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So, alright, this isn't a straight review. I watched episodes
of CLAMP and Production IG's new joint Blood-C. When I finished the three episodes at the time of their airing, I went to Otaku USA (probably just hitting newsstands as you read this) with a pan: the show was a fluffball, a nothing. Every episode was the same! What was I even doing watching this? Today I finished Blood-C, sort of, and I've come here to write this. I can't not write it. Nobody's paying me this time, but I have four times as much to say. This won't work, but I have to keep you from watching Blood-C.
Blood-C is another reboot of Production IG's Blood vampire franchise, except this time full creative control has been handed to CLAMP, the veteran team behind big titles like Card Captor Sakura, X, Tsubasa, and too many others to list. The key phrase here is not one of those titles, but "full creative control". Blood was completely handed over: I guess you could only make a show like Blood-C with a franchise that not too many people care about.
I don't believe that anybody but CLAMP was behind this anime, because I don't believe that much of this show would have made it past any editor. For better and worse– mostly worse– Production IG has made exactly the show that CLAMP asked for. Gen Urobuchi toned down his shtick for Madoka, and CLAMP has done the opposite for this show. We at Colony Drop often complain that anime creators don't get to unleash their uncompromising vision on the screen anymore, but there was certainly nobody in CLAMP's way on this one.
To be completely frank, it's a wonder that Blood-C was aired on television at all. I assume that sponsors were only given the key words "vampires and CLAMP" and signed off on the deal right away. I assume that the contract read "no backsies".
The first episodes of this show are, as I said, identically shaped fluffballs. The first half of each episode has secret vampire hunter (and half-vampire herself, as is the rule) Saya and her friends being adorable, while in the second half has Saya sent off to dispatch some monstrous threat (vampires come in many, very creative forms) by her father.
When the second episode was the same as the first, I got the feeling that something was up: that the routine the show was plodding us through was in fact very important and that it was preparing for a critical turnaround. When the third episode was the same as the second, I knew something was up, but I didn't care anymore. Despite consistently delivering with the amazing fights stuffed into the last three minutes of every episode, the show had utterly failed as entertainment. I stopped watching about ten minutes in. Upon hearing from others that the fourth episode was the same as the third, I put Blood-C completely out of mind.
As the series ended, though, I was goaded by a friend into "finishing" the show. It'll be easy, he said: just watch episodes six, nine, and twelve. That would do it. He was right, that was enough. I could have even skipped the sixth episode and called it enough. I could have skipped the ninth episode, even. By the final episode, I wanted to skip the final episode, but that was the kind of disaster one can't look away from.
Episode six is when the show starts killing off the main cast and telling the viewer directly that everything they've seen is a lie. That's not much of a surprise, of course, but at least the show started to move at all. The first to drop are the twins, who have been purposely one-note characters up until this point.
IG provides stunning battles every episode between Saya and the vampires. The animators are absolutely on their A game here– Yasuomi Umetsu is a beast on the opening sequence– and from what I saw it doesn't slip. When the vampires turn their attention to helpless bystanders, though, the killings go from a vicious fight between closely matched opponents to simple slaughter.
A normal human body, after all, can't stand up to a lot of paranormal damage before it tears up. People are gutted, torn apart, eaten onscreen. This is where the censor bars start to come in. It's one thing for it to rain blood after Saya tears apart a monster, but the destruction of the human body in Blood-C is simply too much for broadcast television.
By TV anime standards, the censored Blood-C is still very violent, but the show wants more than that. It's on more of a Shigurui level. The censors often cover over half the screen with "sylistic" bursts of white and black that block out all the flying entrails and lingering shots of human remains that the show wants to focus on. A few scenes employ mosaics that cover nearly the whole screen.
A video release will eventually put all the guts back in: having only just finished on TV as I write this, Blood-C has not yet arrived at its most disgusting form.
In the ninth episode, the vampires step it up and massacre Saya's entire high school class in front of her. This sequence plays out like a slasher movie, with Saya mostly ineffective as a frog monster impales, chews up, and has its bloody way with the students.
The violence is more brutal here than before, as while these people are mostly nameless extras, they are closer to Saya and the show wants to salt the wound by crushing them slowly, letting them scream. It's still hard to care much at this point, though, because everybody is so comically bad at running away from a giant frog monster. Some of the students just magically pop up from under him and die there.
