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Fall Anime 2014 lOTl Unlimited Tomino Works
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SliceSabre
Banned
Its still enough to make everyone fall in love with it.
Courtesy aers on twitter, apparently Viz's Sailor Moon "BDs" have all sorts of video quality issues. This is beyond them just being the DVDs upscaled which everyone already knew about, mind; just in the provided sample there's horrible ghosting, blur, and even compression artifacts.
I sort of regret buying this now.
I sort of regret buying this now.
Hello new wallpaper
This is really cute...
THIS SHOW IS BASED ON SOMETHING?!
Heres two more, not quite as good for wallpapers.
http://i.minus.com/iDVUYXZYhWA4e.jpg
http://i.minus.com/iMtBl2hcgXefX.jpeg
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
it's the best kind of stupid
SliceSabre
Banned
sentai tier
Fun fact, the ED is sung by Tail Red, Blue, and Yellow.
SliceSabre
Banned
Noted. I didn't actually know this.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Hey guys. So a really, really talented friend of mine just made this (literally JUST uploaded it to YT), and it's fucking fantastic. Check it out!
Cruel Arthur Thesis
Cruel Arthur Thesis
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
SOMEONE WROTE THAT? I THOUGHT THEY EXTRACT THE STORY FROM NECRONOMICON?
Basileus777
Member
How much are they charging for these?
I think MSRP is $79.99. I got mine for $56.
Well... I'll leave mine sealed and figure out what to do.
holy fuck the video on the DVDs is widescreen and pillarboxed too instead of just being native 4:3 aspect ratio? And the transfers aren't even digitally-scanned? viz was really hoping that they would mostly sell to lapsed anime fans/casual buyers who can't perceive bad video quality huh
yeah i was hoping the dvd's didnt have these issues but it seems they just took the bd master and downscaled it. good thing i held off i guess ._.
hopefully someone rips the subs and slaps them on japanese dvd raws
KirbYuuYuu
Member
I guess it's a good thing Rightstuf charged me sooner than later, given I didn't have the money at the time they decided to start taking payments for Sailor Moon. Guess I lucked out here.
I wasn't even gonna watch the BDs but this release is a brick now that the DVDs are worthless too. People even seem to think that the Hulu videos look better; how is that even possible?
Dunno if I can even return mine since I ordered from TRSI.
yeah getting a refund might be a stretch with tsri but it's worth a shot
i wonder how the itunes version compares to this mess
Excellent
Jex
Member
There's two problems here that plague most sports shows is:
- The main character/main team couldn't possibly lose the final match because of some plot related reason.
- The tournament is structured as a 'knock-out' tournament where a single loss means the team is out. It's far more interesting if you have a tournament where the best team gets to go to the 'grand finale' and all the teams who lose games have a second chance chance to battle each other for a place in the grand finale. This would allow the main team to lose some matches and then still win overall.
Still none of that really matters in the grand scheme of things. These sports shows live or die by things other than that, for example whether you actually care about the characters, how well you can understand each match, etc etc.
Rewatching AoT on Toonami right now, it actually has a lot of similarities with Girls und Panzer regarding stuff that the show makes us want to think is serious business but can't actually follow through (though I guess in Titan's case its always supposed to be serious).
It's pretty clear that AoT just has bad direction (as well as bad composition, editing and animation).
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I think the main problem with the series is that, at it's heart, it's a tokusatsu parody series. The problem here is that first Astro Fighter Sunred and more recently Samurai Flamenco have done such a great job of parodying and "deconstructing" that genres there's not much room for any more commentary on the subject. In the same way that Scream, and then much later, Cabin in the Woods appeared to say the "last word" on the horror genre, I can't imagine any other show having much more to say than Samurai Flamenco. It feels like it really covered all that ground already.
Turin Turambar
Member
So you'll rather have this:
Is that... real?
we all think its stupid, but depending on the person that can be good or bad.
oh man. Season 1 is legendary. However I did have trouble getting into S2. Definitely watch S1 though!
AWESOMEBEAR IS WISE
Turin Turambar
Member
I clicked expecting to dislike what it said... but I agreed with it.
Yeah.
I kind of like the messy/dirty look of Isayama, it's distinctive, and he has improved a bit in the last volumes. He is still bad with human proportions some times.
That's kind of impressive.
I think I heard about a "bad adaption" of Nausicaa translated as Warriors of the Wind before, but I didn't imagine it was that bad.
You cant have TRUST without TUSR.
same. Ill keep it sealed for now and ebay it if it is truly ruined. Ill have to see how bad it is from other sources first. It arrives Tuesday.
