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Title: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on November 22, 2016, 11:13:19 AM
I can't find the old anime thread so I thought I'd make a new one since recently I've started watching anime again.

Some I'm watching rn:

Yuri!!! On Ice - I can't recommend this one enough! It's about a figure skater named Yuri and his coach. The story is great, the characters are well developed, and the music is fantastic.
Spoiler
Also the main ship actually becomes canon
I'm not usually a fan of sports animes (I'm more into magical girl anime with the occasional slice of life) but this one has got me hooked.

Kiss Him Not Me! - This one is really funny. It's about this overweight girl that's a fan of BL that loses the weight when she gets depressed over a character death and suddenly becomes attractive.

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun - This one is also funny. It's about a Manga artist and this girl that has a crush on him but can't spit it out.

There are more but those are the main ones. So is anyone else watching any good animes?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on November 22, 2016, 11:42:07 AM
My faves are mecha and fantasy animes, watching Kuromukuro atm <3 its super great!

I have recently watched :
Black Bullet, The Seven Deadly Sins, Kabaneri of the Iron Forttress, High School of the Dead and Hellsing (a few episodes only) and Im planning to rewatch Neon Genesis Evangelion which is my all time favourite <3
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 22, 2016, 12:21:36 PM
I'm currently watching Bokurano.  It's a mecha but it's kind of depressing.  14 kids are asked to play a "game" where they control a giant robot to destroy aliens.  Then they find out it's not a game and the robot feeds off of human life force, so they die after they control the robot.  And they're under contract so they can't get out of it.  I'm only six episodes in and already 4 kids have died.  I'm hoping for a happy ending (if that's even possible at this point).  Editing this post to add that this is NOT a kid's show.  Episode 7's storyline is about the relationship between one of the girls and a teacher.  Other than that, so far it's a bittersweet anime.  It makes me sad to watch the characters because you know they're going to die.  :(

If you're looking for one that's funny, sweet, and morbid, watch Assassination Classroom.  I picked that one up on a whim and I LOVE it!  My nephew, who hasn't really ever watched anime, asked me what I was watching so I put on the first episode for him and he asked if we could watch more.  I think we ended up watching six or seven episodes.   
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Noxxbunny on November 22, 2016, 01:37:41 PM
Came in here to recommend Kiss Him Not Me :lol:

Other than that...I tend to like "comfy" anime rather than action anymore. I highly recommend Natsume's Book of Friends. It's on season 5 right now, so there's plenty to watch.

I'm also enjoying Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari/Poco's Udon World this season. Adorable and heart warming. If one is into "parenting simulator" as I call it. I think most people who enjoyed Barakamon are likely to enjoy this as well.
 
My guilty pleasure of this season though... is Touken Ranbu Hanamaru. I don't play the game, but it's cute. If the plot synopsis sounds interesting to you...be prepared for disappointment though. They don't actually travel through time and fight things often. :lol: It's usually like...every other episode and for 2 minutes. It's a SoL. Cute swords doing cute things and what not. I believe Touken Ranbu is getting an actual action anime next year though.
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Post by: frizzycat on November 22, 2016, 07:40:25 PM
I really liked Konosuba. It's really funny! Protagonist dies in an embarrassing way, and the goddess Aqua gives him the option of being reborn into another world or of going to heaven (a boring place with no tv). The new world is an RPG like place that is in danger of being overtaken by the Demon King. If he chooses to be reborn into this new world, he gets to take one thing with him. He decides to game the system and chooses to take Aqua with him so he can take advantage of her goddess powers. Unfortunately, she is rather hopeless. Shenanigans ensue. I've seen this anime described as, 'a group of friends play D&D together, but everyone is useless so they just muck around, ignoring the main quest".

This one is really ecchi, but I've been enjoying Keijo!!!!!!!! It's really a parody of sports anime and is much funnier than it has any right to be. The entire premise is based on fan service, so beware.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Haruna on November 22, 2016, 08:46:54 PM
I love Monthly Girls Nozaki-Kun. I laughed so much watching that  ^.^ I also have watched a few episodes so far of Yuri On Ice and have started watching real-life ice-skaters again; I've always loved to see them compete!

I finished Orange lately; it's about a group of high school friends who lose a friend to suicide and then send letters to their past selves to try to save him. It's kind of like Anohana with a sci-fi-ish premise and I'd definitely recommend it.

I've also been watching My Love Story, but that's mostly because my brother, of all people, likes it :) It's a little light on plot: a really buff, ridiculously manly guy and a really shy girl get together for their first relationship. The main plot, sometimes, isn't so much about the girl and the guy, Takeo, but about Takeo and his best friend, Sunakawa, and the dynamics of their relationship (how having a girlfriend changes things, Sunakawa's family difficulties and Takeo being there for him, etc.) I love the manga High School Debut and the original manga was written by the same author, the super-talented Kazune Kawahara.

 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on November 24, 2016, 11:26:46 AM
Yuri!! On Ice. I seriously haven't been this invested in an anime and it's characters in so long. I'm really loving it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on December 05, 2016, 01:49:48 AM
Yuri!! On Ice. I seriously haven't been this invested in an anime and it's characters in so long. I'm really loving it.

Are you currently up to date on the episodes?

Spoiler
I was near tears during the airport scene. He wasn't even expecting to find anyone waiting for him at the airport. Also really neat how they did the call back to the scene near the beginning where it's the dog who alerts Yuuri that Victor is there.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on December 06, 2016, 03:48:47 PM
Are you currently up to date on the episodes?

Yes!

Spoiler
I've probably re-watched the ending of ep.9 like 10x.  :lol: So perfect. So many feels.
I'm really enjoying that throughout the series so far, how during these types of scenes where you'd typically see the character respond like "No, that's not what I meant!" *cue spazz-out*, that these 2 just so calmly and completely accept each other every time. There is no resistance to or denial of their feelings which are slowly growing stronger and it's beautiful.  :enthralled:

I'm dyyying to see the new ep tomorrow to see the scenes from the teaser in context.


Also,

I've really been meaning to watch Drifters.
I'm a big fan of Hellsing so I think I should like it but just haven't gotten around to watching. I'll probably marathon it after my finals are over next week.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 06, 2016, 11:16:33 PM
As for new anime, I really like Bungo Stray Dogs.
And been watching a few episodes here and there of The irregular at the magic high school via netflix.
When I was in living in Japan, I did watch season 2 of the seven deadly sins but I cant speak Japanese so..yeah.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Princess Lala on December 07, 2016, 01:53:29 AM
Right now im watching No Game No Life again lol (I just love Shiro!) and finishing XYZ series in Pokemon. Omg and im watching season 2 of Seven Deadly Sins! I wish I had time to watch even more anime, my work shifts are long and physically demanding (I worked 10PM to 8-something am just the other day of constant stocking) that I just sleep until my next shift starts lol. I just want a week off work to just vacation and watch anime alll day.

So far those "slice of life" comedies are my favorite to watch since they are pretty relatable and hilarious.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: aintnobuffalo on December 07, 2016, 08:06:29 PM
I'm holding on to each new JoJo episode for dear life right now. I love this series, and don't know if I can get into anything else atm. I'm finally getting over that I finished Hunter X Hunter and there are no more episodes to watch. :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on December 07, 2016, 09:23:27 PM
Are you currently up to date on the episodes?

Yes!

Spoiler
I've probably re-watched the ending of ep.9 like 10x.  :lol: So perfect. So many feels.
I'm really enjoying that throughout the series so far, how during these types of scenes where you'd typically see the character respond like "No, that's not what I meant!" *cue spazz-out*, that these 2 just so calmly and completely accept each other every time. There is no resistance to or denial of their feelings which are slowly growing stronger and it's beautiful.  :enthralled:

I'm dyyying to see the new ep tomorrow to see the scenes from the teaser in context.

Spoiler
Omg they got engaged!!! And like that plot twist about what happened at last year's Grand Prix was totally unexpected and puts everything that's happened since in a whole new light! I swear this show pretty much saved an otherwise crappy year.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on December 07, 2016, 09:57:41 PM

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Omg they got engaged!!! And like that plot twist about what happened at last year's Grand Prix was totally unexpected and puts everything that's happened since in a whole new light! I swear this show pretty much saved an otherwise crappy year.

Spoiler
I was so not expecting all this! This show is amazing. I'm def gonna have to rewatch the earlier eps to see what all hints I coulda caught after that was dropped on us, as if the rings weren't enough!  Many of the other characters actions toward Yuuri make a lot more sense now.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on December 08, 2016, 01:07:20 AM
Just finished Kuromukuro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuromukuro), it was really great :D
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Keemax on December 08, 2016, 04:21:23 PM
Came in here just to say:

Ouran Highschool Host Club. 

I cannot find the words to adequately express how much you need to watch it if you haven't already.


Other than that, I'd recommend Shiki, but I'm not sure it's really your style :huh:
It's sort of a horror/supernatural/sci fi story set in a small town where people start dying from what is first thought to be some sort of epidemic. It's a little gory later on, but it's not too bad. The plot is pretty interesting in my opinion.

Beyond the Boundary is technically a magical girl anime. I think. But it's a little darker than what you'd normally get for the genre. It's set in a world where some people can hunt monsters that come from dreams (called Yomu. I think that's how it's spelled). These people typically live in clans and each clan has some sort if special attack or ability. The story focuses on a girl, who is the last member of a powerful clan, and a boy who is half human and half Yomu. And yes, there is a romantic element to it  ^.^

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 12, 2016, 08:25:43 AM
I just got on here to say: Curse you RightStuf!  They have SO many animes on sale that I want to buy.  I may have to order Barakamon and Tonari No Seki-kun. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on December 13, 2016, 10:54:07 PM

Spoiler
Omg they got engaged!!! And like that plot twist about what happened at last year's Grand Prix was totally unexpected and puts everything that's happened since in a whole new light! I swear this show pretty much saved an otherwise crappy year.

Spoiler
I was so not expecting all this! This show is amazing. I'm def gonna have to rewatch the earlier eps to see what all hints I coulda caught after that was dropped on us, as if the rings weren't enough!  Many of the other characters actions toward Yuuri make a lot more sense now.

Spoiler
I'm so nervous about today's episode. I really want Yuuri to do well considering Victor's promise.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on December 14, 2016, 09:37:42 AM

Spoiler
Omg they got engaged!!! And like that plot twist about what happened at last year's Grand Prix was totally unexpected and puts everything that's happened since in a whole new light! I swear this show pretty much saved an otherwise crappy year.

Spoiler
I was so not expecting all this! This show is amazing. I'm def gonna have to rewatch the earlier eps to see what all hints I coulda caught after that was dropped on us, as if the rings weren't enough!  Many of the other characters actions toward Yuuri make a lot more sense now.

Spoiler
I'm so nervous about today's episode. I really want Yuuri to do well considering Victor's promise.
Spoiler
I'm a little conflicted on who I want to win. Part of me is curious to see what happens if Yuuri doesn't get gold but part of me thinks he really needs it more than anyone else. All the skaters are talented and deserving in their own ways. Yurio has worked hard and really wants to prove himself. Phichit is such a great person and it would mean so much for his country if he won. Chris was so close last year and is probably reaching the end of his career soon too. Otabek has a lot of drive and is just beginning to show that he's not as stoic as everyone thinks. Even JJ is just a really talented skater. It's going to be an exciting last 2 episodes.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on December 14, 2016, 10:05:55 PM

Spoiler
Omg they got engaged!!! And like that plot twist about what happened at last year's Grand Prix was totally unexpected and puts everything that's happened since in a whole new light! I swear this show pretty much saved an otherwise crappy year.

Spoiler
I was so not expecting all this! This show is amazing. I'm def gonna have to rewatch the earlier eps to see what all hints I coulda caught after that was dropped on us, as if the rings weren't enough!  Many of the other characters actions toward Yuuri make a lot more sense now.

Spoiler
I'm so nervous about today's episode. I really want Yuuri to do well considering Victor's promise.
Spoiler
I'm a little conflicted on who I want to win. Part of me is curious to see what happens if Yuuri doesn't get gold but part of me thinks he really needs it more than anyone else. All the skaters are talented and deserving in their own ways. Yurio has worked hard and really wants to prove himself. Phichit is such a great person and it would mean so much for his country if he won. Chris was so close last year and is probably reaching the end of his career soon too. Otabek has a lot of drive and is just beginning to show that he's not as stoic as everyone thinks. Even JJ is just a really talented skater. It's going to be an exciting last 2 episodes.

YoI Episode 11 Spoilers
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This week's episode was particularly heart wrenching. I can't believe JJ choked so hard that he got last place. Also 4th place isn't too bad but I really hoped he would do better than that. At least it's only like a 20 point difference that he can hopefully make up in the next episode. But what Yuri said to Victor at the end of the episode has me all kinds of worried.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on December 15, 2016, 10:12:22 AM

YoI Episode 11 Spoilers
Spoiler
This week's episode was particularly heart wrenching. I can't believe JJ choked so hard that he got last place. Also 4th place isn't too bad but I really hoped he would do better than that. At least it's only like a 20 point difference that he can hopefully make up in the next episode. But what Yuri said to Victor at the end of the episode has me all kinds of worried.

Spoiler
Seriously. As emotional as this whole series has been, this episode was actually the first time I cried real tears, over JJ of all characters. :wacko: I don't even. I'm trusting Kubo and the rest of the show staff to not rip us fans hearts out in the end but omg the wait until next weds it going to be suspenseful. With Yuuris point score in the short program I wonder if it's even possible for him to win gold now.  :unsure: I'm so proud of Yurio though. He's worked so hard and grown so much.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on December 21, 2016, 07:14:32 PM
YOI
Spoiler
"See You NEXT LEVEL" !!!!!!
Oh my we are so getting another season.
The ending was so beautiful! Some expected things and some unexpected. What will I do with my wednesdays now! Haha!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on December 21, 2016, 09:34:38 PM
YOI
Spoiler
"See You NEXT LEVEL" !!!!!!
Oh my we are so getting another season.
The ending was so beautiful! Some expected things and some unexpected. What will I do with my wednesdays now! Haha!

Ikr!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: DazzleKitty on December 23, 2016, 10:51:40 AM
I'm watching one called My Love Story. I'm four episodes in and it's quite funny.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Wardah on January 20, 2017, 11:04:20 AM
Well this season I'm watching Little Witch Academia the Series and I'm loving it. I'm also watching Interviews with Monster Girls and it's pretty adorable.
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Post by: Mewtwofan1 on January 20, 2017, 11:56:47 AM
Where has this thread been all my life?!
I have watched yuri on ice, black butler, soul eater, and the one I have watched ( now reading the manga) school-live! It's about this private school girl. Everything is fine. Except the whole zombie apocalypse going on outside the school...
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 20, 2017, 01:21:32 PM
Recently finished watching Free! Iwatobi Swim Club (both seasons) and La Corda D'Oro (both seasons).  I recommend both!.  Season 2 of Free! has a "Marathon View" mode where it cuts out the opening and closing sequences between the episodes so it's just one big long episode with no interruptions.  It's kind of fabulous and I wish they would do that with some other shows. 

Currently watching Moribito.  So far it's better than I expected it would be. 
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Post by: DazzleKitty on January 20, 2017, 01:54:13 PM
My and my mom finished My Love Story (Ore Monogatari!! is the Japanese title) and we LOVED it. It's hilarious, cute, and serious at the same time. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes romantic comedies. It's very unique.
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Post by: Haruna on January 20, 2017, 06:56:49 PM
Recently finished watching Free! Iwatobi Swim Club (both seasons) and La Corda D'Oro (both seasons).  I recommend both!.  Season 2 of Free! has a "Marathon View" mode where it cuts out the opening and closing sequences between the episodes so it's just one big long episode with no interruptions.  It's kind of fabulous and I wish they would do that with some other shows. 

Currently watching Moribito.  So far it's better than I expected it would be.

I read La Corda D'Oro and liked it quite a bit! And Moribito is unexpectedly good. I definitely recommend it, though some of the characters could have been developed more in the end (you'll probably know which one I mean when you finish).

My and my mom finished My Love Story (Ore Monogatari!! is the Japanese title) and we LOVED it. It's hilarious, cute, and serious at the same time. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes romantic comedies. It's very unique.
It really is unique! :lol: I'm curious about the live action version, too. The author of the original manga wrote one of my favorite series ever, High School Debut. I wish there was an anime version of it so more people knew about it! It's also a romantic comedy and very funny. I wish some of her other works were translated into English, too. (Aozora Yell is one, I think)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: DazzleKitty on January 21, 2017, 09:57:56 AM
Haruna - I read High School Debut a long time ago and really liked it. :)  I knew both stories were by the same person so I had a feeling I'd like My Love Story. It also had a good dub on the English release. My mom watched it with me and she cannot watch subtitles because they go too fast for her, so we watched it dubbed. It was very well done. I actually wish more anime was dubbed these days and it's not. There is a huge world of anime out there my mom would really enjoy as long as it was in English. I'd really like for her to watch Victorian Romance Emma but no dub sadly. :(

I started watching Love Stage last night. OMG. It's the first longer boys love I have seen in years and it's MUCH MUCH better than I thought it would be. The main character, Izumi, sort of reminds me of myself. He's cute and Ryoma is very good looking. I watched seven episodes consecutively and I usually don't watch that much in a row unless an anime is REALLY good. Planning on finishing it up today. I can't wait. Why am I here? I should be watching it!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Haruna on January 22, 2017, 07:43:25 PM
Haruna - I read High School Debut a long time ago and really liked it. :)  I knew both stories were by the same person so I had a feeling I'd like My Love Story. It also had a good dub on the English release. My mom watched it with me and she cannot watch subtitles because they go too fast for her, so we watched it dubbed. It was very well done. I actually wish more anime was dubbed these days and it's not. There is a huge world of anime out there my mom would really enjoy as long as it was in English. I'd really like for her to watch Victorian Romance Emma but no dub sadly. :(
High School Debut is so awesome, isn't it! :biggrin: I haven't listened to the English dub of My Love Story, but I should try it. We haven't finished it yet and I'm curious how it will end . . .
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: DazzleKitty on January 22, 2017, 09:16:00 PM
Because I adored Love Stage so much, I ordered the manga. I cannot wait until it arrives!
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Post by: Midnight_Dream on January 27, 2017, 12:38:02 AM
Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

You're welcome in advance.
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Post by: Mainsail on January 28, 2017, 07:11:40 PM
I love Yuri on Ice!! :lovey: It's such a good series, and I'm hoping for a season 2......... :lookround:

At the moment I've been re-watching one of my old favorites: Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok. :P I've forgotten a lot of things so I thought I would watch it again.

My favorite from last year though was Bungou Stray Dogs. :lovey: I've read most of the manga to that one, as well! But I'm falling behind....... :sad:
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Post by: tikibirds on January 28, 2017, 09:57:05 PM
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My favorite from last year though was Bungou Stray Dogs.
Agreed. I hope they make a season 3.

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Because I adored Love Stage so much, I ordered the manga. I cannot wait until it arrives!

Is love stage the one where the younger son from a talented family wants to be a manga artist but his art sucks. He was in a commercial as a kid but was dressed as a girl back then. They are redoing the commercial and the boy that was in it, thinks he is a girl a falls in love with him?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: DazzleKitty on February 02, 2017, 05:29:47 PM
Anyone ever seen Yona of the Dawn? My mom and I are currently watching that one.
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Post by: Haruna on February 02, 2017, 07:52:58 PM
Anyone ever seen Yona of the Dawn? My mom and I are currently watching that one.
Yes! My sister loves it. I'll admit that when I first saw it I was just so-so with it, but on a second watching (thanks to my obsessed sister) I've grown to really like it despite some of its flaws. I've realized it's a good story with very likeable characters and a complex villain, which you don't always get these days. It's also really funny; I especially love some of the cute scenes with Shin-Ah, the way Haku teases Kija, Jae-Ha and Hak's interactions (have you gotten to Jae-Ha yet?), and almost every line of Yoon's, the genius bishounen. XD
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Post by: Katika on February 04, 2017, 01:56:16 PM
Can I just say that I *love* how there was an entire conversation had via spoilers? LOL!

I'm an old school DBZ girl, and I will always go back to it, but lately I've been binge watching (pretty much every other month... it's a cruel obsession lol) Log Horizon <3 When my Log Horizon kick filters out, I suspect I'll drift back to Fullmetal Panic. I love me some epic series, but those short ones are really good for binge watching, you know? I also started working my way through One Piece a couple months ago.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Haruna on February 04, 2017, 07:01:35 PM
When my Log Horizon kick filters out, I suspect I'll drift back to Fullmetal Panic.
Fullmetal Panic! I love that show :heart:
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Post by: Taffeta on February 06, 2017, 12:04:18 PM
When my Log Horizon kick filters out, I suspect I'll drift back to Fullmetal Panic.
Fullmetal Panic! I love that show :heart:

Fumoffu. Fumoffu O.o.
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Post by: lunar_scythe on February 06, 2017, 12:46:58 PM
My fav for now is Sword Art Online, I'm going to start rewatching it this week, so I'm all ready for the movie next month!!! Haha. I am making a special trip to San Francisco just to see it (well, I also plan to finally get some decent water Pokémon, haha, too!)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Haruna on February 06, 2017, 01:31:02 PM
Fumoffu. Fumoffu O.o.
Fumoffu was a bit strange, I'll admit ^^; Sousuke running around in a Bonta-kun was hilarious, but I did miss having an actual plot, heh, and the tonal shift from the first series was off-putting. So anyone considering watching FMP should know that going in . . .

My fav for now is Sword Art Online, I'm going to start rewatching it this week, so I'm all ready for the movie next month!!! Haha. I am making a special trip to San Francisco just to see it (well, I also plan to finally get some decent water Pokémon, haha, too!)
There's a movie?!? I did not know this! That's so exciting! And San Francisco for Pokemon -- can't beat that! I love Sword Art Online, especially the first season and then the arc with Sinon (I'm forgetting if that's the third season or not).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Katika on February 06, 2017, 01:36:16 PM
When my Log Horizon kick filters out, I suspect I'll drift back to Fullmetal Panic.
Fullmetal Panic! I love that show :heart:

Fumoffu. Fumoffu O.o.

Fumoffu is actually what got me hooked on FMP lol. I'm very, *very* particular about what anime works for me and which don't (and I haven't figured out what it is that gets me hooked) and I tend to lean away from mechs. I was actually working on customizing some ponies and was strapped to my desk because of it when my husband started playing it. About three episodes in, I couldn't help myself and had to ask him what the *heck* was going on because (especially) when paying half attention, it seemed like the most absurd thing I'd ever sat in on. Paid attention to a couple episodes, thought it was delightfully hilarious, then got into the full series <3
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 07, 2017, 01:24:35 PM
anyone know anything about Blood Lad? I'm debating whether to watch it or not.
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Post by: Rainbowrific Renia on February 09, 2017, 08:51:31 AM
My husband and I are currently watching season 1 of Seven Deadly Sins on Netflix, since season 2 is due out next Friday. We're almost done and I love it so much! Aside from that, we're keeping up with One Piece subs weekly, the dubbed version of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure on Toonami, and sometimes Dragonball Super, but that's been very hit or miss.

I watched Yuri on Ice recently and LOVED it. I'm almost mad at myself for how much I love that show.

I'm also watching Love Live Sunshine since I somehow didn't watch it before. I loved Love Live, so I'm not sure how Sunshine slipped under my radar.

And the third anime I'm currently watching is KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World. It's nothing special, but it's a fun watch and good for a few laughs. It's about a boy who dies (literally within the first few minutes of episode one) and he's given a choice to go to Heaven or be transported to a world that's based off of an RPG. He chooses the latter and brings a goddess -who doesn't want to go- with him.

I just ordered the Blu-ray for Nichijou: My Ordinary Life and if you haven't watched that, then you're missing out. It's HILARIOUS! One of the best slice of life anime out there. I've watched it about a million times and I suspect I'll be watching it a bunch more once I own a copy.

I'm watching one called My Love Story. I'm four episodes in and it's quite funny.

YES! One of my favorites. It made me cry, laugh, and feel so many feels.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lunar_scythe on February 13, 2017, 10:05:41 PM

My fav for now is Sword Art Online, I'm going to start rewatching it this week, so I'm all ready for the movie next month!!! Haha. I am making a special trip to San Francisco just to see it (well, I also plan to finally get some decent water Pokémon, haha, too!)
There's a movie?!? I did not know this! That's so exciting! And San Francisco for Pokemon -- can't beat that! I love Sword Art Online, especially the first season and then the arc with Sinon (I'm forgetting if that's the third season or not).
Sinon is in SAO II,  I *think* its season 2, but because the original SAO is 2 major story arcs, it's hard to keep track of!   :)

But yeah, the new movie, "Ordinal Scale" is being shown in subtitle at some theaters in the US on March 9th, either independent theater showings, or as part of the ones that do the Fathom Events!  We are getting it just a short time after Japan is, so there should be a lot online about it if you google "SAO movie"  :)

I dont get water pokemon where I live, and I don't drive, haha, so I've been waiting for an excuse to go to the bay!  I have 2 battery back ups for my phone that are at least 4 full charges each, and I plan to clear out my pokemon before I go, so I have plenty of room. I'm not worried about having pokeballs because Ive been told pier 39 and fishermen's wharf have like 15 pokestops between them, but I do plan to get a googleplay card so I can buy incubators since I'll be doing a lot of walking!
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Post by: Haruna on February 14, 2017, 05:32:53 AM
Sinon is in SAO II,  I *think* its season 2, but because the original SAO is 2 major story arcs, it's hard to keep track of!   :)

But yeah, the new movie, "Ordinal Scale" is being shown in subtitle at some theaters in the US on March 9th, either independent theater showings, or as part of the ones that do the Fathom Events!  We are getting it just a short time after Japan is, so there should be a lot online about it if you google "SAO movie"  :)

I dont get water pokemon where I live, and I don't drive, haha, so I've been waiting for an excuse to go to the bay!  I have 2 battery back ups for my phone that are at least 4 full charges each, and I plan to clear out my pokemon before I go, so I have plenty of room. I'm not worried about having pokeballs because Ive been told pier 39 and fishermen's wharf have like 15 pokestops between them, but I do plan to get a googleplay card so I can buy incubators since I'll be doing a lot of walking!
My local theater is going to have SAO! I wonder who I can drag there with me . . . Ha ha, it sounds like you're ready for Pokemon hunting! That's exciting. I hear you on the battery backups -- the game drains battery so fast! I realized that again on a trip I took this weekend. Having the game open for five minutes pretty much took away 2 percent of my battery each time :blink:
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Post by: DazzleKitty on March 16, 2017, 03:05:38 AM
I know you all probably watch fansubs as they are released, but I buy DVDs as they come out (collector's mentality, ya'll). I just finished Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi and loved it. I wish it didn't end to fast.
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 21, 2017, 09:47:41 AM
I have recently just discovered Brave Police J-Decker and am six episodes in. Very fun cartoon. :)
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 21, 2017, 03:25:57 PM
I am still working on Sailor Moon seasons 1 and 2 both in the 90's anime and Crystal. I'm thinking about maybe watching Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Haruna on May 21, 2017, 07:26:18 PM
I have recently just discovered Brave Police J-Decker and am six episodes in. Very fun cartoon. :)
I've never heard of it! What's it like?

I am still working on Sailor Moon seasons 1 and 2 both in the 90's anime and Crystal. I'm thinking about maybe watching Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro.
Ooh, definitely recommend My Neighbor Totoro! I don't like Ponyo as much but it's at least worth a watch. I'd recommend all Studio Ghibli movies.
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Post by: Lhianneth on May 21, 2017, 08:05:36 PM
Can I just say that I *love* how there was an entire conversation had via spoilers? LOL!

I'm an old school DBZ girl, and I will always go back to it, but lately I've been binge watching (pretty much every other month... it's a cruel obsession lol) Log Horizon <3 When my Log Horizon kick filters out, I suspect I'll drift back to Fullmetal Panic. I love me some epic series, but those short ones are really good for binge watching, you know? I also started working my way through One Piece a couple months ago.

I actually recommend Dragonball Super, then! The new series is a pleasant blend of what made Dragonball and Dragonball Z independently successful (good plot, but lots of light-hearted action in between). It's also allowing Toriyama to have more creative freedom than in the past, because the original fans of the series are now older (his editors apparently told him he couldn't do certain plots because they weren't morally appropriate for the hero of a show aimed at young boys; Goku is finally the almost-anti-hero that Toriyama always hinted at him being, and Vegeta is struggling to be a jerk, but mostly just being a good father, lol).

And for general recommendations to anyone: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu is amazing. The art direction and editing, sound editing and music, and plot are all fantastic. It uses story-within-story frames for most of the first season (the rakugo stories relate to what's going on in the characters' lives external to the theatre, and one of the main characters recounts his history, with more rakugo inserted, for most of the first season). It's heart-breaking, but probably one of the best developed series I've seen in years. The amount of care and detail that goes into each episode is movie-level.

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Post by: Haruna on May 21, 2017, 08:19:32 PM
And for general recommendations to anyone: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu is amazing. The art direction and editing, sound editing and music, and plot are all fantastic. It uses story-within-story frames for most of the first season (the rakugo stories relate to what's going on in the characters' lives external to the theatre, and one of the main characters recounts his history, with more rakugo inserted, for most of the first season). It's heart-breaking, but probably one of the best developed series I've seen in years. The amount of care and detail that goes into each episode is movie-level.
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I totally want to see this! I started the first episode and it was much more interesting than I'd think a show about rakugo could be. I haven't watched more yet because they're longer than your average anime episode, but I definitely plan to.
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 21, 2017, 08:44:38 PM
I have recently just discovered Brave Police J-Decker and am six episodes in. Very fun cartoon. :)
I've never heard of it! What's it like?

I am still working on Sailor Moon seasons 1 and 2 both in the 90's anime and Crystal. I'm thinking about maybe watching Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro.
Ooh, definitely recommend My Neighbor Totoro! I don't like Ponyo as much but it's at least worth a watch. I'd recommend all Studio Ghibli movies.

Think of a Transformers anime, but quirkier and surprisingly cute.
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Post by: Lhianneth on May 21, 2017, 08:46:42 PM
I totally want to see this! I started the first episode and it was much more interesting than I'd think a show about rakugo could be. I haven't watched more yet because they're longer than your average anime episode, but I definitely plan to.

It had actually been on my Crunchyroll queue for a few months when a friend shared a post that the second season would feature a song by Shiina Ringo and Hayashibara Megumi. I got really excited and looked into it, found out that the first season also had an opening by them working together, and that Hayashibara was a recurring cast member. So. My partner and I started the first season in time to catch up to the second, and watched week-to-week. It's a beautiful, complicated story, and has amazing voicework from the entire cast.

We'd just finished Gintama's recent season as well, which was fortuitous since several key cast members from that show feature in Rakugo as main characters. And their roles are sosososo different. The show really shows off their range as actors!

... speaking of which, though it's long, Gintama is also very, very good. It's probably one of the best comedy series I've ever seen, and I never thought I'd see an anime do parody better than Excel Saga, but Gintama blitzes it, while still having ridiculously good story and engaging characters.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 21, 2017, 09:55:34 PM
I'm almost done watching Silver Spoon.  (I think I have 1 or 2 episodes left.)  It makes me laugh because it's about a city kid who goes to an agricultural high school.  He spends the first episode freaking out about where eggs come from on a chicken.   It does have its serious side, too, but as someone who lives next door to people who keep cows in their backyard, I find it highly amusing.

My Hero Academia is fun. 

I'm thinking about maybe watching Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro.

I love Studio Ghibli films.  My favorite is Whisper of the Heart.  When my nephew was 2 I let him watch Totoro and he called it the "Monster Bunny Movie".  It actually has 2 dubs.  I have the original dub.  The lady that did the voice of Angelica in Rugrats does the voice of Mei.  The new dub has Dakota and Elle Fanning.  I don't like it as much, but that might be because I'm more familiar with the older dub.  My nieces and nephews love Ponyo.
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Post by: Mami Tomoe on May 22, 2017, 12:05:01 AM
i like tokyo mew mew
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 27, 2017, 11:36:05 AM
I picked up a copy of My Neighbor Totoro today.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 27, 2017, 08:17:15 PM
I picked up a copy of My Neighbor Totoro today.


Ponyfan

Absolutely love My Neighbor Totoro
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Post by: Carrehz on May 28, 2017, 06:49:59 AM
I picked up a copy of My Neighbor Totoro today.


Ponyfan

Absolutely love My Neighbor Totoro

Totoro is the best! :D
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Post by: Lhianneth on May 29, 2017, 01:43:50 AM
My partner and I just finished Fushigi Yuugi. We both had a lot of nostalgic feelings about the TV series, but had never seen the OVAs. They recently added the lot to Crunchyroll, and we just finished the entirety the other night. Now I can't stop listening to the soundtracks and image song CDs. haha
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Post by: SourdoughStomper on May 29, 2017, 01:17:31 PM
I started watching Naruto this past winter and have finished up it and Shippuuden just last week. I skipped most of the filler episodes, though. :lookround:

Hot dang, I fell in love with Kakashi. :heart:

I'm trying out the next generations, Boruto as well. It's brand new, so I don't know what my opinion is yet. It was a little jarring to see the setting of the village get more modern, though. I also haven't seen Kakashi yet, which makes me a teensy sad.
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 29, 2017, 02:19:46 PM
Kakashi is one of my favorites too.
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Post by: Prince Primbrose on May 30, 2017, 08:44:53 AM
I'm personally playing catch-up on a lot of last-season anime. So bad at setting aside time to watch. I need to finish:

Re: Zero, Starting Life in Another World
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable
WWW.Wagnaria!!
Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! Season 2
Yuri on Ice, maybe (wasn't really into it.)
Yowamushi Pedal
Digimon Tri
RIN-NE

and my "want to watch" list is waaaay too long to post here, but I'm thinking of watching a lot of horror anime this summer.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 30, 2017, 09:52:08 AM
I bought Ponyo today.


Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on May 30, 2017, 07:45:53 PM
I started watching Naruto on Netflix. The last epiosde I seen was after the dude obsessed with funerals falls off a cliff. Its episode 159 or soemthing
Kakashi... :inlove:

As for current ones, I have been watching the royal tutor and Tsuguimomo on Crunchyroll. I like Tsuguimomo but its kinda got too much of a harem thing going on. I hate waiting for new episodes though.

I also watched Kamigami no Asobi. I liked it but the story is kinda predictible. I think its based off a dating sim, i think. But several gods from different cultures are forced by Zeus to attend a school to learn about the human heart.

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Yuri on Ice, maybe (wasn't really into it.)
I couldnt get into it either but apparently it was quite popular last season. or last last seaon now.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2017, 11:46:55 AM
I really enjoyed Ponyo. :)

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 31, 2017, 12:05:23 PM
I really enjoyed Ponyo. :)

Ponyfan

Have you watched Spirited Away yet?  That one is awesome.  I also really liked From Up on Poppy Hill. 
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2017, 02:38:06 PM
 Not yet. I'm just getting in to  Studio Ghibli anime. :)  I picked up Whisper of the Heart today.




Ponyfan

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Post by: Carrehz on June 02, 2017, 05:48:31 AM
Not yet. I'm just getting in to  Studio Ghibli anime. :)  I picked up Whisper of the Heart today.




Ponyfan

aaaa yess!! Whisper of the Heart is the best :)
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 02, 2017, 08:24:29 AM
Whisper of the Heart is my favorite Ghibli film. 
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Post by: Mareacooda on June 03, 2017, 06:04:54 PM
I just finished watching "Snow white with red hair" season 2... I really like it and hoping will 3 season or manga..
I see " Yona of the Dawn" and hope second season...
As Anima fans not always another season to anime...
Three top anime I tend watch often...
Some favorite tend watch repeat are "Ouran High School host club" I just think funny no one relies main character, Haruhiis girl but also like her philosophy that about appearances and how she not allow her social status stand in her way of her goal.
"Fruit Basket"  I get kick out fact that some Sohma family when touch opposite sex turn into one Zodiac animals.
"Legend of the legendary heroes" This one like fact show how Stigma person is misunderstood how young ruler want full fill goal to make peaceful kingdom for all. Very intense Series and wish that continue series or series made Manga novel in English. I really like know more depth in series.

I do several other animes that I enjoy to but I have be in mood.
Does anyone else few anime they just tend watch over and over because enjoy sooo much?
Is any anime anyone watch that end pick up manga books because want know more?
I did that with "Fruit basket" got manga novels it worth it because really full filled question and more closer.
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Post by: Haruna on June 03, 2017, 08:33:39 PM
Not yet. I'm just getting in to  Studio Ghibli anime. :)  I picked up Whisper of the Heart today.

Ponyfan

aaaa yess!! Whisper of the Heart is the best :)
Whisper of the Heart is my favorite Ghibli film.
I love that movie, too! Such a sweet romance.

Does anyone else few anime they just tend watch over and over because enjoy sooo much?
Is any anime anyone watch that end pick up manga books because want know more?
I did that with "Fruit basket" got manga novels it worth it because really full filled question and more closer.
I like Yona of the Dawn and Ouran, too! Yona really grew on me -- I didn't like it at first -- but it's so funny and I love Hak and Yona together. Ouran is hilarious :lol: Right now I'm rereading the Ouran manga.

I've watched parts of Cardcaptor Sakura over and over; that's probably my favorite anime of all time. I have started mangas after anime series end; that's why I read Ouran the first time, actually. I read a lot of manga and in addition to rereading that, I've reread Dengeki Daisy (a huge favorite) lately, and am keeping up with the latest installments of Kimi ni Todoke, Nisekoi, and Honey So Sweet.
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 03, 2017, 10:22:24 PM
Some of my other favorites are
Sailor Moon
Dragon Ball
Naruto
The Get-backers
Wolf's Rain
Avatar the Last Airbender
Reign the Conqueror
Peacemaker
Chrono Crusades
Black Butler

Various Studio Ghibli movies:
Kiki's Delivery Service
Princess Mononoke
Pom Poko
Spirited Away
Secret World of Arietty

I have yet to see, but really want to:
Return of the Cat
Grave of the Fireflies
When Marny Was There
Porco Rosso

I didn't like:
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Laputa
Ponyo by the Sea
Howl's Moving Castle, okay I kinda liked it, but was really confused until I bought the book.


Animes I don't care for:
Inu Yasha
Beyblade
Corpse Party
Pokemon, its too formulaic
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Post by: Mareacooda on June 03, 2017, 10:51:47 PM

Does anyone else few anime they just tend watch over and over because enjoy sooo much?
Is any anime anyone watch that end pick up manga books because want know more?
I did that with "Fruit basket" got manga novels it worth it because really full filled question and more closer.
I like Yona of the Dawn and Ouran, too! Yona really grew on me -- I didn't like it at first -- but it's so funny and I love Hak and Yona together. Ouran is hilarious :lol: Right now I'm rereading the Ouran manga.
I had co working interduce me "Yawn of the Dawn"
I wait next manga to release...
How is Ouran Manga? I not yet read that manga series...
Have you read "the Ancient Magus Bride"? I came across sample and hooked! I saw YouTube work stories into anime which I dying to see!

Post Merge: June 04, 2017, 02:32:31 AM

I can't find the old anime thread so I thought I'd make a new one since recently I've started watching anime again.

Some I'm watching rn:

Yuri!!! On Ice - I can't recommend this one enough! It's about a figure skater named Yuri and his coach. The story is great, the characters are well developed, and the music is fantastic.
Spoiler
Also the main ship actually becomes canon
I'm not usually a fan of sports animes (I'm more into magical girl anime with the occasional slice of life) but this one has got me hooked.

Kiss Him Not Me! - This one is really funny. It's about this overweight girl that's a fan of BL that loses the weight when she gets depressed over a character death and suddenly becomes attractive.

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun - This one is also funny. It's about a Manga artist and this girl that has a crush on him but can't spit it out.

There are more but those are the main ones. So
I can't find the old anime thread so I thought I'd make a new one since recently I've started watching anime again.

Some I'm watching rn:

Yuri!!! On Ice - I can't recommend this one enough! It's about a figure skater named Yuri and his coach. The story is great, the characters are well developed, and the music is fantastic.
Spoiler
Also the main ship actually becomes canon
I'm not usually a fan of sports animes (I'm more into magical girl anime with the occasional slice of life) but this one has got me hooked.

Kiss Him Not Me! - This one is really funny. It's about this overweight girl that's a fan of BL that loses the weight when she gets depressed over a character death and suddenly becomes attractive.

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun - This one is also funny. It's about a Manga artist and this girl that has a crush on him but can't spit it out.

There are more but those are the main ones. So is anyone else watching any good animes?

I start check some anime out, you mention I right now hook "Kiss him not me"...
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2017, 11:43:00 AM
I finished My Neighbor Totoro and Whisper of the Heart. I enjoyed all 3 Studio Ghibli movies that I've seen so far.  :) 


Ponyfan
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Post by: Haruna on June 06, 2017, 07:36:59 PM
I had co working interduce me "Yawn of the Dawn"
I wait next manga to release...
How is Ouran Manga? I not yet read that manga series...
Have you read "the Ancient Magus Bride"? I came across sample and hooked! I saw YouTube work stories into anime which I dying to see!
The Ouran manga is hilarious :) I was in the doctor's office today reading it and giggling to myself like a crazy person. I haven't read The Ancient Magus Bride; I'll have to look that up; I haven't heard of it!

I finished My Neighbor Totoro and Whisper of the Heart. I enjoyed all 3 Studio Ghibli movies that I've seen so far.  :) 

Ponyfan
Studio Ghibli is awesome! I think the only bad Studio Ghibli movie I've ever seen is Tales of Earthsea, and even that has its moments of beauty. Recently I learned that Studio Ghibli paired up with a Danish (?) director to make The Red Turtle, a film about a shipwrecked man. I want to see that eventually. It looks beautiful but possibly too artsy!
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 09, 2017, 05:39:15 PM
I've been itching to get into Black Lagoon once I finish up Brave Police. Can anyone tell me if it's good?
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 09, 2017, 07:20:46 PM
Has anyone mentioned Unico and the Island of Magic?


Ponyfan
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Post by: Lhianneth on June 09, 2017, 07:38:39 PM
I've been itching to get into Black Lagoon once I finish up Brave Police. Can anyone tell me if it's good?

Black Lagoon is a personal favourite. The voice work, music, and animation are all top notch. There's also a lot of social commentary relevant to the era (mostly pertaining to Japanese work culture, but there are some more international messages as well). I will say this, however: it is quite violent, and there's a really disturbing arc surrounding two kids that use the code names Hansel and Gretel. If you're sensitive to that kind of thing, I would avoid that arc when it comes up, because it's pretty disturbing.

I haven't yet seen the mini-series based around Roberta (a secondary character they encounter in the series), but it's on my shelf to be watched.

They also announced a new manga is coming out and started being released in May. Simultaneously, the anime is being re-broadcast as a tie-in, so it's possible that another season is due somewhere down the line (several years from now, anyway).
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 09, 2017, 08:53:36 PM
I've been itching to get into Black Lagoon once I finish up Brave Police. Can anyone tell me if it's good?

Black Lagoon is a personal favourite. The voice work, music, and animation are all top notch. There's also a lot of social commentary relevant to the era (mostly pertaining to Japanese work culture, but there are some more international messages as well). I will say this, however: it is quite violent, and there's a really disturbing arc surrounding two kids that use the code names Hansel and Gretel. If you're sensitive to that kind of thing, I would avoid that arc when it comes up, because it's pretty disturbing.

I haven't yet seen the mini-series based around Roberta (a secondary character they encounter in the series), but it's on my shelf to be watched.

They also announced a new manga is coming out and started being released in May. Simultaneously, the anime is being re-broadcast as a tie-in, so it's possible that another season is due somewhere down the line (several years from now, anyway).



Thanks Lianeth, I'll definitely hafta check it out. :)

Post Merge: June 09, 2017, 08:54:09 PM

Has anyone mentioned Unico and the Island of Magic?


Ponyfan

Unico is one of the trippiest animes I've ever seen.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 10, 2017, 07:15:45 PM
Unico and the Island of Magic and Hana no Ko Lunlun (or Angel as I knew it at the time) were my first animes.


Ponyfan
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Post by: AnWren on June 10, 2017, 08:04:05 PM
Yuri!!! On Ice is by far my favourite anime <333 and unlike a lot of sports anime, it actually stays fairly realistic and accurate. Tokyo ghoul is my next favourite, and now that I've watched it all I'm just trying to catch up with the manga.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 10, 2017, 10:17:19 PM
Has anyone mentioned Unico and the Island of Magic?


Ponyfan

I love The Fantastic Adventures of Unico and Unico in the Island of Magic.  Those two and "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" (which came out sometime in the early 80s and I have yet to find it on DVD--boo!) were the first anime I can remember seeing as a child.  I didn't know they were anime until I was older.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 15, 2017, 12:50:44 PM
Has anyone mentioned Unico and the Island of Magic?


Ponyfan

I love The Fantastic Adventures of Unico and Unico in the Island of Magic.  Those two and "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" (which came out sometime in the early 80s and I have yet to find it on DVD--boo!) were the first anime I can remember seeing as a child.  I didn't know they were anime until I was older.


I didn't know Unico was considered anime for a long time either. I just knew it was a unique movie that my grandparents had. Do you know if there is anime of Ali Baba? My grandmother loved cartoons with characters that were drawn with eyes and I have a vague memory of watching a cartoon about Ali Baba and his wife but they looked like children instead of adults. I think there was also a Cinderella one as well.


I watched Ponyo again and noticed a few things I missed the first time I saw it.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 15, 2017, 02:18:52 PM
Has anyone mentioned Unico and the Island of Magic?


Ponyfan

I love The Fantastic Adventures of Unico and Unico in the Island of Magic.  Those two and "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" (which came out sometime in the early 80s and I have yet to find it on DVD--boo!) were the first anime I can remember seeing as a child.  I didn't know they were anime until I was older.


I didn't know Unico was considered anime for a long time either. I just knew it was a unique movie that my grandparents had. Do you know if there is anime of Ali Baba? My grandmother loved cartoons with characters that were drawn with eyes and I have a vague memory of watching a cartoon about Ali Baba and his wife but they looked like children instead of adults. I think there was also a Cinderella one as well.


I watched Ponyo again and noticed a few things I missed the first time I saw it.

Ponyfan

I don't know about an Ali Baba one but the Aladdin movie I used to watch looked like this:
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I would LOVE to have it on DVD but I can't even find it on VHS anywhere.  It's been a while since I looked, though, so maybe I ought to try again.  We taped it off of TV and I'm not sure where our tape ended up (or even if it's good enough quality to make a bootleg DVD from if I do find it).
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 15, 2017, 02:45:01 PM
I found the Ali Baba and Cinderella one I remembered but now I'm not sure  if they're animie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwg1GQlLsg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0B7Cr5GlS4

I hope you find the Aladdin one you're looking for. Is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5LGbzl6jo


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 15, 2017, 04:15:46 PM
Yup, that's the Aladdin I was thinking of.  We didn't record the opening song on our VHS--probably because we were trying to find a blank tape to tape it on!  Oh, 80s kids problems!  :lol:
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 19, 2017, 02:11:01 PM
I found a copy of the Cinderella ?Ali Baba one on Ebay but got outbid at the last minute. Maybe I'll find another copy one day. 

Ponyfan
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 24, 2017, 12:32:57 PM
Inko Colors. It seems to be an anime about Parakeets.
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Post by: banditpony on June 24, 2017, 03:54:59 PM
Has anyone watched Your Name? Is it any good? It seems popular...
It's going to play in a theater near me, and I'm tempted to go see it...
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Post by: Lhianneth on June 24, 2017, 07:09:05 PM
Recently watched the first season of Ajin and was surprised. The animation drove me nuts for the first few episodes (I hate 3D cell-shading outside of games; it's often so jarring), but the story made up for it. I'm looking forward to the next season's release.

Also watched Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero, and Fate/Stay Night [Unlimited Blade Works] after putting it off for years, and now I wish I'd gotten into it sooner. F/SN has some annoying tropes leftover from the fact that it's an eroge VN, but the world-building is top-notch. Zero and UBW make up for those flaws, and make it really engaging. I'm now looking forward to the Heavens Feel and Apocrypha releases later this year, and trying to avoid spoilers since I haven't played the VNs. lol

Right now, we're watching Bakemonogatari. It's some serious hard work, and I can only do a couple of episodes at a time, but it's amazingly tied together. It's super stylish, which is part of the "hard work" aspect. You can't look away or even blink, because you might miss something that's key to the current Monster/Apparition/Youkai that they're dealing with. And the layers and layers of puns are mind-boggling. I know I'm probably only getting about 10% of the wordplay, and even that much is painfully clever. Hitagi takes some warming up, but Koyomi is really interesting, and he's voiced by a seiyuu that I currently really like (he also plays Shinji in the Fate series, as well as Natsume in the Book of Friends series).
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on June 26, 2017, 09:37:48 PM
The only currently airing anime I'm watching at the moment is Pokemon Sun and Moon, although that doesn't mean I can ever be caught up on it, as I have to wait until the sub group I like subs it. Currently I've seen up to episode 24 as that's all that they've subbed so far.

My all-time favorite anime is Di Gi Charat, all of the different series. It's been my favorite ever since I got into it 7 years ago I love it so much. :lovey:

Di Gi Charat is the source of both my avatar and signature. Avatar's from a commercial for the store Gamers that was made before DGC got its anime, and my signature is drawn by its creator.

Other anime I really like are Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and more recently My Love Story. The latter a friend in a Discord server streamed and I loved it so much, it was super cute. <3

I've got an account on MAL right here if anyone wants to see everything I've watched:

https://myanimelist.net/profile/BeatlesPkmnFan42

I haven't seen much though, I'm not really the sort who watches a bunch of things each season. The only anime I've ever watched as they're airing so far were based on/had video games that I play.

Speaking of, anime that I have seen and disliked.

First there was the SHOW BY ROCK!! anime.

this took up a lot of space oops
SHOW BY ROCK!! (I'll refer to it as SB69 from now on in this post) is one of my favorite things in the world, it's a very fun mobile rhythm game, similar to LL SIF, Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage, etc, but unlike them it's played vertically. Also it's been around for a while, since 2012. It got an anime adaptation in 2015 and... I really didn't enjoy it much. It was cute sometimes, but it was a mess. In the game, the episodes (little short stories you can read) are very slice-of-life, just the characters going about their normal lives and playing concerts. But for some reason the anime decided to take the "sucked into a video game and have to save said video game's world" route, which doesn't resemble the game at all. They decided to make Cyan, the game's mascot, the human that gets sucked into her phone. Why???

The short series it got afterwards was better, solely because there was no stupid world saving stuff, it was slice-of-life like the games. But it was still the anime canon in which Cyan is originally a human, blaahh.

Then it got a second season, which somehow managed to be even worse.

Really the best thing SB69's anime had going for it were the songs, the 3D animated segments, and the cameos. Everything else was disappointing.

But that's nowhere near the disaster that was the Ace Attorney anime, oh boy. I don't even feel like getting into it deeper on why I hated it. Just gonna say the only redeeming thing about it was Masaru Konaka (Redd White)'s tenancy to speak in English at times. Everything else was awful and the Ace Attorney anime was the worst anime I had ever seen.

Which is a shame because when the 5th Ace Attorney game came out and it had those animated cutscenes, that made me really want an Ace Attorney anime to be made. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.

It really is a shame when something you love gets bad adaptations.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 27, 2017, 07:27:48 AM
I'd like to know about Your Name too. :) Has anyone seen it? I'm still working on both series of Sailor Moon (90's anime and Crystal) and also got the first volume of the Sailor Moon manga yesterday. I've already finished it.  :) I might buy the other volumes at least through volume 6.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Violet CLM on June 27, 2017, 02:53:09 PM
Little Witch Academia (aka "Japanese All-Girl Harry Potter") finished yesterday and was a great time. Wholesome, fun adventures; great art; charming interactions. Just don't go into it expecting a really complicated story with mind-blowing twists, because you won't get that.
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Post by: Carrehz on June 28, 2017, 07:46:31 AM
I rewatched Bottle Fairy last week, it's so cute!! It's basically just sugary fluff, so it's not for those that like elaborate plots, but aaa it's so adorable, I love it.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 28, 2017, 10:22:45 AM
Picked up the second half of the second season of Assassination Classroom yesterday so now I'm binge watching the whole series.  I haven't seen any of the second season yet because I wanted to wait until I had the whole thing.  As morbid as it is, it's absolutely hilarious.  I highly recommend it.
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 02, 2017, 05:12:58 PM
I finished the first season of Sailor Moon Crystal. I liked it more than I thought I would. I  ended up binge watching the last several episodes.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 03, 2017, 09:36:24 AM
Totally binge watched the entire series of Assassination Classroom this weekend.  The ending made me cry but it's so good!
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 03, 2017, 06:41:13 PM
For those interested VIZ announced today that Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 will be released on December 5th.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on July 08, 2017, 02:03:02 PM
So has anyone watched the Animated Castlevania cartoon? It looks good.
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Post by: MintyMayhem on July 08, 2017, 10:47:58 PM
I love The World God Only Knows! I would really recommend it  :)
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Post by: Lhianneth on July 13, 2017, 12:37:55 AM
Currently watching Shirobako! It's really cute, and definitely explains a lot about how the anime industry works these days. A friend (who is actually in the industry himself, hilariously) recommended it for that reason. It's pretty fun, a bit heavy-handed sometimes on the moe, and I want to punch Tarou in his smug face (which makes me sad, because his seiyuu is also Present Mic and Heisuke, both of whom I love). But overall, it's a good watch.

We're also doing My Hero Academia week-to-week as it comes out, absolutely blew through the first season or Little Witch Academia when it came out on Netflix, and are week-to-weeking with Fate/Apocrypha, because the situation with LWA kind of soured us on waiting for the season from Netflix.

Badly managed, Netflix. Not cool.
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Post by: Pinkie21 on July 13, 2017, 04:49:48 PM
I'm totally obsessed with Parasyte-The Maxim, Samurai Champloo, and Blood+!  It's kinda weird to me...I was totally digging InuYasha for goodness-knows how long.  I still think it's adorable, but wow I didn't realize how...uh..."not terribly amazing" the writing is :-P. But goodness those characters are adorable. 
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 13, 2017, 11:45:37 PM
I just finished Sailor Moon Crystal season 2. I had to go back and re-read part of the manga though because some things were happening at the end of Season 2 that I didn't remember in the manga.

I do wonder if

Spoiler
Tuxedo Mask gets his memory erased once every arc. It happens in the Dark Kingdom arc and again in the Black Moon arc.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 23, 2017, 06:20:01 PM
I'm thinking about watching The Secret World of Arietty.


Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on July 23, 2017, 09:01:33 PM
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I'm thinking about watching The Secret World of Arietty.
It reminds me of the 1980's cartoon series "The Littles"
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 26, 2017, 09:09:03 AM
Thanks Tikibirds. :) I thought about "The Littles" also.

Edit: Target had it on sale for $9.99 so I picked up a copy today. :)

Poyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on July 27, 2017, 10:45:47 PM
It is cute.  ^.^
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Post by: Lhianneth on July 30, 2017, 08:01:32 PM
Caught up on all the Bakemonogatari, and have some very mixed feelings about that show... uff.

Watched all of Yamada and the Seven Witches in one night, which was pretty cute. And now we're watching Your Lie in April, which is making me hideously angry.

It's supposed to be feel-good, slice-of-life, but the premise behind the story, and the lack of understanding from the main character's friends, is making me rage. But I'll stick it out. Because my friend told me to. :|
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 06, 2017, 05:14:21 PM
I watched The Secret World of Arietty and really enjoyed it.  :)


Ponyfan
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Post by: Lhianneth on August 06, 2017, 06:54:00 PM
I watched The Secret World of Arietty and really enjoyed it.  :)


Ponyfan

I had mixed feelings about that one. The pacing was very strange. :(
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on August 11, 2017, 10:45:40 PM
Started watching Black Lagoon. OMGS these people are totally unhinged.


Not sure if I like it.

I'm trying out Beezlebub. It's weird and kinda funny.
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Post by: Haruna on August 20, 2017, 12:33:34 PM
I watched The Secret World of Arietty and really enjoyed it.  :)


Ponyfan
Studio Ghibli FTW! :) I like that movie, too.

And now we're watching Your Lie in April, which is making me hideously angry.

It's supposed to be feel-good, slice-of-life, but the premise behind the story, and the lack of understanding from the main character's friends, is making me rage. But I'll stick it out. Because my friend told me to. :|

Your Lie In April . . . so many feels. Do you mean the lack of understanding for Kaori and her situation? At times I was irritated to see how Kousei treated her (though she isn't always great towards him). I enjoyed watching the series, but it has so many emotional ups and downs I haven't rewatched it or I'd cry too much, lol. There are some great moments in it, though, and I would definitely recommend it like your friend did -- it explores love and loss and some deep stuff. And as a piano player, too, I find it interesting.
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Post by: Lhianneth on August 21, 2017, 01:27:43 AM
Your Lie In April . . . so many feels. Do you mean the lack of understanding for Kaori and her situation? At times I was irritated to see how Kousei treated her (though she isn't always great towards him). I enjoyed watching the series, but it has so many emotional ups and downs I haven't rewatched it or I'd cry too much, lol. There are some great moments in it, though, and I would definitely recommend it like your friend did -- it explores love and loss and some deep stuff. And as a piano player, too, I find it interesting.

Ah. Actually. More the fact that Kousei's friends pushed him back into piano, while at least two of them knew of his history/the situation with his mother. I get that they were trying to help him, and that they're just teenagers, but it was extremely misguided in my opinion, and his "recovery" didn't seem particularly sincere or realistic to me. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, and I did finish it, but I feel like there were some seriously terrible things that people did to that kid.

The final roof scene could have resolved a lot of those things for me, but obviously that didn't happen. I found the final concert and the letter to both be a cop-out by comparison. Honestly, the amount of trauma visited on Kousei, and the remark that his mother's friend made about his "moving on" made me feel pretty sick watching the show. I think I must not have been the target audience, because I didn't find it romantic at all. It felt very exploitative.

We started March Comes in Like a Lion/Sangatsu no lion immediately after, and while it has some very similar themes (doing something you're good at because of familial pressure, or because you think you're obligated to because you're good at it; loss of family members and the grieving process that follows; problematic love stories and relationships that aren't 100% honest), it handles those themes with a lot more delicacy and skill.


Edit: I just remembered we have spoiler tags. XD;

Spoilers of what I felt about Your Lie in April:


Spoiler
The main thing I hated was that she decided to make her "legacy" a relationship with someone who didn't know she was dying. That, being the entire plot of the show, made me really angry. Among other things. It was a very clumsy telling, to me.

The lie wasn't some small thing like was implied to me when my friend recommended it (seriously, she made it sound like a mistaken identity or something). Living to enjoy your last days to their fullest is fine, but knowing that you're dying, and intentionally seeking someone out to attach to so that they will feel the pain of your death and never forget it, is a terrible, horrible, selfish thing to do. Even more-so when it's clear that that person has some sort of trauma that they're still recovering from in their recent past. To make a small-scale comparison, it's like the idea of rubbing lemon juice into a paper-cut, knowing that the lemon is half-rotten and will likely cause sepsis.

So I didn't find their relationship romantic as a result of that, but rather saw it as an emotionally abusive counter-point to the situation with Kousei's mum's physical and verbal abuse.

I didn't find his reaction to her admission that she was ill unrealistic (his desire not to visit her, his feelings of awkwardness seeing her in hospital), but I did find his recovery and acceptance of her lie to be rather premature and unrealistic given how much she'd brow-beat him into joining her on the stage. I also hated that Tsubaki knew about the abuse, but still thought that pushing him at Kaori and the piano was a good idea.

If she had confessed the whole situation to him on the roof before his final concert and her surgery, I might've been okay with the show in the end, because she at least owned up to what she had been doing all along, and decided to take responsibility for it. But she didn't, and continued to leave him with what she knew was false hope. As such, I found the vision he had of her during the concert to be in poor taste, and the letter that she gave him to be a cowardly thing to do. She didn't take responsibility for what happened between them. She didn't give him the closure he deserved, and never got from his mother's death and abuse. It was clumsy, as a story, and undignified.
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Post by: Haruna on August 25, 2017, 07:52:36 PM
Ah. Actually. More the fact that Kousei's friends pushed him back into piano, while at least two of them knew of his history/the situation with his mother. I get that they were trying to help him, and that they're just teenagers, but it was extremely misguided in my opinion, and his "recovery" didn't seem particularly sincere or realistic to me. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, and I did finish it, but I feel like there were some seriously terrible things that people did to that kid.

The final roof scene could have resolved a lot of those things for me, but obviously that didn't happen. I found the final concert and the letter to both be a cop-out by comparison. Honestly, the amount of trauma visited on Kousei, and the remark that his mother's friend made about his "moving on" made me feel pretty sick watching the show. I think I must not have been the target audience, because I didn't find it romantic at all. It felt very exploitative.

We started March Comes in Like a Lion/Sangatsu no lion immediately after, and while it has some very similar themes (doing something you're good at because of familial pressure, or because you think you're obligated to because you're good at it; loss of family members and the grieving process that follows; problematic love stories and relationships that aren't 100% honest), it handles those themes with a lot more delicacy and skill.


Edit: I just remembered we have spoiler tags. XD;

Spoilers of what I felt about Your Lie in April:


Spoiler
The main thing I hated was that she decided to make her "legacy" a relationship with someone who didn't know she was dying. That, being the entire plot of the show, made me really angry. Among other things. It was a very clumsy telling, to me.

The lie wasn't some small thing like was implied to me when my friend recommended it (seriously, she made it sound like a mistaken identity or something). Living to enjoy your last days to their fullest is fine, but knowing that you're dying, and intentionally seeking someone out to attach to so that they will feel the pain of your death and never forget it, is a terrible, horrible, selfish thing to do. Even more-so when it's clear that that person has some sort of trauma that they're still recovering from in their recent past. To make a small-scale comparison, it's like the idea of rubbing lemon juice into a paper-cut, knowing that the lemon is half-rotten and will likely cause sepsis.

So I didn't find their relationship romantic as a result of that, but rather saw it as an emotionally abusive counter-point to the situation with Kousei's mum's physical and verbal abuse.

I didn't find his reaction to her admission that she was ill unrealistic (his desire not to visit her, his feelings of awkwardness seeing her in hospital), but I did find his recovery and acceptance of her lie to be rather premature and unrealistic given how much she'd brow-beat him into joining her on the stage. I also hated that Tsubaki knew about the abuse, but still thought that pushing him at Kaori and the piano was a good idea.

If she had confessed the whole situation to him on the roof before his final concert and her surgery, I might've been okay with the show in the end, because she at least owned up to what she had been doing all along, and decided to take responsibility for it. But she didn't, and continued to leave him with what she knew was false hope. As such, I found the vision he had of her during the concert to be in poor taste, and the letter that she gave him to be a cowardly thing to do. She didn't take responsibility for what happened between them. She didn't give him the closure he deserved, and never got from his mother's death and abuse. It was clumsy, as a story, and undignified.

I actually hadn't though about it that way before, but I can see what you mean. I think Kaori's "lie in April"

Spoiler
. . . was that she liked Ryota instead of Kousei (or so Wikipedia tells me; maybe it's up to interpretation?), not that she was hiding her sickness. So maybe that helps make her more likeable? At times I found her overbearing and I actually ship Tsubaki with Kousei -- they seem more compatible -- but I think that Kaori, though lying about who she liked, was just trying to get a chance to play with Kousei accompanying her (I'm not sure she knew she was definitely going to die?). At any rate, though, I wouldn't appreciate it if someone I was close to didn't tell me they were going through a life-threatening illness; that's not a bomb you want to drop on anyone (though it seems common in Japanese manga and anime. Maybe it's part of the "I'll do my best, don't trouble anyone" mentality?).

I think it's okay that Tsubaki and Ryota were trying to push Kousei back into playing piano since, as his childhood friends, they had seen him loving piano, playing it for years, and then suddenly quitting it; they probably know how much he loved piano and that his reasons for quitting weren't healthy. He finally regains his ability to hear the notes and enjoy piano again in the end, so that's all good. I never thought about Kaori pushing him into it selfishly, but that argument could be made for sure.

I think he did know during his final concert that she was going through that life-threatening surgery, which is why he saw her vanishing and then he cried. :( I don't like her final letter to him, though, because there she says that she's loved him since she was five and has kind of been stalking him. I would rather she had met him for the first time in middle school. I still like her character, but as you said, I can't argue that she's not selfish in some ways. I'd call her a manic pixie dream girl trope, with some added character complexity. In many ways she's in the story solely to spur the plot and Kousei's character development on, come to think of it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 06, 2017, 07:55:00 AM
I'm thinking about watching The Secret World of Arietty.


Ponyfan

You'll like it, its got the Studio Ghibli charm of mixing the everyday with the enchanting. As well as a gorgeous soundtrack.  Its based off The Borrowers.
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2017, 11:45:55 AM
Thanks Leave a Whisper. :) I did enjoy it although the ending was a little sad.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 06, 2017, 02:01:29 PM
Thanks Leave a Whisper. :) I did enjoy it although the ending was a little sad.

Ponyfan

Yeah.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 06, 2017, 11:23:01 PM
Quote
I'm trying out Beezlebub. It's weird and kinda funny.
I like the bickering between the characters.

I like that one too. I watch and episode or two every now and then.

Currently I am watching Elegant Yokai apartment life and Saiyuki reload blast on crunchyroll. Its been so long since I watched Saiyuki that I forgot what the hell is going on. wasn't that one from the 90's?
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on September 07, 2017, 10:39:03 AM
Quote
I'm trying out Beezlebub. It's weird and kinda funny.
I like the bickering between the characters.

I like that one too. I watch and episode or two every now and then.

Currently I am watching Elegant Yokai apartment life and Saiyuki reload blast on crunchyroll. Its been so long since I watched Saiyuki that I forgot what the hell is going on. wasn't that one from the 90's?

hahaha me too!
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 15, 2017, 09:57:38 PM
I was watching part of the anime version of The Little Mermaid on YouTube and am wondering if it's worth watching the whole thing? I know it follows the original ending of the story and not the Disney version.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 16, 2017, 02:07:35 PM
Just saw that they're finally releasing Gundam Wing on Blu-Ray.  I may have to upgrade my DVDs since that's my favorite anime!
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 18, 2017, 11:13:47 AM
I still want to get the anime version of The Little Mermaid. I checked Barnes and Noble today and they had a lot of new Studio Ghibli/ Spirited Away/ My Neighbor Totoro merch.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 18, 2017, 12:27:38 PM
Check the Rightstuf Anime website.  They might have it.  And they always do a big sale around Christmas so it's worth checking.
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Post by: TornadoLovesMelody on October 21, 2017, 02:43:20 AM
For those of you asking about Kimi no na wa - It's a movie with feels.
Same goes for Koe no Katachi.
And yes, I too loved Akatsuki no Yona.

If you're in to the reversed harems, like Ouran high school and Watashi ga motete Dousunda you may also like Yamato nadeshiki henge and Kaichou wa maid-sama.
Even Pretear has a nice ending :)

I liked the adventuruous Shingeki no kyojin and Death note (only 1st season - this one is supposively acceptable in English)
And the more thought out Death parade and Paranoia Agent.

For heartbreak I watched Fukumenkei noise.
Other series that I enjoyed were
Re-life (start your life over)
Eromanga Sensei (Very ecchi but very cute, similar to Oreimo)
Yosuga no Sora (ecchi but still beautiful)
Ajin (1st season - mutant humans)
Blood and Blood + (vampires)
Elfen Lied (short but lovely)

Ony of my favorites : Another  (it goes under the horror cathegory but isn't ver scary )
And something I'm currently following :  Yokai apartment no Yuuga na Nichijou  (an orphan moves into a ghost house)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Stormness_1 on November 03, 2017, 10:07:30 PM
Just got back into anime, so I have a lot of catching up to do. So things I've seen some/all of and enjoyed are:

Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon Crystal
Dragon Ball Series
One Piece
Ouran High School Host Club
Steins Gate
Fullmetal Alchemist
Black Butler
Cardcaptor Sakura
YuGiOh

So I like a good mix of stuff. I did see Your Name, it's actually better than I was expecting, I was pretty moved, more than by Spirited Away. But I'm really into the whole love story thing ATM for some reason!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Harmonie on November 04, 2017, 07:48:11 AM
If anyone here subscribes to Crunchyroll DO NOT visit the website right now. It has been hacked and will automatically download a malicious software onto your computer called "Crunchy Viewer" or something like that.

I'm lucky because I didn't visit the website today before finding out about this, hope you all see this before, as well!

EDIT: According to CR's Twitter, it's okay now and should be fine to visit.
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Post by: Stormness_1 on November 05, 2017, 03:39:29 AM
So glad my VPN has no data left, no crunchyroll for me!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 06, 2017, 12:50:17 PM
I’ve watched most of Sailor Moon (90’s version) and Sailor Moon Crystal seasons 1 and 2 and am undecided about Season 3 of the 90’s anime.

I want to see the anime The Little Mermaid. Does anyone have any anime recommendations? I’ve tried looking on Netflix but there’s so many choices I get overwhelmed. I tried Glitter Force/Pretty Cure but can’t seem to get ion to it.


Ponyfan

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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 06, 2017, 02:13:18 PM
Is this the version of The Little Mermaid you're looking for?

https://www.rightstufanime.com/Hans-Christian-Andersens-The-Little-Mermaid-DVD

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 06, 2017, 03:17:00 PM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie. That’s the one I’m looking for. :)


Ponyfan
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Post by: zombienixon on November 06, 2017, 06:00:15 PM
I've been binge-watching a series called Ghost Stories ever since I went to a panel about it with one of the VAs at a convention I was at last weekend. The best way to describe it is that it's an Abridged Series before those became a thing (I'm pretty sure it predates Youtube), done by actual professionals. The VAs and writers were given almost complete freedom to do or say whatever they wanted, so the end result is absolutely hilarious. I have no idea how I've never heard of this before.
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Post by: Carrehz on November 09, 2017, 06:33:08 AM
Hehe, I've seen a lot of clips of Ghost Stories, it's hilarious from what I've seen. Is it worth watching?
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Post by: zombienixon on November 09, 2017, 07:56:12 PM
Hehe, I've seen a lot of clips of Ghost Stories, it's hilarious from what I've seen. Is it worth watching?

I certainly think so. I'm about halfway through the series.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Haruna on November 10, 2017, 06:53:57 PM
For those of you asking about Kimi no na wa - It's a movie with feels.
Same goes for Koe no Katachi.
And yes, I too loved Akatsuki no Yona.

If you're in to the reversed harems, like Ouran high school and Watashi ga motete Dousunda you may also like Yamato nadeshiki henge and Kaichou wa maid-sama.
Even Pretear has a nice ending :)
We have a lot of similar tastes! I loved Koe no Katachi (anime and manga version) and Akatsuki no Yona, and Kaichou wa maid-sama. And Pretear! It's been a while since I've seen that one.

If anyone here subscribes to Crunchyroll DO NOT visit the website right now. It has been hacked and will automatically download a malicious software onto your computer called "Crunchy Viewer" or something like that.

I'm lucky because I didn't visit the website today before finding out about this, hope you all see this before, as well!

EDIT: According to CR's Twitter, it's okay now and should be fine to visit.
:crazy: Thanks for the warning! I watch a lot of anime on Crunchyroll. Good thing they're back now.
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Post by: DazzleKitty on November 12, 2017, 06:47:46 PM
My mom and I started the first season of Food Wars. It is hilarious. XD
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 28, 2017, 02:15:25 PM
I finally ordered the anime version of The Little Mermaid. :) I'm excited to watch it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 02, 2017, 11:57:54 AM
I watched the anime Little Mermaid and even though I'm a big fan of Disney's version I love this one also. It was really late when I was watching and I missed a few things so I'm to rewatch some parts of it later today.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Stormness_1 on December 02, 2017, 02:56:56 PM
Finally getting around to watching Kamisama Kiss. Have read up to all but the last volume of the manga, and watched the first season of the anime so far. It skips out a lot of characters and storylines... If they progressed it slower I think they could probably have got another season out of it at least, and the story would be much more rounded. The relationships are a bit forced, as is Nanami's power, I mean she's pretty mary-sue in the manga, but they sure ramped it up for the anime! And the dub... Tatum? Really?! As much as I love Tatum, I was hoping for something a little different for Tomoe, mostly because his role as a familiar is so darned butler-like.
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 18, 2018, 04:35:16 PM
I've started watching the first part of Sailor Moon S.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Carrehz on February 19, 2018, 08:38:45 AM
I finally got round to watching Wedding Peach in January (been meaning to watch it for about 10 years now :P). I really enjoyed it! Didn't enjoy the OVA (Wedding Peach DX) as much (too much fanservice for me) but the main series was awesome. It's a shame most people just write it off as a "Sailor Moon ripoff", since it's really it's own thing.
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Post by: ringwraith10 on February 21, 2018, 05:32:24 PM
I was watching Clannad and loving it/crying to death, but I took a break from watching it while I was moving. The other day I just went back onto Amazon Prime to watch it again and they've removed it! I own season 1 on DVD but I was watching season 2 and now I guess I need to buy it on DVD, too. :( Anime is so expensive. :( :( :(

Anyway, today I started watching Fate/Stay Night, but this is one of those really convoluted series where I'm not sure what order to watch/play the entries in it, so I might have to go back and watch a different entry first? I think the one that's on Netflix is the newest/last entry you're supposed to watch, and that's what I just started...
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 22, 2018, 08:32:09 AM
I was watching Clannad and loving it/crying to death, but I took a break from watching it while I was moving. The other day I just went back onto Amazon Prime to watch it again and they've removed it! I own season 1 on DVD but I was watching season 2 and now I guess I need to buy it on DVD, too. :( Anime is so expensive. :( :( :(

See if you can get it from your library.  I know my library has it so ask if they can do an Interlibrary Loan if they don't already have it.  Some libraries charge for this service but it's still cheaper than buying some of the anime series.  Also you can check rightstufanime.com and see if they have it on sale.  I know they have a really good sale between Black Friday and Christmas but they have other sales during the year as well.

Also, started watching my Blu-Ray of Gundam Wing.  So glad I splurged and got the collector's box.  The extras are unreleased episodes previously known as Odds and Evens, which I only saw parts of on YouTube years ago.  :D
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 23, 2018, 07:38:33 PM
I am binge watching Sailor Moon S part 1 and I have to say that I was very surprised to see that one part in the tea ceremony episode where Chibiusa meets the random boy in the park. I was totally not expecting that.


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Post by: Ponyfan on March 04, 2018, 07:01:47 AM
What are everyone’s thoughts on In Your Corner of the World and From Up On Poppy Hill?

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 04, 2018, 07:40:23 AM
What are everyone’s thoughts on In Your Corner of the World and From Up On Poppy Hill?

Ponyfan

I really like From Up On Poppy Hill.  It's a super cute slice of life.

In Your Corner of the World was harder to watch because you know what's coming and you spend the whole time wondering "is this the part?  or is this the part?  is this the part?!" which makes it a bit stressful.  And because it's a slice of life during WWII, there are some sad parts, but it was still really good.
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Post by: Harmonie on March 04, 2018, 12:01:47 PM
If anyone likes cuteness, I just have to say How To Keep a Mummy is ridiculously cute. You probably wouldn't think so from that title, but it is! Just don't think too much about the series and embrace the cuteness because it is sooo darn cute, I can't even.
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Post by: ringwraith10 on March 04, 2018, 09:08:25 PM
I'm having a lot of trouble finding something good to watch. I started to re-watch Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, but I'm not really into it. I also started Fate/Stay Night, but... I dunno. I'm not really into that, either. I guess I'm having a slump. I need recommendations! Harmonie -- "How to Keep a Mummy" sounds interesting. I'm probably in the mood for something cute. :)
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 05, 2018, 06:17:16 PM
What are everyone’s thoughts on In Your Corner of the World and From Up On Poppy Hill?

Ponyfan

I really like From Up On Poppy Hill.  It's a super cute slice of life.

In Your Corner of the World was harder to watch because you know what's coming and you spend the whole time wondering "is this the part?  or is this the part?  is this the part?!" which makes it a bit stressful.  And because it's a slice of life during WWII, there are some sad parts, but it was still really good.


Thank you pokeyonekenobie. I’ll probably end up buying both of them. :)

I’m having a hard time staying interested in Pretty Cure/Glitter Force. At least the version that’s on Netflix. I’ve only watched 3 episodes.


Ponyfan
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Post by: ringwraith10 on March 05, 2018, 08:10:00 PM
What are everyone’s thoughts on In Your Corner of the World and From Up On Poppy Hill?

Ponyfan
I started to read the In Your Corner of the World manga, but I don't really like the art style so I haven't finished it. I haven't seen the movie yet but I think it's waiting for me at the library! I liked From Up On Poppy Hill when I saw it, though it's not my favorite Ghibli movie. It was pretty good, though.
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 31, 2018, 08:57:26 AM
Thanks ringwraith10 . :)

Does anyone have any thoughts on Your Name? It looks interesting.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 01, 2018, 09:18:25 PM
Thanks ringwraith10 . :)

Does anyone have any thoughts on Your Name? It looks interesting.


