read or die

Woah, that’s a seriously creepy title, isn’t it? Read or DIE. ><”
But that was the movie that letty brought over to my house this afternoon for us to watch!
The main character’s this girl called yomiko readman, and she’s like a librarian, of sorts. She’s got this affinity with paper; she can control it.
Surprisingly, I found this movie listed on imdb! So here are all my favourite trivia, quotes and bloopers:
In episode 1, when Joker debriefs Yomiko on the I-Jin incident, a screen displays a list of people who were candidates for the I-Jin project. One of the names is series creatorHideyuki Kurata.
The acronym R.O.D stands for 'Read or Die'.
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Hey, there’s only two trivia items! Oh well, onto the quotes and bloopers, then:
Continuity: When Yomiko catches Nancy in the hallway outside her room to talk to her, her hair briefly seems to be out of the braids Nancy put it in a few moments ago. The braids return as they're about to leave the submarine.
And only two bloopers, one not even interesting enough to include. XD well, surely there’ll be more quotes, though!
Drake Anderson: Don't blame me if you die.
Nancy Makuhari aka 'Miss Deep': I already do.
[repeated line]
Yomiko Readman aka 'The Paper': Please give me back my book!
Nancy Makuhari aka 'Miss Deep': [about her code name] I don't really like it. It makes me sound like a porn star.
Nancy Makuhari aka 'Miss Deep': My name is Miss Deep.
Yomiko Readman aka 'The Paper': Okay, so what's your first name?
Nancy Makuhari aka 'Miss Deep': What kind of a secret agent would give her real name?
Hey, imdb’s really lacking things for this movie! They didn’t even include my favourite quote; too bad I can’t remember it. ><
Also, what kinda name’s miss deep’?
Because this movie was in japanese, I had to rely on the English subtitles (Letty prolly didn’t; I’m sure her Japanese language skills are of a much higher standard than mine. XD )
However, I’m not sure if this is yet another result of the evil brain injury god gave me, or were the words in the movie were just said very very fast – but I had trouble following the subtitles! ><”like, I’d start reading one line, and before I’d finished it, the next line would appear! ><”
There was also very little noticeable music happening … nothing for me to comment on, anyhow.
But this was still a sweet little movie, I enjoyed it.
I was kinda confused about the miss deep character, though, I mean, was she good or bad? @ first, I thought she was good, then I thought she was bad, then … lol, then I got too confused to follow it. XD
However, the movie ends with yomiko visiting miss deep’s sister, and letty tells me that miss deep was trying to protect this sister all along. Whoops, well, that part just went right over my head. XD
Anyhow, this was a nice little movie. Letty says there’s more to be found on the net (whether manga or anime I can’t remember); maybe I’ll google it one day.
Next post here … I think this Thursday – it’s the monthly book club! Righteo, cya then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^