I clicked expecting to dislike what it said... but I agreed with it.
Yeah.
I kind of like the messy/dirty look of Isayama, it's distinctive, and he has improved a bit in the last volumes. He is still bad with human proportions some times.
That's kind of impressive.
I think I heard about a "bad adaption" of Nausicaa translated as Warriors of the Wind before, but I didn't imagine it was that bad.
Yes that version does indeed exist. Those were dark times.
If youve seen Naisicaa there is literally no reason to watch Warriors aside from curiosity.
Jex
Member
Isn't a core part of anime fandom watching things you love get tarnished?
Lewd.
Well I am a tad curious, which is why I have been tempted to watch it, but as they say, curiosity killed the Narag and that could dampen my reputation for a bit.
That's unfortunate. I wasn't exactly hoping for the best possible quality unless Viz got some new Japanese materials or something to that effect, but it sounds like someone messed up the upscaling process as well.
Yeah.
To be honest, that's always been exaggerated. It's distinct, but similar. You can draw a lot of connections on rewatch. Even if not too many folks care to do that, they're still present.
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Femmeworth
Banned
Goddamn. Welp, guess I'll hold off on watching Sailor Moon for another decade.
Jex
Member
RIP
Wow
Basileus777
Member
Cross Ange - 5
It turns out Kira is actually Yuuki Rito. The twists never stop.
It turns out Kira is actually Yuuki Rito. The twists never stop.
Turin Turambar
Member
CrossAnge 1-2
The thing that distinguishes this for me isn't that it's bad. An anime being bad isn't exactly noteworthy. It's the shitty eclectic mix they have made here. Like, a mech show, and the mechs fight against dragons from another world??, and it's also a sexplotation/fanservice show and also a women prison show. And who knows what else they will throw in in later episodes, surely a revolution war show and a romance story too in the second part.
It reminds me of people who puts chocolate and steak together; or not even that, as at least the individual ingredients in that case are good. Here the individual ingredients are mediocre or bad and then puts them all together to create something that it's worse than the individual pieces. Kind of like the howtobasic videos.
In other words: Sasuga Sunrise.
But you know what, there is some fine schadenfreude seeing the princess saying Norma aren't humans and they should be exterminated, and then to be revealed a Norma herself. Take that bitch.
Though it doesn't make a lot of sense. I thought normas were persecuted because in that society all works with mana, and normas seem to break it and be incompatible with mana in general. But she never noticed her breaking mana effects in her 16 years of life?
The end of the episode 1 was the "polemic scene" but funnily enough it seems it wasn't hard enough, because I thought the purpose of the scene was to break Ange and at least she would accept her situation, but nooo in ep 2 she is all "I'm a princess you can't order me around!". The scene isn't properly well used, they could have made it a more harsh and depressing second episode to follow, but Sunrise doesn't have it in them, this isn't Rainbow. Hell the other normas aren't as bad as I feared, it's more she is is in bitch mode and negating her situation.
Bonus points for the incest vibes for the bad guy.
edit: this is a luxury prison, not even a real prison!
The thing that distinguishes this for me isn't that it's bad. An anime being bad isn't exactly noteworthy. It's the shitty eclectic mix they have made here. Like, a mech show, and the mechs fight against dragons from another world??, and it's also a sexplotation/fanservice show and also a women prison show. And who knows what else they will throw in in later episodes, surely a revolution war show and a romance story too in the second part.
It reminds me of people who puts chocolate and steak together; or not even that, as at least the individual ingredients in that case are good. Here the individual ingredients are mediocre or bad and then puts them all together to create something that it's worse than the individual pieces. Kind of like the howtobasic videos.
In other words: Sasuga Sunrise.
But you know what, there is some fine schadenfreude seeing the princess saying Norma aren't humans and they should be exterminated, and then to be revealed a Norma herself. Take that bitch.
Though it doesn't make a lot of sense. I thought normas were persecuted because in that society all works with mana, and normas seem to break it and be incompatible with mana in general. But she never noticed her breaking mana effects in her 16 years of life?
The end of the episode 1 was the "polemic scene" but funnily enough it seems it wasn't hard enough, because I thought the purpose of the scene was to break Ange and at least she would accept her situation, but nooo in ep 2 she is all "I'm a princess you can't order me around!". The scene isn't properly well used, they could have made it a more harsh and depressing second episode to follow, but Sunrise doesn't have it in them, this isn't Rainbow. Hell the other normas aren't as bad as I feared, it's more she is is in bitch mode and negating her situation.
Bonus points for the incest vibes for the bad guy.
edit: this is a luxury prison, not even a real prison!
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