At this point I was merely surprised by Blood-C. I thought that if the show hadn't taken its sweet time and come out with the extreme violence a week or two early, it would have been a huge hit in the West with the fans who ate up shock-value crap like Elfen Lied. But Blood-C is an absolutely uncompromising work. It isn't this gory and cruel as some ploy to get viewers: Blood-C is like this because that's what's in it's heart.
If I'd known what the final episode was going to be like, I would have just packed it up and quit right there. I still wasn't ready, though. I didn't think this show would top itself, and I was wrong. The final episode of Blood-C is one of the most incredibly nonsensical, absurd, and outright distasteful half-hours anime has ever put me through. It was fascinating in its repugnance.
At the first moment, the villain– as was made clear from the very first episode, he was the obviously sinister man at the cafe who poured Saya's coffee and made her favorite candy– reunites Saya with the classmates we saw slaughtered onscreen. He then tells her that her entire life (this entire show that you've wasted six hours on, dear viewer) up until this moment was a fiction. The entire cast of this show, excepting Saya and the villain, were hired actors playing parts that yes, included magic death-faking with talismans.
Let's think about the magnitude of this plot twist. Blood-C spent an extravagant amount of time setting up its world and characters at an excruciatingly slow pace that turned most of the show's large potential audience away in the first month or so of its run. Anybody who stuck with Blood-C was implicitly asked to really give a damn about it, and of course CLAMP seizes this naive trust by the legs and pulls like it's trying to split a wishbone.
A while back, we were talking about anime TV series' unfortunate tendency to disappoint with final chapters so bad that they ruin the rest of the show retroactively (see Eden of the East). Blood-C has that kind of ending, but with the specific intent of ruining everything in retrospect. It's an incredibly evil plan foiled only by the fact that nobody in Japan or the West actually watched this show for long enough to find out.
When the trick is revealed, the actors all drop character and reveal in passing that while they appeared to be one-dimensional anime archetypes, they're actually one-dimensionally cynical, stupid, and awful human beings. The show takes intense glee in what it's about to do to these people.
Immediately after pulling out this "are you fucking kidding me" twist in the first thirty seconds of its finale, the show dares to top itself. It launches into 25 minutes of progressively more ridiculous plot revelations about Saya's past and true nature that amount to "the villain set all of this up just to see what would happen." All of this takes place amidst the slow, brutal murder (all over again!) of every single named cast member, including Saya's father, who of course wasn't Saya's father at all but another half-vampire. The nice young man (one of two) who's harbored a crush on Saya all series is machine-gunned down by soldiers as he confesses to her that really, despite the act, he truly did come to love her—bangbangbangbang.
Unsatisfied with the volume of this sacrifice, the show proceeds to unleash vampires upon the entire town Saya lives in, destroying and devouring every innocent citizen slowly, in crushing detail. These last ten minutes or so are the point at which the extent of the violence begins to feel uncomfortable: these scenes are completely gratuitous, more pointlessly cruel than ever, and absolutely interminable. A scene involving a blender the size of a building crosses the line into Go Nagai territory– yes, CLAMP were probably thinking of Violence Jack for this whole sequence– and delivers the only laugh in the entire joyless finale. The screams, howls, and moans of of the dying persist through a conversation as the villain escapes in his car, chuckling as he denies this story an ending.
Ultimately, the score between Saya and the villain is left unsettled, as there's to be a movie in June of 2012. I have no idea who would go and pay money to see Blood-C in a theater after a series that regarded the audience with such contempt.
Though it's phenomenally unsatisfying, we can't actually call this ending a cop-out. This is not a case where the writers pulled it all out of their asses. The entire show telegraphs that something is wrong while not giving away the real secret: a secret so phenomenally dumb that a viewer might guess it as a joke, a move so stupid and so unkind to the viewer that they'd never possibly go for it. If the intent was to make a show that would reel in anime fans gently, only to shock and disappoint in grand style– and I believe they did– CLAMP did precisely what they wanted to do here. That's the really creepy part about Blood-C.
Blood-C's C-word is actually "Cruel". In every moment of this final episode, CLAMP is taking particular care not just to degrade and tear apart the characters (they weren't likable, but I hope you didn't like any of them) in the cruelest way possible, but also the viewer. In every spot that CLAMP can twist the knife, they go for it. The extent to which this show is committed to destroying everything a viewer might have enjoyed about it is– and as a guy who eagerly watches Kamen Rider every week I can't believe I'm criticizing anime with these words– absolutely juvenile.
Read the following paragraph in the voice of a petulant teenager. Or maybe Nyanners.
