Shinichiro Watanabe is my God

[Stormwaltz]

A lot of my DVDs have two sets of subtitles. One is the dub word-for-word and the other is the relatively more precise translation.

I have in excess of ten thousand dollars worth of anime DVDs, and none of them have separate subtitle and dubtitle cues. The closest I've seen is the amazing job TRSI did splitting Kare Kano into dub and sub versions. Where did you get these?

[Strazos]

I have in excess of ten thousand dollars worth of anime DVDs

That's more than what I made on my W-2's for 2004. 

[Margalis]

If someone genetically combined the two of you they might end up with a person with a normal salary.

[Strazos]

If someone genetically combined the two of you they might end up with a person with a normal salary.

Naw, keep things the way they are. If you do that, you'd end up with some douchebag who works at a shitty studio like Monkeystone...oh, wait...

[Fabricated]

A lot of my DVDs have two sets of subtitles. One is the dub word-for-word and the other is the relatively more precise translation.

I have in excess of ten thousand dollars worth of anime DVDs, and none of them have separate subtitle and dubtitle cues. The closest I've seen is the amazing job TRSI did splitting Kare Kano into dub and sub versions. Where did you get these?

My Samurai Champloo DVDs have separate dubtitles as well, but I can't get them to display in PowerDVD.

You made me download HypersnapDX. Ugh.

[Viin]

The main guy from Spirit Detectives (forgot the full title) is also in Samurai Champloo? Cool!

[Fabricated]

The main guy from Spirit Detectives (forgot the full title) is also in Samurai Champloo? Cool!

Note that I said "My Samurai Champloo DVDs have separate dubtitles as well", jackass.

[Stormwaltz]

My Samurai Champloo DVDs have separate dubtitles as well, but I can't get them to display in PowerDVD.

Ah, punchy-kicky shows. That explains it; I'm not fond of the genre. I'd like to get Champloo, but Geneon discs are $40-$45 in Canada. Which I could see if every other company didn't sell at prices comparable in Canadian dollars to their US equivalent.

That's more than what I made on my W-2's for 2004.

That's accumulated over the course of five years. Which is still a lot, I know...

[Strazos]

That's more than what I made on my W-2's for 2004.

That's accumulated over the course of five years. Which is still a lot, I know...

It's not so much that, but I was only working 6 hours/week during my semesters...and I'm not even working this summer, so I'll be making even less this year...

3 cheers for college poverty?

[schild]

I think Stormwaltz is racing me.

[Fabricated]

Ah, punchy-kicky shows. That explains it; I'm not fond of the genre. I'd like to get Champloo, but Geneon discs are $40-$45 in Canada. Which I could see if every other company didn't sell at prices comparable in Canadian dollars to their US equivalent.

Champloo was a ripoff here too at $24 or so per DVD.

How can you have that much anime without any action series or shojou? Don't tell me you're into stuff from people like Rumiko Takahashi with the PHd level love geometry?

[schild]

Champloo is ass. The music is WRETCHED and it's trying to be slick Tarantino-style. You can see the vein pulsing in it's forehead. It's just another show that goes on the ridiculously long list of total shit. I'm also miffed that MADLAX sucks. I own 400 or so anime discs and depressingly enough, only about 8 of the series are actually worth owning. Kenshin, Kare Kano, FLCL, Abenobashi, Bubblegum Crisis (the original), Cowboy Bebop, Noir (even if onlyfor the music, which is amazing, Seesaw is awesome), and Colorful. I will buy Jungle Wa as it comes out. But then, I thought Last Exile waspretty Meh. Along with a lot of other shit people like.

Oh and once more, dubs sound like ass. And I realized why last night. English voices coming out of anime characters is just too fucked up. Maybe it's because the first anime I saw was on USA when I was like 8 years old (Vampire Hunter D) and it was subtitled. Or maybe it's because english voice actors across the board for near everything sound like shit. Part of the appeal is that I don't see the actor behind the character. When I hear Claire Danes or someone recognizable behind an anime character, my brain says, "No, you stop the fuck right there, what are you listening to? A cartoon or Claire Motherfucking Danes?! Stop fucking with me."

[schild]

That's more than what I made on my W-2's for 2004.

That's accumulated over the course of five years. Which is still a lot, I know...

If that's in Canadian Dollarz (lol) that's not too many. You're on par with your average dvd fanatic. When you start going to Futureshop and picking up 40 dvds at a time, that's when you're in trouble.

/punches self.

[Strazos]

If that's in Canadian Dollarz (lol) that's not too many. You're on par with your average dvd fanatic. When you start going to Futureshop and picking up 40 dvds at a time, that's when you're in trouble.

/punches self.

You're a media whore.

I smell intervention.

[schild]

I smell my boot in your ass, cracker.

[Furiously]

Schild, you step in something?

[HaemishM]

only about 8 of the series are actually worth owning. ... Colorful.

No.





Just...




No.

[Strazos]

I smell my boot in your ass, cracker.

You're too white to wear "those" kind of boots, OR say cracker, you Crackah.

[Hoax]

*makes note to "obtain" and watch Schild's 8*

I really liked Noir, many have said they did not, and the Kenshin OVA (the series was weak imo) but haven't seen the rest except Bebop which I consider a given.