Ponyfan

I haven't seen it yet but my friend said it was good.
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Post by: beajjai033 on April 03, 2018, 06:46:38 AM
Quote from: Ponyfan

Does anyone have any thoughts on Your Name? It looks interesting.


Ponyfan

I love it ^.^
It can be a bit confusing with the timelines and all that but once you get the hang of it, it's a nice touch to the high school nostalgia. Especially if you like the sort of fantasy thing.

What are everyone’s thoughts on In Your Corner of the World and From Up On Poppy Hill?

Ponyfan

In Your Corner of the World, the storyline is quite simple (I prefer Your Name) as the main character is a simple village girl. The romance part is cute though, and I like that the feels are not too heavy on this one, at least for me. *cough5cmpersecondcough*
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Post by: Taffeta on April 05, 2018, 05:11:56 PM
Thanks ringwraith10 . :)

Does anyone have any thoughts on Your Name? It looks interesting.


Ponyfan

I love this film ;) In Japanese it's called Kimi no Na Wa, which carries the nuance pretty much of "Your name is..?" and that resonates more to me with the story.

It does for me what Lala land should have done, but wasn't brave enough to because Hollywood is too mainstream. I didn't really get excited about Lala Land although there were plaudits and awards being thrown at it, it was fine but pretty predictable.  Kimi no Na Wa/Your Name was out at the same time and I think it's much better. If you have a chance to, I recommend watching it :) I don't think it's confusing, but I dunno, did you watch it in English? I don't know how they dubbed it, as I've only seen it in Japanese, and sometimes translations sweep across important things and details go missing :/

Ironically both films were in cinemas when I was in Japan. I got such weird looks from the people waiting to see Lala Land because I was obviously a foreigner yet obviously going to see a Japanese film (not Kimi no Na Wa, a different one).

I'm not a huge fan of Ghibli. I like a couple but that's it. I guess that probably makes me an alien.
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2018, 11:04:16 AM
Thanks everyone. :)

I just ordered Your Name and In This Corner of the World online. I’ll probabbly pick up From Up on Poppy Hill in store.




Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 12, 2018, 03:31:35 PM
My anime movies came yesterday and I'm planning on picking up Fromm Up From Poppy Hill this weekend. :)



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Post by: Taffeta on April 12, 2018, 03:47:20 PM
My anime movies came yesterday and I'm planning on picking up Fromm Up From Poppy Hill this weekend. :)



Ponyfan

Yay :O) Let us know how you find them :D

I am slowly working my way through Crunchyroll's selection in between research papers...
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Post by: ringwraith10 on April 14, 2018, 10:11:22 PM
Does anyone have any thoughts on Your Name? It looks interesting.


Ponyfan
It's sooooo good! I saw it pretty recently, and as soon as I watched the movie I ordered the manga. And the third (and last) volume of the manga just came out in English!
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 24, 2018, 06:04:29 PM
I haven’t  watched Your Name, From Up on Poppy Hill or In This Corner of the World yet. I picked up Sailor Moon Super S part 1 (Viz dub) today.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Olympus on May 02, 2018, 07:44:42 PM
My sister and I grew up on anime. I have some treasured memories of us going to the library to scour the shelves for new VHS tapes of our favorites or new ones that we've never heard of.

I don't watch it as much as I used to, but I still watch it from time to time. Most things in the idol or magical girl genres are my weakness.

Has anyone seen that Sanrio mini-series/anime? 'Aggurestuko' or something like that. I don't have Netflix right now, but from the clips I've seen, it looks hilarious.
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Post by: tikibirds on May 03, 2018, 01:57:34 AM
Is that the one with the angry racoon or tanuki? not sure what she is supposed to be.
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Post by: Uninu on May 03, 2018, 02:05:24 AM
I love Aggretsuko! Her raging really speaks to me. XD
Tikibirds: Retsuko is a red panda.
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Post by: Carrehz on May 03, 2018, 07:28:34 AM
Aggretsuko is awesome!! I need to catch up on it :) I love Retsuko, she's a cutie.
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on May 03, 2018, 02:13:26 PM
Started watching the Azure Striker Gunvolt anime.
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Post by: Prince_Sunbeam on May 16, 2018, 06:51:14 PM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!
Ive never been super into anime, I did watch Inuyasha about 13 years ago but just fell away from it. My wife grew up watching Sailor Moon and started collecting the DVDs so we've recently seen a few of those.
Any other recommendations?
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Post by: beajjai033 on May 16, 2018, 07:13:48 PM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!

Glad to hear that! I love that series~ :lovey:
I love King! Which one is your favorite?
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 17, 2018, 07:18:04 AM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!
Ive never been super into anime, I did watch Inuyasha about 13 years ago but just fell away from it. My wife grew up watching Sailor Moon and started collecting the DVDs so we've recently seen a few of those.
Any other recommendations?

Assassination Classroom.  It's hilarious and a bit macabre, but the end of the series was so sweet it made me cry.  I recommend it to everyone.
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Post by: Prince_Sunbeam on May 17, 2018, 08:20:48 AM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!

Glad to hear that! I love that series~ :lovey:
I love King! Which one is your favorite?

So far Meliodus is my favorite (sexism aside..), but Im only a few episodes in- King appears in the next episode, I'll likely watch tonight.
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Post by: Einhornbaby on May 17, 2018, 09:56:13 AM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!

Glad to hear that! I love that series~ :lovey:
I love King! Which one is your favorite?


that series is soooo great, I enjoyed every second :D :D My favourite is Ban!
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Post by: Taffeta on May 18, 2018, 02:29:03 AM
Working my way through Crunchyroll's streaming catalogue is my destress option when I'm spending time working seriously on notes or something else related to my PhD.

I've most recently rewatched Koruda which is a nostalgic favourite for me and always will be thanks to the seiyuu pranks in the live events...

I've also recently rewatched Erased and Charlotte.

In terms of newer anime for me, I've watched Chihayafuru and reminded myself that I really do hate waka. But it's a series that really shouldn't work and yet it really does. Glad there will be a season 3 but not for a long time.

Also Classroom of the Elite...because I really relate with the main character- his school experience and mine quite similar thus far...

What else have I watched lately?

Oh yeah, some weird but very cute thing about keeping a Mummy as a pet.

I am literally just clicking on stuff randomly and watching it at the moment but it's fun that way too.

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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 18, 2018, 12:40:58 PM
Just finished watching Ultimate Otaku Teacher.  It's hilarious and has a lot of other show references.
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Post by: Stormness_1 on May 19, 2018, 04:14:11 PM
I'm kind of obsessed with One Piece at the moment.. I read the manga and then go back and watch the anime, because manga just doesn't work as well for the fight scenes.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2018, 05:27:12 AM
Does anyone remember the old Nickelodeon show Noozles about the Koala that came to life when Sandy rubbed noses with him? I just found out last night that this show is actually an anime from Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OBGh-N8a04

Ponyfan

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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on May 25, 2018, 10:17:42 AM
Aggretsuko is soooooo adorable!  Much LOVE <3
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Post by: kakenterprise on May 25, 2018, 06:01:53 PM
I started/finished season 1 of Made In Abyss.   
It's a great story and the art work is some of the best I've seen in an Anime.


Also I'm hooked on My Hero Academia, I can't wait for a new episode tomorrow. 
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Post by: Carrehz on May 29, 2018, 04:23:45 PM
Has anyone else seen Mary and the Witch's Flower? I saw it yesterday, it's a very cute film :)
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 30, 2018, 05:41:31 PM
I finished Sailor Moon Season 4 part 1 Viz dub. I’m hoping to finally watch Your Name this weekend. I haven’t seen Mary and the Witch’s Flower yet. I’m still trying to watch Pretty Cure/Glitter Force but just can’t seem to get into it.

Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on June 01, 2018, 10:10:59 PM
Almost finished with Naruto. I don't know if thats a good or bad thing because I watched almost all 700 episodes and all the movies in less then a year  :blink:
Also just finished Spirit Pact. I think this one is Chinese, not Japanese in origin..which is kind of strange because I remember reading that any non straight relationships were banned in media over there. Although it is never said outright, the 2 main characters seem to be in love with each other.

This season I am watching Gegege no Kitaro and Kakuriyo: bed and breakfast for spirits.

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Oh yeah, some weird but very cute thing about keeping a Mummy as a pet.
I got that one on my list.
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Post by: Taffeta on June 02, 2018, 10:33:03 AM
I started watching Spirit Pact too in my random Crunchyroll viewing but I didn't get into it really yet. I will probably go back to it as my anime watching is always dictated by my current mood and what appeals to me as a result...sometimes I am more interested in magical type things, sometimes slice of life...

 I agree about it being Chinese - but I am guessing it could be Taiwanese?

I did see a couple of episodes of magical girl Ore which is possibly the most crack thing I've seen all year but maybe just too crack for me to take it seriously enough to actually watch it all...

Though I did watch the whole of the Mummy anime...so...who knows?

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Post by: ringwraith10 on June 04, 2018, 11:36:12 AM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!
Ive never been super into anime, I did watch Inuyasha about 13 years ago but just fell away from it. My wife grew up watching Sailor Moon and started collecting the DVDs so we've recently seen a few of those.
Any other recommendations?

Assassination Classroom.  It's hilarious and a bit macabre, but the end of the series was so sweet it made me cry.  I recommend it to everyone.
Ooh I've been really interested in Assassination Classroom. I think I might try the manga first, though? Any thoughts on that?
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Post by: SaraMari on June 04, 2018, 12:38:57 PM
I'm currently 3/4 through my 4 (5?) Rewatch of my fave anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. I plan to watch Tiger and Bunny and Made in Abyss afterwards. I watched Houseki no Kuni and The Ancient Magnus Bride last fall but didn't haven't gotten into anything for spring
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 04, 2018, 02:02:10 PM
I just started watching Seven Deadly Sins and am totally hooked!
Ive never been super into anime, I did watch Inuyasha about 13 years ago but just fell away from it. My wife grew up watching Sailor Moon and started collecting the DVDs so we've recently seen a few of those.
Any other recommendations?

Assassination Classroom.  It's hilarious and a bit macabre, but the end of the series was so sweet it made me cry.  I recommend it to everyone.
Ooh I've been really interested in Assassination Classroom. I think I might try the manga first, though? Any thoughts on that?

I've not read the manga so I don't know how it compares.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2018, 12:08:20 AM
I just watched Your Name and it's really good. :)


Ponyfan
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Post by: ringwraith10 on June 06, 2018, 06:51:35 AM
I just watched Your Name and it's really good. :)


Ponyfan

It is soooo good! :heart:

I just watched Mary and the Witch's Flower and that was pretty good, too! It definitely had a Studio Ghibli feel.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2018, 11:32:27 AM
I think Your Name is going to be one of my favorite anime movies. :)  I still need to watch In This Corner of the  World and Up From Poppy Hill. Is Satalite Girl and Milk Cow anime? I don’t think that one really interests me though.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on June 06, 2018, 03:11:51 PM
I just watched Your Name and it's really good. :)


Ponyfan

Yay :D I was so sure you'd love it! So glad I was right <3
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Post by: Carrehz on June 06, 2018, 03:32:02 PM
I just watched Your Name and it's really good. :)


Ponyfan

It is soooo good! :heart:

I just watched Mary and the Witch's Flower and that was pretty good, too! It definitely had a Studio Ghibli feel.

yessss it's so good!! Apparently it was made by some ex-Ghibli workers. I liked it a lot ^^
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Post by: ringwraith10 on June 06, 2018, 04:13:03 PM
I just watched Your Name and it's really good. :)


Ponyfan

It is soooo good! :heart:

I just watched Mary and the Witch's Flower and that was pretty good, too! It definitely had a Studio Ghibli feel.

yessss it's so good!! Apparently it was made by some ex-Ghibli workers. I liked it a lot ^^

Yes, and Miazaki (sp?) was consulted on the making of the film so he's in the credits. When I saw that their logo looked a lot like the Ghibli logo I had to look it up. :)
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2018, 07:35:13 PM
I just watched Your Name and it's really good. :)


Ponyfan

Yay :D I was so sure you'd love it! So glad I was right <3


:D


I really like the instuamental song near the end of the movie too .



Ponyfan

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Post by: ringwraith10 on June 07, 2018, 07:09:55 PM
I just watched In This Corner of the World. It was rough. Maybe not as bad as Grave of the Fireflies, but still pretty brutal. I kinda want to try to read the manga again. I had started it before but stopped reading because I didn't really like the art style.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 07, 2018, 09:56:47 PM
I also just watched In This Corner of the World. I liked it for the most part but it is brutal in parts. I feel like it sort of lulls you into forgetting that it takes place during World War II and then suddenly reminds you of that fact in very dramatic ways. And there were several things that happened I wasn't expecting. 

There were also a couple of scenes I had to rewatch to see if I saw what I thought I saw. Like in the very beginning when Suzu sees the hungry girl peeking down at them through a hole in the ceiling.  And that one scene right at the end of the movie was a little too graphic for me.

I think I'll rewatch it from time to time but it won't get as many repeat viewings as some of my other anime movies.

My copy came with a little preview book of the manga. It was interesting to read after watching the movie but I'm not sure if I want to read the whole manga.

Ponyfan
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Post by: ringwraith10 on June 07, 2018, 10:22:44 PM
Yeah that scene at the end made me wonder why the movie was only rated PG-13. But I guess it might be good for kids (older kids) to see the movie to understand the history. Maybe the parents could just turn it off right before the end?
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Post by: tikibirds on June 08, 2018, 03:26:08 AM
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I started watching Spirit Pact too in my random Crunchyroll viewing but I didn't get into it really yet. I will probably go back to it as my anime watching is always dictated by my current mood and what appeals to me as a result...sometimes I am more interested in magical type things, sometimes slice of life...

 I agree about it being Chinese - but I am guessing it could be Taiwanese?

I did see a couple of episodes of magical girl Ore which is possibly the most crack thing I've seen all year but maybe just too crack for me to take it seriously enough to actually watch it all...
Though I did watch the whole of the Mummy anime...so...who knows?
I kinda feel like something got lost in translation with Spirit Pact. Its not the greatest of stories but I still liked it.

I have less then 40 episodes of Naruto left to go.
Not sure how I feel about having finished almost 700 episodes and like 15 movies in less then a year...
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 08, 2018, 10:28:33 AM
Yeah that scene at the end made me wonder why the movie was only rated PG-13. But I guess it might be good for kids (older kids) to see the movie to understand the history. Maybe the parents could just turn it off right before the end?



I thought the film did a pretty good job of depicting the tragedy of war appropriately for the film's rating except for that scene at the end and for a little of the dialouge (more of a surprise that it went in to that much detail about what happened to the victims) I like that the film is told completley from the Japanese perspective.


I agree that if parents are letting their kids watch this they probably need to turn it off before that scene. I think the animators could have accomplished the same effect they were going for without being quite that graphic. I will be skipping over that scene myself when I rewatch the movie.



Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on June 12, 2018, 08:42:16 PM
I just finished Naruto. I don't know what to do with my life now.

I need something new to binge watch.  :lookround:
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 13, 2018, 06:31:10 AM
I just finished My Love Story.  It's adorable.

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Post by: Ponyfan on June 13, 2018, 11:02:42 AM
I’m also looking for anime recommendations. My Walmart stores are starting to stock more Studio Ghibli movies since they’ve moved from Disney to Ghibli Kids.

 

Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on June 13, 2018, 10:49:23 PM
I'm now rewatching Ouran. I still think it's totally crack, although I also think the questions it raises about gender roles are interesting. What with Haruhi not really caring about being mistaken for a boy, and not fitting the stereotypes...and all the other things going on.

I am pretending that watching anime helps with my Japanese work. It's good to pretend.
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Post by: tikibirds on June 14, 2018, 02:56:36 AM
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I’m also looking for anime recommendations. My Walmart stores are starting to stock more Studio Ghibli movies since they’ve moved from Disney to Ghibli Kids.

 
Honestly, I only liked The Cat returns, Howls moving Castle and Spirited away. The one with the little people was good too. Normally I hate subtitles but for some reason, I really do not like the dubbing of these. I know they are all done by famous actors but is like the voices do not match the characters.

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I'm now rewatching Ouran. I still think it's totally crack, although I also think the questions it raises about gender roles are interesting. What with Haruhi not really caring about being mistaken for a boy, and not fitting the stereotypes...and all the other things going on.

I suppose having a crossdressing father helped.
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Post by: Taffeta on June 14, 2018, 03:07:50 AM
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I’m also looking for anime recommendations. My Walmart stores are starting to stock more Studio Ghibli movies since they’ve moved from Disney to Ghibli Kids.

 
Honestly, I only liked The Cat returns, Howls moving Castle and Spirited away. The one with the little people was good too. Normally I hate subtitles but for some reason, I really do not like the dubbing of these. I know they are all done by famous actors but is like the voices do not match the characters.

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I'm now rewatching Ouran. I still think it's totally crack, although I also think the questions it raises about gender roles are interesting. What with Haruhi not really caring about being mistaken for a boy, and not fitting the stereotypes...and all the other things going on.

I suppose having a crossdressing father helped.

I am not really a fan of Ghibli either. I like a couple. Spirited Away and Mononoke-hime are ok, and the one based on the borrowers which I cannot remember the name of for some reason right now. But I always feel like Ghibli are like the Japanese Disney...and if you only ever watched Disney, you'd miss a lot of cool other stuff...

Not a fan of dubs either, but that's personal preference and I admit, I'm also not a fan of subs. Subs are more often correct to the original than dubs, but they usually both take liberties and I like to know what is actually being said in the story, not what some other person decided to render it as...

Re Ouran - yes indeed :D
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Post by: tikibirds on June 19, 2018, 12:38:26 AM
Normally, if there is a dubbed version, I would prefer that. I would rather have the translation make sense to me, as an American then to have the original Japanese version of something that would make no sense to me. Plus, I miss 1/2 of it anyways because I can't read that fast. I know there are a lot of SUBS ONLY people out there, especially on FB groups but.. Dubs please. If subs are the only option, I will watch that way though. The exceptions being the Ghibli movies because the voices don;t match the characters and Hetalia because of the way that show is, I usually can't hear/understand what they are saying.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 19, 2018, 01:36:20 PM
I also prefer dubbed anime over subtitles as I feel like if I’m having to read the subtitles to understand what the characters are saying it takes away from my enjoyment of the movie. That being said I have watched some short scenes that were only subtitled and it didn’t bother me as much as I thought it would.

I’m open to anime from other companies besides Studio Ghibli also. :)

I’m been considering Wedding Peach. Is there a place to watch it in English?

Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: NovelNerd on June 19, 2018, 01:52:37 PM
I watch a lot of subbed, but the English teacher in me makes it easy to keep up with subtitles. It’s not that I overly prefer them, but of the dub is overly different from the sub I prefer the sub. Many times I end up watching both to compare. I was on a big kick on anime for a while during the school year. Right now there isn’t much on Hulu and Netflix minus my waiting on new seasons. I’m waiting for the rest of Tokyo Ghoul to be put up on Hulu before I start it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 19, 2018, 02:39:47 PM
I've been watching Emma: A Victorian Romance.  It's cute so far.

It doesn't have a dub, so I have to read it, but I sometimes wonder how the translation is because the words at the bottom won't say a name but the character speaking clearly said "Emma" while talking to or about her to someone else.  I've also noticed spelling and grammatical errors in the subtitles so sometimes it takes a minute to figure out what they were trying to say.  However, if I could ever manage to break into voice acting it's one that I'd love to do.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 19, 2018, 03:56:39 PM
I’m been considering Wedding Peach. Is there a place to watch it in English?

Ponyfan

aaaa I would definitely recommend Wedding Peach!!! I finally got round to watching it this year and it's so good :D I'm pretty sure the dub's online, I'm not sure if there's any official streaming places for it though (I prefer subs). I do know the DVDs are out of print >_< Having a heck of a time trying to find the ones I'm missing.

good luck finding it!! It's really good!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 20, 2018, 09:12:49 AM
I’m been considering Wedding Peach. Is there a place to watch it in English?

Ponyfan

aaaa I would definitely recommend Wedding Peach!!! I finally got round to watching it this year and it's so good :D I'm pretty sure the dub's online, I'm not sure if there's any official streaming places for it though (I prefer subs). I do know the DVDs are out of print >_< Having a heck of a time trying to find the ones I'm missing.

good luck finding it!! It's really good!


I did find some episodes on Youtube but it looks like someone held a mesh screen up to their TV before recording them. :(

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I will keep looking though as it looks like a series I would really enjoy once I got in to it.


I watched From Up on Poppy Hill I liked it but not as much as the other Studio Ghibli movies I've seen so far.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 20, 2018, 02:06:02 PM
I've been watching Emma: A Victorian Romance.  It's cute so far.

It doesn't have a dub, so I have to read it, but I sometimes wonder how the translation is because the words at the bottom won't say a name but the character speaking clearly said "Emma" while talking to or about her to someone else.  I've also noticed spelling and grammatical errors in the subtitles so sometimes it takes a minute to figure out what they were trying to say.  However, if I could ever manage to break into voice acting it's one that I'd love to do.


The reason for that is probably the difference in how Japanese uses terms of address vs how English does. For example, in Japanese, it's not uncommon to use someone's name to refer to someone, rather than the words for 'he' and 'she'. It can also be more polite to use someone's name than 'you'. Those words do exist, but to literally translate that over without accommodating cultural norms in English would mean you'd have a character standing in front of Emma saying "And what does Emma want?" as opposed to "and what do you want?" (Emma wa nani ga hoshii no ka?)

So that's why.  Although if the spelling and grammar is also suspect...*shrug*. There are some subtitles like that as well :/

I totally respect people's personal preferences about dubs and subs and I don't get involved in dub vs sub politics, because I don't really love either.

My general position on this is not that dubs or subs shouldn't exist, but that they could do a lot better in servicing their audiences.

I find the pronunciation of Japanese names in dubs pretty painful, but my real issue with dubs is the obsessive need they have to Westernise things that don't need Westernising. For example, I remember one instance of a character in Bleach who in Japanese, resolutely insists on the other characters not calling him by his first name because he hates it. In the English dub, however, his first name is always used. The character's nuances are completely different in the dub. I really don't like this.

Add to this that I hate the compulsive need by some series to rename the characters. It drives me up the wall whenever anyone refers to Sailor Moon as Serena, because that is so not her name. I am less bothered by Ash and company because getting hold of Japanese Pokemon episodes is a lot harder to do...but the principle is the same. Is Satoshi really that hard to say? I wonder...

I also have an issue with one series which was never dubbed but in the subs they mangled the names and Westernised the roles of the characters. This is a story set in Heian Japan, and they made a yin yang practitioner into a 'sorcerer' and they turned the name Sefuru into Sefle. I am still cringing at this, several years on.

In short, I don't mind that they exist. I just wish they didn't take such liberties with the original.

Japanese dialogue is usually better than English dub because the original in any language is usually performed more naturally (by dint of not having to match foreign mouth movements - not the fault of the dub artists, just how things are). But the real quality of the original is that Japanese has so many variations in the way people interact and address each other that a lot of things about the character is contained in their manner of speech. Translation rarely manages to convey that :/

It horrifies some of the manga purists, but I would rather watch a subbed anime with Japanese voice track than read the manga in English. As a rule, if it's a manga adaptation, there is less alteration in the Japanese anime adaptation than there is in the English translation of the original manga.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 24, 2018, 06:40:48 AM
Castlevania has announced its second season.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on June 28, 2018, 12:59:17 AM
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Add to this that I hate the compulsive need by some series to rename the characters. It drives me up the wall whenever anyone refers to Sailor Moon as Serena, because that is so not her name. I am less bothered by Ash and company because getting hold of Japanese Pokemon episodes is a lot harder to do...but the principle is the same. Is Satoshi really that hard to say? I wonder...

I wonder if they did that with the pokemon names because it was aimed at younger kids? It's obviously a rice ball but they call it a jelly donut.
What drove me nuts, when I was watching Vampire Knight, was when Yuki would say a name one way and everyone else said it differently. I donlt care how you pronounce it, just be consistant. Kinda like how they butchered Aang in the Airbender movie.  :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 28, 2018, 01:47:47 AM
The best/worst one was when sake became tea in Tenchi Muyou...one of the few dubs I watched before I did Japanese.

Jelly donut is a great example of how American dubs are also not always good for other English speakers too. What you call jelly we call jam and the idea of jelly in a doughnut is just....

O
Whereas on the flipside we have onigiri here and sold under that name.

I have no idea about the English dub of VK...only ever saw it n Japanese where it has a stellar cast...but yeah, that would be annoying.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on June 28, 2018, 10:21:21 PM
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What you call jelly we call jam and the idea of jelly in a doughnut is just....
But its soo good! Its normally grape jelly but there other kinds like lemon or apple. There are also boston cream filled donuts which I guess would be close to a custard? or a pudding but...different. Im not sure, exactly, what boston cream is.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 29, 2018, 12:33:04 AM
Yes but my point was what you call jelly we call jam. Jelly here is what you call jello. So by dubbing it that way it gets culturally lost in translation and becomes something revolting.

Jam doughnuts are fine.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 29, 2018, 07:59:16 AM
"Jelly donuts" and the like confuses me because.. why not just call it a rice ball? I get not calling it "onigiri", especially if it's in something directed towards kids like Pokemon, but.. there's a perfectly understandable and clear English name for it, so...?? I sorta understand stuff like that sometimes (like.. I can't think of any examples off-hand but say, with a food that's specifically Japanese and doesn't really have an English counterpart/doesn't translate easily and it's on screen for 2 seconds, so they just go with something similar to get the point across. If that makes sense) but I've never understood it with rice balls. Weird.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 29, 2018, 08:59:13 AM
Anybody seen the new Netflix "Space Pirate Harlock"?  I thought it was really well-done and kept the original ambiance of the story!

I agree with Taffeta, give me original Japanese culture and stop Americanizing things.  I know it seems odd to newer fans but the cultural knowledge is important to know - otherwise WHY are you watching JAPANESE entertainment! Promoting ignorance by calling "onigiri"  "jelly donuts"?  WUT!  Onigiri is for rice and fish... even my 6 y/o knows that.  Not even close to a fried yeasty pastry...

*giggles* Jelly and Jam in N.America versus everywhere else...  yeah Jam goes on bread and Jelly is made from gelatin so DON'T put it on bread!  my DD's friend has UK parents and trying to translate "sweetie" talk - what are we feeding these kids?  I don't know but it's got sugar LOL

I will forgive Sailor Moon though because it was the first anime I fell in love with.  When it first came on TV and I was in 5th-6th grade, I looooooooooved Serena and her friends.  I was little, bouncing on my BFF's trampoline and playing "Make-Up Power!" was an awesome childhood memory.  About a year later I realized the show came from Japan and it wasn't just some silly kids' show and it had a HUGE following across the ocean AND that in Japan it was cool for adults to like cartoons - starting my gateway drug into the world of Japanese culture... LOL should I say "torii" instead?  So I have Sailor Moon as a nice memory and Sailormoon for all that I have learned and loved about Japan :)  If that makes sense? 

but hahahaa it's true, anime like Fushigi Yuugi needed a LOT of cultural explanation!!!  also Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura need a fair bit...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 29, 2018, 12:15:29 PM
I just think it sucks that the dub people assume that the viewer in English doesn't want to know any of the Japanese cultural aspects and so rewrites them. It takes away the choice to engage in the culture, and not everyone can read subs at speed. It's sort of insulting to the audience :(

@LBS - yes! Yes to the jelly-donut-dilemma of the British xD.

Mind you, the things the Japanese put in onigiri is pretty varied at times, and some of them are revolting >< but not ever jelly (jello)!

I feel kind of like that with Tenchi which was my first anime, and was dubbed, and is still the only one I can watch dubbed for nostalgia's sake (aside occasionally pokemon which was completely butchered into a cartoon and is really hard to find in Japanese anyway).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 29, 2018, 04:20:17 PM
I had hoped that when Pokemon was re-released (they've been releasing it in season sets) they would have left the Japanese language track on them so you could watch in Japanese if you chose, but so far they haven't.  I could never figure out why they called rice balls "donuts", either.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 29, 2018, 07:06:33 PM
yeah, I wish the JP version of Pokemon was easier to find. It's weird how hard it is to find subbed episodes, given how huge Pokemon is.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 04, 2018, 12:40:04 PM
I just found a listing for a new anime movie from the same company that did "Your Name" It's called "Fireworks"  Here's the subbed and dubbed trailers for it.


Subbed Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG770hOuT2k


Dubbed Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WajApinThs4


Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 04, 2018, 12:59:17 PM
yeah, I wish the JP version of Pokemon was easier to find. It's weird how hard it is to find subbed episodes, given how huge Pokemon is.

It's of course possible to buy it from Japan, but subbing doesn't seem to happen much. I think there may be a lot of pressure on the licencing aspect and fansubbers don't want to risk it. Countries that speak English get the doctored cut US dubbed versions with the changed names and that's that.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 07, 2018, 11:15:36 AM
I watched "The Cat Returns" last night. I enjoyed it. :) I think  "Fireworks" looks really interesting.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Snowhoof on July 07, 2018, 05:05:22 PM
I don't watch that much Anime anymore like I used to when I was younger. When I was in my teens/early twenties I was crazy about Anime. Now I just watch the occasional series here and there when I have the time. The last series I watched and kept up with while it was airing was Juni Taisen: Zodiac War. Think of it like Chinese Zodiac meets Hunger Games with the characters having some neat abilities. I really loved that series and even though it was a bit predictable, it was so exciting to see what happens to the characters featured in each episode. It's one of the few series where I liked all of the twelve main characters too. Plus the opening is <3 <3 <3!!!

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Katika on July 07, 2018, 09:34:31 PM
Has Grimgar been mentioned in this thread yet? I watched it last week (it's currently a single season long) and am absolutely in love with its art and how it's completely character-driven.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 14, 2018, 06:11:42 AM
Only anime I'll watch now is Attack on Titan, hence why I downloaded crunchyroll on my PS4 to watch Season 3.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 15, 2018, 10:48:24 AM
So this is the time of year when I discover that I absolutely don't watch any of the mainstream popular anime everyone else does. I am not quite sure why that is, but I seem to have a fatal attraction for obscure stuff...

Aside Bleach, which has been over a long time and effectively died the moment the final arc of manga began to be (I dare not say, 'written', it's too polite a word), I've never really gone for the series that everyone else seems to. But I don't really think about it much until I go to local festival things and don't recognise half the cosplay, half the anime themes and half the characters on merchandise ;)

...Oh well :) I guess that's fine...?

Been finally watching the rest of Monochrome Factor this week. I remember I started watching that when it originally aired years ago. Then I kind of forgot about it for a long time and then dug it up from my DVDs again the other week so decided to finally watch it.

Nice to hear Suwabe Junichi and Ono Daisuke voicing characters <3 Especially Suwabe's flipping between polite Shirogane and not so polite Shirogane, depending whether Akira is there or not...

It's not a bad anime. Probably not one of my favourites though...





Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 25, 2018, 04:54:31 PM
I have been away for several days. I caught part of an episode of Miraculous  Ladybug and Cat Noir and it looked pretty interesting. I found out it’s on Netflix. I guress I’ll be watching that one now. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Jorgito93 on July 25, 2018, 05:40:01 PM
I'm currently finishing Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and i'm wondering why i didn't watch it before, it's great.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2018, 02:17:39 AM
I have been away for several days. I caught part of an episode of Miraculous  Ladybug and Cat Noir and it looked pretty interesting. I found out it’s on Netflix. I guress I’ll be watching that one now. :)

Ponyfan

Miraculous is very cute. Unfortunately the airing schedule of the current season has been a bit insane...
As current kids' shows go, it's kind of fun...

@Jorgito, I haven't watched that in ages, but I remember it being good as well. I was bullied by an online friend to watch it, and I don't regret that I did. I need to find time to rewatch it sometime...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 26, 2018, 10:04:17 AM
Rewatching Dragon Ball Z The Cell Games Saga, and Goku's death still makes me  :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Katika on July 28, 2018, 08:24:56 PM
Rewatching Dragon Ball Z The Cell Games Saga, and Goku's death still makes me  :cry:

What gets me every single time is when the end credits first changes over to We Were Angels. OMG. For some reason that step of seeing/accepting that Gohan grew up makes me bawl like a baby lol
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: flutterscotch on July 28, 2018, 08:30:12 PM
I really liked that Children of the Whales show that is on Netflix.  It was very interesting.  Good worldbuilding.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 28, 2018, 09:02:15 PM
Apparently there is another Dragonball movie coming.... this one focuses on Brolly....  I'm like, what, there's still super saiyans left to kick each other around?  How many times are you gonna power up before you implode the universe?  Give us more Piccolo!!!! 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 29, 2018, 12:43:29 AM
Apparently there is another Dragonball movie coming.... this one focuses on Brolly....  I'm like, what, there's still super saiyans left to kick each other around?  How many times are you gonna power up before you implode the universe?  Give us more Piccolo!!!! 

Sigh.

I really dislike DB. It always seems to be everywhere. I remember DBZ was on when I was younger, at the same time as Tenchi Muyou, and I had to sit through the end of DBZ before Tenchi came on. I never have understood why it's popular. I guess it's one of those mysteries of the world...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on July 29, 2018, 01:41:11 AM
For this season on Crunchyroll, I have been watching:

Cells at work - Humanized versions of body cells. Its different.
How to summon a demon Lord - guy surrounded by scantly clad, girls with huge boobs usually isn't my thing but the story has kept me entertained. A shut in wakes up as his character in a role play video game world.
Phantom of the twilight - Two girls from japan or maybe China? arrive in London for college. The one girl ends up learning about her great grandmothers spirit hunting past.
Bed and Breakfast for spirits - second season
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 29, 2018, 01:44:24 AM
For this season on Crunchyroll, I have been watching:

Cells at work - Humanized versions of body cells. Its different.
How to summon a demon Lord - guy surrounded by scantly clad, girls with huge boobs usually isn't my thing but the story has kept me entertained. A shut in wakes up as his character in a role play video game world.
Phantom of the twilight - Two girls from japan or maybe China? arrive in London for college. The one girl ends up learning about her great grandmothers spirit hunting past.
Bed and Breakfast for spirits - second season

I am actually going to check some of those out, as they sound hilarious.

I did watch "The Devil is a Part-Timer" which was very quirky and nuts. But I think in a good way.
I've been watching Assassination Classroom for the first time recently after seeing a lot of stuff with it on at the Japanese festival and getting curious. The warped logic is actually brilliant so I am quite enjoying it right now :)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Katika on July 29, 2018, 02:46:23 AM
Apparently there is another Dragonball movie coming.... this one focuses on Brolly....  I'm like, what, there's still super saiyans left to kick each other around?  How many times are you gonna power up before you implode the universe?  Give us more Piccolo!!!! 

I am *always* on board for more Piccolo! But I'm admittedly obsessed with him (to the point that my household celebrates his birthday and my husband refers to him as my boyfriend... :/ :D ) It would be interesting to check out what's actually canon for other characters away from the Saiyans--I personally wonder about 17 and 18s' human pasts more often than I probably should and it's a little surprising to me that Super and what's coming after it is following the path it is, considering the way DBZ ended with Toriyama's alleged frustration at the same general plot loop, just with different bad guys, but the franchise will always hold a very special place in my heart that I'll never be able to walk away from :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 29, 2018, 11:20:10 AM

I did watch "The Devil is a Part-Timer" which was very quirky and nuts. But I think in a good way.


OMG that show is hysterical!!!! 

IMHO DBZ is popular because for the longest time, that was what was dubbed on American TV for the average male viewer.  It was broadcast in the evenings on Cartoon Network during AdultSwim,  so it was not marketed as "kids' cartoons".  Pokemon was for kids, Sailormoon was for girls, the other stuff had too much Japanese culture...
Consider it "cartoon football".  That's basically what the demographic enjoying it ALSO watched...
Conversely the original Dragonball was broadcast at 5am... so kids were not up and watching it until they really loved it.  I really loved the first show, when Goku grew up, it got kind of boring to me. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on July 29, 2018, 03:18:08 PM

I did watch "The Devil is a Part-Timer" which was very quirky and nuts. But I think in a good way.


OMG that show is hysterical!!!! 

IMHO DBZ is popular because for the longest time, that was what was dubbed on American TV for the average male viewer.  It was broadcast in the evenings on Cartoon Network during AdultSwim,  so it was not marketed as "kids' cartoons".  Pokemon was for kids, Sailormoon was for girls, the other stuff had too much Japanese culture...
Consider it "cartoon football".  That's basically what the demographic enjoying it ALSO watched...
Conversely the original Dragonball was broadcast at 5am... so kids were not up and watching it until they really loved it.  I really loved the first show, when Goku grew up, it got kind of boring to me.

DBZ was first on Toonami at a after school time slot before the adult swim slot... Girls got SM, Boys got DBZ.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 29, 2018, 04:55:11 PM
In the UK Toonami had DBZ, Tenchi and Gundam Wing if I remember right. I loved Tenchi despite the dub and obvious cuts but hated DBZ and couldn't get into Gundam. I never saw Sailor Moon in English so I dunno what channel or wherr it aired here. Never knew it was meant to be Toonami.

For me DBZ had no plot. It was just a series of increasingly unrealistic battles while people stood around describing the fights. I never saw any other DB though. That put me off.

I need an actual plot...godmodding fights aren't my thing really...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 29, 2018, 10:07:29 PM
oooooh Toonami, that's right!  I vaguely remember that!  I totally did not like Gundam so I wasn't paying attention...

DBZ has plot in the manga.  Unfortunately in episode format, this meant SO.MANY.FILLER episodes because I think the manga was still ongoing at that time?  Common problem in anime...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2018, 10:02:05 AM
oooooh Toonami, that's right!  I vaguely remember that!  I totally did not like Gundam so I wasn't paying attention...

DBZ has plot in the manga.  Unfortunately in episode format, this meant SO.MANY.FILLER episodes because I think the manga was still ongoing at that time?  Common problem in anime...

I think honestly it's a combination between my tastes and the series itself, I also don't like the artwork. I also agree that probably Toonami'd DB isn't the best introduction to it, because it's dub and cut and yeah.

Fillers can kill series, it's true - but tbh, even the worst and most stupid of the Bleach fillers did at least have some type of plot going on. Bleach is pretty much the only mainstream type shounen manga I ever got into and that probably because of all the tiny cultural details hidden away inside the story as much as the characters. It got wrecked in the last manga arc, and that was that for me with the actual canon, though, so I think it's probably as much just what I can get into. I still love Bleach, for all its flaws, but not the final arc because it's horrible, and not the fillers because they're also mostly horrible xD. I also never was able to get into One Piece even though it's super popular so I think that it's more just not my genre of anime/manga and that's the main reason I didn't want to give DB any more time after Toonami.

I really don't read much manga any more (although it is true that mostly manga > anime with series) because it's so tricky to get in Japanese...I have a few light novels for some series like Saiunkoku, Yuugi etc but I mostly don't read it. I did such a lot of translation correction for Bleach chapters over a period of about 2 years for an online community it really taught me how bad fan scanlations and official translations can be so I won't read them any more. That limits my access to manga so if the anime doesn't step up, I kind of just let it go...

I wanted to get into Gundam because Midorikawa Hikaru is one of the voice artists I've always followed, but I couldn't. Heero was just...such...a whiny boy. xD
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 30, 2018, 11:41:46 AM

I wanted to get into Gundam because Midorikawa Hikaru is one of the voice artists I've always followed, but I couldn't. Heero was just...such...a whiny boy. xD

Huh?  I grew up watching Gundam Wing and I don't recall him being whiny. He was manipulated into killing a whole plane full of pacifists but I definitely wouldn't classify him as whiny.  If anything, that boy needs to talk more. I've watched the dub with subtitles to see how close the translations (supposedly) are and I didn't think they were too far off.  Maybe the actual Japanese has him whinier than they dubbed him to be.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on July 30, 2018, 12:09:24 PM
In the UK Toonami had DBZ, Tenchi and Gundam Wing if I remember right. I loved Tenchi despite the dub and obvious cuts but hated DBZ and couldn't get into Gundam. I never saw Sailor Moon in English so I dunno what channel or wherr it aired here. Never knew it was meant to be Toonami.

For me DBZ had no plot. It was just a series of increasingly unrealistic battles while people stood around describing the fights. I never saw any other DB though. That put me off.

I need an actual plot...godmodding fights aren't my thing really...

Eh.
I wouldn't say that Sailor Moon was meant for Toonami.
It hit local tv in North America in 1995/1996. It bombed tho. XD
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2018, 01:41:59 PM

I wanted to get into Gundam because Midorikawa Hikaru is one of the voice artists I've always followed, but I couldn't. Heero was just...such...a whiny boy. xD

Huh?  I grew up watching Gundam Wing and I don't recall him being whiny. He was manipulated into killing a whole plane full of pacifists but I definitely wouldn't classify him as whiny.  If anything, that boy needs to talk more. I've watched the dub with subtitles to see how close the translations (supposedly) are and I didn't think they were too far off.  Maybe the actual Japanese has him whinier than they dubbed him to be.

It was a long time ago as it was the Toonami dub, I never actually bothered to chase up the Japanese version but I remember him complaining about things a lot. I think the English voice he had didn't help though. There are some really bad 1990s dubs.

Sometimes the subtitles that appear on DVDs are based off the dub version, rather than the Japanese. But having never seen Gundam in its proper original form, I can't comment on that. I learned the fact from Tenchi, when I first saw it in Japanese and realised that my DVD had 2 separate subtitle options, one which matched the dub and one which didn't...when I learned Japanese I later realised the second sub track was a closer match for the Japanese. So weird how they do that sometimes.

In any case, the edited dub of Gundam on Toonami put me off pursuing the series further, so I don't think I ever saw the proper Japanese version with Midorikawa Hikaru as Heero. But I do have a lot of songs from various Gundam iterations.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 30, 2018, 01:51:29 PM
In the UK Toonami had DBZ, Tenchi and Gundam Wing if I remember right. I loved Tenchi despite the dub and obvious cuts but hated DBZ and couldn't get into Gundam. I never saw Sailor Moon in English so I dunno what channel or wherr it aired here. Never knew it was meant to be Toonami.

For me DBZ had no plot. It was just a series of increasingly unrealistic battles while people stood around describing the fights. I never saw any other DB though. That put me off.

I need an actual plot...godmodding fights aren't my thing really...

Eh.
I wouldn't say that Sailor Moon was meant for Toonami.
It hit local tv in North America in 1995/1996. It bombed tho. XD


It was on Fox's EARLY morning cartoon line-up where I lived.  My friends and I all got up super early to watch it at 5:30 am.  It came on right after Dragonball.  Then Super Mario Bros. came on, followed by Samurai Pizza Cats :)  Of course it didn't do well... it was given a most undesirable timeslot.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 31, 2018, 12:37:48 PM
I also remember Sailor Moon coming on super early. I think I started watching it while I was waiting for something else to come on that I wanted to watch and for years I could only remember something about a tree. Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders also came on when most kids were still asleep on the weekends. 


I'm still watching Miraculous Ladybug and Cat Noir. :)  There seems to be at 3 versions of the theme song. The original one in French, a short English version and a longer English version.





Ponyfan
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Post by: banditpony on August 01, 2018, 12:01:40 PM
I watched Sailor Moon at 6 or 6:30 am weekdays. I'd tape it on days I didn't have to be up.

I also remember it appearing on Saturday late morning... But only caught that once , so not sure if it was regular.

 Mario Bros wasn't on afterwards for me ;_; I would of loved that, as I thought that's as cable only.
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 03, 2018, 03:27:21 PM
I rewatched "Your Name" the other night. It's one of my favorite animes now. :) and I've found myself listening to "Sparkle" from the soundtrack.


Ponyfan
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Post by: CinnamonOnions on August 03, 2018, 04:28:43 PM
Bleh. I have my thing for old kids animes and stuff with androids or artifical intelligences. My favorites are definetly Rockman.EXE (aired in west as "Megaman NT Warrior" 14 or so years ago), Digimon 02, aaand I just a week or so ago finished rewatching Shinzou Ningen Casshan -- also a big favorite of mine. I have my small list of animes to watch, but right now I'm trying to emotionaly prepare to rewatch Casshern Sins. It's such a heavy and dark anime. What even is liking mainstream series? Oh boy.
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Post by: Haruna on August 05, 2018, 03:44:02 PM
I wanted to get into Gundam because Midorikawa Hikaru is one of the voice artists I've always followed, but I couldn't. Heero was just...such...a whiny boy. xD
Heh. He was pretty moody. My favorite was Duo :)



Eh.
I wouldn't say that Sailor Moon was meant for Toonami.
It hit local tv in North America in 1995/1996. It bombed tho. XD
My sister and I would sometimes watch it because it came on right after Pokemon; I feel like we probably had to get to school or something, though, like it was early in the morning. Did it really bomb? I can see why it might not do well overall commercially, since I remember the Sailor Moon dolls being on clearance on the shelves. But the series, I think, was pretty popular and a "gateway drug" for lots of anime fans? (at least female ones of a certain age). We'd play Sailor Scouts with our neighbors (I threw leaves in the air for my brilliant Sailor Jupiter attack . . . ) My sister fell head-over-heels for the series and bought every DVD, even the Stars series, which was hard back then as it was only released in Japan and she was like ten years old, lol. This is random, but she used to commission me for 25 cents a picture to draw pony version of the Sailor Scouts, ha ha. Those were the days.
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 05, 2018, 04:57:55 PM
I saw this had mentioned in a "Your Name" video on YouTube. It's animated by the same director as "Your Name"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJbEZ_N87i0


Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on August 06, 2018, 10:59:15 PM
I don't think I have ever seen an episode of Sailor Moon.
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Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2018, 02:29:23 AM
I don't think I have ever seen an episode of Sailor Moon.

I only saw it in Japanese. I don't remember being blown away by it but I kind of felt I needed to at least see it because it was so culturally out there. I like the theme (the Japanese original theme) better than the show in general.

*rant about renaming in spoiler tags*
Spoiler
I don't like how some shows rename characters but then again it's maybe better that they do that than mangle the names in dub? I am not sure. But I can't see her as Serena. She's Usagi, because of the Japanese joke about the rabbit in the moon (usagi = rabbit) so the Serena name completely means nothing and destroys that aspect of the joke...

I've only seen a little bit of Pokemon in Japanese as it's much harder to get hold of, but I am always amused that Pikachu is never dubbed. Ootani Ikue voices him I think in the Japanese and her voice is kept for the English version as well. And I feel a lot like if they can keep Pikachu (electric mouse), they don't need to rename the main characters...
But at least in Pokemon, Misty kind of means the same as Kasumi. Unlike Serena and Usagi, which misses the point entirely. She's called rabbit for a reason!

I think I mostly watched SM actually because of Tenchi. Because Tenchi has a spinoff spoof series called Pretty Sammy and I guess to get the whole humour of that I needed to see something properly magical girlish.

It makes me sad that Tenchi has been ruined by OVA 3 and the subsequent rubbish...sigh, never mind.
I suppose at the very least none of the Tenchi cast got renamed unecessarily.

I finished watching Assassination Classroom this week. I actually really liked it overall except I felt like bits of the ending bothered me. But in general I liked it :) Also kudos to Fukuyama Jun for all the different nuances he got out of Koro-sensei's voice, both as Koro-sensei and in other aspects of Koro-sensei's history/role.

I don't know what to watch next though :/ I have such a long list of shows to watch and I find it so hard to decide...
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2018, 06:25:29 AM
The Viz dub of Sailor Moon keeps their original names so she is Usagi to me too.

I'm still watching Miraculous Ladybug. :)

Ponyfan
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on August 08, 2018, 07:28:28 AM
Serena/Selena is one of the Greek moon goddesses, so I sort of get where the translated N.American moniker came from.... they were trying to stick to the theme... and MOST Westerners have zero clue about the rabbit in the moon pounding his mochi cakes ;) 

I had a lot of fairytale books as a kid so this wasn't a NEW thing for me... actually it made me like Sailormoon more because I was clued into the cosmology to begin with... ;)
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Post by: flutterscotch on August 08, 2018, 07:55:15 AM
In the UK Toonami had DBZ, Tenchi and Gundam Wing if I remember right. I loved Tenchi despite the dub and obvious cuts but hated DBZ and couldn't get into Gundam. I never saw Sailor Moon in English so I dunno what channel or wherr it aired here. Never knew it was meant to be Toonami.

For me DBZ had no plot. It was just a series of increasingly unrealistic battles while people stood around describing the fights. I never saw any other DB though. That put me off.

I need an actual plot...godmodding fights aren't my thing really...

Eh.
I wouldn't say that Sailor Moon was meant for Toonami.
It hit local tv in North America in 1995/1996. It bombed tho. XD


My very first terrible fan site for anything was Sailor Moon, and it was in 1995-ish.  And yes, yes it was a GeoCities site.

Toonami wasn't even on until I was practically an adult, old enough to stay up as late as I wanted at least (at least late enough that the entire reason I watched it to begin with was Moltar, so late enough to be watching SGCTC). But it was mostly stuff I had seen before. But I also recall DBZ being on well before that at least where I lived.  With this ridic theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaH23Gh8TBs

The Tenchi days of Toonami were way later.  After even all the terrible hip-hop DBZ clothing and raveware was already a joke.
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Post by: Kiwichi on August 31, 2018, 08:28:26 PM
I loved sailor moon.  Recently I showed a.clip to my daughter she said "that's so cool mom!"n but just kept asking to see the cat (Luna).  Hehe.  I loved the series Noir also kick *** girl assassins and reading the Shoujo Peach Girl in the Smile magazines.  Later I enjoyed Chobits & Love Hina.  And enjoyed all of Miyazaki'so works.  Can't wait to go see the theatre re-screening of Spirited Away this yr ^.^
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 14, 2018, 07:20:54 PM
I'm still working on Miraculous Ladybug. :) I'm also interested in Sailor Moon Crystal Season/Set 3 since I just finished the corresponding manga story.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Haruna on September 16, 2018, 02:09:22 PM
Has anyone ever tried Wotakoi? I've seen it pop up on item searches and I'm curious.
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Post by: Taffeta on October 07, 2018, 03:44:24 PM
I'm not familiar with that one...O.o.

I've begun watching Golden Kamuy. Once you get used to the idea it's quite brutal, it's actually kind of interesting. I started watching it entirely because I like the band who play the ending theme, but I guess that's a good reason??

I have also spent the last 2 hours doing something I haven't done in ages - hunting up music from seiyuu on youtube. Because all my live event DVDs are at home. And I am not ashamed to say that stories and characters through music make me happy :)
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 18, 2018, 06:16:02 PM
Viz Media has just announced they will be releasing Sailor Moon Sailor Stars season in 2019z

I’m still watching Miraculous Ladybug on Netflix but I’m getting close to the end of the episodes on there. It ends Season 2 with “Captain Hardrock” but there are more Season 2 episodes listed online. I hope they get added to Netflix soon.

Ponyfan
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Post by: banditpony on November 19, 2018, 06:48:16 AM
Viz Media has just announced they will be releasing Sailor Moon Sailor Stars season in 2019z

:3 Yay.
I'm so happy I can finally have the whole series legit. I believe I still need part 1 and 2 of SuperS. Maybe just part 2... I can't remember. >_<

;_; I look forward to the rest of Crystal as well...
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Post by: tikibirds on November 22, 2018, 04:34:27 AM
The only new one I am watching is my life reincarniated as a slime and Boruto.
But I can only watch when the VPN decides its gonna work.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 22, 2018, 09:52:02 AM
Viz Media has just announced they will be releasing Sailor Moon Sailor Stars season in 2019z

I’m still watching Miraculous Ladybug on Netflix but I’m getting close to the end of the episodes on there. It ends Season 2 with “Captain Hardrock” but there are more Season 2 episodes listed online. I hope they get added to Netflix soon.

Ponyfan


 None of it is on netflix here yet though my databox at home has recorded most of the series so far (it is airing on Disney channel here and had got to Malediktator the last time I was home). I heard a rumour that in the US the rest of season 2 will be on netflix once it's finished airing around the world. It can';t be far off that now, so maybe December? I admit I may have watched the rest of season 2 already >.> but I would like to do it properly. Hopefully the US dvd will come out soon as with s1 the US dvd is better than the UK. It has both language tracks and I want the French as well as the English.

Animewise, aside from being sidetracked by the Shinsengumi Taiga Drama (I really shouldn't watch drama series which contain so much emotive stuff, sigh) and rewatching the Gokusen drama (which is very formulaic but I still like it) I have randomly been dipping into episodes here and there. I tend to go through anime phases and drama phases. I finally have Sengoku Basara to hand, though, so I will soon be watching that to add to my binge watching of all and any sengoku related anime just because.

Oh yes. And at home I was watching Harukanaru Toki no Naka De (in English version Haruka, beyond the stream of time). I have a really special bond with this series overall for a lot of reasons, not least because of the seiyuu live events - but it was kind of nostalgic to watch it again. It sometimes gets compared with Fushigi Yuugi as though they're somehow the same but since ancient China and Heian Japan are not the same, I tend to disagree... Haruka was never dubbed though it was released with subs in the US and the manga was translated too...I think if anyone had tried to dub it I would've thrown fakies at them. It's bad enough they turned Sefuru into "Sefle" and Ikutidaru into Icktidarl...and the onmyouji Yasuaki into a "sorcerer" in the synopses. The basis for the original Haruka isn't as fun as that for the later games but it's the only one thus far to have proper manga and therefore a proper full length anime. I guess I'll get around to watching the Haruka 3 specials again at some point. Still bummed that Haruka 5 never became an anime. That would've been awesome...
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 22, 2018, 10:01:44 AM
I watched "Big Fish and Begonia" the other night.  I liked it, but the ending made me cry.  Though, watching the credits made the sad part of the ending a little better because there's a random scene hidden in them. 
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 22, 2018, 10:32:44 AM
Viz Media has just announced they will be releasing Sailor Moon Sailor Stars season in 2019z

I’m still watching Miraculous Ladybug on Netflix but I’m getting close to the end of the episodes on there. It ends Season 2 with “Captain Hardrock” but there are more Season 2 episodes listed online. I hope they get added to Netflix soon.

Ponyfan


 None of it is on netflix here yet though my databox at home has recorded most of the series so far (it is airing on Disney channel here and had got to Malediktator the last time I was home). I heard a rumour that in the US the rest of season 2 will be on netflix once it's finished airing around the world. It can';t be far off that now, so maybe December? I admit I may have watched the rest of season 2 already >.> but I would like to do it properly. Hopefully the US dvd will come out soon as with s1 the US dvd is better than the UK. It has both language tracks and I want the French as well as the English.

Animewise, aside from being sidetracked by the Shinsengumi Taiga Drama (I really shouldn't watch drama series which contain so much emotive stuff, sigh) and rewatching the Gokusen drama (which is very formulaic but I still like it) I have randomly been dipping into episodes here and there. I tend to go through anime phases and drama phases. I finally have Sengoku Basara to hand, though, so I will soon be watching that to add to my binge watching of all and any sengoku related anime just because.

Oh yes. And at home I was watching Harukanaru Toki no Naka De (in English version Haruka, beyond the stream of time). I have a really special bond with this series overall for a lot of reasons, not least because of the seiyuu live events - but it was kind of nostalgic to watch it again. It sometimes gets compared with Fushigi Yuugi as though they're somehow the same but since ancient China and Heian Japan are not the same, I tend to disagree... Haruka was never dubbed though it was released with subs in the US and the manga was translated too...I think if anyone had tried to dub it I would've thrown fakies at them. It's bad enough they turned Sefuru into "Sefle" and Ikutidaru into Icktidarl...and the onmyouji Yasuaki into a "sorcerer" in the synopses. The basis for the original Haruka isn't as fun as that for the later games but it's the only one thus far to have proper manga and therefore a proper full length anime. I guess I'll get around to watching the Haruka 3 specials again at some point. Still bummed that Haruka 5 never became an anime. That would've been awesome...

Have fun watching Sengoku Basara, Masamune is good when he talks in the subbed version, he adds English words that are said in English. I rather watch the dubbed one because Mitsuhide scars me in the subbed version.

Re watching Attack on Titan season two because I need more scenes that I'm putting in my FanFiction story. Instead of Mike being eaten during the anime I am going to imagine it's The Penguin  from
Batman.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 22, 2018, 10:50:38 AM
Thanks for that xD

I speak Japanese so I won't watch dubs - the English pronunciation of Japanese words hurts my ears now xD It never used to before I learned Japanese, but I can't stand it now xD. Though Masamune speaking in English sounds amusing. I don't really know either why it is the Japanese are so obsessed with Yukimura.

One of the reasons I'm going to watch it is because I want to see the crazy that is Mitsuhide xD. I'm currently doing some research on him historically and the way in which he's portrayed in things is interesting to me xD.

Speaking of Sengoku Musou, whenever I think of the way it ends for Mitsunari and his pals, this always cheers me up/amuses me xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLQLgtbBdg
Sekigahara may be done but there's apparently still a recording contract...;)

 Seiyuu make all these things so much more fun because they take nothing seriously. There are a couple of amusing Sengoku Musou live skits...I remember one Mitsuhide schemes to get Nobunaga engaged to Sanada Nobuyuki, while Masamune is freaking out because Nobuyuki doesn't seem to realise the potential "bride" is Nobunaga...or the one when Mitsunari and Mitsuhide are competing for hanami viewing locations...
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2018, 01:22:24 PM
Viz Media has just announced they will be releasing Sailor Moon Sailor Stars season in 2019z

I’m still watching Miraculous Ladybug on Netflix but I’m getting close to the end of the episodes on there. It ends Season 2 with “Captain Hardrock” but there are more Season 2 episodes listed online. I hope they get added to Netflix soon.

Ponyfan


 None of it is on netflix here yet though my databox at home has recorded most of the series so far (it is airing on Disney channel here and had got to Malediktator the last time I was home). I heard a rumour that in the US the rest of season 2 will be on netflix once it's finished airing around the world. It can';t be far off that now, so maybe December? I admit I may have watched the rest of season 2 already >.> but I would like to do it properly. Hopefully the US dvd will come out soon as with s1 the US dvd is better than the UK. It has both language tracks and I want the French as well as the English.


Thanks Taffeta. :) I hope the rest of the Miraculous Ladybug Season 2 episodes get added to Netflix soon. I only have Captain Hardrock and the Christmas special left.  I really wish I had picked up some of the Ladybug toys when they were around here but they’re long gone now. :sad:

I watched "Big Fish and Begonia" the other night.  I liked it, but the ending made me cry.  Though, watching the credits made the sad part of the ending a little better because there's a random scene hidden in them. 

I’ve been thinking of picking up “Big Fish and Begonia” since it seems similar to the The Little Mermaid.

I’ve been wanting to see “Fireworks” for a long time and am also thinking about “Princess Kaguya” and “Song of the Sea”

Ponyfan
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Post by: CinnamonOnions on November 24, 2018, 03:38:18 PM

I could maybe start some series again next week. Maybe rewatching Digimon Adventure? Or then I could start watching something new, maybe Law of Ueki or Zoids...
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Post by: Taffeta on November 24, 2018, 04:30:38 PM
Need to start watching Sengoku Basara sometime soon, but right now I'm interspersing the Gokusen drama (the original drama is the best version though they all look so young O.o) with Rurouni Kenshin (which I haven't watched in ages but was inspired to rewatch since I've been doing the Meiji period with my students and now actually understand all of the subtext things about politics, etc going on and what an ishinshishi is...which I never did before.

Not that I intend to teach my students about the Meiji period as seen in anime, but it's more interesting having the context a bit more as well. I'm not a modern historian by nature but I like learning stuff :D
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 25, 2018, 06:47:54 AM
I finished all of the Ladybug and Cat Noir episodes on Netflix. Now I must wait for the rest of Season 2.

I think this is a great song from the Christmas Special.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokLObTxt6g




Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on November 25, 2018, 10:04:30 AM
I finished all of the Ladybug and Cat Noir episodes on Netflix. Now I must wait for the rest of Season 2.

I think this is a great song from the Christmas Special.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokLObTxt6g




Ponyfan


Up there with angsty Adrien/Chat.

On another note, they say often that Chloe is behind the akumatisation of lots of people, which is true, but on balance, I think Marinette accidentally causes it just as often by not realising things until much later.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 25, 2018, 11:47:50 AM
Might rewatch Hakuoki season one again, I hope I don't cry again when one of my favs is killed.

Or I can watch Sailor Moon (original not the crystal) ... but I cry when Nephlight dies.

Or I can watch Gina Nagareboshi Gin or Wolf's Rain.

Or maybe Batman Ninja
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Post by: Taffeta on November 25, 2018, 12:06:54 PM
Might rewatch Hakuoki season one again, I hope I don't cry again when one of my favs is killed.


Anything involving the Shinsengumi is automatically heartbreaking. Because as it goes on, they almost all just die. One by one. And what makes it worse is that they really did just die, one by one. :/ Having just finished the Shinsengumi drama I am still emotionally traumatised by the whole experience. Albeit isn't it the second season that's really the gutwrencher in Hakuouki terms? I can't remember that anyone actually died in season 1, they just became, you know, othered.

I like Hakuouki but am always weirded out about the ochimizu and the oni. And most of all the fact there is/was a museum in Japan of the Bakumatsu which was using Hakuouki as a way to tell Japanese history...xD
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 25, 2018, 12:16:02 PM
I finished all of the Ladybug and Cat Noir episodes on Netflix. Now I must wait for the rest of Season 2.

I think this is a great song from the Christmas Special.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokLObTxt6g




Ponyfan


Up there with angsty Adrien/Chat.

On another note, they say often that Chloe is behind the akumatisation of lots of people, which is true, but on balance, I think Marinette accidentally causes it just as often by not realising things until much later.

One thing I love about Ladybug and Cat Noir is how multidimensional the characters are. Marinette  and Adrien aren’t perfect and still make mistakes in both their ordinary lives and superhero forms and even Hawkmoth isn’t completely evil even though he’s the main antagonist.

I agree with you about Marinette and Chloe. I think the main difference between them is Chloe is  usually selfish and willing to hurt other people/get them out of her way to get what she wants but Marinette often jumps to conclusions or doesn’t realize how her actions will affect those around her.



I’m also watching Sailor Moon SuperS part 2 from Viz.
Ponyfan
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 25, 2018, 10:43:56 PM
Might rewatch Hakuoki season one again, I hope I don't cry again when one of my favs is killed.


Anything involving the Shinsengumi is automatically heartbreaking. Because as it goes on, they almost all just die. One by one. And what makes it worse is that they really did just die, one by one. :/ Having just finished the Shinsengumi drama I am still emotionally traumatised by the whole experience. Albeit isn't it the second season that's really the gutwrencher in Hakuouki terms? I can't remember that anyone actually died in season 1, they just became, you know, othered.

I like Hakuouki but am always weirded out about the ochimizu and the oni. And most of all the fact there is/was a museum in Japan of the Bakumatsu which was using Hakuouki as a way to tell Japanese history...xD

Susumu Yamazaki gets killed by Hijikata. Hence why I hate Hijikata, when it got to that episode I removed the disc from my PS4 and put Ouran Highschool Host Club on to the Halloween episode.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 26, 2018, 09:08:59 AM
Might rewatch Hakuoki season one again, I hope I don't cry again when one of my favs is killed.


Anything involving the Shinsengumi is automatically heartbreaking. Because as it goes on, they almost all just die. One by one. And what makes it worse is that they really did just die, one by one. :/ Having just finished the Shinsengumi drama I am still emotionally traumatised by the whole experience. Albeit isn't it the second season that's really the gutwrencher in Hakuouki terms? I can't remember that anyone actually died in season 1, they just became, you know, othered.

I like Hakuouki but am always weirded out about the ochimizu and the oni. And most of all the fact there is/was a museum in Japan of the Bakumatsu which was using Hakuouki as a way to tell Japanese history...xD

Susumu Yamazaki gets killed by Hijikata. Hence why I hate Hijikata, when it got to that episode I removed the disc from my PS4 and put Ouran Highschool Host Club on to the Halloween episode.

Yamazaki isn't killed by Hijikata directly, is he? I remember he dies on the boat (Yamazaki) during the trip to Edo. Admittedly I can't remember exactly right now how Hakuouki does it because I more recently saw the Shinsengumi drama, but I am pretty sure he takes an injury when in company with Hijikata. Possibly from the oni...in the drama it's from the enemy shishi so that would make sense. So it might be Hijikata's fault but not his doing? Am I remembering that right? I remember Hijikata and sort of Chizuru are responsible for Genzaburou dying too...

 But he does die at the end of the first series, you're right. I had forgotten as I tend to associate the boat to Edo with season 2. Yamazaki is cool. He's a sad loss. But then season 2 begins and bam, everyone else dies, so yeah...

I like Hijikata but mainly because his voice artist is Miki Shinichirou which allows me to forgive him everything.

@Ponyfan - I agree. I like Marinette, she just needs a little more awareness sometimes xD And heck, even Chloe is not entirely unredeemable. I mean, she has a very messed up homelife.
I tend to like Adrien more than Marinette albeit it's complicated and I like that it is :) As you say, they are multidimensional. I also quite like Hawkmoth in a funny kind of way, because as the story goes on it becomes so much clearer how NOT simple his position is. I am currently of the opinion he isn't at all evil, which maybe makes what he does worse at times...what desperation can drive a man to do.

I am not going to say anything else though because I just remembered you've only seen the first half of season 2 ;)
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 28, 2018, 05:24:39 PM
I’m waiting impaitently for more Ladybug and Cat Noir episodes to be added to Netflix. I think I have an idea what Hawkmoth’s wish might be and that he is unaware what the repercussions could be based on what Master Fu said in the episode with the intelligent robot that wanted to be a human.

I started watching the Friuts Basket anime also.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 28, 2018, 05:53:19 PM
I'm waiting impatiently for the Fruits Basket remake that should actually follow the entire manga series.  Not sure if they'll just pick up where the last one left off or if they'll start completely from the beginning but I still want to see it either way.
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Post by: Carrehz on November 29, 2018, 12:27:02 AM
I'm waiting impatiently for the Fruits Basket remake that should actually follow the entire manga series.  Not sure if they'll just pick up where the last one left off or if they'll start completely from the beginning but I still want to see it either way.

Me too!!!

I tried watching the anime years ago but couldn't quite get into it... plus the fact that it ends at an awkward place makes me reluctant to pick it up. I really need to give it another chance one of these days.
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Post by: Taffeta on November 29, 2018, 04:33:56 AM
I love the Furuba anime but I agree they should have finished it. I feel like they can't do a continuation of the original because there's one big problem in the characterisation of the anime vs the manga that can't really be ironed out. So they'd have to begin from scratch.

I feel like there's such a huge aspect of the story omitted from the anime both for Kyou and Yuki that it gives the wrong impression :/ It would be nice to see a full anime covering the whole manga - but it's a pretty old manga and anime now in relative terms so I wonder if they'd even think about it.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 29, 2018, 07:21:43 AM
https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/11/20/fruits-basket-reboot-streaming-anime-funimation/

Looks like they started from scratch.  It's due out next year.  :)
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Post by: tikibirds on November 29, 2018, 07:38:51 AM
I tried to watch Fruits baskets a while ago but never got into it.
If they were gonna reboot something, I wish it was OHSHC because the anime ending is not even close to the manga
or rurouni kenshin for the same reason.
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Post by: Carrehz on November 29, 2018, 08:07:08 AM
https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/11/20/fruits-basket-reboot-streaming-anime-funimation/

Looks like they started from scratch.  It's due out next year.  :)

Holy cats!! I shouldn't go on the Arena when I'm still half-tired, I totally misread your earlier post XP Silly me. I had no idea a reboot was actually planned!

Sorta sceptical about the note that it'll have a different art style... but hopefully it'll just hem closer to Takaya's current art style instead of being totally different? Otherwise this sounds very promising, I'm excited!

They'd pretty much have to restart it, I think. That certain plot twist the anime didn't use (not their fault, I think the anime ended before it was revealed?) would be really hard to write around without just completely changing the story.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 29, 2018, 08:18:30 AM
https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/11/20/fruits-basket-reboot-streaming-anime-funimation/

Looks like they started from scratch.  It's due out next year.  :)

Holy cats!! I shouldn't go on the Arena when I'm still half-tired, I totally misread your earlier post XP Silly me. I had no idea a reboot was actually planned!

Sorta sceptical about the note that it'll have a different art style... but hopefully it'll just hem closer to Takaya's current art style instead of being totally different? Otherwise this sounds very promising, I'm excited!

They'd pretty much have to restart it, I think. That certain plot twist the anime didn't use (not their fault, I think the anime ended before it was revealed?) would be really hard to write around without just completely changing the story.

Just hope they get suitable actors for the English dub.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 29, 2018, 10:01:57 AM
I think they didn't know the plot twist either. Not that I liked the twist...

I am more sad at the new voice cast. I liked the old one. Art looks ok to me.

But I will still watch it and hope Momiji in 'Kyou nagutta!!!!' whining mode will be less annoying...

Hopefully it won't stream with a dub. I won't watch unless it is in Japanese.

Now if only they would do the same for the even a worm Saiyuki arc as just pretending it didn't happen and continuing on with blast is going to be a problem if Hazel and when Ukoku reappear...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on November 29, 2018, 10:47:10 AM
oh man yes, I'm with you on Momiji. I stopped watching around when he was introduced so idk, maybe he gets less annoying later on, but I found his voice in the original series really grating x_x;
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 30, 2018, 10:02:31 AM
oh man yes, I'm with you on Momiji. I stopped watching around when he was introduced so idk, maybe he gets less annoying later on, but I found his voice in the original series really grating x_x;
Yeah, it's such a shame because Momiji as a character overall isn't entirely annoying, but those scenes...Put it this way, I totally understand on pretty much every occasion why Kyou hit him. I would probably hit him too.

I have similar reactions to the gomen-nasai gomen-nasai GOMEN NASAI okami-san and her son. More her than Ritsu, really. I don't remember her being so annoying in the manga, but when you animate that...oh dear no.

I love the original anime, don't get me wrong. But it would be nice if the new one improved on those things ><
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on December 01, 2018, 05:15:25 AM
Well at least I know that the one who voices Yuko in the new Fruits Basket also voices Guan Xing in the video game Dyansty Warriors series (only reason why I'm going to watch it)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 02, 2018, 10:07:39 PM
And the RightStuf holiday sale is on.  Goodbye, money!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 11, 2018, 05:30:08 AM
I need something new to watch...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 14, 2018, 11:06:45 AM
I understand what you mean about Momiji now. I've only seen 2 episodes of Fruit Baskets with Momiji in them and I already find him a little annoying. 

I finished Sailor Moon Super S Part 2. I really enjoyed it but I'm a little sad that I will have to wait for around 6 months for Sailor Stars to finish the rest of Queen Nehelenia's story arc.

Netflix has added the rest of Season 2 of Ladybug and Cat Noir. :cheer: I can't wait to watch the rest of the season.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 14, 2018, 01:48:27 PM
I understand what you mean about Momiji now. I've only seen 2 episodes of Fruit Baskets with Momiji in them and I already find him a little annoying. 

Ponyfan

The thing is that I can't hate Momiji because when he isn't doing the whining he's actually a character who thinks deeply about stuff and who has his own situation to deal with. And that aspect of it makes him likeable and relatable.  But yeah. The whining :/ He's fifteen for goodness sake...

I think the Okamisan is more annoying (at the onsen) but it's a close call...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bladed on December 18, 2018, 03:30:01 PM
yeah, I wish the JP version of Pokemon was easier to find. It's weird how hard it is to find subbed episodes, given how huge Pokemon is.

It's of course possible to buy it from Japan, but subbing doesn't seem to happen much. I think there may be a lot of pressure on the licencing aspect and fansubbers don't want to risk it. Countries that speak English get the doctored cut US dubbed versions with the changed names and that's that.



i am REALLY late to this but - it's more the sheer quantity of episodes combined with the rate at which new ones come out and the expectation to sub new ones, is the impression i get from speaking to one of the translators of the main subbing groups, and also just seeing other members' posts around (#pocketmonsters subs, btw). every now and again an older episode will be subbed by this group (though they're not as active, especially since a newer and in my opinion lower quality one has taken on SM, and were able to crank out translations faster...)

anyway... on topic... kemono friends!! i could talk about this anime for HOURS. and then some more hours. s2 is coming soon (january) and i've been watching since the first season aired (watching it live and waiting a week is torture btw). it's so fascinating, even on a surface level just watching s1. and then you dive into it's past and extended works (mainly games, but also a manga)... fantastic character design (and theres MANY characters... nearly 400, maybe over?), charming and cute songs (2 made me cry)... the stories are interesting throughout. it's also one of the only anime i watched recently that's an original story, not an adaptation (it's a sequel to previous works) so it's got that going for it. it feels like every anime nowadays is an adaptation of something. also, the voice actors do a really good job despite nearly all of them being fairly new to the industry (for many it's their first major role)

i won't rattle on any longer, because i can (and have in the past) write paragraphs about it... the only "downside" is the animation (its cg, and a bit janky, due to the budget constraints and small team size) but there's... 3 scenes were it looks actually bad in my opinion, and having grown up with g1 mlp... a bit of weird movement is nothing. though at that point, a lot of the fixes are in the BD version... which can be hard to get a hold of. the official art for it is great anyway (it's drawn and designed by mine yoshizaki, who did keroro gunsou) also some subbing mistakes on behalf of crunchyroll, but they're hardly mistakes as they are... lack of context for the translators? one or two of them do provide... the wrong impression, but the original lines are also a bit vague, so it's not all bad.

(there goes my comment about not rambling on, oops)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 20, 2018, 06:18:53 AM
I have only seen Pokemon in Japanese raw - either on TV in Japan or from Japanese DVD. I've never seen it fansubbed so can;t comment. But the fansubbing on Bleach was often really bad in terms of how they added in words and drama so I think sometimes it gets done in a rush to meet demand. Manga was the same.

But I do think there are big licensing risks of fansubbing Pokemon.

@bladed - In my opinion there are a lot of anime and manga not adapted from some other thing but I may be misunderstanding your meaning on that. Although I am also interested in anime that represent historical eras or concepts because it crosses over into what I study...(I do draw the line at cute shoujo girls in the sengoku era mind you).

I totally understand the appeal of something with a wider reach than just the anime though. I keep talking about haruka xD which is several games, manga, drama, songs, live events...but so little anime in comparison to what exists (there are 17 volumes of manga but only some of that got animated into the 26 episode hachiyoushou anime).

I'm currently hooked on Akatsuki no Yona which happened totally by accident. But I really like it. My annoyance is that the anime stops at a point where I really want them to continue (hence now reading the manga, which is just making me want even more to see them do more anime, since only 8 volumes are currently animated from 28...)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 21, 2018, 10:33:32 PM
I was alerted to the fact that Sentai Filmworks is also having a holiday sale with REALLY good prices.  I bought 16 anime series/sets from them for $89.00.  Most of them were $4.99.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bladed on December 24, 2018, 12:39:28 PM
I have only seen Pokemon in Japanese raw - either on TV in Japan or from Japanese DVD. I've never seen it fansubbed so can;t comment. But the fansubbing on Bleach was often really bad in terms of how they added in words and drama so I think sometimes it gets done in a rush to meet demand. Manga was the same.

But I do think there are big licensing risks of fansubbing Pokemon.

@bladed - In my opinion there are a lot of anime and manga not adapted from some other thing but I may be misunderstanding your meaning on that. Although I am also interested in anime that represent historical eras or concepts because it crosses over into what I study...(I do draw the line at cute shoujo girls in the sengoku era mind you).

I totally understand the appeal of something with a wider reach than just the anime though. I keep talking about haruka xD which is several games, manga, drama, songs, live events...but so little anime in comparison to what exists (there are 17 volumes of manga but only some of that got animated into the 26 episode hachiyoushou anime).

I'm currently hooked on Akatsuki no Yona which happened totally by accident. But I really like it. My annoyance is that the anime stops at a point where I really want them to continue (hence now reading the manga, which is just making me want even more to see them do more anime, since only 8 volumes are currently animated from 28...)

the pokemon fansubbing quality is quite good. i've not spotted any major errors, and if there has been any such as grammatical or if someone pointed an error out it was quickly fixed.

there's definitely a lot of original anime - just feels like the popular seasonal ones that people talk about are all adaptations of manga or light novels, i mean. not saying it's a bad thing by any means, though!

kemono friends has some live events, too... stories unique to said lives, which is great. man i could talk about that series for days.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on December 25, 2018, 05:42:33 PM
Did anyone get to see Mirai? It looked really cute, but I don't think it even played at a theater near me. (sigh)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(film)

I'm hoping to remember it whenever it gets released on dvd. But -_-; I never keep up with any new releases, so I'm bound to forget about it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 26, 2018, 04:23:15 PM
I have only seen Pokemon in Japanese raw - either on TV in Japan or from Japanese DVD. I've never seen it fansubbed so can;t comment. But the fansubbing on Bleach was often really bad in terms of how they added in words and drama so I think sometimes it gets done in a rush to meet demand. Manga was the same.

But I do think there are big licensing risks of fansubbing Pokemon.

@bladed - In my opinion there are a lot of anime and manga not adapted from some other thing but I may be misunderstanding your meaning on that. Although I am also interested in anime that represent historical eras or concepts because it crosses over into what I study...(I do draw the line at cute shoujo girls in the sengoku era mind you).

