KDash31987
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I still have yet to read-read it.
I should really get around to that. I've got up to volume six and I only read the first one (2 years after I bought it). I'm a really lazy reader...
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Sailor Moon Community Thread: She Blinded Me With Science!
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I still have yet to read-read it.
I should really get around to that. I've got up to volume six and I only read the first one (2 years after I bought it). I'm a really lazy reader...
Already re-read it a few months ago.
Zac Butchy is a pretentious art snob clown of the highest order who'd throw every anime made under the bus to get a season two of Aku no Hana.
Journalistic integrity is a far off second to him.
I still have yet to read-read it.
I should really get around to that. I've got up to volume six and I only read the first one (2 years after I bought it). I'm a really lazy reader...
I'm a lazy reader too. Still going through the new Ranma 1/2 manga release, just got to Shampoo's debut today.
KDash31987
Member
At least you started reading it the same year you bought it. Hah.
(Shampoo's the best girl.)
KDash31987
Member
My legs help me get to bed. I didn't know that manga could carry people somehow, though.
Anyway, I just remembered that I watched the first episode of Pretty Cure a few weeks ago. I never got around to watching any more, though. I was too distracted by other shows, and I...guess I wasn't really "feeling" Pretty Cure at the moment, but I might watch the second episode in a bit and give it another try.
Anyway, I just remembered that I watched the first episode of Pretty Cure a few weeks ago. I never got around to watching any more, though. I was too distracted by other shows, and I...guess I wasn't really "feeling" Pretty Cure at the moment, but I might watch the second episode in a bit and give it another try.
Start with Happiness Charge or Heartcatch.
KDash31987
Member
Get to bed is another expression for "fall asleep" you know.
As for PreCure, I've been watching the current one, which reminds me a LOT of Sailor Moon. I'm probably not going to watch the rest due to how time consuming that would be, but I'm kinda interested in Futari Wa since apparently Daisuke Nishio directed it and I really like how Nishio directed Dragon Ball's action scenes.
As for PreCure, I've been watching the current one, which reminds me a LOT of Sailor Moon. I'm probably not going to watch the rest due to how time consuming that would be, but I'm kinda interested in Futari Wa since apparently Daisuke Nishio directed it and I really like how Nishio directed Dragon Ball's action scenes.
KDash31987
Member
Not so much grumpy as worried and disappointed.
Sailor Moon being back is amazing. All 200 episodes (that means Stars, and no missing episodes)! Plus the movies, and all the specials! A month ago, I would have said this was impossible. In fact, I probably did.
But the BluRays are going to be FakeRays. They got me excited for a few minutes there, but the BluRays are going to be useless novelties included with the Limited Edition versions of the DVD sets. CD soundtracks would actually have been way more useful.
And if this is just a DVD set, then it's kind of ten years late to the party. Why is it ten years late? Don't ask. I suppose it's better late than never, but it's kind of hard to stay excited about it. Especially if you already have four seasons and the movies on DVD.
But these DVDs are going to be better quality than those earlier ones. But then again, they won't be as good as they can be. It appears that they won't be as good as the Japanese Remaster, which is somehow not even as good as the Italian release of the Japanese Remaster. How is that possible? And it just feels like a stab in the heart, because BluRay had the potential to deliver the Sailor Moon anime in essentially it's maximum limit of quality, putting both the Japanese and Italian releases to rest. But no, we have to be happy with third-best. Remember, it's still better than ADV's mangled release. At least this way, Japanese fans aren't going to reverse-import or pirate the cheaper North American version, and that's the most important thing, right?
And all we have to put up with is tweaked colors and overuse of filters. Which is exactly what we've had for years thanks to fansubs. All 200 episodes, the movies and specials, all free, if you're willing to ignore the rights of a rights-holder who ignores you.
But now it's legal. That seems to be all we're left with. *sigh*
Best to let it out of your system now, that way you'll feel better in a few months when it's time to pay. And I will pay. I'll pay for the clean audio. I'll pay for the (mostly) clean picture. I'll pay for the new dub. I'll pay for Stars.
KDash31987
Member
Shouldn't the ball/joke be going over/past her, not hitting her? It's called missing the joke (or the joke going over your head), after all...I think it'd have a completely different meaning if it her!
Anyway, here's some fan art: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=43652003
Individual images in the link.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Lord Ghirahim
Member
I don't mind, they probably just don't want a bunch of guys perving at the models, if they bring a female alibi friend (the organizers know this is going to happen) they'll probably behave better.
Maybe, but it's Sailor Moon, they're going to het flooded by otaku no matter what and I think to some degree they want that, considering the series will be streamed. I don't know about Japan but internationally kids probably won't flock to a japanese streaming site to watch Crystal. The series targets otaku at least to some degree, they want them just not front and center with no females in sight.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Yeah, it makes sense. It was just the perfect excuse to use that gif.
