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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:48 pm        Reply with quote

So, Tim, just throwing this out there; but;

What did you think of the A Scanner Darkly movie? What do you think of people that call the ending "upbeat", "positive" or "happy"?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:23 pm        Reply with quote

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So, Tim, just throwing this out there; but;

What did you think of the A Scanner Darkly movie? What do you think of people that call the ending "upbeat", "positive" or "happy"?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:48 am        Reply with quote

108 wrote:
sup marco lol

I almost keyed this one squad car, but decided against it.

Being a fan of animated scifi movies about drug conspiracies, I should say that maybe Darkly isn't a great, successful movie or anything. I just really liked it.

Darkly also had a budget of $6 million and went on to gross $5.5 million domestically. At it's widest release it was in 260 theaters. Gotta love them indie films.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:02 am        Reply with quote

CubaLibre wrote:
I have heard unsubstantiated reports that I may or may not be an American.

American'ts only watch Cartoon Network.

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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2007 12:49 am        Reply with quote

Goddammit Simon Belmont, have you seen Gurren 5 or not?

And what is your frothing demand for 6 at this point??
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my brothers, I can't tell if this is a joke or not :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfW-ZiPqDg&eurl=

Ultimate Girls?? I came thiiiis close to almost translating this years ago.

It is a joke. Yes.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:13 pm        Reply with quote

Paprika = good.

So hey! They aired GitS: Solid State Society on scifi last night. Wow.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:44 pm        Reply with quote

Baron Patsy wrote:
DonMarco wrote:
Paprika = good.

So hey! They aired GitS: Solid State Society on scifi last night. Wow.

Oh crap! I missed it. Are they re-airing it anytime soon?

Damn. I remember I heard about that like two months ago and started making plans to watch it. Then I forgot.

I don't belive it will be aired again. You could grab the torrent, if the moonspeak isn't all that distracting to you. DVD comes out July 3rd or so.

They're showing off Macross Plus ep 1 next Monday.
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Ashura wrote:
In the Brazilian dub of Cowboy Bebop, the voices for Spike and Faye are also the official voices used to dub Matt Perry and Patricia Arquette.

So it's like watching Chandler and Monica argue in anime form.

I am SO a bounty hunter.

Still bettter than the US dub. I'd like to get a copy of that Bebop some time down the road.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:55 pm        Reply with quote

Watched Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid in one sitting earlier this week. Start-to-finish.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:44 pm        Reply with quote

Did anyone else happed to buy/check out the new Superman: Doomsday DVD?

Part of me wants to talk more about it, especially in this thread, but I'm a lazy creature at best.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:46 am        Reply with quote

psiga wrote:
At first I thought it was the Haruhi ending, then I realized that there were too many people.

Lucky Star OP

kael wrote:
also, i recognized that song immediately. i think this makes me less of a man

You recognized it how? I know it's a remix, but if this style/type of remix is being done often enough... I dunna know. I kinda like it. Somewhere between techno and crap. Like the heavily synthetic vibe most of the great 80s pop singles had.

Also!! Vib Ribbon.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:59 pm        Reply with quote

I'll be watching Gurren 16-27 later on this evening.

Just a heads up.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:57 pm        Reply with quote

chevluh wrote:
alice wrote:
i'm officially not gonna bother with 14 and on of GL.

C'mon, at least go up to 15, it brings closure to the teppelin story and make it seem like a series of its own and then you can just ignore the fact episodes actually exist afterwards.

If you watched up to 13, then just bite the bullet and finish the first half of the story, man. Hell, anything Gainax puts out is worth the price of admission. Not looking at their manga adaptations: Evangelion, Nadia, Abenobashi, Gunbuster, Diebuster, FLCL, and now Gurren Lagan.

If you never finish watching, you'll never know how big the biggest super in anime robot is.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:17 am        Reply with quote

I watched the second Genshiken OVA. Not much else this year.

Re-watched Abenobashi over the xmas vacationing time.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:41 pm        Reply with quote

psiga wrote:
DonMarco wrote:
Re-watched Abenobashi over the xmas vacationing time.

RE-watched? I couldn't make it past episode one. What makes it worth sticking to?

The first episode is traditionally the hardest to go through with Gianax OVAs. They're usually there to flesh out the mundane and boring and realistic. At the very end the wackiness starts up and by the second episode they hit the ground running. In FLCL it's pretty quiet until Haruka pops in briefly and then dissappears. Then the episode picks up again once she pops in for dinner. Gurren Lagan is totally slow until the very end. Gunbuster and Diebuster are criminally obtuse when they start.

I really enjoyed the series mostly because I got a lot of the humor. It's mostly referential jabs at the more famous works in pop culture. Problem is that a lot of Japanese pop culture, mostly anime and manga, is either little known or totally obscure in the States. Parasyte, Space Battleship Yamato, and ultimately the Onmyoudou. Sure there are the Dragonball Z and Fist of the North Star and Dragon Quest (1) jokes...

