I'd keep your expectations in check. There's no Blu-Ray in Japan, and I'm not certain whether Death Note was animated in HD or not. It could very well be that Viz is doing their own upscale on the title, and we all saw how well that turned out with Sailor Moon.
I DID like Clannad a lot back in the day, I did. However now that a lot of time has passed, looking back on it I have noticed it does have a lot of flaws.
Yeah same for me.
I used to really like Clannad. Even made an AMV for it back in high school (although even then I didn't like the ending). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqkjalamOrE
Gatchaman Crowds 4-12 End
Show was extremely enjoyable. And while Ichinose Hajime is still for me personally an obnoxious protagonist, she is a great character and definitely subverts a lot of the "genki girl" stereotype. There are things she does that seems like she is doing without thought but in reality she has considered it rationally. She is a good person and does great stuff for her community. She is not afraid to question things that need questioning. All of these affect the Gatchaman veterans so that they became better people. Speaking of which, I really like the characterization and developments in this show. At first I thought many of them were just stereotypes and one note joke sort of characters, but the show really focus on the motivations behind each character. I thought one of the more interesting one was Rui, the creator of the social media Galax, the creation of which was driven by his idealism of making the world better, making everyone a hero instead of having a few individuals that people look up to.
As a super hero kind of show, I thought it subverted some of the stuff in a good way. While indeed Gatchaman do a lot of heroism themselves, a large part is focused on the heroism of the civilians. So it's not so much that people needed heroes to save them as it was that the Gatchaman were just one group out of many people that were vital to solving the situation. And indeed in the end when it seemed like all was lost
Rui uses the power of the internet to drive people to use their Crowds for good, and people all over the country solved the crisis with their own hands.
I also like the way
they revealed themselves to the world half way through. Indeed keeping their thing secret would have been to great detriments in solving the final crisis. It's the total opposite of the usual angsty super hero needing to keep secret thing, I love it.
Finally what I found really interesting is that Ichinose doesn't just think of eliminating bad guys. She tries to establish dialogue with them and see if there are ways to avoid the cheap violent solutions, or at the very least try to understand them and see if there are ways to overcome them smartly. It's quiet refreshing considering the first thing superheroes usually do to solve problems is to punch it away.
The main threat is the Berg Katze, and man is he a great bad guy. He is a pretty disturbing villain. The act he pulls is creepy, the way he takes other people's body, the way he contorts them, the way his eyes change to red/diamond pattern, the way he manipulates people to destroy themselves. He is nigh invincible too and just toys with people during fights.
The only one who can defeat him is OD and he barely pulls through, although he was holding himself back to stop himself destroying the world. He is still alive at the end and I can't wait to see what he does next.
As the show ended though, I asked myself, "that's it?" I know there is a season 2 coming but it felt like it just stopped, and not in a cliffhanger sort of way.
Is OD okay, for example? He looked like he was dying there.
Gatchaman Crowds 4-12 End
Show was extremely enjoyable. And while Ichinose Hajime is still for me personally an obnoxious protagonist, she is a great character and definitely subverts a lot of the "genki girl" stereotype. There are things she does that seems like she is doing without thought but in reality she has considered it rationally. She is a good person and does great stuff for her community. She is not afraid to question things that need questioning. All of these affect the Gatchaman veterans so that they became better people. Speaking of which, I really like the characterization and developments in this show. At first I thought many of them were just stereotypes and one note joke sort of characters, but the show really focus on the motivations behind each character. I thought one of the more interesting one was Rui, the creator of the social media Galax, the creation of which was driven by his idealism of making the world better, making everyone a hero instead of having a few individuals that people look up to.
As a super hero kind of show, I thought it subverted some of the stuff in a good way. While indeed Gatchaman do a lot of heroism themselves, a large part is focused on the heroism of the civilians. So it's not so much that people needed heroes to save them as it was that the Gatchaman were just one group out of many people that were vital to solving the situation. And indeed in the end when it seemed like all was lost
Rui uses the power of the internet to drive people to use their Crowds for good, and people all over the country solved the crisis with their own hands.
I also like the way
they revealed themselves to the world half way through. Indeed keeping their thing secret would have been to great detriments in solving the final crisis. It's the total opposite of the usual angsty super hero needing to keep secret thing, I love it.
Finally what I found really interesting is that Ichinose doesn't just think of eliminating bad guys. She tries to establish dialogue with them and see if there are ways to avoid the cheap violent solutions, or at the very least try to understand them and see if there are ways to overcome them smartly. It's quiet refreshing considering the first thing superheroes usually do to solve problems is to punch it away.
The main threat is the Berg Katze, and man is he a great bad guy. He is a pretty disturbing villain. The act he pulls is creepy, the way he takes other people's body, the way he contorts them, the way his eyes change to red/diamond pattern, the way he manipulates people to destroy themselves. He is nigh invincible too and just toys with people during fights.
The only one who can defeat him is OD and he barely pulls through, although he was holding himself back to stop himself destroying the world. He is still alive at the end and I can't wait to see what he does next.
As the show ended though, I asked myself, "that's it?" I know there is a season 2 coming but it felt like it just stopped, and not in a cliffhanger sort of way.
Is OD okay, for example? He looked like he was dying there.
As the show ended though, I asked myself, "that's it?" I know there is a season 2 coming but it felt like it just stopped, and not in a cliffhanger sort of way.
Is OD okay, for example? He looked like he was dying there.
I'd keep your expectations in check. There's no Blu-Ray in Japan, and I'm not certain whether Death Note was animated in HD or not. It could very well be that Viz is doing their own upscale on the title, and we all saw how well that turned out with Sailor Moon.
Don't feel completely hopeless though; there's the odd chance that the show was done in HD and just never got a Blu-Ray in Japan, like Level-E for example.
Looking at the Aniplex USA's BD release plans for DRRR X2 right now, seems to look pretty good. Price is a bit of a turn off though, like most Aniplex products.
from what we know it's at least likely going to be
random shit
battle of the gods in tv anime form
random shit
frieza movie in anime form
random shit
go to universe 6 for some reason and start the first real big new arc.
Well produced CG fights can't mask crappy humor that relies heavily on Japanese wordplay and culture as the punchline of the joke and nothing more. The good way to do that is with Joshiraku where Mizushima at least knows how to deliver humor whether I can understand it or not.
Well produced CG fights can't mask crappy humor that relies heavily on Japanese wordplay and culture as the punchline of the joke and nothing more. The good way to do that is with Joshiraku where Mizushima at least knows how to deliver humor whether I can understand it or not.
It's a show that has fun at it's own expense, never takes itself too seriously and is a pleasure to watch. Is is great in story, art or character development? Nope, it's just a fun show to watch and was entertaining the entire season.
It's a show that has fun at it's own expense, never takes itself too seriously and is a pleasure to watch. Is is great in story, art or character development? Nope, it's just a fun show to watch and was entertaining the entire season.
Nobody's saying a show needs any of that to be a good show, but every part that isn't the CG fights or mofus showing their butts is a load of comedy consistently falling flat on its face!
