JELEINEN
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Who'd Neya Michiko play in the TV series? She's Nancy in the OVA. Name four black (the term African American may or may not be applicable) anime characters and the shows they appear in.
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Puni Puni Poemi sucks. It relies entirely on shock value for humor and lacks any of the clever subtleness that showed up now and again in Excel Saga. I sencerely recomend avoiding this title.
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Why does Osaka have an accent at all? Part of her weirness is that she doesn't have one. They even specifically point this fact out in the anime.
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Full Metal Panic Last Exile Pocket Monsters
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Opening to the new Area 88 TV series. Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor has always been my favorite classical piece.
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The basic set-up of the story is that five hundred years ago mankind was united under a single empire (the Reich). A group of rebels manages to escape from the Reich and found their own government (the Free Planetary Alliance). A hundred and fifty years ago the Reich and the Alliance finally meet and war errupts. Now the war has been in stalemate for 150 years and both the governments have become corrupt and self-perpetuating. From this, two geniuses emerge, Reinhard von Lohenngram from the Reich and Yang Wen Li from the Alliance. The series unfolds around these two men as they change everything around them. The show features: * Very intense political intrigue. Machiavelli has nothing on guys like Oberstein and Trunhilt. * Huge space battles with fleets numbering in the tens of thousands. Many are actually based on real, historic naval battals. * A huge cast of very interesting and unique characters. As a bonus, the show helpfully gives you a character's name on screen for the first dozen times or so you see him or her. * A great musical score. It's all classical music, excepting the opening and ending themes. Ravel's Bollero as a background to an immense space battle is just amazing. * The afore-mentioned battle axes as boarding weapons.
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The Japanese company is planning to do it themselves. They'd offered the show for years to any company who would license it, but with the stipulation that the entire series was to be licensed at once. No US company was willing to gamble on it.
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The quality is okay. The biggest problems with the subtitles are grammar and timing. The translations themselves are passabile. The video quality varies. There's 8 or 9 episodes on each disc, so you can imagine what it's like. I got mine off Ebay and paied $90 for it including shipping from Hong Kong. I've been told from an inside source to expect something to be announced at Anime Expo in regards to the US release.
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor is based on some novels written back in the 50's. There was also a live action film based on the same source that came out in the 60's called "Irresponsible Man" or something like that. Also, all of LotGH is an OVA series.
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Yes, they were subtitled. I got the Chinese bootleg as a hold over until the US release finally comes out (I am signed up and already saving money towards it).
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Yesterday morning at about 4:00 AM, I finished episoded 110 of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Wow... It took me about three weeks to finish it all from start to end and it was more than worth it. I have to say, without any hesitation, that this is one of the greatest series of all time. More often than not, I can predict fairly well where a show is going and how it will end, but not with this one. It took so many twists and turns along the way that the only thing I could do was just hang on and see what happens next. Plus, how can I not like a setting where the boarding weapon of choice is the battle axe? Anyway, I highly recommend the show for those who haven't seen it yet (there's a petition to bring it over to the US at: http://www.gineigoods.com/form/ . Also, any thoughts or comments from fellow LotGH fans?
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Slightly smaller than G. I. Joe, IIRC. That does look cool.
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<pedantry> Actually, you turn it sideways then right side up to make it go "baa." You can buy those sorts of noise makers at craft stores. </pedantry>
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Sure it can cut thrust and spin itself around, but it would still have to overcome the momentum it had going in one direction before going in another. And, turning while under thrust is still going to require a larger radius the faster it's going.
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Can't be any worse than the last War of the Worlds movie (AKA Independence Day).
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The subtitles were bad. The timing was off, lines were missed, and one of the graphs didn't get subtitled at all. All things that could easily have been fixed had they bothered to edit it. Animeigo used to be known for the care and quality they put into their releases. Sadly, this is no longer the case (just ask KOR fans).
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The best part about that one is that if you listen carefully, you can hear what he's saying in English. What he's really saying and what it gets translated as in the Japanese are very different
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Yes, and managed to do a really crappy job of it.
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Can a G. I. Joe action figure fit into the cab of the transformer version?
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The problem is that there are few real book adaptations out there. Most are just loosely based on some ideas in a given book or story. Frex, Total Recall and We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale are absolutely nothing alike, except for having a guy who's memory has been tampered with (and both are good works). Likewise, Starship Troopers the movie and the book only have the fact that the enemy are vageuly insect-like (it's been pointed out many times that had they named the movie something else, nobody would ever have noticed). As for my favorite movie version of an SF book, I'll go with Farenheit 451. A lot of little extra touches, like the opening credits being spoken rather than in writing showed the people who made the film had actually read the book and understood what it was about.
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Palm sold Manga off to an unnamed group early last Summer.
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Congratulations!
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Miyazaki's Racoon Wars Dilemma
JELEINEN replied to Beware of Blast's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Wow. A Japanese language theatrical release of Mononoke Hime. Too bad it'll probably never get to the Omaha area. -
Miyazaki's Racoon Wars Dilemma
JELEINEN replied to Beware of Blast's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Depends on if Disney decides to or not. They have the distrubtion rights to all of Ghibli's titles excepting Grave and I Can Hear the Sea. Honestly, I don't see it happening. There is a big difference in culture and and this film just isn't going to go over with a mainstream audience. I don't think Disney is going to bother with something that's only going to be viewed by the anime fans. I hope you're the only one. It has nothing to do with culture being screwed up. There are things that are acceptable in Japan that are not in the US and vice versa. It just means we're different. Saying we're screwed up because we're different from another culture is rather narrow minded. And while calling your own culture screwed up may be acceptable, do realize that saying the same thing about another would get you branded as a biggot by most people. -
Aren't they making a live action Tetsujin movie? I think you're right. I've seen a couple of stills from it, but other than that I don't have any info on it though.