I totally understand the appeal of something with a wider reach than just the anime though. I keep talking about haruka xD which is several games, manga, drama, songs, live events...but so little anime in comparison to what exists (there are 17 volumes of manga but only some of that got animated into the 26 episode hachiyoushou anime).

I'm currently hooked on Akatsuki no Yona which happened totally by accident. But I really like it. My annoyance is that the anime stops at a point where I really want them to continue (hence now reading the manga, which is just making me want even more to see them do more anime, since only 8 volumes are currently animated from 28...)

the pokemon fansubbing quality is quite good. i've not spotted any major errors, and if there has been any such as grammatical or if someone pointed an error out it was quickly fixed.

there's definitely a lot of original anime - just feels like the popular seasonal ones that people talk about are all adaptations of manga or light novels, i mean. not saying it's a bad thing by any means, though!

kemono friends has some live events, too... stories unique to said lives, which is great. man i could talk about that series for days.

I think you are probably the same with that series as I am with Haruka XD.

See I don't much like anime that's created from scratch. I prefer those adapted from manga and novels so I guess that's just a difference in taste. Albeit that's also because the ones I like best I end up bothering to import the manga as well...often the ones from novels are also more detailed in the character and that's my weakness - character. I like that there's something for everyone out there :D
My other weakness though is also seiyuu and I've come across a lot of obscure anime and stuff from following particular artists.

So on the subject of live events as well, I innocently looked up the details for the Haruka 5 stage play (because those are annoying to get hold of and expensive, so I was looking at second hand sales)...and I ended up discovering there are two, and two for 6, and one for 2, and...worst of all...one for 3 which has just been on stage in Japan this past month. I hate not having money for frivolities, but even the live event and matsuri DVDs are not as expensive as the butai. :/

@Banditpony, totally not familiar with that one. Actually even London can be quite bad though for showing Japanese films. I was sort of amazed that Kimi no Na Wa showed here and also in Japanese. Usually it's just Ghibli :/

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 26, 2018, 04:55:36 PM
Did anyone get to see Mirai? It looked really cute, but I don't think it even played at a theater near me. (sigh)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(film)

I'm hoping to remember it whenever it gets released on dvd. But -_-; I never keep up with any new releases, so I'm bound to forget about it.

I haven’t heard of that one but it looks interesting. :) I got Fireworks for Christmas but I’ve heard mixed reviews about it.

I’m almost halfway through the Friuts Basket anime and I love how multidimensional the characters are. I just watched the episode where Momiji takes Tohru to the Hot Spring and Momiji’s song is stuck in my head now. :lol: 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 26, 2018, 04:59:37 PM

I’m almost halfway through the Friuts Basket anime and I love how multidimensional the characters are. I just watched the episode where Momiji takes Tohru to the Hot Spring and Momiji’s song is stuck in my head now. :lol: 

Ponyfan

You have my sympathies ;)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 26, 2018, 06:59:30 PM

I’m almost halfway through the Friuts Basket anime and I love how multidimensional the characters are. I just watched the episode where Momiji takes Tohru to the Hot Spring and Momiji’s song is stuck in my head now. :lol: 

Ponyfan

You have my sympathies ;)



It's still in my head :lol:


Spoiler
Who's  in the forest strolling?
The birds and the bees sing "Momiji"
The frogs in the pond are calling, "Momiji, yes it's true!"


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 03, 2019, 09:17:13 AM
I just watched Fireworks and have to say:

Spoiler
Although the animation is beautiful and the the plot has promise, I have to admit that I was dissapointed in many elements of the film, mostly that the plot eventually becomes hard to follow and the ending leaves more questions than it answers about the alternate realities that the firework ball creates and the consequences of changing events to a more preferred outcome. 

I wanted to like Nazuna but she doesn’t have any reason for running away except she doesn’t like her soon to be stepfather and wants to be “the bad girl” her mother is trying to stop her from becoming. She even mentions she is under age and wants to get a nighttime job.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on January 03, 2019, 10:52:40 AM
Rewatching Puella Magi Madoka Magica since it's been a while, just finished episode 9 (my favourite). -sniff-

I hope they do another Madoka series/movie/SOME kind of continuation, eventually...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 03, 2019, 04:06:32 PM
Just finished watching Skip Beat.  It's cute, but I feel like they ended it in a weird spot.  I think it's one that was made before the manga was finished so they could do a second season if they wanted.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 03, 2019, 05:04:42 PM
Just finished watching Skip Beat.  It's cute, but I feel like they ended it in a weird spot.  I think it's one that was made before the manga was finished so they could do a second season if they wanted.

I still have that to watch on my list. But anime ending in weird places is annoying :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 04, 2019, 06:25:32 AM
The swimming race scene from Fireworks illustrates one of the problems I have with Fireworks. Beautiful animation that is suddenly changed for no reason like Norimici appearing like a paper cutout at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4p0sIQ8gMA



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: DreamvalleyMLP on January 08, 2019, 12:01:24 PM
I don't know whether it counts as anime, but the netflix Castlevania is amazing, I binge watched it in two days. It's bloody and graphic at times, be warned ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 09, 2019, 09:00:37 AM
I just finished the 2nd part of Season 2 of Ladybug at Cat Noir. 

Spoiler

Wow! :)  I love how each episode adds more depth to the characters. My guess about Gabriel’s wish was correct and I feel more sympathy now seeing how desperate he is to make his wish come true and how much he cares about Adrien even when he’s Hawk Moth. Natalie seemed ill after she used the Peacock Miraculous, maybe if the miraculous is damaged it affects the person who tries to use it negatively? 

I wonder if Gabriel and Adrien will ever detransform in front of each other and find out their secret identities? Whenever Master Fu opens the Miraculous box it looks like there are several miraculous that we haven’t seen the powers of yet.



I’m afraid I’m going to have to wait quite a while for Season 3 on Netflix.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 09, 2019, 03:33:28 PM
I just finished the 2nd part of Season 2 of Ladybug at Cat Noir. 

Spoiler

Wow! :)  I love how each episode adds more depth to the characters. My guess about Gabriel’s wish was correct and I feel more sympathy now seeing how desperate he is to make his wish come true and how much he cares about Adrien even when he’s Hawk Moth. Natalie seemed ill after she used the Peacock Miraculous, maybe if the miraculous is damaged it affects the person who tries to use it negatively? 

I wonder if Gabriel and Adrien will ever detransform in front of each other and find out their secret identities? Whenever Master Fu opens the Miraculous box it looks like there are several miraculous that we haven’t seen the powers of yet.



I’m afraid I’m going to have to wait quite a while for Season 3 on Netflix.

Ponyfan

We really ought to have a proper discussion on this ;)

Spoiler
I've never really hated Gabriel, I felt like S2 fleshed him out nicely as someone who is desperate, not evil. IN fact, I also realised something else. Even though he akumatises people, which is bad, there is always resolution, which is weirdly good. So when Ladybug and Chat Noir save the akumatised person, whatever the issue is that made them akumatised in the first place gets addressed and the people move on with their lives. Ironically, by making them all akuma, Gabriel is actually resolving society's various problems. Weird. I am assuming whatever hurt Nathalie is what really hurt Gabriel;s wife, and the fact Gabriel doesn't want Nathalie to use the peacock indicates he cares about her.

I think it's interesting too that Marinette has had interaction with Plagg a few times now, and that Plagg and Tiki know the real identities of the other's master but it's still a secret. I rather hope one of them will find out the other's secret in season 3, but I guess it depends. I think you're lucky you've been able to watch S.2 in an organised way, though. I have it all recorded on my box at home from Disney channel and POP but it took some time to get to that point and the airing schedule was nuts...

I have been rewatching Inuyasha lately. I haven't watched this in a long time, and I am watching bits and pieces, not necessarily all the episodes, because I can't stand Kikyou and I'm not hugely keen on Naraku, either. But it's still fun to watch. Although now I watch the moments when armies appear with a curiosity trying to identify the badges on the standards xD.

I really want a second season of Akatsuki no Yona but that doesn't seem to be immediately likely. It's a shame if it doesn't happen, especially for Zeno because although he has his ova, season 1 ends with them just meeting him. Although I grant that animating some of his scenes might be a little graphic..?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 09, 2019, 06:30:58 PM
I'm re-watching Haikyu while I walk on the treadmill.  I forgot how hilarious that show is!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 10, 2019, 08:04:56 AM
I just finished the 2nd part of Season 2 of Ladybug at Cat Noir. 

Spoiler

Wow! :)  I love how each episode adds more depth to the characters. My guess about Gabriel’s wish was correct and I feel more sympathy now seeing how desperate he is to make his wish come true and how much he cares about Adrien even when he’s Hawk Moth. Natalie seemed ill after she used the Peacock Miraculous, maybe if the miraculous is damaged it affects the person who tries to use it negatively? 

I wonder if Gabriel and Adrien will ever detransform in front of each other and find out their secret identities? Whenever Master Fu opens the Miraculous box it looks like there are several miraculous that we haven’t seen the powers of yet.



I’m afraid I’m going to have to wait quite a while for Season 3 on Netflix.

Ponyfan

We really ought to have a proper discussion on this ;)

Spoiler
I've never really hated Gabriel, I felt like S2 fleshed him out nicely as someone who is desperate, not evil. IN fact, I also realised something else. Even though he akumatises people, which is bad, there is always resolution, which is weirdly good. So when Ladybug and Chat Noir save the akumatised person, whatever the issue is that made them akumatised in the first place gets addressed and the people move on with their lives. Ironically, by making them all akuma, Gabriel is actually resolving society's various problems. Weird. I am assuming whatever hurt Nathalie is what really hurt Gabriel;s wife, and the fact Gabriel doesn't want Nathalie to use the peacock indicates he cares about her.

I think it's interesting too that Marinette has had interaction with Plagg a few times now, and that Plagg and Tiki know the real identities of the other's master but it's still a secret. I rather hope one of them will find out the other's secret in season 3, but I guess it depends. I think you're lucky you've been able to watch S.2 in an organised way, though. I have it all recorded on my box at home from Disney channel and POP but it took some time to get to that point and the airing schedule was nuts...

 



You're right Taffeta.  I'm going to start a separate thread for Ladybug and Cat Noir :)

Edit: Started the new thread but I wanted to also reply to what you said here. :)

Spoiler
I'd love to find out more about what really happened to Gabriel's wife. I'm pretty sure he told Adrien she dissappeared or something but we know that's not true since he keeps her body in that glass topped coffin. I didn't see that coming at all.

I think your theory about Gabriel's wife dying having something to do with the damaged Peacock Miraculous and it being the same force that hurt Natalie when she tried to use it  is very interesting.


I also think Natlie is in love with Gabriel but he is in such grief over his wife and wants so depserately to bring her back that he didn't realize how much he cared about her until she used the Peacock. I think Gabriel knows more about the damaged Peacock than he's letting on.

I also find it interesting that Tiki and Plagg know who each other's master is. I think there's some kind of code of the Kwamis that they aren't allowed to tell one another who their masters are or tell their master who the other Kwamii's belong to.  It must be especially hard on Tiki since she knows that Marinette is in love with Adrien.

I feel sorry for Cat Noir whenever Ladybug rejects his romantic gestures saying she's in love with someone else not realizing Cat Noir is Adrian. I thought Marinette would have been pretty close to figuring it out when Style Queen turned Adrien in to a statue and she found Plagg at Master Fu’s when Cat Noir didn’t show up. I wonder if Tiki will ever interact with Adrien without Marinette?


I never thought about Hawk Moth's akumazation acutally helping people in the end but you're right.   I think Lila's the only one that still harbors resentment towards Marinette because when Hawk Moth turned her in to Volpina again tha akuma left her without Ladbug destorying it.

 It seems Adrien's voice is a little different when he's Cat Noir than when he's just Adrien. 



I'm still watching Fruits Basket anime. I just watched the episode where they went to the lake. I think it's one of my least favorite episodes so far. It seemed most of the episode was Yuki and Kyo arguing.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 12, 2019, 09:39:33 AM


I'm still watching Fruits Basket anime. I just watched the episode where they went to the lake. I think it's one of my least favorite episodes so far. It seemed most of the episode was Yuki and Kyo arguing.

And the rest is the gomen nasai gomen nasai GOMEN NASAI (sorry sorry SORRY!) woman? I admit to skipping said episode most of the time >.>.

Yuki and Kyou do argue a lot though...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 12, 2019, 10:50:11 AM
I usually don't mind when Yuki and Kyo fight too much as it gives insight  in to their true character sometimes but between that and Tohru crying and apologizing all the time, it wasn't a good episode.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 12, 2019, 11:31:17 AM
hey folks :) Do you maybe have a tip for me what to watch next ? Id like something like ... hm... lets say something with for example monsters, zombies, other bad guys or something else thrilling! Gimme some input please :P
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 12, 2019, 02:36:42 PM
hey folks :) Do you maybe have a tip for me what to watch next ? Id like something like ... hm... lets say something with for example monsters, zombies, other bad guys or something else thrilling! Gimme some input please :P
You may already have seen it, but Re: Zero sprang to mind from your description. The main guy basically finds himself in a new world in which he gets killed a lot...kind of like a game reset when he has to then renegotiate the danger to survive to the next day. I admit that I got distracted and never did finish watching it, but I remember there are a lot of monsters and stuff.

For short anime (12 episodes or so) two I really like are Charlotte and Erased. They don't have monsters, they do have weird things going on in them though. Charlotte seems like it's just about a bunch of kids with temporary powers trying to stop others from using similar, but it's never that simple. And Erased is about a guy who is accused of murder and in escaping the police he ends up back trying to solve a crime that happened when he was a kid.

Also, if you haven't ever watched or read it, I recommend Saiyuuki.
It is very hard to explain Saiyuuki to anyone, and the original series is old so the early animation is a bit ropey in places. The manga is also better because there's one filler arc and they made a total mess of the best manga arc. But even so it's a favourite of mine. If you are familiar, or don't like it, ignore this, but if not, it's a story when a priest with a gun and a short temper, an immortal earth demon and two half demons go on a long journey from China to India in a jeep that sometimes turns into a dragon, trying to prevent the world's demons attacking the world's humans. Which obviously is a nefarious plot being plotted in India. But more importantly than the plot is really the journey, and the characters. It's loosely based on an old Chinese tale in which the writer has taken all the original characteristics and basically reversed them in her characters xD.

I have a ton more I could spam at you but I won't, since it's really hard to gauge someone else';s likes and dislikes xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on January 13, 2019, 01:01:03 PM
saiyuuki is a lot of fun :D 
last thing I watched was Dragon Pilot ? it was very happy
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 13, 2019, 01:07:58 PM
Thank you both :) Ill try them out! Re: Zero especially sounds interesting!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 13, 2019, 10:42:32 PM
Thank you both :) Ill try them out! Re: Zero especially sounds interesting!

No problem :D
I really need to find time to get back and finish Re: Zero, since I was watching it back when it aired but then got bogged down in academic work so only got about 2/3 in. It seems a pretty popular series though. And the concept, while occasionally a bit disturbing, is really interesting.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 05, 2019, 01:27:20 PM
I'm still working on the original Fruits Basket. I have around 7 episodes left. I found this trailer for the new series on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImLCDyxZjM



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 05, 2019, 01:36:34 PM
I'm still working on the original Fruits Basket. I have around 7 episodes left. I found this trailer for the new series on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImLCDyxZjM



Ponyfan


How to give the minimum amount of detail possible!
I have to say, though, it feels ok? I mean, as though it has the sense of the story? And she sounds like Touru to me...so...? I am quite interested to see how it all pans out. Though it's ridiculous that it's taken this long...it gives me hope for other series with missing manga arcs in the anime adaptation. I am still hoping for Saiyuuki's Even a Worm arc to be done properly, rather than just referred back to in a few hurried still shots in Reload Blast. From a continuity point of view there are problematic gaps for anyone who only watches Saiyuuki's anime...(besides it being the best Saiyuuki arc in my opinion from the manga :/)
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 08, 2019, 12:18:37 PM
I also think the new Fruits Basket anime might be okay too. :) It looks like from the video that they are trying to keep the feel of the original anime while completing the story. That being said if I didn't have a basic idea of what the story is about this video would be really confusing.

I just watched Your Name again. :lovey: I was watching it the other night but got distracted about halfway through the movie and also had 2 family members decided to watch the last 15-20 minutes of the movie so I had to explain the basic plot to them.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 08, 2019, 01:35:15 PM
I've been watching a bunch of drama lately (we don't have a thread for that, funny enough). I'm looking forward to the furuba anime although watching it ep by ep will be annoying xD I like to watch anime series at my own pace so it might be I wait till it's done airing before I watch. In any case I agree, Ponyfan. It seems to have respected the original while promising to do the whole story this time.

I always feel that where the old anime ends gives the wrong impression about
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Yuki's relationship with/interest in Tooru
and so it will be nice to see that fixed. That, and the other rather major...issue with the original anime as regards
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Akito
.

I just wish that it had the original cast, because they were awesome. And it is quite unusual in Japan for characters to be passed between voice artists. In series like Saiyuuki, since the Gensoumaden anime and so on, the seiyuu have been the same. That's almost 20 years of continuity to the same character. True, this is a remake, but I still feel like I'd rather have Seki Tomokazu as Kyou and Okiayu Ryoutarou as Shigure...

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Post by: tikibirds on February 16, 2019, 02:06:19 AM
There isn't really much I am interested in on Crunchyroll this season.
Only Monrose Mononokean 2, Boruto and Meji Tokyo Something (forgot the name). Lately the VPN hasn;t been working very well so I'm having a hard time trying to access it anyways - Except for Boruto. Apparently that is allowed to be shown in China..
I just got back from Okinawa and still had to use the VPN...kinda odd since they are all Japanese shows anyways.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 16, 2019, 08:30:06 AM
There isn't really much I am interested in on Crunchyroll this season.
Only Monrose Mononokean 2, Boruto and Meji Tokyo Something (forgot the name). Lately the VPN hasn;t been working very well so I'm having a hard time trying to access it anyways - Except for Boruto. Apparently that is allowed to be shown in China..
I just got back from Okinawa and still had to use the VPN...kinda odd since they are all Japanese shows anyways.

Don’t watch Monrose Monokean 3, with the sexual accusation against Vic Mignogna, Funimation has redubbed over his lines plus fired him along with another company. All thanks to Monica Rial and Jaime  Marchi.

Stick with the anime sub from now on.

I’m on the fence with this going on.

I’m watching Black Butler season five on Netflix, they don’t have the other four seasons.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 16, 2019, 09:38:07 AM
I hadn't heard about the stuff with Vic.  That surprises me because I've met him a couple of times at comic cons and he didn't come across like that at all.  If anything, I thought he was gay because he's super flamboyant.

(And, seriously, check out the fringe on those pants!)
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I don't know what exactly he's been accused of because I haven't seen any actual details-I've been looking and all it says is "sexual harassment" but nothing stating whether it's comments or touching or whatever people are claiming is harassment these days.  I know guys that have been accused of sexual harassment because they touched a woman's arm to get her attention without her permission, so until I know more details I'm going to go with my personal experiences with him and judge him from that.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 16, 2019, 09:56:05 AM
I hadn't heard about the stuff with Vic.  That surprises me because I've met him a couple of times at comic cons and he didn't come across like that at all.  If anything, I thought he was gay because he's super flamboyant.

(And, seriously, check out the fringe on those pants!)
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I don't know what exactly he's been accused of because I haven't seen any actual details-I've been looking and all it says is "sexual harassment" but nothing stating whether it's comments or touching or whatever people are claiming is harassment these days.  I know guys that have been accused of sexual harassment because they touched a woman's arm to get her attention without her permission, so until I know more details I'm going to go with my personal experiences with him and judge him from that.

You should see some of the videos on YouTube with people backing him up. I’ve unsubscribed to two you tubers Geekdom101, and Foreverworld. Both are backing Monica Rial and Jaime Marchi only because they’re getting money from them two.

Like you I’m waiting for the details as well, plus Monica Rial has sexually assaulted someone who was a minor at the time.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 16, 2019, 10:23:38 AM
I hadn't heard about the stuff with Vic.  That surprises me because I've met him a couple of times at comic cons and he didn't come across like that at all.  If anything, I thought he was gay because he's super flamboyant.

(And, seriously, check out the fringe on those pants!)
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I don't know what exactly he's been accused of because I haven't seen any actual details-I've been looking and all it says is "sexual harassment" but nothing stating whether it's comments or touching or whatever people are claiming is harassment these days.  I know guys that have been accused of sexual harassment because they touched a woman's arm to get her attention without her permission, so until I know more details I'm going to go with my personal experiences with him and judge him from that.

You should see some of the videos on YouTube with people backing him up. I’ve unsubscribed to two you tubers Geekdom101, and Foreverworld. Both are backing Monica Rial and Jaime Marchi only because they’re getting money from them two.

Like you I’m waiting for the details as well, plus Monica Rial has sexually assaulted someone who was a minor at the time.

Yeah, in looking for information, I found her twitter feed where she said that people could get fired for harassment without proof and nobody owed proof to Vic's fans.  Seems suspicious to me, especially where I've been on the side of being falsely accused of sexually harassing someone
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Long story short, it boiled down to I didn't invite a male co-worker who claimed he was a woman over for a sleepover--which I wasn't having to begin with--and which I wouldn't have invited him anyway because he was harassing me--but since he was "really a woman" and "women can't harass each other", even though I had actual proof he was harassing me and 11 other co-workers, I was the one put at fault.  Yeah, lots wrong with that workplace which is why it's the only place I've ever quit without notice.
so I tend to take no-proof allegations with a big grain of salt. 

Anyway to get back on topic so we don't get yelled at, I'm rewatching Sailor Moon.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on February 16, 2019, 10:37:04 AM
Anyway to get back on topic so we don't get yelled at, I'm rewatching Sailor Moon.

Uh. O_o; REALLY off topic (WYP appropriate). I had to double check what thread I was in.

I've watched too much random youtube, and I'm trying to figure out a way to burn all my DVDs and keep the subtitles when locally streaming. Something isn't working with VLC when we are casting it to the TV.

This, coupled with the fact when I bought my KOR DVDs from AnimEigo they didn't work on my DVD because of some defect. (I forget what they called it... it had a name in reference to coffee ring or something). So the DVDs worked on some DVDs and not others. The company was nice enough to replace them.

Does anyone else have this concern about DVDs not lasting forever? I don't want to lose my media.. and some things probably will never be released again (lost license etc).

Related to that-- There was thread in OT recently about old anime we wish we could find on DVD. My thought was there was "bad dub" of Dirty Pair Project Eden... it was released on VHS... but when the DVD came out the new company re-did the dub. I bought that, and it was... ok. But not what I grew up with! But THEN after digging, there must of been enough complaints they rereleased the movie with BOTH dubs!

XD It's on my need to watch immediately list, but meh, I gotta boot up the old laptop with DVD drive because my newer laptops (work and personal) don't have one.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 16, 2019, 11:04:25 AM
I noticed Viz just released the Sailor Moon SuperS movie. I liked the Sailor Moon S movie but wasn't interested in the Sailor Moon R one.

Another one I've been looking at is Lu over the Wall. Has anyone seen that one?


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on February 16, 2019, 12:32:06 PM
I had some issues with a couple of my DVDs recently, but I haven't figured out whether it is my DVD player or the discs in question :/ Nothing lasts forever, though. I can no longer play my discs of Angelique Etoile because of them wearing out :/

Angelique Etoile is a nostalgic anime for me as it was the first anime I ever watched without subs (it wasn't subbed at the time) and so it was a landmark showing me I could watch anime without subs and understand it. And each time I watched it since I'd pick up more till I could get even the nuances. Sometimes I want to rewatch it and it's sad that I can't, but it's hard to find it :/ I didn't even see it in BookOff when I was in Japan, even though I managed to finish my Haruka DVD collection from that trip through BookOff stores (including the plush of Suefumi from the movie release!)

On the other subject, I wasn't aware of anything like that but I don't watch dubs, and never will again. Fushigi Yuugi in English killed any interest I will ever have in watching a dub ever again. It's horrible. I still love Yuugi, it's a classic, but NOT in English.

I rewatched (as much as my DVD player allowed) the first half of Uraboku this week. I really like the character interaction in this, I am less sure about the overall plot at times...but I always find I get through the Shusei and Hotsuma section and then lose interest. I have most of the manga for it as well but also never got past Hotsuma's section. Oh well...

Am now rewatching DN Angel which I haven't watched in probably ten years. I'm really digging through my collection at the moment...and seeing how much my taste has changed.

Though rewatching Saiyuuki is high up on my to do list. Because it's awesome.

I'm not familiar with Lu over the wall.

I have watched Sailor Moon but not for a long time and only in Japanese. It was fine but I never totally understood all the hype around it.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on February 16, 2019, 01:34:36 PM
On the other subject, I wasn't aware of anything like that but I don't watch dubs, and never will again. Fushigi Yuugi in English killed any interest I will ever have in watching a dub ever again. It's horrible. I still love Yuugi, it's a classic, but NOT in English.

Oh man. I remember in highschool my friend was all like "This anime is so great" in regards to FY, but I couldn't get into it because the dub was like nails on a chalkboard.

That said, anything I watched dubbed that I grew up on (read: before I was 14)... :shrug: the dub is going to resonate with me even if the Japanese VAs are better.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 16, 2019, 03:54:28 PM
I had some issues with a couple of my DVDs recently, but I haven't figured out whether it is my DVD player or the discs in question :/ Nothing lasts forever, though. I can no longer play my discs of Angelique Etoile because of them wearing out :/

...

I have watched Sailor Moon but not for a long time and only in Japanese. It was fine but I never totally understood all the hype around it.

My Blu-Ray player decided not to play a DVD recently so I tried it on my mom's newer player and it played just fine.  I'd try your discs on a new player before discarding for sure.  Would cleaning/resurfacing the disc work to fix it?  I work in a library and usually that's all our discs need to work again, though they can only be resurfaced so many times before they get worn out beyond repair.

I think the hype with Sailor Moon was that the original English dub was one of the few Animes available on mainstream US television in the 90s and it was aimed at girls so it got a lot of attention, even though the 90s definitely had better Animes that came out.  The re-dub is better in many ways but I have some nostalgia attached to the original dub so I kind of miss it sometimes. And there was never a dub of the Sailor Stars season so when that comes out I'm sure people are going to go crazy for it just because it never aired here.  Sailor Moon Crystal is also better in some ways because it cuts out all of the fluff episodes and gives Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite more of a connection to the Moon Kingdom, which makes their demise all the more dramatic. 

Sailor Moon is cheesy but I like it anyway.  It's still not as cheesy as Speed Racer (which I also watched last week) and lets be honest, Pokemon is cheesy, too.
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Post by: Taffeta on February 16, 2019, 03:57:47 PM
On the other subject, I wasn't aware of anything like that but I don't watch dubs, and never will again. Fushigi Yuugi in English killed any interest I will ever have in watching a dub ever again. It's horrible. I still love Yuugi, it's a classic, but NOT in English.

Oh man. I remember in highschool my friend was all like "This anime is so great" in regards to FY, but I couldn't get into it because the dub was like nails on a chalkboard.

That said, anything I watched dubbed that I grew up on (read: before I was 14)... :shrug: the dub is going to resonate with me even if the Japanese VAs are better.

I think I'm the same. The one exception to my dub ban is Tenchi because it was something I consider nostalgic watched as a teen rather than really seeing it as anime in a bigger genre. It was the first series I ever watched and the obvious sake dubbed as 'tea' amused me much.

So glad I'm not the only one that thinks the Yuugi dub is deathly. Yuugi was the first anime I watched in Japanese but I first watched eps on YT and it was somewhere around ep 12 where there was only an English ep. And that was enough. With Chi-Cheery and Hohtohhoori's very bad enunciation (Not to mention Tusky), that was me done on dubs forever. I started learning Japanese soon after ;) And I bought Yuugi on DVD. It is still one of my absolute pet series, especially the wider storylines around the novels and such...but I will never watch a dub again.

Ever.

Regarding the DVDs, I won't be throwing them out till I've tested them more :) I used to work in a library too so I learned various tricks to clean them but this isn't that, unfortunately :/ But it could be my player.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 16, 2019, 07:53:54 PM
I agree with Pokeyonekenobie about why Sailor Moon had so much hype surrounding it. I only saw one part of one episode of the original English dub in the 90s when I turned the TV on to catch another show and Sailor Moon happened to be on.

There were other animes in the US before Sailor Moon but I do think it was one the first that aired on a major TV station and got more viewers than the animes that were available at video rental stores.  My grandparents had several anime movies that I watched when I stayed with them including Unico and the Island of Magic,  Toei's Fairy Tales, and Hana No Ko Lunlun (which I only knew as Angel).

I didn't start watching Sailor Moon until I was an adult so I've only seen the Viz version of the episodes and S movie.  I enjoy the 90's Sailor Moon and Crystal.

One of the Walmart stores in my area did a reset in the movies section and suddenly stocked a lot more anime than usual. There are several movies that I haven't seen before and I think a few of them are new releases.


I wanted to get The Girl Who Leapt Through Time but no stores around me seem to have it in stock. I have a few more episodes of the original Fruits Basket anime left.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 16, 2019, 08:11:57 PM
We taped both Unico movies off of TV so when I found out they were on DVD I had to buy them.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on February 17, 2019, 06:08:53 AM
On the other subject, I wasn't aware of anything like that but I don't watch dubs, and never will again. Fushigi Yuugi in English killed any interest I will ever have in watching a dub ever again. It's horrible. I still love Yuugi, it's a classic, but NOT in English.

Oh man. I remember in highschool my friend was all like "This anime is so great" in regards to FY, but I couldn't get into it because the dub was like nails on a chalkboard.

That said, anything I watched dubbed that I grew up on (read: before I was 14)... :shrug: the dub is going to resonate with me even if the Japanese VAs are better.

I think I'm the same. The one exception to my dub ban is Tenchi because it was something I consider nostalgic watched as a teen rather than really seeing it as anime in a bigger genre. It was the first series I ever watched and the obvious sake dubbed as 'tea' amused me much.

I paid the extra $5 to buy the sub VHS over the dub VHS because I HATED that dub so much. $30 dollars for 2 episodes. (Oh but hey, that was better then the $35 for 1 episode with the clamshell cases.) Tenchi was the divider for me of sub/dub.

Regarding the DVDs, I won't be throwing them out till I've tested them more :) I used to work in a library too so I learned various tricks to clean them but this isn't that, unfortunately :/ But it could be my player.
Also I didn't mention in my first post that my defective DVDs that were new but worked on some players and not others-- so it could still be a reflection of the DVD and not necessarily the player. But it could be the player too!

>_<;
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 18, 2019, 03:33:17 AM
I watch all my anime DVDs and Blu Rays on my PS4
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on February 18, 2019, 05:40:42 AM
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Though rewatching Saiyuuki is high up on my to do list. Because it's awesome.

I remember back in '06 I was working at the Grand Canyon National Park and there is NOTHING to do after dark. My roomate had bought Saiyuki Dvd's and I bought all the Inuyasha ones that were avalible at the time and we would watch them at night.

I don't remember much of saiyuki other then they changed voice actors at some point and I remember that really annoyed me. I know its based off of Journey to the west.

I also watced FY dubbed ut the only thing I remember that annoyed the ever loving crap out of me wasn't the voice acting, it was the female lead character because I thought she was so annoyingly stupid.
FYI - I named my chinchilla Chichiri  ^.^ I miss her. 

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Don’t watch Monrose Monokean 3, with the sexual accusation against Vic Mignogna, Funimation has redubbed over his lines plus fired him along with another company. All thanks to Monica Rial and Jaime  Marchi.
His part in the anime is not very big. He's in like maybe 3 or 4 episodes as he is not one of the lead VA's.
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Post by: Taffeta on February 19, 2019, 03:22:46 AM
If it was the Saiyuuki dub...maybe. The original Japanese version has had the same seiyuu for 20 years....it is very rare for Japanese vkice artists to change. Usually it is extreme circumstances such as death that make it happen.

The Japanese main cast are awesome.

Miaka and Yui are both annoying. I am in it for the seishi. Although Tamahome / Taka also has his moments.
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Post by: tikibirds on February 19, 2019, 06:16:13 AM
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If it was the Saiyuuki dub...maybe

Yeah, it was. I think I remember reading that the VA of the water sprite guy was fired for marrying a 13 year old girl or something like that?
I also remember thinking that the early seasons - the characters had different personalities then the later seasons. I don;t know if it was some kind of censoring or what but the seemed to be more mellow. This does not include the most recent season (which I did enjoy).

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I am in it for the seishi. Although Tamahome / Taka also has his moments
 
I'm usually in it for the attractive looking men, especially if they are demons/yokai or gods. I dragged my boyfriend to every shinto shrine I could find, which he did not approve of being the strict christian that he is. He mellowed out a bit when I told him I don't beleive in it, I just find it very intersting and alot of my fav anime/manga is based off of it.
I just got back from Japan (Okinawa) on Tuesday but I went alone this time.

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Post by: Taffeta on February 19, 2019, 11:25:41 AM
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If it was the Saiyuuki dub...maybe

Yeah, it was. I think I remember reading that the VA of the water sprite guy was fired for marrying a 13 year old girl or something like that?
I also remember thinking that the early seasons - the characters had different personalities then the later seasons. I don;t know if it was some kind of censoring or what but the seemed to be more mellow. This does not include the most recent season (which I did enjoy).

Not a clue. I pay no attention whatsoever to dub artists. I don't know anything about any of them xD. I only know the Japanese ones.

Now I'm going into spoiler tags because there is a risk of rambling about Saiyuuki in general ;)

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The anime works kind of like this - Gensoumaden-Gensoumaden Gaiden/Filler arc with Homura-Reload-Reload Gunlock-Reload Blast.

The manga works like this: Saiyuuki (Gensoumaden without the filler, Reload), Saiyuuki Reload (the start of Gunlock and then an extended period of unanimated storyline), Reload Blast (Reload Blast).

So there's some chopping about of the story. Especially with the story that's animated as Reload but which is actually not Reload. Also there are a lot of of odd episodes in both Reload and Reload Gunlock which are entirely filler, and that also disrupts the flow of the narrative proper.

I don't think the characters are different but I am reading the manga and watching the anime in Japanese so maybe there's a difference in the dub if the voice artists changed or something? I can't talk about the translation because I haven't listened to it.

What I can say is there are some censored details in Gensoumaden which aren't really touched on directly at later points. Things like the nature of Hakkai's relationship with Kana, the true nature of his crime, the circumstances around the death of Gojou's mother (I think there's a hint of this, but it's not fully explained), and so on aren't so explicit in the anime. Also the entire details around Hakkai's crime and the flashback are changed somewhat from the manga for some reason.

Also Gunlock is mostly filler. It begins with a proper arc of manga, and the characters Hazel and his companion, their mission, all of that is from the manga - but at the midpoint it switches out because Saiyuuki was on hiatus (author's frequent ill health). So they made up an ending. It's a bad ending, because it does a few things I shouldn't do and doesn't do a few things it needs to do.
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It kills Hazel, and it doesn't properly elucidate on Ukoku and explain all the missing pieces of the puzzle. This arc, Even a Worm in the manga, explains a lot that isn't in the anime at all and may never be. It also includes the epic Gokuu/Hakkai fight which I cry inwardly about, I want so much to see that animated. That is referenced in the recent Reload Blast anime, but not properly :'(
.

So Reload Blast brought it back bang onto the manga, it's very close to the manga version (is this dubbed? I have only seen it in Japanese language and I don't even know if the manga is translated for Blast?). THe only addition to this is the added flashback scenes from the 500 years ago Gaiden story.

THere's also two OVA that aren't really extant in English dub I don't think. One is Burial, which talks about the pasts of each one in a sense - Sanzou's history, how Gokuu met Sanzou, and Hakkai and Gojou trying to live together before going on the journey. THe other is the gaiden in full, with all the gory details. These are from the manga too, but I feel like maybe their absence in the proper run of the anime also mutes the characters a bit?

As I said, though, it may just be the dub?


Onto Yuugi. Yuugi actually inspired me to properly sit down and learn Japanese for the stupid reason I wanted to read the novels and it was either Japanese or German, so I might as well learn the Japanese. It's a silly reason to learn a language but it has hugely changed my life so I won't complain. I find the characters interesting but the narrative is a bit brutal at times! I think I'm mostly just character driven in the shows and stories that attract me. I don't need them to be demons or whatever, or even to be handsome. I just need them to have a great character dynamic.

Shinto shrines are awesome. :D I had to visit a bunch during my fieldwork visit because of their connections to various individuals in my research. :D
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2019, 04:02:58 PM
Speaking of returning voice actors I just saw that most of the English dub cast of Fruits Basket will be returning to their roles in the new anime. I didn’t see anything about the Japanese version but assume they will also try to get most of the same cast?

Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on February 19, 2019, 04:07:22 PM
Speaking of returning voice actors I just saw that most of the English dub cast of Fruits Basket will be returning to their roles in the new anime. I didn’t see anything about the Japanese version but assume they will also try to get most of the same cast?

Ponyfan

The Japanese cast is entirely different, which is really unusual. I did some digging about this and apparently the creator wanted everything done completely from scratch, so totally fresh for the new series. Apparently this has been endorsed by some of the original cast. I wonder whether I'm a minority in being saddened by that decision, though. I like continuity.

And I am a big fan of the original seiyuu for Shigure, so a little part of me weeps inside that he's not reprising the role.

In other news (and I know you guys probably don't care, but I want to share it anyway)...

The angelique series I mentioned earlier as the first one I ever watched without subs (that my disc has corroded for)...I just found a bunch of the episodes are on Youtube :D


For some reason they start at ep 7 of the first arc and then most of the second arc. But that's better than nothing. I haven't seen any of it in a long while.
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2019, 04:47:51 PM
I didn't realize that none of the Japanese voice cast would be returning for the new Fruits Basket anime.


I'm glad you found the anglelique series on Youtube. :) 




Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on February 20, 2019, 05:42:19 AM
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Onto Yuugi. Yuugi actually inspired me to properly sit down and learn Japanese for the stupid reason I wanted to read the novels and it was either Japanese or German, so I might as well learn the Japanese. It's a silly reason to learn a language but it has hugely changed my life so I won't complain. I find the characters interesting but the narrative is a bit brutal at times! I think I'm mostly just character driven in the shows and stories that attract me. I don't need them to be demons or whatever, or even to be handsome. I just need them to have a great character dynamic.

Shinto shrines are awesome. :D I had to visit a bunch during my fieldwork visit because of their connections to various individuals in my research. :D

I am so jealous that you can speak Japanese. I suck at learning languages. They have been trying to teach me Chinese for almost 2 years now but...It's just not working. Althoug my issue with Chinese is the damn tones. I KNOW the words but I never say them correctly and nobody ever understands me here.  :pout:
Tried Japanese in coolege but the professor kinda sucked. Instead of HIM teaching he had the 2nd semester students try and teach us and that didn;t work for me. >.< Plus we had to learn Hiragana in about a week. There was another class that used romanji or whatever its called (like the japanese version of pin yin) instead of learning the characters. I probably should of taken that class instead.

If I could find a way to make a living studying Japanese mythology, I would. Or if I could fins a way to live in Japan, that would be even better but the work contracts are better in China so here I shall stay for now. (I don't really want to work for Nova or Gaba or any English cram school in Japan. Their contracts are crap compared to mine. You get paid more but I do not want to work 40 Hrs a week in a bussiness suit to teach english to kids).
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Post by: Taffeta on February 20, 2019, 05:52:36 AM
The complexity of Japanese mythology is indeed awesome. Although I study warriors, their stories intersect with stories of shinto and Buddhist ideology, and old stories of China, and so on, so it's really quite broad.

I have a similar problem with Chinese. I can read a lot of the characters already, or approximate them, and the grammar is less difficult than Japanese, but I cannot master tones. As for Japanese, I think learning without characters (in romaji) actually makes it harder in the long run. Especially since some folk romanise in a lazy way, so you get two words that in Japanese writing are different (like yuuki, courage, and yuki, snow) both romanised as 'yuki'. There are also a lot of homonyms, so without the character, you need to know which kami you're talking about - god, paper or hair ;) Or possibly the upper region of a place/upper shrine.

Going back on topic, though, I think one of the reasons anime is such a rich source of stories and is so attractive is that they have such a varied set of their own stories to weave into it. And also, some of China's, as Saiyuuki and in a sense, Yuugi both demonstrate. Yuugi is all fiction but the four gods are part of a bigger spiritual ideology. Haruka, another series/franchise I am very fond of, also uses them extensively, as well as onmyoudou (yin yang) stuff and shinto ideology.

 Saiyuuki spoofs up the Journey to the West and makes many of the characters polar opposites...but it still comes from something deeper.

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Post by: Ponyfan on February 20, 2019, 03:07:20 PM
I've been watching a bunch of drama lately (we don't have a thread for that, funny enough). I'm looking forward to the furuba anime although watching it ep by ep will be annoying xD I like to watch anime series at my own pace so it might be I wait till it's done airing before I watch. In any case I agree, Ponyfan. It seems to have respected the original while promising to do the whole story this time.

I always feel that where the old anime ends gives the wrong impression about
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Yuki's relationship with/interest in Tooru
and so it will be nice to see that fixed. That, and the other rather major...issue with the original anime as regards
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Akito
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I just finished the original Friuts Basket anime but although I liked the ending it seemed like

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Yuki was dissapointed that Torhu “chose” Kyo instead of him and that Akito made so many rules and was so cruel because he thought no one cared about him and wanted him to die? 

Maybe it’s because I’m not very far in to the manga yet?

Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 20, 2019, 04:07:21 PM
I've been watching a bunch of drama lately (we don't have a thread for that, funny enough). I'm looking forward to the furuba anime although watching it ep by ep will be annoying xD I like to watch anime series at my own pace so it might be I wait till it's done airing before I watch. In any case I agree, Ponyfan. It seems to have respected the original while promising to do the whole story this time.

I always feel that where the old anime ends gives the wrong impression about
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Yuki's relationship with/interest in Tooru
and so it will be nice to see that fixed. That, and the other rather major...issue with the original anime as regards
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Akito
.




I just finished the original Friuts Basket anime but although I liked the ending it seemed like

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Yuki was dissapointed that Torhu “chose” Kyo instead of him and that Akito made so many rules and was so cruel because he thought no one cared about him and wanted him to die? 

Maybe it’s because I’m not very far in to the manga yet?

Ponyfan

 :lol:  That's what happens when they finish an anime way before the manga is done.  There are a lot of things in the manga that don't show up in the old anime.  I'd suggest reading the manga (or waiting for the new anime to be finished-assuming they follow the manga closer) to get some new insights into the story.  Admittedly, I haven't finished the manga myself yet--I'm working on it--but I have plenty of friends who have and they've told me some spoilers as we were discussing the odd ending of the anime.

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In watching Sailor Moon, it bothers me that Sailor Venus' character changes so much.  At the end of the first season when she shows up, she's already a superhero in her own right as Sailor V--she even has an episode where she tells about her past working with the British police.  But by the middle of Sailor Moon R (season 2) she's even more ditzy and clutzy than Usagi.  What's up with that?
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Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2019, 12:33:12 AM
@Ponyfan - yeah, it does give that impression. And because it's not the whole story, it's the wrong impression :/ Which is why so many people have waited so long for a proper full version of the manga in anime form (which is what they are hopefully doing).

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Yuki and Tooru are never really a pairing, but the anime suggests that there's been a choice.

When I read Furuba I couldn't speak Japanese and they were still translating volumes into English so some of my volumes are in French and yeah. I am looking forward to seeing the whole thing in Japanese for the first time xD.

Rewatching Saiyuuki Gensoumaden <3. The subtle character details make it for me.
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 21, 2019, 07:54:27 AM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie and Taffeta. I was starting to think that I missed something or didn't understand the ending of the anime.   

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The resolution with Akito feels off to me too.

I'm only on volume 3 of the ommibus manga of Fruits Basket but am planning on reading the whole series eventually. :) I have noticed a few things that weren't in included in the amine already like Yuki's hat that Tohru kept and Kyo's guilt.


@ Pokeyonekenobie My impression of Venus is that she's better at being a superhero than the others since she was the first Senshi to be reawakned (and the true leader of the Sailor Senshi according to the manga) but that she has trouble not going overboard when she's trying to help her friends and that contributes to her being clusmy and a little clueless sometimes. I haven't read the Sailor V manga yet but I think Sailor Venus didn't have many friends except Artemis before she met Sailor Moon and the other Senshi.


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Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2019, 08:45:30 AM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie and Taffeta. I was starting to think that I missed something or didn't understand the ending of the anime.   

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The resolution with Akito feels off to me too.
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There is a lot wrong with Akito in the anime, period. Let's just leave it at that for now :)

I remember I watched the anime ending a couple of times before I really got to grips with it. And it was an anime I watched first before I spoke Japanese, so the first couple of times I saw it in English. I can't remember now what the dub is like (its not horrendous like the one for Fushigi Yuugi xD) but I am not sure if anything is missing in translation. I rewatched the original anime not long past and I dunno if it'ds because I know the ending now or because the Japanese is more clear...yeah. Not sure but looking forward to the remake, even with a new cast, to close those gaps. I mean, there are characters that didn't even make it into the anime, and that needs resolving.


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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 21, 2019, 09:44:55 AM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie and Taffeta. I was starting to think that I missed something or didn't understand the ending of the anime.   

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The resolution with Akito feels off to me too.
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There is a lot wrong with Akito in the anime, period. Let's just leave it at that for now :)

I remember I watched the anime ending a couple of times before I really got to grips with it. And it was an anime I watched first before I spoke Japanese, so the first couple of times I saw it in English. I can't remember now what the dub is like (its not horrendous like the one for Fushigi Yuugi xD) but I am not sure if anything is missing in translation. I rewatched the original anime not long past and I dunno if it'ds because I know the ending now or because the Japanese is more clear...yeah. Not sure but looking forward to the remake, even with a new cast, to close those gaps. I mean, there are characters that didn't even make it into the anime, and that needs resolving.

Sometimes I'll watch the English dub with the subtitles on to see what they would have translated from the Japanese to really be.  Some animes it's not much different but others give a whole new view to the story.  I don't know if the translators do that because that's what fits the mouth movements or if they think American audiences won't understand/can't handle the actual storyline/references.
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Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2019, 11:59:45 AM
I think it depends. I know sometimes they change all the cultural references and use different terms that they think the audience will understand better. But there are also plenty of cases where the subs are also approximated and don't entirely reflect the dialogue. Japanese and English are such different languages sometimes I guess the mouth movement thing is a problem. It makes some dubs sound very unnatural as well, because they're having to try and match the Japanese speaking rhythm.

I used to do the same thing with Tenchi dub and the subs and I'd see a lot of difference. I haven't watched Tenchi properly since my Japanese became good enough not to use subs. One day I should go back and see how much the subs match the Japanese xD.

Fansubs are also notorious at missing odd details or mishearing something and then rendering a whole conversation weirdly because of it :/ I don't envy the people who do that. It's easy for me to sit and point out the mistakes, but the pressure subbers are under to release eps quickly I think often leads to some of these not getting caught.
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Post by: Stormness_1 on February 22, 2019, 04:57:32 PM
I have the latest batch of DVD releases of the new dub for Sailor Moon, but I haven't watched them yet. I prefer the new(original) naming and the original intent to the storyline as I was always a manga fan, but the music just doesn't work for me and I just can't get into the scenes as much. I fear crystal may be much of the same vibe, and so I haven't bought those yet. I do have a full set of the manga though, the one with the boxes with the beautiful manga art.

Has anyone seen the new Broly movie? I've been holding off until I actually get around to catching up on DBS, I've only seen season one so far, the whole tournament of power concept is a bit boring to me. Although I'm definitely reconsidering spoilering with the movie, with Vic being fired from Funi, we might not see much of his work for a while, and dammit, he's a great VA! I'm totally annoyed about him losing RWBY too though, Crow will NOT be the same with a different VA, and I'm not going to watch it anymore. I really can't stand it when they switch actors mid-series, regardless of how good the direction is, the character always comes across as wrong. It's an original series, just kill him off and then fire him. Same result, and it doesn't completely ruin the show for fans.

I'm really excited to see the castings for the new fruits basket, with most of the english cast returning. I think Momo's VA might be the only new face so far?
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 23, 2019, 09:29:31 AM
I started watching the 90's Sailor Moon before Crystal so I watched 90's Season 1 and then Crystal Season 1 and I think I watched Season 2 of both basically at the same time.  :lol: I enjoy both versions of Sailor Moon although I think the 90's version shows more of the girls bonding than Crystal. Some of the scenes in Crystal look almost the same as they do in the manga but Crystal does add a few things that are not in the manga. 

Here are a couple of background music pieces from Sailor Moon Crystal

Legend of the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-zsZ63usg

Theme of Sailor Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-TcEopaYqw


Has anyone heard anything about the Sailor Moon Crystal Dream arc movie? I guess production was delayed since I haven't been able to find any clips from it even in Japanese.


I'm also looking foward to the new Fruits Basket anime. :) Seeing the anime first and then reading the manga has been interesting as I can see where the anime follws the manga and where it doesn't. I also know why to put a seahorse rat or cat in the chatbox they're named hatori :hatori: yuki :yuki: and kyo :kyo:  :biggrin:



Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on February 23, 2019, 09:37:15 AM


I'm also looking foward to the new Fruits Basket anime. :) Seeing the anime first and then reading the manga has been interesting as I can see where the anime follws the manga and where it doesn't. I also know why to put a seahorse rat or cat in the chatbox they're named hatori :hatori: yuki :yuki: and kyo :kyo:  :biggrin:



Ponyfan


Yeah. One of the Arena's weird secrets, that ;) Though I guess it points to how old this site (including its predecessor) is ;)
Is it just Yuki, Kyou and Hatori in the shoutbox? None of the others?
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Post by: Ponyfan on February 23, 2019, 09:56:04 AM
There's also Ayame  :ayame:   Hatsuharu  :hatsuharu:  Kagura :kagura:   Kisa :kisa: Momiji :momiji: and Shigure :shigure:    :)





Ponyfan
 

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Post by: Ponyfan on March 09, 2019, 12:08:52 PM
I saw Liz and the Blue Bird today at the store. It looks really good. Has anyone seen that one?


Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 11, 2019, 05:40:40 PM
I picked up Liz and the Blue Bird today and also Lu Over the Wall. :)

Ponyfan
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Post by: SpacePinto on March 12, 2019, 08:19:09 AM
I am not much into anime (unless Moomin counts) but I'm currently thinking about rewatching Bagi the Monster of Mighty Nature, after more than 10 years now that I think about it.
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Post by: Taffeta on March 12, 2019, 12:56:15 PM
I picked up Liz and the Blue Bird today and also Lu Over the Wall. :)

Ponyfan

I don't know either of these :)

Watching Saiyuuki. So easy to tell where filler ends and real manga stuff begins because it's so much better written. I enjoy the filler eps, they're fun - especially crack ones like the one when Gokuu is convinced Sanzou has turned into a demon, and the one Hakkai vanishes and leaves them to take care of themselves and Gokuu puts detergent in the rice cooker to clean the rice...but when you get the real story there's much more connection between scenes and ideas and characters and it's just nicer somehow.
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But I wish the anime had the Hakkai and Goku fight
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<3
and I want the creepy dark Ukoku reveal stuff...and most of all I want the real Hazel, because he comes off as a jerk in Gunlock and I actually really like him in the manga. (and he's not dead -.- and I so want him to come back). I think Gat's friendship with Gokuu is also more explored in the manga, but I can't remember.

Also added a bunch of anime to my list that I will probably never have time to watch.
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Post by: tikibirds on March 18, 2019, 08:32:55 AM
There seems to be a lot of hate againist filler episodes in the anime community. I don't mind them as long as they aren't recaps or flashbacks of previous episodes. Naruto has so many of those.  >_<
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 18, 2019, 09:32:15 AM
One of my least favorite Sailor Moon episodes is the recap/preview on at the end of Season 2  The characters just talk over scenes of episodes and say "Oh, remember when we did this?" "Who could that be? Is that a new enemy?"


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on March 18, 2019, 03:06:18 PM
There seems to be a lot of hate againist filler episodes in the anime community. I don't mind them as long as they aren't recaps or flashbacks of previous episodes. Naruto has so many of those.  >_<

I think the hate comes more from the purist manga fans who dislike anything not in the manga. I tend to judge filler arcs each on its merit, though. For example, Bleach has a ton of filler arcs. I like a couple, I am not so keen on a couple. It depends on the anime as well. What I don't really like is when a series I've read the manga for takes a manga arc and rewrites the ending. That I don't really like.

All that said, I consider manga to be the canon. Albeit the continuity is the most important thing. So if the filler doesn't contradict the continuity then it's all good. The biggest problem with filler arcs is that the writers cannot develop or reveal anything additional about the character that isn't already known, so sometimes things drag out.

With Saiyuuki, it led to Kou getting injured, then healed, so he could appear in the filler, then injured again so the canon could continue. And in Bleach they broke off in the middle of a manga arc to tell a "story that hadn't been told yet", but the problem with that one was that the timeline was impossible and it couldn't integrate. So that's where there are issues with filler.


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Post by: tikibirds on March 19, 2019, 12:01:09 PM
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What I don't really like is when a series I've read the manga for takes a manga arc and rewrites the ending. That I don't really like.

Yeah, especially if its the ending of the series.
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 20, 2019, 07:26:35 PM
I watched Lu Over the Wall. It's basically a version of The Little Mermaid. It was pretty good although there are a few places where the story twists and the animation style changes drastically. Kai accidently attracts the attention of a young mermaid when he plays music. Lu's tail becomes legs when she hears music. However everyone in town tells Kai that the merfolk are dangerous creatures.


Ponyfan



Stephanie Sheh ,the current voice of Usagi/Sailor Moon in the Viz Dub voices one of the characters and she sounds exactly like Usagi/Sailor Moon. Until I looked it up I didn't realize that Stephanie Sheh also voices Mitsuha in the dub of Your Name. When she voices Mitsuha her voice is different than her Sailor Moon voice.


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Post by: Ponyfan on March 23, 2019, 04:04:25 PM
I'm thinking about watching Howl's Moving Castle now. Is anyone a fan of it?


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on March 24, 2019, 02:35:25 AM
I'm thinking about watching Howl's Moving Castle now. Is anyone a fan of it?


Ponyfan

I can't remember if I've seen that one or not...I'm not a huge ghibli fan to be honest, but if you like others then it's probably worth a watch?
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 25, 2019, 06:40:20 AM
Studio Ghibli is kind of hit or miss for me. That being said I have enjoyed most of the ones I've seen so far. I'll give Howl's Moving Castle a try. :) I found it today for $10.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 25, 2019, 04:40:27 PM
I liked Howl's Moving Castle.  I thought it was fun.
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Post by: tikibirds on March 25, 2019, 10:54:55 PM
I like Spirited away, howls moving castle and the cat returns but the other ghibli movies, I didn't like.

I have also been to the museaum in Mitaka, Japan. It was OK but not worth the hype it gets. Plus it was so freakin crowded.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on March 26, 2019, 07:17:59 AM
I'm thinking about watching Howl's Moving Castle now. Is anyone a fan of it?


Ponyfan

I like both the English sub and dub of this movie, I set myself a challenge when watching the English dubbed version; anytime the said the worlds heart, curse, and witch I had a drink (water)

Studio Ghibi films I like are Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Monoke, Kikki’s Delivery Service, and The Cat Returns.

The rest are a big no no.
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Post by: tikibirds on March 26, 2019, 10:25:45 AM
Ya know, now that I think about it..Ghibli flims are the only ones where I perfer the original Japanese over English Dub. I know its all famous actors, but the voices suck.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 27, 2019, 07:29:40 AM
I prefer the original English dub of My Neighbor Totoro over the Disney one.
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Post by: Taffeta on March 27, 2019, 11:39:24 AM
I've never watched Ghibli in English. I think I have heard maybe 2 lines of Mononokehime in English by accident before hurriedly switching over. I imagine probably the dubs ought to be better quality than regular anime series but I guess it depends on the actors and how much they have to fit the script to mouth movements.

I also have no idea how Spirited Away/Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi even makes sense in English.
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 28, 2019, 06:56:24 AM
I watch the dubs because reading subtitles for an extended time takes me out of being fully immersed in the movie since I don't understand Japanese. I haven't seen Spirited Away but have heard other people mention it was confusing.



Ponyfan



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Post by: Carrehz on March 28, 2019, 05:57:21 PM
The only Ghibli dub I've been able to stomach is The Cat Returns; that one works fine in both languages and they actually managed to find a good cast... for some reason all the other Ghibli dubs (at least the Disney dubs) have at least one irritating voice =_= Although they did swap Natoru's gender in the dub, not sure why they did that...

(I wonder how the heck Whisper of the Heart works in English - one of the major plot points is the main character translating "Country Roads" into Japanese. Not sure how that'd make sense in the dub.)

I watched Howl's Moving Castle for the first time a few months ago! I liked it, it's not my favourite Ghibli film though.

There seems to be a lot of hate againist filler episodes in the anime community. I don't mind them as long as they aren't recaps or flashbacks of previous episodes. Naruto has so many of those.  >_<

I don't mind filler, either - if done well it can really expand on the characters. I've noticed this particularly with magical girl series (at least older ones). Take Sailor Moon, for example (original series, not Crystal) - the manga has the team all set up after several chapters whereas the anime takes longer to introduce all the girls, thus giving you more time to get to know their personalities before moving onto the next intro. More room to breathe, you know?
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 28, 2019, 07:20:04 PM
It's been a long time since I've watched Whisper of the Heart but I think in the English dub Shizuku is either still trying to translate the song in to Japanese or she is rewriting the song with lyrics to fit at graduation.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on March 29, 2019, 03:31:48 AM
I watch the dubs because reading subtitles for an extended time takes me out of being fully immersed in the movie since I don't understand Japanese. I haven't seen Spirited Away but have heard other people mention it was confusing.



Ponyfan





It's not confusing in Japanese, but then kami-kakushi is an innately Japanese thing (literally, hidden by the gods)...which is not quite the same as "Spirited Away" but I guess as close as they could get it. It is an odd film but some things don't make sense in translation.

I have seen in the past that where a Japanese character tries to speak English, in dubs they make an English speaker speak say, French instead which is an interesting way of getting round such problems.

Another interesting thing about dubs is that often the gender of the character and that of the voice artist are the same. It's not 100% but it's much more common for women to voice young male characters in Japan, or sometimes others if they want to make gender ambiguous. It never made it into the anime (in the end it's a good thing as the manga arc was horrible) but there was a character in Bleach that had extensive gender debate because in Japanese gender pronouns are not necessary and can sometimes be interchanged anyway. So for weeks and weeks people argued over whether this character was male or female or neither. And the translations of the manga into English struggled with it as well, so got inconsistent he/she/they/etc. It was eventually revealed the character was male, but I was thinking how that might work in anime, and that in Japanese it would probably maintain the ambiguity longer than in English.

Though there's another series, isn't there, with a character whose gender was never officially revealed? I forget which right now.

Characters like Yuki in Fruits Basket, and Kenshin in Rurouni Kenshin were voiced by women in the Japanese anime. Yuki will now be voiced by a guy, I think, in the new series, which is interesting. But there feels like a lot more fluidity around character, gender etc with Japanese versions because of this practice and how common it is.

Going back to fillers, I like what the Bleach fillers did for Kira. The filler writers clearly liked Kira more than the mangaka did.

It can be used in other ways though. In Fushigi Yuugi manga there's a whole section where they end up stranded in this place where they all have to dress as women else they're going to get killed and...for some reason they decided that wasn't appropriate to animate so they changed it and bits of that appeared in omake at the end of the ova episodes (so they could put Mitsukake in a dress, I guess?). So sometimes censorship plays a role in those decisions too?

And then in Saiunkoku, which is adapted from novels, there's a sequence of the storyline where the Emperor's consort is kidnapped and then there's a whole flurry to rescue her. In the novel version, during the rescue attempt, the Emperor discovers the true identity of the consort's bodyguard via a letter left behind. In the anime they skip this up a few episodes and make it happen after a court tournament that isn't in the novels - so the letter doesn't come as a surprise to the Emperor, only to his advisor. It changes the dynamic slightly although I admit I like the way the anime handles it.

Recommend Saiunkoku *nods*.
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Post by: Ponyfan on March 31, 2019, 07:30:39 PM


I don't mind filler, either - if done well it can really expand on the characters. I've noticed this particularly with magical girl series (at least older ones). Take Sailor Moon, for example (original series, not Crystal) - the manga has the team all set up after several chapters whereas the anime takes longer to introduce all the girls, thus giving you more time to get to know their personalities before moving onto the next intro. More room to breathe, you know?


That's one aspect that I think the original Sailor Moon anime did better than Crystal. I've seen both series (haven't seen Stars in the original series) and I think you get a better sense of how great of friends they are in the original anime but since Crystal follows the manga more closely than the original anime a lot of the bonding time with the characters is lost.



Taffeta,

Thats very interesting about the voice actors.  :) I wonder why they decided to go with a guy voicing Yuki in the new anime since it seems they were trying to keep most of the original voices/get close to the original voices? In the original Pokémon English dub Ash was voiced by a woman.


I watched Flavors of Youth. It's promoted as being made by the same studio as Your Name but to me Your Name is a much better film. Flavors of  Youth is 3 short stories that don't really have anything to do with each other. One thing that is interesting is all of the stories/action takes place in China. The first and last story were good but the 2nd one was so boring that I almost stopped watching and I feel the 1st story is rather misleading in what to expect from the rest of them film.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 02, 2019, 12:52:20 PM
Viz has just announced that Sailor Moon Stars will be released on Blu Ray/DVD in June.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on April 02, 2019, 03:20:52 PM
@Ponyfan - with Yuki, I was talking about the Japanese dub. I don't know what is happening with the English voices but the Japanese are all being changed so it's not so odd. I'm still trying to get in my head how Yuki is going to sound now...

Currently a little worried the Japanese version won't be available since Funimation is so obsessed with dubbing. If that's the case I won't be watching it until somewhere picks it up in the original.

Meantime been watching Bungo Stray Dogs. There are some Japanese writers from the 19th and 20th century probably turning in their graves after having their names and works taken and used in vain xD.
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Post by: banditpony on April 02, 2019, 03:26:51 PM
Viz has just announced that Sailor Moon Stars will be released on Blu Ray/DVD in June.


Ponyfan

yessss.
Probably part 1 though, right?

I'll be SO HAPPY when everything is released and I don't have to remember to buy them anymore.
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 02, 2019, 03:42:02 PM
I head somewhere that most of the English cast is returning for the new Fruits Basket anime( Momiji and Kagura have different VAs) so I guess I just assumed that they would keep most of the original cast for the Japanese version also.  :blush:

I'm hoping that the new Fruits Basket anime will get picked up by Hulu in the US as I'm really looking forward to seeing the new version and more of the story. :)


Viz has just announced that Sailor Moon Stars will be released on Blu Ray/DVD in June.


Ponyfan

yessss.
Probably part 1 though, right?

I'll be SO HAPPY when everything is released and I don't have to remember to buy them anymore.


Yes, part 1. :)  I wonder if we'll see part 2 released by December. I just need the Sailor Moon R movie and the 3rd Season of Crystal to all of the Viz Sailor Moon releases.



Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2019, 12:21:23 PM
I picked up A  Silent Voice today.



Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on April 07, 2019, 12:43:49 AM
The first ep of the new Fruits Basket anime is now up.

As expected Funimation only has it in English but fortunately CR has it in Japanese.

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I was worried about the new Japanese voices but so far so good. I did worry that Yuki might be Haruka 2.0 but he isn't, and Nakamura Yuuichi does a good job as Shigure. I thought they did a nice job of it so far. Looking forward to seeing more :D

The one thing I hate about watching anime as it airs is waiting for the next episode...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 07, 2019, 07:22:35 PM
The first ep of the new Fruits Basket anime is now up.

As expected Funimation only has it in English but fortunately CR has it in Japanese.

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I was worried about the new Japanese voices but so far so good. I did worry that Yuki might be Haruka 2.0 but he isn't, and Nakamura Yuuichi does a good job as Shigure. I thought they did a nice job of it so far. Looking forward to seeing more :D

The one thing I hate about watching anime as it airs is waiting for the next episode...




It looks like Hulu will be getting the new Fruits Basket anime later this month so I will be able to watch the new episodes too. :)


I know what you mean about the new episodes though. I feel the same way about waiting for new Miraculous Ladybug episodes.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on April 11, 2019, 06:49:40 AM
Cant remember if I told it here : I watched Erased (anime series) and it was amazing !!!!!! It was super emotional!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 11, 2019, 06:59:50 AM
I love Erased :D

Drama version is good too...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 11, 2019, 09:56:14 AM
dunno if there's any other fans here.. but Ojamajo Doremi is coming back!!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-23/toei-ojamajo-doremi-magical-girl-anime-gets-comedy-net-anime-shorts/.144912
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-23/toei-confirms-ojamajo-doremi-team-majo-minarai-o-sagashite-magical-girl-anime-film/.144911

I'm so excited!! Doremi's my favourite anime (as you can probably tell from my avatar :silly:) and I never expected anything like this... it's been so long since the light novels came out that I didn't think they had any plans to revive it... plus it looks like they've managed to get at least the main girls' VAs back so that's fantastic! It's soooo good to hear them again :heart:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 11, 2019, 12:23:30 PM
Erased sounds interesting. :) Someone a couple of months ago was asking about Mirai? I noticed that it's out on DVD/Blu Ray now.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 11, 2019, 12:39:38 PM
Erased sounds interesting. :) Someone a couple of months ago was asking about Mirai? I noticed that it's out on DVD/Blu Ray now.



Ponyfan

Erased is really very clever and it does make you think about stuff. But I really like that so much of it is set in Hokkaido. It's very sweet and yet it covers some serious stuff. Also, it's short (12 eps) so easy to watch without feeling bogged down.

I really need to find the manga for this because I want to know if the anime or the drama fits closest to the real story. They both reach the same conclusion in a sense but in a different way...there are things I like about how they tie together both but they're not quite the same so I would really like to know which is more in the writer's way of thinking.

Still going to make a push for Charlotte as well as another recommend because it is really quite clever and though he's a complete jerk in the first episode, the main character really does grow on you.

I need to look into Mirai. I have heard it mentioned but don't know much about it.

Looking forward to Furuba ep 2...I hate the wait!

@Carrehz - not familiar with that series but it's always awesome when something that has been dormant for ages reemerges. I felt like that with the 2017 Reload Blast for Saiyuuki and with Furuba now. It gives me hope that one day there might be a season 2 of Yona and maybe some other half-finished series...

On the subject of Furuba, I did notice that the episode titles say season 1, which suggests there may be a split in the middle rather than a continuous airing. I hope not but it's possible :/

Also I really like the closing theme of Furuba, will have to track that down - although
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I am still a bit concerned about how it presents the guys vis a vis Tohru, because the original anime definitely left things in a confusing place and I feel like the ending theme images don't do a lot to dispel that...

Oh yeah, and still missing Rin, I think o.O. Although I guess (hope) she'll be in the 2nd season titles, it's still kind of wrong for her not to be there. I realise the first half of the series will retread the ground covered by the original anime a fair bit, but she's still part of the zodiac -.-
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 11, 2019, 03:31:11 PM
I found Erased and Charlotte on Hulu and added them to my watchlist.  I'm also interested in Mirai. :)  I'm really excited to see the new Fruits Basket anime but I don't think it's on Hulu yet. 





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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 11, 2019, 03:42:15 PM
I found Erased and Charlotte on Hulu and added them to my watchlist.  I'm also interested in Mirai. :)  I'm really excited to see the new Fruits Basket anime but I don't think it's on Hulu yet. 





Ponyfan

Will really be interested to hear what you think of them :O)
I haven't found anything streaming Mirai at present.
Hopping streaming services looking for anime can be a pain, even with search tools. They also have a bad habit of removing shows in the middle of my watching them...

I am certain you are going to love Furuba <3 Hope it is on your Hulu service soon!!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 12, 2019, 03:17:00 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :) I think Hulu might be waiting for the first few episodes of Fruits Basket to air before they add it to their anime collection.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 12, 2019, 03:51:05 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :) I think Hulu might be waiting for the first few episodes of Fruits Basket to air before they add it to their anime collection.


Ponyfan

It's a good plan. I really hate the wait.
Just watched ep 2 and realised...a whole week till 3 *cries*.
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And this only for the Japanese dub version but last ep Yuki didn't sound like Haruka. This week...he did. But I guess it's okay. :) I am surprised how easily I've adjusted to the new voices. I guess that means they're doing a good job.

Also Kyou jumping from the classroom window and landing cat-style is still one of my favourite moments :)

Also just finished watching Angels of Death. It's messed up as heck but whatever.
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Hard to not get attached to Zack despite the fact he's a serial killer who kills because he wants to...

About ready to enter research revision mode now :D
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 13, 2019, 03:24:07 PM
I'm hearing conflicting information on whether or not Hulu will get the streaming rights to the new Fruits Basket or not. I hope they will eventually but I think Funimation's streaming site has first rights to the episodes. I imagine that it will turn out much like Sailor Moon Crystal's series. I think Crystal had to air a full season in Japan before the English dub could be released in the US.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 13, 2019, 03:26:11 PM
I'm hearing conflicting information on whether or not Hulu will get the streaming rights to the new Fruits Basket or not. I hope they will eventually but I think Funimation's streaming site has first rights to the episodes. I imagine that it will turn out much like Sailor Moon Crystal's series. I think Crystal had to air a full season in Japan before the English dub could be released in the US.


Ponyfan

Funimation certainly has the English dub of Fruits Basket streaming on the same time as Crunchyroll has the Japanese one. I dunno if that is the same as in the US though...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 13, 2019, 07:36:47 PM
I just watched episode 1 of the new Fruits Basket :)


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I think it will be a great series and I love how they showed the flashback of young Tohru with Yuki's hat. A couple of things I noticed in the English dub were that Yuki's voice sounded a little too deep for him to be a high school boy (That might be because I'm used to the original anime voice actor though) and they pronounced Shiguire as "She-gray" Is that the correct pronunciation?






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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 14, 2019, 04:22:54 AM
Yay :D

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I'm 99% sure it's not technically Yuki's hat.
Although I grant that there's a connection with Yuki and the hat xD.
I really hope this anime will cling to the detail of the manga, though. The appearance of the hat makes me think that it might do...I don't remember the hat ever being in the original anime.



On the subject of Shigure - Shi-gu-reh is correct, with every syllable the same rough length. In the original English dub I think it was Shi-GUUR-ay...?

http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Shigure

If you click the little button next to Japanese pronunciation it should give you an idea :)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 14, 2019, 02:01:02 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :) I was pretty sure “She-Gray”  wasn’t correct.  With all of the advances of pronouncing Japanese names more accurately in English dubs I was hoping for more correct pronunciations but the sound wasn’t very good on the platform I was watching so it’s possible I misheard Shigure’s name. I didn’t realize Shi-GURR-ay was incorrect also.

I’m halfway through the original manga. While I was waiting for volume 7 for come back in stock 8 and 9 sold out. :sad:

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I’m just past where Tohru found out that Akito wants to lock Kyo away in after he graduates.



About the anime

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The hat isn’t in the original anime or Kyo’s guilt over Kyoko’s  death. I’m also hoping that the new anime will bring in more details from the manga like when Yuki realizes that Rin was actually standing guard trying to protect Hatsuharu from being discovered when he secretly visited Yuki.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 14, 2019, 03:23:13 PM
I'm pretty sure you're reading the manga in kind of omnibus form, right? Because I have 23 volumes for Furuba manga (admittedly across 3 languages, don't ask) but it sounds like you're much further in...?

I dunno if English dub pronunciations have improved as I haven't watched any in a long time, but the odd times I hear clips still make me cringe a bit xD.

I guess She-grey is a kind of attempt at Shi-gu-reh...?

I wonder what will happen with Hatori (similarly ha-to-rih rather than ha-TOOR-i) if this is setting the benchmark...

It reminds me of the official subtitles of Haruka making Ikutidaru and Sefuru Icktidarl and Sefle respectively. Fortunately no dub exists of that...xD

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I think the appearance of that had gives a good indication of possibility for more small details. Fingers crossed.

Akito was in episode 2. I attended how that was handled with interest...

The one thing that does twitch me a bit about the new series is that (at least in the Japanese), there are times when Yuki and Shigure speak over each other, rather than fitting the aside into a pause as the original series did. I seem to remember Yuki asking Shigure if he'd done laughing as a more clear aside in the original anime...and there was another one I noticed either in the first or the second ep as well, where the aside is at the same time as the main line instead of in a pause...

It;s harder to hear two lines in Japanese at once, rather than one :P

...I will just be happy to actually see Rin. I mean, at all. :) Also Machi. Particularly Machi.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 15, 2019, 07:24:38 PM
I checked Wikipedia and I've read through Chapter 71 of the manga so maybe a little more than half?


 
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I think it must be an intentional choice by the new anime directors as I've noticed it happening in the English version as well. Once in the same place that you mention and then when Yuki and Tohru were walking after school and Yuki kept talking about hating the cat and Tohru asking him if hated cats. Yuki in the English version seems talk very quietly all the time. I'm hoping that is just due to the bad sound quality on the video I watched.

I was really happy the new version included that scene where Yuki says he won't be alone and his eyes glow and you see all of the rats behind him with glowing eyes.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on April 15, 2019, 08:45:32 PM
Just peeking in here to recommend Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (it's technically a donghua, not anime, since it's Chinese). It's based on a wuxia danmei (basically, a fantasy martial arts + BL) novel and it's so freaking good. It's getting a second season this summer and I cannot wait! Although it departs heavily from the novel (a large part of this is due to the Chinese censorship laws; since it's based on a danmei (BL) novel, the more intimate/longing scenes between the two main male protagonists are heavily censored), it stays true to the original feel of the novel.

Basic Summary: In an alternate historical China where its residents 'cultivate' in order to seek the highest forms of martial arts, there are five main cultivation sects; Gusu Lan, Yunmeng Jiang, Lanling Jin, Qinghe Nie, and Qishan Wen. The main character, Wei WuXian, is a member of the Yunmeng Jiang sect, and is the adopted son of the sect's leader. Along with his adoptive brother Jiang Cheng, WuXian is sent to train at the Gusu Lan sect's Cloud Recesses. There he meets Lan WangJi, the strict rule child of the Lan sect, who's in charge of punishing unruly students. WuXian accidentally gets on his bad side when he sneaks in past curfew with alcohol and then attempts to duel WangJi, therefore breaking three of the Lan sect's three-thousand rules in one go. This is the start of a beautiful...er, frienemyship.

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So, a few notes. Wei WuXian, despite being the protagonist, ends up becoming 'the bad guy' or just... more of an antihero. His heart's in the right place but he doesn't go about things the right way. I don't want to spoil too much but basically, some terrible things happen, and he embraces the 'demonic' path, which is seen as a twisted, disgusting path by most of the cultivation world. As a demonic cultivator, he can raise the dead and control them to do his bidding with a flute. These dark powers inevitably backfire and cause his own death. The donghua actually begins after Wei WuXian is revived via a blood ritual, and his past, which is the huge chunk of the first season, is only seen through a massive flashback. In the novel it actually switches back and forth a lot more, but the first, second, and last episodes of the donghua are the only ones that deal with the present time. The rest is a reflection on Wei WuXian's past life. Season 2 will focus on the present, where strange supernatural encounters lead to WuXian and WangJi traveling together to investigate and discover the cause of these peculiar occurrences.

I cannot recommend this series enough. The donghua is absolutely gorgeous, with smooth, crisp-looking animation, beautiful scenery, and amazingly talented voice actors who really help to bring the characters to life. I have never found myself caring about characters as much as I care about these characters. The world is so rich and vibrant, and the longing between the two mains, Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi, is so poignant that it's almost tangible at times. I highly suggest that if you decide to check out the donghua, that you also read the novel and the manhua, as the storytelling is top notch, and possibly check out the drama CDs, as they have a ton of fun extras. The English translation of the novel can be found at Exiled Rebels Scanlations. Be warned though, the novel is 18+ and deals with mature themes.

(Okay, babbling over. Sorry! I just...really really love this series ahhh)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on April 16, 2019, 06:16:03 AM
My VPN was actually staying connected so I binged Bakumatsu (currently on crunchyroll) - finished all 14 current episodes in 2 nights.
Its not the greatest story ever written and its kinda by the book in a way but I find it entertaining. I was surprised to find that its based off a romance phone game because the anime is all action/adventure.

It is very loosly based on historical events as the main characters are constantly squaring off with the shinshingumi, trying to stop the new leader who is bent on japan taking over the world.

Takasugi Shinsaku, a soldier of fortune from Choshu, sneaks aboard a government ship with his comrade Katsura Kogorou in search of a mysterious "timepiece" with the power to manipulate time that he fears the government wishes to keep for themselves. Rather than allow such power to fall into the wrong hands, Takasugi plans to destroy the artifact, but having obtained it, the artifact is quickly stolen, forcing the pair to follow the mysterious thief to the seat of government in Kyoto. However, when they arrive in the capital, they discover that the government has been overthrown and the deity Susanoo now reigns in its place. The streets of the city and the people in them are much different than Takasugi and Katsura remembered. The times may have changed but their mission hasn't - Takasugi and Katsura resolve to reset time and save their nation from the nefarious forces trying to hijack it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 16, 2019, 02:01:29 PM
I saw the first episode of that.

