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Toonami |Mar15| the smartest anime is back!

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Zonic

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Are the Gurren Lagann films worth my time if I liked the series, but didn't love it?
Probably not. Both are mainly just retellings of each half, though some new scenes are added. I will say this: if you like the final episode coming up this week, the 2nd movie is highly recommended for the added scenes.
 

Man God

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Probably not. Both are mainly just retellings of each half, though some new scenes are added. I will say this: if you like the final episode coming up this week, the 2nd movie is highly recommended for the added scenes.

Yoko also has a slightly less ridiculous space outfit in the second movie if memory serves.

I actually found out awhile ago why Hentai isn't dubbed anymore and it was fascinating. Not because the reason you'd assume (everyone pirates it and people who'd actually watch hentai would watch it subbed) but because of a change in Japanese law making it illegal to do so because exported releases would have the mosaic's removed!
 

Zonic

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Oh right, they fear people might reverse import it. Basically, why buy the censored version if there exists an uncensored version you can import. I think that's part of the reason why some PC H-games don't have uncensored versions when they come to the US.
 
Yoko also has a slightly less ridiculous space outfit in the second movie if memory serves.

I actually found out awhile ago why Hentai isn't dubbed anymore and it was fascinating. Not because the reason you'd assume (everyone pirates it and people who'd actually watch hentai would watch it subbed) but because of a change in Japanese law making it illegal to do so because exported releases would have the mosaic's removed!

Basically the "take the ball and go home" mentality.
 

Zonic

Gives all the fucks
Yea, Japan is really weird about their porn. Like, getting ravaged by a million tentacles in every hole at once is perfectly fine but god-forbid they show an actual penis or vagina.
Tentacles = less stuff to censor/cheaper to censor than an actual male.

.............wait, how do I know that.
 

Raxus

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Tentacles = less stuff to censor/cheaper to censor than an actual male.

.............wait, how do I know that.

Good ol' Uncle Ulty told you.

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Regiruler

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"Oh mah GAWWD WHAT HAPPENED?"

"Somebody jumped off the BUILDIIIIING~"

In all honesty though, I never thought that High School DxD and Queen's Blade would be dubbed for real. Those are one of those "no way they'd bring it here."

I saw the Queen's Blade dub.
It was ok.
 

MetatronM

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Deadman Wonderland - Rather mediocre animation at times, and though the training is the worst offender here, I do like it. It feels like real progress is being made without coming off as monotonous. Nagi's freak-out is a particular high point, both in animation and in storytelling. He's not the most developed character, but we do have enough attachment to him that seeing him lose his mind is pretty great. The attemped sexual assault here is problematic. it fits the tone of the show as opposed to some other shows on this block that have brought up the subject, but it feels thrown in for no particular reason here. Well, actually there is a reason, because it fetishizes the position these girls are put in, which is really gross on quite a few diffferent levels.
Yeah, this is something I didn't even remember at all from the first airing, and it's clear why. The show throws out like "we might rape these girls!" as if it was a completely meaningless thing to say and then does absolutely nothing with it. Not that it would be better if they had gone somewhere with it, given that the only places to go are utterly terrible, but it just shows the thought process, like this is a cool, edgy, badass thing to just, you know, say. To look cool, edgy, and badass.

It's one of those situations where we use the euphemism "mature content" to describe the lamest, most immature and juvenile shit in games/movies/whatever. It's like a 12 year old's version of what being an awesomely cool adult must be like.
 
There was probably no way a full game could have lived up to PT anyway.

Who knows Kojima is a pretty creative guy, hopefully whatever he has planned after this is able to happen either by kickstarter or from another company picking him up. Also hopefully Konami dies in a fire so that all their great ips can be salvaged by someone else who'd do things with them
 

Grexeno

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Who knows Kojima is a pretty creative guy, hopefully whatever he has planned after this is able to happen either by kickstarter or from another company picking him up. Also hopefully Konami dies in a fire so that all their great ips can be salvaged by someone else who'd do things with them
I honestly feel that if Konami's IPs were to suddenly become available Sony would grab all 3 of Metal Gear, Silent Hill, and Castlevania.
 

Man God

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MGS4 happened and I forever lost any trust I had in Kojima. That game is one of the most disappointing things to happen.
 

Zonic

Gives all the fucks
What about Contra? Or Suikoden, Goemon, Gradius (and Parodius)?
I've been waiting very patiently for the N64 Goemon games to be put on the Wii Virtual Console (which never happened), Gradius V to be a PS2 Classic on PSN (no idea what happened with that), & Sexy Parodious to be a PS1 Classic or Import on either the US or JPN PSN (also there was a PSP collection that never came over...).

Also yes what the hell happened with that Contra tease?
 

Soulflarz

Banned
ZOE3 is kind of dead to me mentally, but I don't really mind the whole Kojima leaving altering it situation, since I don't think Kojima was going to get a chance at it anytime soon. (And the fact he didn't actually direct ZOE, but no one remembers that fact)

On the flipside, ZE3 is looking more and more alive by the day!
 
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