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Who lives with a talking turtle.
Who wears a weighted turtle shell.
Who teaches the turtle school.
Who uses Turtle Devastation Wave.
JadedWriter
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Do you want King Kamehameha to be white?The real King Kamehameha lead a pretty incredible life and was involved in some huge battles to unite the islands. Kind of surprised there has never been a big budget movie made about him.
Turtle Power!
Imperial Bishop
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I haven't had the chance to ask yet, but to first-time watchers, what are your final thoughts on Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency?
I actually figured they would just cast the Rock
JadedWriter
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Unspeakable Evil
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Screw Roshi. When is Jackie Chun coming back?
I have few complaints about Phantom Blood, mainly Speedwagon. Otherwise it is Bram Stoker's Fist of the North Star.
Battle Tendency...Eh. It's pretty good. Jim Jam bugs me from time to time, he's too good at his job. It's a bit slow to get going after they leave NYC. Speedwagon, teased to be dead, only dies in the final episode, offscreen.
ShinRPGamer
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Phantom Blood was pretty damn good. Kinda slipped during the midway mark but picked up the slack for the final 3 episodes. Dio was easily the best aspect of part 1. Battle Tendency was great. Much more memorable than Phantom Blood and was overall much stronger. Can't wait for part 3 to show up.
On a related note I don't get why people hated the dub, I liked the accents. They added to the overall camp factor of the show. That said, the Italian accents were absolute garbage and I'm switching to Japanese the next time either Bryce Papenbrook or Stephanie Sheh do their shitty Italian accent.
There's really only one or two voices/accent that weren't good (Stroheim's energy is nowhere near as high as the JPN one), but otherwise, the dub was better than I was expecting & if anything, added to the campiness by hearing the actual dialogue/describing the insanity in English.
Part 3's test dub was honestly fine for the most part as well. My only nitpick was Abdol's deeper than expected, but still tolerable voice.
Part 3's test dub was honestly fine for the most part as well. My only nitpick was Abdol's deeper than expected, but still tolerable voice.
They were good. A mixture between campy and awesome.
JadedWriter
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After seeing an
old lady turn into a flying bike that feeds off her daughters Nen
YoodiHoshi
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D: Just like yesterday
I feel the same
Anyone here familiar with an old series which goes by the name of Ninku?
iirc, the story behind the kamehameha was that Toriyama wanted to make an attack named after a "turtle" (kame), but couldn't think of a good catchy name. So his wife suggested that he name it after the Hawaiian king, and so, kamehameha.
The actual Kamehameha was fuckin' batshit. Worth reading about him!
The actual Kamehameha was fuckin' batshit. Worth reading about him!
YoodiHoshi
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On a subject similar to Hawaii and Dragon Ball - even Disneyland is supposedly an actual location in Yu Yu Hakusho - as far as the original dialogue in the Japanese version of the anime's concerned. (The dubbed line is instead just "Let's go to the park")
Actually, wait...maybe that's not a Togashi thing since I couldn't find that scene of Yusuke & Keiko in the manga.
Still, "South America" also is a vivid thing I remember reading in the Japanese version of the anime. Though, I haven't found out if that was canon yet
As does Heineken, which means The Netherlands exists somehow.
The Haiku Nen guy comes from "Jappon", so presumably HxH's version of Heineken comes from an alternate version of the Netherlands, yes.
JadedWriter
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Never piss off Thoth.
You mean Shiza
JadedWriter
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Sounds like a newer Persona I've never fused before.
Planet of the apes has a chracter named ceaser
Jojo has shiza
YoodiHoshi
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Obviously, Yu-Gi-Oh is another shonen established to have our world exist among its own
realms.
I dunno, something about having real-life people, locations, or systems exist in some children's cartoon fantasy is batshit to me
shadow /s
I dunno, something about having real-life people, locations, or systems exist in some children's cartoon fantasy is batshit to me
JadedWriter
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Interesting, I have never met Shiza.
There's a Pokemon game with characters based on actual Japanese history, including the guy who had tuberculosis.
To be fair, YYH is actually set on the real Earth, and not an alternate Earth like HxH. So of course Disneyland and South America would exist in YYH.
YoodiHoshi
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Ah right. That crossover game, "Pokémon Conquest"?
I'm just simply noting how both Araki and Togashi all this time could be right at home in getting away with mundane realism that sorta contrasts with the nature of the shonen demographic before really getting into how wild their imaginations are
Crimson_Echidna
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I'm wondering if the anime will actually open with
Jolyene
JadedWriter
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Plankton
BatDan's talking about something else.
the baffled reaction everybody had when it was announced still makes me laugh to this day
Yup.
the baffled reaction everybody had when it was announced still makes me laugh to this day
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