It was all fake. They were all actors. The actors were assholes, too. They're all dead now. Here's a bunch of unrelated people being tortured and torn apart and eaten. No, we're not resolving anything. Saya's adoptive dad was really a vampire Thundercat, so she has to kill him, but he really did love her. Let's kill everything else in the town slowly. The actor who had a crush on Saya confesses to her immediately before he's torn apart by gunfire. The villain shoots Saya point-blank in the face. The coffee was drugged. The candy was made to taste like human organs. That's why she could never put her finger on why she liked it so much.
By the final blow– the bit about the candy, one of the last things said in the show– one starts to feel exhausted at having been insulted so many times. It's like the show is scolding the viewer who actually enjoyed the terrible beginning episodes enough to stick with it. Again, I don't know who would go pay money to watch a sequel movie to a finale this ridiculous. Don't movie tickets cost $20 in Japan? Couldn't I just eat for a couple days on that instead? Couldn't I at least just put down enough juice-box whiskey to forget Blood-C?
There's a tangible misanthropy running through Blood-C: after the final massacre scene, I dare speculate that the whole show the product of a mind that truly hates people and simply wants to see them suffer. Watching Blood-C is the fictional equivalent of hearing on the news that the victim was stabbed 87 times, and wondering to yourself how a human being could bring themselves to that terrible excess.
I'm really glad I came to this show with a mixture of detachment and disdain from the first three episodes (and from being Colony Drop). I can't imagine how some new, young anime fan would take it if they happened to come upon it on Niconico or some such and fell for the characters. (Though such viewers are in the minority in Niconico comments, the anguished, enraged, and dumbfounded comments throughout the final episode say that such a viewer would be very upset.) Maybe they'd give up on anime altogether. Maybe that was the idea. Leave while you can, kids. You wouldn't want to grow up and turn into CLAMP one day.
Spoiler Warning: this article spoiled the entirety of Blood-C and I moved the spoiler warning to the end, because I didn't want you to feel like you needed to watch this fucking awful show. Please only watch Blood-C– and only then the final episode, even the show doesn't think you've missed anything– as a historical footnote.
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I have a half-formed thought on this. It's a reaction to Evangelion. So many other productions have tried to capture that 'something' in Eva that seems to make it eternal, and CLAMP decided what made Eva 'stick' was the Anno 'fuck you I gotta pay for my therapy somehow' ending of the TV show.
Either that or it was driven by 'old playbook' thinking about what the American market wants. Sounds like this would be a BIG hit for the 'where's my new Ninja Scroll fap bait?' customer in 2002. Those people wouldn't care about 'story' or 'plot' as long as they could toke up and watch lots of blood.
Sometimes I'm glad I don't give a shit about current anime :)
Sadly, I already watched the entirity of the show a month back. It really is an artless and revolting little cartoon, but I don't mind the fact that it insulted me so much. Actually, I was really impressed by their callousness.
But, hell, you could watch Natural Born Killers and get the same sort of appeal in a lot less time.
So CLAMP is too chickenshit to finish X/ 1999 because "Won't someone think of the children?!"™; but they go all out on a teen vampire story, even though it wasn't really meant to be torture porn? Or is this like supposed to be the Hot Topic answer to Hideaki "Too Bad" Anno's End of Evangelion?
You Ass-hole, now I feel the need to go watch it.
I couldn't predict this would end up making Blood+ seem absolutely fine in comparison, but damn…it sure feels that way after reading all of this.
You want to know the ABSOLUTELY hilarious part about the Blood-C movie? It won funding from the Japanese government.
Just let that sink in for a minute.
This review has me drawing comparisons to Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki, sounds just as cruel (Or is it crueler,because of Blood C's length?). I dropped the show half way through but with all the bizarre developments my interest is a little piqued to finish it up sometime.
I just looked up Shoujo Tsubaki and I'm pretty sure that this has nothing on that.
You know Dave, if you found it in your heart to accept CLAMP as your personal lord and savior, this would never have happened. Instead you would have seen the glorious light as I did. Blood-C is an amazing CLAMP animation doujin for the Blood franchise, and lovingly animated by Production IG's best action animators.
It is too bad that you let the fact that CLAMP hates the world bother you so much. If only you could see it my way, you would hate the world too. After all, X remains incomplete even though it has been ten years since the last chapter. :(
Oh and I've seen Shoujo Tsubaki. I would not really recommend it to anyone. Ever. Unlike Blood-C, where it is clear the creators just hate humanity, I'm pretty sure the author of Shoujo Tsubaki also hated himself, and his dog, and his parents. It's pretty… out there.
