KuwabaraTheMan
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Not sure what people on this page are talking about. Neither Card Captor Sakura or Digimon ever had English dubs produced. Kind of weird, really.
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Spring Anime 2015 |OT| The Disappearance of YEAARRT!
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Thanks, I'll see about checking these out.
Still living in denial I see. Bet you might say the same for Yu yu Hakusho if that's the case.
Maybe so, but that intro was inextricable part of my childhood.
There's just no way those 3 OPs could ever match it for me. Also Madison Taylor, that's a 10/10 name change.
Oh man, this was the shit back in the day. Before everything got convoluted with Tsubasa Chronicles.
100% truth.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
But Yu Yu Hakusho had a good dub.
PshycoNinja
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I am not gonna spoil this for you. You must experience this for yourself.
So good. One of my favorite OP's. Got a little choked up watching it. :,)
That is true lol, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo are the only other one's on my mind that executed the dubbing perfectly.
Theonik
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Nah KyoAni is Bloodbarn. Just look at all the chromatic aberration in episode 1!
Oh you don't even know!
i remember endless eight fondly
it was a blistering hot summer
checking back every week waiting for a new episode
suffering along with kyon
rrvv
Member
Is really is the most immersive anime experienced ever
i remember watching it every week it came out and thought to myself
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"theyre really not doing 8 episodes are they?"
"they fucking did"
Would have been so pissed if I was watching it while it was airing lol.
Did they just not have enough material for different storylines or did they just really want to make 8 episodes..
rrvv
Member
It simply "artistic" choice
Arent you just adorable!
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Doing it for the art at the expense of angry fans (lol).
The kicker is, it's only a short story in the LN.
Hibike Euphonium 5
I need more marching band scene. Pacing feel so fast now, but i guess it's understandable, since the end game supposed to be assemble and not marching.
Twin Tails
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strangedopamine
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Despite me watching the dub as a kid I never liked that opening. Most of the time I'd be lucky enough to miss the opening coming back from school but when I did get back early enough, I'd switch the channel to something else while the opening played.
I was alright with the dub apart from the opening as a kid, now that I've watched the original I have no reason to go back to it.
Theonik
Member
To be honest, while that trope is very played out, it's not actually odd, in the sense that it's a real thing that happens between female students, rather than just a manufactured late-night anime thing.
Realistically, no way in hell.
Weirdly though, most people thought there was no way in hell a 3rd season would get greenlit and that ended up happening, so who really knows for sure. The manga is over though, so it wouldn't do much for the sales which usually is why they get anime greenlit for adaptations.
There's easily enough material for a final season to close it all out, and easily enough material to make a 5th one (if they go back and cover all of the arcs they skipped, which would never realistically happen).
To be truly realistic more anime need to show more male students repeatedly sitting in one another's laps with absolutely no concept of it being weird in any way
Theonik
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This sounds like something that would be in Nichibros.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
I can imagine most western viewer will go "fujobait!!!!!!!"
Totally. It wants to make you feel whatever Nagato felt. You wont see any other company do anything similar to make you care about any character. KyoAni deserves credit for having such balls and 'troll' like this.
Anyways, the movie compensates. The movie is a masterpiece.
Shingeki no Bahamut is getting a 2nd season: http://otakomu.jp/archives/255243.html
Yay~
Theonik
Member
After the terrible endgame in S1 I am not very excited about this.
How are they going to top god slaying, giga-ancient dragon as the main threat ?
Anyhow, good news, first season was pretty decent.
Hopefully they don't try and "top" anything and have fun adventures with Favaro and Kaiser instead. That was the best thing about the first series!
KharmaPolice
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Maybe this time we'll get the carefree adventure series that everyone wanted the first season to be. I'll be checking it out.
Edit: what duckroll said.
Edit: what duckroll said.
https://youtu.be/xxymbXhrvDA
"I heard from Director Ando how great the action scenes were in the Marvel movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier." - Jiro Ishii
FUCK YEAH! Marvel represent!
"I heard from Director Ando how great the action scenes were in the Marvel movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier." - Jiro Ishii
FUCK YEAH! Marvel represent!
Cornbread78
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I am not gonna spoil this for you. You must experience this for yourself.
So good. One of my favorite OP's. Got a little choked up watching it. :,)
I know, I know. I just have to make sure the hard, sas and depressing parts come during the day and not at night so it doesn't depress me before I try to go to sleep!
MikeHattsu
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I did the last time I were in Japan, but they didn't listen :
its never going to happen
ultimatemegax
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I did the last time I were in Japan, but they didn't listen :
TBS has moved on to other things. They get the benefit of still selling merchandise (5th anniversary stuff was all them) without the expense of actually producing more content.
Incorrect, the 100 year old zombie loli and the flying poultry was the best part. K&F weren't even together (for a prolonged period of time) till like 5th episode and that's when most people said it started getting worse !
I meant both of them having adventures, they don't necessarily have to be together!
NaDannMaGoGo
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Please no terrible looking CGI creatures and generic, halfheartedly executed 'epic' storyline, then I'm game for a second season of Shingeki no Bahamut.