I'm afraid the moment that Sanada Yukimura appeared in Bakumatsu Japan though, I turned it off ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 16, 2019, 05:43:12 PM
I watched the 2nd episode of the new Fruits Basket

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Taffeta, I see what you mean about  opening tittles. That one scene where Yuki and Kyo are waiting for  Tohru  does make it seem like Kyo and Yuki will be competing for her affections.

In this episode Yuki said Shigure’s name with 3 syllables In the English dub Tohru has only referred to Yuki as Sohma instead of Yuki but calls Kyo Kyo instead of Sohma

I noticed that when Tohru tried to stop Kyo and Yuki from fighting at school and Kyo transformed there’s a shot of Kyo’s bracelet on the ground. I don’t remember the original anime showing what happens to his bracelet when he transforms in to a cat. I’m assuming that as long as he wears the bracelet at the time he transforms even if it falls off during the transformation he won’t turn in to his true form?



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 17, 2019, 01:06:08 AM
Re Furuba 2:

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I thought the same about the bracelet! I was immediately like ARGH PUT THAT BACK ON NOW XD. And I also had the same wondering about whether it is needed when he is a cat or not, because I would;ve thought it was...

It's possible with the opening titles and also the ending ones, that the animators for it didn't have all the data but yeah. Yuki's bond with Tooru is not the same as Kyou's.

I also don't think Rin is in the titles though I am guessing we'll get new titles for the second half if this is "first season" and hopefully Machi will also be included then as well...and her brother, whose name I forget. Kakeru? I think Ayame is still only a silhouette in the opening titles at this point too?

In the Japanese dub, Tooru starts of with calling Yuki "Sohma-kun" as she would a generic male classmate. She begins with calling Kyou "Kyou-san" but then he gets antsy about it and tells her not to be so formal so she ends up calling him Kyou-kun". That's probably why the English is that way although it seems a bit odd to go halfway in the English and not explain it.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on April 19, 2019, 04:18:54 AM
Funimation is so going downhill now because a lot of people are leaving that community, plus they have been slapped with a lawsuit by Vic Mignogna for a serious misconduct.

I’m sticking with subs for a while till this blows over.

Attack on Titan Season Three part two here I come.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 19, 2019, 05:36:18 AM
Funimation is so going downhill now because a lot of people are leaving that community, plus they have been slapped with a lawsuit by Vic Mignogna for a serious misconduct.

I’m sticking with subs for a while till this blows over.

Attack on Titan Season Three part two here I come.

I only watch anime on Funimation that have a Japanese version. I ignore anything that is dubbed. I know that's their selling point, but its not for me. I prefer CR except their habit of taking down stuff without warning. Some stuff has moved from CR to Funimation, even though their partnership ended, otherwise I'd have cancelled the Funimation sub by now...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 19, 2019, 07:04:24 AM
Re Furuba 2:

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I thought the same about the bracelet! I was immediately like ARGH PUT THAT BACK ON NOW XD. And I also had the same wondering about whether it is needed when he is a cat or not, because I would;ve thought it was...

It's possible with the opening titles and also the ending ones, that the animators for it didn't have all the data but yeah. Yuki's bond with Tooru is not the same as Kyou's.

I also don't think Rin is in the titles though I am guessing we'll get new titles for the second half if this is "first season" and hopefully Machi will also be included then as well...and her brother, whose name I forget. Kakeru? I think Ayame is still only a silhouette in the opening titles at this point too?

In the Japanese dub, Tooru starts of with calling Yuki "Sohma-kun" as she would a generic male classmate. She begins with calling Kyou "Kyou-san" but then he gets antsy about it and tells her not to be so formal so she ends up calling him Kyou-kun". That's probably why the English is that way although it seems a bit odd to go halfway in the English and not explain it.




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I was almost expecting Kyo's true form to be revealed right then since he wasn't wearing the bracelet. Maybe it's supposed to be foreshadowing about how important the bracelet is?


It makes more sense now why Tohru calls Yuki "Sohma"  :) I feel that detail is not explained well in the English dub yet so it seems a little strange to hear her addressing Kyo differently than Yuki and also made me wonder if she will address all of the other males that are the same age or older than she is as "Sohma" 

I saw Ayame in the ending titles, but didn't notice him in the opening ones (but I might have missed him)


 




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 20, 2019, 09:57:31 AM
I picked up Mirai today.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 24, 2019, 09:14:27 AM
Has the 3rd episode of the new Fruits Basket anime been posted yet?



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 24, 2019, 01:31:54 PM
Has the 3rd episode of the new Fruits Basket anime been posted yet?



Ponyfan

Yes, it has :D

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I need to rewatch it in a more focused state, but it covers some of the nice character stuff with Yuki and Kyou which I love.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 27, 2019, 03:19:36 PM
It looks like I'll have to wait awhile or sign up for a new streaming service to keep watching the new Fruits Basket anime. The videos that were on YouTube have been taken down and there's still no sign of it appearing on Hulu (although it still could since April has a few more days left.) Is it free to watch on Funimation?


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 27, 2019, 03:36:07 PM
I suspect that it is premium but my UK sub may be different. I can't see on my acct which things are or not and I am watching on CR anyway. (It is premium there but it goes to not premium when the next ep happens...however that is in Japanese with sub. .
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on April 28, 2019, 06:41:38 AM
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I'm afraid the moment that Sanada Yukimura appeared in Bakumatsu Japan though, I turned it off
Was he the general type samauri dude on the horse?

That show has such low rating on crunchyroll, but I enjoy it. It's different from other shows with the shinshingumi.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 28, 2019, 07:07:54 AM
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I'm afraid the moment that Sanada Yukimura appeared in Bakumatsu Japan though, I turned it off
Was he the general type samauri dude on the horse?

That show has such low rating on crunchyroll, but I enjoy it. It's different from other shows with the shinshingumi.

I had to teach the real bakumatsu this year, so yeah, my historical gene twitched.

Sanada's a guy in red armour, he probably had a six disc banner somewhere, but his red armour is really famous. The issue I have with it is that he died in around 1615. Which is quite a long time before the Bakumatsu.

There are things messing around with Japanese history or history in general that I find really clever or interesting or original. And then there's just taking a guy who's famous in the Sengoku era and shoving him in the Bakumatsu.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on April 29, 2019, 07:42:07 AM
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I had to teach the real bakumatsu this year, so yeah, my historical gene twitched.

Sanada's a guy in red armour, he probably had a six disc banner somewhere, but his red armour is really famous. The issue I have with it is that he died in around 1615. Which is quite a long time before the Bakumatsu.

There are things messing around with Japanese history or history in general that I find really clever or interesting or original. And then there's just taking a guy who's famous in the Sengoku era and shoving him in the Bakumatsu.

There are several historical generals/samauri/whatever that appear as the 12 commanders of susanoo, all from different times. Since the watch has the power to mess with time, I assume it is also the reason why there are other characters from totally different times in the story. So for me, the story works.

The 2nd season is odd. The original master of the watch is killed and the watch was destroyed by Takasugi BUT it is now a sentient being and Hijikata is the new ruler of the alternate world (but nobody is aware of this yet).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 29, 2019, 08:16:33 AM
So basically, there are two things here. I mean, you enjoy it. So that's fine. That's all that matters. What I think is irrelevant in that discussion, and I hope the 2nd season is also enjoyable.

For me as a historian I look at stuff like this with a mixture of horror and fascination as to how Japan sometimes portrays its historical figures. I mean, representations of historical figures are interesting to me anyway, but the reason this one leaves me cold is that as far as I can gather, the chosen past individuals are pulled in just to fight against the heroes, not because they have any deeper reason or anything to be there. And the Bakumatsu period is already full of plenty of warriors legitimately wanting to slash each other open. I don't have any issue with villain/hero alignments of any kind for Shinsengumi/Takasugi and Choushuu etc because they all are rooted in the story and therefore connect. But the others are just shoved in there as randomly plucked enemies outside of time as far as I can see. And I kind of don't like that, mediaeval Japan being made the cannon fodder of the nineteenth century.

I don't feel like there are any pieces of the actual characters, it's just a case of picking some currently popular historical folk to get attention. I'm cynical because right now Sanada Yukimura is the darling of the Sengoku publicity model - tons of merch all over Japan, and made prominent by Basara and Sengoku Musou. I did see that Benkei was another one...

But hey, it's an anime, and believe me, there have been weirder...still dealing with Nobunaga as a girl...and so on...so I guess it's probably fine. This is just my specialist area, so I'm going to twitch about it when I feel like the individuals I study are being pulled in like puppet fodder just to sell the game, rather than because of who they are.

I might have stuck with it and enjoyed it more if I didn't know who those fodder people were.

Also slightly concerned that Seimei is meant to reflect Abe no Seimei somehow. But maybe that was me overthinking.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 01, 2019, 07:17:08 PM
It looks like the info about Hulu streaming the new Fruits Baskets was incorrect as Hulu told me today that they "didn't have any details at this time" if they would be streaming Fruits Basket soon.

I see episode 4 has been uploaded to Youtube but still no episode 3.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on May 05, 2019, 07:02:11 AM
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Also slightly concerned that Seimei is meant to reflect Abe no Seimei somehow. But maybe that was me overthinking.

Actually, I though that as well. Although, I am not sure what an onmyōji has to do with the story, other then the character having mythical powers to sense/power the pocketwatch. I think he is supposed to be the older brother of the emperor.

Its intersting that we both seem to have similar intrests and studied similar subjects but have totally different points of view. If nothing else, we are both trained as historians (although I currently teach in China..not exactly the path I was going for but at least i'm in the right part of the world..sort of). Someday I will start my PH D. Maybe...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2019, 07:14:26 AM
I think that when you study history, not having an easy career path is just normal xD.

It's actually funny that I take against this series so much because one of my real interests is representation and how old narratives and historical figures are re-represented. And I realise I'm being totally hypocritical ripping this one to shreds for shoving Benkei and Yukimura into the bakumatsu with a bit of divine shinto for good measure...when I have zero problem with the cast of Bungo Stray Dogs all being named for historic Japanese writers and such...and have genuinely used hello kitty Yoshitsune straps as part of a lecture on contemporary representations of history before.

I think it must be just that it seems haphazard, like it's not been thought out so much...? Maybe because it's from a game. I mean, I'm a fan of the Haruka franchise and have been for a long time, but the Haruka 3 anime (which covers Genpei, which is arguably my main focus) is only piecemeal and doesn't include a lot of the narrative. So if you don't know any Japanese history when you watch it, you're likely to be lost...

So yeah. I dunno why.

On another note, when I was in Japan, there was a whole museum in Higashiyama in Kyoto that used Hakuouki characters to narrate Bakumatsu history, to the point of airing the anime in the museum and having card cutouts with which you could have your picture taken. I don't know if it's still like that 2 years on, but if you're interested in a weird experience when you're there and you have an opportunity to go to Kyoto, I recommend it. It's very bizarre.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 06, 2019, 03:28:56 PM
I'm still trying to find a place to watch the new Fruits Basket anime but I noticed on Youtube that Kagura's episode on Youtube had a spoiler warning if you hadn't read the manga.


Spoiler
Has Kyo's true form been revealed in the new version?




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2019, 12:33:20 AM
I'm still trying to find a place to watch the new Fruits Basket anime but I noticed on Youtube that Kagura's episode on Youtube had a spoiler warning if you hadn't read the manga.


Spoiler
Has Kyo's true form been revealed in the new version?




Ponyfan

Spoiler
No, but it has been mentioned...I am trying to remember if in the other episode from the original series, that dialogue happens. I feel like it almost did but isn't given as much emphasis? The new series ep has Kagura mention it and Kyou kicks off at her and it leaves Tooru wondering about it, so it gives it some emphasis. But in my view if you're going to lay those seeds that early...maybe don't have him transform into a cat with the bead bracelet on the ground next to him? Because that is still a problem for me...

I hate waiting week on week for eps, if you get to watch them all together it might be better. I feel like the most recent episode
Spoiler
does things in a slightly different order, but I can't remember how the manga does it.
Yuki putting that idiot in his place is still awesome though.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 07, 2019, 05:20:05 AM
I'm still trying to find a place to watch the new Fruits Basket anime but I noticed on Youtube that Kagura's episode on Youtube had a spoiler warning if you hadn't read the manga.


Spoiler
Has Kyo's true form been revealed in the new version?




Ponyfan

Spoiler
No, but it has been mentioned...I am trying to remember if in the other episode from the original series, that dialogue happens. I feel like it almost did but isn't given as much emphasis? The new series ep has Kagura mention it and Kyou kicks off at her and it leaves Tooru wondering about it, so it gives it some emphasis. But in my view if you're going to lay those seeds that early...maybe don't have him transform into a cat with the bead bracelet on the ground next to him? Because that is still a problem for me...

I hate waiting week on week for eps, if you get to watch them all together it might be better. I feel like the most recent episode
Spoiler
does things in a slightly different order, but I can't remember how the manga does it.
Yuki putting that idiot in his place is still awesome though.



Spoiler
I get the feeling that in the new anime Kyo's true form will be revealed earlier than in the original.  I wa surprised that it happens within the first few volumes of the manga.

I think the bracelet on the ground was supposed to hint at how important it is, but I agree it doesn't make sense. I think it  would have worked better to not show the bracelet at all after Kyo transfroms or having  Kyo pick up the bracelet while he's in cat form and running away from the school before his true form appears. Even having the bracelet turn in to a cat collar would have worked.

I think in the original anime Kaguara mentions a secret she knows about Kyo and there are flashbacks to when they were playing together and something happened but it's not revealved that she has seen his true form until the night that Kazuma takes Kyo's bracelet  Kaguara does try to remind Kyo discreetly about it when they are shopping but Kyo acts like he doesn't remember transforming in front of her. 


I haven't read all of the manga yet but I feel there's something significant about the fact that whoever is the Cat transforms in to the other form and the cat appearance is controlled by the bracelet.


Ponyfan





Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on May 07, 2019, 05:35:06 AM
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n another note, when I was in Japan, there was a whole museum in Higashiyama in Kyoto that used Hakuouki characters to narrate Bakumatsu history, to the point of airing the anime in the museum and having card cutouts with which you could have your picture taken. I don't know if it's still like that 2 years on, but if you're interested in a weird experience when you're there and you have an opportunity to go to Kyoto, I recommend it. It's very bizarre.

That would be cool to see if its still there, I did enjoy Hakuouki  but though it was kinda...weird at times. I would love to stay in Kyoto instead of Tokyo this time around but sharehouses seem to be much easier to find in Tokyo. Last time I stayed with a place called Sakura house and rented a room in west Tokyo (about an hr west of Shinjuku) for about $500 a month. The problem was, it was kinda far from the action so to visit Asakusa/akihabara or the skytree that is on the east side - each trip on the JR was like $20 :cry:

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when I have zero problem with the cast of Bungo Stray Dogs all being named for historic Japanese writers and such.
I like that one too. I was hoping season 3 would be dubbed quickly. The subtitles go too fast for me.

Alright, I'm gonna try and watch the new version of Fruits Basket but I have tried a few times in the past to watch the old anime.  Its just so boring to me. I guess it's too girly for my tastes, I like action not romance but there are some exceptions.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 07, 2019, 06:40:38 AM
Spoiler
Even having the bracelet turn in to a cat collar would have worked.

Oh, that would've been so cute!! :lovey:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2019, 11:29:53 AM

That would be cool to see if its still there, I did enjoy Hakuouki but though it was kinda...weird at times. I would love to stay in Kyoto instead of Tokyo this time around but sharehouses seem to be much easier to find in Tokyo.

I imagine the museum will still be there, but whether they're still using Hakuouki all over the inside of it is another thing. The stupid part is that it's a serious museum with a lot of real stuff from the period, letters, artefacts, swords etc. But they choose to promote it with Hakuouki stuff?

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g298564-d2243151-Reviews-Ryozen_Museum_of_History-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html

This is the museum :)

I totally agree about that by the way. I like Hakuouki but it's full of the weird. I think you have to be able to laugh at the weird. But it's also horrible in places given the subject it's narrating. I think it's also inspired somewhat by the Shinsengumi Taiga Drama as they cover some of the same detail points and it feels like maybe there was some common organisation involved there. The Taiga Drama is less weird, but more horrible in places though. And no rasetsu. Or demons. Obviously...


Slightly off topic but I was recommended Kyoto apartment by an academic peer at my university and that worked for me very well. But I had some academic funding so :/
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Alright, I'm gonna try and watch the new version of Fruits Basket but I have tried a few times in the past to watch the old anime.  Its just so boring to me. I guess it's too girly for my tastes, I like action not romance but there are some exceptions.

Furuba is a bit girly I guess, but I always really loved it. I guess it was one of my first anime forays, which is partly why, but I am fond of Yuki and Kyou and their absolute adoration of each other (!!) I tend to be driven by the character more than the plot, though, so I don't really have a preferred type so long as there are some characters I can get on board with. Recently been neutralising academic stress with sports anime, and I'm the least sporty person on the planet, but they're reassuringly predictable :)

@Ponyfan, I agree with Carrehz, that would be one solution. This anime seems to move through on a slightly different timeline although I think Kagura was still around the same point in the original...next ep is going to be
Spoiler
Arisa and Saki visiting the Souma residence
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 07, 2019, 12:37:22 PM
I also love Fruits Basket. :) It's the 2nd anime series that I enjoyed so much that I wanted to read the manga and the first that I was able to complete the original anime before the new version came out. I also enjoy Sailor Moon but I watched the original and Crystal concurrently and have yet to see Sailor Moon Stars.

I think it's Yuki and Kyo that drew me in to Fruits Basket also. :)


Reading the manga after the anime I noticed that the original moved some of the major events around to better fit in the anime's timeline.


Spoiler
Tohru meets Hiro after Kyo's true form is revealed instead of before.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on May 10, 2019, 03:15:08 PM
I started watching the new Fruits Basket! Is it a good idea to read the manga or watch the old series first?

I am generally behind on anime. I will often avoid anime people recommend to me all the time because I hate the hype. I can't explain why, but I watched Madoka Magica only a few weeks ago when it came to Netflix.
I had been warned that it would make me cry and I knew the overall plot (and twist) but it still made me cry on the last episode. I guess I did not expect it to be so pro-female. I am used to women and girls to be objectified and sexualized in anime. I was pleasantly surprised Madoka did not do any of that despite the moe character design. I am bitter, huh?

Before starting Fruits Basket the last anime I watched in full was Little Witch Academia, which I absolutely adored. I wish they made another LWA series, I haven't enjoyed an anime so much since watching new Sailor Moon episodes each week as a child. It sparked joy :biggrin:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 10, 2019, 03:19:47 PM
I started watching the new Fruits Basket! Is it a good idea to read the manga or watch the old series first?

I would say Manga, the new series is already forging away from the reshuffling in the old anime. :) Although admittedly it's been so long since I read the manga that I can't totally remember enough to know if the new anime is being more faithful or adding any bits in...

Spoiler
Momiji is already annoying me.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on May 10, 2019, 03:23:00 PM
dunno if there's any other fans here.. but Ojamajo Doremi is coming back!!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-23/toei-ojamajo-doremi-magical-girl-anime-gets-comedy-net-anime-shorts/.144912
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-23/toei-confirms-ojamajo-doremi-team-majo-minarai-o-sagashite-magical-girl-anime-film/.144911

I'm so excited!! Doremi's my favourite anime (as you can probably tell from my avatar :silly:) and I never expected anything like this... it's been so long since the light novels came out that I didn't think they had any plans to revive it... plus it looks like they've managed to get at least the main girls' VAs back so that's fantastic! It's soooo good to hear them again :heart:

Omg I loved DoReMi as a kid! I am not following anime news so I am glad I came in here to see this :cool: Can't believe it's been already 20 years. Time flies, I'm old.

I started watching the new Fruits Basket! Is it a good idea to read the manga or watch the old series first?

I would say Manga, the new series is already forging away from the reshuffling in the old anime. :) Although admittedly it's been so long since I read the manga that I can't totally remember enough to know if the new anime is being more faithful or adding any bits in...

Thanks I'll look into it! I need to freshen up my zodiac knowledge. It's so funny to me how I am always into zodiac stuff like Sailor Moon and Fruits Basket but I don't actually know jack about it. I just knew back in the day that I was supposed to be Sailor Mercury based on my birthday and I hated it because she was my least fave :P
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 10, 2019, 03:36:07 PM
I started watching the new Fruits Basket! Is it a good idea to read the manga or watch the old series first?

I would say Manga, the new series is already forging away from the reshuffling in the old anime. :) Although admittedly it's been so long since I read the manga that I can't totally remember enough to know if the new anime is being more faithful or adding any bits in...

Spoiler
Momiji is already annoying me.


I also recommended reading the manga. :) I love the original anime but the new version is supposed to follow the manga closer and I've already noticed some details that are in the manga/new version of the anime that aren't in the original.


I'm currently a little over half way through the manga.

@Taffeta


Spoiler
Is Shigure as maniplulative in the new anime as he seems to be in the manga? In the orignal anime I got the impression that he wasn't that manpilulative.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 11, 2019, 01:18:10 AM
@Ponyfan...

Spoiler
I think there's more elements of it. It's actually a part of his character I like in the manga, and it's interesting that in the original anime when Arisa and Saki come over, he's all "woo, high school girls!" but in this one he's not. I'm not sure it's really explicit at this point, but I think it's hinted at more.

Spoiler
The latest episode also talked about the hat.


My impression is that this one is closer to the manga, just it's been so long since I read the manga - maybe 10 years - that I can only remember broad strokes in places :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 13, 2019, 10:07:04 AM
I really wanted to watch Song of the Sea but it’s not on Netflix anymore. I guess I’ll have to wait until it airs on TV or buy the DVD.

@Taffeta

Spoiler
I get the impression from the manga that Shigure is trying to play both sides. Making sure he stays on Akito’s side(telling him when the others are doing things Akito will disapproves of)while secretly hoping Tohru will  break the curse.

I love that the hat is being mentioned in the new anime. Have there been any flashbacks to Kyo’s guilt over Kyoko’s death?


 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 13, 2019, 10:10:08 AM
I really wanted to watch Song of the Sea but it’s not on Netflix anymore. I guess I’ll have to wait until it airs on TV or buy the DVD.

@Taffeta

Spoiler
I get the impression from the manga that Shigure is trying to play both sides. Making sure he stays on Akito’s side(telling him when the others are doing things Akito will disapproves of)while secretly hoping Tohru will  break the curse.

I love that the hat is being mentioned in the new anime. Have there been any flashbacks to Kyo’s guilt over Kyoko’s death?


 


Ponyfan

There's something in your post I really want to poke but I won't as I don't think you've read all the manga yet?. :)

Spoiler
Re the hat = no...
Spoiler
it's just a scene when Saki and Arisa are staying over with Tooru at the Souma house and one of them picks up the hat and asks about it...and Tooru recounts the story of being lost and following the boy home. Kyou overhears all of this but there's no follow up from it or real reaction from him at that point. That's as far as it's been taken so far.

In the most recent episode Shigure
Spoiler
does say something along the lines of you probably hope it fails but I intend to be optimistic...can't remember exactly the wording as I watched it when tired and haven't had a chance to go back to it...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 23, 2019, 12:05:10 AM
I was suprisingly happy with the Furuba Hatori episode since I usually skip that in the original anime (too sad) :/. Still sad but somehow light enough in places to work. I am not persuaded yet by his voice in the Japanese though. And the subtitlers keep spelling Hari as Harry and that makes me want to prod them hard.

I need to stop watching Ace of the Diamond, but its strangely addictive. I don't even know anything about baseball. Miyuki Kazuya, it's all your fault *shakes fist*
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 23, 2019, 07:34:34 PM
I'm hoping that I can catch up on several animes soon. :)  I may have to try to find the new Fruits Baskets anime on Youtube again.  That's kind of funny about the subtiles getting Hatori's name wrong  :lol: but also annoying since they should be able to translate correctly. That reminds me of a famous errror in the Sailor Moon manga where "reborn" in Japanese was misstranslated in English as "ribbon" and the mistake was only recently corrected in the new Eternal edition. 

The Hatori episode in the orignal anime made me realize what Hatori put himself through for Kana's sake. I think he mentioned that he was afraid that seeing him again would cause Kana's memories to resurface and cause her unhappiness and yet he lives with the memories of her love for him. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 24, 2019, 11:01:10 AM
That reminds me of a few bleach translation bloopers (mostly from manga actually) where words like shinseki (relative) were used instead of shinyuu (best friend), creating a whole different kind of character relationship than the one the writer intended for Yoruichi and Kisuke. Which became more disturbing considering there's a pseudo-hint of romantic involvement between those two by the end of the manga. Hint, anyway.

I guess it's easier to anglicise, but Hari is Hari, not Harry. Meh.

I feel like this Furuba anime doesn't play up some of the things that the original did. Somehow I like it better that way, as it seems to be responding more to the plot itself. But I do wish they had left out Momiji speaking in German. Not least because whoever is subbing this is subbing the German words as they are, not translating them. I speak Japanese, I don't need the English subs. I don't speak German, so while I can guess at most of it from four years of GCSE German more than 20 years ago, it would be helpful for subtitlers to do their actual job which is translate the dialogue, not just write it as is on screen...?

(And I suspect if it's like when anime does English, it;s a lottery as to whether the seiyuu can handle the pronunciation...)

@Ponyfan, good luck finding more Furuba eps :D
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on May 28, 2019, 06:36:41 AM
So far I have kept up with fruits basket but its still not very intersting to me.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 28, 2019, 12:51:10 PM
@Taffeta I'm debating whether to get a subscription to Funimation to watch the new Fruits Basket but I'm not sure how many other series I would use it for.

I really want to see the new episodes. I did find a clip of the English dub where Tohru meets Momiji and the German words aren't translated either.


I'm interested to see how the relationships are portrayed between the characters.

 
So far I have kept up with fruits basket but its still not very intersting to me.




I feel the same way about Pre Cure/Glitter Force. I just can't stay interested in it.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 28, 2019, 01:48:28 PM
@Taffeta I'm debating whether to get a subscription to Funimation to watch the new Fruits Basket but I'm not sure how many other series I would use it for.

I really want to see the new episodes. I did find a clip of the English dub where Tohru meets Momiji and the German words aren't translated either.


I'm interested to see how the relationships are portrayed between the characters.

 
So far I have kept up with fruits basket but its still not very intersting to me.




I feel the same way about Pre Cure/Glitter Force. I just can't stay interested in it.


Ponyfan


It';s fine that way, it's why there are so many genres of anime :D I am also not for the mahou-kei type of anime (the art for Precure puts me off, though). Although I've realised over time that I am less fussy about genre and more about character development.

For me Furuba is really nostalgic. It was one of my first anime series years back before I even learned Japanese, one of the few anime I ever saw in English - I have the manga in three languages because at the time I was better at French than Japanese and they had volumes ahead of the English translation when I was in Belgium.

The thing is though there's no adventure or that kind of thing. It's a gentle anime with some quite dark undertones. And although there is magic, it's woven into a human story, rather than the other way around. It's not for everyone :)

@Ponyfan - I have this problem with Funimation because of their predominance of English language stuff. But there are three or four series that are ONLY on Funimation (with Japanese) that means I can't just cancel the sub ><. They used to be on CR but now are not. Sigh.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 28, 2019, 02:29:16 PM
I've been meaning to check out the original Futari wa Pretty Cure series for years now, but as for the later series.. there's so many of them!! :drunk: It's overwhelming. Especially since after a certain point they seem rather... paint-by-numbers? which is a shame since they got rid of what interested me about the original series (only two girls in the team instead of the usual 4-5, character designs stuck out from the standard "pink/red main character" sort of thing.. etc). I'm sure I'll check out at least one of them eventually, though.. after I work through the numerous other magical girl shows I've been meaning to watch for years.. :p I still need to get back to Sugar Sugar Rune, that reminds me.

Which one is Glitter Force? IIRC only the original series and one of the later ones got dubbed, right?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 28, 2019, 03:13:24 PM


Which one is Glitter Force? IIRC only the original series and one of the later ones got dubbed, right?


I think Glitter Force is Smile Precure.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 02, 2019, 02:07:35 PM
Randomly browsing round youtube and found this, which reminded me that even if it's only eight volumes of the manga, it's still a great anime.

Dragons are weaker than insects ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8NzsYHgSxA
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 02, 2019, 02:54:44 PM
Randomly browsing round youtube and found this, which reminded me that even if it's only eight volumes of the manga, it's still a great anime.

Dragons are weaker than insects ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8NzsYHgSxA



That was great and so funny :lol: I am thinking I might give Yona a try (both anime and manga)



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 02, 2019, 03:45:09 PM
Randomly browsing round youtube and found this, which reminded me that even if it's only eight volumes of the manga, it's still a great anime.

Dragons are weaker than insects ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8NzsYHgSxA



That was great and so funny :lol: I am thinking I might give Yona a try (both anime and manga)



Ponyfan

It is quite an intense storyline but it's also full of humour. I just wish they'd animate the next volumes as the anime ends at a point where you don't really get a chance to see the best of certain characters.

Poor Kija xD. He really hates bugs ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on June 03, 2019, 06:42:41 AM


Which one is Glitter Force? IIRC only the original series and one of the later ones got dubbed, right?


I think Glitter Force is Smile Precure.



Ponyfan

Glitter force : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_PreCure!

There's also glitter force doki doki on netflix. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DokiDoki!_PreCure
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 03, 2019, 07:10:11 AM


Which one is Glitter Force? IIRC only the original series and one of the later ones got dubbed, right?


I think Glitter Force is Smile Precure.



Ponyfan

Glitter force : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_PreCure!

There's also glitter force doki doki on netflix. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DokiDoki!_PreCure



Thanks banditpony. :) It gets a little confusing for me to find the correct title for the anime when Netflix changes the title to something that's completely different from the original.



@Taffeta I found Yona of the Dawn on Hulu. :) Do you recommend starting the manga before watching the anime?
Has anything really interesting happened in the new Fruits Basket anime? I'm still trying to find somewhere to watch the new episodes.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 03, 2019, 09:04:35 AM
Couldn’t watch Attack on Titan because  :cry: Erwin Smith is dead  :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 03, 2019, 12:19:20 PM
@Taffeta I found Yona of the Dawn on Hulu. :) Do you recommend starting the manga before watching the anime?
Has anything really interesting happened in the new Fruits Basket anime? I'm still trying to find somewhere to watch the new episodes.

Ponyfan

I can only speak from my experience, and I watched the anime first and then wanted to know what happened after the series ended, so got hooked on the manga. I'm maybe not the best person to ask since I basically watched it because it was the first anime on my CR queue and CR was playing up and not scrolling through my queue so I just hit that and went with it.

And got hooked really quickly.

Spoiler
The start is a bit brutal though.

The anime series covers vols 1-8 of the manga (I don't know what number volume it's up to in translation, vol 29 came out in Japanese in April, it's ongoing still). There are also three OVA episodes which are mostly side scenes except that the backstory for one character from a later manga volume - forget which, maybe 13 or 15 - was made into an OVA DVD and released with one of the manga volumes, because otherwise you don't get his backstory in the actual anime.

I think the weakness with the anime is that there isn't a second season (yet, I live in hope)...

Re Furuba - the last episode was the marathon and Tooru meeting Hatsuharu.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2019, 08:42:12 AM
I just watched A Silent Voice. It was very good but also intense.  I also started the Yona anime. :)



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 06, 2019, 02:57:59 PM
I just watched A Silent Voice. It was very good but also intense.  I also started the Yona anime. :)



Ponyfan

Yay for Yona :D
Yay for Hak ;)

I have seen Silent Voice listed on I think Netflix, and added it to my list, but haven't got around to watching it yet.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 07, 2019, 07:26:09 PM
I just watched A Silent Voice. It was very good but also intense.  I also started the Yona anime. :)



Ponyfan

Yay for Yona :D
Yay for Hak ;)

I have seen Silent Voice listed on I think Netflix, and added it to my list, but haven't got around to watching it yet.



I can't say too much about A Silent Voice since I don't want to spoil anything for you. :biggrin: 

I've watched 5 episodes of Yona and I'm already hooked on it.  :D 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 08, 2019, 01:54:46 AM
I just watched A Silent Voice. It was very good but also intense.  I also started the Yona anime. :)



Ponyfan

Yay for Yona :D
Yay for Hak ;)

I have seen Silent Voice listed on I think Netflix, and added it to my list, but haven't got around to watching it yet.



I can't say too much about A Silent Voice since I don't want to spoil anything for you. :biggrin: 

I've watched 5 episodes of Yona and I'm already hooked on it.  :D 


Ponyfan

Yay! We shall have to have long detailed PM conversations about it so we don't break the forum ;) It starts off so brutally and yet it also starts off so funny. Hak literally from the get go <3.

There was no ep of Furuba this week. At least, not on CR. Which rather threw me. 9 is not the usual time for a season ep break...

I will have to make some time to watch a Silent Voice. It does look intriguing.

I watched the whole run of Hiza-ue this week. (I think in English, my Roomate is a Cat is the title).

It's the story of a guy who lost his parents in an accident and who lives a fairly isolated life as a writer who really dislikes being in crowds or dealing with other people. One day he sees a stray cat, gets inspired for a new story so takes the cat home. The story then details the adjustments of both man and cat (giving the viewpoint of both) to their new living arrangements and the things they both learn from it.

It's very simple but so clever and very cute <3.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on June 08, 2019, 04:19:17 AM
Due to the 30th anniversary of the Tienamen square massacare and China's unwillingness to admit it ever happened, my internet has been not working for the past week... :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 08, 2019, 01:47:33 PM
I'd really enjoy discussing  Yona in depth with you Taffeta. :) Even though I've only seen a few episodes I already really like Hak.

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I feel there is more to Su-Won than meets the eye. He can be so heartless and cruel at times and yet he said that hearing Son Mundok say he thought of him as another grandson made him happy.  It makes me wonder if someone might be using Su-Won as a pawn?


I will have to look up My Rommate is a Cat.:)


I noticed Amazon has the new Fruits Basket anime up but it cost $2.99 an episode. It gives me hope though that the episodes might appear on other formats soon too. I agree that it does seem a little strange to take a break after only 9 episodes.

@tikibirds I hope your internet starts working again soon.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 09, 2019, 11:53:41 AM
The tenth ep of Furuba has appeared. I guess it just didn't update on my app for some reason, as I can see it now on the CR website. So I guess it isn't pausing here after all. It's so weird given the timeline as this one is now valentines xD.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on June 09, 2019, 12:29:26 PM
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@tikibirds I hope your internet starts working again soon.

eh, it happens a few times a year. China upgrades the internet censorship "the great firewall of china" and it blocks all VPN access to the outside world. The VPN servcies than have to find a way around the upgraded firewall or whatever it is that they use to block access to sites like facebook, instagram, ect. They usually upgrade it whenever something "big" is happening. This time it was the anniversary of the tienamen square massacare which the gov't denies ever happened.

I can access stuff like pony island, yahoo, mlp arena without the use of a VPN but for any streaming sites or social media or anything that runs off google, I need the be logged into a VPN.

Basically a VPN says I am accessing the web from another location, like USA-> Santa Monica or UK->Wembley, when in reality I am accessing the internet from Yinchuan, China.

Equally annoying is that some streaming sites like Netflix and Crunchyroll block access to the site if they detect its being accessed via a VPN, so only certain locations work - currently only UK->wembly works for crunchyroll and nothing has worked for netflix at least not using the VPN I have.

so I have quite a few eps to catch up on AND this is a 8 day holiday week. Plus I have a bad cold so guess what Im gonna be doing.

Need to watch the latest epsiodes for:
fruits basket
Bakamatsu crisis
Bungo stray dogs
boruto
Midnight occult civil servants
demon slayer something or other
ge ge ge no kitaro

yeah, i have no life. Sad, really.


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 09, 2019, 12:46:12 PM
Being tied to the UK CR must be a pain since there are a lot of anime series licensed in the US for CR that aren't on our streaming service.

Although that said, when I was living in North London, one of the series that was blocked on the site when I was on the PC wasn't blocked on my app o.O. I watched the whole thing and then went onto the main site to see people complaining about it not being there o.o.

So sometimes I'm not sure even CR know what they're streaming and what they're not. Like the new Furuba ep. Didn't show on my app, but was on the website. And with Bungo Stray Dogs for ages on my app it wanted to either play from the middle of season 2 or with a French Dub that then crashed the app - whereas on the website it played just fine in Japanese from the start...

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on June 09, 2019, 08:53:29 PM
Really?
They all seem to be there, at least the ones I watch. However, I have noticed that if I am using my Amazon Kindle - I get a message saying something like "we are preparing this show for your device" for the latest episodes. Sometimes, the shows are a week behind and others - it takes a few weeks before I can watch on my kindle.

They all seem to work on my phone, but the site has somehow banned my computer. All i get is a message saying your IP address is banned. >.<

I wonder if it depends on how you watch it - tablet, phone, computer. My phones run off andriod but my kindle does not so maybe that somehow affects what you can and can not watch?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 10, 2019, 12:11:16 AM
Really?
They all seem to be there, at least the ones I watch. However, I have noticed that if I am using my Amazon Kindle - I get a message saying something like "we are preparing this show for your device" for the latest episodes. Sometimes, the shows are a week behind and others - it takes a few weeks before I can watch on my kindle.

They all seem to work on my phone, but the site has somehow banned my computer. All i get is a message saying your IP address is banned. >.<

I wonder if it depends on how you watch it - tablet, phone, computer. My phones run off andriod but my kindle does not so maybe that somehow affects what you can and can not watch?

Not usually, but in terms of the series, the series doesn't show up if it's not licensed in your country so you wouldn't see it anyway. But when I've checked other shows they show up as being available in the US, just not in the UK. ;)

I think that part of the problem is the firestick app, because it's not totally stable. It's also not possible to turn off subs on the app, even though the mistakes in them often annoy me - whereas on the PC I can. I don't like watching on the PC though, so :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 10, 2019, 03:46:20 AM
That must be really frustrating tikibirds.


Taffeta, I've noticed the same thing in the US with some animes. For example when I Google Fruits Basket Google lists  Amazon Prime, iTunes, Hulu and Netflix as having Fruits Basket available but Fruits Basket is not liscened for US Netflix. Google doesn't make this distiction though so the only way someone finds out that it's not avaliable is through trying to search for it on Netflix. 

I guess airing the Valentine's epsiode now is to keep the timeline of the new series consistent.



Several months ago I bought a few anime movies that looked interesting but that I didn't have time to watch at the moment. I am hoping to catch up on them soon. One of the movies that I bought was Liz and the Blue Bird. I saw a few reviews that mention Liz and the Blue Bird is acutally a spin off of a series called Sound Euphorium. Is anyone familar with that sereis? Is it one that I should watch before watching Liz and the Blue Bird?


I'm looking forward to Viz's North America release of Sailor Moon Stars part 1 and I'm on episode 9 of Yona of the Dawn. :)




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 10, 2019, 04:46:06 AM
I've seen Sound Euphonium but the name liz and the blue bird means nothing to me...its about music though right...??

Yeah. The furuba valentine ep could not be further from thr original anime if it tried ;) Also forgot how awesome their tannin...form teacher...is ;)

Feel bad for the staff of this school sometimes.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on June 10, 2019, 09:45:35 AM
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That must be really frustrating tikibirds.

When it happens for days at a time it as. The only contact I have with my family is via facebook. SO when the VPN isn't working, I feel like I am isolated and trapped on the other side of the world, inside a communist country.
Other people use apps like skype or wechat which has free internet calling but let's just say my mother is technology challenged.  -_-
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 10, 2019, 04:22:49 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :) I was worried that I might miss something since I haven't seen Sound Euphonium. The main characters in Liz and the Blue Bird are Mizore and Nozomi. They are practicing a difficult duet for a performance.


I never thought about the teachers at the school in Fruits Basket before. I wonder if they are confused when the Somhas dissapear so suddenly.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2019, 10:26:36 AM
I picked up Sailor Moon Stars part 1 today.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 21, 2019, 10:47:41 AM
Polygon wants to ban Attack on Titan because it unleashes hate. I hate them  :enraged:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on June 21, 2019, 02:15:28 PM
I watched Made In Abyss for the first time because it finally appeared on Netflix and what should I say...? I knew virtually nothing about it going in. Only thing I knew was that a friend of mine liked it and wanted me to watch it.

My reaction: what the HECK was that?! I will admit, I love the art style, ideas, designs and music. I also liked the "rabbit".
But o m g this anime is miserable... the kids, especially the girls get tortured all the time, emotionally as well as physically. The two protags, a boy and a girl, are also weirdly sexualized sometimes.

I was told to read a few chapters of the manga because a friend told me it's even worse about this stuff and she wanted to see me outraged, I guess. I only read one chapter and yes, it was worse and I wish I could bleach my eyes.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 21, 2019, 02:25:02 PM
I feel that about the King's Game, for different reasons.

I imagine there are folk who like the twisty dark of it but my brain is one of those that goes into the what if consequences and starts to think about how x character felt at y moment and so on and it still even now torments me that I watched as far as I did as I cannot completely forget that one scene that made me turn it off, delete it from my list and swear never to go near it again.

Dark for the sake of dark sometimes is just not on for me. I like dark themes and twists and stuff, but there's dark and then there's that. And that is beyond me.

Post Merge: June 22, 2019, 09:32:35 AM

New ep of Furuba.

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Very well done. Blows the original version out of the water with the detail nuances.

Kyou's cat eyes as well...makes me think the you know what is coming sooner rather than later.

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O.o.

Tohru met Akito, and the whole thing with Yuki and the trauma was much better outlined than in the original.

And that scene with Hatsuharu and the school council president...xD.

Looks like Ayame next week...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 23, 2019, 03:31:06 AM
Fruits Basket it doesn’t take an idiot to know that Hatsu showed his
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cucumber
to the president. But Tohru is such a airhead she doesn’t know.

I hope they don’t have the bagpipes playing when Ayame is talking couldn’t hear him very well in the first one. Hope they have the sound of when he pops up in snake form that was funny.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 23, 2019, 06:43:23 AM
I'm hoping to have time to watch a couple more episodes of Yona this week.  :)



New ep of Furuba.

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Very well done. Blows the original version out of the water with the detail nuances.

Kyou's cat eyes as well...makes me think the you know what is coming sooner rather than later.

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O.o.

Tohru met Akito, and the whole thing with Yuki and the trauma was much better outlined than in the original.

And that scene with Hatsuharu and the school council president...xD.

Looks like Ayame next week...




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I feel the original was pretty vague with Yuki's trauma and gives the wrong impression on why Yuki was so worried when he found Akito alone with Torhu.


I love that picture of Kyo's cat eyes. I see the true form hinted at in them.






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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 23, 2019, 08:20:39 AM

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I feel the original was pretty vague with Yuki's trauma and gives the wrong impression on why Yuki was so worried when he found Akito alone with Torhu.


I love that picture of Kyo's cat eyes. I see the true form hinted at in them.






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Yay, Yona :D

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I think the true form is coming too. I absolutely see it in those eyes. It's a great expression though. Very effective. I always enjoyed the humour in the new school term in the original anime but I think this ep did all of it better. I also have to say that while I still find Hari's voice a bit disconcerting, the new Japanese voice cast in general are doing a stellar job and I don't mind any more that they've changed.

Although that guy doing Yuki's voice is in literally everything I watch at the moment, which is giving me this strange gestalt entity character in my head every time I hear his voice...Shimazaki Nobunaga I think it is?

 I also wonder if it's there because he's angry at Akito or because of some greater link between the two of them cursewise. It's been a while since I read the manga so I have forgotten the details but I can't remember Kyou ever really spending a lot of time near Akito - in fact, he seems to be not invited to things like the banquet.

I agree on Yuki's trauma. It's actually quite haunting in this episode, but it makes it harder to understand
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why Shigure has any interest in Akito, or why we're meant to accept/forgive Akito's actions given everything else...I never liked her from the start, in the original anime, especially in the manga, and I don't really like her now. Albeit I understand she's under a lot of pressure and such and it's not a nice position to be in - but that doesn't give her free reign and allow the things she does.

also re Akito
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This episode also had Tooru (inner thoughts only) express Akito as male (kare). In Japanese you don't have to give a pronoun, he or she, so I find it interesting that she does that so clearly. A lot of people on CR were posting comments like, "till this ep I thought Akito was a girl." Well, that's gonna be a doubleshock for them later on isn't it...


@Brightrabbit - I don't remember the bagpipes, it's been a while since I watched it...I wonder how they will handle Yuki and Ayame given how they've handled the nuances thus far and also how they've shaded in especially Shigure but also to a degree Hari. Hopefully they'll do that for Ayame as well.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on June 23, 2019, 08:36:45 AM
I watched Made In Abyss for the first time because it finally appeared on Netflix and what should I say...? [....]
the kids, especially the girls get tortured all the time, emotionally as well as physically. The two protags, a boy and a girl, are also weirdly sexualized sometimes.

I enjoyed the story but that freaked me out to be honest... I dont like sexualisation of such young protagonist in general. I still want to see the rest of the story as it was a nice idea imo!


Im currently re-wachting Neon Genesis Evangelion, my all time favourite Anime <3 (Netflix, yaaaaay!!!)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on June 23, 2019, 02:36:37 PM
I watched Made In Abyss for the first time because it finally appeared on Netflix and what should I say...? [....]
the kids, especially the girls get tortured all the time, emotionally as well as physically. The two protags, a boy and a girl, are also weirdly sexualized sometimes.

I enjoyed the story but that freaked me out to be honest... I dont like sexualisation of such young protagonist in general. I still want to see the rest of the story as it was a nice idea imo!

There is a movie coming that centers on the chapters of the manga that came after the chapters they adapted for the anime. Like you I was curious how the story would progress and that is why I went and read some of the manga, and omg it gets worse and worse. The child torture gets to a crazy extreme and there is p*dophilia.

Warning, I'll put what happens to the kids under a spoiler
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one of the White Whistles surgically dissects their bodies then puts their remains in cartridges that ooze blood and gore and somehow these devices power him. He also se*ually abuses his adopted daughter and she ends up dissected and ultimately sacrifices herself to become material for an actual whistle.
I dropped the entire series after reading that chapter becuse I can't deal with stuff like this.

I was told by a friend it gets even worse after these events, that the kids are almost getting violated and stuff. It's just not for me and I hate that the art is so cute you kind of want to know what it is about, so you check it out and get burned like this.
I will read recaps from now on because really, I am fainthearted when it comes to cruelty against children but I want to know what happened to Lyza...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 23, 2019, 07:43:16 PM

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I feel the original was pretty vague with Yuki's trauma and gives the wrong impression on why Yuki was so worried when he found Akito alone with Torhu.


I love that picture of Kyo's cat eyes. I see the true form hinted at in them.






Ponyfan

Yay, Yona :D

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I think the true form is coming too. I absolutely see it in those eyes. It's a great expression though. Very effective. I always enjoyed the humour in the new school term in the original anime but I think this ep did all of it better. I also have to say that while I still find Hari's voice a bit disconcerting, the new Japanese voice cast in general are doing a stellar job and I don't mind any more that they've changed.

Although that guy doing Yuki's voice is in literally everything I watch at the moment, which is giving me this strange gestalt entity character in my head every time I hear his voice...Shimazaki Nobunaga I think it is?

 I also wonder if it's there because he's angry at Akito or because of some greater link between the two of them cursewise. It's been a while since I read the manga so I have forgotten the details but I can't remember Kyou ever really spending a lot of time near Akito - in fact, he seems to be not invited to things like the banquet.

I agree on Yuki's trauma. It's actually quite haunting in this episode, but it makes it harder to understand
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why Shigure has any interest in Akito, or why we're meant to accept/forgive Akito's actions given everything else...I never liked her from the start, in the original anime, especially in the manga, and I don't really like her now. Albeit I understand she's under a lot of pressure and such and it's not a nice position to be in - but that doesn't give her free reign and allow the things she does.

also re Akito
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This episode also had Tooru (inner thoughts only) express Akito as male (kare). In Japanese you don't have to give a pronoun, he or she, so I find it interesting that she does that so clearly. A lot of people on CR were posting comments like, "till this ep I thought Akito was a girl." Well, that's gonna be a doubleshock for them later on isn't it...





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I totally agree about Akito. I feel like the manga wants us to forgive Akito's actions but I also find it hard to justify her behavior especially towards Rin and Kyo. At one point Akito tells someone that she's deliberately toying with Kyo by promising him he will become a  member of the Zodiac if he beats Yuki in a fight.





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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 24, 2019, 07:08:50 AM
Watched the first part of the Sailor Moon Sailor Stars series this weekend.  Some of the names of attacks made me go  "O_o What?"

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"Star Gentle Uterus" (yes, Uterus) and "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss"
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on June 24, 2019, 07:38:16 AM
Watched the first part of the Sailor Moon Sailor Stars series this weekend.  Some of the names of attacks made me go  "O_o What?"

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"Star Gentle Uterus" (yes, Uterus) and "Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss"

Maker... creation... uterus... womb.... I kinda get it. It's a bit awkward because it's a body part.

But really. Most attacks don't make sense. https://sailormoon.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Attacks

I always was thrown off by sparkling wide pressure.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on June 24, 2019, 07:52:00 AM
Hmm, @Zapper, in that case I might have to re-think the idea of reading the manga and watching the movie... :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2019, 12:30:21 PM
I'm also watching Sailor Moon Stars part 1. :)



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 24, 2019, 12:39:27 PM
"Uterus" kinda makes sense, as banditpony explained, but yeah, most Sailor Moon attacks (hell, let's be honest, most magical girl attacks in general) are pretty word salad-y, haha.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2019, 03:12:37 PM
The Sailor Moon attack name that always gets me is Pink Sugar Heart attack. Since we're discussing Sailor Moon I thought I'd link this song that was made by the  SM Crystal Japanese voice cast of the Four Generals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qtXtDd60Q

This is one of the few songs I listen to in Japanese even though I can't understand Japanese.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on June 24, 2019, 11:06:12 PM
Not talking about watching anything here, but I had an anime package today and wanted to share it. I should have gotten it two days ago, but USPS didn't bother knocking or ringing the doorbell before leaving a pink slip so I had to wait until today (you can't pick up packages or schedule redeliveries on Sundays). So I went to the post office after work today and picked it up.

It's all Di Gi Charat merchandise. I've been into DGC since jr. high school when I rented a manga of it from the library and have had a small collection for a bit, but more recently decided I wanted to expand it. A lot. I've got more on the way in these coming weeks but here's the first package. :P

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Trading figures:

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Variety of Chocola (20th anniversary) artbook:

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Black Gema Gema Dan armband:

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CDs:

Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat soundtrack (also came with a bonus card)
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Dejiko no Sound Garden
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Here's my current display after putting all my new stuff on the shelf:

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I do have more beyond what's visible on this shelf. I've got five plushes, a hat, five animation cels, and a binder full of trading cards but they're elsewhere, don't fit around this shelf. The cels are on my wall.

Even though I've been into DGC for so long my collection has always been pretty small since before my parents would buy me things so before I had just gotten a few things mainly on eBay from them. But since I have a job now and I have an account on FromJapan to import stuff from well, Japan, now I can browse Yahoo Auctions, Rakuten, etc and expand this collection to a more desired size. :P
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 25, 2019, 03:41:11 AM
The Sailor Moon attack name that always gets me is Pink Sugar Heart attack. Since we're discussing Sailor Moon I thought I'd link this song that was made by the  SM Crystal Japanese voice cast of the Four Generals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qtXtDd60Q

This is one of the few songs I listen to in Japanese even though I can't understand Japanese.



Ponyfan

I clicked it.
It starts.
I'm like O.o. Takemoto Eiji.

xD.

I don't follow SM at all so I am not familiar, but I know all the voices xD. So this is where the seiyuu geek in me takes over :D According to the description of the song, the voice artists are Kishio Daisuke (Jadeite) Toriumi Kousuke (Nephrite),  Matsukaze Masaya (Zoisite) and Takemoto Eiji (Kunzite)...?

Takemoto Eiji (as Mitsunari from Sengoku Musou)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQWjuzaDbQ

Toriumi Kousuke (as Yasuhira from Haruka 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiCl90LN4FA

Kishio Daisuke (from one of the other Musou games)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwVJ79MGqGs
(He is cosplaying. He is also generally crazy though xD)

Matsukaze Masaya (Sengoku Musou)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWsqN2hOgU

I always find it's fun to put voices to faces, but for some reason these guys also do a lot of live events xD.


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 25, 2019, 03:35:52 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :) That's the first time I've seen videos of the VA performing.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on June 25, 2019, 03:38:16 PM
OOOOOOH loving the DiGiCharat loot! 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Galactica on June 25, 2019, 04:39:47 PM
Aww- I love the anime loot too!

I recently ALSO bought some anime loot-  (I think a close out from an anime shop) and in it were 5 books from Cardcaptor Sakura "Clear Card" - I had no idea there was new manga for Cardcaptor Sakura!!!   Sadly the translated books only go up to book 5 so I guess I have to wait until August for the final book in English.

I checked it out online- and it turns out that the episodes based on the manga are already streaming on Hulu (thanks to crunchyroll)  I'm sure it will be dubbed which is a bummer as I read that the original voice actors came back for the new cartoon-  (I'm kind of unclear whether the cartoon goes all the way to the end of the series or not though...?)

I loved the original Cardcaptor Sakura- (to be clear - ONLY the Japanese version- the US version was horribly dubbed and horribly censored) I'm sure this won't be quite as good but I'm looking forward to it anyway :D

Here's my loot!

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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on June 25, 2019, 05:04:12 PM
OOOOOOH loving the DiGiCharat loot! 

Thank you!! I've got a lot more on the way lol I went on (I say went but honestly I'm still doing it) a full on online shopping spree. I was tried of having it being such a tiny collection.

Aww- I love the anime loot too!

I recently ALSO bought some anime loot-  (I think a close out from an anime shop) and in it were 5 books from Cardcaptor Sakura "Clear Card" - I had no idea there was new manga for Cardcaptor Sakura!!!   Sadly the translated books only go up to book 5 so I guess I have to wait until August for the final book in English.

I checked it out online- and it turns out that the episodes based on the manga are already streaming on Hulu (thanks to crunchyroll)  I'm sure it will be dubbed which is a bummer as I read that the original voice actors came back for the new cartoon-  (I'm kind of unclear whether the cartoon goes all the way to the end of the series or not though...?)

I loved the original Cardcaptor Sakura- (to be clear - ONLY the Japanese version- the US version was horribly dubbed and horribly censored) I'm sure this won't be quite as good but I'm looking forward to it anyway :D

Here's my loot!

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 (https://flic.kr/p/2ggPoZW)Cardcaptor new and old (https://flic.kr/p/2ggPoZW) by Sarah (https://www.flickr.com/photos/51192881@N00/), on Flickr

Awesome haul! I need to get into Cardcaptor Sakura sometime, it looks cute!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 26, 2019, 04:32:05 AM
Rewatching OG Friuts Basket, episode 12 Ayame appearance. I forgot how funny it was. I hope they add the sound when he’s in snake form.

Plus it’s thanks to him sleeping next to the cat got me into yaoi
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Galactica on June 26, 2019, 10:40:08 AM
Rewatching OG Friuts Basket, episode 12 Ayame appearance. I forgot how funny it was. I hope they add the sound when he’s in snake form.

Plus it’s thanks to him sleeping next to the cat got me into yaoi

I watched it too-  doesn't it seem - frame for frame-  almost exactly like the original ?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 26, 2019, 10:47:35 AM
Rewatching OG Friuts Basket, episode 12 Ayame appearance. I forgot how funny it was. I hope they add the sound when he’s in snake form.

Plus it’s thanks to him sleeping next to the cat got me into yaoi

I watched it too-  doesn't it seem - frame for frame-  almost exactly like the original ?

The Ayame episode hasn't happened in the new series yet, has it...? I thought it aired on Friday?

Also, the new anime in general is different from the old as it's closer to the manga and the old anime inserted a bunch of things or changed the order - but the broad strokes are the same so I guess it's familiar overall..?

It's definitely not the same frame by frame :) I'd say the new version is probing deeper into some of the darker elements.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Galactica on June 26, 2019, 11:22:05 AM
Rewatching OG Friuts Basket, episode 12 Ayame appearance. I forgot how funny it was. I hope they add the sound when he’s in snake form.

Plus it’s thanks to him sleeping next to the cat got me into yaoi

I watched it too-  doesn't it seem - frame for frame-  almost exactly like the original ?

The Ayame episode hasn't happened in the new series yet, has it...? I thought it aired on Friday?

Also, the new anime in general is different from the old as it's closer to the manga and the old anime inserted a bunch of things or changed the order - but the broad strokes are the same so I guess it's familiar overall..?

It's definitely not the same frame by frame :) I'd say the new version is probing deeper into some of the darker elements.

I guess it has been a while-   :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on June 27, 2019, 05:57:31 PM
Alright, I got my second package today! It was supposed to be yesterday but then none of us were home when they tried to deliver it, they arrived at a strangely early time (around 11:30 when it's usually in the afternoon or evening), so after work I picked it up at the post office. :)

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 29, 2019, 12:49:11 AM
Just watched the Fruits Basket 2019  episode with Ayame in, thank god that that music that plays when he’s talking is gone now I can hear him. Was disappointed that that noise when we first meet him as a snake.

That episode next I’m going to be crying.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 29, 2019, 10:07:25 AM
Just watched the Fruits Basket 2019  episode with Ayame in, thank god that that music that plays when he’s talking is gone now I can hear him. Was disappointed that that noise when we first meet him as a snake.

That episode next I’m going to be crying.

Ah yeah, I feel the same about the next ep, if it's what I think it is.

Also, good grief. It's so weird watching multiple series with the same voice artists in but it's even weirder when those voice artists are closely connected in these series.

Sakurai Takehiro is Ayame. Aakurai Takehiro is also Taejun in Yona which I rewatched recently, and Miyuki in DnA which I have been watching lately as well. That's a really interesting combination. Seriously.

BUT it was a good choice I think. He did it well.

...I am sure that little aside of Shigure's wasn't in the original series ("we'd already got bored with that after all...")
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on June 29, 2019, 12:32:48 PM
Just watched the Fruits Basket 2019  episode with Ayame in, thank god that that music that plays when he’s talking is gone now I can hear him. Was disappointed that that noise when we first meet him as a snake.

That episode next I’m going to be crying.

Ah yeah, I feel the same about the next ep, if it's what I think it is.

Also, good grief. It's so weird watching multiple series with the same voice artists in but it's even weirder when those voice artists are closely connected in these series.

Sakurai Takehiro is Ayame. Aakurai Takehiro is also Taejun in Yona which I rewatched recently, and Miyuki in DnA which I have been watching lately as well. That's a really interesting combination. Seriously.

BUT it was a good choice I think. He did it well.

...I am sure that little aside of Shigure's wasn't in the original series ("we'd already got bored with that after all...")

Well I know when the episode with Kisa in is going to make me cry.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 29, 2019, 08:40:26 PM
I'm currently watching Season 2 of Log Horizon. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2019, 07:28:02 PM
Do you think the next episode of the new Fruits Basket will be

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When they visit Kyoko's grave and Momiji tells Tohru about his mother having her memories erased?



I finished Yona. It's a fantastic anime. :)


It looks like Sailor Moon Crystal 4 is finally starting production. It's been named Sailor Moon Eternal. I thought it would have a name related to the Dream arc.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2019, 12:13:24 AM
Do you think the next episode of the new Fruits Basket will be

Spoiler
When they visit Kyoko's grave and Momiji tells Tohru about his mother having her memories erased?



I finished Yona. It's a fantastic anime. :)


It looks like Sailor Moon Crystal 4 is finally starting production. It's been named Sailor Moon Eternal. I thought it would have a name related to the Dream arc.


Ponyfan

Yeah. I think the next ep of Furuba will be that.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 02, 2019, 02:50:53 AM
Do you think the next episode of the new Fruits Basket will be

Spoiler
When they visit Kyoko's grave and Momiji tells Tohru about his mother having her memories erased?



I finished Yona. It's a fantastic anime. :)


It looks like Sailor Moon Crystal 4 is finally starting production. It's been named Sailor Moon Eternal. I thought it would have a name related to the Dream arc.


Ponyfan

Yeah. I think the next ep of Furuba will be that.

I’m going to get the tissues ready if it’s that episode.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: katrine2309 on July 02, 2019, 03:04:30 AM
So I have a question, and hoping you all can help me :)

 I am not too familier with anime, but I really wanted to show my class a movie. I am a middle school teacher, and my students are 12-13 year olds. In other words, they are in the middle of being kids and teenagers and their interests are all over the place. Since this is going to be an educational movie as well I wanted to link it to environmental issues, and I came across Princess Mononoke from Studio Ghibli. I’ve never seen it myself, I actually never seen any Studio Ghibli films and the only way it seems I can get my hands on this movie is by special order *sigh*.

So, before I do that I wanted to ask if anyone has seen this movie? Would it be a good starting point to discuss environmental issues, and humans role in it all? And would you think the movie is in the age group of 12-13 year olds? And lastly, is it worth it for me to buy this movie or should I just try to find another one thouching in on the same subjects? Is it any good?

I realize that this is a movie, and not a series- so it might not be anime in the same sense you are discussing here- but I am hoping it is within the topic of this thread anyway :blush:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2019, 03:21:48 AM
I'm not really a fan of ghibli but IMO Mononoke-hime is one of the better ones. It does deal with environmental issues to a degree, but it also has a layer of strange in it as well. A mononoke in Japanese is a kind of spirit or 'other' creature, if that helps.

It's been a long time since I saw it so I don't remember all the tiny details.

I don't know if such things exist for this one but I wonder whether anyone's done a review on YT or anything in detail to give you more of an idea of the story.

I don't personally think it's inappropriate agewise for that age range.  I dunno what other people think.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 02, 2019, 07:37:37 AM
It's been a while since I've watched it but Princess Mononoke does have some blood/violence.  Different characters get shot.  Near the climax of the film a forest god's head is chopped off and there's a big ball of blood that explodes everywhere.  It's a bit gross, depending on how sensitive you are to such things.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is set in a post-apocalyptic type world where the air is filled with dangerous spores and giant bug-like creatures who the people think are dangerous, only to find that the bugs are trying to fix the pollution issues.

Pom Poko is about raccoons (tanuki technically) who are losing their homes to deforestation and encroaching cities.  The raccoons have the ability to look like humans and set about trying to save their home.  This movie is funny, however the males can use their "raccoon pouches" (their testicles) for some of their transformations so I don't know if you want to show that to your students. 

All three movies are in the Young Adult section of the library where I work, so age-wise they're good for your students.  All three are good movies, in my opinion, but if you aren't sure about purchasing them you can see if you can get them from your library.  If your library doesn't own them you can ask about Interlibrary Loan and see if they can borrow them from a different library for you.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Galactica on July 02, 2019, 08:24:46 AM
So I have a question, and hoping you all can help me :)

 I am not too familier with anime, but I really wanted to show my class a movie. I am a middle school teacher, and my students are 12-13 year olds. In other words, they are in the middle of being kids and teenagers and their interests are all over the place. Since this is going to be an educational movie as well I wanted to link it to environmental issues, and I came across Princess Mononoke from Studio Ghibli. I’ve never seen it myself, I actually never seen any Studio Ghibli films and the only way it seems I can get my hands on this movie is by special order *sigh*.

So, before I do that I wanted to ask if anyone has seen this movie? Would it be a good starting point to discuss environmental issues, and humans role in it all? And would you think the movie is in the age group of 12-13 year olds? And lastly, is it worth it for me to buy this movie or should I just try to find another one thouching in on the same subjects? Is it any good?

I realize that this is a movie, and not a series- so it might not be anime in the same sense you are discussing here- but I am hoping it is within the topic of this thread anyway :blush:

I think that movie is perfect for the 12-13 age range- I would also think Fern Gully for a more obvious environmental message.  I found this list online for other kid's movies that address environmental issues:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-kids-movies-with-a-green-theme-19409104/
 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: katrine2309 on July 02, 2019, 08:33:11 AM
Thank you, both!

The library idea was a great one, I didn’t even think about that. I will check it out, but anime (and manga) are not as popular here as they are other places. We typically need to import everything from the US or the UK. Or special order. I’m not getting my hopes up for the library, but I’ll check it out!

About the violence: it is a school class so even though I believe most of them would do OK with blood and gore, I do have some sensitive souls in my class too. And of course, it would need to be a purpose behind the violence. Something we can discuss afterward. In other words, I would need to see the movie to determine really :lol: In times like this I love my job ;)

Post Merge: July 02, 2019, 08:34:28 AM

So I have a question, and hoping you all can help me :)

 I am not too familier with anime, but I really wanted to show my class a movie. I am a middle school teacher, and my students are 12-13 year olds. In other words, they are in the middle of being kids and teenagers and their interests are all over the place. Since this is going to be an educational movie as well I wanted to link it to environmental issues, and I came across Princess Mononoke from Studio Ghibli. I’ve never seen it myself, I actually never seen any Studio Ghibli films and the only way it seems I can get my hands on this movie is by special order *sigh*.

So, before I do that I wanted to ask if anyone has seen this movie? Would it be a good starting point to discuss environmental issues, and humans role in it all? And would you think the movie is in the age group of 12-13 year olds? And lastly, is it worth it for me to buy this movie or should I just try to find another one thouching in on the same subjects? Is it any good?

I realize that this is a movie, and not a series- so it might not be anime in the same sense you are discussing here- but I am hoping it is within the topic of this thread anyway :blush:

I think that movie is perfect for the 12-13 age range- I would also think Fern Gully for a more obvious environmental message.  I found this list online for other kid's movies that address environmental issues:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-kids-movies-with-a-green-theme-19409104/
 

Awesome! Thank you! I haven’t heard of that movie- Fern Gully. But would definetely check out that list! :iconclap:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 02, 2019, 08:44:10 AM
I'm kinda new to anime, not really...I mean I've seen stuff over the years but have never really gotten into watching it until now.

Sadly thanks to Netflix I've managed to sink myself into the dark hole of Anime.

Seriously, I blame the demon Butler Sebastian from Black Butler for this problem.

But now I've managed to get into Sword Art Online, and I watched Fruits Basket (Both of these series made me ugly cry, like seriously) Especially Fruits Basket and when the main character talks about loosing her mom and stuff...seriously.

Kamasama Kiss (think I spelled that right), same english voice actor that does Sebastian in black butler plays Tomoe in this series and it's so sickenly cute I adore this series to.

There are a few others like Inuyasha I've been watching.

I've also managed to get into manga's now. Which before I'd walk by the section in books a million and be a little overwhelmed because...it's so much and I have no clue what is good. I've read a lot of the black butler series and then I've gotten into a couple other manga.

I really like a manga series called The water dragons bride, I hope they'll eventually make it into an anime.

There are some other I've casually watched bits on youtube but anyway, yea...I'm in the anime/manga hole now guys.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2019, 01:32:19 PM
I'm kinda new to anime, not really...I mean I've seen stuff over the years but have never really gotten into watching it until now.

Sadly thanks to Netflix I've managed to sink myself into the dark hole of Anime.


Welcome to the dark side :D
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 02, 2019, 01:59:04 PM
I'm kinda new to anime, not really...I mean I've seen stuff over the years but have never really gotten into watching it until now.

Sadly thanks to Netflix I've managed to sink myself into the dark hole of Anime.


Welcome to the dark side :D

Yea, I'm just not always sure what to watch next when I'm scrolling netflix, however. There are some anime out there that kind of annoy me, like Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z stuff like that. I guess those are things that are soooo popular but trying to watch them is like burning my eyes out. Although I do find Inuyasha pretty enjoyable, although silly sometimes it seems relatively cute. I forget what episode I'm on now, can't remember if I'm through the first season of that yet or not.

Netflix has quite a few things to offer but I don't always know which are gonna be bad.

OH OH I just remembered...duh, I watched a new one that popped up on netfix called 7 seeds. I totally blew through that one over the weekend. That was pretty awesome but i got annoyed with how the last episode ended so I'm making the assumption they're gonna make more...cause I was like...NOOOOO it can't end this way (LOL)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: katrine2309 on July 02, 2019, 02:11:26 PM
Sooo, I blame this thread- but I started to watch anime on Netflix too :lol: I wanted to see Fruit basket, but it’s not on my Netflix. I did start watching «Violet Evergarden» though. It is cute! And beautifully made, with great soundtrack. I actually really like it! But then I am just really a fluffy fluffball when it comes to sweet love stories :heart: Although this is not really all about the love story, more about finding yourself ^.^ I really like the story- and can’t wait for season 2 or the movie :biggrin:

@karentheunicorn: I agree! I have no idea about anime series, and if I would like them or not :/ I would really like recommandations! Some series are just way too stressful for me (yes, Pokemon), but then some are beautiful  ^.^
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 02, 2019, 02:20:34 PM


@karentheunicorn: I agree! I have no idea about anime series, and if I would like them or not :/ I would really like recommandations! Some series are just way too stressful for me (yes, Pokemon), but then some are beautiful  ^.^

Yea, I'm a sucker for the romance, but I also like romance x adventure.

Not sure if you've watched Sword Art Online? It's on netflix, I've watched the first season and I thought it was awesome, it's both beautiful and pretty emotional. I haven't watched the II yet or I think there are other stuff out there with it but it's not on netflix

I'd say watch 7 seeds as well, I thought it was really good and pretty interesting. But as I said in my other post I'm really hoping there is gonna be more to this story since how it ends right now seemed more like a cliffhanger than an ending so that's why I'm making the assumption there is gonna be more or another season, etc.

Black Butler is a little darker but the first season is on netflix but the manga of BB is way better in terms of there is a lot in the anime that isn't really in the actual story. So some of the stuff in the anime is just 'silly'. But it's eye candy because...Sebastian.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2019, 02:43:23 PM
I'm kinda new to anime, not really...I mean I've seen stuff over the years but have never really gotten into watching it until now.

Sadly thanks to Netflix I've managed to sink myself into the dark hole of Anime.


Welcome to the dark side :D

Yea, I'm just not always sure what to watch next when I'm scrolling netflix, however. There are some anime out there that kind of annoy me, like Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z stuff like that. I guess those are things that are soooo popular but trying to watch them is like burning my eyes out. Although I do find Inuyasha pretty enjoyable, although silly sometimes it seems relatively cute. I forget what episode I'm on now, can't remember if I'm through the first season of that yet or not.

Netflix has quite a few things to offer but I don't always know which are gonna be bad.

OH OH I just remembered...duh, I watched a new one that popped up on netfix called 7 seeds. I totally blew through that one over the weekend. That was pretty awesome but i got annoyed with how the last episode ended so I'm making the assumption they're gonna make more...cause I was like...NOOOOO it can't end this way (LOL)


Unfortunately these days a lot of anime don't finish the whole manga. It's why the remake of fruits basket has had so much excitement because the original anime didn't finish the whole story, and this one they've promised to actually do it.

One of my favourites is Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn which the animation stops at vol 8 of the manga but the manga is now on vol 29 and I want to see the rest of it animated too :(

I hate Dragonball Z and always did. The thing about anime is though there are so many there's something for everyone, pretty much. And sometimes anime in genres outside my usual interest really grab me, which is fun.

There are very few 'mainstream' anime that I ever really get into. There have been one or two, but a lot of them just go right by me, they don't appeal. It makes discussing anime frustrating sometimes but eh, that's life. 

I watch most anime on Crunchyroll (I have a subscription but there is a free version which has ads and a delay on new episodes coming out) these days although I've watched a few on funimation and on netflix. CR drives me mad sometimes but it does have quite a wide range. They don't have a huge number of  English dubs though, I think Funimation has more of those...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 02, 2019, 03:20:55 PM


One of my favourites is Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn which the animation stops at vol 8 of the manga but the manga is now on vol 29 and I want to see the rest of it animated too :(

Ok, I think in english is like Yona of the Dawn or something like that? I have seen that pop up on my youtube since I sorta now get flooded by clips of different anime now that I've clicked on various anime over the past couple months. I just haven't checked it out yet.

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I hate Dragonball Z and always did. The thing about anime is though there are so many there's something for everyone, pretty much. And sometimes anime in genres outside my usual interest really grab me, which is fun.

Yea, dragon ball z...it just makes me wanna hide. There is another one that seems to pop up a lot called onepiece or some thing...and I look at it and think..naaa.

I don't mind out of genres because some anime is like a mix of various different things, like Romance, fantasy, adventure all rolled into one so it's hard to put that in one bag.

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There are very few 'mainstream' anime that I ever really get into. There have been one or two, but a lot of them just go right by me, they don't appeal. It makes discussing anime frustrating sometimes but eh, that's life. 

I watch most anime on Crunchyroll (I have a subscription but there is a free version which has ads and a delay on new episodes coming out) these days although I've watched a few on funimation and on netflix. CR drives me mad sometimes but it does have quite a wide range. They don't have a huge number of  English dubs though, I think Funimation has more of those...

I've watched stuff on crunchyroll, I just get aggrivated with the ads, sometimes they do like 4 in a row and I'm like rarrrrrrrr. Sadly I do need the english dub, but I can sort of deal with subtitles but it takes away from 'viewing' the animation cause 75% of the time you're looking at the words.

when did guys with fox ears and tails wearing kimono's suddenly become so fricking cute?
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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2019, 05:12:25 PM
Tomoe is cute ;D

It annoys me that anime never actually ended.

Ponyfan can probably tell you where Yona is in English dub as she;'s been watching it, if you're interested xd. It's a lot of fun, although dark in places and a bit brutal. Admittedly probably the most brutal scenes are manga only (Ponyfan, you have that to look forward to >.>), but it does start with quite a lot of violence.

I have no time for One Piece. Friends tried to get me into it but every clip I've seen was just stupid and not funny to me, so I guess it's not my thing.

It's very long as well. So you'd need to really commit to it I guess.

I am still amazed at myself becoming so attached to a baseball anime/manga when I never follow the sport or care about it in the slightest. It just goes to show that characters sometimes drive a story beyond interest levels, but it's one of those rare times I'm watching something fairly mainstream.

Unfortunately that means there are way more comments on CR and other places and some of them are just...*head desk*.

But I feel like if a series gets to me enough that I actually buy manga for it - bearing in mind that I buy Japanese manga and so only buy selectively because of cost - then I have to accept I'm actually a fan of it now and come quietly. :)

Saiyuuki is another series I recommend but I dunno if it's maybe an acquired taste. Yona is probably easier to get into quickly :)

But at least in mainstream series you get actual full animation, as opposed to one series without a final conclusion *grr*
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 02, 2019, 06:15:53 PM
I've seen a couple of manga I might try to jump into, even though this is anime thread to me they're kind of the same thing really (LOL).

Snow White with Red Hair, but I think that's an anime to and then another I saw online, cause once you buy something on amazon they show you more of the same stuff, but the manga was called Takana and Hana.

I bought a couple called the Demon Prince of Momochi House, but it reminds me a lot of Kamasama kiss, I mean down to a couple lines being in the manga that are the exact same. I see on my amazon page the Yona manga popps up. I may next time I go to BAM, I'll probably buy a couple.

Oh yea, and there was another anime I saw bits of but I can't remember the name right now. It's something, Bed and breakfast. It's about some kind of Ogar prince and a girl who's grandfather put her up as as payment for his bill or some such thing. I only saw a bit of an episode on youtube and that looked interesting, but I just noticed on amazon it's...duh a manga.

I see another one pop up called The Ancient Magus' Bride, does anyone know if that one is any good anime or manga?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 02, 2019, 07:22:39 PM
I'm still holding Taffeta responsible for introducing me to Yona of the Dawn.  ;)  :lol: I watched the entire anime in about a month and am now reading the manga. I will probably have to take a break after volume 8 of the manga until I can buy more volumes as I'm on a really tight budget right now.  Yona really draws you in and before you know it you're a fan.  I watched the English version on Hulu.  Yona is now one of my favorite animes. :)



Ponyfan can probably tell you where Yona is in English dub as she;'s been watching it, if you're interested xd. It's a lot of fun, although dark in places and a bit brutal. Admittedly probably the most brutal scenes are manga only (Ponyfan, you have that to look forward to >.>), but it does start with quite a lot of violence.





There's something that's more brutal in the manga than in the anime?  :shocked:



Other favorites of mine are

Your Name

Ponyo

My Neighbor Totoro


Fruits Basket (I really want to see the new series but don't have Crunchy Roll or Funimation subscriptions.)
 The orignal anime is also on Hulu.

Sailor Moon

Miraculous  (Miraculous Ladybug) I’m not sure if that counts as anime though.


Snow White with Red Hair, but I think that's an anime to and then another I saw online, cause once you buy something on amazon they show you more of the same stuff, but the manga was called Takana and Hana.



I have volumes 1-8 of Takane and Hana but haven't read them yet. I was going to and then started on the Yona manga instead.


I also usually buy the manga if I really love the anime.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 03, 2019, 12:58:27 AM

There's something that's more brutal in the manga than in the anime?  :shocked:

Yes :D But if I say any more than that I will be spoiling. It's not as bad as it sounds, but it's quite...brutal.