I believe this merely shows CLAMP's true allegiance to their master: Dio Brando.
Man, this show sounds absolutely abysmal. I remember watching the Blood: The Last Vampire movie from a few years back and feeling underwhelmed by it, but this show seems like a completely different animal altogether.
Also, thank you for slamming Elfen Lied. I'm glad there are other anime fans out there besides me who weren't suckered in by that worthless pile of dross.
Zump: I already saw Elfen Lied when it was called Mermaid's Scar, so I wasn't gonna bother…
Seriously, though, no one really likes Blood in the first place; and Vampire Princess Miyu already did it. Though I'm still baffled about why people like Vampire Proto-Twilight, er, Knight, other then its lazily pandering to every fangirl trope and fetish.
Some of us Americans liked Ninja Scroll because it was violent yet enjoyable and the main character was cool. Dare I say that some of us Americans still care about 'story' and 'plot' in our anime as well. Please don't lump all of us into a simple category like that.
I highly enjoyed Ninja Scroll yet my favorite anime of all time is Legend of the Galactic Heroes. So, I don't exactly fit in your box, do I?
@Yanki My Chain
I agree with you on all counts. The only anime involving vampires that I ever truly enjoyed was Vampire Princess Miyu. As for Vampire Knight, I don't understand the fascination either. Then again, with the exception of a few titles, I don't really care for anime and manga catering to the shoujo demographic anyway and prefer seinen.
The question isn't "do you enjoy Ninja Scroll", the question is did you spend time frantically searching for another show that was different yet JUST EXACTLY LIKE Ninja Scroll?
If you prefer you can mentally substitute 'Akira' for Ninja Scroll. Or even Dragonball Z. The key being claiming to want something new and different but in reality wanting something JUST EXACTLY LIKE (name). This is the stereotype I throw out to the world and if it doesn't fit you then go with God my child and be at peace.
I'm pretty sure the CD bros know exactly of what I speak.
You are right about not recommending Shoujo Tsubaki, though I personally like some of Maruo's illustrations. I tied the two shows together due to both having the villain's revealing that what had happened up to a certain point was a ruse all along, in spite of the heroins best intentions, at least that's what I recall in the final scene of Shoujo Tsubaki.
I for one would kill for something EXACTLY like Akira, but we all know Japan is never going to have money like that again.
But something exactly like Akira IS Akira.
(Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Dragonball Z, Robotech, Gundam Wing, Evangelion, blah blah blah)
It's not so much the physical production so much as the mindset, the perception, the impression.
One can either spend one's time seeking to re-experience that first kiss and always be let down, or revel in the act of kissing for the enjoyment of the kiss, each different and all unique from the last.
Following up, it suddenly strikes me that the whole 'Searching for another Akira' mindset may well be a generational thing. I don't really recall anyone of the Speed Racer/ Battle of the Planets/ Star Blazers generation endlessly trying to find something just like (y), it's always been a "what ELSE is out there?!?!" kind of joint.
(note that I obliquely refer to fans who got their anime addiction from an Americanized Japtoon, the whole 'infection vector' or 'catalyst anime' thing which is, ultimately, what drives the entire point. See also 'First Kiss')
@Steve Harrison: 1) For what its worth, I spent most of my childhood trying to find a show just like Star Blazers. I never really did until I was in high school. 2) Pickings were pretty slim back then. There were only a handful of titles available in any form in North America, so of course we had to take what we could get. Today there are hundreds of titles available, and in fact thanks to the internet pretty much any anime ever made is avaailable, so of course we have the luxury of sifting through it all to find exactly what we want.
Don't really see why we need another Akira. I'd rather watch something I enjoy, not just being forced to live up to unrealistically high standards. It's because everyone jumped on the Eva bandwagon that anime's declined in quality, since it's all become a bunch of harem shows featuring disadvantaged male leads, with only a couple nods to real sci-fi/fantasy fans. That's why I love the fuck out of Beelzebub, because it goes back to basics. You wanna know why Akira works, though? Not because of the animation, not because of the back-drop, and not because of the action-adventure elements. No, it works because it incorporates those elements into a story anyone can relate to, which is the point being missed by contemporary anime/manga writers and creators. Which is why Naruto, One Piece, Berserk, and Claymore got boring, because they shifted from simple action-adventure stories to fucking pretentious Tolkien-esque parodies of their former selves. No one gives a fuck about the political machinations of a rival kingdom, asshole. We just want to see more bloody gang-fights.
