The Random Thoughts of Triwi

If it’s one thing I highly dislike, is finishing an anime series to know there are no more episodes.  I for months have put off watching the last 4 episodes of Lucky Star as I knew it was coming to an end.  The series was pretty funny, and I enjoyed the many references to other series throughout the episodes.  If I had to pick my favorite character (I enjoyed them all though), I would have to pick Kagami.  I find it funny that she tried to act serious a lot but it doesn’t always work that way.  Her also being an anime/video game fan was pretty neat too, despite her sometimes serious mood.  I had watched the OVA part where they are all in the MMORPG world, the whole way through I was laughing while watching it.

I decided I should finally finish the series because, I am the kind of person who prefers to watch one series at a time.  In my mind I usually stack up series I want to watch, and my list was starting to get a little longer.  Despite being an anime fan, I have never seen The Melencholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.  Oh noes!  Well so I finished the last 4 episodes of Lucky Star, sad to see it go.  I started Haruhi Suzumiya right away, and I found some pretty high quality episodes to watch too, good for youtube any way as most of the time the quality there makes me cringe.  I could tell right away why Haruhi is such a cult icon in the anime world.  The series was pretty funny, yet at the same time awesome.  I watched all the episodes in one night, and I can’t wait for the next season.  I hear 2009 is the next season, not sure when exactly in the next year though.

Well I finished Haruhi (for now), so I moved on to Kannagi.  It’s pretty interesting, very funny (I like comedy animes as you can see).  I only have watched up to episode three.  Perhaps when I catch up to the current episodes I’ll start doing episode reviews like I did for Code Geass.

There’s this website I used to go to for when I was big into Bleach (I haven’t watched that series in ages though), and they have a lot of other anime series to download for free.  The website is Bleach Exile if you want to check it out.   There they have updated lists of Kanngi episodes to download.  Thats great and all but here’s the problem.  Instead of being in a simple format, the sub group used an MKV video format, which windows media player doe sent support out of the box, not surprised.  I could have taken the easy road and just used Media Player Classic to watch it, works just as well.

I however, am very stubborn and wanted the codec to view it in windows media player.  After hours of downloading different codecs and splitters and blah blah blah, I finally found a codec pack that worked.  It’s called CCCP, apparently the whole soviet theme is a pun on the USSR in the Cryllic alphabet or something, didn’t really read into it.  Apperently this group originally was for playback of various anime fansubs.  So I downloaded and installed it, it worked but no subtitles.  After a little more research I had to enable in the settings Autoload VSFilter.  Finally after hours I could finally watch Kanngi episodes in WMP (again I’m stubborn).  Word of warning though, if you the reader, decide to visit these sites and download things I’m not responsible for what happens to your computer.  I have had no problems, but that doesen’t mean something could happen.  So yeah it should be self explanatory but, use at your own risk.  Worked for me though.