UN Spacy Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 Official Geneon STARSHIP OPERATORS Website Quote
wolfx Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 I'm watching it...but no fansubs of it out for the past 3 weeks.... What's it about? Its about this galactic empire taking over everything....then there's this planet which got took over by it without putting up much resistance. This training starship on its orbit owned by this planet, with the help of insurrectors, managed to make the whole ship (consisting of pesky teenagers in the starship academy) to do what their government didn't do. To fight back. So they decided to buy the ship by getting a sponsor from a galactic tv channel so that they drop all ties from their planet.....and in exchange they must allow the tv channel to broadcast their battles. So in other words, they have become a dog of the media. A reality show in every sense. Everyday they fight for their lives, the TV crew adds sound effects to their battles (no sound can be heard in space)...and taht's what i gather so far from the 4 episodes available. Quote
JELEINEN Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 Basically a group of cadets buy their starship after their home planet surrenders to a local expansionist empire without a fight and decide to wage their own war. In order to pay for this, they get a media corporation to sponser them, which means all their battles are televised. It's an excellent show with some very hard SF (FTL is about the only real exception). In fact, it's the only SF show I've ever seen with a warning sign before entering the spinning part of the ship that warns the crew to watch out for the corleolis effect. It also has a great explanation for sound in space (it's all a special effect added by the TV studio). Quote
UN Spacy Posted March 21, 2005 Author Posted March 21, 2005 I'm watching it...but no fansubs of it out for the past 3 weeks.... ANBU has the first three episodes fansubbed. Quote
JB0 Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 It also has a great explanation for sound in space (it's all a special effect added by the TV studio). Which would be my usual assumption, except for in-the-cockpit views. Quote
JELEINEN Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 I'm watching it...but no fansubs of it out for the past 3 weeks.... ANBU has the first three episodes fansubbed. Lunar's done the first four and Anbu blows goats. Quote
Retracting Head Ter Ter Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 Why do they have to buy the starship if the planet has already been taken over by the Empire? Won't they be like erm, paying the Empire they are fighting against? Quote
wolfx Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 I'm watching it...but no fansubs of it out for the past 3 weeks.... ANBU has the first three episodes fansubbed. Lunar's done the first four and Anbu blows goats. I know....like i said...no new eps fansubbed after 4 ...so it should be ep 7 by now. Quote
Wes Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 Well, if it's lead by a group of teenagers it must be a success! Seriously, you think they'd actually have full-grown adults as the main anime stars every once and awhile. But the advertising-gimmick sound pretty humourous. Wonder if they can pull off some Nadesico-like jokes with that angle. Quote
areaseven Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 I was actually going to review this series two months ago, but I got backlogged by other things. Maybe I'll get a chance to watch the first few episodes later this week. Quote
JELEINEN Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 Why do they have to buy the starship if the planet has already been taken over by the Empire? Won't they be like erm, paying the Empire they are fighting against? Because the "Empire" (the anime actually uses the word for kingdom) and the planet that got conquered are part of a larger galactic community with its own treaties and conventions of war. One of these is that the when a planet is taken over, its fleet is sold off. Quote
JELEINEN Posted March 21, 2005 Posted March 21, 2005 Well, if it's lead by a group of teenagers it must be a success! Seriously, you think they'd actually have full-grown adults as the main anime stars every once and awhile. But the advertising-gimmick sound pretty humourous. Wonder if they can pull off some Nadesico-like jokes with that angle. We're talking military cadets who were just about to graduate, so I think they're more young adults than teens. It also helps that the ship they're on was built by the previous political administration specifically to fight the kingdom. Thirdly, they haven't actually been involved in any fleet ingagements. In fact, the whole structure of the setting is in many ways archaic. The enemy ships all make a declaration of attack before engaging in one on one battle with the characters' ship. Likewise, the rules that let them buy the ship in the first place are reminiscent of all the weird treaties we had in the interwar period to try and control the size of navies. Quote
Smiley424 Posted March 28, 2005 Posted March 28, 2005 Nice, sounds like an interesting series, I'll be keeping my eye on this one. Thanks! Quote
Beltane70 Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 ANBU has just released episodes 7 and 8. I'm downloading them while I post this! Quote
Lynx7725 Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 It's a nice series, but so far (I'm up to 4), it doesn't quite hit the note.. hopefully in the near future. Incidentally, this is based on a novel written by Mizuno Ryu IIRC... who incidentally wrote Record of Loddoss War. I was quite surprised when I saw his name in the credits. Quote
