Hmmm. Upgrades!

BakaBT has been acting strangely today. According to their forum, they've bitten the bullet. The tracker has been weird because they've been doing patches and bringing it up to date. And the server as a whole has been weird because they're adding anti-DDoS protection.

That's why, for most of today, the tracker has been up but hasn't been willing to do any matchmaking. As I write this, everything just went normal a few minutes ago.

Fine by me. I noticed this morning that they've posted the Venus versus Virus manga. I've got it downloading.

VvV is a classic example of "overtaking the manga", the situation where the director of the anime must create his own ending because the source material hasn't itself ended.

Often this leads to catastrophe, with Mahoromatic being one of the prime examples.

The ending of VvV was just as bad, and even more nihilistic. The director of Mahoromatic at least tried (though failed) to create a happy ending out of the wreckage. The VvV anime doesn't even do that.

The manga ran another couple of years after the anime came out, and I've long wondered just how the mangaka ended the story. Now I'll get the chance to find out.

UPDATE: That TVTropes page mentions VvV:

Venus Versus Virus's anime went in a completely different direction from the manga from the first episode. It also had a Gecko Ending.

In that case it'll be interesting to see just what the manga really is about. I never watched the first DVD beyond the first episode, which was a flash-forward showing the steady state of Sumire with the others as demon hunters. Like as not the manga doesn't do that, and if it has a different approach to the main story (or an entirely different main story) then that would be interesting.

UPDATE: That's interesting. BakaBT.com used to map to a hosting service in Amsterdam. Now it goes to DreamHost in California.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 02:22 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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