Tochiro
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Wow, I thought the gore was great - maybe thats what happens when i spent most of my highschool years watching Kawajiri anime? lol. I found that the first 3 eps were meant to get the viewers guard down before the blood hit the fan. While i liked Blood+, by the end of Blood C Saya is closer to the original version of he character (the Last vampire) than in Blood+ imo. Of course, all this really does is set things up for a movie which is 100% badass Saya :-) Will post impressions after I see it tomorrow :-)
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Orders just went back up on Amazon japan via a number of 3rd party sellers but are going fast! Secured one for 17900yen.
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New Ironman suit design REVEALED!
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Only the first volume has 2 episodes. All the others will have 4 episodes. As far as animation quality, the first 2 eps were actually more expensive to make than average - the price of subsequent eps to make was actually a little cheaper (less mech a in some eps than others, reusable assets, etc). There will be a piece I wrong where General Director Izubuchi mentions this on star blazers.com soon (possibly June 1). The subs aren't Gundam Unicorn quality but they are passable. They are done by a native speaker so they make sense. Personally theres quite a few translation choices I disagreed with so I anded up turning them off so I stopped rewriting them in my head ^^;
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Just marathoned Blood-C tv in preparation for the movie. Had watched up to ep. 3 previously and got bored but it started picking up steam pretty quickly after ep. 4. Ended up being much, much better than expected. Now I'm all set for Saturday when the movie 'The Last Dark' hits cinemas. The opening is even set in a train in a nice wink to the original - which is 12 years old already. Sheeesh, I feel old. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-29/blood-c/the-last-dark-film-1st-8-minutes-streamed
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If it makes you feel any better, the discs don't have Japanese subtitles either - the hearing impaired have it pretty tough too.
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Given the demise of the Macross Chronicles reissue, I thought it was time to resurrect this thread. The reprint was going to have an ongoing Valkyrie girl feature, with one new picture every 2-3 issues. I'm posting some pics of the ones that were released below. Sorry, no scanner, and cancelled or not, imo its too early to be posting scans of this publication anyway.
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Macross World Podcast - feedback & comments
Tochiro replied to Tochiro's topic in Movies and TV Series
Many thanks for all the feedback everyone! One thing that seemed apparent based on some of the feedback I've been getting is that quite a few people didn't realise that this was a new EPISODE of the podcast and not the first episode of a NEW podcast. It's actually episode 3. The links to the first two episodes are useless due to Megaupload being gone, so I'm re-encoding them and will be posting them on MW. I've just put Ep. 1 up and while theres still some technical hiccups (its displaying differently and the scoopbot seems to have latched onto it for some reason) it should be listenable. Get it HERE (also added to the first post of this thread). I'll redo Ep. 2 next weekend, and will be recording the first half of Ep. 4 a week or two after that. To address some of the suggestions that people have put out there, once I have 3-4 eps posted I will get them onto an itunes account. At some point I also hope to have them indexed on a separate page which will also include descriptions and timestamps. In the meantime I will be posting timestamps in this thread from Ep. 4 onwards. Once a month? Heck I WISH I had that sort of time! Basically the idea is to do it 4-5 times a year during a regular year, with more frequent casts as required - ie, I'm expecting to do a few extra this year due to the 30th Anniversary. Actually, while we omitted forum handle introductions in this episode, we did do them in previous episodes so I didnt think saying them again was necessary at the time. I might just put a name list up with each episode saying who participated and who they are on the forums. Excellently put! This, in a nutshell, is why we are doing the cast. :-) Many thanks for the kind words! For something like this, I feel that getting everyone in the same room (preferably with alcohol) is key - there are far too many podcasts out there where it's one long skype conversation and theres no chance for people to really play off each other. As for the volume issues - its a difficult problem to solve because we only have one mic (albeit a decent one) so people's voices are naturally going to sound different depending on how far from/close to the mic they are. Thats why we cram as many ppl as possible onto the couch because that puts them directly in front of the mic. Sorry but a vidcast isnt in the cards at the moment because such an undertaking would require everyone to wear pants. -
Pffft, I'm leaving mother earth. Off to outer space and all that.
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Starship Troopers: Invasion - New SST Anime
Tochiro replied to VT 1010's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Starship troopers Invasion trailer be up! looks like the main character dropped by from Dragon Age 2 ... http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-24/new-japanese-trailer-streamed-for-cg-starship-troopers/invasion-film -
Actually, a friend of mine was used as the model for Desslers face- I don't think he would like to be portrayed as campy with questionable sexual leanings lol! Besides which, it looks like Kouichi Yamadera will be playing the role: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-24/koichi-yamadera-to-voice-yamato-2199-antagonist-dessler Wow, spike is dessler. Yamadera seems to hold the record for voicIng classic characters in recent remakes: Harlock in endless oddessey, Kodai in Ressurection, Zenigata in A Woman Called Mine Fujiko.... As others have pointed out, I find that amazon preorders bring each volume down to 5000yn or so. That's how I got Frontier and am still getting Unicorn. Pricey but far better than the 7000-8000yen most discs cost at retail. And I know I'm getting quality so I have no problems having to skip lesser quality anime as a result of using up my budget on a handful of awesome shows. :-)
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Two minute trailer for the 2nd compilation movie....wow, just wow! Cant wait to see this next month :-)
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Guess what finally came? ;-) Some unboxing pics follow below. There are 7 blurays in total - 6 for the series (6 eps per disc) and 1 for the extras. The 6 series discs are split between 3 cardboard/plastic cases with unique art on the cover of each. The extras disc gets its own case. The extras disc is far from comprehensive but has several music clips composed of footage from the pachinko game, several old Takatoku tv commercials, a long promotional video for the old PS2 game and a 30min documentary that recently aired on cable as part of a 30th anniversary rebroadcast (have only watched first 5 mins - includes interviews with Kawamori and Mikimoto), as well as some other things. Pic quality on the series is pretty much what I was expecting - its clear and the colors are great, but the dirt and layering can be very noticeable at times. But to be honest that is exactly how I like it :-) But Hikaru, what happened to your face? This is for Save. Oh crap, humanity is doomed....