I suspect credit for the joke doesn't go to CLAMP but misanthropic director Tsutomu Mizushima. I'm basing this educated guess on some of his other anime I've seen, especially the recent Azazel-san, which also used grotesque amounts of violence and filth.
I think you go too far, Dave, in saying that the ending means its creator must hate people. I think what it really hates are the stale character stereotypes it graphically slaughters, and that anything like those jokers could ever pass for "characters." And it's rage feels justified to me, since I've often felt just as angry about the sorry state of anime writing. I agree that the joke was botched, and there are infinitely better ways to meta-critique cartoons, but the joke itself isn't something to get angry about. In fact, I'm kind of mystified that you and a lot of other people who hated the characters in the first place feel like the joke is at your expense at all, since you weren't attached to any of these stereotypes. Ga-Rei Zero had a very similar joke in its opening episode that it executed much better, and don't remember anyone giving a damn about that.
Really, I think it's the heightened level of violence that undermines it. The sadistic glee it takes in murdering is just too much. If the last episode had toned the violence down to the level of the first few episodes- better yet, had kept it at that level the entire time- I think you might have written a different review.
This was a bloodly lawl-fest the whole way through. It's like CLAMP took a chainsaw to all the other crap garbage they've been shitting out over the years. It's like a big thank-you to non fans :P
I sat a buddy down and watched the first Evangelion movie with him. Afterwards he promptly told me to fuck myself for wasting his fucking time with such a gay ass whiny bitch movie. I said "coming of age story" he said "punch me in the dick with your mouth". Yeah.
I sat him down and watched an episode of Blood-C. He liked! Wanted to know why it was censored. I promised him we'd watch the uncensored BD's eventually. He was down.
HMMMM. Non-anime fan entertained. Mission accomplished I guess. I imagine he'll be humming Saya's fucking song whilst taking a carrot peeler to his Johnson one day, but whatever.
My point being that ya, it's crap, but it's sure a hell of a lot more enetertaining and less offensive than alot of the drivel the japanese animation industry shits out. You want to rage at shows? Hanasaku Iroha anyone? WTF was that episode 3? Oh, that's right, potential bondage rape of teenage girls is all the rage these days! Who the fuck comes up with that kind of shit??
What others like Yanki My Chain are saying. Instead of CLAMP trying to make an enjoyable show out of what was there they try to make it another pretentious mind fuck for the protagonist (and the viewer). It seems so contrived,I almost want to believe they did it as a slap in the face to current fandom and studios. It's like they're saying "Here's some more shit that you like, go choke on it!". If that is the case, though, then it's even more of a shame because they had a chance to really do something special and blew it. That assumes they're talented enough to do something special with this series. Based on some things CLAMP has previously done I'm not so sure. Overall I just think anime needs to stop trying to have a message and just tell a good story. Nobody seems to realize (hollywood or japan) that is all you need to do.
"I think what it really hates are the stale character stereotypes it graphically slaughters, and that anything like those jokers could ever pass for "characters.""
Well, yes, but I don't think that's a very novel or clever statement to make. Anime parodies this constantly. If that was all they wanted to say, they could have gone to a lot less trouble to do so. This isn't really a "statement" show first and foremost.
The level of violence wouldn't have made the core idea any less hackish.
"Well, yes, but I don't think that's a very novel or clever statement to make. Anime parodies this constantly. If that was all they wanted to say, they could have gone to a lot less trouble to do so. This isn't really a "statement" show first and foremost.
The level of violence wouldn't have made the core idea any less hackish."
I'm not saying the meta-commentary ending was a good idea or that it was done well. I'm just saying that I think you're mistaking incompetence for malice.
I'm not a fan of CLAMP, but from everything I've read about the group, I really don't think 'incompetence' is a word I would use when discussing their work. It seems to me anything they do is carefully planned to create an effect. They may miss the target, sure, at least to our gaijin eyes but we're NOT the target audience, right?
Whatever is in the show, good or bad, is by clear and careful, to an almost cynical degree, intent. Misguided? maybe. Uncomfortable? unquestionably. I can't call it incompetent, as CLAMP is VERY VERY careful to craft their product. They did what they wanted to do.
Well… if this is an unfortunate statement, then I don't know what is anymore- this review for 'Blood-C' got me so riled up that all I did for it was SKIM for the highlights about the show, which was just about nil. Real shame, too… I actually liked CLAMP's works up until I *read* the review of the show here.
Was excited about this at first, then heard CLAMP was on board and lost all interest.
After reading that, even more glad I didn't bother.