I watched the first few eps of Snow White with the Red Hair but it didn't grab me. I may go back to it later but it seemed like there were too many leaps in the plot that were convenient rather than believable in the early scenes.

Although maybe also after Yona it couldn't compete in my affections, because Yona is so well structured in all those things and well, you know, princess with red hair theme (they're not really alike though).


I haven't read Takane and Hana so can't comment ;)

Your Name is a great film though. Highly recommend that.

Magus Bride is on my to watch list on CR but I haven't got to it yet. Anime and manga is currently my respite from job applying/article writing/figuring out what to do next so I'm sure I'll get to it...it has a good write up I think?

Erased is another one on Netflix (although wait, maybe it's just the drama version, not the anime, but they're both good) over here. I'd strongly recommend that, it's a very well done story. It's also not that long.

And Charlotte (which is on CR and not on Netflix, I'm not sure if it has an English dub).

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 03, 2019, 07:34:40 AM
I just took a look at the info about Your Name.

hum, this sounds weirdly familiar, well not exactly but the whole separated by 3 years thing. It sounds a tad like the movie The Lake House where the romantic leads are separated by a few years but they have a way of communicating with each other, etc. Mind you I've only seen the movie once and they don't switch bodies but it's got a similar fantasy vibe aspect.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 03, 2019, 09:17:49 AM
@Katrine - the new Fruits Basket is on Crunchyroll (Japanese with subs) and Funimation (English dub) here in the UK. I wonder if it's the same for you.

While both are subscription services you can watch some stuff without a subscription though you do get to deal with ads a lot more. Also free membership on CR means being a week behind on new episodes, but just in case it's helpful.

The old Furuba is also on Funimation in its complete form I think - at least over here.

Anime is fun because there is literally something for every taste.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 03, 2019, 09:36:06 AM
Attack on Titan finished on the first of July, now I’ve got to wait till 2020 for the last season (At least I can se what colour hair Poco will have so that I ca do his doll). Well I can get Season 3 Part 1 on Blu-ray to do my next fanfic (still working on the others).

Well I’ve got Fruits Basket to fall on now.

Plus I can still do my Attack on Titan dolls, when I finish the ones from Seasons 1, 2, and 3, I’m going to work on Fruits Basket dolls.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 03, 2019, 03:49:47 PM
I just took a look at the info about Your Name.

hum, this sounds weirdly familiar, well not exactly but the whole separated by 3 years thing. It sounds a tad like the movie The Lake House where the romantic leads are separated by a few years but they have a way of communicating with each other, etc. Mind you I've only seen the movie once and they don't switch bodies but it's got a similar fantasy vibe aspect.


I still recommend Your Name.  :) Even though it has elements that might remind you of other movies I think you'll find it's unique.




And Charlotte (which is on CR and not on Netflix, I'm not sure if it has an English dub).




There's an English dub for Charlotte on Hulu. :) I know Hulu isn't an option for everyone (I think  it's only available for the US) but maybe Crunchy Roll or Funimation will also have the dub.




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Post by: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 01:42:42 AM
I am currently watching Ranma 1/2 and just finished outlaw star.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: katrine2309 on July 04, 2019, 02:16:37 AM
I have binge watched Sword Art Online, and I think I liked it. Not as well as Violet, but I liked it. I really like that Kitori is a crybaby at times- because he goes through some bad stuff. I kind of like him. And the story reminded me of back in the days when I was playing Final Fantasy 8 with my sister ^.^ For any FF 8 players out there: I got this Squall vibe from Kitori, and I adore Squall :heart:

I think my main issue with these stories is their age... I know that is sort of the whole point with YA, but I just feel that their character arcs would fit with being a little bit older. Maybe not so much in SAO (but I mean Sugu does not look like a middle school’er to me), but I definetely felt that way in Violet Evergarden. Violet says she is 14 years old, and I just don’t feel that the story works with that... So in my head I bumped them all up a few years  :lol: Is this the case with anime though? Are they often this young? I would have imagined that there is an audience for older age groups as well  :P

@Taffeta: Thanks for the directions to Fruit Baskets! I’ll check it out!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 02:53:32 AM
I wish you didn't have to pay for funimation though. I already have hulu and netflix. We got rid of cable over a year ago.
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Post by: Taffeta on July 04, 2019, 04:32:48 AM
I wish you didn't have to pay for funimation though. I already have hulu and netflix. We got rid of cable over a year ago.

Funimation is more awkward than CR in that it takes out eps in the middle of the series so you basically have to pay for a subscription. I personally hate Funimation because it's 90% dub and some series only have dub, which I won't watch, but there are two or three series that used to be on CR but now aren't because of some kind of split between CR and Funimation and in order to watch them I have to have both.

It doesn't amuse me :/ I am considering getting rid of Funimation though because I really don't use it very much compared to CR.

However if you like dubs Funimation is generally better. Only a few series on CR have dub versions.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: gemini_pony on July 04, 2019, 06:05:55 AM
I prefer dubs 90% of the time. I just never liked crunchy roll.  I also can't afford a bunch of streaming services.
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Got the Chocola books off of the shelf because the hardback ones were so heavy and having all that weight on the shelf was making me nervous. :yikes:


Congrats :cheer:



I wish you didn't have to pay for funimation though. I already have hulu and netflix. We got rid of cable over a year ago.

Funimation is more awkward than CR in that it takes out eps in the middle of the series so you basically have to pay for a subscription. I personally hate Funimation because it's 90% dub and some series only have dub, which I won't watch, but there are two or three series that used to be on CR but now aren't because of some kind of split between CR and Funimation and in order to watch them I have to have both.

It doesn't amuse me :/ I am considering getting rid of Funimation though because I really don't use it very much compared to CR.

However if you like dubs Funimation is generally better. Only a few series on CR have dub versions.


I was wondering if there was a free option for Funimation. I kept looking on their site trying to see if there was one. Maybe I can subscribe to Funimation later on.


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Got the Chocola books off of the shelf because the hardback ones were so heavy and having all that weight on the shelf was making me nervous. :yikes:

I swear somewhere I have a digicharat trading card. If I didn't pitch it, and I found it again, you want me to send it to you?
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 04, 2019, 07:07:37 AM
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Got the Chocola books off of the shelf because the hardback ones were so heavy and having all that weight on the shelf was making me nervous. :yikes:

I swear somewhere I have a digicharat trading card. If I didn't pitch it, and I found it again, you want me to send it to you?

If it's one I don't have! If you're able to find it please send me a photo!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on July 04, 2019, 07:16:24 AM
I swear somewhere I have a digicharat trading card. If I didn't pitch it, and I found it again, you want me to send it to you?

If it's one I don't have! If you're able to find it please send me a photo!

Found it, you don't have it.. it's dejiko holding 3 cards w/ a silver foil logo on the bottom.

This one: https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/G8893338
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 04, 2019, 08:01:24 AM
I swear somewhere I have a digicharat trading card. If I didn't pitch it, and I found it again, you want me to send it to you?

If it's one I don't have! If you're able to find it please send me a photo!

Found it, you don't have it.. it's dejiko holding 3 cards w/ a silver foil logo on the bottom.

This one: https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/G8893338

I'll take it once you've found it then! I don't own any cards in that set.

Note that all of the cards I posted yesterday are just the ones I had recently bought and got sent out in that package. I have a big binder filled with Di Gi Charat trading cards, most I've had for several years now lol. Might try taking photos of all of cards in it sometime soon....
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Post by: banditpony on July 04, 2019, 08:23:06 AM
I swear somewhere I have a digicharat trading card. If I didn't pitch it, and I found it again, you want me to send it to you?

If it's one I don't have! If you're able to find it please send me a photo!

Found it, you don't have it.. it's dejiko holding 3 cards w/ a silver foil logo on the bottom.

This one: https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/G8893338

I'll take it once you've found it then! I don't own any cards in that set.

Note that all of the cards I posted yesterday are just the ones I had recently bought and got sent out in that package. I have a big binder filled with Di Gi Charat trading cards, most I've had for several years now lol. Might try taking photos of all of cards in it sometime soon....

:) I had found it (Its a pain to.do.photos, so that's why I just looked up a pic instead)
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 04, 2019, 09:20:52 AM
Imgur albums of my DGC trading cards!

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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 04, 2019, 09:24:46 AM
I have binge watched Sword Art Online, and I think I liked it. Not as well as Violet, but I liked it. I really like that Kitori is a crybaby at times- because he goes through some bad stuff. I kind of like him. And the story reminded me of back in the days when I was playing Final Fantasy 8 with my sister ^.^ For any FF 8 players out there: I got this Squall vibe from Kitori, and I adore Squall :heart:

I think my main issue with these stories is their age... I know that is sort of the whole point with YA, but I just feel that their character arcs would fit with being a little bit older. Maybe not so much in SAO (but I mean Sugu does not look like a middle school’er to me), but I definetely felt that way in Violet Evergarden. Violet says she is 14 years old, and I just don’t feel that the story works with that... So in my head I bumped them all up a few years  :lol: Is this the case with anime though? Are they often this young? I would have imagined that there is an audience for older age groups as well  :P

@Taffeta: Thanks for the directions to Fruit Baskets! I’ll check it out!


If you liked SAO, you would probably like Log Horizon.  It's the same kind of deal, everyone trapped in the video game, and the characters seem to have a wide age range (some are kids, some are married).  There are only 2 seasons.  There are rumors of a third, but I don't know when that will happen.  Apparently the creator got arrested for tax evasion and is finally back to working on the mangas so we'll see if they do the third season or not.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 04, 2019, 09:39:16 AM
Mangaka certainly live interesting lives...

And stressful ones.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 04, 2019, 10:18:34 AM
Started watching the live action Bleach movie last night....
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Post by: Taffeta on July 04, 2019, 10:44:59 AM
Started watching the live action Bleach movie last night....

As someone who watched and read the original Bleach and even translated bits of it at one point for an online community, I was really really sceptical of the movie. I mean, those kinds of things are usually terrible.

It's not absolutely brilliant but it could have been a lot worse in my opinion.
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Many many issues with Byakuya, though. Aside from completely negating his moral compass by making him 'negotiate' over Rukia's life, what the heck kind of costume was that? The head of the stiffest and most elite of elite noble families turning up in the Real World like that...? No...

They also shunted a bunch of things out of order and changed sections of the plot around. But in the end it wasn't as terrible as I expected.

It was less terrible than the final arc of the manga, which was so awful it should have never have happened.

Bleach is one of the few mainstream series for which I have a really fond affinity because of all the hidden stuff going on behind the scenes, and the bakumatsu symbolism, cultural nods to all over Japanese and other culture...and the many great character moments (and basically the SS arc, which was the best arc and never got beaten by any of the others...still love it to death, Shinigami ftw)...

So I kind of hope they will do a sequel movie for the SS arc. So long as it's no worse than this one.

I also hope they never animate the final arc. Because, honestly, it will make my eyes bleed.
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The whole series did have ups and downs - and esp with filler anime arcs and eps sometimes appearing at unbelievable times mid plot - but the final manga arc retconned most of the existing canon/development/bonds/explanation around characters, scenes, plot, etc that had been put in place over 10 years of manga. Battles began and didn't end, or ended but didn't begin, and nothing actually got properly resolved. Characters also got sacrificed without a proper explanation and sometimes disappeared for 2 years (actual years) at a time without mention only to reappear in the same spot much much later...
Yeah, it was a mess. :(
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 04, 2019, 01:45:58 PM
I LOVE Outlaw Star!
Ooooooh awesome DiGiCharat collection update. I have such a weakness for art books....
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 04, 2019, 02:33:58 PM
Tomorrow is the next Fruits Basket episode oh no I’ve got to get the tissues ready.
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Post by: Taffeta on July 04, 2019, 04:05:41 PM
Tomorrow is the next Fruits Basket episode oh no I’ve got to get the tissues ready.

Yep, emotional rollercoaster time I think!
Can't believe we're at this point already in the story...and yet there's still so much more to go!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 06, 2019, 12:09:43 AM
Watched Fruits Basket and yes I cried, poor Momiji  :cry: :bawl: :sad:
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Post by: Taffeta on July 06, 2019, 12:16:53 AM
Watched Fruits Basket and yes I cried, poor Momiji  :cry: :bawl: :sad:

New opening theme and closing theme as well.

Also...Kyou ><
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 06, 2019, 12:38:23 AM
Watched Fruits Basket and yes I cried, poor Momiji  :cry: :bawl: :sad:

New opening theme and closing theme as well.

Also...Kyou ><

I squealed when I saw Kisa, Hiro, and Ritsu. Now all I need to see is Rin and I’ll be happy
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 06, 2019, 03:41:51 PM
Re the new Fruits Basket episode

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Is there more detail than in the original about Kyo's guilt while he is at Kyoko's grave? Any more hints about his true form being revealed?




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Post by: Taffeta on July 07, 2019, 12:09:35 AM
Re the new Fruits Basket episode

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Is there more detail than in the original about Kyo's guilt while he is at Kyoko's grave? Any more hints about his true form being revealed?




Ponyfan

Yes to the first and no to the second ;)
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 08, 2019, 12:25:26 PM
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This little fellow showed up today. I suppose it's always good to have a tiny little demon helping at work, I don't think this Sebastian is quite big enough to eat my soul yet...but he is still soooooo cute. and I'd never heard of Co-poche's before...these are over the top adorable.
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Post by: Taffeta on July 08, 2019, 12:27:30 PM
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This little fellow showed up today. I suppose it's always good to have a tiny little demon helping at work, I don't think this Sebastian is quite big enough to eat my soul yet...but he is still soooooo cute. and I'd never heard of Co-poche's before...these are over the top adorable.

Ah dear.

It's a slippery slope.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 08, 2019, 12:46:45 PM
Re the new Fruits Basket episode

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Is there more detail than in the original about Kyo's guilt while he is at Kyoko's grave? Any more hints about his true form being revealed?




Ponyfan

Yes to the first and no to the second ;)


Thanks Taffeta. :) I looked around on the Funimation website today and only the first episode is available to stream for non subscribers. :sad:


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I feel that Kyo's guilt in the original was pretty vague but that's probably due to the fact that the manga was still being written at the time the orignal anime was made.



I really hope it comes out on DVD after all of the episodes are complete.



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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 08, 2019, 12:53:35 PM


Ah dear.

It's a slippery slope.

He needs a kitty cat to hold...sadly I only have ponies on my work desk and other weirdly random toys, but no cats.

Oh wow, sorry Sebastian, I can't give you my soul for one artificial cherry blossom flower that actually already belongs to me...

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Post by: Taffeta on July 08, 2019, 05:12:54 PM
Re the new Fruits Basket episode

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Is there more detail than in the original about Kyo's guilt while he is at Kyoko's grave? Any more hints about his true form being revealed?




Ponyfan

Yes to the first and no to the second ;)


Thanks Taffeta. :) I looked around on the Funimation website today and only the first episode is available to stream for non subscribers. :sad:


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I feel that Kyo's guilt in the original was pretty vague but that's probably due to the fact that the manga was still being written at the time the orignal anime was made.



I really hope it comes out on DVD after all of the episodes are complete.



Ponyfan


Crunchyroll would have access to the first 13 but you'd have to watch Japanese with subs there :/ Also there'd be adverts. But they only lock the most recent episode to non-subscribers and then only for the week until the new one comes out. I subscribe basically because I got sick of the ads...but I dunno, it depends on whether reading the subs is too much of an issue in terms of their speed...

I think Funimation has the sole rights to the dub.

I imagine it will come out on DVD, it's just when/how long it will take to do.

@Uni - you are having way too much fun with him. Maybe he needs a tiny pony, rather than a cat...
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 09, 2019, 02:33:09 AM
My Levi from Attack o Titan figure is doing some weird things, like sitting on Pinkie Pie, or doing the splits.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on July 09, 2019, 05:02:32 AM
Eh, nothing looks too exciting for the sumer season >.<
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 09, 2019, 05:36:07 PM
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Post by: Harmonie on July 09, 2019, 05:59:20 PM
Eh, nothing looks too exciting for the sumer season >.<

Aw, I've been looking forward to Vinland Saga for quite some time. I love me some historical fiction!

Dr Stone also pulled me in from the first episode. But I imagine somewhere it will evolve into a standard battle shonen, and might not be as exciting then.
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 10, 2019, 08:18:09 AM
I just started watching one on crunchroll called Hanasakeru Seishonen...

Like, whats with a dad who sets his 14 year old daughter up to meet guys so she'll pick one to marry and calls it a game? What kinda weird dad are you MR?

 LOL! Eh, we already know you need to be with the guy you're already hanging out with (LOL).

Some of these anime romance series are silly, but I still can't stop myself from watching them.

And okay so now she thinks one of the guys is a reincarnated white panther she used to hang out with as a little girl...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on July 12, 2019, 06:27:24 AM
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Aw, I've been looking forward to Vinland Saga for quite some time. I love me some historical fiction!
I haven't heard of that one...

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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 12, 2019, 08:55:36 AM
Well I’ve still got Fruits Basket, and plus Attack on Titan Season 3 Part One when it comes out on blu ray
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Post by: Taffeta on July 12, 2019, 09:50:01 AM
I just started watching one on crunchroll called Hanasakeru Seishonen...

Like, whats with a dad who sets his 14 year old daughter up to meet guys so she'll pick one to marry and calls it a game? What kinda weird dad are you MR?

 LOL! Eh, we already know you need to be with the guy you're already hanging out with (LOL).

Some of these anime romance series are silly, but I still can't stop myself from watching them.

And okay so now she thinks one of the guys is a reincarnated white panther she used to hang out with as a little girl...

Welcome to anime weird :D
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 12, 2019, 11:59:31 AM
I watched "Okko's Inn" last night.  It's cute, but made me cry.
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 12, 2019, 02:07:11 PM
I just started watching one on crunchroll called Hanasakeru Seishonen...

Like, whats with a dad who sets his 14 year old daughter up to meet guys so she'll pick one to marry and calls it a game? What kinda weird dad are you MR?

 LOL! Eh, we already know you need to be with the guy you're already hanging out with (LOL).

Some of these anime romance series are silly, but I still can't stop myself from watching them.

And okay so now she thinks one of the guys is a reincarnated white panther she used to hang out with as a little girl...

Welcome to anime weird :D


Well technically I've known about weird anime since like 1984

Here was the first ever anime I was obsessed with - I got up at 5:30 am to watch this on some channel I don't even remember.

I wish someone would redo the Honey Honey anime from back in the 80's...I loved it! I still think it's adorable!! and so silly!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dK6vBDjhbs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dK6vBDjhbs)


ouou edit, I found the first episode
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 12, 2019, 03:15:56 PM
I'm still watching Sailor Stars part 1.



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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 12, 2019, 03:54:41 PM
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I don't have her physically in my possession yet, that won't be for another few weeks still at least. But I used White Rabbit to get her from Mercari. Placed the order yesterday and when I woke up today they had successfully bought her for me, I'm super excited!
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Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2019, 05:46:25 AM
Guys look what I managed to buy! <3

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I don't have her physically in my possession yet, that won't be for another few weeks still at least. But I used White Rabbit to get her from Mercari. Placed the order yesterday and when I woke up today they had successfully bought her for me, I'm super excited!

At this rate you're going to be out of shelf space by the end of the summer!

So London had it's annual Japanese event this month and what always strikes me is the disconnect between what everyone else in the UK seems to be watching and reading and what I watch and read...

Which is kind of frustrating.

I am currently watching Boku no Hero Academia just because it's been eating at me for the longest time as a popular anime and I guess I was curious. Thus far I find it interesting, I like that the main character is not a typical loudmouth type and I also like that there's a variety in the main central cast. I am quite bored by the villains which is a bit sad considering they're quite important to the plot. Much more interested in Class 1A.

What really surprised me at this event was the number of Bleach things I saw. Merchandise. Cosplay, etc. I thought Bleach had about died with the awful mess that was the final arc and the basic abandonment of the anime long before that. I wonder if it's the live action movie or if people have just gone back into it since it is on CR and easily accessible. I will always love Bleach but really hope this isn't an indication that the train wreck final arc will get animated. I'm quite happy with it ending where it does.

I think I saw more Bleach stuff than One Piece stuff, and that IS weird.

I probably need to watch more mainstream anime so I can at least communicate about them.

Although I have been watching and reading DnA and it didn't dawn on me that since baseball has basically no presence here, it probably isn't a mainstream anime in the UK the way it maybe is in Japan and in other places where baseball really exists...

Which is a shame because for an anime/manga series about a sport I couldn't care less about and knew nothing about before I started with this anime, it's actually quite good...

People, mainstream anime series on sites like CR and stuff - recommendations?

I don't really have a preferred genre but I do care about:
Character development
Plot twists are good.
Death is fine but only if it's meaningful. I don't like stuff that has really twisted implications (like the King's Game. I am still traumatised by that - but things like Another, Erased, Charlotte are fine).

I don't really like magical girl anime. I did watch SM for a bit - I have a couple of older series on Japanese DVD - but I don't really go in for the cute magical stuff...

I also have tried One Piece and don't get on with it.

Any recommendations of stuff I might not have seen but am missing out on??

It needs to be stuff I can watch on CR or Netflix and it has to have a Japanese track because I don't like dubs.


I need something to lighten the mood between job applications and trying to write and edit academic articles with all the fiddly expectations each journal places on submissions.
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Post by: banditpony on July 19, 2019, 07:09:41 AM
Guys look what I managed to buy! <3

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I don't have her physically in my possession yet, that won't be for another few weeks still at least. But I used White Rabbit to get her from Mercari. Placed the order yesterday and when I woke up today they had successfully bought her for me, I'm super excited!

I had the to heart version of these dolls. :) I really liked them.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 19, 2019, 08:38:51 AM

People, mainstream anime series on sites like CR and stuff - recommendations?

I don't really have a preferred genre but I do care about:
Character development
Plot twists are good.
Death is fine but only if it's meaningful. I don't like stuff that has really twisted implications (like the King's Game. I am still traumatised by that - but things like Another, Erased, Charlotte are fine).

I don't really like magical girl anime. I did watch SM for a bit - I have a couple of older series on Japanese DVD - but I don't really go in for the cute magical stuff...

I also have tried One Piece and don't get on with it.

Any recommendations of stuff I might not have seen but am missing out on??

It needs to be stuff I can watch on CR or Netflix and it has to have a Japanese track because I don't like dubs.


I need something to lighten the mood between job applications and trying to write and edit academic articles with all the fiddly expectations each journal places on submissions.

I liked Haikyu (a volleyball anime-first episode isn't the greatest, though), Yuri!!! On Ice (Figure skating)--both on Crunchyroll according to their list right now--, Robotech (mecha--it's older and used to be known as Macross Wars, so I don't know if it counts as mainstream anymore) and The Devil is a Part-Timer--both on Netflix.  I don't know if it's still on Netflix or not, but Silver Spoon is hilarious.  It's about a city kid who goes to an agricultural school, though that one I don't think is really considered mainstream...

If it didn't have to be on Crunchyroll or Netflix, I would suggest Assassination Classroom.  Totally twisted but sweet--the end makes me cry.

**Edit**

My friend recommends Amagi Brilliant Park, Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun, Barakamon, Big Windup, My Love Story, ReLife, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and Kyo Kara Mao.
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Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2019, 09:04:34 AM
Thank you!

I have considered Haikyuu - I think it is on my list. I don't hate sports anime even though I don't like sport, they're quite easy to watch (I started with DnA during final thesis editing, and weirdly my friend said she did similar last year with her thesis, watched lots of sports anime xD) so I might watch this at some point...

I've seen Yuri (I think they were talking about another season?) and the Devil is a Part Timer (which by the way I actually loved, world domination beginning with a fast food joint xD). I've also seen ReLife though I have thought I should chase up the manga since the last few episodes seem to push the rest of the plot through at speed compared with the early part.

Assassination Classroom is the only reason I still have a funimation subscription -.- because it went from CR. I still don't like the absolute ending of it, but I love the overall story and the quirk of the characters and how it all builds over the series. It's the right level of "hang on a minute, this is all totally wrong somehow and yet it's awesome" for my twisted brain :D

I did start watching Silver Spoon. I don't remember why but I took it off my list. It was a while ago now...but it didn't really click with me.

On the other list, Nogaki-kun is another one I've been curious about! I will have to try and get around to that one :D

KKM is an old favourite. Geigenhuber ftw. :)

This is making me feel better about the stuff I watch and that maybe it's the UK population that's off kilter >.>
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 19, 2019, 11:09:15 AM
I think I like Silver Spoon more than most because my dad grew up on a farm and we regularly went to my uncle's farm growing up.  Now I live in the country, my neighbors keep horses and cows in their backyard, so seeing his reactions to where eggs and milk comes from just makes me laugh.

I also recommend La Corda D'oro, especially if you like music.  Both seasons have excellent music in them, though the second season loses the music fairy from the first season.
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Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2019, 02:13:37 PM
I think I like Silver Spoon more than most because my dad grew up on a farm and we regularly went to my uncle's farm growing up.  Now I live in the country, my neighbors keep horses and cows in their backyard, so seeing his reactions to where eggs and milk comes from just makes me laugh.

I also recommend La Corda D'oro, especially if you like music.  Both seasons have excellent music in them, though the second season loses the music fairy from the first season.

OMG Koruda!  :lovey: :lovey: :lovey: :lovey: :lovey: I had totally forgotten Koruda is on CR now!

One of my neoroma loves <3 It's so nice knowing other people enjoy it too. I have never seen anything at events in the UK for Koruda or any of the other neoromance series.

I admit I mostly got into them through crazy seiyuu events back when I began learning Japanese but I think Corda D'Oro has a really cute plot in both 1 and 3, even though there's no fairy stuff in 3.

Yunoki and Hihara were my favourites. Especially Yunoki. And especially in the manga.

<3 Maybe I should rewatch it. It's been a while :D
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 19, 2019, 03:26:37 PM
Has anyone watched Flowering Child? I saw it was added to  Netflix recently.  I put it on my watch list but the preview reminds me a lot of Pretty Cure/Glitter Force and I have a hard time staying interested in Pretty Cure.


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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 19, 2019, 10:04:13 PM
The mail came today! :P

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Display update (lowered some more books down to make more room on the shelf):

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Truly I am living the dream.

I had the to heart version of these dolls. :) I really liked them.

Heart?
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 24, 2019, 03:19:48 PM
I love your display Beatles. :)

I haven't started any new anime series although I did watch one of the Yona ova's the other day and loved it.

I just noticed that I made a typo the other day. The series that has recently been added to Netflix is Flowering Heart not Flowering Child. Has anyone seen it?

Also what was the latest episode of the new Fruits Basket?


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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 25, 2019, 03:52:41 AM
To Heart is  a video game, I believe a dating sim...  but it has manga and possibly a show.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 25, 2019, 03:59:22 AM
Also what was the latest episode of the new Fruits Basket?


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It explained how Arisa met her idol, and how her mum left her. Her old gang members appeared (at the end all three of the gang members broke the fourth wall, then tried to threaten Momiji but he scared them by talking German)

I’ve got to wait for Kisa to appear and I’m dreading that I’m going to cry
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Post by: Taffeta on July 25, 2019, 05:23:11 AM
Bright rabbit - spoiler tags!
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Post by: banditpony on July 25, 2019, 06:26:39 AM
I had the to heart version of these dolls. :) I really liked them.

Heart?

To Heart is a PC game from 1997. And an all ages version in 1999ish on PS1.
It also had two anime.. and a manga.

Takara released 3 girls from the series To Heart in this style of doll. It was merch for the anime series.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on July 25, 2019, 06:30:24 AM
Bright rabbit - spoiler tags!

Whoops  :blush: next time I’ll remember, even though I suffer for short term memory loss.
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 25, 2019, 07:53:29 AM
I had the to heart version of these dolls. :) I really liked them.

Heart?

To Heart is a PC game from 1997. And an all ages version in 1999ish on PS1.
It also had two anime.. and a manga.

Takara released 3 girls from the series To Heart in this style of doll. It was merch for the anime series.

Ah, I completely glossed over the word "To" in your post when I read it before! I've heard of To Heart before, mostly because Koge-Donbo* drew some artwork of it before... it's in one of her artbooks I own (might edit this post with a photo of it if I remember to after my phone's done charging).

edit - here's some of the art she drew of it:

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From her 2005 artbook, "Chocola Selection". :)
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Post by: banditpony on July 25, 2019, 10:33:01 AM
^^ That's To Heart 2.

It's kind of a sequel.. but it is set later in time and doesn't really have the same characters.. (I didn't watch it so I'm not sure what the big connection is).
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 25, 2019, 01:23:27 PM
She's home! :lovey:

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neck bell wasn't facing in the right direction when I took this one, whoops

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Her head, forearms/hands, and lower legs/feet are plastic, but the main body is soft. Her hair is rooted. It's not very thick rooting, but the hat covers any areas where you'd be able to see the head underneath.
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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on July 25, 2019, 05:53:42 PM
Awwwwwwww so sweet
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2019, 02:22:49 PM
I finished Sailor Stars part 1

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It's obvious something happened to Momoru when the bright light hit the plane since he hasn't answered any of Usagi's letters. I really like Seiya.





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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2019, 01:01:14 AM
Thanks to the references earlier in the thread I've been rewatching Koruda (Corda D'Oro) 3.

I am fond of this anime even if I do watch it with mad seiyuu event incidents in mind...such as Miyano Mamoru accidentally collapsing his mic stand mid-drama, and the adlibs that come from getting a bunch of slightly crazy people together on the same stage.

Each time I watch it I become more fond of Hozumi and of Kyouya. I think they were always the two that stood out to me from the outset, although it keeps reminding me I never did finish playing the game. The problem with game-to-anime/manga is that often the game has stuff in that the anime doesn't reference, because there's an assumption the audience already knows it anyway.

Haruka 3 was like that with the specials. I love Haruka 3, to the point one day it might even get into my academic work, but the first special starts them off in the middle of the forest in Kumano and doesn't totally explain how they got there...just kind of a brief explanation but it makes more sense when you've played it than when you haven't and important minor details like Atsumori is an onryou...kind of pass you by.

Thanks to earlier recommends - I watched Gekkan Shoujo no Nozaki-kun. It's so funny. It pokes fun at so many shoujo manga stereotypes, while all the time the main character is sort of attempting her own shoujo manga storyline and failing utterly because Nozaki is so dense.

Also, a small recommend from me from some time back, but I watched Angels of Death earlier in the year. It's completely messed up, full of all kinds of violence and probably isn't for everyone, but I kind of like the twisted bond between the two main characters.

Now debating whether to read the manga for Boku no Hero Academia or wait till October for the new season to come out. I'm still not hugely interested in the villains, but I do like the students and some of their teachers.



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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 30, 2019, 06:03:31 PM
I got my latest Di Gi Charat package today. It was scheduled for delivery tomorrow since it got to the post office to late to be delivered today (it arrived at 11:11am, not too much earlier and it would have been today). I ended up going to the post office to see if I could just pick it up today. Normally I'd just let it get delivered the intended day, but I have a dentist appointment at 11am tomorrow morning and that's a common time for the mail lady to arrive, so I didn't want to risk missing it and then having to pick it up after work Thursday afternoon. Anyway, they let me pick it up today!

This is a big one....

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The original Chocola artbook, from 1999

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A bag that came with Chocola

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CDs. The second to last is missing its Voice of Heart single CD, so I'm going to have to buy it separately. I'll probably do so this Thursday when I get paid.

The rest is all from one single Yahoo Auctions lot.... and it's most of what this package consisted of. Mostly stationary items.

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Towel, this is folded in half here. Other half looks the same.

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Cushion, small pillow, whatever you wanna call it.

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Pencil cases and a coin purse.

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Clear files

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I want to say these are pencil boards but I'm not sure.

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A couple more pencil boards (?) and some type of note pads.

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These are all various types of note and memo pads.

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Smaller than average clear files.

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Tiny office supplies. A hole puncher, stapler, clip, and scissors.
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Post by: Carrehz on July 30, 2019, 07:05:43 PM
I love seeing your Di Gi Charat collection updates ^___^ I've never seen the show (LOVE the art/character designs though) but I'm really enjoying seeing your collection grow :)
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on July 30, 2019, 07:22:36 PM
I love seeing your Di Gi Charat collection updates ^___^ I've never seen the show (LOVE the art/character designs though) but I'm really enjoying seeing your collection grow :)

There is some up on YouTube if you ever wanna check it out! It's just cute and silly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PYCwgf8os
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Post by: tikibirds on July 31, 2019, 06:40:04 AM
The internet has been sl sloooow here lately, again.
I guess thats what happens when a billion people all go online at once.  :pout: :pout:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 01, 2019, 05:52:47 AM
Educating people that Japan and China do not have identical histories is tiring work.

I get so fed up when people say that Haruka is basically the same as Fushigi Yuugi when a: it isn't, b: it's set in Japan, not China, c: it's probably more accurate in terms of the use of Genbu etc, but it doesn;t use them in the same way because it uses them in terms of onmyoudou/yin yang and d: Japanese history is what I study, and I actually taught the history of both places last year, so having all that basically negated by people who think the whole of East Asia just copied China is irritating.

Yuugi and Haruka are both favourites of mine. I love them both and there are some themes that are broader traditional themes they both cover, but they're ultimately totally different and set in different places.

I'm waiting for someone to say Yona is like Fushigi Yuugi too, because it involves a girl and some dragons. Even though it's set in an ancient Korean context. And is nothing like Yuugi.

Bah.

These kinds of idiot moments remind me of the time a section of the the English language Bleach fanbase kicked off and started having fits the first time they saw a raw manga page with the word Bankai written on it  and totally misread the ban character for something completely different.

I just feel like saying to those people, if you're going to be in a fandom, at least try not to be completely culturally ignorant...?
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Post by: tikibirds on August 01, 2019, 10:33:38 AM
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Educating people that Japan and China do not have identical histories is tiring work

 The people here HATE Japan. They would riot if they knew westerns thought that. Yet, when I went to Okinawa for the Chinese New Year, my tours had more people speaking Mandarin than Japanese. I was the only Westerner though.
 
When I want to piss off the locals, I tell them how much I would rather be in Japan than China.  :P
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Post by: Ponyfan on August 01, 2019, 12:17:11 PM

I'm waiting for someone to say Yona is like Fushigi Yuugi too, because it involves a girl and some dragons. Even though it's set in an ancient Korean context. And is nothing like Yuugi.




I saw someone say that on Facebook a couple of days ago when I was looking at an advertisement for the Yona manga. :(  I haven't read Yuugi but I don't think that just because some manga series might share similar elements someone can claim they are alike. 

I think Yona is a unique series.  :)


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Post by: Harmonie on August 01, 2019, 01:11:32 PM
Thanks to the references earlier in the thread I've been rewatching Koruda (Corda D'Oro) 3.

I am fond of this anime even if I do watch it with mad seiyuu event incidents in mind...such as Miyano Mamoru accidentally collapsing his mic stand mid-drama, and the adlibs that come from getting a bunch of slightly crazy people together on the same stage.

Each time I watch it I become more fond of Hozumi and of Kyouya. I think they were always the two that stood out to me from the outset, although it keeps reminding me I never did finish playing the game. The problem with game-to-anime/manga is that often the game has stuff in that the anime doesn't reference, because there's an assumption the audience already knows it anyway.

I watched La Corda d'Oro 3 as it was airing but never much got into it and its characters. I enjoyed the first series, its characters and even had my own pairing (HinoxHihara).

Now that I think of it, it's been a decade since I watched the original. I need to rewatch it.

Also, I agree about the video game to anime adaptations leaving out a heck of a lot. I've never been able to play any of the La Corda d'Oro games, but when you bring that point up it makes me think of Ace Attorney. I think so much charm of that series was lost in adapting it to anime. Perhaps it's because I enjoyed all of the interactions, very much including the ones that didn't move the story forward and thus weren't included in the anime (like pressing witnesses in court on issues that aren't what move the case forward, all of the little interactions with your partners when you investigate, and interactions with characters while investigating, etc.). Naturally, a lot of that was lost in the anime adaptation, and it just feels very incomplete to me.
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Post by: Taffeta on August 01, 2019, 01:44:37 PM
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Educating people that Japan and China do not have identical histories is tiring work

 The people here HATE Japan. They would riot if they knew westerns thought that. Yet, when I went to Okinawa for the Chinese New Year, my tours had more people speaking Mandarin than Japanese. I was the only Westerner though.
 
When I want to piss off the locals, I tell them how much I would rather be in Japan than China.  :P

Yeah, there are good reasons for that.

Okinawa also traditionally had more Chinese links as well when it was still the Ryukyus.

@Ponyfan - there's zero similarity between Yona and Yuugi except that there's a girl, and there is a blue dragon among her dragons. That's about as much as you can link them. With Haruka, especially the first one, there's also a lot of difference.

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In Yuugi, the main character, Miaka, is sucked into a book on Ancient China, which is also a sacrificial spell to the God of whichever kingdom. Miaka appears in Kounan, the south Kingdom, and the deity there is Suzaku, the red bird. The story is basically about her finding the star warriors of Suzaku to prevent the death of the kingdom at the hands of the enemy in the East, Kutou, who have also 'found' their priestess (of the Blue Dragon, Seiryuu), and are building an enemy force to invade and destroy Kounan by massing the warriors of Seiryuu. And that's basically Yuugi. Aside the nauseating love story across time, space, and the Japanese National Library.

Haruka overall has six different storylines in different eras. Haruka began as a game series, so the main character in each of these is the player in the game.

The similarites between Haruka 1 (usually, sometimes it spreads to 2 as well) is mainly that the four Gods that appear in Yuugi also appear in Haruka (in a different context), and that there's a priestess at the core of both stories.

Haruka 1 also gets compared to Inuyasha because in the first series the main character is sucked down an abandoned well, like Kagome in Inuyasha.

Both the four Gods and the well story are old traditional stories so not invented by either franchise. In the case of the four Gods in Yuugi, they're used in a stellar sense and connected to constellations. Each country has seven warriors who associate to seven constellations and the creatures or ideas that those constellations put forth.

In Haruka, the four Gods are in the Yin Yang context, divided into warriors of heaven and earth, two for each deity. One of the main characters is a practitioner of YinYang and purifying demon spirits using this magic is a big part of the plot. In Japanese tradition and history, the city of Kyoto was protected by these four deities (Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryuu and Genbu) which is why they're used in the story. It's got nothing to do with Yuugi at all.

In the later Haruka stories you get real historical figures who are tied into the wider plot. The best one is 3, and the producers seem to think so as well, as they keep rereleasing versions of the game even as late as this. Haruka 1 happened in 2000, I think Haruka 3 first happened in around 2005 and the most recent release was 2017 for a game around the characters from 3? One day I will write an academic piece on how that represents history, as that's the time period I study - but that's beside the point. Because Haruka is a much bigger franchise with six games spanning what, almost 20 years now, and thus six casts, and six completely different eras...it's ridiculous to compare any of it to yuugi just because they use the same four gods and there happens to be a priestess involved.

As for Yona, she has the battle stuff, I guess, against enemy invading nations. But it's really not at all like Yuugi.

Ironically, though, nobody compares Saiunkoku Monogatari to Yuugi (even though it is set in Ancient China, and there are the ancient sage beings who may or may not be lurking around the plot/court). I guess because the main character lives in an Ancient chinese country and isn't summoned there, and they don't have the four Gods. Not that I think Saiunkoku is remotely like Yuugi either, but given the broad strokes of people's assumptions, I'm amazed it's not been connected as well.
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@Harmonie - I didn't get into Koruda 3 until I played the first game, actually. I think that was some time before the animation happened, though. Unlike the Haruka games, where you can build on stuff, the Koruda ones require start from scratch for every character so it gets a bit tedious. But I have a weird sense of humour and neoroma is full of stupid things because it's reverse harem based and I find that hilarious. At the time I was part of an LJ community around neoroma and I ended up writing the adventures of my heroine in trying to chat up all the guys and her progress. In the end the ridiculousness of some of the conversations and the timing of them got me and I grew to love them. Originally I didn't want Koruda 3 to happen, but I'm fine with it now.

The live events and the fact that most of the voice artists connected to Koruda and Haruka are slightly insane helps, because they clearly have a similar sense of humour about it as I do, and so do the live drama script writers.

The original Koruda is probably better, but not all the manga was animated. Same is true of Haruka 1, where the best volumes (12/13) aren't animated :'(. The end of the Hachiyoushou Haruka animation is basically not at all like the manga, and while it's fine, it still bugs me that it's wrong.

I totally support Hino x Hihara as a pairing :D In the manga they made decisions for the main characters of both Haruka and Koruda. I was 100% on board with the Haruka choice, I didn't really have such strong feelings over Koruda's pairing, so it didn't bother me how they ended it. I do love Hihara and Yunoki, though. Yunoki is my favourite but I don't ever see his pairing with Hino as being that kind of attachment, so Hihara x Hino works well for me too. It is sad Yunoki isn't in the animation for 3. He's mentioned in the game, I think Hihara talks about him coming to watch the concours or being involved somehow, but not in the anime :/

Ah dear. My neoroma fangirl is awakened. I may need to rewatch some more stuff. Only CR doesn't have Haruka :/ Only Koruda and Neoangelique, which is fine, except Nyx is addicted to tea and Hyuuga needs to stop taking his clothes off.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 01, 2019, 02:03:35 PM
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Educating people that Japan and China do not have identical histories is tiring work

 The people here HATE Japan. They would riot if they knew westerns thought that. Yet, when I went to Okinawa for the Chinese New Year, my tours had more people speaking Mandarin than Japanese. I was the only Westerner though.
 
When I want to piss off the locals, I tell them how much I would rather be in Japan than China.  :P

Yeah, there are good reasons for that.

@Ponyfan - there's zero similarity between Yona and Yuugi except that there's a girl, and there is a blue dragon among her dragons. That's about as much as you can link them. With Haruka, especially the first one, there's also a lot of difference.

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In Yuugi, the main character, Miaka, is sucked into a book on Ancient China, which is also a sacrificial spell to the God of whichever kingdom. Miaka appears in Kounan, the south Kingdom, and the deity there is Suzaku, the red bird. The story is basically about her finding the star warriors of Suzaku to prevent the death of the kingdom at the hands of the enemy in the East, Kutou, who have also 'found' their priestess (of the Blue Dragon, Seiryuu), and are building an enemy force to invade and destroy Kounan by massing the warriors of Seiryuu. And that's basically Yuugi. Aside the nauseating love story across time, space, and the Japanese National Library.

Haruka overall has six different storylines in different eras. Haruka began as a game series, so the main character in each of these is the player in the game.

The similarites between Haruka 1 (usually, sometimes it spreads to 2 as well) is mainly that the four Gods that appear in Yuugi also appear in Haruka (in a different context), and that there's a priestess at the core of both stories.

Haruka 1 also gets compared to Inuyasha because in the first series the main character is sucked down an abandoned well, like Kagome in Inuyasha.

Both the four Gods and the well story are old traditional stories so not invented by either franchise. In the case of the four Gods in Yuugi, they're used in a stellar sense and connected to constellations. Each country has seven warriors who associate to seven constellations and the creatures or ideas that those constellations put forth.

In Haruka, the four Gods are in the Yin Yang context, divided into warriors of heaven and earth, two for each deity. One of the main characters is a practitioner of YinYang and purifying demon spirits using this magic is a big part of the plot. In Japanese tradition and history, the city of Kyoto was protected by these four deities (Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryuu and Genbu) which is why they're used in the story. It's got nothing to do with Yuugi at all.

In the later Haruka stories you get real historical figures who are tied into the wider plot. The best one is 3, and the producers seem to think so as well, as they keep rereleasing versions of the game even as late as this. Haruka 1 happened in 2000, I think Haruka 3 first happened in around 2005 and the most recent release was 2017 for a game around the characters from 3? One day I will write an academic piece on how that represents history, as that's the time period I study - but that's beside the point. Because Haruka is a much bigger franchise with six games spanning what, almost 20 years now, and thus six casts, and six completely different eras...it's ridiculous to compare any of it to yuugi just because they use the same four gods and there happens to be a priestess involved.

As for Yona, she has the battle stuff, I guess, against enemy invading nations. But it's really not at all like Yuugi.



Wow. That's nothing like Yona. I can't believe people say they are alike. 

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on August 06, 2019, 06:35:17 AM
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Yeah, there are good reasons for that.

Okinawa also traditionally had more Chinese links as well when it was still the Ryukyus.

At one point, after my trip to Okinawa, I had to submit a photo of myself for some promotional thing for the school.
I sent them 3 pictures and told them to choose. One you could tell I was in Shanghai, One was here and one was from a Chinese garden in Okinawa.
Guess which one they choose.  :shocked:

I need a new series to watch, nothing is really entertaining me this season..other then Demon Slayer, Boruto, My life reincarnated as a slime - all of which are continued from pervious seasons. And Fruits Basket.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on August 06, 2019, 06:58:08 AM
Forgot to post these yesterday! After my shift yesterday I went to the post office to pick up my package so I wouldn't have to worry about potentially not being home for it today.

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Most of Di Gi Charat Nyo on DVD (missing the first volume) and the bonuses it came with.

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And finally trading cards. This is a set of cards with pictures of the voice actresses for Dejiko, Usada, and Puchiko. The last image shows the pile of unique cards on the left, compared to doubles that were included in the lot on the right.

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And finally the display update.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 07, 2019, 07:23:50 PM
Great pics Beatles. :)


I finally watched Howl's Moving Castle. It was okay but I don't think it's one I'm going to be rewatching a lot.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on August 08, 2019, 08:18:56 AM
I finally watched Howl's Moving Castle. It was okay but I don't think it's one I'm going to be rewatching a lot.

Yeah, that's how I feel about Howl, too (watched it for the first time around December, January). Not bad but not a favourite.

I looove Calcifer, though. So cute ^^
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2019, 02:02:00 PM
I finally watched Howl's Moving Castle. It was okay but I don't think it's one I'm going to be rewatching a lot.

Yeah, that's how I feel about Howl, too (watched it for the first time around December, January). Not bad but not a favourite.

I looove Calcifer, though. So cute ^^

I can't remember if I've seen Howl...but I've never really got into Ghibli. I like a couple but...yeah.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2019, 02:17:59 PM
I’m glad I’m not the only that wasn’t impressed with Howl’s Moving Castle. There were a couple of scenes where the background music was more interesting to me than what was happening on the screen. I did like Calcifer and I think I liked Howl.

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Although I thought him being so dramatic when he used the wrong potion on his hair was immature.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2019, 02:18:22 PM
So a bunch of people on a group I post in have been really annoying lately to a hyberbolic degree over Kimetsu no Yaiba as the best thing to ever hit anime ever.

So I decided to watch it (19 eps so far).

It is really beautifully animated. The characters are well thought out. There's a lot of beheading. I'm kind of ok with that. It starts really horribly. That I'm less okay with, but I've moved on, because the main character has.

Bearing in mind I speak Japanese, the characters for me all have annoying, difficult to remember and pointlessly obscure names. But anyhow.
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The main character, Tanjirou, lives in a mountain with his family and sells charcoal to help make ends meet. Till all his family are killed by a demon except his sister Nezuko, who is turned into a demon. So he becomes a demon slayer to find out how to turn her back to being human.

By the way,
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Personally I hope he never changes her back, because she's easily the best character and when she was a human she was basically a doormat...now she's at least interesting, and forceful, and can kick a guy's head off if her brother's in danger. She's also really funny. She doesn't really speak, so her humour is visual, but it works

There's especially been a big fuss about the most recent episode but while it is really beautifully done, I don't really understand why it's had so much hype about it specifically.

I'm not sure if I will keep watching it when more eps air, as I wouldn't say it jumped out and grabbed me wholeheartedly. Having seen it, it seems like a good competent shounen anime/manga which will probably have a long run and many series. But I don't know that it deserves all the hyperbole that it's the best ever series to be made :/

I guess it's subjective.

Also, some bits reminded me of Bleach.
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Like, there are creatures eating humans (demons - Hollows?). They can only be dealt with with a blade (nichirin - zanpakutou?) The bad guy is calm and calculating and pretends like he's not a bad guy in front of everyone (Aizen - Muzan?) and he has a group of followers with numbers on their eyeballs (Espada - ok, that's not eyeballs, but they are all numbered on their body).  Oh yeah, and Tanjirou's dad was also a demon hunter (Isshin was a shinigami?).

It's not enough the same as Bleach to think that there's any connection, it's just that some of these tropes are so familiar in this type of shounen series that you kind of know what you have from the very start point. There's also a lot of that shounen anime/manga style exposition where it's obvious what the attack did but the enemy has to say it explicitly, "So you did this, did you? Ahah, but now I will do this!" and that's quite repetitive.

Has anyone else seen it?

Don't get me wrong, it's well written and well done, but it seems a bit much to call it the best anime ever made...

Also!

Shimano Hiro voices a character called Zenitsu, who also dresses in orange/yellow and has yellow-orange hair. Shimano Hiro is also the voice artist for Zeno in Yona. Zeno is the Yellow Dragon, so, clearly, also has a yellow/gold pallete as well. And although most of the time Zenitsu is squealing like a lunatic/baby, on the odd occasion where he isn't, he also sounds like so much like Zeno. And that is doing my head in.

Though Zeno is miles better ;)

Edit: I need to spell words properly.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 13, 2019, 12:02:47 PM
I really like Zeno's VA although I've only heard him voice Zeno. :D 

I was looking on US Netflix and it looks like several animes have been added. The 2 that looked the most interesting were Forest of Piano and March Comes in Like a Lion.

Has anyone watched those?

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 13, 2019, 01:53:30 PM
I really like Zeno's VA although I've only heard him voice Zeno. :D 

I was looking on US Netflix and it looks like several animes have been added. The 2 that looked the most interesting were Forest of Piano and March Comes in Like a Lion.

Has anyone watched those?

Ponyfan

Zeno is awesome :D

I have seen the first ep of March comes in like a lion. It didn't grab me though so I didn't continue with it...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2019, 06:03:33 PM
Thanks Taffeta. I’ll probably give the first episode a chance and see if it holds my interest enough continue watching.

I just saw Amazon.com had listed a limited edition box set of the new Fruits Basket for preorder that includes the first 13 episodes. I hope this means that a general release set will be released also.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 19, 2019, 05:45:25 PM
Does anyone own the Region 1 Yona of the Dawn DVD/Blu Ray sets? Yona quickly became one of my favorite animes/mangas. :lovey: I can watch the anime episodes on Hulu but would like to own a set so I could watch them without Hulu. I looked at my options and I can either buy the episodes from US iTunes or get the Blu Ray/DVD set. The cost would be about equal either way  but I don’t own a Blu Ray player. I found confusing  info on whether the Yona sets are Blu Ray only or include DVDs also.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 19, 2019, 08:35:10 PM
Does anyone own the Region 1 Yona of the Dawn DVD/Blu Ray sets? Yona quickly became one of my favorite animes/mangas. :lovey: I can watch the anime episodes on Hulu but would like to own a set so I could watch them without Hulu. I looked at my options and I can either buy the episodes from US iTunes or get the Blu Ray/DVD set. The cost would be about equal either way  but I don’t own a Blu Ray player. I found confusing  info on whether the Yona sets are Blu Ray only or include DVDs also.

Ponyfan

If it's a Blu-ray/DVD set, it should have both the Blu-ray and DVD.  It looks like the Blu-ray/DVD sets come in parts 1 &2.  If it is the complete set on Blu-ray, it will only have the Blu-ray discs.  (Here's a link to the RightStuf page so you can see the difference.)

https://www.rightstufanime.com/category/Blu~ray?keywords=yona%20of%20the%20dawn
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2019, 11:25:05 AM
Does anyone own the Region 1 Yona of the Dawn DVD/Blu Ray sets? Yona quickly became one of my favorite animes/mangas. :lovey: I can watch the anime episodes on Hulu but would like to own a set so I could watch them without Hulu. I looked at my options and I can either buy the episodes from US iTunes or get the Blu Ray/DVD set. The cost would be about equal either way  but I don’t own a Blu Ray player. I found confusing  info on whether the Yona sets are Blu Ray only or include DVDs also.

Ponyfan

If it's a Blu-ray/DVD set, it should have both the Blu-ray and DVD.  It looks like the Blu-ray/DVD sets come in parts 1 &2.  If it is the complete set on Blu-ray, it will only have the Blu-ray discs.  (Here's a link to the RightStuf page so you can see the difference.)

https://www.rightstufanime.com/category/Blu~ray?keywords=yona%20of%20the%20dawn


Thanks Pokeyonekenoboe. :) Seeing them side by side helps a lot. I think I was getting confused because the 2 season sets come with DVDs but The Complete Series on Blu-ray does not.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 20, 2019, 12:09:51 PM
Does anyone own the Region 1 Yona of the Dawn DVD/Blu Ray sets? Yona quickly became one of my favorite animes/mangas. :lovey: I can watch the anime episodes on Hulu but would like to own a set so I could watch them without Hulu. I looked at my options and I can either buy the episodes from US iTunes or get the Blu Ray/DVD set. The cost would be about equal either way  but I don’t own a Blu Ray player. I found confusing  info on whether the Yona sets are Blu Ray only or include DVDs also.

Ponyfan

If it's a Blu-ray/DVD set, it should have both the Blu-ray and DVD.  It looks like the Blu-ray/DVD sets come in parts 1 &2.  If it is the complete set on Blu-ray, it will only have the Blu-ray discs.  (Here's a link to the RightStuf page so you can see the difference.)

https://www.rightstufanime.com/category/Blu~ray?keywords=yona%20of%20the%20dawn


Thanks Pokeyonekenoboe. :) Seeing them side by side helps a lot. I think I was getting confused because the 2 season sets come with DVDs but The Complete Series on Blu-ray does not.

Ponyfan

I didn't even know the US had it on DVD! So not fair. I had to get mine from Japan *grrrrrrrr* US would have been cheaper.
>.>
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 21, 2019, 12:21:38 PM
Does anyone own the Region 1 Yona of the Dawn DVD/Blu Ray sets? Yona quickly became one of my favorite animes/mangas. :lovey: I can watch the anime episodes on Hulu but would like to own a set so I could watch them without Hulu. I looked at my options and I can either buy the episodes from US iTunes or get the Blu Ray/DVD set. The cost would be about equal either way  but I don’t own a Blu Ray player. I found confusing  info on whether the Yona sets are Blu Ray only or include DVDs also.

Ponyfan

If it's a Blu-ray/DVD set, it should have both the Blu-ray and DVD.  It looks like the Blu-ray/DVD sets come in parts 1 &2.  If it is the complete set on Blu-ray, it will only have the Blu-ray discs.  (Here's a link to the RightStuf page so you can see the difference.)

https://www.rightstufanime.com/category/Blu~ray?keywords=yona%20of%20the%20dawn


Thanks Pokeyonekenoboe. :) Seeing them side by side helps a lot. I think I was getting confused because the 2 season sets come with DVDs but The Complete Series on Blu-ray does not.

Ponyfan

I didn't even know the US had it on DVD! So not fair. I had to get mine from Japan *grrrrrrrr* US would have been cheaper.
>.>


I only found out that the US had it on DVD recently. I don't remember seeing it for sale in stores and it looks like it was released a couple of years ago.


I'm starting to rewatch Sailor Moon Crystal.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on August 22, 2019, 08:28:49 AM
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Has anyone else seen it?

Me. It's the only one on Crunchyroll that has my attention this season, besides Boruto and occasionally gegege no kitaro - but that one has been around a looong time.

I think its very good but I wouldn't say it's the greatest anime ever.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 22, 2019, 08:54:21 AM
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Has anyone else seen it?

Me. It's the only one on Crunchyroll that has my attention this season, besides Boruto and occasionally gegege no kitaro - but that one has been around a looong time.

I think its very good but I wouldn't say it's the greatest anime ever.

Yeah, thats how I feel too. SOmeone on the other forum commented that the character development is kind of not there or late when it does happen, and I can see that, like the writer would rather invest in action than character reflection, but that aside, the only issue I really have is nezuko being hypnotised. It's not hugely original but it's watchable and enjoyable and really pretty in terms of animation quality.

His sidekicks are really annoying though. Hope they get less so, since I've basically decided to see it through to the season end at least and they both irritate me.

Nezuko still best character.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on August 22, 2019, 10:14:46 AM
I forgot to post last week's package in here so now I have two packages to show off in this post as I got another a couple days ago...

Okay, so last week's package! I got these on the 15th.

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This first item isn't Di Gi Charat at all, but the cover art is drawn by Koge-Donbo*, the creator of Di Gi Charat. I want this to be just a general Koge-Donbo* collection. :) This book is a charity artbook that contains art by nearly 100 different artists. It came out in 2010 to raise money for farmers that lost livestock that year.

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This is a Koge-Donbo* book that I believe mostly consists of her talking about her works. There's some art too, but it's mostly text that I cannot read.

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Fairies' Day Off!!, the second Gamers Guardian Fairies single. GGF is a spin-off of Di Gi Charat!

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Dejion, the Di Gi Charat Nyo soundtrack!

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Di Gi Charat CCG and trading cards, and GGF trading cards

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Three copies of a Dejiko Z/X trading card game card. Really only needed one but this listing of three was cheaper than the listings that were only selling one...

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Two Pita-Ten trading cards.

This week's package, from two days ago:

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Di Gi Charat ceramic tumblers with art of the kittens Sa, Shi, Su, Se, and So on them. Extremely relieved that these arrived entirely in tact with no damage at all.

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Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat notebook.

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Misha (Pita-Ten) trading figure.

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Display update! A couple things have been moved around since I took these photos but it's similar enough. I think all I did was switch the Misha figure with the small blue stationary items.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 22, 2019, 12:04:19 PM
Great new items Beatles. :) 

I saw a new anime movie for sale last week called Penguin Highway. It doesn't look very interesting based on the synopsis but I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts about it?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 22, 2019, 01:45:08 PM


Di Gi Charat ceramic tumblers with art of the kittens Sa, Shi, Su, Se, and So on them. Extremely relieved that these arrived entirely in tact with no damage at all.

Wait, are they teaching hiragana by kitten or something? O.o.

@Ponyfan, not familiar with that one at all :(

Been watching Yakusoku no Neverland this week.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 22, 2019, 04:12:48 PM
Great new items Beatles. :) 

I saw a new anime movie for sale last week called Penguin Highway. It doesn't look very interesting based on the synopsis but I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts about it?


Ponyfan

I bought that one and watched it.  It's...okay.  Not my favorite but not the worst one I've seen either.  Basically this 4th grade genius has a crush on the lady at his dentist's office that teaches him chess.  Penguins randomly show up so he and a friend are trying to figure out where they came from.  A girl at his school likes him and shows him a secret anomaly that she's studying, which prompts the bully who likes her to pick on the smart kid.  Eventually they find out what is causing the penguins to show up and how they're connected to the anomaly the girl found and the lady at the dentist's office.  It has some funny bits but I would put it closer to a young adult level as opposed to a kid's level due to conversations about boobs and the bullying that happens.  :penguin:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 22, 2019, 07:21:29 PM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie.  I think I'll skip Penguin Highway.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on August 25, 2019, 06:19:57 AM
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His sidekicks are really annoying though. Hope they get less so, since I've basically decided to see it through to the season end at least and they both irritate me.

They are anoying but I like the wimpy guy. The boar guy is just weird but they balance each other out.
The girl demon slayer is different since she isn't physicaly that strong.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 25, 2019, 06:21:42 AM
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His sidekicks are really annoying though. Hope they get less so, since I've basically decided to see it through to the season end at least and they both irritate me.

They are anoying but I like the wimpy guy. The boar guy is just weird but they balance each other out.
The girl demon slayer is different since she isn't physicaly that strong.
The wimpy guy would warm on me better if he stopped hitting on every female, stopped harassing Nezuko, and stopped ruining Shimano Hiro's voice with his wailing xD.

Basically when he's unconscious, I like him. Otherwise...XD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 25, 2019, 07:54:58 AM
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His sidekicks are really annoying though. Hope they get less so, since I've basically decided to see it through to the season end at least and they both irritate me.

They are anoying but I like the wimpy guy. The boar guy is just weird but they balance each other out.
The girl demon slayer is different since she isn't physicaly that strong.
The wimpy guy would warm on me better if he stopped hitting on every female, stopped harassing Nezuko, and stopped ruining Shimano Hiro's voice with his wailing xD.

Basically when he's unconscious, I like him. Otherwise...XD.

Out of the roles I’ve heard Shimano Hiro voice Zenitsu is the one I didn’t like although it would probably be better if he didn’t scream most of his lines.

Zeno is still my favorite character voiced by Shimano Hiro. :D

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 26, 2019, 08:19:43 AM
So yea, I'm watching Neo Angelique Abyss...

I finished episode 5 last night. And thanks Taff for sending me weird YouTube link; stop it voice actors, I don't need to see you IRL dancing and singing and posing.(go back behind the curtain please)

And Hyuuga, put your shirt back on. There are literally sparkles around him in the last episode with his shirt off...(hehe). Why am I watching this, is both good and silly at the same time (LOL!!!) Can someone get the cat in this series some medical attention, the meow is terrible!!
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Post by: Taffeta on August 26, 2019, 10:47:13 AM
I am always here to corrupt you guys with seiyuu spam :D
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 26, 2019, 03:09:57 PM
I am always here to corrupt you guys with seiyuu spam :D


DangitTAFF!!! Beloved Angel Angelique...what the frizz...

Clavis you moody boy...hum, apparently I have a thing for the quite moody ones.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 26, 2019, 03:21:03 PM
I am always here to corrupt you guys with seiyuu spam :D


DangitTAFF!!! Beloved Angel Angelique...what the frizz...

Clavis you moody boy...hum, apparently I have a thing for the quite moody ones.


I should have known you'd start Snape-ing him xD.

I'm not sure the second season is there though, or at least, not all of it. Which is a shame, because there's Francis and his unnatural fear of rabbits.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 05, 2019, 03:19:45 PM
There's finally a place holder on Hulu for the 2019 Fruits Basket. :cheer: I hope this means they will get the episodes soon.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 05, 2019, 03:37:31 PM
There's finally a place holder on Hulu for the 2019 Fruits Basket. :cheer: I hope this means they will get the episodes soon.



Ponyfan

Yay!! Maybe when the first season ends?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2019, 06:57:13 AM
There's finally a place holder on Hulu for the 2019 Fruits Basket. :cheer: I hope this means they will get the episodes soon.



Ponyfan

Yay!! Maybe when the first season ends?


That's what I'm thinking too. :) I was really surprised to see the place holder as there hasn't been any indication that they would get the new series before. I'm guessing their contract with Funimation is to stream the new Fruits Baskets after season 1 ends.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 06, 2019, 07:41:03 AM
The DVD of the first part of the new Fruits Basket is out in November so it makes sense for it to be on streaming platforms sometime soon as well.


Rightstufanime.com is having a massive weekend sale right now.  If you narrow it down to DVDs & Blu-Rays and hide the live action (and adult) stuff there are 372 items on sale between $0.25 and $7.00.  For example you can get the complete collection of Michel (which is a kid's show that reminded me of Pokemon and Digimon) for $1.  There are a lot of random DVD volumes but I guess if you're looking for that one or two to finish off a set it might be worth it. 

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Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2019, 10:47:46 AM
The DVD of the first part of the new Fruits Basket is out in November so it makes sense for it to be on streaming platforms sometime soon as well.



Well Furuba is already on Funimation and CR which is probably why Hulu is having to wait a while. I don't have Hulu and am not sure if the UK has it, but that would make sense...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on September 07, 2019, 08:41:23 PM
I recommended this show a few months back but I just wanted to drop in an say that the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua is now available to watch with English subs on Youtube from Tencent! <3 Also if anyone wants to check out the live action drama version, The Untamed (which is phenomenal, btw...I literally don't think they could have done a better job; the casting is perfect) it's also up there in sub!

It honestly makes me so happy that the Chinese film companies responsible for MDZS/Untamed are trying to make their stuff more accessible to international audiences. I know they've been having a lot of issues with piracy, and hopefully this has helped them combat it. I'll gladly watch the 1-3 minutes of ads per episode in order to support the official sources and get to watch the full HD episodes <3
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 08, 2019, 03:15:51 AM
I keep hearing about the above but there weren't any legal options to watch it and I don't do the other type of viewing. I may check it out sometime.

Furuba is getting to a certain point in the story at last. 2 eps to go for season 1.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on September 08, 2019, 11:38:20 AM
I keep hearing about the above but there weren't any legal options to watch it and I don't do the other type of viewing. I may check it out sometime.

Ooh you definitely should, it's so good! I watched it on their official streaming website unsubbed before. It was kinda awkward cause I had the translations written down on a page and just...read them in time with the scenes. I was a huge fan of the novel okay I wanted to watch it ASAP even if it was difficult ;u;

It's nice to not have to jump through that many hoops to watch it now >u<
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 08, 2019, 12:04:50 PM
I keep hearing about the above but there weren't any legal options to watch it and I don't do the other type of viewing. I may check it out sometime.

Ooh you definitely should, it's so good! I watched it on their official streaming website unsubbed before. It was kinda awkward cause I had the translations written down on a page and just...read them in time with the scenes. I was a huge fan of the novel okay I wanted to watch it ASAP even if it was difficult ;u;

It's nice to not have to jump through that many hoops to watch it now >u<

Yeah, the frustration I have with series in Korean or Chinese is having to find a decent sub, since I can't understand it *grr*. I have one or two Mandarin dramas and maybe one Korean drama on DVD with passable but not perfect English subs and I've watched one or two on Netflix with better but still awkward subs and I feel like maybe learning Japanese ruined me because I've become so fussy...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 08, 2019, 01:31:05 PM
I've gotten more used to subs although there are still times when I prefer the dub. I would have never seriously considered trying subbed anime if I hadn't gotten in to Yona as there's a couple of  Yona episodes that only have subbed versions. I still feel like I miss a few things in subbed anime vs dubs since I'm having to read and watch at the same but not nearly as much as I thought I'd miss. I've found myself rewatching some scenes from Yona in Japanese to compare the sub to the dub. I am very impressed how close the Yona dub is to the Japanese subtitles. :D Sometimes the English dialogue only varies by a word or two when I compare it to the subtitled Japanese.

I've also learned that a fantastic voice actor can still make me feel connected to a character even if I have to read the subs to understand the words.


Furuba is getting to a certain point in the story at last. 2 eps to go for season 1.


:D This makes me even more impatient for the new episodes to arrive on Hulu.

Ponyfan




Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on September 08, 2019, 01:38:14 PM
Yeah, the frustration I have with series in Korean or Chinese is having to find a decent sub, since I can't understand it *grr*. I have one or two Mandarin dramas and maybe one Korean drama on DVD with passable but not perfect English subs and I've watched one or two on Netflix with better but still awkward subs and I feel like maybe learning Japanese ruined me because I've become so fussy...

Saaaame. I know conversational Japanese (I still get hung up on some uncommon words that don't get used much though) so I don't really need subs anymore for most things, they're more of a helper for difficult scenes. But I was completely lost when it came to Mandarin since I'd never watched any Chinese shows before MDZS ;u; I'm actually picking up phrases pretty fast though, I was surprised about that. It took me a loooooong time to learn Japanese >.<;

Post Merge: September 09, 2019, 05:36:06 AM

Sorry for double-posting, but I just wanted to update that Tencent has also started subbing and posting MDZS's second season on Youtube as well! I'm so excited, I've been waiting to watch it until I could properly enjoy it with subs <3
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 09, 2019, 06:07:33 AM
Does this show you are talking about have two guys in traditional chinese clothing, one in red/black and the other in blue/white? I see their images on a lot of stuff on Taobao but I have no idea who they are..other then it seems to be a BL thing according to the artwork I have seen. And google trandlate doesnt work so well for chinese, according to them - I take the LOVE BUS to work  :blink:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on September 09, 2019, 06:39:25 AM
Does this show you are talking about have two guys in traditional chinese clothing, one in red/black and the other in blue/white? I see their images on a lot of stuff on Taobao but I have no idea who they are..other then it seems to be a BL thing according to the artwork I have seen. And google trandlate doesnt work so well for chinese, according to them - I take the LOVE BUS to work  :blink:

Yup, that's them! The one in red and black is the main character, Wei WuXian, and the one in blue and white is the other main, Lan WangJi. The show is based off a BL novel where they are a couple, but due to the Chinese censorship laws, they really don't have much of that in the animated show or the live action drama. It's mostly converted into bromance there.

Omg Love Bus....that's beautiful.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 09, 2019, 07:08:03 AM
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 Apparently they are quite popular...

The translations are even worse when it comes to menus. I get stuff like spoiled week old cabbage ( i think that one was for Kimchi), broken husband (no idea what that was supposed to be), fermenting milk for yogurt...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 09, 2019, 07:29:37 AM
I've been watching My Hero Academia since the 2nd part of season 3 made it to DVD this last week.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on September 09, 2019, 07:46:41 AM
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 Apparently they are quite popular...

The translations are even worse when it comes to menus. I get stuff like spoiled week old cabbage ( i think that one was for Kimchi), broken husband (no idea what that was supposed to be), fermenting milk for yogurt...

Oh! Those two are actually not WuXian and WangJi, but are in fact from another BL novel by the same author as MDZS. It's called 'Heaven Official's Blessing', or Tian Guan Ci Fu. The one in red is Hua Cheng, and the one in white is Xie Lian <3 Hua Cheng is 'demon' king and Xie Lian is a fallen god, but like...Hua Cheng is such a gentle character (at least to Xie Lian), total trope dodge for the whole demon king love interest thing. They are the sweetest, fluffiest couple you'll ever see and I adore them so much.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 09, 2019, 08:08:59 AM
Apparently anime and manga are gateway drugs to other stuff. I'm watching drama tv programs I've started watching on netflix: I think they're from china.

Well intended Love I think is the first one name, just finished all the episodes for that, but is a drama of a business man and a actress. It's like American soap opera on crack, but sooo much better for some reason.

Then I've just started watching another, don't remember the name of this one, but it's set in the past/fictional. The lady is a demon snake and apparently if demons live long enough they can obtain a human body. And she goes to the human world and meets a nice doctor and falls in love with him. It's another sort of soap opera drama type show but it's more magic and a bit silly. The thing I love about it, everything is so pretty.

There are a couple other I have saved but American TV has gotten so darn boring and even though I have to read subtitles, these are way more interesting to me than the some of the junk here.

Seriously, I haven't yelled at the characters on in these shows once for being stupid like I do when watching walking dead.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Galactica on September 09, 2019, 10:23:39 AM
I've been watching "Carol and Tuesday" on Netflix-  it is really good and the singing is really good!

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 09, 2019, 12:14:55 PM
Japan is trying to kill me, this isn't technically Anime, but then again it sort of is as it's fricking drawings that talk, it just happens to be in a game. I just started playing - has anyone ever heard of or is also playing the mobile game called, Mr. love, Queen's choice, not sure what it's called in japan, I think something like Love and Producer. Well, in the english version you can actually choose either language to listen to.

But this game, I'm almost embarrassed to play this thing but these boys are way to pretty. I just can't even...

Victor (you are so mean...but so pretty)
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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 09, 2019, 12:25:57 PM
Uni - this is a slippery slope.

From - a girl with a shelf full of Japanese PSP games, Japanese anime and drama DVDs and live events.

I've heard a lot of things about Carole and Tuesday. Not sure if it's on Netflix here though. I don't think I've seen it there.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 09, 2019, 12:53:30 PM
Uni - this is a slippery slope.

hill...slippery...falling....hard

the boys text and call the protagonist in game. It's funny...they're voices are lovely although I want to hit Victor over the head with a frying pan sometimes.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 09, 2019, 01:13:18 PM
I added Carol and Tuesday to my watchlist.  I’ve bern trying to find that baseball anime Diamond No Ace? but haven’t found it on either Netflix or Hulu yet.


I play a mobile game called Love  Nikki Dress Up Queen that definitely looks anime inspired but I’m not sure what series it’s supposed to be based on.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 09, 2019, 01:14:51 PM
I’ve bern trying to find that baseball anime Diamond No Ace? but haven’t found it on either Netflix or Hulu yet.


I think it's only on Crunchyroll.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 09, 2019, 01:24:19 PM




I’ve bern trying to find that baseball anime Diamond No Ace? but haven’t found it on either Netflix or Hulu yet.


I think it's only on Crunchyroll.


Thanks Taffeta. :) 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 09, 2019, 02:00:31 PM
I added Carol and Tuesday to my watchlist.  I’ve bern trying to find that baseball anime Diamond No Ace? but haven’t found it on either Netflix or Hulu yet.


I play a mobile game called Love  Nikki Dress Up Queen that definitely looks anime inspired but I’m not sure what series it’s supposed to be based on.

Ponyfan

Yes the love Nikki game is the one I used to play and I think the same company makes this one I think or at least it seems like it due to the setiup of the levels and other little things that are familar. You'd be able to play Mr. Love and pick it up pretty easy. It's got the same sort of setup, just different theme and a few different features. I used to love the Nikki dress up game, but my game just disappeared one day and the cloud wouldn't restore it, etc.

I actually like Mr. Love a lot better, since it's sort of more story driven than the Nikki game, the plot of the story is cool and the voice acting is amazing. I'm curious to see how each character plays out.

One of the guy characters, Lucian (he's the dark headed guy in the group picture on the bottom right). he's a scientist and he's very nice to the main character in the story but for some reason the main character is always 'wary' of him. There is a whole background plot going on with the 'superpowers' each guy has. I'm not sure what his is yet, etc. But he comes across as really 'nice' but somehow it feels weird, almost forced/creepy.

Victor, the CEO guy (bottom left), he's a jerk so far, I mean, conversations with him piss me off so much...but he's so pretty I can't resist. He's like a awesome cat you want to pet but you know it's got a pissy attitude and you'll probably get scratched.

The two 'nice' guys are Kito or Kiro (can't remember how to spell it right now, he's the blond), he's a singer/actor. He's the first of the 4 you meet in the game and he's so sweet, like a big puppy. And then there is Gavin...he's nice and the main character apparently knew him in high school.

There seem to be some hints that she actually knew Victor and Lucian when she was a young child but I haven't yet figured out for sure if it's both or one or maybe even all of them, etc.

Post Merge: September 09, 2019, 10:37:02 PM

Wow, theyre apparently making the game into an anime...hope the link works.

https://youtu.be/Za1L2g_oanQ (https://youtu.be/Za1L2g_oanQ)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 09, 2019, 11:30:29 PM
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Oh! Those two are actually not WuXian and WangJi, but are in fact from another BL novel by the same author as MDZS. It's called 'Heaven Official's Blessing', or Tian Guan Ci Fu. The one in red is Hua Cheng, and the one in white is Xie Lian <3 Hua Cheng is 'demon' king and Xie Lian is a fallen god, but like...Hua Cheng is such a gentle character (at least to Xie Lian), total trope dodge for the whole demon king love interest thing. They are the sweetest, fluffiest couple you'll ever see and I adore them so much.

AH ok. These are the two that I see everytime I am searching on Taobao for anime stuff - but I could never find out who they are or what they are from.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 10, 2019, 11:13:53 AM
nooooooooooo...someone save me!!!! Why must you torture me Japan? WHY???


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2019, 12:25:11 PM
I added Carol and Tuesday to my watchlist.  I’ve bern trying to find that baseball anime Diamond No Ace? but haven’t found it on either Netflix or Hulu yet.


I play a mobile game called Love  Nikki Dress Up Queen that definitely looks anime inspired but I’m not sure what series it’s supposed to be based on.

Ponyfan

Yes the love Nikki game is the one I used to play and I think the same company makes this one I think or at least it seems like it due to the setiup of the levels and other little things that are familar. You'd be able to play Mr. Love and pick it up pretty easy. It's got the same sort of setup, just different theme and a few different features. I used to love the Nikki dress up game, but my game just disappeared one day and the cloud wouldn't restore it, etc.

I actually like Mr. Love a lot better, since it's sort of more story driven than the Nikki game, the plot of the story is cool and the voice acting is amazing. I'm curious to see how each character plays out.

One of the guy characters, Lucian (he's the dark headed guy in the group picture on the bottom right). he's a scientist and he's very nice to the main character in the story but for some reason the main character is always 'wary' of him. There is a whole background plot going on with the 'superpowers' each guy has. I'm not sure what his is yet, etc. But he comes across as really 'nice' but somehow it feels weird, almost forced/creepy.

Victor, the CEO guy (bottom left), he's a jerk so far, I mean, conversations with him piss me off so much...but he's so pretty I can't resist. He's like a awesome cat you want to pet but you know it's got a pissy attitude and you'll probably get scratched.

The two 'nice' guys are Kito or Kiro (can't remember how to spell it right now, he's the blond), he's a singer/actor. He's the first of the 4 you meet in the game and he's so sweet, like a big puppy. And then there is Gavin...he's nice and the main character apparently knew him in high school.

There seem to be some hints that she actually knew Victor and Lucian when she was a young child but I haven't yet figured out for sure if it's both or one or maybe even all of them, etc.

Post Merge: September 09, 2019, 10:37:02 PM

Wow, theyre apparently making the game into an anime...hope the link works.

https://youtu.be/Za1L2g_oanQ (https://youtu.be/Za1L2g_oanQ)

Interesting. :D I think I recognize at least one of the VAs but I can't be sure as all cast is in Japanese characters.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 10, 2019, 12:39:38 PM

Interesting. :D I think I recognize at least one of the VAs but I can't be sure as all cast is in Japanese characters.