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The only worthwhile episode really is the second one, which makes fun of JRPGs. It's not the greatest show.

Nooooooooooooo. The third episode which is all about Sci-fi giant robots and space. Having watched hundreds of hours of Gundam and other giant robot series there are injokes all over the place. The bow of the Space Battleship Yamato. Macross's city trasformation. Power Rangers. Space Pirates. When the heroes are launched from the base to fight the giant moster, the music swells and a smile will cross your face. The robots transform and combine. Simon Belmont's gattai joke. The monster is similar to those from Voltron. Voice-activated super attacks...

If you sat and watched this with me, I would point out every reference and joke. Literally every ten seconds "this is from that" and "In the original Gundam series..." and "see the Eva head??" I'm sure it would drive you crazy, but to a Gainax-soaked otaku, each episode congratulates you for knowing everything about everything.

And! Compared to the RPG one, I liked it more. The Americaland episode would be very appealing to anyone that never watched an anime or touched a manga. At one point it references Indiana Jones, Escape From New York, Robocop, Diehard, Die Hard 2, Twister and Jaws in under a minute. Then Titanic, Air Force One, Back to the Future and so on.

Don't get me wrong, there are off episodes, but the great episodes far outnumber the good and bad episodes combined. And the slow ones are used to further the main plot (episode 1, a few in the middle and the last episode). Furthermore, the high octane director of the great episodes went on to do Gurren Lagan. As for the "off" episodes, they were handled by the guy that directed the fourth episode of Gurren. He's a fucking hack and no one likes his animation stylings. You can skip them without losing much of the story. You'll know them when you see them.

Honestly speaking, I'm a huge, sweaty, Japanese-American, otaku, Gainax fan. So maybe I'm biased to see and enjoy more than I really should.
Or maybe I just got a soft spot for it because I watched it while it aired. Every week was a new episode and I'd be all excited for which world they landed in next. And the Osakan accent was pretty tough to listen too and follow, meaning I got maybe 10% of what I usually understood. Which was great! For a brief moment I could watch unsubtitled anime in Japanese and not understand it, like back before I knew Japanese. Now, I get maybe 80% of the Osakan accent, so it doesn't hold the mystery as when I watched it the first time.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:46 am        Reply with quote

Faithless wrote:
Anime is loved by the young and poor/middle class here. In Japan, it seems to be the hobby of the super-rich.

How so? Theres a definite culture around it, and not only for the super-rich. Shows targeting all ages and genres are out there. Art house pieces, cash cows, safe bets, remakes, flops... Anime offers something for everyone. Also! There is a kind of mindset that some people may take to one show or the other. They may enjoy it as a child enjoys a cheap cartoon, or they may enjoy it the way Ebert enjoys a fine film. That's why there are toys, posters, art books, action figures, and other merchandising collectibles. There's good money in it, and Japan's built an entire economy around those that watch anime, either occationally or constantly.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:16 pm    Post subject: I, for one, welcome our new Japanese overlords.    Reply with quote

So are we going to talk about Batman: Gotham Knight?



Comes out in July, same as The Dark Knight.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:12 am    Post subject: I drink your milkshake.    Reply with quote

psiga wrote:


~fin~

Wholly enjoyable. As expected.

http://entertain-dome.com/comic.php?strip_id=192
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:16 pm        Reply with quote

spinach wrote:
B) why is this making you so happy?

I'm a big fan of animation, and consider it the true American art form. Jazz can fuck off. It's all about animation. And the more animated movies earn in the box office, the more will be green-lighted down the road.


psiga wrote:
Seuss' Horton Hears a Who -- which I wouldn't call anime.

It pisses off my anime club when I call it Japanimation instead of anime. I still do it because they still call it anime. It's a spiral of hate and fear...

Maybe we should ask Rud13 or one of the other posters in Japan to go in a video store, find the anime section and take a photograph of Popeye's Greatest Hits on DVD. Because I think he would do it. He's that daring.
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:56 am        Reply with quote

Faithless wrote:
Guys, I'm kinda done with anime.

I liked Gurren Lagann, but ... I don't think I have liked anything since.

Sucks how the US release was pushed back. Then ADV lost the license all together to Bandai, which will release GL in July 2008.