Having just watched this, all I can say is "wow". I mean, I thought Blood was bad from the beginning, but the degree to which it has gotten worse with each subsequent iteration simply boggles the mind.
As for CLAMP, I think they can create an effect when they want to, and one of them can draw quite well (the rest are pretty generic as far as art goes), but I don't think they know how to plot or pace a story and I don't think they really care about those elements in their work.
The main point I want to make here is that you're seriously selling Go Nagai short. I assume this is because you've only seen things like the Violence Jack OAVs rather than reading the manga (to be fair, the ammount of Nagai manga in English is quite limited). Nagai doesn't do things just to shock people or to be "dark". He either has a very clear message behind the attrocities he's portraying (Devilman, for instance, is a commentary on the cold war) or he's writing a horror story (or at least a story with strong elements of horror). His work is far crazier than anything CLAMP could ever come up with (or anything that would be allowed on Japanese TV, for that matter) but he never approaches the kind of misanthropy that's on display here.
Honestly, Nagai's serious work is a lot smarter than anyone seems to be willing to give him credit for, to say nothing of the risks he was willing to take with his art. There's a reason why he got picked by Ishinomori and why even Tezuka would write things in response to what he was doing.
Oh, I didn't mean to downplay Nagai there. I've read a bit of his manga and from Devilman alone I think he's a genius.
I usually don't agree with everything you write, but good lord, mate. You're spot on. It's like you took all my thoughts over the 12 weeks and put them into writing.
Fuck me, that was awesome. I kind of want to watch Blood-C now.
Even after reading this, I can't understand why everyone hated this show so much. I'm a hardcore CLAMP fan, and I loved this anime more than any other of 2011. It's currently #2 on my top anime list. The only reason it isn't higher than Gurren Lagann is because the movie hasn't aired yet. I loved the epic battles, building mystery, cute singing, hilarious school life scenes, and foreshadowing of the first half, and loved the shocking plot twists and massive body count of the second half even more. I sat on the edge of my seat with each episode, and am eagerly awaiting the movie.
Blood-C was everything a hardcore CLAMP fan like me could possibly want in an anime. It was quintessential CLAMP in concentrated form. Which I presume makes it everything a CLAMP hater hates. Sorry if you went in expecting CLAMP not to be CLAMP.
I always believe that to have a good anime, you need a coherant plot, characters that you can like/dislike for various reasons and a tone that does not insult the audience's sensibilities.
Blood C has NONE of those.


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- travelbuff Mar 13, 2007 06:43 PM
I need help. Where's the best sushi and other great seafood? I'm not interested in the tourist joints... I'd like to eat where the locals do. I'm not rich and will most likely will be staying near downtown (any accomodation suggestions are welcome) so don't blast me with $$$$$ eateries.
re: Lauren
So sorry--Seattle!
The "best" sushi will cost you. Shiro, Saito, Nishino, etc.
I eat the sushi special at Bush Garden on Maynard Ave once or twice a week. Lunch only, $6.10 gets you 5 or 6 decent pieces of nigiri and a pair of hand rolls (usually one's california, the other spicy tuna) along with tea, a servicable miso soup, and a pro forma salad. Definitely the best sushi bang-for-buck around.
you can get all-you-can-eat sushi at Benihana (5th and University) lunchtime. They do have a rule about charging if you don't finish what you take. Not top quality, but as Terrier says, the best sushi will cost you. Another Japanese hot/cold buffet option is Todai in Pacific place mall (6th and Pine/Stewart), not great but if you're looking for the most quantity for your buck...
I would never go to Benihana or Todai (having tried the former many years ago and being hip to the nature of the latter).
Bush Garden, though, is something else - reliably good. The quality of the fish and rice are really remarkable for the price of that lunch special - it's a good enough deal that I can afford to go there weekly and tasty enough that I want to.
re: terrier
i agree. I don't go for sushi at Benihana and don't go for anything at Todai (personally i would rather spend $12 on 2 great pieces of o-toro or Santa Barbara uni, than waste $2.00 on a stale piece of hamachi) But the poster seems to be looking for cheap, or bargain...
re: barleywino
Another option in the bargain category is Nijo sushi (Post alley and Spring, or thereabouts). Happy hour sushi (and drink) bargains.
re: barleywino
When I need an inexpensive sushi fix I rely on happy hour at Nijo and -- more recently -- Umi (in Belltown). I am consistently impressed by the exceptional quality of the fish served at Umi's happy hour.
re: DrWine
Another cheap place (though also out of downtown) is Shun, by U Village. Cheap, delicious, easy, quick. love it.
re: dagoose
maneki in the i.d. (6th ave s. and jackson) is incredibly good and reasonably priced. it's not an all you can eat mall dive it's just not sleek belltown. mashiko's ok but a little overrated and a long way from downtown. i can't recommend maneki highly enough.
re: ericlutzker
Maneki is good, but absurdly popular. Reservations are a must & I rarely have that kind of forethought.
re: ericlutzker
Maneki is fantastic. --But yes, the wait is often more than an hour or sometimes they'll just turn you away. Great atmosphere, small and narrow in a very pleasant way.
