.Gray-Man - D.N.Angel - DearS - Death Note - Dennou Coil - Desert Punk - Digimon - Dragon Ball Z - Ergo Proxy - Eureka Seven - Excel Saga - Fighting Beauty Wulong - Final Fantasy Unlimited - Flag - Freedom - Full Moon - Gantz - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Gintama - Glass Fleet - Great Teacher Onizuka - Gundam Seed - Gundam Wing - Hayate the Combat Butler - Hellsing OVA - Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Ikki Tousen - InuYasha - Jigoku Shojo - Kage Kara Mamoru - Karin - Kino's Journey - Love Hina - Loveless - Lovely Complex - Lucky Star - Makai Senki Disgaea - Marchen Awakens Romance - Meine Liebe - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Mononoke - Monster - Moon Phase - Mr Stain on Junk Alley - Naruto Shippuuden - Negima?! - Negima! - Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion - Nerima Daikon Brothers - NHK ni Youkoso - Night Walker - Ninja Nonsense - Noir - Peacemaker Kurogane - Pokemon - Prince of Tennis - R.G. Veda - Ragnarok - Rec - Red Garden - Robotech - Romeo x Juliet - Rosen Maiden - Rurouni Kenshin - Saikano - Sailor Moon - Samurai Deeper Kyo - Sci-fi Harry - School Rumble - Scrapped Princess - Shin-chan - Shingu - Shion no Oh - Shuffle! - Shrine of the Morning Mist - So Long, Mr. Despair - Solty Rei - Sousei no Aquarion - Speed Grapher - Spice and Wolf - Super Milk Chan - Tales of Phantasia - Tenchi Muyo - Tenjhou Tenge - Texnolyze - The Third - Tsubasa Chronicles - Urusei Yatsura - Venus Versus Virus - Welcome to the N.H.K. - Winter Cicada - X-1999 - Xenosaga - XxxHolic - Yu Yu Hakushou - Yume Tsukai - Zero no Tsukaima - Zipang Total: 116

Manga I've Completed - Cowboy Bebop - FLCL - Manga Messiah - Manga Metamorphosis - Q*Ko-chan - Saiyuki - Shirahime-Syo Total: 7 Manga I Haven't Completed - .hack//Legend of the Twilight - Black Cat - Blame! - Chobits - D.Gray-man - Darkside Blues - Death Note - The Demon Ororon - Desert Coral - Disgaea - Eureka Seven: Gravity Boys and Lifting Girl - Fruits Basket - Getbackers - Hayate the Combat Butler - Kamunagara - Legal Drug - Love Hina - Loveless - Megatokyo - Naruto - Negima - Read Or Die - Rurouni Kenshin - Tactics - Trigun Maximum - XXXHolic Total: 26

Anime I'm Currently Watching
Samurai 7, InuYasha, Samurai Deeper Kyo,
Boogiepop Phantom, and Shrine of the Morning Mist

Manga I'm Currently Reading
Read Or Die, Hayate the Combat Butler, and Megatokyo.hack//Roots, .hack//Sign, 5 cm per Second, Ah! My Goddess, Angelic Layer, Avenger, Basilisk, Binchou-tan, Black Cat, Bleach, Blood+, Boogiepop Phantom, Case Closed, Le Chevalier d'Eon, Chobits, Chrono Crusade, Coyote Ragtime Show, D.Gray-Man, D.N.Angel, DearS, Death Note, Dennou Coil, Desert Punk, Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, Ergo Proxy, Eureka 7, Excel Saga, Fighting Beauty Wulong, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Flag, Full Moon, Gantz, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Gintama, Great Teacher Onizuka, Gundam Seed, Gundam Wing, Hayate the Combat Butler, Hellsing Ultimate, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Innocent Venus, InuYasha, Jigoku Shojo, Kage Kara Mamoru, Karin, Kino?s Journey, Love Hina, Loveless, Lovely Complex, Lucky Star, Makai Senki Disgaea, Marchen Awakens Romance, Meine Liebe, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Mononoke, Monster, Naruto Shippuuden, Negima?!, Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion, Nerima Daikon Brothers, NHK ni Youkoso, Night Walker, Ninja Nonsense, Noir, Ouran High School Host Club, Peacemaker Kurogane, Pokemon, Prince of Tennis, R.G. Veda, Ragnarok, Rec, Red Garden, Robotech, Romeo x Juliet, Rosen Maiden, Rurouni Kenshin, Saikano, Sailor Moon, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Sci-fi Harry, School Rumble, Scrapped Princess, Serial Experiments Lain, Shingu, Shuffle!, Shrine of the Morning Mist, So Long Mr. Despair, Solty Rei, Sousei no Aquarion, Speed Grapher, Super Milk Chan, Tales of Phantasia, Tenchi Muyo, Tenjhou Tenge, Texnolyze, The Third. Trinity Blood, Tsubasa Chronicles, Urusei Yatsura, Welcome to the N.H.K., Winter Cicada, X-1999, Xenosaga, XxxHolic, Yu Yu Hakushou, Yume Tsukai, Zero no Tsukaima, Zipang

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