[Dr Kain]

We just finished watching Orb. Overall, it was a great series. The last 9 episodes were highly enjoyable, especially the Black Star Coffee one. That was just great. I couldn't help but laugh my ass off when the alien dude says, "Monsters today are way too busy looking."

I'm not sure I buy the whole thing about Natasha being Naomi's great great grandma though as Naomi looked way too Japanese to be part European. Hell, her mother didn't even look remotely European either.

My favorite monster though was probably the samurai ghost thing.

The ending was great and I'm really surprised at how story driven this show was. Then again, I'm also amazed that it was only 25 episodes when these shows are normally 40-50-ish, so that also must have helped with how much story there was as had it been the normaly 50 episodes half of the show probably would have been just random battles.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I really loved the fight against Metron. I was waiting for him to say something like, "This feels nostalgic."

In the end, it was a solid series all of the way through and I will be buying it on BD if Crunchyroll ever releases it.

EDIT:

I watched the first four episodes of UltraSeven today. It's been a good ten years since I watched this show so it was a lot different than I remember. They were still good, but the first few episodes to this series were always slow moving no matter how many times I watched them. The Capsule Monsters are such a weird concept but I like the UltraSeven can also be human size.

Shout!'s DVD quality seems to be hit or miss. The video looks pretty good for the most part (although not as good as Bandai's REgion 2 DVDs I owned), but the audio is kind of annoying. Every time a character talks there is this hissing sound and sometimes the audio looks out of synch. Once again, I don't remember it being like this on the R2 DVD. The translations on the subs are also off a bit as a character will make a grunt sound but the subs will say, "As you say Captain!" or something like that. The timing is weird as there have been a couple of places where the subs went away before I could finish the line. It wasn't horrible, but three times in four episodes is way too many. What they really needed to do was spread out their sentences a little bit more.