Saito's is my sushi spot of the moment. Is it cheap? I don't know. Its usually about 50 bucks for two. I consider that sort of mid-range, certainly less than Nishino or Shiro's.
I have not tried Musahsi's in Wallingford, which is often touted as a great value, but it seems to have several detractors amongst the 'hounds also. I used to enjoy this place near the north end of Broadway's commercial strip with a short name that I think starts with "A". It was cheap.
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I think you're thinking of Aoki on Broadway, right by the Deluxe.
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Yeah, that's Aoki. I've been there only once, but I really enjoyed it. I know the sushi chef there, Hitoshi. But when I do sushi it's generally Maneki or Toyoda's. Out of habit.
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Aoki is good stuff. Good fish, great prices, and love the robata. I can't afford to eat at Shiro's every time and rarely have the forethought to make reservations at Maneki, so this is my usual dinner sushi joint.


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Beautifully remodeled 3 bedroom/ 2 bath farmhouse. Nestled in a quiet field overlooking Gorham Mountain. This house is just 1 mile from hiking and biking in Acadia National Park or lying on the beach. Just 4 miles from Bar Harbor on the free public transportation loop. Great location for day and evening activities or just sitting and watching sunsets off the back deck. Recent kitchen and bath remodels great for large families. Relax on the deck, while taking in the mountains, sunset and moon rise. Great place for children. Brand new hot tub outside on the back deck. Wood floors throughout. The downstairs is very sunny and open. Because this is our real home, the kitchen is fully stocked with all the basics plus many extras. The master bedroom has its own marbled tile bathroom with a large shower. There is a den on the first floor that has a very cozy pullout couch (seriously, I bought it for MY parents) and bathroom right next to it, for those not comfortable going up and down stairs. In the bathrooms, soaps and shampoos are provided, as flying with theses items is so difficult! Our home is simple, but the linens and towels are always of high quality, so you feel spoiled on your vacation. As nurses we keep it VERY CLEAN! There is an apartment as well for those who need an extra bedroom, or a bit more privacy. The apartment is a walkout basement one, with planty of light. It is very peaceful down there.
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'Having rented on MDI a number of times, this has truly been the nicest rental we have had. All those little extras make a difference' (8/11)
' The house is just beautiful- the wrap around porch with a view of the mountains is spectacular' (7/11)
'We had a great time staying in your home. It is a great location for visiting all the surrounding area' (8/11)
New addition with a full bathroom added in 2010. We have been told by all our friends who rent- why are you renting this for so cheap?! It really is a beautiful home!
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About Angie and Chris
We are a married couple who work as Nurse Practitioners in the area. We have been renting out our home in the summer for the past several years. We started doing this when we moved away for a three year stint. When we returned, people still called, wanting our home back in the summer. We have had a great time renting our home, and have met wonderful people along the way.
Angie and Chris purchased this house in 1998
Why Angie and Chris chose Mount Desert
We have always loved Acadia National Park. When I graduated college, I knew I wanted to stay in the area. As a kayak guide for 10 years, I wanted to be near the ocean. From our house I can hear the bell bouy in Otter Cove. I never get over the veiw of sunrise from our bedroom windows. I havent always loved our home. As a 100 year old farmhouse, it had gone through several renovations over the years. It has been an ongoing progect, that we are finally winning! Renting out our property has helped us fund these projects along the way. We just put on a new wrap aroun deck and air sealed the basement and kitchen ceiling!
We have a wonderful location that is peaceful, yet close to town. The house is spacious with lots of stuff for the kids to do. There is a den, living room, large kitchen and sunroom all on the first floor. Even on a rainy day one would not feel like you were all on top of each other. If you need the extra privacy, there is the added apartment downstairs. We love dogs, and they are welcome, but we also have allergies and ask that you pay an extra cleaning fee and keep them off the furniture. Acadia is a great place for dogs! As is our huge back yard!


