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Simond
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This week's Gurren-Lagann wins the "Most Unexpected Cameo Ever" award, I think:  |
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Quinton
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Dennou Coil.
I'm enjoying the funky sci-fi vr/ar setting and the animation is beautiful.
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Simond
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Strazos
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Heh.
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Hayduke
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I'm not really an expert on anime, and I've tried to find stuff I'd like. But I find myself usually getting too pissed off with the quality of most anime to enjoy it. It all seems very stiff and well, unanimated. Most anime I've seen seems to rely on treating things like body language and facial features as either background scenery which are held static while only the lips move, or with comic hyper-stylized exaggeration. Action scenes are only slightly better, but watching dialog is murder. I'm convinced that a lot of the really worst offenders like Ghost in the Shell could probably be done with a Powerpoint presentation.
I guess for that reason I do like Hayao Miyazaki's work, since those are actually animated. Though I think he has the Mel Brooks problem where his movies are great for an hour and a half, and then suck for the last half hour. As a bonus he seems to escape the cliche that all women are pedo-approved, saccharin sweet 12 year-olds or top-heavy women wearing hooker boots and bathing suits. Some stuff isn't so bad though if you can get past that though. It's nice to find this thread though.
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Fabricated
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Miyazaki's stuff is beautifully animated and not really much more than that most of the time. It's always a story of the purity of a child winning over a harsh reality, or a "BOTH WAR AND MAN ARE BAD AND NATURE RULES" story.
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Simond
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Licensing news: ADV got Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Geneon (finally!) got Nanoha/Nanoha A's.
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Stormwaltz
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Funimation has Darker Than Black. Expect the fansubs to dry up (well, the pseudo-moral ones, anyway).
And in "items no one but me cares about":
Right Stuf has both seasons of Victorian Romance Emma.
Bandai Visual USA has Gundam MS IGLOO. 3 eps x 2 discs, but no word on whether or not they're going to continue their habit of overpricing for the American market.
Funimation has xxxholic. Despite the incredibly boring adaptation of Tsubasa, I'm still a CLAMP slut.
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Dennou Coil.
I'm enjoying the funky sci-fi vr/ar setting and the animation is beautiful.
-Q
Watched 2 episodes now and I agree it is pretty cool. |
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AngryGumball
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Funimation has Darker Than Black. Expect the fansubs to dry up (well, the pseudo-moral ones, anyway).
And in "items no one but me cares about":
Right Stuf has both seasons of Victorian Romance Emma.
Bandai Visual USA has Gundam MS IGLOO. 3 eps x 2 discs, but no word on whether or not they're going to continue their habit of overpricing for the American market.
Funimation has xxxholic. Despite the incredibly boring adaptation of Tsubasa, I'm still a CLAMP slut.
Funimation puts out crap Dubs, and even worse DVDs...I'd support any fan subbing group more than I would support Funimation. Plus they reuse far to many voice actors, sorry Fuimation can Die in a glorious fucking pit of hell |
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schild
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Funimation has been bad since Day 1.
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Koyasha
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Cool stuff I saw at AX this year, some of it new, some of it not-so-new, (that you likely know about if you follow fansubbing very much):
Project Blue Earth SOS (awesome, best one I hadn't seen before AX).
Kyoshiro and the Eternal Sky (possibly awesome, first episode was good, but the concept will either be executed well or turn out way too silly).
Devil May Cry (good first episode).
Welcome to the N.H.K. (very funny).
Pumpkin Scissors (interesting, decently good story in the first episode).
Guardian of the Sacred Spirit (interesting first episode, characters seem good).
Others that seemed pretty good or at least worth looking into further:
Black Blood Brothers (some vampire series I saw, seemed worth further investigation).
009-1 (not sure how that one's going to go, but the first episode was amusing. Could get old really fast if future episodes don't have more story and less action).
Nanatsuiro (not sure on the name they're going to use when it's released, they never showed the full translated title).
Tokyo Majin Gakuin (interestingly creepy first episode, but seemed very cookie-cutter in personalities and a general 'teenagers with special powers that fight demons/monsters and have lots of interpersonal issues' way. Another one I couldn't tell long-term possibilities for easily).
In anime-related movies, the Death Note live-action movies were both actually quite excellent. Tekkonkinkreet was....weird. A lot of the story boggled me, not in a 'this is too weird to understand' way, but more in a 'this makes very little sense even though I understand the story' way.