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In a word, yes. Teshima Explosion played at a Macross fan gig a couple of months back. They even made some awesome band tshirts for the occasion. There were two main male singers - one was Basara, one was the Fire Valk. The Fire Valks costume was broken on purpose at one point as part of a skit the band did. There were some Frontier singers, a Minmay singer, and best of all a Macross Plus cover band who had formed for that one night only. They were unbelievably awesome - considering that Plus music was never really made to be performed live in some ways they surpassed the original imo. And their basist utterly ROCKED! Edit: Camera mostly cut me off but managed to find my hands and occasionally bobbing nose, lol.
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Intrepid MW reporter SAVE is on the scene to confirm these YF-29 rumours and.... OH NOEZ!!! Yodobashi Camera Akihabara has postponed selling them until Saturday (T-T)
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Of course there's a ratio difference. What were you expecting? The trailers for the BD remaster were all in 4:3. Or are you just trying to troll? Apart from a good 20years between the two shows, the Seed project is not a straight remaster. It's been re-edited, new footage animated and added and some of the voice work redone. It's even getting aired on tv because of these differences. You are comparing pineapples to oranges.
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WooT! Mine just shipped :-) Will hopefully have it tomorrow. Will post pics after work.
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Kenji Kamiyama's update to Ishinomori's CF classic Cyborg 009 got a live action trailer that debuted at cinemas over the weekend. Its available online with English Closed Captions as well! http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLD09F66922D785DBE&feature=player_embedded&v=z3xd0xhnr3k The film releases on Oct. 27. The original trailer can be found here.
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Well, I saw ep5 this morning and have to say that it keeps up the same level of quality as past episodes. I won't say anything more because I want to avoid spoilers until others have seen it but I will say that you don't mess with Captain Noa Bright! Also, it looks like Ep. 6 will finally see the debut of the full armor Unicorn and ep 7 will have...rainbows.
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Hardly news, but Mari is talking about Minmay on FB this evening: "Every time I speak my mind about Macross or Minmay, people take it negatively. Like I don't like it / like her or I haven't accepted it as a part of my life. Maybe you guys have NEVER been typecast as one thing for years and years in life? We all need to move on in life. I do daily. More than anyone! But at the same time, my life is like the film The Groundhog's Day for the last 30 years. I moved to the States I thought it would ease my frustration but guess what, it didn't. Surprise, surprise. lol If you hear the same thing again and again, over and over for 30 years every day, even YOU can get tired of it. Is there anyone who is willing to put yourself into my shoes? I guess not . . . instead, people just start criticizing me like I'm bad mouthing your favorite anime. I simply get tired of hearing about it from time to time. I can hold for a while. But today . . . after I talked about how inspired I am musically and shared my insight with you, I couldn't bare hearing about it again. Even if I was talking about let's say . . . my poop or boobs, you guys start talking about Macross right away. How crazy is that. I'm completely being honest here. I didn't build my career based on Macross. I'm ALL ABOUT MUSIC. Take it or leave it. If you hate me because of my honesty, what can I say. I guess we are not on the same wave length. I gotta get back to my life. My sons are graduating from college tomorrow. I'm a mom also. I raised them as a divorced single mother since 1996 and I'm darn proud of it. And!!! I'm in the middle of making my 22nd original full album. Thanks guys."
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Some new screenshots of the hybrid pack game popped up in famitsu today. Sorry for the quality of the pics. took em on my phone while at work (office copy of Famitsu ^^ Threw these up over in the Games forum as well.
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Some new screenshots popped up in famitsu today. Sorry for the quality of the pics. took em on my phone while at work (office copy of Famitsu ^^
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The Macross fanclub has announced that it will be releasing a smartphone headphone jack accessory soon (details tdb). The design is based off the orange version of ranka's phone as it appears in the Niji-iro Kuma kuma key visual art from the Wings of Farewell.
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It looks like ep7 will be at LEAST an hr in length. This just keeps getting better and better :-) I do hope that they have a limited edition with a box to hold the entire series though ^^; http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-15/gundam-uc-last-volume-to-be-1-hour-or-longer
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reminds me of the wait between episodes for 0083 actually. And after the wait between the western release of macross plus eps 3 and 4, I have all the patience I will ever need :-)
