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[Femmeworth]

Kind of off topic, but when the hell is someone going to license Honey & Clover?

 

[Jason]

It's been licensed but Viz said it'll be out in 2009. :|

 

[kuYuri]

Good news, I'm glad FUNi is stepping up.

 

[VeritasVierge]

As long as Crunchy Roll is involved with their digital distribution, I'll be a happy camper.

 

[Jiggy]

There aren't too many people I hear of who've watched KANON 2002, but I thought the story was better presented in the original production even though the art was...the chins were [...] huge...2006 and 2002 complement each other really well...particularly the Mai arc which in 2006 was somewhat devoid of the underlying story as to her situation.

Yeah, the art in Kanon 2002 was ARGH and the music wasn't too hot, but honestly there were more than a few aspects it handled better than Kanon 2006. They complement each other and I really think people who like one should watch both (which is why I hope the 2002 version gets licensed at some point).

2002 covered Mai more effectively, as you said. Despite the lack of her

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healing powers

, her encounter with the

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wild dog

being set in the present instead of the past really helped, she had great interactions with Shiori, she had this awesome obsessiveness with

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protecting food

, and they also treated the

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class president

with far more seriousness... He was a legitimate obstacle instead of a two-shot waste of space who was never really a threat. And yet even in that same arc, 2006 did real justice to Sayuri whereas 2002 skipped right over her backstory. Nayuki's feelings were in greater play in 2002 also, and she had more depth, and she honestly played more of a role in Yuuichi's day-to-day life, and she was much more willing to criticize him when he caused trouble. Good stuff.

2002 did fail totally with Makoto, though, so there's that. Shiori was about even... She got a much better and more fitting

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fountain

scene in 2002 and they gave her more than a couple token lines about her love for

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dramas

, and Kaori was less cold, but they still didn't allow themselves enough time to cover an arc of that magnitude. And then there's Ayu. She wasn't as uber-cute in 2002, so that kind of sucks, but they did present her as a more intelligent character instead of 2006's version that could shift between insightful/thoughtful and really freaking dumb in the course of like five minutes.

But 2006 made every girl less--well--blushy, so there's that positive! Seriously, in 2002 it's like... Yuuichi says hi? Insta-blush for the girl. Yuuichi asks if she wants food? Insta-blush for the girl. Yuuichi makes a joke? Insta-blush. Ugh. D:

But then 2002 generally integrated all the character arcs into a more seamless story, possibly due to having to cram everything into 13 episodes instead of 24, and it really didn't feel like it was basically four distinct anime series presented one after another. But then 2006 had a much-improved of Kitagawa and infinitely better music.

So... yeah, I really don't have a conclusion except to say that like you said, they're very complementary. If there was some way to fuse the best parts of Kanon 2002 with the best parts of 2006, that'd make for pretty much an ideal anime.

 

[Lhadatt]

I've been wondering about this: does the money that a US anime company spends on dubs pays off? I mean, does it really increase the amount of people who would see them in comparison to if it's just subbed? Otherwise, I don't see the point of dubbing them instead of just subbing them since the later can be done quicker and probably cost less.

Yes, it does. Most people will not buy something that doesn't have a dub in their native language. You wouldn't believe the number of people I've run across whose sole argument for this is, "I hate reading my anime." It's logical, and yet so ignorant.

On the other hand, most anime is crap, so it might as well be dubbed. There will occasionally be an English dub that improves on the original, so I'm not entirely opposed to the process. There is also that little thing about not being able to get a show on TV if it's not dubbed...

 

[rykomatsu]

Pretty sure it was, WOWOW airs all its anime in HD and I remember some ludicrously beautiful raws being out there that my computer couldn't handle at the time.

well...lucky star (god i hate this series so much) aired in HD, but it was produced at 480p so...it might have been upscaled Not necessarily true for Ergo, but just because it's broadcast in HD doesn't mean it was produced in HD...hence the reason I was asking

what was your system back then if you don't mind me asking?

 

[BluWacky]

well...lucky star (god i hate this series so much) aired in HD, but it was produced at 480p so...it might have been upscaled Not necessarily true for Ergo, but just because it's broadcast in HD doesn't mean it was produced in HD...hence the reason I was asking

In which case I'm not sure. It looks shiny and crisp, that's all I know

what was your system back then if you don't mind me asking?

HP Pavilion zv5000 series laptop of some kind, can't remember what it was. It was two years old by that point, and we all know how quickly laptops become obsolete

 

[duckroll]

Who said Lucky Star was produced in SD? I'll be really surprised, because I'm pretty certain that Haruhi is a full HD production.