Ponyfan

I think in the game the voice actors are listed online, goes to check who the voice actors are:

Lucien is English: Bill Rogers
Japanese: Daisuke Hirakawa

Gavin is English: Joe Zieja
Japanese: Yūki Ono

Victor is English: Benjamin Diskin
Japanese: Tomokazu Sugita

Kiro is English: Sean Chiplock
Japanese: Tetsuya Kakihara
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2019, 01:50:20 PM

Interesting. :D I think I recognize at least one of the VAs but I can't be sure as all cast is in Japanese characters.


Ponyfan

I think in the game the voice actors are listed online, goes to check who the voice actors are:

Lucien is English: Bill Rogers
Japanese: Daisuke Hirakawa

Gavin is English: Joe Zieja
Japanese: Yūki Ono

Victor is English: Benjamin Diskin
Japanese: Tomokazu Sugita

Kiro is English: Sean Chiplock
Japanese: Tetsuya Kakihara

Thanks. I  was mixing a couple of them up with other VAs. I don’t recognize any of their names.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 10, 2019, 02:40:02 PM

Thanks. I  was mixing a couple of them up with other VAs. I don’t recognize any of their names.

I'm pretty terrible on voice actors and who plays who in anything. There are only a couple that I can remember right off without really thinking about it. I remember the english voice actor for Sebastian from black butler and the man that is the voice of Optimus Prime.

That's pretty much it, even ponies...I got nothing.

Post Merge: September 11, 2019, 09:23:55 AM

You know you've won when the Anime CEO man takes out his black card.
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(incidentally the character you play in the game doesn't let him pay, hahahahahah, that's right Victor, your money can't buy me you big jerk)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 11, 2019, 09:44:04 AM
Has anyone heard the rumours that Ash Ketchum, and Pikachu are leaving the Pokemon anime franchise? Do you think he will win the Aloha League.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 11, 2019, 10:26:48 AM
I know 3/4 of those voice artists but am not sure what I can give you as comparisons. I feel like one of them might be involved in Sailor Moon stuff but may be wrong. Uni, if you ever get further into NeoAngelique, Bernard is voiced by Hirakawa Daisuke. And also, in Koisuru Tenshi Angelique, Sugita Tomokazu was Francis (the one who faints at rabbits.) If that matters at all.

I really need to get my PSP working again. Making me want to dig out my games.

Also I have a research plan to write and an application to submit but you know, whatever.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 11, 2019, 11:42:59 AM

Also I have a research plan to write and an application to submit but you know, whatever.

meh, I have so much work to do it's not funny...but dangit, why do they have to drop pretty SSR cards in my face...I don't even have an ssr card yet in the game...pouts...

soooo...preeetttyyyyyyyyyy

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 11, 2019, 02:18:46 PM
I started playing the Mr. Love game.

There’s a rumor that the US will soon get a release date for Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Part 2. Viz posted a tribute to Ami/Sailor Mercury for her birthday and they used a clip from an episode that’s in the 2nd part of Stars.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 11, 2019, 02:59:44 PM
I started playing the Mr. Love game.



muwhhahhaha...come over to the dark side.

Curious, what cards have you gotten so far ;)

I have yet to get a SSR card, and I still haven't really seen where I'm using many of the N or NH cards anymore :/ They're just random characters and people in the game.

What I have so far:

Lucien: SR Cards
 Fireflies
Midnight Beacon

Lucien: R Cards
 Indelible Taste
Archive
Destined
 Read you like a book

Kiro:SR Cards
Sweet Dreams
Albatross

Kiro:R Cards
Pretender
Your Existence
Woofderland
Perfect Figure
Custom Made


Victor: SR cards
Anticipation

Victor:R Cards
A Beautiful mind
Special Assignment
Heartstring
Taste
Unbridled Passion
Reluctance


Gavin: SR Cards
Star Kiss

Gavin: R Cards
Investigate
Warming Up
Rock Hard Play Hard
Whetstone



Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 11, 2019, 03:33:37 PM
I will have to check the cards as I don't have very many yet.

I noticed Funimation has also set a release date for My Roommate is a Cat.

@Taffeta I think it's a series that you recommended? I remember looking for it and not finding it.

I also finally watched Mirai

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I found it a bit lacking and confusing.

The main focus is not really on Mirai but on her older brother Kun. Kun becomes jealous of the attention his parents shower on his sister and begins throwing tantrums when he doesn't get his way. His mother loses her temper one day and threatens to throw all his toys away and she won't buy him any new ones. In frustration he hits baby Mirai with a toy train and storms out to the garden where a beautiful tree is. He meets a strange man there that is actually the family dog in human form. Later he meets the Mirari of the future and helps her put away the Girls Day dolls that the parents bought for her.

Kun continues to meet other relatives through the gateway of the tree. He is warned by one of the visitors not to get on a train that suddenly appears but boards the train anyway.

There are a couple of really intense/scare moments that come out of nowhere and even as an adult I found them so creepy that I almost stopped watching.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 12, 2019, 08:54:04 AM
Yeah, "My Roommate is a Cat" is very cute and funny :) The cat has attitude ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 12, 2019, 07:28:14 PM
Yeah, "My Roommate is a Cat" is very cute and funny :) The cat has attitude ;)


:D

I hope  the "My Roommate is a Cat" release is  DVD/Blu Ray combo pack so I can watch it. I don't own a Blu Ray player.

I went to a store called Dragon Home today and was surprised that they a lot of anime things including a plush Totoro and Catbus and  a nice sized Your Name flag/poster with Taki and Mitsuha.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 13, 2019, 06:24:19 AM
ponyfan - check your PMs
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 14, 2019, 03:54:03 PM
The first half of the new Fruit Baskets is on Hulu :cheer: I watched the first 2 episodes and I already love the new series. :lovey:

The only criticism I have so far is I wish Yuki and Shigure wouldn't talk over each other at times. It's hard to hear both of their lines when they're talking at the same time.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 15, 2019, 01:31:38 AM
Yeah the talking over is a pain...is it also in the English or are you watching subbed? But it doesn't continue into later eps.

The last episode to air on Friday was THAT episode. One more ep till season 1 ends. Hope there isn't a long break. People are saying a total of 62 or 63 episodes.

Ponyfan I know I still owe you a PM...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 15, 2019, 07:31:13 PM
Yeah the talking over is a pain...is it also in the English or are you watching subbed? But it doesn't continue into later eps.

The last episode to air on Friday was THAT episode. One more ep till season 1 ends. Hope there isn't a long break. People are saying a total of 62 or 63 episodes.

Ponyfan I know I still owe you a PM...


I'm watching the dubbed episodes. :) Hulu has a lot subbed anime but  they only have the dubbed episodes for the new Fruits Basket.  I'm glad that Yuki and Shigure don't continue to talk over each other in the later episodes. I have to get used to Tohru calling Yuki "Sohma" instead of Yuki.

Yuki seems more deeply troubled in the new anime.

I'm happy that that episode made it in to the first season.

Wow 62 episodes? That's a lot more than I was thinking there would be.

No worries Taffeta. :) I know real life can get pretty busy.   




 

Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MerryAnvil on September 17, 2019, 05:42:42 AM
Not going to spoil too much since I don't know if anyone else is watching currently, but the most recent two episodes of the MDZS donghua have been...odd. I can understand their need to change things for it to stand out as an adaption, but what I do find to be very strange is the way they changed it. The plot almost seemed to like...derail? Also it seems they were trying to give Wen Ning (Wei WuXian's undead best bud) more of a role but they didn't really succeed, and it just felt like a failed attempt to replace Lan WangJi's role in the scene. In addition to that, they've cut out like three or four funny scenes in these recent episodes, which is kind of a shame because it takes some if the levity out of it. Wei WuXian's supposed to be a cheerful, goofy character, and he's almost being turned into a more serious, jaded character without any of the humor to balance him out.

I'm not sure how to feel about it all to be honest. I'll reserve judgment until I see how it plays out I guess?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 17, 2019, 06:11:52 PM
Oh geez, I keep forgetting to keep this thread updated with my purchases!

Gonna try to catch up here. This is... three packages....

First package - 8/27

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First here's four Di Gi Charat anthology manga. These contain many short stories by various mangaka (including Koge-Donbo* of course). I should probably buy them in English sometime so I can actually read them. Nice to have them regardless though.

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More Di Gi Charat manga, these ones are by Yuki Kiriga. Once again I can't read them, but I like her art style it's cute.

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The first three Di Gi Charat light novels, so more books I can't read. :P All of the manga and these novels were in one Yahoo Auctions listing and the lot began at 300 yen and I was the only bidder so... for that price I couldn't pass them up even if I can't read them.

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A Di Gi Charat telephone card album, came with one telephone card. I haven't bought any more telephone cards yet, I really should to fill this thing out.

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Two Di Gi Charat anime OP singles.

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Trading cards. Most of them are for the Aquarian Age trading card game, while the one on the right is Project Revolution. Di Gi Charat has a done collab cards with a few different trading card games.

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Rabi~en~Rose trading figure. She's super cute but was a huge pain to build!

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Two anime production sketches without their cels. I want to buy some sort of binder and protective sheets to put these in at some point. Just need to find ones that are the right size is all.

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A cel, it has its sketches with it too (I didn't take separate photos of them, however). I've since bought a frame for it and put it up on wall along with my other five Di Gi Charat cels.

Second package - 9/7

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Dejiko mask, it's merchandise for Di Gi Charat Nyo. It cracked a little in shipping since it's made of poor quality plastic. I plan on trying to fix it up by taping it and then painting over the tape.

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Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat trading cards.

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The second Di Gi Charat drama CD.

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The first Di Gi Charat Christmas CD.

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PKO Di Gi Charat CD.

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Di Gi Charat Hoshi no Tabi single CD.

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Sound of Dejiko-san radio CD.

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Di Gi Charat Nyo single CDs for Dejiko, Puchiko, and Usada. I really like CDs, can you tell?

Third package - 9/14

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Puchiko trading figure (with bonus Hokke Mirin and Gema). She was much easier to put together than the Usada from earlier.

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PARTY☆NIGHT CD.

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Henna Ikimono plush.

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Dejiko T-shirt, it doesn't fit me, which I expected as it's a one size only shirt. I haven't figured out how I'll be displaying it yet.

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A bunch of papers from the production of Di Gi Charat Nyo. Imgur album here with all of them --> https://imgur.com/a/B7T8Qdt

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This is my favorite of not only this package, but all three I compiled here tbh. This girl was a grail of mine. So, this is Tamae Nishikiori (Tama-tan), the main character in Koge-Donbo*'s manga "Doki Doki! Tama-tan". I haven't read it, it wasn't ever officially translated (I think a fan translation exists, though?). I want to own every official Koge-Donbo* scale figure someday, and this girl is the first I've managed to get my hands on! I won her for only about 20 USD! This is the alternate version of her, this is what the normal one looks like, still need to get this one:

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Oh, and I guess this sort of counts too, since I spent money for it. I've begun supporting Koge-Donbo* on Pixiv Fanbox! It's kind of like Patreon in that you pay a certain amount every month and you get perks out of it. She puts out physical magazines and merchandise through it so I figured it'd be worth doing it for that (and to see exclusive artwork she posts there). Signed up on a package forwarding service so I can the physical stuff! Very excited about that!
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Post by: Taffeta on September 21, 2019, 02:33:27 PM
Season 1 of Furuba remake is finished. At the very end it said that season 2 would be in 2020 sometime, so we hope for another spring release and not a later one :/

The last ep tied up a few things from the week before, it was nicely done. But dammit...

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They dropped a teaser in there, with showing BOTH Machi AND Rin and then they end the series and make us wait till next year? Grrrr...
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on September 21, 2019, 02:47:48 PM
2020 anime line up for me is

Attack on Titan Season 4 (last in the series)
Fruits Basket Season 2
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 21, 2019, 03:54:07 PM
Season 1 of Furuba remake is finished. At the very end it said that season 2 would be in 2020 sometime, so we hope for another spring release and not a later one :/

The last ep tied up a few things from the week before, it was nicely done. But dammit...

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They dropped a teaser in there, with showing BOTH Machi AND Rin and then they end the series and make us wait till next year? Grrrr...


I'm still working my way through the first 13 episodes of the new Fruits Baskets and I'm already not looking forward to a such a long hiatus until new episodes air. 

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Are Rin and Kureno the only Zodiac members that were not featured in Season 1?

I'm up to episode 6 of the new series. :D


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Post by: Taffeta on September 22, 2019, 11:26:34 AM
I think so, but that is in keeping with the point the old anime reached as well...

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I only noticed Machi, her brother, and Rin in the last ep though...
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Post by: Ponyfan on September 22, 2019, 01:18:34 PM
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Post by: tikibirds on September 23, 2019, 07:05:59 AM
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    Oh! Those two are actually not WuXian and WangJi, but are in fact from another BL novel by the same author as MDZS. It's called 'Heaven Official's Blessing', or Tian Guan Ci Fu. The one in red is Hua Cheng, and the one in white is Xie Lian <3 Hua Cheng is 'demon' king and Xie Lian is a fallen god, but like...Hua Cheng is such a gentle character (at least to Xie Lian), total trope dodge for the whole demon king love interest thing. They are the sweetest, fluffiest couple you'll ever see and I adore them so much.


AH ok. These are the two that I see everytime I am searching on Taobao for anime stuff - but I could never find out who they are or what they are from.

I found a site that had some of this translated but it only goes up to where demon man jumps into a bottomless pit and then catches the god after he was tossed in, or fell in? Not sure how accurately it is translated though...
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Post by: Koudoawaia on September 23, 2019, 11:14:20 AM
Recently watched the 2003 Full Metal Alchemist on Netflix. We thought Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood was a continuation until we saw that the release year was 2010 or something like that and that the episode plots sounded like what we had just finished watching. I had never watched it before and really enjoyed it. Watching Naruto with my husband right now which is another one I never watched while it was airing. I find Naruto's voice to be abrasive sometimes but it's pretty good so far.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 24, 2019, 08:56:45 AM
I’m thinking about starting Diamond no Ace and I know I will be rewatching Yona at some point. :D

I also noticed that Amazon has a release date for a reissue of the Yona anime set but the details don’t say whether it also includes DVDs.  I did some checking and the reissued Yona set only includes Blu Ray discs. 

Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 26, 2019, 02:41:17 PM
If you watch DnA, even if you hate it, I can hopefully have intelligent conversations about it with someone who understands it's a story and not real...

Don't ask.

On another note recently finished watching both Given (I want to really like it but it feels like something is just missing somewhere. ..I liked it but it didn't snare me) Promised Neverland... (it's dark but I feel like it's really well written story and character wise) and caught up with Kimetsu no Yaiba (still waiting for something brilliant to happen. I guess it just reminds me too much of Bleach).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 27, 2019, 07:17:15 AM
If you watch DnA, even if you hate it, I can hopefully have intelligent conversations about it with someone who understands it's a story and not real...

Don't ask.


I love having in depth conversations about anime. :D  I’ll probably give Diamond no Ace a try.

I rewatched Your Name last night. It still holds up for me as one of my absolute favorite anime movies. :D I convinced a non anime person to watch it with me as I feel it’s an excellent film that people that aren’t usually in to anime can enjoy but the person I was watching with said that they found parts of the plot confusing. They also said maybe they need to watch it a 2nd time because they might have missed something.


Yona has officially joined my anime on DVD collection. :D

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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on September 27, 2019, 03:26:45 PM
So I actually got this stuff like a week ago and then forgot to post it here. This is the final weekly Koge-Donbo* haul. I'm still buying things, just trying to buy less so that I'm able to make it a monthly thing rather than weekly. Having a package I have to sign for every week is tough. Also the rate I was buying before was making it hard to find room for everything. :P

Gonna do something different here and only have images under spoilers and leave all the text in the open, in case anyone wants to still read about my stuff but not view the images.

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First we have the entirety of the Doki Doki! Tama-tan manga series. Unfortunately this series never got an official English translation. Some fans began translating it years ago but I think it's been abandoned. These copies here seemed to have been at a library before, judging by the stickers on the spines and the text stamped on top of the pages.

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Here we have the first Gamers Guardian Fairies novel, Minifuea: Sapphire's Letter (I'm assuming Minifuea is combining the words "mini" and "fairy" together?). Even though Koge-Donbo* herself didn't make GGF and never drew any artwork for it, I still collect its merch as it is a Di Gi Charat spin-off.

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The second GGF novel, Minifuea: Pearl's Tiara. This one came with a Drama CD, called Shinju's Best Magic. I find it odd they refer to Shinju as Shinju with the drama CD title, and then translate her name to Pearl for the novel's title.

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See The Sea, a doujinshi put out by Koge-Donbo* in 1993. This book is a collection of a few shorter manga stories (some seem to be ongoing ones which were spread out across several doujinshis). I love this book's cover artwork a lot!

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baby eyes, another doujinshi of hers, this one from 1994. This one's cover art is beautiful too. I love the silver of the girl's hair with the red and gold of the flowers and her bracelets.

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Musou Hibiki Campanella, a more recent doujinshi by her (by recent, I mean it's 11 years old :P). Not sure if the romaji is correct, that's just what Google Translate gave me. This is a short art book that primarily contains art of Pavane for a Dead Girl's characters, but it's also got a piece of art for Kamichama Karin as well. I like the cover art this book has a lot too. Super frilly, kind of wish I could wear it myself! :lovey:

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Final doujinshi in this update, Magi Magical ga Aru☆R. This is a doujinshi of Madoka Magica fanart she drew. I like the cover a lot, once again. It has two layers, and you lift the top layer (you might be able to see from the photo due to the shadows toward the top) and underneath is this pretty lace pattern in the same shape as the edge of the upper layer, with the same background the upper layer has. But there's no Madoka on the bottom layer, just the heart with Kyubey's silhouette and the title of the book. The book's title on the upper layer is holographic and above it is a heart cutout so you can see Kyubey on the bottom layer.

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The Pita-Ten artbook!

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First CD in this package, this is a compilation CD of various versions of the Di Gi Charat song Welcome!. It has an impressive 12 versions of the song. As great of a song Welcome! is I'm not sure I'll actually end up listening to it from beginning to end, I think I'd personally get tired of twelve versions of one song in a row, but maybe that's just me. I just like sticking the songs from my Di Gi Charat CDs into a playlist and setting it on shuffle...

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Here's Baby X'mas, the Di Gi Charat Christmas CD from 2004 (also the final one). I love these CDs that come in these more fancy boxes but they take up so much space!

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Voice of Heart, a CD which came bundled along in a box with a drama CD but the copy I got of it on Yahoo Auctions awhile back was missing Voice of Heart so then I had to buy it on its own. It has now been reunited with its drama CD.

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Rabi~en~Rose, a CD of songs all sung by Rabi~en~Rose, suppose that's a bit self explanatory. :P

Okay here's the exciting ones:

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The Rabi~en~Rose scale figure! The poor girl is missing her left hand, after receiving this package I did go to the craft store and buy clay to make her a new one. I have sculpted it now but still need to bake it then paint it. I'm new to sculpting so the hand I made isn't perfect, but it'll be better than having nothing there at least. When I took these photos it was before I got Usada onto her base, but she's on it now. Usada is really cute, but I think a figure like this really shows how far anime figures have improved over the years. She's very lightweight, definitely hollow inside. For that matter there are gaping holes in the back of her dice on her head. And there are several major painting flaws. More comparable in quality to lower end modern prize figures. I hope they consider making new Di Gi Charat scales... an Usada figure with today's scale quality would be stunning. Honestly, even a prize figure with today's prize figure quality would probably be painted better than this girl here! She's cute, but definitely an older figure.

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And the scale figure of Shia from Pita-Ten! Both she and Usada are apparently 1/6 scale, but Shia is significantly bigger than Usada is. I was surprised at how large her box was, and how large she herself was when I removed her from it. Shia is made of Polystone, so she's quite heavy. Shia isn't too much newer than Usada, coming out in 2001 while Usada came out in 2000, but she feels much better made. Shia definitely isn't hollow and she's painted a lot better too. Very happy with her!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 29, 2019, 04:13:17 AM
The VPN only stays connected for a few minutes, if it connects at all.
THat leaves me with the only site to watch stuff on to be YOUKU (like chinese Utube) but its all in chinese. Listening to proper mandarin is so different from the dialect the people here speak. It doesnt even sound like the same language  :blink:

It's a golden week here so I have been off all week. If it wasn't for pony island, I would go crazy as there is nothing to do here.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 03, 2019, 06:02:51 AM
I'm sorry your VPN isn't working tikibirds. :( 


Has anyone watched the Food Wars anime? I've seen the manga at the bookstore and although it looks interesting I haven't started it yet.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 03, 2019, 06:09:18 AM
I may be remembering wrong but I have a feeling that was one I started watching but ditched because of fanservice (which I don't really like). But I might be confusing it with another.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 03, 2019, 11:22:50 AM
Thanks Taffeta. If there’s a lot of fan service it might not be an anime that I would enjoy.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on October 03, 2019, 12:00:18 PM
I have seen a few episodes of it and it seems pretty popular
I think its the one where eating the guys food has an orgasmic effect on them but not sure its officially considered fan service?

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I'm sorry your VPN isn't working tikibirds. :( 
It's annoying because without access to facebook, I feel like I am cut off from the outside world. And anything that runs off of google is also blocked.

In my excessive boredom of the past week, I found a site that has MdZS translated into English and thats how I am killing my time.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 03, 2019, 12:04:02 PM
I have seen a few episodes of it and it seems pretty popular
I think its the one where eating the guys food has an orgasmic effect on them but not sure its officially considered fan service?

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It's annoying because without access to facebook, I feel like I am cut off from the outside world. And anything that runs off of google is also blocked.


I don't think something has to be officially classed as fanservice to be necessarily fanservice. I am pretty sure that was the series from your description. I didn't really get into it. But that isn't a reason necessarily not to watch it as everyone is different ;)

I finished Kimetsu no Yaiba. It still lurks on the 'they could develop so much more of this and stop relying on tropes and concepts from existing shounen' shelf but it's watchable. Albeit Tanjirou and Kanao in the last episode made me blink. Sigh, Tanjirou, you mean well but no. Really, no.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 03, 2019, 03:53:40 PM
I'll probably watch 1 or 2 episodes of Food Wars and see if it's right for me.

I just watched the episode of the new Fruits Basket about Hatori.

 

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Wow. I think it's even more emotional than the original one and I almost cried. I haven't almost cried at anime since I watched the last 2 Yona ovas about Zeno. Akito's attacking Kana and Hatori seemed more intense in this version. It was nice seeing them being in love too.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 03, 2019, 04:01:55 PM
I'll probably watch 1 or 2 episodes of Food Wars and see if it's right for me.

I just watched the episode of the new Fruits Basket about Hatori.

 

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Wow. I think it's even more emotional than the original one and I almost cried. I haven't almost cried at anime since I watched the last 2 Yona ovas about Zeno. Akito's attacking Kana and Hatori seemed more intense in this version. It was nice seeing them being in love too.


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As much as I hate (because of the emotion) of that episode of FUruba in general (it breaks my heart), I think the new one did it better.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 04, 2019, 05:12:16 AM
I'll probably watch 1 or 2 episodes of Food Wars and see if it's right for me.

I just watched the episode of the new Fruits Basket about Hatori.

 

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Wow. I think it's even more emotional than the original one and I almost cried. I haven't almost cried at anime since I watched the last 2 Yona ovas about Zeno. Akito's attacking Kana and Hatori seemed more intense in this version. It was nice seeing them being in love too.


Ponyfan


As much as I hate (because of the emotion) of that episode of FUruba in general (it breaks my heart), I think the new one did it better.

I agree.

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The new series has done a fantastic job so far with the nuances and bringing more emotional depth to the characters than the original (I still love the original anime too. :) )

I don’t remember Shigure rushing in trying to hold Akito back in the original anime.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on October 09, 2019, 04:13:47 AM
Completed Black Butler Season Three on Netflix and I was in tears watching the last episode.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 10, 2019, 04:44:06 PM
I just watched the new Fruits Basket episode about New Year’s.

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This is one of the best episodes I’ve seen so far. I really liked how Yuki and Kyo’s feelings about Tohru and leaving her alone on New Year was handled.

When Shigure  goes to tell Akito that Yuki and Kyo aren’t coming, Shigure thinks to himself that he’s happy that Akito is reaping what Akito has sowed. I know Shigure and Akito’s relationship is complicated but I’m not sure exactly what Shigure is referring to in that scene. 

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 12, 2019, 03:10:28 PM
I'm not sure if it was mentioned before but the release date for Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Part 2 has been announced. It will be released on November 12th.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 20, 2019, 06:11:44 AM
I've started rewatching Yona of the Dawn.  I'm finding little nuances that I missed the first time I watched the episodes.

I'm still watching the new Fruits Basket. Every time I think that the next episode can't top the previous one, I've been proven wrong so far. 

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The one where Haru and Momiji join Kyo, Yuki, and Torhu's school was another great episode. Yuki's reaction when he sees Akito with Torhu and the fear in Yuki's eyes when Akito touches him. Also the flashback to Yuki's trauma and Kyo's true form flashing in his eyes when Akito looks up at him.





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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 20, 2019, 06:14:34 AM
I've started rewatching Yona of the Dawn.  I'm finding little nuances that I missed the first time I watched the episodes.

I'm still watching the new Fruits Basket. Every time I think that the next episode can't top the previous one, I've been proven wrong so far. 

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The one where Haru and Momiji join Kyo, Yuki, and Torhu's school was another great episode. Yuki's reaction when he sees Akito with Torhu and the fear in Yuki's eyes when Akito touches him. Also the flashback to Yuki's trauma and Kyo's true form flashing in his eyes when Akito looks up at him.





Ponyfan

Ah yes, those eyes O.o.

I will reply to your PM sometime soon, I have had a few RL things to get sorted :)

I bet you see Taejun completely differently now, too??
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 20, 2019, 01:45:12 PM
I've started rewatching Yona of the Dawn.  I'm finding little nuances that I missed the first time I watched the episodes.

I'm still watching the new Fruits Basket. Every time I think that the next episode can't top the previous one, I've been proven wrong so far. 

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The one where Haru and Momiji join Kyo, Yuki, and Torhu's school was another great episode. Yuki's reaction when he sees Akito with Torhu and the fear in Yuki's eyes when Akito touches him. Also the flashback to Yuki's trauma and Kyo's true form flashing in his eyes when Akito looks up at him.





Ponyfan

Ah yes, those eyes O.o.

I will reply to your PM sometime soon, I have had a few RL things to get sorted :)

I bet you see Taejun completely differently now, too??


No worries Taffeta. I understand real life has to come first. :)

About  Taejun
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I see him completely differently now. The first time I watched the anime I thought he was a jerk. Now I see him as truly having feelings for Yona but having trouble expressing them in the right way.

When he says "If Hak hadn't gotten in my way, I'd be the king right now" after the death of Il I actually felt sorry for him knowing how much he cares about Yona and wants to protect her from harm. 




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on October 21, 2019, 01:38:38 AM
I havent really wanted anything lately  :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 25, 2019, 03:34:46 PM
What has everyone been watching lately?



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on October 25, 2019, 05:48:44 PM
I got another package of Koge-Donbo* stuff a few days ago! Gonna share them here now!

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First is Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat on DVD. Volumes 1 and 4 came with the deluxe boxes. Though most of these deluxe box bonus items are missing with the exception of the two books 4 came with.

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Princess Concerto, a PC RPG game that Koge-Donbo* did the character design and artwork for. This is the limited version of it, which came with bonus items like a manga, written/drawn by Akari Kita, stickers, postcards, and Aquarian Age cards. I have and Imgur album that shows more images of the bonus items here (https://imgur.com/a/6VkAEEO), like the individual stickers/post cards and which trading cards I got.

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All three volumes of Yomesan wa Moe Mangaka, a sort of autobiographical manga series by her about the relationship between herself and her husband. Seems to be a comedy from what it looks like flipping through, but I can't read it. But given all the funny facial expressions and the art style, it's definitely a comedy. :P The series is all in color too, which was a pleasant surprise!

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Koihime Soshi, a one-shot manga of hers. This one was never translated to my knowledge, so I have means of reading it to learn about its characters but the main girl's design is really cute.

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An illustration card. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the text is implying it's something you got if you bought Yomesan volume 3 at the store Animate?

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A fan with artwork by her on it. I don't know how this was sold but the art is dated June of 1997 so that's probably when this was released.

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A mini-drama CD for Di Gi Charat. It was originally an exclusive with a box of trading cards but I found someone selling it on Surugaya by iself.

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A cd-rom released under her doujinshi circle that seems to have illustrations of hers in various resolutions on it, released in 2006. I haven't tried running it on my laptop yet but since it's only 13 years old it would probably work with Windows 10?

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A small chibi figure of Misha from Pita-Ten. She originally came in a large set of various other characters and I'm not familiar with anyone else in the set, so Misha was the only one I wanted. Thankfully someone listed her on her one over on Yahoo Auctions so I bought her.

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake Charity Dojinshi - Pray for Japan, a collaborative charity book, she did the front cover for the illustrations half.

Now we're getting to doujinshi she put out, which is most of what this package consisted of. Most of them were bought from Surugaya but one was from Yahoo Auctions. I will be putting these all in a spoiler together along with my writing about them just because there's so many and this post doesn't need to be that long with the spoilers unopened.

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First up is Kage 2, an original doujinshi of hers.

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Then we have Yubiwa Monogatari, another original. This one is entirely for her Lovin You series (which was an ongoing series of hers in her early original doujinshi, spanning multiple book releases, I think it's a romance given the title). I like the cover art for this one a lot, very nice colors. :)

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For Season, another original!

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CLASSMATE', a doujinshi she put out for the dating sim game, Doukyuusei 2. She put out a lot of doujinshi for this game (specifically the second one), so she must have been quite the fan of it at the time of releasing these. I've never played it, nor does it sound like something I'd be into but I'll try to buy all her doujinshi of it regardless. :P

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ONLY YOU, another Doukyuusei 2 one.

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Teikoku Hage Kidan, a doujinshi for Sakura Taisen.

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CLASSMATE 7, more Doukyuusei 2.

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Yuukyuu Gensoukyoku, based on the game of the same name.

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kese ran pase ran, Cardcaptor Sakura (finally something I'm familiar with, even though I haven't finished it yet).

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Kage 3, partially original, partially derivative. Original in some random sketches and some Di Gi Charat, but also there's some Cardcaptor Sakura and Guardian Heroes (some sort of video game I don't know) stuff.

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Kage 5, mostly original (Di Gi Charat, Pita-Ten), but also has fanart for Dragon Quest II.

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Kage 7/Shadow Seventh, all original (Di Gi Charat, Pita-Ten).

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Hyakuman Doru Connection, original (Di Gi Charat).

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Colored Pencil, original (Di Gi Charat, Pita-Ten, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar).

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Tension Living With Muscle 3, Harry Potter.

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Rabbit Fur, mostly original (Kamichama Karin, Koihime Soshi) and also some Guardian Heroes.

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Tama-tan Doki Doki☆BOOK, original (Doki Doki! Tama-tan).

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Kazune Miku 2, original (Kamichama Karin) and Vocaloid. This was the one I got on Yahoo Auctions.

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Mashingers♪, Vocaloid.

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Aoi no Zanshou, mostly original (Kamichama Karin, Pavane for a Dead Girl) with two small Hetalia fanarts as well.

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Watashi Hana-Shū 2, original (Yomesan wa Moe Mangaka, Pavane For a Dead Girl, Di Gi Charat, Doki Doki! Tama-tan, Pita-Ten).

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She Sees The Sea., Kantai Collection.

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She Sees The Sea. 2, Kantai Collection.

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Dai Gyakuten 2 ga Tanoshimi Sugite Shini-sou Hon. 2016-Nen Akigou, Dai Gyakuten Saiban (those prequel Ace Attorney games that didn't come out outside Japan).

What has everyone been watching lately?



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I've been trying to get into more magical girl anime recently! Because I love the aesthetic the genre has, and kind of... wanted to watch more magical girl shows so that I can buy cute figures and toys of them. :P

I watched Princess Tutu somewhat recently since I had heard really good things about that one, though it doesn't have a whole lot of merch unfortunately. But even so, it was really good and I'm happy I watched it even though there's not a crap ton of merch for it to buy.

Currently I'm watching Cardcaptor Sakura, I'm almost near the end. I know it does have a more recent sequel series though so I'll be watching that when I'm done with the first series.
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Post by: Taffeta on October 25, 2019, 11:04:48 PM
I watched Alderamin on the Sky recently. It wasn't bad. Though probably needed to be longer - it's kind of just a taster for a light novel series that I will not be reading as it means importing them from Japan and I already have way too many books in Japanese to read.

I'm still keeping up with DnA despite the fact last week they butchered a manga chapter to fill time, which annoyed me slightly.

Watched the first episode of Iruma-kun and got a bit annoyed that the duel scene is SO similar to Kyou Kara Maou's...now debating rewatching KKM except it's so long and one of my DVDs is not in its case but in among some other discs, somewhere in my room....I just don't really know where...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 26, 2019, 11:09:48 AM
Recently watched Spirited Away and The Wallflower because they're the most "Halloweeny" animes I own.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 26, 2019, 11:33:30 AM
Great new items Beatles. :)  Seeing your merch posts makes me want to expand my anime merch collection but I'm pretty sure there isn't much for most of my favorite animes.


I haven't seen Princess Tutu but I have been thinking about Cardcaptor Sakura, off and on and also My Hero Academia,  Assassination Classroom and Violet Evergarden.

I haven't started Diamond no Ace yet but hopefully soon. I just watched the new Fruits Basket episode about Ayame.

Spoiler
Does Ayame admit to Tohru that Akito traumatized Yuki when he says Yuki has the most reason out of the other Zodiac members to fear Akito?  Also in the dub the characters pronounce Ayame as "I-ah-may" instead of "A-yuh-may" as they did in the original dub. I assume "I-ah-may" is closer to how it's supposed to be pronounced.

The episode with Ayame was never one of my favorites in the original Fruits Basket but I really like this one.


Still rewatching Yona.  :) I knew that I was probably missing a few things the first time I watched it but there was something in one of the last episodes I watched that I was really surprised I missed the first time.  :shocked:

Does anyone recognize this anime character?  What series is she from?


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on October 26, 2019, 03:57:23 PM
Does anyone recognize this anime character?  What series is she from?


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That's not an anime character, that's Hatsune Miku. She's a Vocaloid, which is a music creation software.

https://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 27, 2019, 07:00:17 AM
Does anyone recognize this anime character?  What series is she from?


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Ponyfan





That's not an anime character, that's Hatsune Miku. She's a Vocaloid, which is a music creation software.

https://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/Hatsune_Miku


Thanks Beatles. :) I figured someone here would know her. I had no idea she was from a music creation software.


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Post by: Taffeta on October 27, 2019, 04:38:44 PM
@Ponyfan - your Furuba question makes me feel I probably need to rewatch it (do I need an excuse) but I remember it was a bit more...dark tones at times..?

Ah-yah-meh is the Japanese pronunciation. Three short syllables anyway...?

Listening to him and Yuki was always hilarious but is even more hilarious for me now thinking of the two seiyuu in other roles together xD.

I dunno anything about the dubs of either but I enjoyed Assassination Classroom (it's got this weirdly surreal twist that never actually goes away throughout it) and I quite like Hero Academia (not so keen on the villain cast, but I like class 1A and some of them are a lot of fun. XD) If you decide to watch either I hope you enjoy them!

I haven't seen Cardcaptor Sakura or Violet Evergarden. Heard lots of positive things about the latter though...

DnA <3.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 29, 2019, 07:53:25 AM
Thanks Taffeta. :)  Hulu still just has the dubbed episodes of the new Fruits Basket.  I think the dub is trying to be more accurate with the pronunciation of some of the characters names like Ayame and Akito than the original dub was. (although I still love the original anime also) 

Spoiler
In one of the flasbacks about Yuki's trauma there's a short scene where Yuki is grabbing someone's clothes and begging them to get him out of that room Akito keeps him locked up in. The other person is in shadow so I'm not sure if Yuki is talking to Shigure or Akito? I think it might be Shigure because in the anime he and Hatori were talking about Akito's treatment of Yuki right before that and I don't see Akito being willing to let Yuki out without Shigure's influence. 



I was rewatching the Yona dub and noticed I recognized one of the VA's from Fruits Basket. The VA for Iksu is also the VA in the dub for Kyo. I would have never realized they were voiced by the same person.  I'm not sure my ears can take the dub pronouncing Jaeha as "gee-ha" instead of "jay-ha" though.

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I'm also more aware now when a certain dragon appears in the flashbacks about Hiryuu.



Ponyfan

 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on November 06, 2019, 02:28:45 AM
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What has everyone been watching lately?

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation but I also read a translated version of the novel as well. Since the animation is in Chinese and not Japanese, I can understand some of the words. I wonder how accurate the subtitles really are?
I have also heard that Heaven's official blessing is suposed to be getting an animation and a live action as well.??
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 06, 2019, 08:20:46 AM
I'm going to start Diamond no Ace soon and probably Fushigi Yugi too. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 06, 2019, 08:30:57 AM
I'm going to start Diamond no Ace soon and probably Fushigi Yugi too. 



Ponyfan

If watching yuugi have tissues ready.

This is not a drill. ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 06, 2019, 02:05:59 PM
I'm going to start Diamond no Ace soon and probably Fushigi Yugi too. 



Ponyfan

If watching yuugi have tissues ready.

This is not a drill. ;)


Spoiler
Do I need more tissues ready  when watching Yuugi than when I watch Zeno’s backstory?  :bawl:



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 06, 2019, 03:37:26 PM
I'm going to start Diamond no Ace soon and probably Fushigi Yugi too. 



Ponyfan

If watching yuugi have tissues ready.

This is not a drill. ;)


Spoiler
Do I need more tissues ready  when watching Yuugi than when I watch Zeno’s backstory?  :bawl:



Ponyfan

Erm. Yeah. Quite probably.

Spoiler
Don't get me wrong, it's not all tear-jerky, but there are some moments that...really...are.

Also, the dub for Yuugi is notoriously, infamously terrible. If you're planning on watching the dub, be prepared for that...it may be less emotionally damaging given that most of the English language VAs that appear in it cannot act...
Spoiler
Hotohori is especially terrible.

It's entirely the reason I stopped ever watching dubs (which I did watch prior to Yuugi).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 06, 2019, 04:17:23 PM
I forgot Yuugi had a dub. I'm going to watch it in Japanese. :D 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 06, 2019, 04:24:19 PM
I forgot Yuugi had a dub. I'm going to watch it in Japanese. :D 


Ponyfan

The Japanese dub is awesome. I am biased. It was the first anime I ever watched in Japanese xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 07, 2019, 03:10:01 PM
I watched the first episode of Diamond no Ace today.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 10, 2019, 02:16:33 PM
@ Taffeta, is there an anime for Haruka? Is it on Crunchyroll?


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 13, 2019, 03:45:01 PM
@ Taffeta, is there an anime for Haruka? Is it on Crunchyroll?


Ponyfan

Yeah, there's an anime for the first Haruka, plus a movie, and there are some anime specials for the third Haruka. There's also an OVA for the second one.

I don't think they're on any streaming sites though. I know that the first two parts for the third Haruka series are on Youtube (Kurenai no Tsuki and Owaranai Unmei) but not the final part, helpfully! And the Haruka 2 OVA is also on Youtube, I think it's called Shiroki Ryuu no Miko.

Yeah, Haruka is a bit niche...

The first Haruka series has manga volumes to 17 as well. I think in English it was sold as Haruka, Beyond the Stream of Time. Admittedly the manga is probably better than the anime since it finishes off better (except for maybe a couple of scenes in the end of the anime)...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 17, 2019, 02:05:38 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :D
I tried looking for it before but I kept finding a completely different anime.

I've watched the first 4 episodes of Diamond no Ace. I like it so far. :) Does Zeno's va also voice a character in DnA?



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 17, 2019, 02:33:09 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :D
I tried looking for it before but I kept finding a completely different anime.

I've watched the first 4 episodes of Diamond no Ace. I like it so far. :) Does Zeno's va also voice a character in DnA?



Ponyfan

Yes, he voices a pitcher called Kawakami Norifumi (aka Nori).

 He's actually the guy in episode one or two being yelled at by the very loud batter.
 He is in the series more after that. You can sometimes hear Zeno in his dialogue!

We can always add that to the PM discussion with Yona and Furuba xD


As for Haruka, I do remember the US had a DVD release some time back but I think it's pretty difficult to find the DVDs now. I had half of them from the US release when it was out but I had to complete the series by buying second hand discs when I was in Japan, and ditto for the movie, so you might struggle to find it as an anime series unless something picks it up.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on November 19, 2019, 06:22:28 AM
I need a new series..
Any supernatural recommendations??
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 19, 2019, 07:00:27 AM
You could watch Tsuritama.  It's about an alien who comes to Earth and needs help learning to fish so he can get another alien out of the water.  It's silly but sweet.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on November 19, 2019, 11:56:23 PM
Thanks. I will look it up
COnnecting to the VPN is still iffy, so there went any access to crunchyroll. I have been using a chinese app iQIYI but it seems to be all Chinese shows, a lot are subbed in English. They have a tiny section called "anime" that I haven't checked out yet but I am pretty sure its all chinese series.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 23, 2019, 01:03:03 PM
I finally got my copy of Sailor Stars part 2.  :D

Thanks Taffeta. :D
I tried looking for it before but I kept finding a completely different anime.

I've watched the first 4 episodes of Diamond no Ace. I like it so far. :) Does Zeno's va also voice a character in DnA?



Ponyfan

Yes, he voices a pitcher called Kawakami Norifumi (aka Nori).

 He's actually the guy in episode one or two being yelled at by the very loud batter.
 He is in the series more after that. You can sometimes hear Zeno in his dialogue!

We can always add that to the PM discussion with Yona and Furuba xD


As for Haruka, I do remember the US had a DVD release some time back but I think it's pretty difficult to find the DVDs now. I had half of them from the US release when it was out but I had to complete the series by buying second hand discs when I was in Japan, and ditto for the movie, so you might struggle to find it as an anime series unless something picks it up.



I got really excited when I was watching DnA last night because I thought I heard Zeno’s va  but it was Haruichi Kominato's va and not Zeno's/ Nori's.

Thanks for the info on Haruka. :D I checked and it looks like the English manga for Haruka is out of print also.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 23, 2019, 01:30:26 PM
I finally got my copy of Sailor Stars part 2.  :D

Thanks Taffeta. :D
I tried looking for it before but I kept finding a completely different anime.

I've watched the first 4 episodes of Diamond no Ace. I like it so far. :) Does Zeno's va also voice a character in DnA?



Ponyfan

Yes, he voices a pitcher called Kawakami Norifumi (aka Nori).

 He's actually the guy in episode one or two being yelled at by the very loud batter.
 He is in the series more after that. You can sometimes hear Zeno in his dialogue!

We can always add that to the PM discussion with Yona and Furuba xD


As for Haruka, I do remember the US had a DVD release some time back but I think it's pretty difficult to find the DVDs now. I had half of them from the US release when it was out but I had to complete the series by buying second hand discs when I was in Japan, and ditto for the movie, so you might struggle to find it as an anime series unless something picks it up.



I got really excited when I was watching DnA last night because I thought I heard Zeno’s va  but it was Haruichi Kominato's va and not Zeno's/ Nori's.

Thanks for the info on Haruka. :D I checked and it looks like the English manga for Haruka is out of print also.


Ponyfan



Yeah, Haruka finished in around 2009 so I guess that's 10 years. Not surprised it's out of print as it's not a mainstream series.

I can see how that might happen, Haruichi's voice is quite soft too.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 25, 2019, 07:51:51 PM
I started watching Sailor Moon Stars part 2.

Spoiler
The Three Lights/Sailor Starlights  Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten are female but appear as males when not transformed. In the anime are they actually males when they aren't transformed instead of females just dressing as males?



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on November 25, 2019, 10:04:50 PM
I have never seen an episode of sailor moon.  :blink: Maybe some day i will watch it
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 26, 2019, 07:12:40 AM
I started watching Sailor Moon Stars part 2.

Spoiler
The Three Lights/Sailor Starlights  Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten are female but appear as males when not transformed. In the anime are they actually males when they aren't transformed instead of females just dressing as males?



Ponyfan

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I think they are actually male when they are not transformed.  If you watch the transformation sequence closely (I paused it and watched it frame by frame by pushing the pause button over and over again while it was paused-it works on my blu-ray player, I don't know if it works on all dvd/blu-ray players) the outlines are far more masculine at first and they change to more feminine outlines including hips and breasts by the time the transformation is done.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 26, 2019, 08:04:06 AM
I started watching Sailor Moon Stars part 2.

Spoiler
The Three Lights/Sailor Starlights  Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten are female but appear as males when not transformed. In the anime are they actually males when they aren't transformed instead of females just dressing as males?



Ponyfan

Spoiler
I think they are actually male when they are not transformed.  If you watch the transformation sequence closely (I paused it and watched it frame by frame by pushing the pause button over and over again while it was paused-it works on my blu-ray player, I don't know if it works on all dvd/blu-ray players) the outlines are far more masculine at first and they change to more feminine outlines including hips and breasts by the time the transformation is done.


Spoiler
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie. :) That's what I was thinking also. 




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on November 26, 2019, 08:07:05 AM
Re: Starlights -

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If I remember correctly, the anime does indeed have them physically change gender.

In the manga, they're female crossdressers instead (i.e. physically female, dressing/presenting as male). I like the manga version better :p
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 26, 2019, 12:29:36 PM
Re: Starlights -

Spoiler
If I remember correctly, the anime does indeed have them physically change gender.

In the manga, they're female crossdressers instead (i.e. physically female, dressing/presenting as male). I like the manga version better :p


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Thanks Carrehz. :) That's interesting that the anime has them physically change from male to female but in the manga they are females presenting themselves as males. 




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 02, 2019, 07:29:55 AM
Don't forget to check out the Sentai Filmworks and Right Stuf sales!  Most things from Sentai are under $15 and it looks like Right Stuf is making their Cyber Monday go all week!

Post Merge: December 02, 2019, 01:39:06 PM

Just tried to access the Funimation site to see if they had anything going on and it said I was 6254 in line to access the site due to high traffic.   :shocked:  I've never seen that on their site before.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 02, 2019, 04:28:06 PM
Don't forget to check out the Sentai Filmworks and Right Stuf sales!  Most things from Sentai are under $15 and it looks like Right Stuf is making their Cyber Monday go all week!

Post Merge: December 02, 2019, 01:39:06 PM

Just tried to access the Funimation site to see if they had anything going on and it said I was 6254 in line to access the site due to high traffic.   :shocked:  I've never seen that on their site before.

Someone on another site I post at said that Funi was having some issues generally.
I dunno if something is going around but I was having some issues with a different streaming service tonight, had to restart a movie 3 times -.-. Maybe it's related.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 03, 2019, 06:58:16 AM
Does funimation have a store? Maybe they were having a Cyber monday sale?
Their website has always been wonky for me, especially on my phone.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 08, 2019, 05:46:28 PM
Hulu has added episodes 14-25 of 2019 Fruits Basket. :cheer: Hopefully I will be able to watch a few episodes soon. 

I have 2 episodes left of Sailor Stars part 2. I rarely get teary eyed when watching anime but there was a part in Sailor Stars that made me almost cry.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 12, 2019, 11:31:24 AM
I finished Sailor Stars part 2.
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I really  enjoyed it but I was surprised that Usagi was nude for most of the last episode.


@Taffeta I’m hoping I get a chance to read the new volume of Yona this weekend. :D


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 13, 2019, 03:33:43 AM
I am going home on Monday  :biggrin: and looking forward to watching Crunchyroll again, along with playing pokemon go.
I will be back in China January 1st though :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 13, 2019, 08:15:17 AM
I finished Sailor Stars part 2.
Spoiler
I really  enjoyed it but I was surprised that Usagi was nude for most of the last episode.


Ponyfan

Finally gave up on finding this in person and ordered it from Amazon.  It should be here Tuesday. 

Don't forget to check out the RightStuf Anime sale!  They've got loads of things but be sure to compare the prices with Sentai Filmworks' holiday sale! 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 13, 2019, 10:09:24 AM
I finished Sailor Stars part 2.
Spoiler
I really  enjoyed it but I was surprised that Usagi was nude for most of the last episode.


Ponyfan

Finally gave up on finding this in person and ordered it from Amazon.  It should be here Tuesday. 

Don't forget to check out the RightStuf Anime sale!  They've got loads of things but be sure to compare the prices with Sentai Filmworks' holiday sale! 


I'm glad your copy of Sailor Stars part 2 will arrive soon. :) I think you will enjoy the most of the episodes. the last few episodes are intense.

Has anyone watched Millilumen Actress?




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 14, 2019, 10:31:44 AM
I finished Sailor Stars part 2.
Spoiler
I really  enjoyed it but I was surprised that Usagi was nude for most of the last episode.


Ponyfan

Finally gave up on finding this in person and ordered it from Amazon.  It should be here Tuesday. 

Don't forget to check out the RightStuf Anime sale!  They've got loads of things but be sure to compare the prices with Sentai Filmworks' holiday sale! 


I'm glad your copy of Sailor Stars part 2 will arrive soon. :) I think you will enjoy the most of the episodes. the last few episodes are intense.

Has anyone watched Millilumen Actress?




Ponyfan

I have watched Millennium Actress but it has been a long time.  I don't remember much about it because it's been so long.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: LadyMoondancer on December 24, 2019, 06:24:51 PM
Question for anime fans who know a bit about Japanese:

I'm writing a fanfic where a Japanese character (Miko from Transformers Prime) needs to use an alias, and she seems the type to just rip a name from her favorite anime.  ;)

I've got a couple questions!

1.  In Japanese, do people introduce themself with surname first (like I think they do in Mandarin(?)) or is it first-name first like in English?  Wondering this because I've been looking up the Japanese names of anime characters and I'm like . . . "Which of these is the surname, tho?".

2.  I looked up Spike from Cowboy Bebop and his Japanese name is apparently Supaiku Supīgeru.  Supaiku sounds like a "Spike" so I'm thinking that is his first name?  Y/N?

3.  Would Supaiku be a gender neutral name or is it specifically a guy's name?  And if it's a guy's name, would there be a way to make it gendered as female instead?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on December 24, 2019, 09:44:36 PM
Question for anime fans who know a bit about Japanese:

I'm writing a fanfic where a Japanese character (Miko from Transformers Prime) needs to use an alias, and she seems the type to just rip a name from her favorite anime.  ;)

I've got a couple questions!

1.  In Japanese, do people introduce themself with surname first (like I think they do in Mandarin(?)) or is it first-name first like in English?  Wondering this because I've been looking up the Japanese names of anime characters and I'm like . . . "Which of these is the surname, tho?".

2.  I looked up Spike from Cowboy Bebop and his Japanese name is apparently Supaiku Supīgeru.  Supaiku sounds like a "Spike" so I'm thinking that is his first name?  Y/N?

3.  Would Supaiku be a gender neutral name or is it specifically a guy's name?  And if it's a guy's name, would there be a way to make it gendered as female instead?

Note that I've really only learned any Japanese in my three years of high school and I graduated years ago and haven't really worked on it further since.... but I will try to help.

1. I think it's generally last name then first name with introductions? At least, that's what it seems to be from my anime watching experience. Usually if a character is introducing themselves to another they'll say their last name then first.

2. Have not seen Cowboy Bebop, but "Supaiku" would just be the literal romanization of "スパイク", which is just the English word/name "Spike" written in Katakana. While I've not seen the show, from a quick Google search it definitely seems to be his first name.

3. It's not a Japanese name, rather just the English word/name written in Japanese characters. I haven't really ever heard the name Spike used for female characters, but you can do whatever you want.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: LadyMoondancer on December 25, 2019, 09:53:28 AM
Thanks, that was so helpful! <3
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 26, 2019, 01:09:27 PM
Pretty much echoing what was said above.

For your future reference, Wikipedia generally westernises name order but the kanji and the romanisation is not usually westernised and gives you the actual order. Not 100% but a good tip.

But since this is a western name, the character would probably use the western order. It's not uncommon for western names to be given in the order we expect, even while Japanese ones are given the other way around.

And Supaiku would just be Spike, as you suggest. Since it's not a Japanese name, it's really on you to decide if you want to re-gender it, or change it, or use it as a nickname, or whatever. There are a lot of Japanese names that can be either male or female but also a fair number that generally aren't, but this isn't that kind of a problem so you're safe :)

(As a case in point, Miko is a fairly nailed on female name).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 26, 2019, 03:34:25 PM
I was looking at something on Amazon.com today and saw that the second part of the 2019 Fruits Basket will be released on Blu/Ray DVD in the US in Feb 2020.

I've watched a couple more of the new Fruits Basket episodes. :) and am also still rewatching Yona of the Dawn. 


Has anyone seen Weathering with you? It hasn't been officially released in the US yet but it looks interesting.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 27, 2019, 01:45:12 PM
I am throughly enjoying having access to crunchyroll and netflix, till i go back to China on 12/31  :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 27, 2019, 06:08:51 PM
I am throughly enjoying having access to crunchyroll and netflix, till i go back to China on 12/31  :cry:

Binge it while you can O.O
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 28, 2019, 01:04:21 PM
I just watched The Garden of Words but I found it disappointing. It's not one that I see myself rewatching. 

I also watched a few more episodes of Diamond no Ace.


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Post by: tikibirds on December 28, 2019, 08:38:38 PM
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Quote from: tikibirds on December 27, 2019, 05:45:12 PM

    I am throughly enjoying having access to crunchyroll and netflix, till i go back to China on 12/31  :cry:


Binge it while you can O.O

Yup.  ^.^
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: caseysealia on December 29, 2019, 11:24:06 AM
Does anyone watch Boku no Hero Academia? I made a server on Discord on it, don't wanna self advertise if its not ok, but its in my sig. if anyone's interested! I don't want it to advertise it just anywhere, because I don't want weirdos in it :P
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Post by: Taffeta on December 29, 2019, 02:14:28 PM
I've seen BnHA. I'm not super fanatical about it - I don't like any of the villain characters, but the school class amuse me. Though I'm not caught up with the newest series and have heard mixed stuff about it.

I've finished watching Haikyuu and started watching Hoshiai no Sora (which is pretty hardcore for a sports anime, and which Funimation didn't want me to watch in Japanese for some reason but I eventually got it to work on my tablet..sigh)
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Post by: tikibirds on December 29, 2019, 07:05:24 PM
I tried watching my hero Academia, but i just couldn't get into it.
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Post by: Ponyfan on December 29, 2019, 07:46:49 PM
I haven't tried My Hero Academia yet but it's on my to be watched list.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 29, 2019, 08:39:07 PM
I liked My Hero Academia but it is a long one, 3 seasons on DVD so far and I know there's at least a 4th one on Adult Swim right now. 

I just finished watching Sailor Moon Stars Pt 2 and I am now watching Glass Mask. 
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Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on December 30, 2019, 07:20:04 AM
What anime are you guys planning to watch in this Winter 2020 season? I hardly ever watch currently airing anime, but I'll be watching show shows this seasons. I'll be watching Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden since I'm a fan of the original Madoka Magica anime. And then Show By Rock!! Mashumairesh!! since I'm a Sanrio fan and love their SB69 franchise. :)
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Post by: Ponyfan on December 30, 2019, 12:49:46 PM
I  recently finished Sailor Stars part 2 and rewatching Yona of the Dawn. I thought Yona was deep before but rewatching after reading so many volumes of the manga gives a different perspective on some things.

Some shows that I'm currently watching or hoping to start soon

2019 Fruits Basket Season 1

Diamond no Ace-It looks like there is a Season 2 that is currently airing but I am just a few episodes in to Season 1 so far

Fushigi Yuugi

My Roomate is a Cat


I'm also looking forward to the new movie Weathering with You.


Does anyone know a place to watch Hana no ko Lunlun in the original Japanese with subtitles? I know a few episodes were dubbed in to English but I would like to watch all of the episodes and not just the ones that were dubbed.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 30, 2019, 03:28:44 PM
I'm watching Stars Align which is not Winter 2020 but whatever. I'll probably watch the new Haikyuu if it kicks off in Jan, since I just fiished that. Hoping that Furuba 2 is coming soon but I don't know if it will be as soon as January though.

Also I need to get back to watch Chihayafuru but am not sure if the third season finished airing yet. I want to go back to the start and watch through the whole three series but not until it's done.

Otherwise it will just depend on how the mood takes me. I don't tend to watch series as they air/seasonally, I watch whatever takes my fancy whenever, so I am not really sure what is in the winter season. I didn't watch anything in the autumn season except ongoing Daiya, and in the summer only Daiya and Furuba, both of which I'd read the manga for anyway...
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Post by: Ponyfan on December 31, 2019, 12:28:40 PM
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This is a picture of part of the Dragon Home store at my mall. They sell a lot of different things from a lot of anime series. This banner of Mitsuha and Taki always catches my eye when I walk by.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 31, 2019, 11:55:02 PM
I don't even know whats on the winter schedule :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Einhornbaby on January 01, 2020, 03:22:59 AM
I just noticed that there is a 2nd season to High Score Girl! Will watch that soon! :D
Recently re-watched Elfen Lied... sooo sad, so beautiful.... Oh and finished Death Parade two days ago. What a great story!!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 03, 2020, 02:18:54 PM
I rewatched the first episode of the original Fruits Basket anime. :D


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on January 06, 2020, 02:38:34 AM
Finally got to see the last few episodes of demon  slayer :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 06, 2020, 09:12:10 AM
At last I own Season part 1 of 2019 Fruits Basket on DVD. :D





Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 06, 2020, 02:59:48 PM
At last I own Season part 1 of 2019 Fruits Basket on DVD. :D





Ponyfan

Congrats!!
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Post by: Ponyfan on January 07, 2020, 10:40:04 AM
Thanks Taffeta. :D I don't mind streaming episodes but I also really enjoy having DVDs to watch and have been looking forward to owning 2019 Fruits Basket on DVD. I'm also excited that the 2nd part of Season 1 will be on DVD in the US in Feb.

I'm also buying digital copies of the original Fruits Basket since the DVDs for that series are more expensive and harder to get in the US.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 17, 2020, 10:14:24 AM
I've been watching Yumeiro Patissiere and it's adorable.  I have the song stuck in my head right now, though.   :P
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Post by: Ponyfan on January 17, 2020, 11:25:17 AM
I’m rewatching Sailor Moon Crystal.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 22, 2020, 07:12:32 PM
I was watching Lu Over the Wall tonight and decided to Google something about it. I found a rumor that Mitsuha and Taki from Your Name will have a cameo in Weathering With You. Does anyone know if that's true? I know Makoto Shinkai sometimes puts characters from past films in his newer ones.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on January 26, 2020, 10:58:29 AM
Everything here is shut down and classes have been cancelled till further notice. So I am literally stuck in my apartment with nothing to do. Thankfully I switched VPN services so now I can at least watch Netflix while the world over here ends.

I decided on Cells at Work since its in English. I seen the japanese version when it was new on CR but it was subbed

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 27, 2020, 10:59:44 AM
I was watching Lu Over the Wall tonight and decided to Google something about it. I found a rumor that Mitsuha and Taki from Your Name will have a cameo in Weathering With You. Does anyone know if that's true? I know Makoto Shinkai sometimes puts characters from past films in his newer ones.


Ponyfan

I actually went to see that film on the same day you posted that question but I didn't spot them. However I have heard this too. I guess they're in the background and it's so long since I saw Kimi no Na Wa I didn't recognise them. I've heard that it was confirmed they were in it but not together - but yeah, I didn't dig into it too much.

I didn't know I was going to see it until I randomly found out the London cinema near where I was staying last week was airing it in Japanese and not just in dub, at which point I figured I might as well, so I wasn't really looking out for them :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 27, 2020, 12:27:41 PM
I was watching Lu Over the Wall tonight and decided to Google something about it. I found a rumor that Mitsuha and Taki from Your Name will have a cameo in Weathering With You. Does anyone know if that's true? I know Makoto Shinkai sometimes puts characters from past films in his newer ones.


Ponyfan

I actually went to see that film on the same day you posted that question but I didn't spot them. However I have heard this too. I guess they're in the background and it's so long since I saw Kimi no Na Wa I didn't recognise them. I've heard that it was confirmed they were in it but not together - but yeah, I didn't dig into it too much.

I didn't know I was going to see it until I randomly found out the London cinema near where I was staying last week was airing it in Japanese and not just in dub, at which point I figured I might as well, so I wasn't really looking out for them :/

Did you enjoy Weathering with You? I want to see it but will have to wait for the Blu Ray/DVD release since it's in on a limited run where I live. I watched The Garden of Words recently and didn't enjoy it.



I found the Taki and Mitsuha clip on YouTube.


Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fL17Tn5nY


Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 27, 2020, 01:29:02 PM
Ah yeah, I remember those scenes but it has been so long since I last watched Kimi no Na Wa that I didn't make the connections.

Erm, yeah, I did enjoy it. I like Kimi no Na Wa better, and frankly I'm not sure how this world interconnects with theirs because of how Tenki no Ko/Weathering with you ends, but I did like it. And I did feel like I recognised Tokyo in the detail, the art as ever is very pretty.

I do feel like there's a couple of big questions unanswered. For example...
Spoiler
I don't really know why Hodaka leaves his family, because it's not explained, and he's determined not to go back so it implies something bad happened, and yet at the end he is back there and so it seems a little more like he just ran away for more superficial reasons.

But it is cute. And the whole of watching it Suga's voice was bothering me like, "I know that voice, dammit"...and the credits rolled and it was Oguri Shun (who I've seen in a whole bunch of Japanese dramas).

I didn't expect to see it, it isn't airing at all I don't think round where I am currently living but it was just that I was there in London and by coincidence found it was airing and in Japanese that I thought I should go see it while I had the chance. The artwork works well on the big screen.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on January 28, 2020, 09:21:08 AM
I need some recommendations. Something that has action or supernatural elements.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 28, 2020, 11:24:09 AM
I need some recommendations. Something that has action or supernatural elements.



I always liked Gundam Wing.  Unlike some of the other Gundam series, the OVA is not a rehash of the series, it's its own story line.

You could always watch Assassination Classroom.  Funny, sweet and macabre at the same time.  Kids are recruited to kill their teacher, who is an alien planning to blow up the Earth in a year.
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Post by: tikibirds on January 28, 2020, 11:21:24 PM
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You could always watch Assassination Classroom.

I will give this one a try.

Any other suggestions? I got A LOT of free time on my hands since my city is under a quarantine. They don't really want anybody to go outside and I think roads out of the city are closed.
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Post by: Ponyfan on January 29, 2020, 06:42:49 AM
Ah yeah, I remember those scenes but it has been so long since I last watched Kimi no Na Wa that I didn't make the connections.

Erm, yeah, I did enjoy it. I like Kimi no Na Wa better, and frankly I'm not sure how this world interconnects with theirs because of how Tenki no Ko/Weathering with you ends, but I did like it. And I did feel like I recognised Tokyo in the detail, the art as ever is very pretty.

I do feel like there's a couple of big questions unanswered. For example...
Spoiler
I don't really know why Hodaka leaves his family, because it's not explained, and he's determined not to go back so it implies something bad happened, and yet at the end he is back there and so it seems a little more like he just ran away for more superficial reasons.

But it is cute. And the whole of watching it Suga's voice was bothering me like, "I know that voice, dammit"...and the credits rolled and it was Oguri Shun (who I've seen in a whole bunch of Japanese dramas).

I didn't expect to see it, it isn't airing at all I don't think round where I am currently living but it was just that I was there in London and by coincidence found it was airing and in Japanese that I thought I should go see it while I had the chance. The artwork works well on the big screen.



I had to watch the clip twice to see Taki. It wasn't until I saw a comment on Youtube that I recognized him.

I'm not sure if it fits with the ending of Weathering with You but

Spoiler
The Mitsuha and Taki we see in Weathering With You haven't met each other again yet.






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You could always watch Assassination Classroom.

I will give this one a try.

Any other suggestions? I got A LOT of free time on my hands since my city is under a quarantine. They don't really want anybody to go outside and I think roads out of the city are closed.



I love Yona of the Dawn. :D


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 29, 2020, 06:45:44 AM
Ah yeah, I remember those scenes but it has been so long since I last watched Kimi no Na Wa that I didn't make the connections.

Erm, yeah, I did enjoy it. I like Kimi no Na Wa better, and frankly I'm not sure how this world interconnects with theirs because of how Tenki no Ko/Weathering with you ends, but I did like it. And I did feel like I recognised Tokyo in the detail, the art as ever is very pretty.

I do feel like there's a couple of big questions unanswered. For example...
Spoiler
I don't really know why Hodaka leaves his family, because it's not explained, and he's determined not to go back so it implies something bad happened, and yet at the end he is back there and so it seems a little more like he just ran away for more superficial reasons.

But it is cute. And the whole of watching it Suga's voice was bothering me like, "I know that voice, dammit"...and the credits rolled and it was Oguri Shun (who I've seen in a whole bunch of Japanese dramas).

I didn't expect to see it, it isn't airing at all I don't think round where I am currently living but it was just that I was there in London and by coincidence found it was airing and in Japanese that I thought I should go see it while I had the chance. The artwork works well on the big screen.



I had to watch the clip twice to see Taki. It wasn't until I saw a comment on Youtube that I recognized him.

I'm not sure if it fits with the ending of Weathering with You but

Spoiler
The Mitsuha and Taki we see in Weathering With You haven't met each other again yet.


Yes...that's why I feel it doesn't match up, that exact reason. But without majorly spoilering I can't really enlarge on that idea...xD

I need to rewatch Kimi no Na Wa now. xD

@Tikibirds, I also rate Assassination Classroom, it's so peculiar in its appeal because the concept is ridiculous and yet really well written IMO.

And Yona of course <3 although I am so manga behind *sob*

I'm really bad at recommending for other people's tastes though...

Also, stay safe :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 29, 2020, 10:36:29 AM
I’m thinking about starting Assassination Classroom too.

Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on January 29, 2020, 10:53:02 PM
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Also, stay safe

It's not like how the media is portraying it to be. Supermarkets are stocked, people aren't dropping dead in the streets.
It's just super quiet as everybody is staying home, unless they have to go out. It might be different IN wuhan itself but I have seen some videos of foreigners who are stuck there and it seems to be about the same as here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luztqxUBvZo
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 15, 2020, 07:18:28 PM
I checked 3 stores today for Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 but I couldn't find it. :sad:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 18, 2020, 07:19:01 AM
I checked 3 stores today for Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 but I couldn't find it. :sad:


Ponyfan

I didn't realize it was out already! I'll have to check my local stores and see if they have it.  They had the first part but they never did get Sailor Stars part 2 despite carrying every other Sailor Moon release so I hope they don't drop this one, too. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 18, 2020, 10:46:44 AM
I checked 3 stores today for Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 but I couldn't find it. :sad:


Ponyfan

I didn't realize it was out already! I'll have to check my local stores and see if they have it.  They had the first part but they never did get Sailor Stars part 2 despite carrying every other Sailor Moon release so I hope they don't drop this one, too. 


I'm also hoping that Walmart doesn't drop the 2nd part of Fruits Basket. My stores have all reduced their DVD/Blu Ray section to a very tiny section.  I checked for a shelf tag for part 2 of Fruits Basket and couldn't find one.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 20, 2020, 10:59:46 AM
I checked another Walmart store today for Fruits Basket part 2 and didn't see it. I found a couple at Barnes and Noble today but they're more expensive than Amazon. It looks like I'll be ordering from Amazon.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Thimble on February 26, 2020, 11:01:27 PM
Kimetsu no yaiba is fairly recent show thats really interesting so far. It's ridiculously popular here. It gets gory in places, but the art is pretty unique.
It's loosely based on Japanese folklore, and tbe setting is historical. Japan around the early industrial revolution sort of feel.. I haven't seen it all yet, but what I have seen is very good, even though it's a bit too bloody for me. I have to take breaks, lol.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on February 27, 2020, 04:06:01 AM
Demon Slayer?  That is pretty popular in general.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 27, 2020, 06:37:19 AM
I’ve seen a short clip of Demon Slayer but I’m not sure it’s something that I would enjoy even though I’m a big fan of Zenitsu’s Japanese voice artist (I hold Taffeta responsible for that. :P).


I’m currently watching Diamond no Ace and Fruits Basket 2019.

I’ve been looking at  different series trying to find something that looks interesting. Has anyone watched Haikyu?



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 27, 2020, 07:08:04 AM
I started watching Wolf's Rain.  So far, I like it.  I wasn't sure if I would but I like the characters and the story well enough. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 27, 2020, 07:43:19 AM
I started watching Wolf's Rain.  So far, I like it.  I wasn't sure if I would but I like the characters and the story well enough. 

Did you have any luck finding Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 in store? the only place I found it locally is Barnes and Noble. It looks like Walmart isn’t going to carry it. :(   I’m going to order it from Amazon soon.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 27, 2020, 09:02:25 AM
I’ve seen a short clip of Demon Slayer but I’m not sure it’s something that I would enjoy even though I’m a big fan of Zenitsu’s Japanese voice artist (I hold Taffeta responsible for that. :P).


I’m currently watching Diamond no Ace and Fruits Basket 2019.

I’ve been looking at  different series trying to find something that looks interesting. Has anyone watched Haikyu?



Ponyfan

Zenitsu is one of those characters people either think is hilarious or really annoying. I'm in the latter category. (Takes blame cheerfully).

Demon Slayer is very popular. It's a bit gory in places, completely predictable and entirely unoriginal in plot or character, but it has some decent animation and sound track going on. It's easy to watch if you don't mind fight scenes but there's nothing really in it that other shows didn't do before. I found it disappointing given the hype because there are so many things the story could do but the writer deliberately seems to avoid doing them in order to preserve the cliches. But eh, it's watchable.

I've seen Haikyuu except for the newest season. I enjoyed it. I like Daiya better but it's a decent series with some nice character development. I found the first ep hard to get through but it got better.

I actually had S1 of Haikyuu and S1 Pt 1 of Furuba for my birthday on DVD, so they're on my to watch list. I also need to rewatch Chihayafuru and then watch the newest season (I'd recommend that, it has great characters).
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 27, 2020, 10:56:19 AM
I started watching Wolf's Rain.  So far, I like it.  I wasn't sure if I would but I like the characters and the story well enough. 

Did you have any luck finding Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 in store? the only place I found it locally is Barnes and Noble. It looks like Walmart isn’t going to carry it. :(   I’m going to order it from Amazon soon.


Ponyfan

No, they don't seem to be carrying it.  However, they still have part 1 in the store.  They got the second part of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime so I don't understand why they refuse to get the second part of Fruits Basket.

I've been watching Haikyu as I walk on the treadmill.  I really enjoy it.  I'm almost done with the second season.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 27, 2020, 06:30:43 PM
Fruits Basket part 2 doesn't seem to be out over here yet, either; I wonder if it's a problem with that specific DVD or something.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 28, 2020, 07:13:33 AM
Finished Haikyu Season 2
Spoiler
...that last point of the last match...so much AAAAAHHHH!   :yippee:

But I don't have season 3 yet so I'm going to have to pick something else to watch while I walk.  I may go with Golden Time.

Post Merge: February 28, 2020, 07:14:55 AM

Fruits Basket part 2 doesn't seem to be out over here yet, either; I wonder if it's a problem with that specific DVD or something.

My friend ordered hers online and she got it.  So I think it's just that stores that used to carry it aren't for some reason.  It's highly annoying because I don't have a lot of shopping options where I live so I'm going to end up ordering it online and it will be more expensive than if Walmart would just put it in their store.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 28, 2020, 07:38:33 AM
Fruits Basket part 2 doesn't seem to be out over here yet, either; I wonder if it's a problem with that specific DVD or something.

My friend ordered hers online and she got it.  So I think it's just that stores that used to carry it aren't for some reason.  It's highly annoying because I don't have a lot of shopping options where I live so I'm going to end up ordering it online and it will be more expensive than if Walmart would just put it in their store.

Yeah, I was wondering if both parts had the same number or something else to make stores think "oh it's the same, no need to order more". If it was just the US I'd figure it was one of those things, but UK stores not carrying it either makes me wonder.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 28, 2020, 08:03:29 AM
I added Haikyuu  and Chihayafuru to my watch list.



Fruits Basket part 2 doesn't seem to be out over here yet, either; I wonder if it's a problem with that specific DVD or something.

My friend ordered hers online and she got it.  So I think it's just that stores that used to carry it aren't for some reason.  It's highly annoying because I don't have a lot of shopping options where I live so I'm going to end up ordering it online and it will be more expensive than if Walmart would just put it in their store.

Yeah, I was wondering if both parts had the same number or something else to make stores think "oh it's the same, no need to order more". If it was just the US I'd figure it was one of those things, but UK stores not carrying it either makes me wonder.


I didn't think of that. I forgot to mention before but when I found Fruits Basket part 2 at Barnes and Noble, it was actually behind 2 or 3 copies of Season 1 part 1.  I've checked Walmart several times even looking behind copies of part 1 but still no part 2.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 07, 2020, 10:09:01 AM
My copy of Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 came. :D 


I think I will also be rewatching Yona of the Dawn in Japanese soon.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 07, 2020, 10:16:36 AM
My copy of Fruits Basket Season 1 part 2 came. :D 


I think I will also be rewatching Yona of the Dawn in Japanese soon.


Ponyfan

Go for it!!!! Not enough Zeno :(

And awesome on the DVD.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on March 09, 2020, 01:02:27 PM
Been watching a lot of Boruto lately. It's not the greatest but there are enough episodes that I can safely binge watch without running out soon
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 12, 2020, 05:57:50 PM
I’m starting to really like the main character. In Diamond No Ace :D

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 18, 2020, 11:01:45 PM
I've been watching the 2nd part of Season 1 of 2019  Fruits Basket. My copy of Disc 4 (the one with Kagura) has the correct episodes listed but when you highlight them to select them the titles from  Disc 3 are superimposed over the correct titles. I'm just wondering if this is a flaw in all of the copies of Season 1 part 2.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 22, 2020, 03:30:35 PM
There’s a new trailer for Fruits Basket Season 2. It’s in Japanese with English subtitles.

I put it in a spoiler since it  might spoil some things if you haven’t already read the manga.

Spoiler

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6oWfY6gw_qk


I finished Season 1 of Fruits Basket and will probably start My Roomate is a Cat soon.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 25, 2020, 03:03:25 PM
I started watching My Roommate is Cat and was very surprised to find out who one of the voice artists is.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 25, 2020, 03:16:15 PM
I started watching My Roommate is Cat and was very surprised to find out who one of the voice artists is.


Ponyfan

I must admit I love this anime.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on March 28, 2020, 04:46:45 AM
I have been so annoyed with the non working internet, havent watched anything  :cry:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 01, 2020, 01:24:55 PM
I’m sorry your internet isn’t working tikibirds.

I’ve been watching more anime lately since my job has been put on hold due to the coronavirus. 

Does anyone have any recommendations?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on April 01, 2020, 04:17:05 PM
I don't wanna go back through all the pages to see if this show was mentioned, but it's kind of relevant now in what is going on in the world. But I just started watching on netflix the first season of Cells at Work. I've watched 2 episodes so far and it's so wacky and sorta cute. Rather graphic with the blood when they murder germs but I find I'm enjoying it.


Another thing I'm watching is the second season of 7 Seeds and also I've watched quite a few of the next season of Castlevania.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 02, 2020, 08:40:31 AM
I don't wanna go back through all the pages to see if this show was mentioned, but it's kind of relevant now in what is going on in the world. But I just started watching on netflix the first season of Cells at Work. I've watched 2 episodes so far and it's so wacky and sorta cute. Rather graphic with the blood when they murder germs but I find I'm enjoying it.


Another thing I'm watching is the second season of 7 Seeds and also I've watched quite a few of the next season of Castlevania.

I watched the first eps of Cells at Work a few months back and it seemed like the crazy anime version of a show I watched as a kid (Once upon a time life)...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on April 02, 2020, 09:14:30 AM
I don't wanna go back through all the pages to see if this show was mentioned, but it's kind of relevant now in what is going on in the world. But I just started watching on netflix the first season of Cells at Work. I've watched 2 episodes so far and it's so wacky and sorta cute. Rather graphic with the blood when they murder germs but I find I'm enjoying it.


Another thing I'm watching is the second season of 7 Seeds and also I've watched quite a few of the next season of Castlevania.

I watched the first eps of Cells at Work a few months back and it seemed like the crazy anime version of a show I watched as a kid (Once upon a time life)...

This is a great teaching show about how the human body works. I watched another episode last night and my dad watched it and he had that WTH expression, so I had to pause an explain stuff, even though the show literally stops to explain who each new cell that shows up is/does.

I'm hoping my white blood cells and the rest are paying attention.
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Post by: Koudoawaia on April 02, 2020, 09:22:27 AM
Recently my husband and I binged Beastars in one night a couple weeks ago. This week we finished watching Cells at Work which felt like an appropriate show for right now and it was very informative. My husband also recently finished Virgin Soul: Rage of Bahamut about a girl who turns into a dragon...when...men make her blush =P That felt kind of silly to me plus I thought the girl was too loud so I kinda dropped out of watching it until towards the end.

