Media Explored in Japan

Since coming to Japan, I have read/am reading the following books (in the listed order):

• Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett (complete)
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (complete)
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk (complete)
• The Tree of Swords and Jewels by C.J. Cherryh (complete)
• The Mantle of Kendi-dai by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (complete)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (complete)
• Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (complete)
• Thongor & the Dragon City by Lin Carter (abandoned/so bad that it must be read aloud)
• The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval & Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis (complete)
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye (complete)
• Pyramids by Terry Pratchett (complete) (began after Anatomy, but finished before it)
• Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchettt (complete) (ditto)
• Misreadings by Umberto Eco (complete)
• Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco (complete)
• The History of the World in 10 and a Half Chapters by Julian Barnes (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (complete)
• How to Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco (complete)
• Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (complete)
• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (complete)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (complete)
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (complete)
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman (complete)
• Happiness™ by Will Ferguson (complete)
• Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (complete)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling (complete)
• After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (complete)
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (complete)
• Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami (complete)
• The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco (complete)
• Sputnick Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (complete)
• Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins (complete)
• Jingo by Terry Pratchett (complete)
• The Once and Future King by T.H.White (complete)

Since coming to Japan, I have played/am playing the following video games (in no particular order):

• Snood (games without end)
• Grand Theft Auto III (abandoned)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (in progress/abandoned)
• Soul Calibur III (in progress/completed (everything is unlocked, but I haven’t finished a couple of things))
• Final Fantasy X: International (in progress, very close to finishing EVERYTHING in the game, but delayed in favor of Kingdom Hearts)
• Microsoft XP default games (except Pinball and the Internet based games) (games without end)
• Hoyle Card Games 2007 (games without end)
• Computer Mahjongg (games without end)
• SSX3 (games without end)
• SSX On Tour (games without end)
• Kingdom Hearts (complete)
• Kingdom Hearts II (in progress)
• Starcraft (in progress)
• Fable: The Lost Chapters (complete)
• King’s Quest I: Quest for the Crown (AGDI Remake) (complete)
• King’s Quest I: Quest for the Crown (Original) (abandoned)
• King’s Quest II: Romancing the Stones (AGDI Remake) (complete)
• King’s Quest III: To Heir is Human (IA Remake) (complete)
• King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (Original) (complete)
• King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder (Original) (complete)
• King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (Original) (complete)
• F.E.A.R (complete)
• No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way (complete)
• Tron 2.0 (complete)
• Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Complete (games without end)
• Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide (complete)
• Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark (complete)
• Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (complete)

Since coming to Japan, I have watched/am watching the following series (in the order that they come to mind):

• Abenobashi (in progress)
• Dragonball (complete)
• Dragonball Z (in progress)
• Night Head Genesis (in progress)
• Death Note (abandoned (good series, but, unfortunately, the fansubs were discontinued))
• Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (Seasons 1 – 4 complete)
• Futurama (Season 1, in progress)
• Family Guy (Seasons 1-5 complete)
• Undergrads (complete)
• Animal Yokocho (in progress)
• Kemonozume (in progress/abandoned for now)
• Jigoku Shoujo (Season 1, in progress/abandoned/maybe I’ll try again in the future)
• Black Blood Brothers (in progress)
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (complete)
• Gunbuster 2 (complete)
• Samurai Champloo (in progress/complete (I listened to/watched this while Amanda was, so I may as well have seen it all))
• Gyagu Manga Biyori: Season 1 (complete)
• Nanami-Chan Season 2 (complete)
• Soul Link (complete)
• Okusama wa Joshikosei (as per Samurai Champloo, above)
• Doctor Who (2005 Series) (complete)
• Doctor Who (2006 Series) (complete)
• Fruits Basket (in progress)
• Doctor Who (First Doctor) (in progress)
• Torchwood (2006 Series) (complete)
• Doctor Who (Third Doctor) (in progress)
• Doctor Who (2007 Series) (complete)
• GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (Live Action) (complete)
• Full Metal Panic 2: Fumoffu (complete)
• Family Guy (Complete)
• American Dad (in progress)
• South Park (Sporadic random episodes, mostly from later seasons)
• Robot Chicken (in progress)
• Heroes: Season One (complete)
• Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace (complete)
• Black Lagoon (complete)
• Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (complete)
• Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito (complete)
• Magikano (complete)
• Amaenaide Yo! (complete)
• Amaenaide Yo! Katsu! (complete)
• Torchwood (2008 Series) (complete)
• Ergo Proxy (complete)
• The Simpsons (in progress)
• Doctor Who (2008 Series) (in progress)

Since coming to Japan, I have watched the following movies in any medium aside from a theater visit (in no particular order, except somewhere around Mulan, I started listing the movies in roughly the order I watched them in):

• Darkworld
• Dark Evolution
• Fun with Dick and Jane
• Voyage of the Unicorn
• Resident Evil aka. Biohazard
  
• Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse aka. Biohazard 2: Apocalypse
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Zoolander
• Ultraviolet
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
  
