The best martial arts fighting scene I've ever seen would be from the Cowboy Bebop movie. There are actually 2 or 3 fights in there that are good, but the last one takes the cake any day. The use of actual moves and blocks was great. Kenshin fights are pretty good, but he talks so much, I guess if you're as fast as he is then you can afford to talk during your fights. He improvises a lot too. Well thought out and well choreographed fights are the best!

Trigun is a good series. I like Legato the best, but just about everyone else I know likes Wolfwood the best. The manga is almost completely different in the way it's told. The anime is way better in telling the story. Besides Legato is more of a lackey in the comic than the icy bastard, who lacks major self-esteem that he is. I mean who was the real villain in that show.

I think there's an idiot in every show. The only time I like the idiot is when you're not sure if they are dumb. Millie seems like she's about as smart as a box of sticks, but she has her moments of profoundness...and you're like "Where did that come from?" Captain Tylor from the Irresponsible Captain Tylor is like that too. How does someone who acts like a complete moron and pull off half the stunts he does?

Millie and Gourry would be a disturbing couple.

I'm starting to rethink my policy on not IMing first. Or at least making the occasional exception.

Millie and Gourry...scary. Just imagine their children. My favorite from Slayers is Xellos, that guy is just way too cool. "It's a secret". He's probably one of my top favorite characters in anything.

IMing policy? Have you had bad experiences with IM in the past?

Sore wa, himitsu desu.

I'm just the sort of person who doesn't tend to IM first. Mostly I presume that if people want to talk to me, they'll IM me, and that if I initiate I'll probably just be annoying them.