Ha didn't even notice KarentheUnicorn was describing Cells at Work in the above post. How neat that there's been two of us here watching it^^
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 03, 2020, 01:01:09 PM
Thanks everyone. I will give Cells at Work a try. Is it available in both subbed and dubbed versions?


Ponyfan
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on April 03, 2020, 01:28:02 PM
Thanks everyone. I will give Cells at Work a try. Is it available in both subbed and dubbed versions?


Ponyfan

I don't know if they have subbed, the one on netflix is in english.

haha, we're all learning about our body.

Comeon white blood cells kick corona's butt!!

What's funny to think about is this is happening inside our bodies all the time; although our white blood cells and immune cells actually EAT the invaders instead of killing them but it's funny to see white blood cell go crazy killing a germ and then switch back to being mild and soft spoken.

Plus I like how it gives information on each cell, it's almost like I'm watching a documentary (hehe).

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Post by: Carrehz on April 04, 2020, 12:07:43 PM
Tokyo Mew Mew's getting a new anime! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-04-02/tokyo-mew-mew-magical-girl-manga-gets-all-new-anime/.158225)

I'm 99% sure it's going to be a reboot... maybe "truer to the manga" like Sailor Moon Crystal? but TMM didn't really change much from the manga, unlike SM, so I don't really see the point.. oh well, we'll see what happens.

I can't believe both of my favourite mahou shoujo series are getting revivals in the same year. o_O
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Post by: Taffeta on April 04, 2020, 12:27:31 PM
Thanks everyone. I will give Cells at Work a try. Is it available in both subbed and dubbed versions?


Ponyfan

I don't know if they have subbed, the one on netflix is in english.

haha, we're all learning about our body.

Comeon white blood cells kick corona's butt!!

What's funny to think about is this is happening inside our bodies all the time; although our white blood cells and immune cells actually EAT the invaders instead of killing them but it's funny to see white blood cell go crazy killing a germ and then switch back to being mild and soft spoken.

Plus I like how it gives information on each cell, it's almost like I'm watching a documentary (hehe).



We have a first name relationship with white blood cells in this family because of my mother's leukaemia/lymphoma (blood cancer)...she has a plush version of most of the things her immune system has lacked at one time or another (though right now she apparently has a full set in her body as well). So I sat her down to show her some of the scenes from this and said to her, those are the bits that don't work right in your blood. And she was kind of like...

"That's a bit worrying."

Especially the creepy little kid platelets. We have a joke in our house that Mum now has one giant platelet that heals all her wounds because at times in the past her platelets have been so low she should have bled to death internally but somehow didn't. Now apparently they're at normal levels, but it's fun to see how the anime presents them and even more fun seeing my mother a little creeped out by it xD.

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Post by: Zapper on April 06, 2020, 08:07:26 AM
I tried getting into Beastars since it's on Netflix now and I like stuff like Zootopia and such - and Zootopia had to keep it PG, so I thought it would be fun to watch an anthro animal murder mystery that actually acknowledged that some of them are natural killers...
But whoa, it's just so ugly to me. No offense to anyone working on it but the style is so weird.

Character design rant ahead:
Spoiler
Some animals have anime eyes, some don't, some have dots for eyes. Some have human necks and skulls, some don't. Some look very realistic, others look like cartoons. And their sizes are all really off.
It also committed the same 'crime' as Zootopia by mixing pet breeds created by humans with natural species, which only made me wonder who the heck genetically engineered these things :lol: I'm too much of a visual nitpicker to let all of those choices slide.

I got three episodes in. I might be swayed to watch again if someone spoils the plot for me and it's really unique or something.
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2020, 09:11:28 AM
I watched Unico and the Island of Magic last night.



Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2020, 11:54:38 AM
@Ponyfan - if you're still looking for recommendations, maybe Neoangelique. So long as you don't take the quirks too seriously.

I was listening to Rene's song from it earlier, it's so topical for now given that it's all about being stuck in one place and not able to go out like other people...
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 10, 2020, 12:24:26 PM
Sentai Filmworks is having a Spring Sale. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 10, 2020, 01:59:32 PM
@Ponyfan - if you're still looking for recommendations, maybe Neoangelique. So long as you don't take the quirks too seriously.

I was listening to Rene's song from it earlier, it's so topical for now given that it's all about being stuck in one place and not able to go out like other people...


Thanks Taffeta. :D I will give that one a try also.

Has anyone ordered from Right Stuf anime before?


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2020, 02:21:08 PM
@Ponyfan - if you're still looking for recommendations, maybe Neoangelique. So long as you don't take the quirks too seriously.

I was listening to Rene's song from it earlier, it's so topical for now given that it's all about being stuck in one place and not able to go out like other people...


Thanks Taffeta. :D I will give that one a try also.

Has anyone ordered from Right Stuf anime before?


Ponyfan

Not familiar - maybe it's in the US?

It's been a long time since I watched Neoangelique but I do remember writing a whole conspiracy theory about the evilness of tea...
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 10, 2020, 03:17:07 PM
Evil tea sounds interesting... :D


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2020, 03:55:32 PM
Evil tea sounds interesting... :D


Ponyfan

Yeah, well, Neoange is fine but there are moments you just have to laugh at it.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 10, 2020, 07:50:19 PM
@Ponyfan - if you're still looking for recommendations, maybe Neoangelique. So long as you don't take the quirks too seriously.

I was listening to Rene's song from it earlier, it's so topical for now given that it's all about being stuck in one place and not able to go out like other people...


Thanks Taffeta. :D I will give that one a try also.

Has anyone ordered from Right Stuf anime before?


Ponyfan

I've ordered from RightStuf before.  They have excellent customer service.

I should note that if Sentai is having a sale, I would check prices between the two sites, especially at Christmas time.  And when I've ordered from Sentai, the return label on the package very often says RightStuf.  So I think they process the orders even if you order from the Sentai Filmworks site, but sometimes Sentai has better deals.  For example, I just bought Season 3 of Haikyu on DVD for 5.99 from Sentai.  It's listed as 44.99 on RightStuf. 
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 11, 2020, 10:45:38 AM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie. :)  I've been ordering from Amazon when I can't find what I'm looking for locally but most Amazon orders are delayed due to coronavirus. I started looking at Right Stuf and it looks like they have better prices on some things than Amazon does.

I will also check out Sentai.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 15, 2020, 01:41:27 PM
I’m currently watching

Diamond no Ace Season 1

My Roommate is a Cat

90’s Sailor Moon from the beginning although  I might skip the Makai Tree arc in Season 2.

 I haven’t started Cells at Work, Neoangelique or Fruits Basket Season 2 yet.

Ponyfan
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on April 17, 2020, 07:40:27 AM
I'm gonna cry. Just saw this for the Mr. Love Queen's Choice anime, I just wish I knew when this would come out as I can't read the bit at the end, and crosses fingers on them using the same english voice actors from the game at some point so I can understand it...

https://youtu.be/1v1zAoXQ9PQ (https://youtu.be/1v1zAoXQ9PQ)
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 20, 2020, 05:22:42 PM
Several current anime series are going to be delayed due to the Covid-19 crisis.  Crunchyroll has a list of everything that has been put on hiatus so far.  Even though some series will be delayed I’m glad those working in the anime studios are putting their lives ahead of making anime.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on April 21, 2020, 01:55:22 AM
Several current anime series are going to be delayed due to the Covid-19 crisis.  Crunchyroll has a list of everything that has been put on hiatus so far.  Even though some series will be delayed I’m glad those working in the anime studios are putting their lives ahead of making anime.


Ponyfan

Japan is in a state of emergency but not a full scale lockdown (according to friends over there), but everyone who can work from home is working from home and they absolutely should. Anime will be there when we get things back sorted out. In the meantime, wishing everyone involved in the industry to stay safe.

We have plenty of existing and older anime series to get us through lockdown, and nothing is more important than people's lives.
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 21, 2020, 06:25:30 AM
Several current anime series are going to be delayed due to the Covid-19 crisis.  Crunchyroll has a list of everything that has been put on hiatus so far.  Even though some series will be delayed I’m glad those working in the anime studios are putting their lives ahead of making anime.


Ponyfan

Japan is in a state of emergency but not a full scale lockdown (according to friends over there), but everyone who can work from home is working from home and they absolutely should. Anime will be there when we get things back sorted out. In the meantime, wishing everyone involved in the industry to stay safe.

We have plenty of existing and older anime series to get us through lockdown, and nothing is more important than people's lives.

I agree with you completely. People's lives come first and I'd rather anime be delayed than people risk their lives creating/making  it.

Ponyfan




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Post by: deermeat on April 23, 2020, 10:25:02 AM
I guess I'm not so much an 'anime fan' like many people who watch anime. It's causal, haha. Anime I watch here and there is...
Lucky Star
Gurren Lagann
and Space Dandy.

There's a real popular one out right now called Beastars but it has too much mature subject manners for my liking, I saw previews of it and it looks oddly disturbing  :blink:
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Post by: Carrehz on April 23, 2020, 11:20:17 AM
Yay, another Lucky Star fan! I love that too :)
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Post by: Taffeta on April 24, 2020, 08:27:04 AM
Last night I caught up a bit on season 3 of Daiya,  which ended about a month ago but I've been so busy with other stuff I hadn't got around to it. It makes me a bit sad knowing I only have 3 eps left. There's always the manga, at least, I trust there will be the manga even if it suffers some delays/hiatus because of the current crisis, but there's one game in the manga not yet animated and it's sad not being able to see it...

I still need to catch up with Furuba and other things. Ironically lockdown has made me watch less anime.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 04, 2020, 10:31:19 AM
I finished My Roommate is a Cat and 90's Sailor Moon Season 1.

I'm currently watching

Diamond no Ace Season 1

90s Sailor Moon Season 2

I might rewatch A Silent Voice or In This Corner of the World.

I haven't started Season 2 of Fruits Basket either.   



Ponyfan

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Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on May 04, 2020, 11:56:14 AM
Anyone watching Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 on Netflix?

Ahhhhh I find the old team so comforting :)  What would the Major do?
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on May 05, 2020, 07:27:52 AM
I just started watching something on netflix called Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

This is fricking adorable, I forget which episode I'm on either 3 or 4. Some of the new characters annoy me but I love the two main characters Sakura and Nozaki.

I see it's also a manga (why am I not surprised).
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Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2020, 07:28:51 AM
I just started watching something on netflix called Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

This is fricking adorable, I forget which episode I'm on either 3 or 4. Some of the new characters annoy me but I love the two main characters Sakura and Nozaki.

I see it's also a manga (why am I not surprised).

Yeah, it;s hilarious xD Especially if you know shoujo manga xD.
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on May 05, 2020, 08:17:26 AM
I just started watching something on netflix called Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

This is fricking adorable, I forget which episode I'm on either 3 or 4. Some of the new characters annoy me but I love the two main characters Sakura and Nozaki.

I see it's also a manga (why am I not surprised).

Yeah, it;s hilarious xD Especially if you know shoujo manga xD.

I love the main guy, he seems so clueless it's adorable.

I love the part where he told her he'd had his eye on her for a while (because of her being in art club/class) and she has the internal drama thinking you just want me for my drawing skills (LOL). But it's so cute how on the inside she's having explosive drama but on the outside she's remaining relatively cool. I'm wondering if he's actually having the same drama on the inside like she is.

And then, it's one of the last episodes I watched so far, but it's where he and the redheaded fellow were playing the video game to get the girl characters to fall in love with them. It's just so cute/funny.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 05, 2020, 12:11:45 PM
Monthly Girls sounds interesting. :) I'll add that to my watch list.



Ponyfan
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Post by: Zapper on May 06, 2020, 08:52:24 AM
I started BNA after Beastars was such a letdown to me (I forced myself through it because a friend said it was gonna get good but it only got worse).
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 06, 2020, 09:40:16 AM
Most of the anime I like are on hiatus because of what’s going on.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 06, 2020, 12:54:46 PM
Monthy Girls Nozaki-kun is cute.  If you like that, I also recommend Barakamon and it's prequel Handa-kun, though my friend who is WAY more into anime than I am says to watch Barakamon first.  (I watched it first because I watched it before Handa-kun came out so...yeah.)

I'm re-watching Haikyu while I run on the treadmill, though this time I will add Season 3 to the lineup since I just got it. :) 
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 13, 2020, 06:21:53 AM
I just watched the first episode of Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun.  I liked it but think it might take another episode or two for me to really get in to it.


I'm still watching Diamond no Ace season 1 and Sailor Moon Season 3.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 21, 2020, 01:54:35 PM
I'm on the 3rd or 4th episode of Monthly Girls.

I have a few episodes of Sailor Moon Season 3 left and will probably start Season 4 after that.

I'm still watching Diamond no Ace Season 1.

 
Spoiler
I almost never cry at sad movies or tv shows but a couple of the episodes I watched today were so heart wrenching that I was close to tears.

Ponyfan



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Post by: Taffeta on May 21, 2020, 02:21:04 PM
I need to catch up with both Haikyuu and Furuba, but I still haven't. I still like Daiya better than Haikyuu but I enjoyed especially S3 of Haikyuu and so I want to watch the new stuff.

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Post by: Ponyfan on May 21, 2020, 04:32:04 PM
I keep forgetting the 2nd season of Fruits Basket has started.  :blush:  I haven't started Haikyuu yet but it’s on my “to be watched” list.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 22, 2020, 10:26:55 PM
I keep forgetting the 2nd season of Fruits Basket has started.  :blush:  I haven't started Haikyuu yet but it’s on my “to be watched” list.

Ponyfan

If you like Daiya you'll probably like Haikyuu. Most all the people I know who like Daiya also like Haikyuu.
(Including me, although like I said I'm more Daiya than Haikyuu xD)

Yeah, I don't actually know if it's been affected by the crisis or if it hasn't (Furuba I mean). The Daiya manga has continued (it stopped for Golden Week but not for COVID so far O.o) and Tokyo and Osaka are still in lockdown but the rest of Japan has eased up a bit. I am not sure where Furuba is animated or how far ahead they were with it when things got a bit out of hand.
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2020, 05:38:17 PM
Thanks Taffeta. :)


I’ve also been thinking about watching Free! Iwatobi Swim Club for a while but haven’t started it yet either.

I finished Diamond no Ace Season 1 and 90’s Sailor Moon Season 3.

I started  90’s Sailor Season 4 and will be starting Diamond no Ace Season 2 soon. :D

Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on May 29, 2020, 04:55:19 AM
Thanks Taffeta. :)


I’ve also been thinking about watching Free! Iwatobi Swim Club for a while but haven’t started it yet either.

I finished Diamond no Ace Season 1 and 90’s Sailor Moon Season 3.

I started  90’s Sailor Season 4 and will be starting Diamond no Ace Season 2 soon. :D

Ponyfan

I like Free. I am unashamed in admitting it.

I am proud of you for surviving season 1 of Daiya, Ponyfan :D Including the traumatic bits...

I am rewatching Daiya at the moment, and staring at my DVDs thinking I should really watch something else but I still haven't finished my Red Dwarfathon...
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Post by: Ponyfan on May 30, 2020, 09:42:17 AM


I like Free. I am unashamed in admitting it.

I am proud of you for surviving season 1 of Daiya, Ponyfan :D Including the traumatic bits...

I am rewatching Daiya at the moment, and staring at my DVDs thinking I should really watch something else but I still haven't finished my Red Dwarfathon...


There was a point that I wasn't sure if I was going to be able finish Season 1 because it was so traumatic  :wail:  but I kept going.


The US has a release date for Weathering with You on Blu-ray/DVD. It will be released on September 15th.


Ponyfan
 
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Post by: Taffeta on May 30, 2020, 09:48:36 AM


I like Free. I am unashamed in admitting it.

I am proud of you for surviving season 1 of Daiya, Ponyfan :D Including the traumatic bits...

I am rewatching Daiya at the moment, and staring at my DVDs thinking I should really watch something else but I still haven't finished my Red Dwarfathon...


There was a point that I wasn't sure if I was going to be able finish Season 1 because it was so traumatic  :wail:  but I kept going.


The US has a release date for Weathering with You on Blu-ray/DVD. It will be released on September 15th.


Ponyfan
 

As I said before, there are three or four eps I still can't revisit :/
But Season 2 is good <3. (P.S the first 3 eps recap season 1, the real season 2 begins with ep 4).

I'm debating whether to get WWY on DVD when it comes out. I saw it in the cinema back in January but I'm undecided whether I want to watch it again atm. Even though I did enjoy it - all that rain ><
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 31, 2020, 04:10:32 AM
Just saw the trailer for Attack on Titan Season 4 (Final Season).

They ruined Porco (the new Jaw Titan) he is a blonde it said in the data book that he has brown hair.

Got too many blondes in it (Colt and Falco Griice, Annie Leonhart, Reiner Braun, Historia, and Zeke to name a few)
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 01, 2020, 07:15:23 AM

As I said before, there are three or four eps I still can't revisit :/
But Season 2 is good <3.

I'm debating whether to get WWY on DVD when it comes out. I saw it in the cinema back in January but I'm undecided whether I want to watch it again atm. Even though I did enjoy it - all that rain ><

I started Season 2 of Diamond no Ace.

I'm hoping I will like WWY.  I love Your Name but was very disappointed in Garden of Words


I wonder sometimes if the animes change hair/eye colors for characters because the animators think it works better even if it goes against the original character designs.   In Yona, Jaeha's eyes are purple but they are green in the manga. I  think Suwon's eyes were changed too but I don't remember what color they are in the manga.   



Ponyfan
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Post by: tikibirds on June 01, 2020, 07:20:06 AM
 I haven't really watched anything lately. The net has been so slow  >_<
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Post by: Taffeta on June 01, 2020, 07:30:07 AM

As I said before, there are three or four eps I still can't revisit :/
But Season 2 is good <3.

I'm debating whether to get WWY on DVD when it comes out. I saw it in the cinema back in January but I'm undecided whether I want to watch it again atm. Even though I did enjoy it - all that rain ><

I started Season 2 of Diamond no Ace.

I'm hoping I will like WWY.  I love Your Name but was very disappointed in Garden of Words


I wonder sometimes if the animes change hair/eye colors for characters because the animators think it works better even if it goes against the original character designs.   In Yona, Jaeha's eyes are purple but they are green in the manga. I  think Suwon's eyes were changed too but I don't remember what color they are in the manga.   



Ponyfan

I remember Ukitake's eyes were brown in the anime, but in at least one artwork by the author/artist, they were green.

I think Furuya's eyes are meant to be brown as well, but in the anime they are grey/silverish, which actually suits him better imo.

...The biggest appearance change for me that I can think of right now is Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi, though. The animation shows him with pale blue hair, but in all the artwork he's more strawberry blond...

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 I can see why they changed it, because Tasuki has the flame hair thing going on, but it's still kind of odd. (And Miaka and Tamahome both have black hair in official art but brown/dark teal respectively in the animation).
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Post by: Aflame on June 01, 2020, 01:56:13 PM
the most recent one I saw was beastars
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 02, 2020, 01:28:40 PM
I've been rewatching Gundam Wing.  I like it.  I also found a Deathscythe figure in the clearance aisle at Walmart so I bought it.  I'm going to repaint it to be show accurate...
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 03, 2020, 07:23:55 PM

I remember Ukitake's eyes were brown in the anime, but in at least one artwork by the author/artist, they were green.

I think Furuya's eyes are meant to be brown as well, but in the anime they are grey/silverish, which actually suits him better imo.

...The biggest appearance change for me that I can think of right now is Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi, though. The animation shows him with pale blue hair, but in all the artwork he's more strawberry blond...

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 I can see why they changed it, because Tasuki has the flame hair thing going on, but it's still kind of odd. (And Miaka and Tamahome both have black hair in official art but brown/dark teal respectively in the animation).


That's really interesting. :D  I think Jaeha's eyes stand out for me because for a long time I didn't realize that the anime had changed his eye color. When I found out that they are actually green I went back to the anime to confirm they are purple in that.

I agree with you about Furuya's eyes. 


Ponyfan



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Post by: Taffeta on June 03, 2020, 10:32:38 PM
TBH it makes more sense for Jaeha to have green eyes. xD.
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Post by: tikibirds on June 09, 2020, 10:53:38 AM
All kids have returned to school and the internet works again...I dont think its a coincidence.
I caught up on fruit baskets but thats about it.


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Post by: Ponyfan on June 09, 2020, 01:00:08 PM
TBH it makes more sense for Jaeha to have green eyes. xD.


Now that I think about it, Jaeha is the only one that has matching eyes. :D

I finished Sailor Moon Super S.


I'm currently watching Diamond no Ace Season 2 and Sailor Moon Stars.



Ponyfan
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Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 13, 2020, 02:53:28 PM
Dorohedoro. Its pretty interesting
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Post by: tikibirds on June 17, 2020, 02:02:30 AM
Lately, I have been watching more Chinese TV series then anime which is weird for me because most of them I find to have poor acting and horrible effects, but I really like once upon a time in Lianjiang mountain. The first few episodes are kinda silly, but I like it. Its on Netflix.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 17, 2020, 08:26:59 AM
Is anyone else having a lot of trouble with Crunchyroll?  Lately Crunchyroll will not remember where I am in the episode or will randomly restart at the beginning while I am watching.

I’m nearing the end of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars and am almost halfway through Diamond no Ace Season 2.

Ponyfan
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Post by: Skandalous on June 17, 2020, 10:26:19 AM
I’ve got a recommendation for an anime movie:
PROMARE

If you love colors, stylistic animation, an awesome soundtrack that pumps you up, LGBTQ+ themes, and a WILDLY ridiculous (yet self-aware) story, this is the movie for you.

In a world where the Burnish, a group of humans with fire-bending capabilities, are causing fiery chaos all over Promepolis, Galo Thymos and his team of flashy mecha fire-rescuers dedicate their lives to saving the citizens and putting out the fires. But is there more to this story than meets the eye? 🤔

Have a sample of the soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZss0JsyNAOk56Zzoe4JJo0AnEBQ8r9hv (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZss0JsyNAOk56Zzoe4JJo0AnEBQ8r9hv)

I suggest giving a listen to “Inferno” and “Superfly” to get an idea of what you’re in for 😉
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Post by: Taffeta on June 18, 2020, 05:17:52 AM
Is anyone else having a lot of trouble with Crunchyroll?  Lately Crunchyroll will not remember where I am in the episode or will randomly restart at the beginning while I am watching.

I’m nearing the end of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars and am almost halfway through Diamond no Ace Season 2.

Ponyfan

Yeah, mine does that. But I am using the firestick app and that can be a pain and inconsistent anyway in remembering where I am in an episode or even whether I even have a queue, so...
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 18, 2020, 07:27:31 AM
Is anyone else having a lot of trouble with Crunchyroll?  Lately Crunchyroll will not remember where I am in the episode or will randomly restart at the beginning while I am watching.

I’m nearing the end of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars and am almost halfway through Diamond no Ace Season 2.

Ponyfan

Yeah, mine does that. But I am using the firestick app and that can be a pain and inconsistent anyway in remembering where I am in an episode or even whether I even have a queue, so...



I was starting to wonder if something was wrong with my Internet.   It happened again yesterday when I was almost at the end of the episode and it suddenly went back to the first scene after the opening titles.

I'm sorry it's happening to you too.


I've found myself humming  Hashire! Mirai the last couple of days. :)


Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 18, 2020, 08:07:30 AM
Is anyone else having a lot of trouble with Crunchyroll?  Lately Crunchyroll will not remember where I am in the episode or will randomly restart at the beginning while I am watching.

I’m nearing the end of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars and am almost halfway through Diamond no Ace Season 2.

Ponyfan

Yeah, mine does that. But I am using the firestick app and that can be a pain and inconsistent anyway in remembering where I am in an episode or even whether I even have a queue, so...



I was starting to wonder if something was wrong with my Internet.   It happened again yesterday when I was almost at the end of the episode and it suddenly went back to the first scene after the opening titles.

I'm sorry it's happening to you too.


I've found myself humming  Hashire! Mirai the last couple of days. :)


Ponyfan
 

Mine is not starting over while watching, that may be to do with the webbased one though. Mine just forgets I watched an ep already when I come back to it.

Daiya has catchy theme songs.
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 22, 2020, 07:09:51 AM
My Crunchyroll will forget that I watched an episode too sometimes and then when I come back and try to start the next episode I start thinking "Didn't I just watch this one?"

I finished rewatching Sailor Moon and am still watching Diamond no Ace Season 2.  I want to rewatch Yona also.

Has anyone seen A Whisker Away? The preview looks interesting.


Ponyfan
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Post by: KarentheUnicorn on June 24, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
My Crunchyroll will forget that I watched an episode too sometimes and then when I come back and try to start the next episode I start thinking "Didn't I just watch this one?"

I finished rewatching Sailor Moon and am still watching Diamond no Ace Season 2.  I want to rewatch Yona also.

Has anyone seen A Whisker Away? The preview looks interesting.


Ponyfan

I watched a whisker away a day or two ago, I liked it and it was cute and sweet and a couple times hit me right in the feels so I say watch it.

I also just watched 2 episodes of Food Wars (I think that's what it was called), I did like it and will probably watch the whole series but I didn't expect the partial nudity and weird food/sexualized scenes when I started. That was unexpected. (haha)
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Post by: Ponyfan on June 26, 2020, 07:25:40 PM
My Crunchyroll will forget that I watched an episode too sometimes and then when I come back and try to start the next episode I start thinking "Didn't I just watch this one?"

I finished rewatching Sailor Moon and am still watching Diamond no Ace Season 2.  I want to rewatch Yona also.

Has anyone seen A Whisker Away? The preview looks interesting.


Ponyfan

I watched a whisker away a day or two ago, I liked it and it was cute and sweet and a couple times hit me right in the feels so I say watch it.

I also just watched 2 episodes of Food Wars (I think that's what it was called), I did like it and will probably watch the whole series but I didn't expect the partial nudity and weird food/sexualized scenes when I started. That was unexpected. (haha)

I will probably watch A Whisker Away. :) I haven't seen Food Wars yet. I am not sure if it's going to be something I will like.

I am also still watching Monthly Girls but I think I'm only on episode 4.

I had another problem with Crunchyroll but I think it was do to an add on that I installed to paly a game.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2020, 04:41:03 PM
Im not sure how many play the Mr Love Queen’s Choice game but the anime based on the game will be released on July 15th.  It looks really good. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on July 12, 2020, 08:44:18 PM
Im not sure how many play the Mr Love Queen’s Choice game but the anime based on the game will be released on July 15th.  It looks really good. :)

Ponyfan

I think I just saw something come up today on one of the FB groups I'm in for MLQC today that it's gonna be on cruncyroll, I hope so, (crosses fingers).

There is a group for MLQC on facebook for 'global' players, so they'll post spoiler videos and karma. So I saw a video today of some new stuff china is apparently getting (FRICKING WANTS IT).

Sadly I just entered level 24 but haven't progressed any on it as I've been dealing with the other stuff they're pushing. I did managed to get the Kiro: One step away karma, but I totally used up ever gem I had saved up as well as using all my purple hearts Id saved so I could complete dates just to get the gems.

But thankfully that new event summer tune makes it super easy to get gems. So I've managed to build up a good amount for right now.

Till they hit us with some more purdy karma cards.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: dragonfly on July 15, 2020, 03:36:34 PM
there used to be an anime movie I loved - The Enchanted Journey, about 2 squirrels. I'd love to watch it again, so curious if it's available to stream anywhere?
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 16, 2020, 07:04:49 AM
there used to be an anime movie I loved - The Enchanted Journey, about 2 squirrels. I'd love to watch it again, so curious if it's available to stream anywhere?

Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Journey-Jim-Backus/dp/B002YV7IVM
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: dragonfly on July 16, 2020, 11:49:16 AM
there used to be an anime movie I loved - The Enchanted Journey, about 2 squirrels. I'd love to watch it again, so curious if it's available to stream anywhere?

Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Journey-Jim-Backus/dp/B002YV7IVM

I got super excited but it says it isn't available to watch in my area :( I'll have to keep an eye out to see if their distribution changes for viewing from the USA! Thank you!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 16, 2020, 04:22:14 PM
there used to be an anime movie I loved - The Enchanted Journey, about 2 squirrels. I'd love to watch it again, so curious if it's available to stream anywhere?

Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Journey-Jim-Backus/dp/B002YV7IVM

I got super excited but it says it isn't available to watch in my area :( I'll have to keep an eye out to see if their distribution changes for viewing from the USA! Thank you!

Sorry, I didn't even notice that.  I just googled it and it came up.  I wonder if someone has it posted on YouTube anywhere.  I guess if you wanted to drop $60+ on it you could buy it from either Amazon or eBay.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 16, 2020, 04:25:17 PM
I added the Mr Love anime to my watchlist but I'm going to wait for a few episodes to air before I start watching it.

I'm also still watching Diamond no Ace Season 2.

I might rewatch A Silent Voice soon. I haven’t watched that one for a long time.

Also several titles will be released to Blu Ray/DVD in the next few months. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 24, 2020, 06:10:10 AM
I finished the 2nd Season of Diamond no Ace.  I'm glad I gave this series a chance.  I'm not a big fan of sports in real life but this has become one of my favorite animes. :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 24, 2020, 07:47:11 AM
I finished the 2nd Season of Diamond no Ace.  I'm glad I gave this series a chance.  I'm not a big fan of sports in real life but this has become one of my favorite animes. :)


Ponyfan

<3
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Post by: tikibirds on July 27, 2020, 04:56:21 AM
I once again, need something to watch :lookround:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 28, 2020, 07:12:28 PM
 
I finished the 2nd Season of Diamond no Ace.  I'm glad I gave this series a chance.  I'm not a big fan of sports in real life but this has become one of my favorite animes. :)


Ponyfan

<3



:D

I started Season 3 of Diamond no Ace. 


@tikibirds, what types of animes do you like?   


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 29, 2020, 02:31:17 PM
I have been...

Shall we say persuaded...?

To watch the first two eps of the EVOLXLOVE anime (Mr Love...whatever).

It's early to say if it's gonna be a good series or not, but it seems ok so far. The subs with the English names drive me mad though because I can hear the names they actually say and it's so disjointing having them say one thing and the subs writing a completely different name. I get that's the name for the game in English but I wished they left the English name for the dub and kept the subs to the Japanese.

Otherwise, so far the MC seems like a genuine idiot. But I've played my fair share of otome games/watched otome anime and that's pretty part for the course xD

I do wish they'd given her a name though. They've just called her 'Watashi' (I).

@Ponyfan, I can't believe I've managed to corrupt you to both Daiya and Yona. (Fushigi Yuugi next? XDD)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 30, 2020, 05:59:47 AM
I have been...

Shall we say persuaded...?

To watch the first two eps of the EVOLXLOVE anime (Mr Love...whatever).

It's early to say if it's gonna be a good series or not, but it seems ok so far. The subs with the English names drive me mad though because I can hear the names they actually say and it's so disjointing having them say one thing and the subs writing a completely different name. I get that's the name for the game in English but I wished they left the English name for the dub and kept the subs to the Japanese.

Otherwise, so far the MC seems like a genuine idiot. But I've played my fair share of otome games/watched otome anime and that's pretty part for the course xD

I do wish they'd given her a name though. They've just called her 'Watashi' (I).

@Ponyfan, I can't believe I've managed to corrupt you to both Daiya and Yona. (Fushigi Yuugi next? XDD)



You also introduced me to amazing Japanese vas.  :D   Chances are good that I will get in to Fushigi Yuugi also. 


I've been waiting for a few episodes of EvolxLove/Mr Love to air so I can watch several episodes at once. 

There's many times in the Mr Love game that MC makes incredibly idiotic decisions just to give the guys a reason to come and rescue her.  One of the things that's most annoying to me about her is she will be warned not to go somewhere because it's dangerous but she will go anyway and then wonder how she ended up needing to be rescued.   

I'm not sure why the subs went with the English names when the anime uses the Japanese ones.   

I noticed when I watched one of the Diamond no Ace episodes that the subs had some of the character names misspelled.  Narumiya was spelled in the subs as Nariumi and Tojo's name was spelled Toyjo.  I know that whoever was making the subtitles just made a mistake  when they were typing but it was the first episode I noticed the character names not being spelled correctly.


Ponyfan     

     
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2020, 12:22:02 PM
The Daiya subs have problems sometimes. There's at least one line in the last ep of season 1 where it's subbed as something like 'what did he say'? and that's clearly a translator note which didn't get fixed because what's actually said is something different. I can hear it so I don't know why they can't :/ It's Kanemaru and it's something about Eijun getting by without conceding a point.

And in Season 3 there's a lovely moment where the subs call Kaneda a catcher even though it says Pitcher on screen and one where they switch Yui and Masashi's names. Sigh. I could write a long rant about Daiya subs.

...Yeah, the MC from EvolxLove seems a bit like that. Like, "this is dangerous! But I need to do it!"

Yuugi is great, if a bit old now - but at times, a bit emotionally brutal. But given that you've survived Yona, it's probably fine ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 01, 2020, 10:28:34 AM
The Daiya subs have problems sometimes. There's at least one line in the last ep of season 1 where it's subbed as something like 'what did he say'? and that's clearly a translator note which didn't get fixed because what's actually said is something different. I can hear it so I don't know why they can't :/ It's Kanemaru and it's something about Eijun getting by without conceding a point.

And in Season 3 there's a lovely moment where the subs call Kaneda a catcher even though it says Pitcher on screen and one where they switch Yui and Masashi's names. Sigh. I could write a long rant about Daiya subs.

...Yeah, the MC from EvolxLove seems a bit like that. Like, "this is dangerous! But I need to do it!"

Yuugi is great, if a bit old now - but at times, a bit emotionally brutal. But given that you've survived Yona, it's probably fine ;)


I thought something was off in that scene at the end of season 1 when Kanemaru said that because it didn't make sense with what was happening on the screen but then I thought that maybe Eijun mumbled something that I didn't catch and that's what Kanemaru was responding to.

That's exactly how EvolxLove's MC thinks a lot of the time.  There's a few times when she is targeted and it's not completely her fault that she's in danger but there are other times when it is.

Are you going to watch more episodes of EvolxLove?

I'm thinking about starting One Piece.


   


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 01, 2020, 10:33:05 AM
I guess we'll see how long the persuasion continues ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2020, 10:30:06 AM
I saw Ride Your Wave on Blu Ray yesterday. The plot looks interesting but it's from the same director as Lu Over the Wall.  I liked Lu Over the Wall enough to rewatch it sometimes but there were a couple of parts that feel disconnected from the rest of the movie.


I'm currently watching Diamond on Ace  season 3 and will be starting EvolxLove soon. I will probably also be starting Fushigi Yuugi.  :D

I will rewatch A Silent Voice soon too.

I also want watch more of Monthly Girls.  I finally figured out how to make Netflix work without stopping on the Smart TV. :) 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2020, 02:40:09 PM
Rewatching Furuba season 1 and finally going to get onto S2 this time.

Do we have DVDs of season 2 yet anywhere btw or just s1?

I also intend on rewatching Haikyuu because I have s.1 of that on DVD as well.

I have so much anime to catch up on it's ridiculous.

I also haven't watched all the eps of s3 of Daiya (read the manga though) yet. Kinda don't want to get to 'the end' although I hope there will be a s4 since the manga is still going (last week was so intense though ><)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 08, 2020, 07:28:44 PM
I keep forgetting about the 2nd season of Fruits Basket.  :blush: 

I was looking for Fruits Basket season 2 DVDs the other day on Amazon and didn't see any listings for them yet.  Do you know if season 2 will be split in two parts like season 1?

Haikyuu is also on my to be watched list.  I've lost count of how many titles are on that list.  :lol:


I know what you mean about not wanting to reach the end of s3 Diamond no Ace.  I'm not very far in to s3 yet but part of me doesn't want to run out of animated episodes.  I still need to watch the ovas.  I hope there will be a s4.  I heard a rumor that s4 might come out next year.     

I wondered for a while why I saw Sawamura (I will always think of Eijun first when I hear that name.) mentioned as a character in Haikyuu but then I saw that Haikyuu has a character named Sawamura Daichi. 


Ponyfan
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 09, 2020, 02:02:37 PM
I watched the first season of "The Rising of the Shield Hero" this weekend.  I liked it.

I wanted to watch part 2 of season 1 of Furuba BUT the copy that I got from Amazon is region 2, even though there was nothing on the listing that said that it wasn't region 1.  The listing said it was NTSC but there was no region listed.  And the seller was most unhelpful about fixing it so I just won't buy from them anymore.  Now I can't watch it unless I change the region on my PC, which apparently you can only do 4 or 5 times so...Yeah.  Not sure I want to do that.  So for now, I will just find something else to watch until I get a replacement copy.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 09, 2020, 07:38:29 PM
I watched the first season of "The Rising of the Shield Hero" this weekend.  I liked it.

I wanted to watch part 2 of season 1 of Furuba BUT the copy that I got from Amazon is region 2, even though there was nothing on the listing that said that it wasn't region 1.  The listing said it was NTSC but there was no region listed.  And the seller was most unhelpful about fixing it so I just won't buy from them anymore.  Now I can't watch it unless I change the region on my PC, which apparently you can only do 4 or 5 times so...Yeah.  Not sure I want to do that.  So for now, I will just find something else to watch until I get a replacement copy.



I've been looking at "The Rising Shield of Hero"  but haven't starting watching it yet.

I'm sorry your DVD won't play in your computer. :sad: The seller should have made it right and sent you the right region DVD.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on August 10, 2020, 07:31:33 AM
Pokey - try downloading VLC media player and see if you can play the DVD with that. I've been able to watch DVDs from all regions using that, without changing the region on my computer. :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 10, 2020, 07:55:44 AM
I watched the first season of "The Rising of the Shield Hero" this weekend.  I liked it.

I wanted to watch part 2 of season 1 of Furuba BUT the copy that I got from Amazon is region 2, even though there was nothing on the listing that said that it wasn't region 1.  The listing said it was NTSC but there was no region listed.  And the seller was most unhelpful about fixing it so I just won't buy from them anymore.  Now I can't watch it unless I change the region on my PC, which apparently you can only do 4 or 5 times so...Yeah.  Not sure I want to do that.  So for now, I will just find something else to watch until I get a replacement copy.


Carrehz's advice is good, or you can set your PC region to 0 and then it will play everything...

If it's NTSC then it sounds like it's Japanese...not European. Ours are always PAL. But it would say that on the case.
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Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 10, 2020, 08:31:13 AM
No Attack on Titan season four, because it’s being delayed.  :cry: :bawl:  :sad: :cloud:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 13, 2020, 02:23:11 PM
I watched the first 2 episodes of EvolxLove.  The names being different in the dialogue than in the subs and on the screen really bothers me.  At one point MC shows a text on her phone from “Lucien” but in the dialogue I think she says his name is Simon. 

I can’t quite describe it, but something feels off with the anime besides the names issue.  Maybe it’s the pacing of the plot?  I will probably watch a few more episodes though.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 14, 2020, 12:05:55 PM
I watched the first 2 episodes of EvolxLove.  The names being different in the dialogue than in the subs and on the screen really bothers me.  At one point MC shows a text on her phone from “Lucien” but in the dialogue I think she says his name is Simon. 

I can’t quite describe it, but something feels off with the anime besides the names issue.  Maybe it’s the pacing of the plot?  I will probably watch a few more episodes though.

Ponyfan

I need to watch the next eps to really comment beyond what I saw already.

The name thing really bothers me though. I prefer to watch on my TV but I have no way of turning off subs on the app...

But their names I think are Zen, Shimon, Haku and...I forget the other one. Oh yeah. Kira.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2020, 11:02:31 PM
I watched A Silent Voice.  It's a good movie but really intense.   Even though I've watched it before it's still hard for me to watch certain scenes especially when Shoko is being bullied. 



I need to watch the next eps to really comment beyond what I saw already.

The name thing really bothers me though. I prefer to watch on my TV but I have no way of turning off subs on the app...

But their names I think are Zen, Shimon, Haku and...I forget the other one. Oh yeah. Kira.

I thought Haku was one of the names but wasn't completely sure since the subs don't match what their names are in the dialogue.   It's even worse in episode 4.  MC gets a note clearly signed Kira even though all of her texts from him on her phone before that said Kiro.  I know Kira is correct, but why go through the trouble to translate all of the previous conversations as being from Kiro and use the name Kiro in in subs if they're going to show him signing his name as Kira?
 

I watched episodes 3 and 4 of EvolxLove.   These episodes flowed better to me than the first 2.  Episode 4 is based on one of my favorite chapters in the Mr. Love game.  I do like that the anime has left out a lot of the filler that is in the game to make the major plot points tighter.   




Ponyfan 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 16, 2020, 02:37:21 AM
From conversations with Uni about this I guess they tried to copy the English translation because they assumed people watching would want that.

It's actually the biggest reason i haven't watched beyond ep 3, though. I cannot stand translated or alternate names in things when I can hear and understand the original just fine. It's so disjointing. It's also why I replaced all my Fushigi Yuugi manga, because the Chinese versions of the name jar with me after being so used to the Japanese ones, and why I'll only deal with Saiunkoku stuff in Japanese, because even if the author wanted the English translation to use the Chinese surname 'Hong', I'm used to her being Kou Shuurei. You can't change her surname and not her first name, anyway. The only exception is Pokemon, because I used to watch it with sister long before I was majorly into anime...it even really twitches at me when people call Sailor Moon "Serena", when there's a reason she's called Usagi. Names often have meaning in Japanese, and completely re-rendering them loses that meaning.

The EvolxLove guys don't have kanji for their names so I can only guess at implied meanings, but I can still see potential hints in those names that are lost in the translation.

...So yeah. I could watch on my PC and turn off the subs but it's really uncomfortable doing that. I wish they had left the translated names for a future dub with the English language game voice artists.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 17, 2020, 08:32:28 AM
Yay! Mr Love anime!

I've managed to watch all the episodes so far of Mr. Love (per youtube and crunchy roll) I have to say that the show actually makes me like Gavin better than the game does; not that I have ever hated Gavin. I think my order is Victor, Kiro, Gavin, Lucien. It also makes me feel a bit of sympathy for Lucien for some reason, but I think since I've played the game I know most of the story so it's not as much of a surprise for me knowing what is to come of the character. I think the him being color blind part might be confusing for anyone who hasn't played the game so actually when that is first presented (when we first meet the Lucien character), it sorta makes sense how he reacts to her and I like getting some emotion from him, seeing his reaction, etc. I think the anime gives us a better sense of his conflict, or at least that he has internal conflict about the MC.

Victor and Kiro are still my favorites, I can't say I've found any flaws in them in the translation to anime...except, this is my biggest problem with the anime. POTATO CHIP PRINCESS. Like WTH? It's supposed to be Miss Chips!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, that's the only thing that bothers me that I am not happy with.

I also agree the last two episodes are better than the first, but I think watching them all together makes it work better. I also really like that we get to see the other characters, they're in game but this feels more like they're making them more well rounded out where in game it doesn't feel as interesting to have the other characters pop up.

The only other thing I really want is I HOPE they do the engish version and PLEASE use the english voice actors!!! If they do the english voice acting version I know I'm gonna buy this on dvd.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 17, 2020, 08:37:28 AM
You already know I'm gonna say this, but I'm gonna argue about this nickname xD The Japanese is the original and the Japanese says Potachi-hime, which makes the sub more accurate than Miss Chips.

BUT...

The problem with the subs is that some of it is English based and some isn't.

Subs should stick to the Japanese.

Then they should do the dub with all the English terms and voices.

That way everyone is happy :)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 17, 2020, 10:06:28 AM
 Kira/Kiro calling MC "Potato Chip Princess" is one of the things I love about the EvolxLove. anime   :) 

I got curious and looked up what means kira in Japanese. That is a good match for Kira's character.   

I've gotten used to watching subbed anime in Japanese. I can only understand a few words but I can tell that the names don't match the subs for the 4 main guys and it's harder for me to get involved in the story when there's such a disconnect between what I'm hearing and reading on the screen.       

I had almost forgotten that Shimon/Lucien is color blind until I saw he was starting to tell the story about the butterfly.   

Spoiler

The animation still feels a little off to me but the disarming the bomb scene was animated well.

I still am not a fan of Shimon/Lucien but I have this problem with other characters that have a similar storyline as he does after their true personality is revealed.

I’m still not sure why Kira/Kiro didn’t take MC to the hospital after everything that happened in episode 4 like he does in the game. Instead it looks like he took her home?

I'm going to wait for a few more episodes to be added to Crunchyroll before I watch more EvolxLove.   


I hope there will be an English dub eventually with their English names. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 17, 2020, 10:33:11 AM

I got curious and looked up what means kira in Japanese. That is a good match for Kira's character.   

I've gotten used to watching subbed anime in Japanese.
Ponyfan

I have broken you with Daiya, haven't I >.>
Sorry about that XD.

"Shimon" could also be fingerprints.
"Haku" could signify white, which might also indicate innocence. But it can also be used as a verb, one meaning of which might be to confess to something.
The most obvious meaning for "Zen" to me is goodness.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 17, 2020, 04:09:00 PM
I think for me the potato chip princess thing, the english version where the MC first get's a phone call from Kiro and he says, Found you Miss Chips; and every time after that just the way the english guy says it feels very endearing. Potato Chip Princess just feels to long for a nickname/endearment for me. I think it's also just how cheerful the english voice for Kiro is, that makes me like the character even more.

It's sorta like Victor's dummy, although at first Victor calling her idiot/dummy doesn't feel like an endearment, it's only later in game it feels that way. Which I've found the intereactions between Victor and MC in the anime cute and even funny. Whereas in game there were a couple times I was so frustrated with Victor I wanted to kick him. It's also if possible make me like Victor a little better as there are a couple of scenes we don't get in game (like when MC goes to the restaurant), you get to see a bit more that you were not aware of in game.

I also feel like with the anime they're streamlining the story better, so I'm hoping that continues so it makes the story better but also clears up stuff that the game doesn't really resolve or is confusing in game.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 18, 2020, 05:54:01 AM
I think for me the potato chip princess thing, the english version where the MC first get's a phone call from Kiro and he says, Found you Miss Chips; and every time after that just the way the english guy says it feels very endearing. Potato Chip Princess just feels to long for a nickname/endearment for me. I think it's also just how cheerful the english voice for Kiro is, that makes me like the character even more.

It's sorta like Victor's dummy, although at first Victor calling her idiot/dummy doesn't feel like an endearment, it's only later in game it feels that way. Which I've found the intereactions between Victor and MC in the anime cute and even funny. Whereas in game there were a couple times I was so frustrated with Victor I wanted to kick him. It's also if possible make me like Victor a little better as there are a couple of scenes we don't get in game (like when MC goes to the restaurant), you get to see a bit more that you were not aware of in game.

I also feel like with the anime they're streamlining the story better, so I'm hoping that continues so it makes the story better but also clears up stuff that the game doesn't really resolve or is confusing in game.


I also like that the anime is keeping the essence of the story and getting rid of a lot of the extra stuff that exists in the game.

I think the anime is also good at bringing out the nuances in the guys that are harder to see in the game.  I hope it will include all of the important dates and calls since Campus Date is animated. :) I want to see Kira/Kiro’s Birthday Date and Shimon’s/Lucien’s Aquarium Date animated also. 

I love that we see Zen/Victor listening to MC’s conversation with Kira/Kiro. Zen’s/Victor’s speech to MC in his office made me laugh. :lol: If I hadn’t already learned what “baka” means in Japanese from Diamond no Ace I think I would have figured it out from his speech.


I have broken you with Daiya, haven't I >.>
Sorry about that XD.

Yes, you have. :D :D 


That’s really interesting about the Japanese names. I’m not sure if Shimon’s meaning fits the character but the others do.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 18, 2020, 08:21:47 AM
Useful anime vocabulary - "baka" xD.

On another note while I think about it - if you're cool with Japanese dubs a bit more now, if you did decide to watch Fushigi Yuugi, rather than read it, the English dub is notoriously bad and known for being awful. It's the main reason I stopped ever watching dubs. The Japanese dub is awesome though. It's the thing that made me want to learn Japanese. So just for the record.

You might be better at tolerating completely wooden acting than me. But if not...just a heads up ;) It's bad -.-.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 18, 2020, 11:03:13 AM
Useful anime vocabulary - "baka" xD.

On another note while I think about it - if you're cool with Japanese dubs a bit more now, if you did decide to watch Fushigi Yuugi, rather than read it, the English dub is notoriously bad and known for being awful. It's the main reason I stopped ever watching dubs. The Japanese dub is awesome though. It's the thing that made me want to learn Japanese. So just for the record.

You might be better at tolerating completely wooden acting than me. But if not...just a heads up ;) It's bad -.-.

I'll be watching  Fushigi Yuugi in Japanese.  :)  I'm also thinking about rewatching Yona in Japanese. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 18, 2020, 04:25:16 PM
anyone ever watch an anime called Stand my heroes? I just noticed it pop up on youtube (because ya know, you watch one thing and everything on the main page turns into similar stuff).

I watched the first few minutes of episode one and it looks shockingly a lot like Mr. Love, I'm assuming it must be designed from the same animation studio, but the female character and one of the guys looks shockingly a lot like the MC and Victor :p and the side view of one guy in the few minutes I watched looks like Gavin.

The story looks more like a police drama, but it looked interesting, I tried to find it on crunchy roll but I couldn't find it, etc. But I don't know if it's any good and wondered if anyone else had heard/watched it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2020, 03:56:01 AM
I've never heard of that one but I've noticed sometimes on Youtube that the animes don't always go by their official names.  I've seen Yona listed as the Rescue Princess and The Four Dragons. :lol:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tjenni on August 20, 2020, 04:53:08 AM
I love to watch the One Piece Anime and Manga ^^
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on August 20, 2020, 08:25:31 AM
The past month and a half I have been too busy with teaching Summer sessions and make up classes. I haven't watch anything. But that all ends this week, Thankfully.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 21, 2020, 07:29:04 AM
Oh, I also started watching something called Toradora on netfix. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like it; the girl character just made me annoyed with how she treats main guy in the story. But I've continued to watch and like it now.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 21, 2020, 09:37:25 AM
Oh, I also started watching something called Toradora on netfix. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like it; the girl character just made me annoyed with how she treats main guy in the story. But I've continued to watch and like it now.



I like Toradora. :)

I think it's pretty popular but there are some people who also really violently dislike it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 21, 2020, 06:31:00 PM
Oh, I also started watching something called Toradora on netfix. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like it; the girl character just made me annoyed with how she treats main guy in the story. But I've continued to watch and like it now.



I like Toradora. :)

I think it's pretty popular but there are some people who also really violently dislike it.

There are some anime I feel strong dislike for and just don't watch or refused to because it just looks dumb or at the very least the previews or commercials for it turn me off. But it's sorta like each to their own is how I feel about it.

As far as ToraD goes, I like the main guy, he seems so sweet and kind so he's sorta the reason I keep watching it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 23, 2020, 12:42:25 AM
I am a bit like that too. I see people complaining on anime sites a lot that they hated x anime they just watched 52 episodes of and I'm like...why watch 52 episodes if you didn't like it after about ep 10?

I did power through all of Demon Slayer because I saw really opposing views on it - some saying it was the best anime ever and some that it was horrible and the only thing it had going for it was the art. Honestly I found it somewhere in the middle - lots of the plot reminded me of Bleach, at one point Inuyasha - but I don't think it deserved the really bad criticism or the really major praise. It was entirely predictable but overall not too bad. Though it did frustrate me how safe the writer played with pretty much everything, so while I think there was talk of a season 2, I haven't looked it up.

With ToraDora, it tends to be some people violently dislike the female lead, and others really identify with her. I'm fine with her because she's not just as she first appears. I have a few more problems with the other girl and the fact that the main guy's friend seems to validate her behaviour sometimes. But it's fine.

Some people also don't like the ending of TD but I don't mind that either, really...

The main girl in TD reminds me a bit of the main female character in Charlotte (who isn't called Charlotte xD) and I don't mind her either. Charlotte is one of my favourite short anime.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on August 23, 2020, 01:02:23 PM
I haven't gotten to the end yet, I'm not sure how many season there are in Toradora, as I'm watching it on netfix. I believe I am at episode 17 or 18 but I can't tell if this is two seasons mashed together since the opening has changed in the last couple episodes.

So i'm not even sure if netflix has all the episodes or not.

I tried to watch a show called Japan is sinking, I couldn't get through it; I was on like the second or third episode and said NOPE, way to depressing and dont' need it right now. I may come back to it but it's one of those end of the world sorta things. What happened to one of the characters irritated me and I said, nope, not doing it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 26, 2020, 10:48:31 AM
Some animes change openings/endings within the same season.  I’ve lost track of how many themes Diamond no Ace has had through 3 seasons.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 26, 2020, 02:05:20 PM
Some animes change openings/endings within the same season.  I’ve lost track of how many themes Diamond no Ace has had through 3 seasons.

Ponyfan

Which reminds me, I finally found the last opening theme (second half of season 3) on Itunes (Ryuusei no HOWL). It's taken long enough ><

There is at least one ep in Season 3 of Daiya where they play one of the earlier ending themes IN THE MIDDLE of the ep and then the current opening and ending in their normal places as well...

(If you didn't see it yet, the ep is also titled the same as the ending song. There is a reason, but still, it's...weird...)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 27, 2020, 07:40:19 PM
Some animes change openings/endings within the same season.  I’ve lost track of how many themes Diamond no Ace has had through 3 seasons.

Ponyfan

Which reminds me, I finally found the last opening theme (second half of season 3) on Itunes (Ryuusei no HOWL). It's taken long enough ><

There is at least one ep in Season 3 of Daiya where they play one of the earlier ending themes IN THE MIDDLE of the ep and then the current opening and ending in their normal places as well...

(If you didn't see it yet, the ep is also titled the same as the ending song. There is a reason, but still, it's...weird...)


I'm glad you found Ryuusei no Howl on iTunes. :)  I haven't heard that theme yet. 

US iTunes has the Act II soundtrack with Furuya on the cover, but the titles are all in Japanese and I don't recognize any character names.  I know the first track is the Seidou High school song (Seidou's the only word I can read. :lol:)


I found a Diamond no Ace app on iTunes.  It's all in Japanese but it looks like a calculator app of some kind where they the calculator is on top of screenshots from the anime.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on August 30, 2020, 12:06:50 PM
Gonna re watch One Piece, I hope I don’t cry this time while watching my favourite character die.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SpacePinto on September 01, 2020, 08:04:28 AM
I don't think it actually counts as watching anime, but lately I've become really obsessed with music from Initial D. I even downloaded one episode to watch but I wasn't that much into it, although I have to admit the animation is really nice in it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 01, 2020, 03:23:34 PM
One listen to Ryuusei no HOWL and it became an instant favorite.  :)

I was watching Diamond no Ace today and in the first episode I watched, the opening scene was so funny that I was laughing out loud.  I needed something to smile about today so it was great timing.


Ponyfan   

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 01, 2020, 03:32:58 PM
One listen to Ryuusei no HOWL and it became an instant favorite.  :)

I was watching Diamond no Ace today and in the first episode I watched, the opening scene was so funny that I was laughing out loud.  I needed something to smile about today so it was great timing.


Ponyfan   



I am so curious which episode it was now xD

@SpacePinto - I do that too. I actually have a bunch of CDs with music from series I've never watched, but really like the music from.

So this past week I rewatched Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens and thanks to Daiya I now understand all the baseball references running through it. I still really like that show even though it's entirely off the wall and quite violent really...

I realised the next ep of Furuba for me to watch is their trip to Kyoto. I just know it's gonna make me wish I was back there ...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 01, 2020, 05:09:31 PM
One listen to Ryuusei no HOWL and it became an instant favorite.  :)

I was watching Diamond no Ace today and in the first episode I watched, the opening scene was so funny that I was laughing out loud.  I needed something to smile about today so it was great timing.


Ponyfan   



I am so curious which episode it was now xD

@SpacePinto - I do that too. I actually have a bunch of CDs with music from series I've never watched, but really like the music from.

So this past week I rewatched Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens and thanks to Daiya I now understand all the baseball references running through it. I still really like that show even though it's entirely off the wall and quite violent really...

I realised the next ep of Furuba for me to watch is their trip to Kyoto. I just know it's gonna make me wish I was back there ...


It was "I'm not Stopping" where Eijun wakes up before his alarm clock goes off.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 02, 2020, 05:57:03 AM
Finally got around to watching second season of fruits basket but to be honest, i am really not a fan of it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2020, 01:27:43 AM
One listen to Ryuusei no HOWL and it became an instant favorite.  :)

I was watching Diamond no Ace today and in the first episode I watched, the opening scene was so funny that I was laughing out loud.  I needed something to smile about today so it was great timing.


Ponyfan   



I am so curious which episode it was now xD

@SpacePinto - I do that too. I actually have a bunch of CDs with music from series I've never watched, but really like the music from.

So this past week I rewatched Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens and thanks to Daiya I now understand all the baseball references running through it. I still really like that show even though it's entirely off the wall and quite violent really...

I realised the next ep of Furuba for me to watch is their trip to Kyoto. I just know it's gonna make me wish I was back there ...


It was "I'm not Stopping" where Eijun wakes up before his alarm clock goes off.


Ponyfan

Ooooh xD.
Yep. <3
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2020, 07:52:35 AM
I’m still undecided if I’m going to try to continue watching Evol x Love. 

 I want to download the opening theme from Evol x Love.  Online  I see the artist listed as Yutaro Miura but on iTunes the artist is listed as NordeX.  I tried listening to both versions and they are similar enough that I  can’t hear any obvious differences.

Has anyone watched Children of the Sea? I saw a trailer and it looked really interesting but then I saw a review that mentioned major problems with the plot. That was enough to make me hesitate on buying it.  I try not to be influenced by reviews but I have been disappointed by movies in the past that had great reviews but when I watched them I didn’t care for them.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 08, 2020, 07:17:04 AM
I’m still undecided if I’m going to try to continue watching Evol x Love. 

 I want to download the opening theme from Evol x Love.  Online  I see the artist listed as Yutaro Miura but on iTunes the artist is listed as NordeX.  I tried listening to both versions and they are similar enough that I  can’t hear any obvious differences.

Has anyone watched Children of the Sea? I saw a trailer and it looked really interesting but then I saw a review that mentioned major problems with the plot. That was enough to make me hesitate on buying it.  I try not to be influenced by reviews but I have been disappointed by movies in the past that had great reviews but when I watched them I didn’t care for them.

Ponyfan

I did see this one.  I thought the artwork was very beautiful but it was on the weird side for my tastes (I was also cleaning while I watched it so probably not paying the closest attention to the story).  And part of the story is after the credits.  I would recommend seeing if you can borrow it from your library or something before buying if you're not sure about it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 08, 2020, 10:30:38 AM
Thanks Pokeyonekenobie.  I will wait before I buy Children of the Sea.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 13, 2020, 08:10:20 AM
I've got children of the sea in my list on netflix but haven't watched it yet.

I'm a little disappointed with Evoxlov, but mostly because it seems a little rushed in the last few episodes or well, on one level I play the game so I know certain events so maybe because I already know it doesn't seem as 'shocking' in the anime as the game.

Plus in game it takes a while to get to stuff as you play where in the anime it's just rolling along at a faster pace. I am interested to see the next episode as it looks like it might show some of Victor's perspective when he goes forward in time.

Also, I just watched the first episode of something called Eraser, it's on netfix and dad and I watched episode 1 while we ate breakfast. Even he seemed like he thought it was interesting. How I know...he asks questions during the show instead of just sitting there thinking OH NO another cartoon. LOL!

So I've put eraser in my list to watch.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 13, 2020, 10:51:01 AM
@Uni  -Eraser or Erased? (If the latter I know it well, if the former, do tell what it is about!)

I haven't gone back to EvolxLove since ep 7, I don't know what to make of it overall. On the TV I discovered I can mostly ignore the subs except when they superimpose names in awkward places, so it's not too bad. But I haven't been watching a lot of anime lately.

I have in my mind to rewatch a bunch of series but haven't got around to them yet. Just haven't had time since I now gave myself some extra homework to do, sigh...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 13, 2020, 01:45:34 PM
I think I am on episode 5 of EvolxLove but I've heard the anime is mixing up a lot of elements from the game.  I will probably watch a few more episodes.

Spoiler because I'm not sure what episode this occurs in.

Spoiler
The game heavily implies that Shaw (I don't know his name in Japanese) was trying to kill Victor/Zen with a lighting strike but at the last moment MC stepped in and took the hit saving Victor/Zen.  This is further confirmed in the game because Shaw has lightening power.  I've heard in the  anime that is not Shaw that tries to kill Victor/Zen but a random character.  There's still a lot of mystery surrounding Shaw in the game but he is connected to one of 4 main guys.


I am curious whether the anime will bring in Helios.   





I'm hoping to finally watch Weathering with You this week.  I've also been looking at Rent a Girlfriend and Lovely Complex. 


I'm still watching Diamond no Ace Season 3.  :)


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on September 13, 2020, 06:33:48 PM
@Uni  -Eraser or Erased? (If the latter I know it well, if the former, do tell what it is about!)

I haven't gone back to EvolxLove since ep 7, I don't know what to make of it overall. On the TV I discovered I can mostly ignore the subs except when they superimpose names in awkward places, so it's not too bad. But I haven't been watching a lot of anime lately.

I have in my mind to rewatch a bunch of series but haven't got around to them yet. Just haven't had time since I now gave myself some extra homework to do, sigh...

Duh, yea, Erased not eraser. I just watched the second episode tonight.

There is stuff in Mr. Love/EvolxLove I don't even remember from the game. I happened to load my game on my work computer as I had downloaded it on there when my ipad was being worked on and I played a couple levels and I completely forgot that bit in the storyline.

I think maybe it's hard to condense the storyline to the anime as they've left some stuff out. They seemed to totally skip some story line with Lucien and the Orphanage that is in game. But I can also see how it'd be hard to squeeze everything in, considering the game we can play at our own pace. Whereas in the anime an episode has to 'work' in a certain amount of time so that they can get enough of the story in to get to the desired ending for the show.


About Shaw:
Spoiler
I am curious why they would change Shaw from the one who might have tried to kill Victor, however, we did get that scene between Gavin and Shaw, which I can't remember if that happened in game? So maybe that was the trade off? But then since some stuff has been left out or smoshed together we may still get something.

In game right now, I spent all my dang free draws and some gems and still didn't get any of the 'new' SSR cards. So i'm sad. And as much as I want the Kiro/Helios new SR card, I'm not spending fricking $10 top up for that...it's just an SR and the last SR I tried really hard to get, the date made me to sad. Why are they making Kiro/Helios so mean. I guess Helios is the 'mean' side of the sunshine that gives you terrible sunburns.

But I would like to either have Victor or Kiro of those 1930's-40's designs. They look pretty.


And now it's time after a spoiler for a random Victor karma. Since
I just got this one recently. Hopefully the image will show up below.
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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Mana Minori on September 14, 2020, 06:19:32 AM
Right now, I’m rewatching Inuyasha, Trinity Blood, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Kuroko no Basuke
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 14, 2020, 10:19:09 AM
The only comparison I can make to EvolxLove with respect to the plot is with the neoroma series like Koruda (Corda D'Oro), Neoangelique, Haruka etc. But all three of those had manga I think - actually, I am not sure that Neoangelique did at the time of the anime, maybe that happened afterwards - so they had already figured out how to plot the different storylines in the game together before they put it on the screen. They don't always do that with otome games, but it's not uncommon. (I don't think Hakuouki had manga, thinking about it now, but it did at least have a historical timeline to follow).

...Mind you, with Haruka at least, the first half of the manga is fairly faithfully represented in the anime, but the anime then overtook the manga which was still being written, so the second half deviates. The manga also designates a "chosen person" which the anime leaves open (except on the DVD where every character has an ending, and that may also happen if they DVD release EvolxLove.)

The same "chosen person" narrative happened in the Koruda manga (I don't think it did in the Koruda 3 manga mind you) but the anime only went so far in that case. I think what happened was that the manga incorporated some of the second game and the anime didn't do much with that so the manga ended up more detailed than the anime with lots of bits missing after a certain point.

With the Haruka specials for Haruka 3 there is only occasional manga chapters and nothing really concrete. They put in bits of the story for Kurou and Masaomi, there's a bit for Kagetoki and his conflicted loyalties in the second part. I don't remember much of Atsumori's story being in there, there's a big part of his story that's in the game but I think it was left out (sadly). So they chose specific characters on which they placed most of their attention.

Point being it's hard to get the two mediums to line up when it's a game with multiple choice options and paths.

On the subject of Erased...there's also a live drama version of it on Netflix (at least there is here). I actually like the drama better although it's a little different in places - apparently it's closer to the manga and at least it has the whole second arc which the anime doesn't really deal with at all. I like the anime too but if you enjoy the series, I recommend the drama as well.

Kenya <3
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 19, 2020, 11:18:37 AM
At last I got to watch Weathering with You.  It was a really good movie but I think Your Name is still my favorite film by the director. 

Spoiler

A few things plot points are a little unclear for me.  Why did Hodaka run away from home in the first place?   It seems like he was in Tokyo for quite a while before the police started looking for him and somehow the police considered the case a kidnapping instead of a runaway boy?

I liked seeing Mitsuha and Taki from Your Name but given the ending of Weathering with You, I'm nor sure how Your Name fits in the timeline of WwY.




Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 22, 2020, 07:32:44 AM
I haven't really watched crunchyroll or netflix much lately. Using a VPN seriously slows the internet speed down. I have been watching more Chinese shows. I'm not sure what they are classified as - They are set in Ancient China but involve demons, magic, martial arts, ghosts cultivation...(Its either Xianxia or Wuxia but I can't tell the difference between them)
Some are animated, some are live action series.
The most recent live action I am watching is "Eternal love of Dream" and animated one is "scumbag system" which is based off a BL novel called Scum Villian Self Saving System. However, i am pretty sure it will be censored so there is no romance between the master and disciple.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 27, 2020, 07:21:38 AM
I watched the 5th episode of EvolxLove.  It's much easier for me when the characters aren't saying names as much since they don't match the subs.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on October 01, 2020, 02:42:54 PM
I've managed to watch all 12 of the EvolxLove episodes. While I did like it and I think if they managed to do the english version I'll rewatch it. However the ended for the last episode was...strange. It seems like a big change from the game (but I don't want to put any spoilers).

I think the one thing I realized at the end of 12 is that there is something missing from it. I feel like the romantic side of the story is missing. There are little hints in it but overall the game feels like there is more of a connection. By the end of 12 I kept thinking, well I feel like I didn't get out of the show what I got in the game and then it hit me. In the game you can choose to go on these dates with the guys and you sorta build a relationship with them. I don't feel quite like in anime she built that same relationship with the guys.

I think the first few episodes started off great but then it's like after they introduced the audience to each character, it felt almost like you were supposed to accept that missing bit of affection/romance/love.

It's like the one episode where
Spoiler
MC and lucien, she finds out he is part of black swan and is called Ares. When she's running away from him in the anime and she's very emotional in tears and saying Lucien wouldn't hurt her, etc. etc.

It feels a bit forced and makes you think, wait...it doesn't feel like the connection is that strong yet for her to be this upset. It's probably because in game by the time you get to that point it's taken you a lot longer and more events go on inside the game so maybe it's becasue of that it feels more developed between the characters.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 01, 2020, 04:58:45 PM
I’m hearing a lot of things about the ending of EvolxLove and that it leaves the ending open for a possible 2nd season.  From the episodes I’ve seen I think the anime was trying to condense the story to make it easier to follow for those that don’t play the game but in exchange the anime lost a lot of the bonding moments between MC and the guys that occur in the game.

I’m getting close to the end of season 3 of Diamond no Ace.  In a way I don’t want to reach the end and not have more episodes to watch;  yet I’m very intrigued by current events and want to see how they turn out. 

I’m not sure how many like Demon Slayer, but i saw that it’s out on Blu Ray/DVD.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 01, 2020, 05:20:01 PM
I’m hearing a lot of things about the ending of EvolxLove and that it leaves the ending open for a possible 2nd season.  From the episodes I’ve seen I think the anime was trying to condense the story to make it easier to follow for those that don’t play the game but in exchange the anime lost a lot of the bonding moments between MC and the guys that occur in the game.

I’m getting close to the end of season 3 of Diamond no Ace.  In a way I don’t want to reach the end and not have more episodes to watch;  yet I’m very intrigued by current events and want to see how they turn out. 

I’m not sure how many like Demon Slayer, but i saw that it’s out on Blu Ray/DVD.


Ponyfan

In the case of Daiya, the summer tournament is still ongoing even in the manga :)

With EvolxLove - it seems to be pretty usual with otome games that they plot a course between the characters without really going in depth to one or the other.

Some of the neoroma ones tease with those scenes a bit more than I saw EvolxLove doing (up to ep 7 which is where I got to so far) but some of them also have manga which I don't think EvolxLove does.

Probably there will be a second arc, though. It may have been delayed by COVID as some anime did go on hiatus for a while. Free is one such that has now been postponed to next year - it was meant to coincide with the Olympics.

I'm rewatching Haikyuu season 1. I will always like Daiya better. The characters are all just more appealing to me in Daiya. But I do like the Haikyuu bunch as well. Less keen on the art style but got used to it now.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 24, 2020, 03:37:39 AM
We finally have a release date for Fruits Basket Season 2 part 1 on Blu/Ray DVD. :D It will be released in January. Kyo is on the cover.

Free and Haikyuu are on my "to be watched list."


Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 24, 2020, 03:50:06 AM
I caught up with as far as Haikyuu has gotten since it also had a hiatus in the middle of lockdown, and so went back to rewatch Chihayafuru as I haven't yet got to season 3. I actually know how Haikyuu goes thanks to all the spoilerish people on tumblr. I'm always rooting for Yamaguchi, I'm much more fond of Tsukishima this time around...I dunno, they're a fun team but I'm not really interested in any of the rival teams (much the same as with Daiya I guess). And Haikyuu is so much less emotionally destroying than Daiya that it makes me feel like when it gets to the end of Season 3 I'll probably feel like stuff should have happened that didn't.

Despite being a classical Japanese scholar I really have zero interest in the hyakunin isshuu and it's much harder to keep track of the poems when they're being translated/the patterns they talk about don't bear any resemblance to how the subs write them - but that aside it's still such a fun series.

I have my eternal dilemma over Taichi and Arata. On balance I think Taichi was always my favourite character and still is my favourite but...yeah.
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While the love triangle angle was clear from the start, it still really gets me when Taichi murmurs that Arata is his enemy, because I really like them as all friends. I'm also really fond of Arata, despite the fact sometimes he does completely inexplicably stupid things for someone as smart as he is...

I also really appreciate the depth of development for so many of the characters. All the members of the Mizusawa team are really well defined (even if Tsukuba is a tad worrying).

Chihaya's sister is also still annoying.

Looking forward to the Furuba DVDs. Shame they're not out before Christmas.

Free was meant to have a new season or movie or something this year to coincide with the Olympics but it got pushed back to next year for obvious reasons. Watching Chihayafuru, just sometimes I can hear Rin in Taichi's voice (but not that often). I've heard his seiyuu in so many things, it's funny how it's that character that sticks in my mind here. And that Rin is also my favourite character in Free.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on November 03, 2020, 08:44:48 AM
I'm excited that Heaven Officials Blessing started airing on Halloween. Funimation is supposed to be picking it up and giving it an Eng dub in 2021. Kinda curious as to how the story has been edited because it is based off of a Chinese BL novel. Although there is nothing explicit in the novel, homosexuality isn't approved of by Chinese censors and it gets turned into a bromance.

Eight hundred years ago, the pure-blooded and noble Crown Prince, Xie Lian, was a well-regarded child of heaven with unlimited boundaries. However, who knew that after ascending, achieving immortality and becoming a Martial God that thousands of people worshipped, that his life would only go downhill. He was demoted and fell down the ranks until he reached rock bottom.

Eight hundred years later, Xie Lian has ascended once again, but this time he has neither the followers nor any incense burned in his name. One day, on his way back from collecting trash, he picks up a mysterious youth and takes him home. This particular youth however, actually turns out to be Hua Cheng, the infamous Ghost King known throughout the three realms who could change both his gender and appearance at the flip of a dime
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 04, 2020, 12:30:47 AM
Watching Beastars, and let me just say it’s weird.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 04, 2020, 07:22:24 PM
I'm still watching Diamond no Ace season 3.  I will probably start Free or Haikyuu (or maybe both :D)  when I finish it.

I finally started Fruits Basket season 2. :) 

I also watched Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro.




Ponyfan 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: yourpinkoverlord on November 05, 2020, 02:46:26 PM
Anyone here been watching the new Higurashi series or Akudama Drive this season?

And I'm almost done watching the classic Revolutionary Girl Utena, it's...wild. Genuinely crazier than I was expecting, and that's saying something, because after hearing about it so much I was expecting something WILD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 15, 2020, 10:37:42 AM
I've been rewatching Yuri on Ice and I just love how beautifully done it is.  I really hope they do a second  season for it.

Okay so I broke down and ordered the music CDs from Amazon.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 15, 2020, 05:01:12 PM
I finished Diamond no Ace except for the ovas. I hope there will be a season 4.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 16, 2020, 01:59:16 AM
There is more manga, so there's a chance there will be a season 4. The end of the S3 anime is also cut about a bit.

Sort of spoilery in spoiler tags - probably not for you, Ponyfan, since you are up to date animewise, but still xD

Spoiler
The anime ends with Eijun going to the mound for his next game but that's a timeskip really and I suspect if there is another series it will go back at least to the end of the game Furuya pitched in. They've jumped over a whole section of manga because the Yakushi Ichidai game comes before the Norikane game that Eijun next pitches in. I guess they were trying to finish it at a good spot. But the Yakushi game will almost certainly be the beginning of any new series going forward.

The anime ends somewhere in vol 19 I think? Plus bits from vol 21. They're just releasing vol 24 of Act II this week, and the actual manga is in the summer semi finals at the moment. I suspect there won't be any more anime till at least the conclusion of the summer tournament, whatever that might be.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: eveningstar79 on November 28, 2020, 06:41:29 PM
I’ve been trying to get caught up on season 2 of fruits basket,I love that anime so much.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on November 29, 2020, 03:09:11 AM
Beastars is getting a new season in 2021 half way through season one. That stag I don’t like him.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on November 29, 2020, 03:50:22 AM
I've been watching Soul Eater NOT for the first time yesterday. I like the Soul Eater series and it only had 12 eps I could binge throughout the weekend so I figured "why not?"

Aside from perverted and p*do stuff concerning one of the characters (seriously, why are underage girls constantly sexualized in modern mainstream anime?!) it was a rather endearing storyline about three unlikely girls forming a friendship and developping platojic love for each other. There is not a lot of fighting and more school life coupled with a mystery plot.
The tone shifts all over the place but that was already the case in Soul Eater so I wasn't surprised. For anyone who wants to check it out, a bit of knowledge about the main series is needed but not a lot. Basically just look up who Maka and Soul are. The rest is explained.

Now onto the p*do stuff...

Spoiler
This was worse than in the main series for no reason at all. One of the protagonists is a 14 year old girl with really large breasts and she undresses while she sleepwalks. There is lots of pantyshots and she is put in skimpy outfits for the weirdest of reasons (school sports).
This serves no purpose at all and is just there for fanservice. Which also makes no sense since there are big-breasted characters in this series that are 18+ but the main focus is only on this 14 year old teen.

So if that angers you or makes you uncomfortable, that's my warning to you. Sadly nothing of that can be skipped as the fanservice is always interspliced with the story. I prefer crap like this to be condensed into one episode but pervs really make it difficult these days.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 29, 2020, 04:28:21 PM
It's unfortunately so normalised in anime >< and possibly in areas of Japanese culture, but that's another subject for another thread probably not here.

I've seen the original Soul Eater, I know it deviates a lot from the manga but I looked up the manga and decided I liked the animation better. I'm only really in it for Franken Stein though...it's been a while but he was always the best character IMO. (Maka and Soul are fine and so are their crew but you know).

I've been rewatching Area no Kishi. It still has a mad premise and I still enjoy it. But its intro episodes do make Daiya look like a teddy bear's picnic in terms of trauma.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2020, 10:05:02 AM
I’ve been trying to get caught up on season 2 of fruits basket,I love that anime so much.

That’s one of my favorite series too. :)  I’m not very far in to Season 2 yet though.

I’m searching for another series to watch since I’ve finished Diamond no Ace (still need to watch the ovas though)

I’ve also gone back to Monthly Girls and Evol Love.

I will probably start Haikyuu or Free soon. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 30, 2020, 10:14:43 AM
Haikyuu and Free are less intense than Daiya :)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 01, 2020, 02:08:48 PM
Haikyuu and Free are less intense than Daiya :)



Furuya’s va also voices one of the main characters in Free? I wonder if I will hear Furyua in his Free character?

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 01, 2020, 02:31:58 PM
Haikyuu and Free are less intense than Daiya :)



Furuya’s va also voices one of the main characters in Free? I wonder if I will hear Furyua in his Free character?

