Angel's Anime Rating Guide

1999 I was poking around the net and came across a site that had a nice timeline of web page screen shots showing the evolution of their web site over the past decade. I've spent the last few hours researching the history of AARG (the Anime Ratings site) to create something similar here. It's not much to look at, but, it's very interesting (at least for me) to see how far my web design skills have come. The archives of my web-site on the Wayback Machine are not necessarily complete. There will be missing images and broken links, etc. But, you should get a fairly good idea of how the anime ratings site has evolved over time.

Sadly, Divergence Eve just wasn't for me. Cheesy CG effects abound as humans battle wave after wave of "Ghouls". Volume 1 Welcome to the Watcher's Nest Directed by Hiroshi Negishi (Tenchi Universe, Burn Up W), this futuristic high-flying epic is brimming with intense space battles, high-tech fighting robots, and babes who more than fill out their skimpy military uniforms.

In the early '80s, Thundercats aired on TV and featured a band of feline-esque characters fighting the forces of evil. My pride and joy for many years, was a video tape archive of nearly every episode broadcast in the Philadelphia area. I've lovingly preserved the tapes and they still work, even twenty years after they were recorded. Video tapes can't last forever and sooner or later the tapes are going to degrade with the passage of time. So, when I heard that Thundercats was coming to DVD, I had to get it.

To my surprise, not only was  Paranoia Agent  really, really good, but, it was also only four volumes. For some reason that defies description, I was under the impression that the series was longer. In Paranoia Agent , after the first victim's story, the police felt the overly stressed woman was having a breakdown and lied to cover-up for some crime. However, after the third and fourth attacks upon unrelated victims led to the same description of a young attacker with a golden baseball bat and in-line skates, the police had to wonder - is the Lil' Slugger real or some kind of sinister phantom?

I've just seen the first volume of Elfen Lied and I was very impressed with it. There's a great deal of blood and gore... Vector 1 Imprisoned under tight military security, Lucy, a genetically-altered human known as a Diclonius, escapes her confines in a wave of bloody violence and brutality. Now lost, alone, and stricken with amnesia, she wanders into a kindly family that takes her under their care, oblivious to the latent destructive power that this innocent-looking girl harbors!

In the beginning there was Apple... My pride and joy is programming. I started programming in the early 80's in elementary school with BASIC on Apple II's and later I studied the Pascal programming language. At home, I tinkered with assembly language and Basic on early home computers. With my first DOS PC, I got my hands on Borland's Turbo Pascal and wrote my own software. Much later, as a professional programmer, I used C, C# and Visual Basic. I used the .Net framework and wrote some snazzy corporate code. Nothing that anyone would be able to look at in this day and age, but, I accomplished something nonetheless.

Years ago, I picked up the VHS version of A.D. Police Files ... File 1 The Phantom Woman MegaTokyo, A.D. 2027. Relentless technological development has resulted in the creation of Boomers, artificially intelligent androids with the potential to free mankind from physical labor. But anything that can be used can also be misused... AD Police rookie Leon McNichol gets his first lesson in the school of hard choices when he and his partner Geena are given the job of tracking down the cause of several incidents of Boomers running amok. They soon discover that a defective Boomer is illegally reactivating Boomers which have been scrapped. One of these Boomers has a vivid memory locked in her mind; the image of the man who destroyed her. The image of Leon McNichol.