Femmeworth
Banned
Reverse sexism. *shakes head*
cj_iwakura
Member
Signed. Fun fact: her name can be phonetically read in Chinese; Xian Pu.
Sailor Moon R 84
Wiseman is pulling mad mind games, including manipulating Esmeraude and turning her into a Dragon who battles the Senshi. I gotta say, in addition to this arc giving me a new-found appreciation of Chibiusa, it also really gave me more appreciation of the bad guys here.
And yes, Shampoo is the best character in Ranma 1/2:
Wiseman is pulling mad mind games, including manipulating Esmeraude and turning her into a Dragon who battles the Senshi. I gotta say, in addition to this arc giving me a new-found appreciation of Chibiusa, it also really gave me more appreciation of the bad guys here.
And yes, Shampoo is the best character in Ranma 1/2:
Wow this seems like incredible bigotry.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Sailor Moon R 84
Wiseman is pulling mad mind games, including manipulating Esmeraude and turning her into a Dragon who battles the Senshi. I gotta say, in addition to this arc giving me a new-found appreciation of Chibiusa, it also really gave me more appreciation of the bad guys here.
And yes, Shampoo is the best character in Ranma 1/2:
Shampoo's the best female born a female. ;3
Gonna watch more Sailor Hulu today. Damn commercials...
cj_iwakura
Member
I bet you can thank Takeuchi.
Maybe? If anything the "Girls only" thing seems like something the magazine would have mandated.
Zoe
Member
Apparently it's common for Vivi events.
So I got a summer internship, which will hopefully pay me enough to afford the Sailor Moon Blu-Rays. Don't think it will be appropriate show up to work in my Tuxedo Kamen outfit, but I did show up to my college a few times as Tuxedo Kamen as well as my senior prom.
One day I wanna cosplay as Fisheye too.
EDIT: Since we are on the subject on Shampoo, I was gonna say her design reminds a lot of Lum from Urusei Yatsura. On the other hand, Kodachi Kuno the other character I really like, reminds me of Kagura from Inuyasha. Makes sense since they are all Takahashi.
One day I wanna cosplay as Fisheye too.
EDIT: Since we are on the subject on Shampoo, I was gonna say her design reminds a lot of Lum from Urusei Yatsura. On the other hand, Kodachi Kuno the other character I really like, reminds me of Kagura from Inuyasha. Makes sense since they are all Takahashi.
cj_iwakura
Member
Lum's insanity is great, but I think Ranma has the better core cast and plot. Ranma and Akane are likable people. Ataru is pretty much scum, though he redeems himself pretty well in movie 5(?).
cj_iwakura
Member
I think it's down to sheer nitpicking, personally. I hate when resolution debates get this meticulous. It looks great, IMO.
Besides, all I want is Stars. My ADV/Pioneer sets of 1-4 are okay by me.
No. They'd release like three bits of Season 1 in perfect 4:3 frame-by-frame restoration and then use their patented "Make Old Cartoons Awful" technique on the rest.
Oh the dumb shit I do for the sites I like;
I think the second one is best fit to have "Joke" written on the ball.
On one hand, it could have been better. On the other hand, we could have gotten a 16:9 cropped filtered release like this:
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Fun Fact: Furuya also voiced the Saibamen.
Comparing the Japanese>Italian>USA DVDs is nitpicking.
But the BluRays are being made with DVD source, and are apparently going to be technically inferior to DVDs that already exist (in Italy). That's just unacceptable.
When you buy the Limited Edition (and I'm going to buy the Limited Edition), the only reason to put the BluRay into your player instead of the DVD (the LE comes with both) is if you're one of those people who likes to play SNES games in an emulator with an "HD filter" turned on (although Viz's HD filter is just trying to take the edge off the pixels, and nowhere near as obnoxious as Funi's HD filter).
Part of the issue seems to be that Viz is limited to working with the source that Toei provided (they've already used that line on twitter). Viz is spending actual money on these upconverting filters, so if Toei isn't letting Viz get access to a real HD source (film), then they probably wouldn't be letting Funi touch that either.
cj_iwakura
Member
I have a TV that makes it hard to tell the difference between blu-ray and DVD, so maybe that's why I don't really care.
cj_iwakura
Member
The OVAs are fantastic. An Akane To Remember > Desperately Seeking Shampoo > any order. The orochi duology has my favorite just-kiss-dammit moment in the series.
cj_iwakura
Member
Reprint? I have the second one.
Femmeworth
Banned
Probably not. Part of the problem is Toei giving bad materials to work with and presumably having inane licensing conditions.