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Winter Anime 2016 |OT| Celebrating the New Year and PSO2's release in the west!
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I don't see how having low standards and a lack of effort in proper detail in a production is something to be excused. If fail to successfully cast someone who can perform the role a character calls for, you have failed. Most people watching an English show probably won't understand other languages either, but if you have a poorly cast foreign character who just wings it with bullshit and someone calls you out on it, that's on you, not on "oh I didn't think the target audience would care". Shit excuse for a shit show. Watanabe is probably so embarrassed by this failure he will never direct again.
Before Space Dandy he had a few shows lined up and he said he was going to go back to making at least one show a year. After TiR he buried his head in the sad and cried.
In the end you know why TiR sucked? Because it was a domestic terrorism story which didn't really want to how the dangers or consequences of domestic terrorism. All huff and no puff.
I had a feeling it came to that. I stopped at episode 5 or 6, I don't remember, but not only were they dragging their actions out too long for something that's 11 episodes total, all signs did pointed to a domestic terrorism that I suspected turned up nothing. Waste of a show on the staff and music.
Why would he be embarrassed to have successfully swindled millions in gaijin money to get a simul-dub and simul-broadcast on American TV? Big win for him. But when he showed TiR to his new gaijin friends and they heard Five, that was the end... T_T
Hellwarden
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Space Dandy was received well here.
I think that's all people involved in that show cared about.
Yikes! So he is seriously not going to direct any more shows after that?
I don't know, I'm just trolling lol. I'm still super salty about TiR after all this time.
It's true that we haven't heard anything from Watanabe since 2014 though. It's possible they might be working on a Space Dandy movie, but other than that... yeah it looks like he hasn't had a new show in a while.
I don't know, I'm just trolling lol. I'm still super salty about TiR after all this time.
It's true that we haven't heard anything from Watanabe since 2014 though. It's possible they might be working on a Space Dandy movie, but other than that... yeah it looks like he hasn't had a new show in a while.
Oh okay. XD
Hellwarden
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True, they could have cast someone who is fluent in English and Japanese. Real question is, why didn't they? there are many constraints that come in during the production process, I like to look at why something ended up the way it did than just write it off as bad. Maybe they had a good reason and it could have gone worse but for what they had they did a great job or maybe they didn't. But hey, that's just me.
I made a few assumptions which is why I mentioned to correct me if I'm wrong. If you're sure they were careless about the casting then that's that. They were really in the wrong and I am wrong in making that assumption too.
I'm more or less doing the same thing and putting a lot of shows off early. However, I am watching a few new ones, I just haven't posted about them yet. I put off my Concrete Revolutio final episode post since New Years Day, and I have not even posted in a long time because of Postseason football, lol.
It'll be over soon and I can finally be in the right mindset of posting impressions rather than just watching the few I'm doing week to week. Other than that, I agree with you, it's less of a burden to put things off just so your viewing options will be there to start. I too, have a handful of shows last year that I still need to get through as well, but I'm not in that much of a hurry.
Postseason football ended for you nine days ago.
SHYADDUP, you goddamn Cat. It doesn't even matter, I'm still going in hard.
ThatChairMan
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Snow White with the Red Hair 13-14
I had stopped watching this sometime during the first cour, but I heard Raj came back, so time to pick back up temporarily.
I had stopped watching this sometime during the first cour, but I heard Raj came back, so time to pick back up temporarily.
JJ_HTX
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I think I asked yuyucow on twitter about it and promptly forgot but why do people expect a Space Dandy Movie or S3?
I don't think constrains really excuse anything. We all know that the anime industry is made with a ton of compromise and constrains. That's why there's often bad animation, rushed episodes, and even incomplete stuff sent to air. But so what? That doesn't mean it wasn't a fuck up right? There might be reasons for the fuck up, sure, but the end result is still bad.