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schild
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Yea, we picked up the bootlegs of Death Note when they came out. Quite damn good all things considered. Better than the anime - which should have stopped at 26 episodes and was only dragged down in the exact same way everything Post the Kyoto Arc ruins Kenshin.
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Strazos
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"Welcome to the NHK" is, I think, easily one of the better series of at least the last few years.
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Stormwaltz
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Funimation puts out crap Dubs, and even worse DVDs...I'd support any fan subbing group more than I would support Funimation.
What are these "dubs" of which you speak..? :P Other news: Media Blasters has the Genshiken OVA amd Strawberry Panic. Sweet, sweet lesbian angst... |
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Simond
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In a similar vein to 'Haruhi Star', may I now present... Zelda Star.(Oh God  ) |
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Strazos
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Die in a Youtube server farm fire.  Also:
Other news: Media Blasters has the Genshiken OVA amd Strawberry Panic. Sweet, sweet lesbian angst...
I still cannot believe I sat through that entire series. Ugh. |
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Simond
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You should have watched Utena instead - at least that has swordfights and random bizarreness.
Also: Yoru - how's the second 3 ep test worked out for you on Gurren-Lagann?
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Yoru
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You should have watched Utena instead - at least that has swordfights and random bizarreness.
Also: Yoru - how's the second 3 ep test worked out for you on Gurren-Lagann?
Gigantic airborne cock-sword won the day. Still watching. |
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RhyssaFireheart
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Too lazy to go back through 16 pages of posts, but has anyone else watched Noein before? SciFi is showingit on their ani-Monday block and I've been watching, but after 3 episodes, I expected to have a slightly better idea of what's going on without needing to resort to Wiki.
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying it, although some of the art baffles me. It's like they had two different artists draw separate areas of the show and then melded them together. Like how Karasu is drawn versus how Haruka and Yu are drawn.
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Strazos
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
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Stormwaltz
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Posted on Anime News Network: Posters on the Japanese 2ch board report that the August issue (officially on sale July 10) of Japan's Newtype magazine has revealed the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The reported coverage of the magazine indicates that the science fiction comedy anime's continuation will be announced on July 7 (07/07/07). Source: Ultimatum |
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Simond
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  7th of July for the announcement is cute as well because 7th July = the Japanese festival of Tanabata...which is when one of the Haruhi stories not yet animated (Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody) was set. Edit: Metareferences-a-go-go! http://xs317.xs.to/xs317/07275/konatarejoicing.jpg(PC screen reads something like "Haruhi Suzumiya 2", apparently) Edit: Changed to link as XS.to seems to be lagging a little.
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Yoru
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According to what I've heard on Teh Intarwebs, but cannot yet confirm, the first speedsubs of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai episode #1 are being seeded.
Woot woot, summer of axemurder here I come :D
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Strazos
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I also saw the Haruhi note while looking some stuff up, but I figured anyone who cared would find out soon enough.
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I'm never gonna stop hearing about this painfully boring series from the anime-fans I know am I?  I was kinda happy because people had finally stopped recommending it and Lucky Star to me... |
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Simond
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O HAY WHAT'S THIS?!?Oh, it's a trailer for movie remakes of the fourth-best mecha show Gainax ever did. |
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Ah fuck. No. no. no. NO. NO NO NO NO NONONONO OH GOD NO
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Stormwaltz
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Dear Gainax,
I bought EVA once. It was pretty good, though it seemed to be missing 3-4 episodes near the end.
I haven't bought the umpteen re-releases with marginally improved video quality and 10 seconds of additional footage.
I'm not going to see the movie re-releases.
Guys, you've done some great shit. Sure, your endings always suck - ALWAYS - but its a great ride getting there.
I'd like to politely suggest that you stop wanking over Asuka, and make something new.
k thx, bye.
Chris
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Strazos
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I wouldn't mind NEW Evangelion material, like a sequel miniseries or something.
But please, no more retreads.
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Simond
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I'd like to politely suggest that you stop wanking over Asuka, and make something new. *points at avatar*  |
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schild
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Holy fucking shit gurren episode 8.
Fucking wow.
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Yoru
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You ain't seen nothing yet, son.
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schild
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There's actually no way it can get better than Episode 8.
I'm tempted to just stop watching since the show is like 50% filler and it just peaked like a motherfucker.
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