90s anime gives me such a pleasant fuzzy feeling. I cant explain it really, but the look and music always brings me back to a specific time sitting in front of my old DVD player TV watching Those Who Hunt elves or Magic Knight Rayearth. Cardcaptor Sakura captures this feeling perfectly, even though I watched it much later (DVDs used to be hard to find)
DiscoShark
Banned
Plastic Memories 4-5
Taken on its own I don't think Plastic Memories 4 serves as anything too interesting beyond the setup for episode 5. They introduce the black market dudes who take Giftia for ??? reasons, shed a little more light on what happens to a Giftia when it starts to lose consciousness beyond its expiration date, and lay the foundation down for the relationship between the Giftia of the week and her ungrateful little shit. It's interesting that they establish in these episodes that laws exist to protect the "human rights" of Giftia but I can't help but feel that the situation still conflicts pretty fundamentally with how society as a whole operates (why does a human work force exist at all with Giftia being almost literally humans in every important aspect?). At least I can sort of appreciate how the government seems okay with a situation in which a human is put in the care of a robot for the duration of its life span just because they seem to have acknowledged how human like they are ... what happens to the kid after the thing expires though? Does he get a new Giftia assigned to him to act as his caregiver? Hm Hm.
5 though ... what the fuck did this show turn into? At a certain point my suspension of disbelief just started to become really really tested here.
Holy crap.
Kekkai Sensen - 5
Best episode thus far. There were some legitimate complaints to be leveled at some of the episodes prior to this. A lot of issues with pacing and shit just "happening" one after another without proper buildup or laying of the foundation for the story pillars, episode 4 in particular being guilty of this. But 5 really comes in and I think executes extremely well the show's strengths. It's a break from the overarching vampire plot introduced in the last episode and serves as just another chapter of the craziness of the setting that they've plopped us in. I'm adoring the fact that the show seems more than happy to expand the cast of interesting characters from week to week, and in 5s case we get the psycho yandere brat with an amazing personality (that voice actress nailed it) with a pretty fun new Libra operative to explore as well. Craziness of the main story of the week I like that there was a bit of a grounding effect after the insane happenings of the episode, with the show taking some time to develop the relationship between White and Leo when all was said and done. Loved it.
Yupppp
Yay, more people watching Time of Eve
Like others have said, it's a bit of a slow start. For me at least the show didn't start turning around until Ed was introduced.
Taken on its own I don't think Plastic Memories 4 serves as anything too interesting beyond the setup for episode 5. They introduce the black market dudes who take Giftia for ??? reasons, shed a little more light on what happens to a Giftia when it starts to lose consciousness beyond its expiration date, and lay the foundation down for the relationship between the Giftia of the week and her ungrateful little shit. It's interesting that they establish in these episodes that laws exist to protect the "human rights" of Giftia but I can't help but feel that the situation still conflicts pretty fundamentally with how society as a whole operates (why does a human work force exist at all with Giftia being almost literally humans in every important aspect?). At least I can sort of appreciate how the government seems okay with a situation in which a human is put in the care of a robot for the duration of its life span just because they seem to have acknowledged how human like they are ... what happens to the kid after the thing expires though? Does he get a new Giftia assigned to him to act as his caregiver? Hm Hm.
5 though ... what the fuck did this show turn into? At a certain point my suspension of disbelief just started to become really really tested here.
Giftias, when they go beyond their expiration date, turn into "Wanderers" which you sort of internalize as something resembling a walking toaster, just a mass of walking electrical components without any sort of directed will. What they've actually turned into is a death machine with no inhibitors that are able to achieve completely superhuman feats of insanity. There's no way that they'd be taking this job as casually as they have up until this point with the danger that comes with an expired robot continuing to exist. And there's 0 explanation as to why these Giftias don't just have an internal off switch that goes off the moment they've reached their expiration date while waiting for the collectors to pick them up.
Kekkai Sensen - 5
Best episode thus far. There were some legitimate complaints to be leveled at some of the episodes prior to this. A lot of issues with pacing and shit just "happening" one after another without proper buildup or laying of the foundation for the story pillars, episode 4 in particular being guilty of this. But 5 really comes in and I think executes extremely well the show's strengths. It's a break from the overarching vampire plot introduced in the last episode and serves as just another chapter of the craziness of the setting that they've plopped us in. I'm adoring the fact that the show seems more than happy to expand the cast of interesting characters from week to week, and in 5s case we get the psycho yandere brat with an amazing personality (that voice actress nailed it) with a pretty fun new Libra operative to explore as well. Craziness of the main story of the week I like that there was a bit of a grounding effect after the insane happenings of the episode, with the show taking some time to develop the relationship between White and Leo when all was said and done. Loved it.
My primary question is what the black market dudes were planning to do with the stolen Giftia thats turned wanderer mode. What methods do they have in that situation of ever restraining something like that and for what purpose did they plan to use it, weaponize a Wanderer by throwing it in the middle of a population center maybe? Regardless, there's noooooo wayyyy that any world government would allow these literal walking disasters without ensuring that the company developing them had GPS chips (lol human rights) or an internal off switch that automatically went off when passing the expected expiration date. I'm really hoping this isn't a case of bad writing and there's an actual plan or overall direction here with respect to the plot but the kid having magically shown up to the center of the events happenings doesn't give me much hope on the writing front.
Yupppp
Yay, more people watching Time of Eve
Like others have said, it's a bit of a slow start. For me at least the show didn't start turning around until Ed was introduced.
Then they totally waste Ed's character by never developing him beyond comic relief.
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