I mean, honestly, there are a ton of options they have in this particular situation. They could cast someone who can actually speak English, but even if that were no possible, they could simply rewrite the dialogue so it would work. Why does she have to speak -English- with Japanese subtitles? She could just speak Japanese and have it be accepted that she's speaking English with the other team members. Shows do that all the time. Trying to be fancy and all when you can't actually pull it off makes you look like a fool. That's why I have no sympathy for how it turned out. They brought it upon themselves.
Because there were rumors about it at one point, and the producer and staff involved have expressed that they're game it can happy. Other than that, there's not much to indicate it's really a thing.
"Expecting" one is probably a bad idea, but Watanabe said that if someone gave him money to do it that he'd want to.
edit: For a movie, that is.
double edit: Here's a video of him talking about it.
Hellwarden
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Toonami helped produce the second season of Space Dandy, and toonami staff said that maybe there was a chance of a movie or OVA.
It's probably just wishful thinking, but hey, let me dream.
I'm not saying that's excusable but that's just the way I analyze work of a creator. As mentioned earlier:
Evidently, from this conversation, I've realized this is a subjective thing so thank you for questioning me.
edit: hit send early fml
This is one of the few shows I started this season, I can't imagine this turning out well. I mean, Hotaru's not crazy in a good way, she's just crazy. So it's not like I really root for her to infect the cast with her personality so I don't see where the show can go aside from having everything stay the same with her being the only nutso and just pulling candy shenanigans.
Some real awesome shows are being watched in here atm. Big O, Escaflowne, Love Live, Garo etc. Then again some unfortunate soul is watching Pleaidas which while pretty on occasion is a very nothing show overall.
Reminds me I have to stop procrastinating and get some stuff watched like Working season 3.
Reminds me I have to stop procrastinating and get some stuff watched like Working season 3.
Yeah, that's what I'm rooting for. Maybe not the "leave" part.
Sounds good, and then we would have a superior anime show about a coffee shop and 3 friends in a laid back town. Maybe something in the style of Barakamon?
That works. With periodic, hopefully sparse, comedy arising from his new underage mom acting a fool and his dad asking for awkward advice on how to keep up with a child bride. Assuming he's not in jail.
Joking aside though the show does kind of annoy me. Not that I think Manga Artist is exactly a great job to strive towards and if I had a kid I'd definitely push him or her towards a more realistic career but at the same token I don't really like a show, or really a character, who's sole premise or purpose is to get the protagonist to give up on his dreams either.
It's doubly jarring when the said kid is one of the most mature cast members and the least mature cast members are the ones pushing for the more realistic job.
It's a bizarre environment.
I'm too old to say "best girl" so I'll just say Saya's ok step daughter material.
SliceSabre
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Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara 01-02
This magical girl doesn't take any shit.
This magical girl doesn't take any shit.
SliceSabre
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Dagashi Kashi 02
Says is the better and cuter candy girl and doesn't need massive tits to help her out. MC is fucked in the head if he does like her. Also, I used to play a card game like that when I was a kid with friends, was shit at it and lost a lot of cards. I liked the bit in the episode about the dusty candy and how to handle it better than the one about the whistling candy, it simply wasn't as amusing.
Also fang haters are the worst. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!
Says is the better and cuter candy girl and doesn't need massive tits to help her out. MC is fucked in the head if he does like her. Also, I used to play a card game like that when I was a kid with friends, was shit at it and lost a lot of cards. I liked the bit in the episode about the dusty candy and how to handle it better than the one about the whistling candy, it simply wasn't as amusing.
Also fang haters are the worst. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!
Nevah
Theonik
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No. He must fall even further by watching Lemon Angel. (1987)
Kind of, but it's funny and ties in nicely with episode 9.
SliceSabre
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Comparing a cardboard against watermelons.
See, a watermelon's good once, cardboard, you can continue using that your whole life.
names2hard4you
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Not if you wet it you can't.
names2hard4you
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They all have weird eyes so they are all equally bad.
SliceSabre
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Hotaru's pupils are even bigger than Saya's. The world is cold and unfair.
This is why I root for Saya. I always root for the little guy.
This is why I root for Saya. I always root for the little guy.
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