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In the cool of the evening
When everything is getting kind of groovy
You call me up and ask me
Would I like to go with you and see a movie?
First I say no, I've got some plans for tonight
And then I stop and say "all right"
Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you
You always keep me guessing
I never seem to know what you are thinking
And if a fellow looks at you
It's for sure your little eye will be a-winking
I get confused, I never know where I stand
And then you smile and hold my hand
Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you
What's that baby?
You make me feel soo spooky
Oh yeah crazy honey
.. I just love
If you decide some day to stop this little game that you are a-playing
I'm gonna tell you all the things my heart's been a-dying to be saying
Ooh Just like a ghost you've been a-haunting my dreams
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Making a career-high 71 appearances in his first dedicated season as a reliever, the Phillies rewarded Chad Durbin with a one-year, $1.635 million deal yesterday. What does 2009 hold in store?
People tend to forget how vitally important Durbin was to the bullpen, particularly at the beginning of the season. As late as May 20, Beerleaguer rated him fifth in our individual player power rankings, just behind Brad Lidge. Durbin proved to be the missing piece to a certain extent in the early months, and there's something to be said about performing well in a largely undefined and unfamiliar role.
Nevertheless, the prevailing wisdom seems to be that he depleted his mojo, that he wore down, or that the league caught on, because he didn't have nearly the same success in the second half. He posted a 4.32 ERA/1.56 WHIP in August and it got even worse in September, a brutal 6.94/1.89, with opponents hitting a robust .340 off him.
My skepticism stems from the fact that his peripherals weren't particularly strong, even in his best months. Add that to a rapidly climbing workload, and the concerns being expressed on Beerleaguer are justifiable. Including 2006, he's tallied over 406 innings as a starter and reliever in the Majors and Minors, which makes Ryan Madson's 273 innings look like chump change.


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The GAO report released Wednesday states, "While the Department of Defense has made some progress in promoting communication among the several organizations responsible for accounting for missing persons — known collectively as the accounting community — DoD's capability and capacity to accomplish its missing persons accounting mission is being undermined by longstanding leadership weaknesses and a fragmented organizational structure. Leadership from the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD Policy) and U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) have not been able to resolve disagreements among accounting community members, thereby impacting DoD's ability to meet the mandated goal of increasing its capability and capacity to account for 200 missing persons a year by 2015."
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Unlike the rest of the teams in the National Premier Soccer League's Southeast Conference, the Chattanooga Football Club hasn't yet seen the Georgia Revolution play.
With just three league games remaining on its schedule, Chattanooga FC sits atop the Southeast standings with 16 points and a record of 5-1-1. Two of CFC's remaining games are against the third-place Revolution (11 points, 3-2-2), starting with tonight's matchup at the RYSA Soccerplex in Conyers, Ga.
While the rest of the teams in the Southeast Conference traveled to Chattanooga to participate in the U.S. Open Cup qualifying, which CFC won, the Revolution did not. Both teams have lost on the road against Jacksonville United.
"The schedule was a little bit strange with these two games [against the Revolution] back to back," CFC coach Brian Crossman said. "It's not a big deal, but I'd like for the league to schedule differently next year."
Crossman said CFC may be without top forwards Chris Ochieng, Mark Sherrod and Moises Drumond, all of whom likely will be unavailable due to prior commitments, which include two weddings. That's not an ideal situation for a team that could nearly lock up a second straight Southeast title with a win.
"We're in great shape if we win Saturday," Crossman said, "and hopefully we can have some guys step up and get it done."
Regardless of what happens tonight, Chattanooga FC will have a quick turnaround. It hosts the under-20 team for CF Monterrey of Mexico on Monday. That will be followed by a Revolution rematch next Saturday at Finley Stadium.
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Looking at the form, it doesn't appear so. It only asks if the vessel was previously registered in a foreign country.. Yes...and then it asks for the relevant information.
Registration is different from Title..though. You want to make sure you have clear title.
So the previous owner should provide you with the appropriate CG forms to undocument the vessel. ( my understanding)
I'm reading the back of my COD now and it clearly states that "the certificate is not conclusive evidence of Title in any preceeding where ownership is in question"
The complete records are on file at the NVDC.
Simply ..Filling out the back COD by the owner..does not necessarily ensure you that you have clear title. The form states: "The Sale or Transfer section below is provided for convenience only" In other words it's no guarantee that there are no liens unless the Previous owner does what they need to do..to undocument the vessel.
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