such a great show. The author of Toradora just got one his novel greenlight for an anime. It's called Golden Time and should debut this year so I'm hoping of some Toradora magic to be in that story.
Get used to that pain. It'll last for weeks, just like it did for me.
The kiss though, man. The kiss. Oh my god my heart.
Also, can I tell you the LN ending? It's basically the same thing, but slightly different.
Basically, the only difference is that Taiga doesn't leave Ryuji for OVER A YEAR like in the anime. Instead she's only gone for about three months, then she comes back and graduates with Ryuji and the rest of the class. I really wish the anime used that ending. Having Taiga be gone for over a year just hurt my heart. I felt so bad for Ryuji. ;_;
Get used to that pain. It'll last for weeks, just like it did for me.
The kiss though, man. The kiss. Oh my god my heart.
Also, can I tell you the LN ending? It's basically the same thing, but slightly different.
Basically, the only difference is that Taiga doesn't leave Ryuji for OVER A YEAR like in the anime. Instead she's only gone for about three months, then she comes back and graduates with Ryuji and the rest of the class. I really wish the anime used that ending. Having Taiga be gone for over a year just hurt my heart. I felt so bad for Ryuji. ;_;
The fight between Aiko parents was petty. Aiko father was sexist, asking Atsuko to stop working but not giving the option for him to stop working, and in the end fighting every time they met instead of discussing it, leading to their divorce, and in the end leaving Aiko in the same situation as the one that made her suffer that accident.
Will they ever fix the misunderstanding about Aiko mother?
To be entirely fair, I find Zaptruder's comments easy to sympathize with. My experience with Revolutionary Girl Utena has been a lot like a High School English class. Regulus and Hito are the professor, and I'm the poor student trying to wrap his brain around why a giant white rose is spinning or what could possibly be so significant about an increasing number of black cats who are decreasing in size and what relationship this has with getting NTRd by a guy who looks like a guy who might be a girl and looks like another girl and in spite of that other girl being his sister and both sharing incredible physical similarities with the other guy, are apparently not related to him since he's related to the lady who was being used in the aforementioned NTR scheme who does not look like this guy. And all of these people, said lady excluded, look like a Prince that a girl met when she was small.
And they all look like a Brazilian woman who died during an attack by a clone of a little boy from a far away planetary system in an effort to recapture the machine necessary to save said system.
THIS IS BARELY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF UTENA. Not even talking about the balloons and stop watches and hilts and suggestive unsheathing and goodness knows what else.
When like, everything is symbolic in the show you kind of begin to wonder what, if anything, is real in the show.
No, don't be sorry. I embrace the shit eating future.
It's insane. For an episode where literally nothing happens, the tension hangs in the air like the most suspenseful horror film ever made. The opening scene is five god damn minutes long, and unlike Attack on Titan which uses five minutes to recap the show in order to fill time, each second of those five minutes feels so purposeful and exacting. Even the placement of the OP is such a perfect beat, because it differs the release of that tension for a further 90 seconds, before we get an extremely powerful and beautiful release.
Then we get a god damn
flashback montage that spills into a preview montage, culminating with the biggest event from the manga and ending with quite possibly the most exciting cliffhanger title card that I've seen in ages.
I just can't believe it. I talk about adaptations that are slavish to the manga and don't take their medium into account. Aku no Hana just spits in the face of most anime adaptations, playing with the form and using it to tell the story in the way that is best for 20 minute television. Each episode feels like a masterpiece, culminating in a thirteen episode series that is just glorious.
If there are people who dropped this because of the rotoscoping or whatever, then I'm sorry. They missed out on what is basically the Hyouka of this season year.
It is trolling because you are dismissing something without experience from both sides of the argument. It is trolling because you refuse to understand that people have opinions that differ from yours. It is trolling because you immediately run down someone's opinion as if your own is better and is fact.
If there are people who dropped this because of the rotoscoping or whatever, then I'm sorry. They missed out on what is basically the Hyouka of this season.
It's not even that I disagree with you, just, what do you expect with the crap you're watching? Did either of these shows ever present themselves as serious or imaginative works worthy of bearing the weight of all of sci-fi tv, let alone just anime? Have any of the writers involved ever given any indication or shown a knack for writing good sci-fi? Lol, no. Ichirō Ōkouchi, who shares my birthday, is about the closest person on there regarding space shit and the only good thing he's done in space was an adaption of Planetes.
As someone who doesn't like to actually go into the backlog, it's what I have. I'm watching Falling Skies and Defiance for Pete's sake, because beggars can't be choosers.
At least I have Yamato, but the release schedule is so weird and the Japanese fans are so fucking stingy that spoilers from the theatrical screenings are all I have to live on until late July or whenever the next batch of episodes comes out.
Man, I'm really going to miss this ;_; Anime comedies that are actually tolerable are rare enough as it is, and Muromi-san had an energetic visual style and consistently snappy direction that really helped to pick up the slack during the times when the jokes themselves fell short. Yoshihara Tatsuya really redeemed himself after how awful Arve Rezzle was and I look forward to seeing where he goes in the future.
Preemptive fuck otaku for not buying the BDs and ensuring that we never get any more.
Man, I'm really going to miss this ;_; Anime comedies that are actually tolerable are rare enough as it is, and Muromi-san had an energetic visual style and consistently snappy direction that really helped to pick up the slack during the times when the jokes themselves fell short. Yoshihara Tatsuya really redeemed himself after how awful Arve Rezzle was and I look forward to seeing where he goes in the future.