• V for Vendetta
• Casshern
• Nightwatch
• The Brothers Grimm
• Undercover Brother
• Batman Begins
• American Psycho
• Dr. No
• From Russia With Love
• Goldfinger
• Thunderball
• You Only Live Twice
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
• Diamonds Are Forever
• Live and Let Die
• The Man With the Golden Gun
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Mulan
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Brother Bear
• The Boondock Saints
• Hercules (1997 animated version)
• The Corpse Bride
• The Aristocats
• Treasure Planet
• Moonraker
• Casino Royale
• Click
• The Bourne Identity
• Bubba Ho-Tep
• I ♥ Huckabee’s
• Down With Love
• Moulin Rouge
• Daredevil
• Elektra
• Lilo & Stitch
• Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch
• The Stitch Movie
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)\
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Heat
• Legends of the Fall
• The Princess Bride
• Wedding Crashers
  
• Stripes
• The Living Daylights
• License to Kill
• The Merchant of Venice (2004)
  
• Lucky Number Slevin
• A Life Less Ordinary
• Ghost Rider
• The Break-Up
• Team America: World Police
• Night at the Museum
• Bewitched (2005)
• Smokin’ Aces
• Duplex
• The Departed
• Goldeneye
• Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe (1995)
• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
  
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
• Gamera the Brave (2006)
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
• Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla
• Godzilla (1954)
• Leroy & Stitch
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• The World is Not Enough
• Stardust
• D.O.A.
• The Producers
• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Science of Sleep
• The Prestige
• Shooter
• The Italian Job
  

Since coming to Japan, I have gone to see the following movies (in the listed order):

• The Black Dahlia
• Spider-man 3
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• 300
• Die Hard 4.0/Live Free or Die Hard
• Shrek 3
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Transformers
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Beowulf

Since coming to Japan, I have watched the following episodes of MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000, for the uninitiated (in mostly seasonal order)):

• The Crawling Eye
• The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy
• Mad Monster
• Women of the Prehistoric Planet
• The Corpse Vanishes
• The Crawling Hand
• Robot Monster
• The Slime People
• Project Moonbase
• Robot Holocaust
• Moon Zero Two
• Untamed Youth
• The Black Scorpion
• Rocketship X-M
• The Sidehackers
• Jungle Goddess
• Rocket Attack USA
• The Ring of Terror
• Wild Rebels
• Lost Continent
• The Hellcats
  
• Fugitive Alien
• Teenage Caveman
• Viking Women vs. The Sea Serpent
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
• Master Ninja I
• Last of the Wild Horses
• Samson vs. the Vampire Women
• Night of the Blood Beast
• Revenge of the Creature
• Misc. Shorts (Too many to list, or remember)
• Catalina Caper
• King Dinosaur
• First Spaceship on Venus
• Godzilla vs. Megalon
• Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
• Gamera
• Pod People
• Gamera vs. Barugon
• Stranded in Space
• Time of the Apes
• Daddy-O
• Gamera vs. Gaos
• The Amazing Colossal Man
• It Conquered the World
• Gamera vs. Guiron
• Earth vs. the Spider
• Mighty Jack
• Gamera vs. Zigra
• Fugitive Alien 2: Star Force
• War of the Colossal Beast
• The Castle of Fu Manchu
  

Since coming to Japan, I have read the following comic books (in the order that they come to mind):

• Ultimate Spider-man #1-100 (Plus Annuals #1-2)
  
• Ultimate X-Men #1-74 (Plus Annuals #1-2)
  
• Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-32 (Plus Annuals #1-2)
  
• The Ultimates (Vol. 1) #1-13
• The Ultimates (Vol. 2) #1-12 (Plus Annuals #1-2)
• Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra #1-4
• Ultimate Elektra #1-5
• Ultimate Iron Man #1-5
• Ultimate Adventures #1-6
• Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1-16
• Ultimate Six #1-7
• Ultimate War #1-4
• Ultimate X4 #1-2
• Ultimate Nightmare #1-5
• Ultimate Secret #1-4
• Ultimate Extinction #1-5
• Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special #1
• Hellblazer #1-100 (plus Annual #1)
• Hellblazer Special #1
• The Horrorist #1-2
• Countdown to Infinite Crisis
  
• The O.M.A.C. Project #1-6
• The O.M.A.C. Project Infinite Crisis Special
  
• The Rann-Thanagar War #1-6
• The Rann-Thanagar War Infinite Crisis Special
• Day of Vengeance #1-6
• Day of Vengeance Infinite Crisis Special
• Villains United #1-6
• Villains United Infinite Crisis Special
• The Return of Donna Troy #1-4
• Prelude to Infinite Crisis
  
• Infinite Crisis #1-7
• 52 #1-52
• Planetary #0-26
• Planetary/Authority: Ruling the World
• Planetary/Batman:Night on Earth
• Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta
• Y: The Last Man #1-60
• Transmetropolitan #0-60
• Transmetropolitan: I Hate it Here
• Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City