Watching Son of Batman. For some reason, I thought Netflix streaming had more of these DC movies, but I guess I'll have to dig out my physical discs.

I just finished a good first time view. I was browsing the Dish Guide and came across All Dogs Go To Heaven 2, on Encore Family. I had never seen either of the movies, but I really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed Tad: The Lost Explorer. It's been in my Netflix queue for a long time. Glad I finally watched it.

This almost makes me want to watch these. I was never really into the animated versions, though I did catch a bit of Batman Beyond, just not the movie(s?). I know a few people seem to be watching them this month...

This makes me glad I haven't picked up any of He-man. I did love it as a kid, but I'd be frustrated with this now!

You should definitely check out the first one. That is my favorite Don Bluth movie!

I started Back to the Future: The complete Animated Series tonight. So far they aren't that bad, though cheesier than I remembered. I am glad they kept Christopher Lloyd as the voice actor for Doc Brown. Marty was not voiced by Michael J. Fox and while it's close, it is a bit odd and throws me a bit. I totally forgot that Bill Nye the Science Guy showed up at the end doing the experiments and that was a pleasant surprise!

I watched a couple episodes last night that would probably add to your frustration, depending on how much attention to detail you spend on shows.

At the end of one, everyone was laughing, including Teela. Problem is, Teela, nor any woman, was there laughing but you could still hear her.

I also watched He-Man throw his sword at a monster, then the sword was strapped to his back, then there was no sword on his back, let alone the scabbard.

Then I started noticing how often the scabbard appears/disappears.

At least this show isn't as bad as '66 Spider-Man.

I just finished my rewatch of Walking With Dinosaurs. Haven't decided yet if I want to watch the specials on Curiosity Stream, or go right into Walking With Prehistoric Beasts though.

I was in the mood for some superhero goodness this morning, so I've been watching The Batman on Netflix. Once I got past the different look from B:TAS, I found it to actually be a pretty good show.

So, I was wrong about Christopher Lloyd being the voice actor for Doc Brown in The Back to the Future: Complete Animated Series. It's actually Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson's voice). He does a good job, especially when the real Christopher Lloyd does the opening and ending segments and is an immediate comparison.

If anyone is interested in a horror movie, and has a Wild Card to spare, and has a Roku, Night Train To Terror, on Snag Films has a stop motion monster in the third story.

Last night, I watched From Up on Poppy Hill, an anime about a group of students in the early 60s who are trying to save their old clubhouse. I read a few reviews and comments about it and found that most characterized it "slight" and not as "rich" as Studio Ghibli's other films. However, I thought the film showed a lot of insight into how small our worlds become - especially as children or (in a couple of scenes) even as adults. The animation is beautiful, and the characters are lovingly developed. Sometimes I think people overemphasize fantastical world-building in animation and equate it with "richness".

It's also newly topical, since the backdrop is the wholesale urban renewal of Tokyo in preparation for the city's hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Japan's big postwar coming-out party, relevant now since they'll be hosting the 2020 Olympics.

The film shows the last vestiges of the old Tokyo that would be completely gone by the Olympics:

I just finished watching Man-Thing, on the El Rey Network, and was wondering. Does anyone know if the creature was just a man in a suit, or was it animated? I was wondering if I could use a Wild Card on it.

I was in the mood for some anime, so after looking through my DVD's, I figured I hadn't watched Tekkaman Blade in a long time, so I thought I'd break it out, for at least a few episodes.

I think guy in suit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290747/fullcredits#cast

I don't know if anyone's into puppetry, but there's an interesting show on Crunchyroll called Thunderbolt Fantasy. I've only watched the first episode so far, but the puppets and sets look amazing.

Ok. I wasn't watching it for the challenge anyway, so it's no big deal. Just a thought that occur to me after I watched it. I enjoyed the movie anyway, and isn't that what really counts?

I've watched this twice now and would disagree with anyone that says it's not comparable to other Ghibli films. I know I like it a lot more than a few of their "classic" Miyazaki's like Pom Poko.

Right! I don't want anyone to feel like they NEED to only watch stuff for the challenge. I find it can be really easy to burn out if I don't switch things up throughout the month.

I think I've done this 6 out of 7 years. I'm not doing the checklist for the first time this year and I think I am enjoying it more. I found myself having to rewatch certain things I didn't want to rewatch again year after year to meet certain criteria and some things like Russian cartoons just don't really interest me.

Just for the record, I think you meant "classic Ghiblis." Miyazaki didn't direct POM POKO, Isao Takahata did.

He did write it, though. I guess I do kind of kind of consider a film his whether he wrote it or directed it. It's also easy to think of Studio Ghibli films as "his" without that being true, too. Especially the newer ones where he wasn't involved at all.

It's a form of Taiwanese puppetry. This is probably from the same guys that did Legend of the Sacred Stone (Wikipedia). Don't know if the dvd is still available. Here's a trailer:

I can understand that. I've had the same feelings for some of the checklists. I have to admit to discovering a few Russian cartoons that I've really enjoyed because of this one, though! That being said, I'm totally open to suggestions for changes to the check list to change it up for next year. Maybe I can combine some of those marks and change it to "watch 4 out 10" or something like that.

Any other suggestions out there?

Not according to Anime News Network:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...ime.php?id=809

Make everything x out of y seems like the norm in Challenges now. That's my preference (idea?) and should make it where nothing is mandatory, while still encouraging diversity.

I like doing that - but I'll get somewhat OCD over completing a checklist if I ever start and totally blow out what I really wanted to watch just to get that one last item. Sometimes it's a x-out-of-y type and sometimes it's a all-or-nothing type. It seems that no matter what type of list there's always *something* that forces me to watch a film I'd not planned on, or repeat one of the few qualifying titles I own when I'd rather watch something else. For those reasons I purposely avoided them in all of the challenges this year and enjoyed my viewings, as well as the challenges, more as I wasn't obsessing over what to watch next that would also fulfill a checklist item. I *may* add a few back next year but am undecided at this point.