Preemptive fuck otaku for not buying the BDs and ensuring that we never get any more.
Most of the best comedy anime are either half-length or broken up into vignettes and this is just another example. See: Nichibros, Cromartie High School
Conjecture. I have poked around the dub. It is inferior. I even checked it out again right now. They mispronounce the main character's name in the first minute.
My opinion is also just an opinion, and it holds little to no real weight. Relax. At least here I can substantiate why the sub is better. If someone is able to articulate why the dub is better beyond the fact that the English speaking world doesn't have to read I might understand more.
Conjecture. I have poked around the dub. It is inferior. I even checked it out again right now. They mispronounce the main character's name in the first minute.
Obviously I realize they are different. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to acknowledge their inferiority.
My opinion is also just an opinion, and it holds little to no real weight. Relax. At least here I can substantiate why the sub is better. If someone is able to articulate why the dub is better beyond the fact that the English speaking world doesn't have to read I might understand more.
My opinion is also just an opinion, and it holds little to no real weight. Relax. At least here I can substantiate why the sub is better. If someone is able to articulate why the dub is better beyond the fact that the English speaking world doesn't have to read I might understand more.
I have tried in the past, but you don't listen. I'm tired of this. Its obvious you aren't going to change your opinion nor seriously listen to that of others. All I can tell you is, think about how translations work. Think about the work that needs to be done in dubs, as far as matching both translation and footage. And also, think about the various ways that lines can be translated and interpreted, both correctly and incorrectly.
I have tried in the past, but you don't listen. I'm tired of this. Its obvious you aren't going to change your opinion nor seriously listen to that of others. All I can tell you is, think about how translations work. Think about the work that needs to be done in dubs, as far as matching both translation and footage. And also, think about the various ways that lines can be translated and interpreted, both correctly and incorrectly.
Here's something that is purely objective. Since most US dubs have the actors record their lines separately, there is basically no chemistry between the actors. If nothing else, the performances are different because of that... it's the main reason why I don't listen to dubs anyway.
I don't really care if people want to go out of their way to watch a lesser version of S;G, but there are a large number of idiosyncrasies and cultural in-jokes that simply do not lend themselves to a dub.
Blah blah blah humanity lives full lives blah blah blah Kefka ponders why people do this when they die real quick blah blah blah at least Filia has some character development because blah blah blah Valgaav is the worst villain in the series. I mean he doesn't have Rezo's weight, nor Gaav's ferocity, nor Phibrizzo's madness. He's just a bishie who is sad the world is a horrible place. And where all the horrible things that Gods and Dragons have done has served to develop Filia's character, its done very little to develop Valgaav. Aside from being shown to be a generally nice guy in spite of being a bastard monster, Valgaav lacks real depth.
Also this fight feels so stretched out, considering this all came to a head 10 episodes ago. I dunno. I think this season did a really good job with Filia, but it feels like Lina and co are just along for the ride this time, and Valgaav is just not really keeping up as a villain. So Slayers NEXT is definitely the show's best season. This isn't BAD, it just isn't as good.
To be entirely fair, I find Zaptruder's comments easy to sympathize with. My experience with Revolutionary Girl Utena has been a lot like a High School English class. Regulus and Hito are the professor, and I'm the poor student trying to wrap his brain around why a giant white rose is spinning or what could possibly be so significant about an increasing number of black cats who are decreasing in size and what relationship this has with getting NTRd by a guy who looks like a guy who might be a girl and looks like another girl and in spite of that other girl being his sister and both sharing incredible physical similarities with the other guy, are apparently not related to him since he's related to the lady who was being used in the aforementioned NTR scheme who does not look like this guy. And all of these people, said lady excluded, look like a Prince that a girl met when she was small.
And they all look like a Brazilian woman who died during an attack by a clone of a little boy from a far away planetary system in an effort to recapture the machine necessary to save said system.
THIS IS BARELY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF UTENA. Not even talking about the balloons and stop watches and hilts and suggestive unsheathing and goodness knows what else.
When like, everything is symbolic in the show you kind of begin to wonder what, if anything, is real in the show.
Can't wait for you to realize how simple the stopwatch stuff is.
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Regulus is too cryptic to be a professor, he's more like the master to your disciple. Think wax on wax off or there is no spoon kind of shit. Look forward to the day when you'll have to kill him.
I don't really care if people want to go out of their way to watch a lesser version of S;G, but there are a large number of idiosyncrasies and cultural in-jokes that simply do not lend themselves to a dub.
Not necessarily. It depends on the way that they can take the joke. Culture is a difficult thing to translate sometimes, and requires finesse in order to not drop the ball and ruin the joke. Ideally, it requires being able to think around the intention of the joke and either creating an equivalent joke or outright translation. Subs can run into this issue, too, and the way that a sub handles it can be dropped equally badly. You don't want to force the viewer to stop watching altogether so they can read a block of text to understand one joke, but you also don't want to oversimplify and botch the joke altogether. Both require careful planning to give the viewer the best experience without negatively impacting the entertainment.
I desperately wish that this movie is going to be all kinds of fucked up given the premise, but the key image seems like a pretty good encapsulation of the series (Mana harem,
Ace
off to the side as an afterthought,
no Regina
) so it's guaranteed to be sixty to seventy really fucking painful minutes.
At least this year's Toei Annual Audience Exploitation Movie villain model will look good for the few minutes on screen that he spends prattling on about COVERING THE WORLD IN DARKNESS.