Also! I enjoyed Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei. It has a wicked sense of humor and a decent premise. The second season finale (ep 13) raw was truly super-awesome. There should be a torrent for the whole second season popping up as soon as 13 is subbed.
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:37 am        Reply with quote

Gin wrote:
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is Code Geass any good

it's on the cartoon network and uh well so is it any good

basically it is the definition of glorious trainwreck

it is terrible but oh god is it entertaining

Perhaps the same could be said of all Clamp shows?
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:31 am        Reply with quote

wasted potential wrote:
alice wrote:
It's really not too fair to label his stuff as anime even though it is.

cartoon is a cartoon is a cartoon

Indeed. Splitting hair on the nomenclature if a fool's game.
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glossolalia wrote:
why do people feel the need to pretend the term (as a western colloquialism) means anything other than Japanese cel and CG animation

Because if you go around calling them cartoons, the Western society looks down on you as the perceived man-boy you are. But calling the cartoons "anime" (which is "animation" in a foreign language), it's cooler and more acceptable.

Other words!?

ménage à trois
sushi
delicatessen
blitzkrieg
mafia


"Anime" is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. However! Using the English word for a Japanese slang word for Japanese word for an English word is just stupid, no matter how you look at it. Spoken language is vague and inexact enough without this kind of backasswards shit like this.

The only real reason "anime" is used is that they wanted to separate the animated Japanese cartoons from the wholesome Saturday morning variety at Blockbuster and Suncoast. Before that, before it got mainstream, it was called Japanimation, which was stupid, but obviously the best thing they could market of at the time.

Also, I hate how people pronounce it. Then again, karaoke and sake are commonly mispronounced. "Carry-oh-kee"?? "Sah-kee"? What the fucking fuck, America?
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PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:37 pm        Reply with quote

CubaLibre wrote:
How dare we pronounce transliterated words we've never heard natively spoken in the way that makes instant sense to any English speaker!

In a world gone crazy, only the mad are truly insane.

I'm the insane guy, is what I'm saying. So is it pronounced "koo-ba" or "ki-yuba"? "Ay-ran" or "Ih-ron". U-S-of-A or U-S-A?
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Talbain wrote:
psiga wrote:
Yeah, a few of us are. I downloaded 5 earlier today, and will watch it before passing out tonight.

I've found that a couple of my friends aren't interested in watching Kaiba, solely because of the cruelty portrayed in the plots. It's like the writers are going, "OK, who's the nicest person in the room... YOU. YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD BEFORE THE CREDITS ROLL. DEAD."

Which is part of its, um, 'charm'... So what can you do, really.

Edit: Ohh, I liked episode 5 a lot.

Somehow this sounds very much like Now and Then, Here and There. How does it compare on the "cruelometer?"

You need to make this fucking real, then tell me how Grave of the Fireflies rates.

I'll wait here for this.
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Gironika wrote:
Love Hina is interestingly enough a series that got bad rep back when it was hip?cool? whatever it was, at least people seemed to either loathe or love it. Fast forward to today: Nowadays it's ... harmless? Nothing unusual?

From what I remember, the biggest problem with the anime was that it took everything funny and sexy out of the funny and sexy source material. And used the most awful character models instead of the Akamatsu designs.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:43 am        Reply with quote

Which is pretty much the opposite of any real life girl, who are perpetually rational and can be reasoned with without effort.
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CubaLibre wrote:
The Japanese have some thing with train stations, don't they.

Yeah! Have you also noticed that anime characters all speak Japanese?? What's the deal with that?

CubaLibre wrote:
There's no doubt that Japan is the most postmodern culture in the world though - no surprise that they perfected the craft of the videogame, in its narrativist console form. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; it's just a scary thing.

"Video game" is two words. And this is an anime thread.

What about the narrative in Portal and Bioshock taking the world by storm last year, unlike... anything out of Japan since... 2002? Japanese have a long way to go before they perfect anything. Especially video games. When the best-selling Japanese games are Pokemon #23 and Metal Gear #11, the later only selling half a million at launch (compared to 3.6 million for GTA4) what should I infer? Pokemon Diamond and Pearl hit 3 million in Jaypan after six weeks.

There I go talking about market perceptions and brand accountability in a narrative discussion in an anime thread. D'oh!
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internisus wrote:
They should be ashamed of themselves. That movie is and always will be beautiful. They really pulled a Lucas here.

See, Lucas might be a bit hard. Lucas changed character traits, added plot points, character insertions. All while ignoring the original movie no matter how much people wanted it on DVD. Eventually it was released, but bundled with the goddamned 90's re-releases.

Why not a Spielberg, since it seems to be just visual changes and not anything more drastic.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:03 am        Reply with quote

So, yeah, Gurren Lagann is on right now on Sci-Fi channel. 2 episodes every monday from 11pm-12pm.

Dubbed.

Second DVD coming out August 5th. Episodes 10-18 subbed. $20.
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Gironika wrote:
Sayonara Zetsubou OVA that is supposed to be released this fall

Goku: Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei!!!

:D

I must not die before this is released.
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glossolalia wrote:
that doesn't even make any sense. they only played bebop on adult swim.

So? Would it be entirely impossible that a kid could grow up watching Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon on Toonami, and then in college catch Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim? I can't think of any anime Blum was in (on Toonami) other than Naruto.

