Bump in honor of Gall Force being released as a box set. I usually don't like apocalyptic stories, but for some reason Gall Force is different.
Nothing wrong with the world ending so long as it's put back together before the sequel. Picking up two titles tomorrow that were the first ones I saw raw (no subs), Alien Nine and Risky Safety.
Anyone ever see the Ninja Scroll follow up OAV's of Ninja Resurrection? That is some freaky $hit!!! Holy cow, I couldn't even watch it.... highly disturbing. The Dragonball GT's have been out on DVD, and I saw a few. But they're not as good as the G series at all. It was good that they ended the series shortly into GT - just too redundant.
I recently got the first volume of Noir, and since my move to norway that is about all the new Anime I have seen. It isn't on tv here at all, but luckily there are a couple of really good specialty stores in oslo and there a couple of clubs i can hook up with to take care of my fix.
Saw those ... evidently they were so disturbing, the writers were too freaked to bother with an ending!
Anyone know if there's a Cowboy Bebop boxed set in existence? I've been trying to find one for a while now.
The Bebop box set was a limited quantity and were all grabbed very quickly. The only place I have seen them for sale is on EBAY. Even used sets can get pricey, over $200 where as I recently purchased the complete set sans box brand new for $98. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3339074234&category=41524 Andy
Watching through Evangelion again. I like the series more with each viewing, but at the same time it also bothers me more - some of the parts that seemed pretty innocuous the first time through are really creepy after having seen either ending... i.e., just about any scene involving Rei.
I just recently watche Blood, The Last Vampire and was a bit disappointed. The animation was absolutely beautiful, but it was too short and the story dragged on too long. It could have easily been done in a half an hour or less.
It doesn't help that the box says something like 75 minutes when the feature itself is barely 45 minutes long. That one's on the ME folks.
This may sound like sacriliege to some, but there are a few series out there where I actually prefer the dub to the subtitle - Cowboy Bebop comes to mind, for one.
Time to bump this thread again. Going way back to the beginning of the thread, actually, the reason X: the Movie sucks is because it wasn't made by the same director as the series (Yoshi Kawajiri, of Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and Wicked City fame).
Agreeing with you. Most if not all anime are mostly enjoyable with English subtitles rather than dub. Dubbing (in my opinion) decreases the quality of the anime by half. I was watching this series with subtitle and then switch the audio back to English and well let just say I was appalled. Anyway, here are some of the one I enjoyed recently. -Scrapped Princess (good story, very well-done animation, some memorable characters...about 24 episode I believe) -LASTEXILE (wow, great drama/story, as well as animation, one of my favorite) about 25 episodes) -Naruto (a great comedy/action) Check out these series if you have the time. If you can not afford the rent/DVDs, there is always Kazaa unless you have slow internet connection.
I generally dislike anything animated because I could never get myself invested enough in the plot because of the fact it's animated, but there has been movies like The Lion King and The Prince of Egypt where I was completely involved emotionally with what was going on the screen. Other than that, of the Japanese animation I've seen, it's just been dudes killing other dudes in a creative way, with lots of brooding silence, noir-style, and sounds of footsteps at night. I think that just about sums up my views on anime. The most recent anime I've seen was in Kill Bill. Now that segment I really dug because of all the handheld shaky cam-look it had. But again, I haven't seen much animated movies in my lifetime(other than those saturday cartoons I used to watch as a little tyke), I personally think American animation is way ahead of Japanese animation. Not aesthetic and stylistic-wise(Anime probably has an edge in those departments), but content-wise, American animation have more substance and isn't as shallow as anime movies. But then again, I havn't seen much anime so I may be wrong.
I was just about ready to call you out on all this until I read the caveat at the end of your post. There's a whole lot more to Japanese animation than what's seen on Cartoon Network or the occasional movie channel. The stuff that is seen on a wide basis is played for one reason: it sells. As such, the stuff you see on TV (i.e. Pokemon, Yugioh, DBZ, etc.) may not be the cream of the crop, but it's marketable to a US audience so that's what gets thrown out there. As for American animation having a content-wise edge on Japanese animation, a large part of that is likely due to the way each one works. American shows, for the most part, don't follow much of a story arc and each episode is contained nicely in its own little box. I offer up the Saturday cartoons of your little tyke-hood as an example - you could miss the occasional Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry Hound or GI Joe episode and you'd still have a pretty good idea of what was going on in the series. Japanese shows, on the other hand, have a lot more in content since 1) they usually follow story arcs (sometimes painfully extended ones) and 2) they don't BS their viewers in the basic facts of life. Ever see anyone die or even get shot in GI Joe? Please don't misconstrue this lengthy post as me being upset in any way - this just happens to be in my wheelhouse. I sell movies on a regular basis and the spiel just comes naturally.
As a slight aside, it's interesting you mentioned the Lion King in your post. The theory has been floated about that the movie was little more than a remake of an anime series from the 1960s. Reading material provided here: http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a991224.html