wolfx Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 ANBU has just released episodes 7 and 8. I'm downloading them while I post this! I think i'll give up on Lunar and get Anbu's. How's Anbu's translation anyway? Quote
Lynx7725 Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 ANBU has just released episodes 7 and 8. I'm downloading them while I post this! I think i'll give up on Lunar and get Anbu's. How's Anbu's translation anyway? Anbu's translation has traditionally been quite good. At the very least, their placement, colour coding etc. are very nice in this one. Quote
JELEINEN Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 As much as I absolutely hate Anbu, I think I might have to start getting theirs as well... Bleh. Quote
Mislovrit Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 Might I ask what you find wrong with Anbu subs, JELEINEN? I like to know before downloading their or Lunar's copies of the show Quote
Commander McBride Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 (edited) Just watched the first two. Some innacuracies in ANBUs translation, but not bad ones at all, and mostly pertaining to clarifying cultural issues in terms that might not be perfectly clear if literally translated. Liking the series a lot, so far, though. A bit remeniscent of Gundam SEED, reminds me a lot of the Archangel's combat sequences. Character design, acting, writing, and direction seem pretty good, though. Oh, one element that bugs me, though. The characters stop and restart moving in mid-air relatively often. Unless their uniforms integrate some sort of manuvering device, there's no way this could happen. Even if they could some how stop in mid air, they'd be aimlessly flailing around trying to get moving again with nothing to push off of. Edited March 29, 2005 by Commander McBride Quote
Beltane70 Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 I generally don't even worry about things like what group does a particular translation. I go with whomever usually has it. I'm one of those easy to please people Quote
Commander McBride Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 I agree, if it doesn't change the overall meaning of the lines, it's fine by me. Using a pronoun instead of a proper name or slightly mistranslating a word isn't a huge transgression, as long as the point gets through clear. Quote
Mercurial Morpheus Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 I've seen up to episode three and I like it so far. The premise is rather interesting with the fact that it's all being broadcast being an interesting touch. This looks to have potential. Quote
Nightbat Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 Just checked out Ep #1 So far animation (and CG) is above Xenosaga, but not much (specifically the characters seem a little bland) I've yet to watch up to Ep #4 but I sure hope it won't be a "serious" Nadesico clone Quote
chrono Posted April 3, 2005 Posted April 3, 2005 I saw the second episode, but frankly found it very dry, not plodding along dry but boring dry. Some of the combat was mildly interesting in a technical sense and the characters nor the story grabbed my attention. Only thing actually interesting was the death of the workers. But hell you see enough Trek that you know red shirts are expendable. Heck I even find the name flat and underwhelming. Quote
Commander McBride Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 Has anyone heard anything about the episodes after 8? ANBU still hasn't released anything, have they not been released at all yet, or is translation just lagging? Quote
Commander McBride Posted May 1, 2005 Posted May 1, 2005 ANBU just announced that Starship Operators has been licensed. That means eps. 9-12 aren't going to be released until Geneon's DVD comes out, which I don't expect to happen until '06 at the earliest. So this really sucks. Quote
wolfx Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 I managed to get a complete translated series. Overall....its so so. I liked the space battles and the strategic planning. There was lots of it. But this was done at the expense of character development. By the show's end, you can't even remember what each character was there for, what were their specialties nor their names. This was truly sad as the main character Shinon herself wasn't developed very well. Only thing we know about her was she's a control freak and a brilliant strategist. Towards the end, lots of politics involved which was cool as well. I'd say the only thing that mar this series is the lack of character development. Quote
Zentrandude Posted March 11, 2006 Posted March 11, 2006 I managed to get a complete translated series. Overall....its so so. I liked the space battles and the strategic planning. There was lots of it. But this was done at the expense of character development. By the show's end, you can't even remember what each character was there for, what were their specialties nor their names. This was truly sad as the main character Shinon herself wasn't developed very well. Only thing we know about her was she's a control freak and a brilliant strategist. Towards the end, lots of politics involved which was cool as well. I'd say the only thing that mar this series is the lack of character development. 379231[/snapback] Which sub group if you downloaded from a group? Quote
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