Cartoon Networks been all kinds of loopy in the last few years.

But! "Bang" wasn't bad. It could have been "oh... it's warm..." I'd like to think Blum ad libbed it, but am too lazy to look it up.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:02 pm        Reply with quote

They? Who cares?

I? These days it's just Naruto, and Samurai Jack reruns. In the past... Megas XLR, One Piece, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited would probably be top of the list.
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Lazzo cancelled the third season of Megas XLR. That's all you need to know about the guy.


I remember this happening. They shifted them back and didn't have it scheduled right with the DVR databases. I missed out on that week's episodes because of this. I thought it was canceled until I checked it out online. Now my DVR records it right, but I'm still kind of pissed they did that without any heads up.

Check out the forums over there to see how badly the network is failing the viewers.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:28 pm        Reply with quote

sawtooth wrote:
noooo!!!!! my animated program!

How is a 23-year old man saying "I like watching Ghost in the Shell" any different from a 23-year old man saying "I like Family Guy"? They're both cartoons. They're both anime. Both have just as much importance on a network that (used to) air only cartoons.

Another train of thought is that CN dislikes airing anime because they don't see anything off the DVD sales. They cheaply produce Tim and Eric, ATHF, Venture Bros in-house and reap the benefits through advertising AND the DVD sales. Not just advertising, as with One Piece, Shin-chan, Geass, Moribito. One Piece had a new DVD release, the second 13 episodes this past Tuesday. Just saying.

Yes, I know that new episodes of Shin Chan are on the website, but that's not the same as on TV.

And! If AS will steer clear of anime, Sci-fi will be more than happy to pick them up. They've got Gurren Lagann airing now, and would happily expand Monday nights, or just set up shop Saturday/Sunday nights opposite AS. Even if the shows weren't technically science fiction, I don't think anyone would care. Or at least, they would be the minority. I can't imagine them turning down the second season of Code Geass, which CN still hasn't aquired.
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I would go drinking with Rya.

I'd need the alcohol. He would too.
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Diebuster will always have a place in the hearts of millions. It's like the Casablanca or Citizen Kane. Great, unflinchingly perfect but ignored because of their age and/or relative obscurity.


I'd heard this too, and I always wondered if it wasn't just a fanbase that's trying to peg everything they don't like on one dude's shoulders. I can't imagine that the same human being who stopped Big O Season 3 from being made did the same thing with Megas XLR. That's some kind of pathology I'm not equipped to deal with, here.

In his defense, cancelling Megas XLR could have been a good idea--the last two-parter episode was basically the world's ultimate Star Trek evil mirror dimension (including evil neckbeards!) and Mobile Suit Gundam jokes. It had already reached the apex of parody of both Western and Eastern geekery, and I'm not brave enough a man to envision what could possibly lie beyond that. I mean, fuck! Jesus.

The Captain "Warlock" episode, and Bruce Campbell appearing as a giant head, in the same goddamn series? Things could have gotten crazy enough to be illegal in a third season, as thousands of otaku died of heart attacks.

Bah! The second season was much better than the first. Are you pissing on Bruce Campbell as a MODOK character or do you just hate Bruce Campbell??? Are you really that un-cool?

If anything, it was doomed from the start. AS began axing 30-minutes shows left and right, and anime is a mark of death at this point. A 30-minute anime-influenced show would logically be the first to go. There was plenty of life in the show, considering how long ATHF has been around. Then there's the live-action shit. Saul, Fat Guy, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric... Ugh. Why show one decent 30-minute show when two slightly more retarded much cheaper shows would earn a wider audience and DVD royalties!


And yet the take their highest-rated show and move it hours back. They too Shin Chan and put it online. Moribito and Bleach deserve better than this. And in a way, if they didn't pick up Season 2, then Sci-Fi or IFC would have been all over it. And it seems that the show ends on a high note. Which i good because I didn't see me stop watching it anytime soon. Unless it's is not aired anymore. That would stop me.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:52 pm        Reply with quote

Dead Leaves also had nudity.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:15 am        Reply with quote

Series finale of Moral Orel starts in one minute...

I may cry afterwards.
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Cossix wrote:
The Read or Die 3 episode thing I thought was pretty good. I like the concept anyways. I hear there's a TV show; is it any good?

In before Tolldaddy!

The RoD OVA is a thing of beauty. It polished off the manga, toned down Yomiko from battle vixen to super librarian, and carried itself well. Well enough to warrant a 26-episode TV series. Which!

Has its moments but centers around characters not seen in the OVA. Nenene is from the manga, for instance. It's a solid "B" series and very roughly ties itself to the OVA towards the end. A blind hobo with a nail gun could have done a better job. Still it was enjoyable, lots of action, and loads of charm.
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