If you stopped spending all this money on things you wouldn't feel as bad...  I buy things I know dont suck, for example had I spent money on Technolyze I might have killed somebody instead I watched half, deleted and made a note to avoid Serial Experiment Lain even though I had intended to watch it.

[Viin]

It can be hard to find good anime, which is one of the reasons I will usually watch at least the first 2 disks on rental from Netflix - if i like it enough I'll buy the set.

I thought Last Exile was pretty good.. the art is good and story setting is interesting.

[Furiously]

It can be hard to find good anime, which is one of the reasons I will usually watch at least the first 2 disks on rental from Netflix - if i like it enough I'll buy the set.

I thought Last Exile was pretty good.. the art is good and story setting is interesting.

Yea - then it totally fell apart. First two DVD's were great.

Noir, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, FLCL and just about anything by studio ghibli would be on my suggestion list.

[Strazos]

Noir, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, FLCL and just about anything by studio ghibli would be on my suggestion list.

Quadruple+ Win for You.

[Hoax]

Finally finished the series, it was so close to greatness but yet so far on several levels.


*****SPOILERS INC! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE SHOW*****


-Music was very meh.
-It was obvious that the people involved dont have enough of a grasp on hip-hop culture to make the whole thing work.  The tagger episode was silly at best and other then Mugen's fighting style (which failed him horribly at the end) and the odd scene changes it was more of a drag on the series then anything else.
-Bebop was episodic in a good way, Champloo was not.  You just dont go from the 2 part blind assassin ep's to the two most random shows in the series (baseball and zombies) where suddenly they aren't even traveling.
-The end was a bit of a dissapointment after they led me to believe that Fuu had fallen for Mugen but whatever almost every anime ends poorly it seems.

Solid show and worth watching, it was visual pleasing (fight scenes were fluid and nice) and the story was great although like I said it got tangled up at the end.


\/\/\/\/\/
Yeah thats my point, she chooses Mugen and Jin sends him to save her, which he does.  Then they get better and everybody just walks away from eachother.  Also let me point out the Bebop movie fits in somewhere between 22-25 I forget where exactly but you dont want to watch it at the end.

I like romance in my rpg's and my anime, so sue me.

[Soln]

Finally finished the series, it was so close to greatness but yet so far on several levels.


*****SPOILERS INC! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE SHOW*****


-Music was very meh.
-It was obvious that the people involved dont have enough of a grasp on hip-hop culture to make the whole thing work.  The tagger episode was silly at best and other then Mugen's fighting style (which failed him horribly at the end) and the odd scene changes it was more of a drag on the series then anything else.
-Bebop was episodic in a good way, Champloo was not.  You just dont go from the 2 part blind assassin ep's to the two most random shows in the series (baseball and zombies) where suddenly they aren't even traveling.
-The end was a bit of a dissapointment after they led me to believe that Fuu had fallen for Mugen but whatever almost every anime ends poorly it seems.

Solid show and worth watching, it was visual pleasing (fight scenes were fluid and nice) and the story was great although like I said it got tangled up at the end.

she did -- there's that moment by the river with Jin where she sort of chooses Mugen (its a flashback in second episode too).  Very ending leaves it totally open for another series, or at least a movie like BeBop. 

[Teleku]

It can be hard to find good anime, which is one of the reasons I will usually watch at least the first 2 disks on rental from Netflix - if i like it enough I'll buy the set.

I thought Last Exile was pretty good.. the art is good and story setting is interesting.

I just want to reiterate what Furiously said about his one, as I loved the first half as well.  The second half made me REALLY hate this anime.  It completly fell apart in a crap fest of Jr. High level whinning drama.  Dear god, I wanted EVERY character to die by the end, except maybe the captain, because he never opens his mouth.  The main characters start crying over every stupid little thing.  I can only take "Really?  Your my friend? *sniff* *sniff*  I have friends!" type bullshit so much, and it starts comming from almost every main character, several times and episode.  Not to mention the ending absolutly sucks, as you realize they created a cool world but forgot to actually figure out a story for it.

So yeah, it started out having me think it was one of the coolest animes in awhile, then had me wishing everybody on the project was shot by the end.

two most random shows in the series (baseball and zombies)

Heh, the baseball episode may be my favorite episode of anything ever made (but I am a baseball and history fan, so it had appeal).  Freakin hilarious.
The Zombie episode was actually suppose to air during Halloween in Japan (before the series got delayed), so it was more of a special episode, though I didn't really like it.  Was suppose to have all sorts of references to a bunch of different horror movies in it though.

[Hoax]

But when you watch them in sequence all at once its fucking annoying that those two come right after the two part bitching blind assassin eps.

[schild]

I wonder what kind of money would have to be tossed around for Watanabe to write a story and Mizoguchi to make the game.

Can Mizoguchi make a platformer/action game? Can Watanabe write a story for a game?

These are the kinds fo things you think about when your brain is running on EMPTY.

[Llava]

I'm underwhelmed by Champloo thus far.  I still want to watch it, but it's not fantastic.  I foresee missing many an episode in the future and not particularly caring.  It's rare that the commercial for a show is better than the actual show itself.

[Yegolev]

I have in excess of ten thousand dollars worth of anime DVDs

That's more than what I made on my W-2's for 2004. 

That is less than I gave the IRS in 2004, after subtracting my so-called "return".  I suggest you move into the space above my garage and perform menial tasks, such as defending my compound when I declare independence.  Bring your own ammo.