Ponyfan

Yeah, in Japanese, Haruka is voiced by Furuya's voice artist. Sometimes I hear Haru in Furuya, so I think you probably will ;)
Although there is a dub for Free I think if you prefer it that way. I have a feeling it has all been dubbed on CR.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 01, 2020, 03:30:18 PM
Don't forget about RightStuf's annual sale!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on December 01, 2020, 03:39:25 PM
I want to watch the sequel to Inuyasha but the net is so damn slow
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 03, 2020, 09:44:59 AM
It's unfortunately so normalised in anime >< and possibly in areas of Japanese culture, but that's another subject for another thread probably not here.

I've seen the original Soul Eater, I know it deviates a lot from the manga but I looked up the manga and decided I liked the animation better. I'm only really in it for Franken Stein though...it's been a while but he was always the best character IMO. (Maka and Soul are fine and so are their crew but you know).

I've been rewatching Area no Kishi. It still has a mad premise and I still enjoy it. But its intro episodes do make Daiya look like a teddy bear's picnic in terms of trauma.

What baffled me was how the Soul Eater anime was not like that at all. It had pervy stuff happening but it was about grown adults and they didn't show the characters naked. It was always ~tastefully hidden. In NOT the perv stuff only happens to teen girls and we see their butts exposed for no reason (in the bath house). The style is also more moe. It's really lacking compared to SE.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 03, 2020, 01:33:19 PM
It's always sad when a series descends into those areas to get people interested.

This is fortunately the anime thread so you don't have to hear my long rant about the lack of plot and increase in offensive fanservice scenes in the last arc of Bleach.


It's also sad when an otherwise perfectly good anime shows things like peeking on the girls as a rite of passage for young guys, or the idea that they can jump on a girl/coincidentally make contact with parts of her anatomy for 'humour'...

Not to mention the number of very unrealistic conversations about chest size that female anime characters seem to only have in series written by men...;)

...So yeah. It's definitely a problem.

And unfortunately a lot of real life high school girls in Japan experience negative behaviour, perhaps because it's so normalised in these kinds of tropes.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 04, 2020, 02:56:20 AM
It's always sad when a series descends into those areas to get people interested.

This is fortunately the anime thread so you don't have to hear my long rant about the lack of plot and increase in offensive fanservice scenes in the last arc of Bleach.


It's also sad when an otherwise perfectly good anime shows things like peeking on the girls as a rite of passage for young guys, or the idea that they can jump on a girl/coincidentally make contact with parts of her anatomy for 'humour'...

Not to mention the number of very unrealistic conversations about chest size that female anime characters seem to only have in series written by men...;)

...So yeah. It's definitely a problem.

And unfortunately a lot of real life high school girls in Japan experience negative behaviour, perhaps because it's so normalised in these kinds of tropes.

That is something that really annoys me. I loved watching Slayers as a teen and the main character (a 15-YO) constantly gets picked on for having tiny breasts, so when that happened to Maka in SE I frowned and made mental notes on how often it would happen. Luckily it disappeared a few eps into the show, just like the peeking on girls and the groping. It felt like the first few eps were stereotypical shounen/perv stuff to get new viewers into the show.
Later on only the designated fanservice character would have a bunch "haha, boobs" moments.

This stuff has some anime nerds warped. The ex of one of my friends was a Crunchyroll addict. As in "only hobby is watching each and every anime on Crunchyroll". He would even whine when he couldn't keep up his watch schedule.
This guy was also obsessed with Japanese women and convinced they were just like in anime. He went to Japan for half a year as an exchange student and didn't even like the food :lol: Turns out real Japan is not a cartoon, who would have thought?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 04, 2020, 07:25:38 AM
I didn’t like Fireworks. I’ve only watched it one time. One of the first scenes was

Spoiler

A bunch of high school boys staring at their female teacher’s chest and making comments about it.  In the next scene a boy starts annoying his teacher in front of the whole class, asking  her if she has a boyfriend and making fun of her chest size.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 04, 2020, 05:24:46 PM
It's also an issue I have with Area no Kishi. It's so counterintuitive. I mean...

Spoiler
It's a sports anime about a boy's football/soccer team but it has a subplot of the Japanese women's national team and the main female character (s?) playing in it and all the respect that gets.

And then at the same time when they have their 'camp', a bunch of the guys have this whole rite of passage snooping trek (which only a couple of characters object to). And one of the main male characters is constantly not only flirting with the main female character but trying to grab her and jump on her. Which is usually followed by him being assaulted but that's not the point. It's really not.

And then the coach of the Nadeshiko team changes and the guy in charge is basically just a pervert who talks down to all the girls and flirts with them and is generally the kind of guy you wouldn't want to work for or with, period. It's about as far from humour as you can get.

I like this series, even though it has some impossible elements in it, and is brutal in its concept. Just those hackneyed and unamusing tropes kind of trivialise the whole big deal aspect of the narrative, which is asking all kinds of questions
Spoiler
concerning organ transplantation, loss, adjustment, life and death
which are not remotely related to girls' underwear.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 06, 2020, 07:21:54 AM
I think there is also another scene in Fireworks

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Where the same group of boys are taking bets and the winner gets to keep a picture one of the boys took of their female teacher with her underwear exposed.



@Taffeta

You've fully corrupted me to subbed anime. :D  I started to watch Free on Crunchyroll and it pulled up the dubbed version automatically.  When they started speaking in English I realized that was not the Japanese version I was wanting. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 07:50:10 AM
I think there is also another scene in Fireworks

Spoiler
Where the same group of boys are taking bets and the winner gets to keep a picture one of the boys took of their female teacher with her underwear exposed.



@Taffeta

You've fully corrupted me to subbed anime. :D  I started to watch Free on Crunchyroll and it pulled up the dubbed version automatically.  When they started speaking in English I realized that was not the Japanese version I was wanting. 


Ponyfan

:D
Another one bites the dust...

(But if you want to compare Haru to Furuya you kind of have to...xD)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 06, 2020, 10:31:57 AM
I don't get why so many American dubs are... not the best. It often sounds like someone is reading a script and the translations are often made-up (Funimation loves to do that...)
Usually American cartoon dubs are really good, the voices are lively and well acted. And then in mainstream anime all of a sudden the talent is gone. Why?
American dubs of Ghibli movies, for example, are top notch.

I usually prefer watching in my native language and while there are people who love to scream "subs or bust!" I actually find that German anime dubs are well done for the most part, using actual actors we would also hear being standard voices for Hollywood dubs and so on.
Of course there has been a decline in the last couple of years, as studios will sometimes hire "celeb" voices even though they can't voice act. But it's still leagues better than what I hear in English. Again, Funimation comes to mind. Their only dub I find better than the original is Hetalia. I will take beatings for this opinion :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 10:37:28 AM
TBH, the sub/dub argument is a bit redundant because subs can have serious problems too. Some series are worse than others, and some sources too, and probably it differs over different languages, but as much as I don't like dubs...I often wish my TV would let me turn CR's subs off because they're distracting when they're wrong.

It may be because they are having to match the mouth movements of the characters, who are not animated in that language. But I don't know if that also is a problem for English language materials translated into other tongues - Zapper, you will know that better than me.

A lot of things also don't translate well. Japanese and English are really different. It can be very hard to convey the same intent in English as in the original, especially with plays on words or hierarchy.

I don't like the Ghibli dubs either. But I think that's also on me and my ears. I was never bothered about dubs before I studied Japanese. Now I notice the accent and the pronunciation in dubs which I never did before., And that makes them unlistenable for me.

That and Fushigi Yuugi, which sounds at times like a couple of guys having a laugh in their front room doing impressions. For all it is sometimes cheesy (90s anime) and a bit brutal, the English dub is still the most horrible dub I ever heard and the one that switched me forever.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 06, 2020, 10:56:50 AM
It may be because they are having to match the mouth movements of the characters, who are not animated in that language. But I don't know if that also is a problem for English language materials translated into other tongues - Zapper, you will know that better than me.

It is, but our voice actors are specifically trained to speak to match the lip movements. It's a much bigger industry here, usually done by trained actors. Sometimes the translation will take some liberties to match the lip movements better. Crude example, but a famous one: "b*tch". German dub famously translates this as "Miststück" because it fits the mouth movement while in mainstream German people would use a much nastier word.

In anime the lip movements don't matter as much because it's less noticable when a drawn mouth just flaps open and shut. But there will be odd pauses sometimes. In that case we just pretend the character had to think about their next words :lol:

There are a couple older kids anime that had looooots of fun with the dub. Using slang, jokey insults and all sorts of nonsense. I can't really give examples but it happened a lot in 90s and early 00s shonen and shoujo anime.
But in my opinion our dubs never tried to erase Japanese culture the way American dubs used to do. Like, we never called a rice cake a donut :lol: And German dubs would also more often use the Japanese honorary suffixes like senpai, sama, etc. Only the names were often americanized.

I was a tad confused as a kid when in Sailor Moon someone would call the girls "chan" :P
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 06, 2020, 11:02:29 AM


:D
Another one bites the dust...

(But if you want to compare Haru to Furuya you kind of have to...xD)



I'm looking forward to hearing Furuya's va in Free. 

When I hear Zeno in Nori, there is always a moment of "Wait, a minute Zeno shouldn't be on a baseball diamond." :lol:


The Viz dub of Sailor Moon is very accurate compared to the original Japanese. There is one scene that they changed because in Japanese it was a play on words and wouldn't have made sense in English if it had been translated directly.   

For me the worst Ghibli dub I've seen so far is Howl's Moving Castle.  The va for young Sophie is really flat and sounds like she is either bored or just reading the script whenever her character speaks. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 11:18:20 AM
Does Viz actually call SM Usagi? If so that's a huge step up.

@Zapper - that's interesting! The Japanese voice artist industry is on a legend level in terms of all the different things they're expected to do, but I don't really know about the English versions. My favourite stupid translation was sake as 'tea' in the Toonami very abridged version of Tenchi Muyou!, the first anime I ever properly watched. Ryouko drinking 'tea!' in class and getting clearly drunk was always amusing since it was so obviously alcohol. And then they airbrushed the onsen scenes. My mother was teaching some Japanese people English at this point and they thought that was nuts.

I remember there's a whole outtake section on one anime DVD I own with the English language VAs making jokes out of what's actually happening and making up their own dialogue.  So that happens as well.

But I think it matters for me that most dubs in English are American. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's just not my native English in accent or vocabulary, so I tend to notice more, especially with certain words that are pronounced differently (like lever) or where vocab is different (like sidewalk, etc).

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 06, 2020, 11:33:01 AM
But I think it matters for me that most dubs in English are American. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's just not my native English in accent or vocabulary, so I tend to notice more, especially with certain words that are pronounced differently (like lever) or where vocab is different (like sidewalk, etc).

I oddly have issues with that as well. Not so much about the words but the accent. I know American English well enough to notice reagional accents and it's really odd when a character is - for example - talking in a Valley slang and the other one is using Midwestern. That simply wouldn't fly in German where dialects would sound super out of place as they are so closely tied to regions. Seeing a Japanese character talk like a Bavarian would freak people out :lol:

PS; maybe that's why I like the Hetalia dub over the sub. In the dub they all have mock accents based on the countries they represent. In Japanese they are using regional Japanese accents and dialects.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 11:48:17 AM
Actually, kansai-ben does get a regular outing in anime in the Japanese versions, even when the story is set in Tokyo. One example immediately springing to mind is Maezono in Daiya, who is from Osaka, even though the school is in Tokyo and the team play in the Tokyo tournament. So I think the dubs usually try to convey when a dialect is being slipped into the actual story. Fushigi Yuugi doesn't bother, mind you. Tasuki is also kansai (because the writer of Yuugi was from that area) but the dub is not distinctive in trying to show that. Yuugi used Kansaiben to indicate the mountain bandits - they all speak Kansaiben in the original.

In Bleach you have both Kansai and Kyoto-ben, and also Hiroshima, which gets associated with yakuza.  And there's a fair amount of northern dialect peppering dialogue in Haikyuu...since that's set up in the north near Sendai. I'm pretty sure that's also true of the dialect in Erased, which is somewhat set in Hokkaidou.

And at the other extreme, Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens has a lot of Fukuokaben because it's set around this part of Kyuushuu. With some of these it relates to where the story is set, but in others there's some licence with the language if the writer wants a certain effect. I assume the dubs try to do the same.

I can understand Kansai and Kyotoben quite well - it's actually quite melodic in some cases, it sounds softer and very different to Kantou (Tokyo) Japanese (depending on the character), so it's probably noticeable. Kyotoben is more refined than Kansai, but they are quite similar. When I was in Kyoto, one of my contacts there had great pleasure teaching me dialect habits xD but I could understand him fine when he was speaking proper local dialect and he was quite impressed. (Yay for the lessons of anime xD).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on December 06, 2020, 12:13:13 PM
I don't care for what I've heard of a lot of modern dubs, too. for me, it's that a lot of the voices are very... samey? 80s/90s dubs definitely had problems, and the voices were usually one of them... but on the other hand, at least they were distinct from each other (for better or worse!).

not a fan of the Ghibli dubs I've heard either, but to be fair, I'm a subber. like Taffeta, I've been turned off by bad older dubs :P Although I DO like the dub of The Cat Returns, they did a great job with that one. I think it helps that there's nothing in that that'd be really difficult to translate, or doesn't work in English, etc (except for one pun involving similarly-sounding words, but they figured out a decent way of translating the pun IMO). Although I still don't get why Disney changed Natoru into a guy for the dub :s

I believe Viz used the original names for everyone in Sailor Moon (have they got up to Stars? I'd be interested to see what they did for Tin Nyanko's name, if they'd keep that as-is or translated it to Tin Kitty or something).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 06, 2020, 12:18:31 PM
Does Viz actually call SM Usagi? If so that's a huge step up.


Viz kept all of the Japanese names for the characters :)

Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 12:25:06 PM
Does Viz actually call SM Usagi? If so that's a huge step up.


Viz kept all of the Japanese names for the characters :)

Ponyfan




Awesome. :) I really hate when series try to rename characters for a Western audience.

Oh! This reminds me of another grievance I have with a dub and cultural translation. Bleach! There's a character called Ishida Uryuu (Ishida is his family name) and in the original he complains a lot when people take liberties and call him Uryuu. So the English dub just start calling him Uryuu like it's nothing because that's how the West works and I'm like...nope.

There was also the making of Yasuaki into a 'sorcerer' instead of an onmyouji, which is a yin-yang practitioner and NOT a sorcerer, in Haruka, but that was sub as it was thankfully never dubbed. I say thankfully because they also rewrote the names Ikutidaru and Sefuru as Icktidarl and Sefle, which would have just grated horribly. Haruka was not a popular enough series to get dubbed when it had the US DVD release, but I don't think it would work in English anyway. It's hard enough with subs since it's set in Heian Japan and the hierarchy between characters is palpable.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 06, 2020, 01:46:38 PM
Does Viz actually call SM Usagi? If so that's a huge step up.


Viz kept all of the Japanese names for the characters :)

I actually love how in the German dub from the 90s Usagi was renamed to Bunny. Kids know what a bunny is even though it's English. But it works as a name and that's how us kids could make the connection between her bunny items and the moon rabbit story. It's a good example for why sometimes dubs need to change names to make concepts work for children who can't be expected to know all about foreign cultures.

Another example would be the creature Falcor from The Neverending Story. His original name is Fuchur but English speakers, especially kids, would pronounce that falsely to make it sound like a dirty word. Hence the name change.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 02:48:12 PM
Does Viz actually call SM Usagi? If so that's a huge step up.


Viz kept all of the Japanese names for the characters :)

I actually love how in the German dub from the 90s Usagi was renamed to Bunny. Kids know what a bunny is even though it's English. But it works as a name and that's how us kids could make the connection between her bunny items and the moon rabbit story. It's a good example for why sometimes dubs need to change names to make concepts work for children who can't be expected to know all about foreign cultures.

Another example would be the creature Falcor from The Neverending Story. His original name is Fuchur but English speakers, especially kids, would pronounce that falsely to make it sound like a dirty word. Hence the name change.

There's a difference, though, between Bunny, given the meaning, and Serena, which is just insipid and has zero relevance to the story whatsoever.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on December 06, 2020, 05:07:45 PM
I actually don't mind Serena too much - they should've kept it as Usagi, or Bunny, but it does feel like they put a bit of thought into it. Serena = Princess Serenity = Mare Serenitatis so it's still sorta moon themed? I disagree with the change, but I think it's better than say, Mew Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew (fitting in with TMM's food naming theme, her attacks being strawberry-themed, etc) becoming Mew Zoey.

with name changes, for me, it depends on the context. like with Pokemon, I'm fine with the name changes, cause most of them still get the intended meaning across. I.e. Mahowhip (maho=magic, whip=whipped cream) vs Alcremie (alchemy + cream), they both get across the idea of magic + whipped cream. (Plus admittedly some of the gen 1 original Pokemon names were ahh, not the most inspired. Moltres' original name is literally "Fire", which yeah, sounds pretty lame to an English ear)
when there's a *reason* to change the name - if it's relatively important for you to understand what the name *means* (and there's no way to work in an explanation elsewhere), or whatever - I understand it.

like - take Ojamajo Doremi for example - one of the girls is named "Hana" because she was born from a flower. The French dub changed her name to "Flora". That makes sense and I agree with it. On the flip side, you've got the US dub renaming Doremi (whose name was kept the same in EVERY other dub, btw) to "Dorie" - why???
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 05:13:30 PM
Don't get me started on soul slayers (zanpakutou, literally soul cutter blades) and even worse, soul reaper (shinigami - death god) in Bleach.

Mind you, worse was when people who had never seen Bleach written in its native language had a hissy fit about the manji symbol...demonstrating that some of this dumbing down is really to try and avoid such things...

But I don't really know why you would specifically watch anime and not be bothered when the whole plot was changed to fit a different cultural paradigm from the original. I remember one guy on a list once asking why there weren't more American themes in anime...and why more anime wasn't set in the US.

"Why do they always set it in Japan? Wouldn't it be more awesome set in the States?"

...Sigh.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on December 06, 2020, 05:30:26 PM
yeah exactly - if you're watching a show from a different country then of *course* it's gonna have different cultures, etc.

I could understand changing a manji for a TV airing and such - yeah, there's nothing wrong with it, but we all know what the average idiot is gonna think when they see it. Should be kept intact for a DVD release, though.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 06, 2020, 05:45:13 PM
It's basically impossible to change it in the Bleach context, it's written into the narrative and there's also a nice scene in the manga where it's illustrated as well.

Let's be straight about this, the character means, basically, 'all things' and the Japanese use it to mark temples on maps. It's not a bad character at all, although in written Japanese they mostly use a different one for 'ban' now, probably for Reasons of international stupidity.  (I mean, the thing it gets confused with was also a symbol stolen from another culture, and mangled horribly ><)

More importantly it's the shape of the guard on the main character's sword. That's in a lot of scenes. It's not something that can be changed, or should be changed. Changing it feeds those misunderstandings, it doesn't educate them.

I think the reaction I mention came from someone seeing a raw manga chapter for the first time though. The top shinigami technique in Bleach is 'bankai', written with that character. Cue ignorance hysteria.

...I feel like if you want to watch something, educate yourself about it a little bit before going into crazy mode? At least find out what it is, what it means and why it's there before jumping to conclusions, you know?

...And that basically concludes my problems with cultural ignorance vis a vis anime :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 06, 2020, 06:01:20 PM

I believe Viz used the original names for everyone in Sailor Moon (have they got up to Stars? I'd be interested to see what they did for Tin Nyanko's name, if they'd keep that as-is or translated it to Tin Kitty or something).

Viz has dubbed Stars. :) I’m pretty sure they kept it as Tin Nyanko.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 08, 2020, 09:58:24 PM
Funimation, RightStuf, and Sentai Filmworks are all having holiday sales right now.  Check them out (and be sure to compare prices because sometimes one of the sites will have a better price)!  :money:

RightStuff is adding new things every week and I think they added Sailor Moon seasons this week.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Zapper on December 09, 2020, 09:02:45 AM
Speaking of cultural ignorance, I noticed certain anime have an obsession with German names that are old and unpopular like Wolfgang, Reiner/Rainer, Klaus and so on. They can't even pronounce them, so its doubly funny to me when some anime like Attack on Titan have songs that are sung in German by Japanese singers struggling and fabricating nonsense words. Just hire a German to write/perform a song for you if you so desperately need it. Yet German voice actors get pooped on by fans if they can't 100% pronounce a Japanese name. Like "Sasuke" should be "Sasske" but who cares? The Japanese voices totally butcher German names. Double standard ;)

I also dislike their love for SS uniforms. Nobody can tell me they just like how they look and have no clue what they represented. They had their own fascist regime they could draw inspo from instead.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on December 09, 2020, 01:39:19 PM
"Why do they always set it in Japan? Wouldn't it be more awesome set in the States?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uU8YaBqr7E
awesome....

haha, j/k. For those who don't know, this is an OAV promotion for a 80s manga that was set in NYC. It's so interesting to me that they chose to do the whole thing in English...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 12, 2020, 08:33:35 AM
I'm unashamedly one of the people who will happily poop on (lovely phrasing, Zapper!) voice artists for not TRYING to pronounce the Japanese name properly (obv. in English, I am not gonna go near the German). But a: I speak Japanese and b: I hate when the Japanese use Western names as well, so I'm not a hypocrite.

I don't know if you are familiar with Kyou Kara Maou! but a lot of the characters have "Germanic" names, which at times are so problematic people actually don't know what they really are or how they are meant to be written/spelt/pronounced or whatever. So you see many many different versions. So I just gave up on what the name was 'meant' to be and went with 'what the katakana said it was' and pretended like they were entirely invented new names for the series :P.

There are a lot of very annoying Western names in series like FMA, FMP and others as well.

Even in Daiya - where there are not many names, albeit there is Chris (Kurisu) and Carlos (alternated between Karulo and Karulosu), there are a ton of very interestingly pronounced baseball terms (English words) that have very odd Japanese usage or pronunciation. (Still trying to work out why a RBI is a 'Timely').

But yeah.

I am going to rip holes in people for not trying to pronounce the Japanese names correctly. Because in fairness there's a lot more mockery online on the internet about 'Engrish' and Japanese people being mocked for their pronunciation of English words (I may have to dig out the infamous lolling on the froor raffing clip to illustrate my point). It seems to me the opposite hypocrisy in the English fandom that it's fine to mock Japanese pronunciations but most people doing the mocking haven't yet mastered the difference between kawaii and kowai and still add syllables when they really don't need them.

I don't watch dubs so this is a bit academic, especially since I also don't watch Naruto...but I would think more of a voice artist who says Sasske, even if it's with an English accent, than one who says Sasookay because they're too lazy to find out how a name should be pronounced.

Honestly, though, I think this is latent trauma from 38 years correcting (or giving up) on getting people to correctly spell and pronounce my name. It means I take these things very seriously...it's just a matter of respect imo to at least TRY.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 16, 2020, 07:48:16 AM
I’ve never been able to figure out why in the Yona dub the characters always pronounce Jaeha as “Gee-ha” instead of “Jay-ha”  I can overlook Sinha as “Shin-ah” a bit more because I’ve seen it spelled both ways.  To be honest though “Gee-ha” didn’t bother me before I watched the ovas and found out it wasn’t the correct pronunciation.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on December 16, 2020, 08:47:50 AM
I'm more forgiving when people mispronounce names wrong, with the exception of mild ignorance. Sometimes our brains don't work the way we want them to. 

I'm always impressed when someone takes the time to learn another language, even if they aren't perfect at it. Sure, there are some people who don't try. But some people try, and still mess up. Some people's brains just aren't wired correctly for it.

[-_- editing out my story because I didn't mean to offend ]
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 16, 2020, 09:30:39 AM
I've never been rude to someone for mispronouncing or misspelling my name either - both happens with frightening regularity - but I feel like there are times when the mispronouncing or spelling is rude in itself, for example if they're replying to an email in which it's written and they still spell it the 'standard' way, as though I don't know how to spell my own name. Yeah, this has been a long trauma for me. In primary school I got punished by a teacher for writing my full correct name on a schoolbook. I still don't know why...

...On topic, on Jaeha and Sinha - I think there's the added problem here that Yona is set in a fictionalised ancient Korean society, so you have Koreanish names in a Japanese medium being put into an English dub. Yuk. :)

I still follow my 'what the katakana says' rule for names like that, but I don't suppose they are correct in Korea. But...they are Japanese characters. So...

It's like in NeoAngelique, there's Bernard and Rene, but they are pronounced Berunaru and Lunay/Runay. So to me they're Berunaru and Runay if I'm talking about them...but spelt Bernard and Rene in English!

...Sinha has multiple spellings. Actually, in the katakana, Shina would be more correct, because Japanese doesn't have a 'si' sound. But in Korean they have si and ssi (which I think is more of a shi sound? My Korean is very base level xD) so it's not clear which is right in this context.

I got used to writing Sinha but I guess if I am saying it out loud it is probably most like how the Japanese seiyuu pronounce it in the dub. Again following the rule of the original work.

On another note, I don't like that the English versions of FUshigi Yuugi and Saiunkoku changed the Japanese names to Chinese ones, even though both are set in Chinese worlds and thus the Chinese names would make more sense in a global context. I also know the writer of Saiunkoku ASKED them to do this in English. And yet I still am stuck on the original text and so I can't adjust. Yuugi is worse as it's all the names - characters, places, everything - whereas I think in Saiunkoku it's only sometimes, such as making the main character's surname Hong not Kou to prevent a clash with another family called Kou.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on December 16, 2020, 09:48:48 AM
I would like to say that I was not accusing you of being rude. It's just the phrase you used "I am going to rip holes in people for not trying to pronounce the Japanese names correctly." sounds aggressive.

I just don't have that aggression in me, that's all. I don't rip holes into people for mispronouncing things if they are ignorant or not. I understand that speaking another language can be difficult.

I'm not a linguist, and I don't try to be. I'm also not a teacher. I know the way we hear, and the way we speak, is not only tied to where we grew up, but how our brain functions. I think sometimes people forget about how the brain functions is a part of hearing/speaking.

And as I said -- I had my name mispronounced, and written wrong my whole life.

Awhile back... my ex-boss's boss would say my name wrong. It was so awkward, because then other people who didn't know me yet also started saying my name wrong. But here's the thing, other people (including my boss) would say my name correctly to her. Somehow it just didn't sink in. Was it it rude? Maybe. But who am I to judge if her brain failed to remember my name (like how my grandma might mess up my name), or she just really didn't care to be mindful about it. I kinda think she didn't care about it but :shrug:

ETA:
Our experiences are our own. What I say shouldn't take away how you feel about when someone says your name wrong. As I said, the way I take it now is that person isn't familiar with me, or has an reason they can't say it right... and I can't control that, so I try not to dwell on it. Your emotions, and how you feel, are valid to you. And I'm trying to convince you to feel a different way.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 16, 2020, 01:07:11 PM
I would like to say that I was not accusing you of being rude. It's just the phrase you used "I am going to rip holes in people for not trying to pronounce the Japanese names correctly." sounds aggressive.

As you said, I'm entitled to my own point of view and you are entitled to yours. I just felt like you were moralising when you randomly started talking about being rude to inlaws. That has literally no connection to the bit of my post you just cited. It felt like you were making some assumptions in what I said, which were not there. And I really hate when people do that. I would never be rude to anyone for mispronouncing my name. I just used the example to illustrate that I find it annoying and so understand when other people do too.

I am a linguist, though. And I have taught.

On the rude/respect angle, one of my former flatmates at university was from Taiwan. She wouldn't let anyone use her Chinese name unless they could pronounce it properly, because it really offended her when people got it wrong. I was one of the few non-Chinese speaking people who could, because I asked her and I listened to her about how SHE wanted me to pronounce her name. My friend in India and my friend from Israel also taught me how to correctly say their names, although they got 'anglicised' a lot when they were here. When I was teaching, a lot of my students came from diverse backgrounds. I had to learn how to pronounce properly a lot of (very pretty!) Islamic names, some Korean, some Chinese, and so on. It's just been a rule of mine, always, to ask the person HOW and then try as hard as possible to adhere to HOW when I've learned it. You can't always get every name right, but people appreciate the effort. I think that's what you're talking about too, you just misunderstood what I meant and who I meant it towards.

It's not about expecting perfection, it's showing willing to reach out to a different cultural basis and show you have that awareness and willing to not impose your rules and expectations based on your own linguistic background.

And mispronunciation can cause massive offence. Like kawaii and kowai. Nuff said.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 16, 2020, 01:25:13 PM
Kawaii is cute things, right? Is it pronounced like Hawaii with a K? (ka-why-ee?)

What's kowai?  I don't think I've heard that one and I'd like to not inadvertently offend people...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 16, 2020, 01:37:07 PM
Kawaii is cute things, right? Is it pronounced like Hawaii with a K? (ka-why-ee?)

What's kowai?  I don't think I've heard that one and I'd like to not inadvertently offend people...

Kowai means scary.
Lemme see if I can find sound bytes, but a lot of English speakers pronounce kawaii like kowai.
How I would pronounce Hawaii sounds closer to kowai than kawaii to me, but I am British so I don't know for sure the comparison.  In any case kawaii has a double final vowel and all syllables in Japanese are voiced, which isn't really intuitive to English speakers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZjyp7PY_k

Japanese has a lot of words that can sound similar if anglicised and they convey different meanings.  Kawaii and Kowai are just one of the more obvious and awkward if misused xD.

This is a longer video that explains the distinction specifically by someone who is  a native speaker...you really only need to look at the first minute or so to hear both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2EOgt-mqs
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on December 16, 2020, 02:26:58 PM
You can't always get every name right, but people appreciate the effort. I think that's what you're talking about too, you just misunderstood what I meant and who I meant it towards.

That's what I meant.

The fact that you can hear things and pronounce them as you hear it is a talent. It's like how some people are really good at music, and some people are really good at art. So the way the brain works also influences how someone interprets what they hear, and how they say it.. that's also what I've been trying to get say.

It's something I personally wish I was good at. I can barely make out my own dialect. lol.

I have no idea on how to tell if someone doesn't know because they aren't trying, or if it's something else. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 17, 2020, 09:53:21 AM
How I would pronounce Hawaii sounds closer to kowai than kawaii to me, but I am British so I don't know for sure the comparison. 

I can hear a difference between the two in that video.  And Kawaii sounds like the way I say Hawaii, so that will make it easier for me to remember how to pronounce it.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 27, 2020, 03:33:42 PM
I started watching Free.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 27, 2020, 03:38:49 PM
I started watching Free.


Ponyfan

Haru in the bathtub and the fishtank. :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 30, 2020, 04:07:14 PM
I started watching Free.


Ponyfan

Haru in the bathtub and the fishtank. :)


I have to wonder how Haru thought he would actually be able to swim in the fishtank.  :lol:


I'm playing spot the va now too.   :D  So far I've found two more vas besides Furuya's that also have roles in Diamond no Ace.


Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on January 01, 2021, 08:11:07 PM
I started watching Free.

I'm rewatching Yuri On Ice lately.  Maybe because I miss ice skating :|   Watching it knowing the huge twist toward the end is really interesting  :lol: 

Does anyone ever watch those comedy "abridged" series on youtube?  Like 50% Off or...I think there was at least one for Fullmetal Alchemist but I can't remember its name...?  Or am I gonna get my metaphorical head bitten off for even asking ha ha
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: starrynights on January 01, 2021, 09:27:39 PM
I started watching Free.

I'm rewatching Yuri On Ice lately.  Maybe because I miss ice skating :|   Watching it knowing the huge twist toward the end is really interesting  :lol: 

Does anyone ever watch those comedy "abridged" series on youtube?  Like 50% Off or...I think there was at least one for Fullmetal Alchemist but I can't remember its name...?  Or am I gonna get my metaphorical head bitten off for even asking ha ha

I remember seeing DBZ Abridged a looong time ago...can barely remember it
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 02, 2021, 10:35:59 AM
I started watching Free.

I'm rewatching Yuri On Ice lately.  Maybe because I miss ice skating :|   Watching it knowing the huge twist toward the end is really interesting  :lol: 


Hey, me too!  I just love watching how pretty they drew everything.  It makes me wish I'd never stopped skating (not that I was any good, the only "tricks" I could do were going backwards and crossing over my feet when I turned corners) but I always wanted to be better at it.  Now I'm not sure my knees would let me...

I ordered so many series between the RightStuf, Sentai, and Funimation sales over the last 2 months.  I have an order from RightStuf that should come today and 2 more that are pending.  I only hope that some of my impulse buys (they were $2.99 from Sentai!) are actually good and they weren't cheap because they're awful. :P
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on January 02, 2021, 01:48:00 PM
I'm rewatching Yuri On Ice lately.  Maybe because I miss ice skating :|   Watching it knowing the huge twist toward the end is really interesting  :lol: 

Hey, me too!  I just love watching how pretty they drew everything.  It makes me wish I'd never stopped skating (not that I was any good, the only "tricks" I could do were going backwards and crossing over my feet when I turned corners) but I always wanted to be better at it.  Now I'm not sure my knees would let me...

It IS a really pretty show!  Tonight I'm on the last episode...I can't remember how it ends really, so I'll be surprised I guess.  Are you in the middle of it?

You can always skate without doing anything fancy!  Just gliding around the rink feels so good, imo.  I can't do any fancy jumps or anything either, I mostly just play hockey.  But really...it's that gliding sensation that is so satisfying to me. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 02, 2021, 03:23:52 PM
Yuri on Ice is on my watchlist. 

I'm still watching Free.

I will also be catching up on Fruits Basket Season 2 part one when the Blu ray is released.

It's probably time to rewatch Yona also. :D


Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 02, 2021, 04:12:29 PM
Oh for a second or third season of Yona.

I did watch Yuri, but I didn't really get into it. It didn't live up to the hype for me...maybe I need to watch it again, though.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 03, 2021, 07:52:18 AM
Oh for a second or third season of Yona.


We need more animated Yona. :D. Everytime a new manga volume is released in the US there are always a lot of posts asking for another season of Yona.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on January 03, 2021, 10:01:59 AM
Oh for a second or third season of Yona.

I did watch Yuri, but I didn't really get into it. It didn't live up to the hype for me...maybe I need to watch it again, though.

Soooo much of the screen time is dedicated to the scenes of ice skating, it's understandable that folks not into ice skating wouldn't get too excited about it.   
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 03, 2021, 11:34:13 AM
Oh for a second or third season of Yona.

I did watch Yuri, but I didn't really get into it. It didn't live up to the hype for me...maybe I need to watch it again, though.

Soooo much of the screen time is dedicated to the scenes of ice skating, it's understandable that folks not into ice skating wouldn't get too excited about it.   

The irony of that comment is that I have done more ice skating than I have ever engaged with baseball, yet I've watched all of Daiya and read the manga. I still don't care about baseball at all  in real life, and it's not even really a thing in the UK.

It's not about the setting or the technical detail, I can manage that. I've watched a lot of series in which I don't have experience of what's happening in the story. But if I don't like the characters and the plot doesn't grab me then that's just how it is. I wouldn't have watched Daiya if the characters hadn't been engaging from the start. I'm quite ruthless with sports series and it either works or it doesn't.

I'm not saying the series is bad, or anything. I know it's popular. Just for me personally it didn't click. I don't like either of the main characters, so that made it difficult to care about them (although I really really tried).

Enjoying a series about something you don't know much about is normal. I know a lot of people who enjoyed Yuri who have done less skating than I have. I'm just not one of them. I really wanted to like it. I just didn't. *Shrug* c'est la vie.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on January 03, 2021, 02:12:07 PM
Oh for a second or third season of Yona.

I did watch Yuri, but I didn't really get into it. It didn't live up to the hype for me...maybe I need to watch it again, though.

Soooo much of the screen time is dedicated to the scenes of ice skating, it's understandable that folks not into ice skating wouldn't get too excited about it.   

The irony of that comment is that I have done more ice skating than I have ever engaged with baseball, yet I've watched all of Daiya and read the manga. I still don't care about baseball at all  in real life, and it's not even really a thing in the UK.

It's not about the setting or the technical detail, I can manage that. I've watched a lot of series in which I don't have experience of what's happening in the story. But if I don't like the characters and the plot doesn't grab me then that's just how it is. I wouldn't have watched Daiya if the characters hadn't been engaging from the start. I'm quite ruthless with sports series and it either works or it doesn't.

I'm not saying the series is bad, or anything. I know it's popular. Just for me personally it didn't click. I don't like either of the main characters, so that made it difficult to care about them (although I really really tried).

Enjoying a series about something you don't know much about is normal. I know a lot of people who enjoyed Yuri who have done less skating than I have. I'm just not one of them. I really wanted to like it. I just didn't. *Shrug* c'est la vie.

It seems that you have misunderstood my comment.  But that's okay, it doesn't really matter.

So I finished the series... and I'm left with the urge to go to the skating rink.  It's been almost a year ;_;   I wonder what to watch next... I've been meaning to try that one where Jesus and Buddha live together as roommates, has anyone seen it?  I've heard mixed reviews.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 03, 2021, 02:15:08 PM

It seems that you have misunderstood my comment.  But that's okay, it doesn't really matter.
I don't think so. I think I understood it exactly as it was meant.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 03, 2021, 06:30:40 PM
I just saw that Amazon has a release date for Fruits Basket season 2 part 2.  It is scheduled to be released in March.  That surprises me a little since we had a much longer wait between the two halves of season 1.  Shigure is on the cover.




The irony of that comment is that I have done more ice skating than I have ever engaged with baseball, yet I've watched all of Daiya and read the manga. I still don't care about baseball at all  in real life, and it's not even really a thing in the UK.


I’m not a sports fan in real life but I love Diamond no Ace. :D  I’m also enjoying Free so far.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 04, 2021, 12:32:14 AM
I just saw that Amazon has a release date for Fruits Basket season 2 part 2.  It is scheduled to be released in March.  That surprises me a little since we had a much longer wait between the two halves of season 1.  Shigure is on the cover.




The irony of that comment is that I have done more ice skating than I have ever engaged with baseball, yet I've watched all of Daiya and read the manga. I still don't care about baseball at all  in real life, and it's not even really a thing in the UK.


I’m not a sports fan in real life but I love Diamond no Ace. :D  I’m also enjoying Free so far.

Ponyfan

The only sport that I follow with any real interest is football (soccer). But there's only one anime about football that I can stand (the others I've found have annoyed me). And it's not really because it's about football that I like it, but for other reasons. Characters, the plot premise (while brutal and completely unbelievable) and so on.

I really think a good series is a good series irrespective of the subject it's based around.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 04, 2021, 08:22:28 AM



I really think a good series is a good series irrespective of the subject it's based around.

I agree. :D

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 04, 2021, 08:29:48 AM
Finished Yuri on Ice (again) and I've watched Kenka Bancho Otome Girl Beats Boys for the first time.  The episodes are short (about 8 minutes, I think) but it's cute and funny.  Not sure what I'm watching next.  Maybe I'll watch the next season of Pokemon as a break from the more "serious" ones I've been watching.  I'm on one of the Johto generation sets. 

Anyone watched Eyeshield 21?  It took me a bit to get into it but I'm on the third DVD set and I'm enjoying it (it's one that I watch while I'm walking on the treadmill because it's only in Japanese and I have to read the subtitles so it's a bit slow going).  It's interesting to see how they portrayed the American Football team they played against--yet some of it is so true, like getting Kanji Tattoos that they don't know the meanings of.   :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 12, 2021, 11:51:34 AM
I was hoping to find Season 2 of Fruits Basket today in store but I didn’t even see a spot on the shelf or a shelf tag.  I looked online and it looks like Walmart is not carrying it in their stores.

I’m still watching Free and Monthly Girls. I will rewatch Diamond no Ace sometime also. 

I haven’t watched Eyesheild 21 but what you say about the American team pokeyonekenobie reminds me when

(Not sure if this is a spoiler but just in case)
Spoiler
The Japanese all star team played against the American team in Diamond no Ace

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 12, 2021, 01:07:06 PM
If so, I hope the dialogue was less of a cringe.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 12, 2021, 01:21:48 PM
I was hoping to find Season 2 of Fruits Basket today in store but I didn’t even see a spot on the shelf or a shelf tag.  I looked online and it looks like Walmart is not carrying it in their stores.

My Walmart never had part 2 of season 1, so I'm not surprised.  What bothers me is that I've been told by store employees that they don't carry it in store because it doesn't sell.  Yet they still have several copies of One Punch Man season 1 that are shelf warming (and have been there since it was released) and they've now got season 2 (which just came out) on the shelves.  They also still have Inuyasha, Boruto, and several others that have been there and I'm pretty positive are not restocks since the number on the shelf never changes.  I feel like Fruits Basket would sell if it was available.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 12, 2021, 02:02:51 PM
I was hoping to find Season 2 of Fruits Basket today in store but I didn’t even see a spot on the shelf or a shelf tag.  I looked online and it looks like Walmart is not carrying it in their stores.

My Walmart never had part 2 of season 1, so I'm not surprised.  What bothers me is that I've been told by store employees that they don't carry it in store because it doesn't sell.  Yet they still have several copies of One Punch Man season 1 that are shelf warming (and have been there since it was released) and they've now got season 2 (which just came out) on the shelves.  They also still have Inuyasha, Boruto, and several others that have been there and I'm pretty positive are not restocks since the number on the shelf never changes.  I feel like Fruits Basket would sell if it was available.

All of the Walmart stores in my area are the same. :( I know everyone likes different series but it’s a little annoying to see many animes that I’m not interested in shelf warming and having to always hunt for the ones I do want to watch. I think the last anime I got in store was Weathering With You.

I think Fruits Basket would sell too.  The manga seems to be selling well due to the new series.
 

If so, I hope the dialogue was less of a cringe.

Just thinking about the
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all stars v American team game
makes me remember some of the awkward dialogue.

Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 12, 2021, 02:07:47 PM
I was hoping to find Season 2 of Fruits Basket today in store but I didn’t even see a spot on the shelf or a shelf tag.  I looked online and it looks like Walmart is not carrying it in their stores.

My Walmart never had part 2 of season 1, so I'm not surprised.  What bothers me is that I've been told by store employees that they don't carry it in store because it doesn't sell.  Yet they still have several copies of One Punch Man season 1 that are shelf warming (and have been there since it was released) and they've now got season 2 (which just came out) on the shelves.  They also still have Inuyasha, Boruto, and several others that have been there and I'm pretty positive are not restocks since the number on the shelf never changes.  I feel like Fruits Basket would sell if it was available.

All of the Walmart stores in my area are the same. :( I know everyone likes different series but it’s a little annoying to see many animes that I’m not interested in shelf warming and having to always hunt for the ones I do want to watch. I think the last anime I got in store was Weathering With You.

I think Fruits Basket would sell too.  The manga seems to be selling well due to the new series.



Ponyfan

Yeah, I think I'm just going to keep an eye on RightStuf and see if I can order both parts of Season 2 at once from them once the second part comes out.  Maybe they'll have a random sale or something.  If not, I can always wait for their holiday sale next November/December (but I don't really want to wait that long so I'll probably end up buying them sooner.)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 16, 2021, 11:17:46 AM
I've checked several stores this week for Fruits Basket Season 2 and it looks like most stores are not carrying it. :(    I will order it online probably next month or after Part 2 is released.


I watched Whisper of the Heart last night.




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on January 16, 2021, 11:43:21 AM
I watched Whisper of the Heart last night.

Oooo that's one of my absolute favorites!  Did you like it?  I'm going to have Concrete Road stuck in my head now just thinking about it  :lol:

I think I'm going to try to find Tokyo Godfathers.  Haven't seen it in a few years and Christmas put me in the mood to see it again.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 16, 2021, 12:40:19 PM
I have slipped into one of my Asian drama watching modes, but prior to that I rewatched Charlotte. Then yesterday the drama version of Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi (aka Erased)...and am now going through my drama series dvds xD.

I do love Charlotte, though I really wish they had done it across more episodes. It feels like it needs more episodes. And definitely more of an epilogue after the story ends.

I love Erased, too, but I like the drama series more than the anime. I keep meaning to find time to acquire the manga.

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Sometimes I wonder if Kenya and Satoru chatting on stairwells is a subtle play on words...a staircase is a kaidan in Japanese, and kaidan can also be a story about creepy things...so a kaidanbanashi is a chat about creepy things or a chat in a stairwell...

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 16, 2021, 01:10:04 PM
I watched Whisper of the Heart last night.

Oooo that's one of my absolute favorites!  Did you like it?  I'm going to have Concrete Road stuck in my head now just thinking about it  :lol:


Yes. :D  I have "Country Roads" in my head now. 

I've heard "baka" so many times in Diamond no Ace that even though I was watching the dub of Whisper of the Heart, when I heard Shizuku say "idiot" my brain translated it  in Japanese  :lol:


Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 17, 2021, 08:48:37 AM
I watched Whisper of the Heart last night.

Oooo that's one of my absolute favorites!  Did you like it?  I'm going to have Concrete Road stuck in my head now just thinking about it  :lol:


Yes. :D  I have "Country Roads" in my head now. 

I've heard "baka" so many times in Diamond no Ace that even though I was watching the dub of Whisper of the Heart, when I heard Shizuku say "idiot" my brain translated it  in Japanese  :lol:


Ponyfan



I had a weird situation watching a Chinese drama the other night where one of the characters said (according to the subs, 'that's ridiculous!'. And it sounded just like baka na in Japanese, which is kind of what that means...

So now I think that baka has Chinese origins...xD

I did a year only of Mandarin Chinese so when I watch Chinese dramas certain words and phrases jump out at me as familiar, while many don't. But I don't usually hear words that remind me of Japanese...xD
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 17, 2021, 08:56:28 PM
I watched Royal Tutor this weekend and now I'm watching Chihayafuru.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 18, 2021, 12:13:32 AM
Chihayafuru <3.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 24, 2021, 01:30:16 PM
I finished season 1 of Free.  I will be stating season 2 soon.  :D   I have a couple of episodes left of Monthly Girls before I finish the series.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on January 27, 2021, 10:42:24 AM
Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but it's anime-related, so what the heck...

Anyone know if there's any way to buy tickets for an online stream on the Eplus.jp website, without being in Japan...? they have an "overseas" site but the event I'm interested in (an Ojamajo Doremi live event!) isn't on there :s and I believe the .jp site only accepts payments from residents of Japan... was thinking of asking a deputy buying service if there's any way they could help, but idk if that'd work and I'm nervous about wasting anyone's time/pestering them with a stupid question/etc... tried googling but no luck, just kept getting results for buying *physical* tickets from them which isn't what I'm looking for x) So I figured I'd ask here... Anyone here familiar w/ online JP events like this?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 27, 2021, 01:44:15 PM
I've never done that, although I'm still kicking myself that I didn't get to attend an event when I was in Japan...I remember looking at tickets and stuff was complicated even with the language, but I don't know the site in question.

This may be an unhelpful post but do you know whether there will be a DVD release of the event after the fact? It's not uncommon in Japan to do this with big events. I have a lot of event DVDs from various things/series although some are more difficult to track down than others. If you can't find ticketing for the streaming then maybe that's something to look into? If there's a website for the event that information may be on it...

The thing with Japanese sites/etc is that they often want you to have a Japanese bank account or card to pay for the access. Even when I was in Japan, there were still things not accessible to me because of that.

We do have a couple of members actually in Japan though - Thimble is one, can't remember the other right now. Maybe they would be able to help you figure it out if you asked them directly??
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 27, 2021, 06:32:18 PM
I just watched the anime of The Little Mermaid.  I love Disney’s version but I also like this version because it follows the original storyline.  My one complaint about the DVD version is in the dub I can’t understand what Marina is singing.  The rest of the dialogue is clear( except for some background voices in the opening scene)  so I think it must be a problem with the original audio. 



Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 30, 2021, 03:18:41 PM
I'm thinking about checking out The Promised Neverland. Is it good?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 30, 2021, 05:33:23 PM
I'm thinking about checking out The Promised Neverland. Is it good?

I enjoyed it. It's a bit hardcore and twisty if you like stuff like that, but pretty nicely put together. I think there's supposed to be a second season at some point - there's certainly manga although I haven't read it...I've only heard a few spoilers.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on January 31, 2021, 06:55:52 PM
I'm thinking about checking out The Promised Neverland. Is it good?

I enjoyed it. It's a bit hardcore and twisty if you like stuff like that, but pretty nicely put together. I think there's supposed to be a second season at some point - there's certainly manga although I haven't read it...I've only heard a few spoilers.

Thanks Taf
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 02, 2021, 08:19:58 AM
I've never done that, although I'm still kicking myself that I didn't get to attend an event when I was in Japan...I remember looking at tickets and stuff was complicated even with the language, but I don't know the site in question.

This may be an unhelpful post but do you know whether there will be a DVD release of the event after the fact? It's not uncommon in Japan to do this with big events. I have a lot of event DVDs from various things/series although some are more difficult to track down than others. If you can't find ticketing for the streaming then maybe that's something to look into? If there's a website for the event that information may be on it...

The thing with Japanese sites/etc is that they often want you to have a Japanese bank account or card to pay for the access. Even when I was in Japan, there were still things not accessible to me because of that.

We do have a couple of members actually in Japan though - Thimble is one, can't remember the other right now. Maybe they would be able to help you figure it out if you asked them directly??

(sorry for the late reply)

The websites are here, if it helps any:
https://www.doremi-anniv.com/news/event/2021011701/
https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/3364960002?P6=001&P1=0402&P59=1

Haven't seen anything about a DVD release yet, but I've been keeping an eye out for that :s If they'd already announced one I'd just wait for that, but since they haven't I'm worried about missing out, you know?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 03, 2021, 03:39:05 PM
I had a look at the site but can't see any mention of whether it will be released on DVD. It's the kind of event that could be, because it's an anniversary event and such, but I guess it's not a guarantee.

Looking at the order thing, I can see that it's 3500 yen for the online ticket for streaming but I am a bit wary of pushing for payment methods because it wants a login and I don't want to give my details. So I can't guarantee whether they can help or not.

In terms of a proxy, I know some have paused services because of the pandemic but this is online and so there may be one that can help you. Or if one of our forum members in Japan can help you, even better.

Sorry if that wasn't much more helpful :/ I did look at the cd-japan catalogue to see if there were any previous examples of Doremi DVD event releases but it doesn't look like it, just animation.

Also, the event looks like a variety event with songs, talk sections and maybe live readings...it probably won't have subs so I don't know how much that would bother you? (Of course a DVD release wouldn't have subs either...)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 04, 2021, 09:38:32 AM
yeah, I checked the FAQ and it says (using Google Translate here) "we accept credit cards, convenience stores/pay-easy ATMs, and online banking" and "we do not support purchases and viewings from outside Japan" which does seem to suggest they only accept Japanese cards, etc. :s

Yeah, I think this is the first time they've really done anything like this, so there's nothing to really look at and think "Oh, they did it this way before". if that makes sense. (I know what I mean but I'm failing at putting it into words >_<) :s That's the tricky thing.

Oh, yeah, I know it'll be unsubbed. I'm used to that with this fandom ^^;; Lots of untranslated old CD dramas and such, heh.

Thanks for the help, I'll have to look into proxy services I guess. Might make another thread on here about it too, since it's easy for stuff to get lost in this big thread ^^; But yeah ty for helping, I really appreciate it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 04, 2021, 04:29:44 PM
TBH one of the reasons I started learning Japanese was because I was so frustrated not understanding the dialogue sections from the Neoroma events I got into back in 2007. It was Fushigi Yuugi that inspired me to learn, in part because of its untranslated novels, but because I started following up the voice artists from that, I stumbled onto those series and then the events and I really wanted to know what was going on outside of the song performances. The first time I was able to get the word play joke in one of the dramas I felt really proud of myself xD.

I'm sorry not to be of more use. I've never had to buy tickets before in Japan or otherwise, as the only performance I attended when I was there was Bunraku and the professor who was my mentor while I was over there arranged it all.

I hope you find a proxy; it sounds like a vpn might also be needed, depending on whether they're going by location. And if all else fails, I hope they release a DVD. Though not all event DVDs show up on Amazon or CDJapan, they do generally show up on the yahoo auctions - and proxies WILL buy from those if need be, at least providing shipping between here and Japan normalises. The proxy I use is shut down at the moment because apparently there's an issue shipping to certain countries in the West via Japanese post. I don't know what all the details are but in November they said shipping to the UK was very slow and advised couriers :/ I don't know how that will impact their services for digital events but just be warned. Nothing is normal right now.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on February 12, 2021, 09:36:32 AM
I’ve stopped watching The Final season of Attack on Titan. One episode made me cry  :cry: Sasha’s death at the hands of Gabi she (Sasha) was one of my favourite characters I’ve only got my favourite character Parco now (don’t know how long he will last in the series).

 :sad: :cloud: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: Sasha!!!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 12, 2021, 03:56:55 PM
We had a Valentine game at work today and one of the questions was "In Japan what do girls often give guys on Valentine's Day?"  I knew the answer was chocolates.   It made me smile that something I learned from anime was useful in real life. :D


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 13, 2021, 07:31:59 AM
We had a Valentine game at work today and one of the questions was "In Japan what do girls often give guys on Valentine's Day?"  I knew the answer was chocolates.   It made me smile that something I learned from anime was useful in real life. :D


Ponyfan

Who says you can't learn from anime? ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2021, 05:54:30 AM
I'll be getting the Blu-Ray of Fruits Basket Season 2 part 1 soon. :D


I don't know how many people like Funko Pops but I saw on Amazon there will be Pops of Torhru, Yuki (Amazon has him listed at Tuki :lol:)  , Kyo and Shiguire.  I was surprised to see Pops of them.  I think this year is the 20th anniversary of the original anime? 


Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 19, 2021, 07:30:19 AM
I was surprised at the POPs too, I'm glad to see something other than the usual Naruto/DBZ/Hero Academia/etc stuff though. Disappointed the versions with their animal forms are exclusives :( POP animals are my favourites. Oh well.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 19, 2021, 08:12:40 AM
Well, I don't know if anyone is looking for them but you can pre-order Yuki with the Rat on Funimation:

https://shop.funimation.com/figures/fruits-basket-yuki-soma-rat-funko-pop%21/FIG-00209.html

It looks like Shigure with the Dog will also be a Funimation exclusive but he wasn't listed.
Kyo with the Cat is supposed to be a Hot Topic exclusive but I didn't see him listed on their site. 

The characters without animals are available on Funimation for $8.99, which is cheaper than other places I've seen POPs for sale.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 19, 2021, 10:02:01 AM
I was really happy about the Pops too. :D  I didn't realize that the ones with the animals were going to be exclusives though.   


I wonder if the line does well if they'll release more characters?  I'd like to see all of the Sohma's eventually but I know that would make the line really big.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2021, 05:11:23 AM
Well, I don't know if anyone is looking for them but you can pre-order Yuki with the Rat on Funimation:

https://shop.funimation.com/figures/fruits-basket-yuki-soma-rat-funko-pop%21/FIG-00209.html

It looks like Shigure with the Dog will also be a Funimation exclusive but he wasn't listed.
Kyo with the Cat is supposed to be a Hot Topic exclusive but I didn't see him listed on their site. 

The characters without animals are available on Funimation for $8.99, which is cheaper than other places I've seen POPs for sale.



Carrehz is in the UK though. Wonder if that will still be possible - a lot of those kinds of offers are limited to US or US/Canada. Apparently stores in North America are mostly allergic to oceans, and don't like to send over them ><.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: banditpony on February 21, 2021, 06:21:29 AM
ToyWiz mentions they ship internationally including UK...retail price tho. I assume Amazon also potentially ships there-- but I don't see any it fulfilled by amazon right now.

https://toywiz.com/funko-fruits-basket-pop-animation-yuki-sohma-w-rat-exclusive-vinyl-figure/?gclid=Cj0KCQiApsiBBhCKARIsAN8o_4hwC7mToME-EuYLSRVUEdrRj3VfUpBHh94C8lhUlWNrN_oS_uHQTnEaAio3EALw_wcB
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 21, 2021, 12:55:59 PM
Yeah, Amazon as a store itself normally ships to the UK from the US (there are some exceptions). I'm not sure through COVID though, at different points they've changed the rules on what they'll ship overseas.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 22, 2021, 10:42:22 AM
Heh, thanks guys, but I wasn't really looking to buy the POPs ^^;;

Oh, I forgot to say before though, but that stream thing I mentioned before, someone actually uploaded it to YouTube after the event ended! So I was able to watch it in the end. ^^ Good thing too since one of the VAs said they didn't have plans to release it on DVD or w/e.

I'm rewatching Ojamajo Doremi, nearly finished with the first season. Hoping to finish rewatching everything before the new movie's fansubbed ^^
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 22, 2021, 07:35:12 PM
It looks like  the Torhru and Yuki  POPs are already on backorder on Amazon.  Kyo and Shiguire are still in stock.

Carrehz, I'm glad you got the see the event on Youtube. :D

I've almost finished the 2nd season of Free.



Ponyfan



Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 23, 2021, 12:29:57 PM
Heh, thanks guys, but I wasn't really looking to buy the POPs ^^;;

Oh, I forgot to say before though, but that stream thing I mentioned before, someone actually uploaded it to YouTube after the event ended! So I was able to watch it in the end. ^^ Good thing too since one of the VAs said they didn't have plans to release it on DVD or w/e.

I'm rewatching Ojamajo Doremi, nearly finished with the first season. Hoping to finish rewatching everything before the new movie's fansubbed ^^

Ah,so glad you got to see it! That's awesome. It's a shame there won't be a DVD but at least you didn't miss out!

I've been going through more of an asian drama phase than anime of late.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on February 23, 2021, 12:46:57 PM
yeah, I was worried since this fandom tends to be hit-or-miss at archiving stuff, but I guess I shouldn't have worried XD

Happy birthday btw! :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 03, 2021, 07:25:37 PM
My Fruits Basket Season 2 part 1, Free Season 1 and  Yuki Pop arrived today.  :D  It looks like the Hot Topic store in the mall might have the  Kyo and Tohru  Pops in stock.  They are still out of stock on Amazon.


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 04, 2021, 07:40:12 AM
I finished Wolf's Rain last night. 

Spoiler
I hated that they killed everyone off--especially Toboe!  That was just sad!  I know they "come back" at the end but still! :wail:

Started First Love Monster.  All I can say after the first two episodes is "What am I watching?"  :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 06, 2021, 04:47:44 PM
I finished the second season of Free last night. 


I got the Kyo with cat and Tohru Funko Pops today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 08, 2021, 02:45:52 PM
I've been mostly watching dramas on netflix but I dipped back into anime last night and watched some of Idolish7.

The little grumbles that always haunt me with this series.
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The female lead is a walking definition of useless. She doesn't do her job and has to be told how to do everything by a cocky teenager still in high school. Archetypal female game character - which she probably is - who is unable to do anything for herself and simpers, blushes and flaps around like a moron for most of the show.

Nagi's Japanese is so painful to listen to I want to rip my ears off every time he speaks. It's classic "Japanese person mutating their speech to pretend to be a foreigner speaking Japanese"...which ends up being worse than listening to dub pronuniciations of character names. Really. I don't know if it's as painful if you don't speak Japanese, but I can't imagine how anyone could stand listening to that in the studio and not want to hit his VA. I seriously hate his character simply because he can't speak Japanese properly >< and shoves English words in inappropriately...so clearly can't speak that right either. He's also stereotypically a foreign otaku, and blond. And he comes from a made up country. Sigh.

The band's music is horrible.

But on the positive...

Spoiler
For all the flaws, I kind of like the character development that happens in the other characters, in both bands. Even Nagi has a couple of moments, although it's not pleasant to listen to him explain them ><.

So I decided I'd watch it again, and the new episodes, and see what I missed.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 08, 2021, 07:39:15 PM
I guess I will try to finish Evol Love.  I watched an episode today for the first time in a long time because the description had the Japanese names for the characters.  I was hoping this meant that the subs no longer had the English names but they still do. The episode I was watching ended on a cliffhanger so I watched the next episode 2.


It's been a while since I played the game chapters these episodes are based on and I know that the anime is cutting out a lot of the filler that makes the events in the game extra long but
 
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I think it should have been explained how the main character returned from the alternate dimension.  It shows Haku disappearing in to a whirlwind. Zen being surround by black holes and Kira wincing in pain right before his fans start going crazy.   

In the next episode the main character is back in Loveland City.  In the game Haku helped her escape the alternate dimension before he disappeared.




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on March 09, 2021, 01:00:40 PM
I watched all of 50% Off this past weekend, hilarious as always.  Next up is Saint Young Men, then I think I'll rewatch No. 6. I'm feeling the post apocalyptic vibes, haha.  Love the visuals and music in that show.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 17, 2021, 01:34:16 AM
Finished I7 and rewatched My Roomate is a Cat over the last week. I still love that series; it's so cute. Pity it isn't longer.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on March 17, 2021, 06:52:49 AM
I saw a few episodes of the Inuyasha spin off
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 17, 2021, 07:08:34 AM
My Roommate is a Cat is one of my favorite series too. :D  I need to rewatch it. I wish it was a little longer too. 

It's probably time to rewatch Yona also.

I've started watching the 2nd season of Fruits Basket and will be starting the 3rd season of Free soon.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 18, 2021, 12:42:21 PM
I finished Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun,  I liked it but not sure how many times I will rewatch it.

I started Cells at Work but I'm not sure it's for me. I've only seen the first episode so far but it seemed that the anime couldn't decide if it wanted to be educational or entertaining.  I'm not saying that anime can't be both but so far it seems Cells at Work is trying to hard.

The palettes were adorable.


Ponyfan 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on March 18, 2021, 01:13:09 PM
I started Cells at Work but I'm not sure it's for me. I've only seen the first episode so far but it seemed that the anime couldn't decide if it wanted to be educational or entertaining.  I'm not saying that anime can't be both but so far it seems Cells at Work is trying to hard.

The palettes were adorable.

Oh I'd like to see that one!  I'm adding it to my list.

I watched Saint Young Men.  It was a pretty nice slice of life anime, with some really funny moments.  Would recommend!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on March 18, 2021, 04:49:06 PM
I'm still working through Ojamajo Doremi, finished the third season Motto tonight and have started the OVA Naisho :) Naisho's one of my favourite seasons.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 18, 2021, 05:28:39 PM
I saw a couple of eps of Cells at Work back when it came out. I showed one to my mother because it was dealing with the immune system and we have a lot of family jokes about her platelets and such. But I also feel like it's not sure whether it's science or story...

Or maybe I'm just biased because I grew up with Once Upon a Time...Life as the seminal animated guide to stuff in the body xD I'm not ready for it to be reinvented xD.



Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 23, 2021, 10:05:18 PM
Has anyone ordered the season 2 part 2 of Fruits Basket from Amazon?  I have been watching it on Amazon for a while to see if there might be a drop in the price on release day since $70 is a little pricey for me right now.  Up until today I could find the set on Amazon by clicking on the limited edition set and then changing it to the standard  Blu Ray/DVD set.  Today though sometimes I can't change to the standard set or if I can, it takes me to listings from third party sellers .  Then there is a little section on the right hand side that says  "Other sellers of this item" and Amazon.com is listed.  I've noticed recently that Amazon will sometimes show third party seller results ahead of their own listings for products if Amazon is out of stock or running low on stock but it seems a little unusual that  it's taking me directly to third party sellers instead of Amazon's own page.

Edit: I tried it again today and on my desktop Amazon takes me to the correct page but  it is still acting funny on my phone.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 29, 2021, 12:30:14 PM
My copies of Free! seasons 2 and 3 and Free Take your Marks arrived today. :D



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 29, 2021, 12:33:22 PM
My copies of Free! seasons 2 and 3 and Free Take your Marks arrived today. :D



Ponyfan

Congrats :D
I found my disc of the movie lurking in a completely different folder last night. I think I must have taken a bunch of DVDs to London with me in carry cases, as a whole lot of my discs are not in their cases...

I rewatched Nightwalker this week. It's an old (1993) vampire anime with occasional questions left unanswered. But I kind of like it anyway. The narrative with Shidou and Riho is at least interesting, even if Yayoi's backstory is fundamentally unbelievable.

It also has an awesome theme song. Which was part of the reason I originally watched it I think...though admittedly not as awesome as Yami no Matsuei's theme song Eden <3.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 31, 2021, 07:30:26 PM
I'm glad you found your copy of the movie Taffeta. :) 

I'm planning on getting Free High Speed Starting Days from Amazon after Yona 29 is released in the US.  :D

I saw that Fruits Basket Season 3 is on Crunchyroll's spring lineup. I didn't catch the exact date it will begin to air though.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 05, 2021, 07:58:03 AM
Finished watching Doremi last week (and then my computer promptly gave up, otherwise I'd have posted this before >_> Still having issues with it.. *kicks it*), guess I'll have to wait for the new movie to be subtitled now! :B
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 05, 2021, 08:10:23 AM
Finished Gourmet Girl Graffiti and Bamboo Blade.  I've started Grimgar and Natsuyuki Rendezvous (while I run on the treadmill). 

I like having DVDs with only the Japanese for when I'm on the treadmill but sometimes I want to watch those titles again and don't have time to read them when I'm not on the treadmill so it's a little frustrating. Maybe someday I'll learn Japanese, but for now I can only pick out a few words and phrases so there's hope I can actually learn it when I take the time to.

However, they have done an English dub of Emma, which I'm excited for.  I really liked that story. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 05, 2021, 09:00:00 AM
I'm almost halfway through season 3 of Free. 

My Blu Ray/DVD set of Season 2 part 1 of Fruits Basket was defective so I had to send it back to Amazon.  :(


I like having DVDs with only the Japanese for when I'm on the treadmill but sometimes I want to watch those titles again and don't have time to read them when I'm not on the treadmill so it's a little frustrating. Maybe someday I'll learn Japanese, but for now I can only pick out a few words and phrases so there's hope I can actually learn it when I take the time to.


I've gotten better at being able to keep up with subbed anime but I still feel like I miss a few things since I have to read and watch the action on the screen at the same time.  I've also been able to learn a few words in Japanese through subbed anime too.

If it's late at night and I feel too tired to keep up with subbed anime I'll watch dubbed and there's a few series that I'll always watch dubbed like Fruits Basket and Sailor Moon.

I've been thinking of rewatching Yona in Japanese. 

I wish Daiya no Ace was available in the US on DVD but I think it's only been released in Japan.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 07, 2021, 06:34:47 AM
Seconding the wish for Daiya on DVD in some western format. I don't care too much if it has subs, since the subs on CR for Daiya annoy the heck out of me with the free and loose way they mess with the dialogue at times...(all the times it says someone 'hates' something, for example, when the characters generally use the word for 'annoying' instead. And the unforgivable moments where they get names/score counts/position/whatever wrong...yeah).

But the Japanese DVDs are so expensive. It's like $20 for 3 episodes or something ridiculous. Daiya has over 200 episodes. Nope. Not happening. Hoping CR don't remove it for a long time, because that's going to hurt. I will have to step up buying the manga from Act I if that happens >< I'm still missing a lot of that.

It's also so annoying that Daiya manga Act II is on a break this week after the cliffhanger last week, gah.


OK, Daiya rants out the way (that is what I'm rewatching atm, although I'm also rewatching Alderamin on the Sky, which if I wasn't lazy I could go and read the novels for but I am lazy so I'm stuck with 12 episodes that I enjoy but which don't quite finish anything up). Yet another voice of the many voiced Okamoto Nobuhiko...

On the subject of learning Japanese...I started doing that in 2007 after watching Fushigi Yuugi and being fascinated by Tasuki's accent. I learned later that his voice artist, who I greatly respect, had to be coached to do it by the author, who comes from the Kansai, but at the time it just grabbed me. Kansaiben and Kyotoben dialects still sound really interesting to my ears :D. But I remember that I picked up odd words to begin with, like shashin for photograph, because of one scene where Miaka is trying to explain what a camera is and what it does to her companions.

There are pros and cons from listening to Japanese in anime. The pros are that you get to hear actual Japanese during something you enjoy, so it's more likely to make an impression, and that really helps get your ear in. The cons are that the language used in anime is often very colloquial or full of odd vocabulary you'll never ever use in real life. Even now I have a better vocabulary for all kinds of mystical and mythical things than I do food...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 07, 2021, 07:25:30 AM
Even now I have a better vocabulary for all kinds of mystical and mythical things than I do food...

Let's be real...in some ways that's more important.  :lol:  If you want to know food names watch Gourmet Girl Graffiti and Yumeiro Patissier.  Both focus on cooking-though the second one is mostly sweets/desserts.  :icecream:

I finished Grimgar but now am wondering if they will do a season 2 as it brings up some stuff that never gets resolved.
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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 07, 2021, 07:41:55 AM
Even now I have a better vocabulary for all kinds of mystical and mythical things than I do food...

Let's be real...in some ways that's more important.  :lol:  If you want to know food names watch Gourmet Girl Graffiti and Yumeiro Patissier.  Both focus on cooking-though the second one is mostly sweets/desserts.  :icecream:

I finished Grimgar but now am wondering if they will do a season 2 as it brings up some stuff that never gets resolved.
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Eh, I don't really like food words in any language. Food words and numbers are my general nemesis. Weird but true.

My food vocab did improve a lot when I was in Japan, but they do also use a lot of loan words for some food as well. TBH, I'll stick with my monsters, dragons and ayakashi...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 07, 2021, 08:02:09 AM
Seconding the wish for Daiya on DVD in some western format. I don't care too much if it has subs, since the subs on CR for Daiya annoy the heck out of me with the free and loose way they mess with the dialogue at times...(all the times it says someone 'hates' something, for example, when the characters generally use the word for 'annoying' instead. And the unforgivable moments where they get names/score counts/position/whatever wrong...yeah).

But the Japanese DVDs are so expensive. It's like $20 for 3 episodes or something ridiculous. Daiya has over 200 episodes. Nope. Not happening. Hoping CR don't remove it for a long time, because that's going to hurt. I will have to step up buying the manga from Act I if that happens >< I'm still missing a lot of that.

It's also so annoying that Daiya manga Act II is on a break this week after the cliffhanger last week, gah.


OK, Daiya rants out the way (that is what I'm rewatching atm, although I'm also rewatching Alderamin on the Sky, which if I wasn't lazy I could go and read the novels for but I am lazy so I'm stuck with 12 episodes that I enjoy but which don't quite finish anything up). Yet another voice of the many voiced Okamoto Nobuhiko...

On the subject of learning Japanese...I started doing that in 2007 after watching Fushigi Yuugi and being fascinated by Tasuki's accent. I learned later that his voice artist, who I greatly respect, had to be coached to do it by the author, who comes from the Kansai, but at the time it just grabbed me. Kansaiben and Kyotoben dialects still sound really interesting to my ears :D. But I remember that I picked up odd words to begin with, like shashin for photograph, because of one scene where Miaka is trying to explain what a camera is and what it does to her companions.

There are pros and cons from listening to Japanese in anime. The pros are that you get to hear actual Japanese during something you enjoy, so it's more likely to make an impression, and that really helps get your ear in. The cons are that the language used in anime is often very colloquial or full of odd vocabulary you'll never ever use in real life. Even now I have a better vocabulary for all kinds of mystical and mythical things than I do food...



I've been thinking about rewatching Daiya too. :D 

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I will be skipping some episodes this time around though.


I also hope CR doesn't remove it for a long time.  It's such a great anime but doesn't seem to get much recognition outside of Japan.  I was surprised to find as much of the music on US iTunes as I did although I think there are a few songs missing.  Finding the character albums on there was tough because of the search terms you have to use to have them come up. 

Okamoto Nobuhiko is Sinha's va?


Ponyfan 



 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 07, 2021, 10:18:33 AM
Okamoto is indeed Sinha (and Ryousuke), he's also the main in Alderamin.

Yeah...I just got partway into the you know which game, chickened out and skipped to the aftermath. >.>.

I keep trying to rewatch it, and sometimes I get further than other times...but...yeah. No.

It surprises me in a lot of ways that Haikyuu (also good, albeit less heart-destroying) has more recognition in the US than Daiya, being that Daiya is baseball themed. It's less surprising here as although we're not big on volleyball as a national sport as such, we do play it in school. Haikyuu is younger than Daiya and there are a few things in it that feel like respectful nods to Daiya (ie the captain of the main team is called Sawamura, among other things). But I guess there's no accounting for taste.

Maybe it is simply because Haikyuu is less brutal. I dunno. I like Haikyuu, but Daiya is still my top sports series.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 07, 2021, 07:44:55 PM
I've officially started rewatching Dayia :D  I've already noticed some things that I missed the first time.

How could I forget that Okamoto Nobuhiko is also Ryousuke?  :blush:  I think my brain automatically thinks of the Yona characters first and then the other characters they play second.

I was also thinking about that game too and how much I want to watch of it again. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 10, 2021, 10:54:07 AM
I watched Your Name last night.  It had been a while since I'd watched it.  It's still one of my favorite movies.  :lovey:



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 10, 2021, 03:59:44 PM
I've been watching Free!.  I don't have Season 3 yet, but I bought High Speed and Take Your Marks during the Holiday sales and I'm loving that the characters from High Speed that weren't in the first 2 seasons are showing up in Take Your Marks.  I'm going to have to put Season 3 on my purchase list for this year.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 10, 2021, 06:47:17 PM
I've been watching Free!.  I don't have Season 3 yet, but I bought High Speed and Take Your Marks during the Holiday sales and I'm loving that the characters from High Speed that weren't in the first 2 seasons are showing up in Take Your Marks.  I'm going to have to put Season 3 on my purchase list for this year.



I feel like it's almost necessary to watch those before season 3. Otherwise it kind of comes at you with all these new people. Especially Ikuya :/

I was glad Rin still got to be in season 3.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 10, 2021, 09:45:29 PM
I love Free but Daiya is still my top sports anime.   :)

I have Take Your Marks but not High Speed.  I haven't watched Take Your Marks yet.   



I feel like it's almost necessary to watch those before season 3. Otherwise it kind of comes at you with all these new people. Especially Ikuya :/

I was glad Rin still got to be in season 3.

It seems like there was a new character introduced in each episode of season 3 so far.  I was really confused about Haru's connection to Ikuya at first until it was explained in more detail.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on April 10, 2021, 10:03:59 PM
I didn't see anybody mention it in this thread... did anyone else here watch Pui Pui Molcar as it was airing? Or in the past couple weeks since it finished? It's become one of my favorite anime, and I highly recommend it to anyone! It's a 12 episode stop motion children's anime, each episode is under three minutes long (two minutes and forty seconds each, including the short theme song). The stop motion puppets are needle felted and there's no dialog at all, making it very accessible. It takes place in a world where guinea pigs evolved into resembling cars (called "Molcars"), and they get into various hijinks. They have human owners and the molcars are simultaneously their pets as well as their means of transportation. It's super cute and just fills me with pure joy. It became really popular in Japan and some other Asian countries and has gotten decently popular in the west too, though not quite to the extent as it has in the east. It's getting a bunch of cute merchandise made for it now.

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I've been preordering merchandise for it and I'm planning on finally making my first ever ita bag, it's going to be for my favorite Molcar, Shiromo.

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This one is Shiromo. A different GIF of this same scene was the first time I saw anything Pui Pui Molcar so I'm most attached to him as a result.

GIFs in the spoilers so they don't slow down browsing. :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 14, 2021, 03:48:06 PM
I've never watched Pui Molcar but it looks cute.


Thanks to the iTunes sale I was able to all of the original episodes of Fruits Basket for a good price.  :) 

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Episode 14 is titled: The adult's episode Yuki's a messed up snake in iTunes  Shouldn't it be Ayame since he's the snake? :ayame: 

I tried looking it up and found the episode listed both ways so now I'm wondering if someone got the title mixed up along the way.?



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 17, 2021, 03:32:36 PM
Is anyone watching Backflip (Bakuten) ?  I saw a short clip and it looked interesting.  I looked up the vas and the only one I could recognize is Shimono Hiro but when I started looking at the other artists and their characters I noticed that Miyuki and Sanada's vas are there also. 


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: ridi on April 19, 2021, 05:43:19 AM
Pui Pui Molcar is the anime of the decade for me. I love stop-motion animation, and one of my favorite sounds in the world is guinea pig wheeking. My budgies also loved to listen to it  :biggrin:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on April 19, 2021, 10:20:09 PM
Started Promised Neverland.  Its good so far. There was one thing i did not see coming
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 20, 2021, 12:32:04 PM
RightStuf has Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics Season 1 on Blu-ray up for pre-order.  :)  It's being released in May and is supposed to have 2 episodes that were never aired in the US.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 20, 2021, 07:19:24 PM
RightStuf has Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics Season 1 on Blu-ray up for pre-order.  :)  It's being released in May and is supposed to have 2 episodes that were never aired in the US.


Did Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics air on Nickelodeon in the late 80's/early 90's?  I have a very vague memory of watching  some of them.  I remember a cartoon about Snow where the dwarfs were named after the days of the week and it showed the evil queen lacing Snow White's bodice so tightly that Snow White fainted.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 21, 2021, 07:19:25 AM
RightStuf has Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics Season 1 on Blu-ray up for pre-order.  :)  It's being released in May and is supposed to have 2 episodes that were never aired in the US.


Did Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics air on Nickelodeon in the late 80's/early 90's?  I have a very vague memory of watching  some of them.  I remember a cartoon about Snow where the dwarfs were named after the days of the week and it showed the evil queen lacing Snow White's bodice so tightly that Snow White fainted.


Ponyfan

Yes, I'm pretty positive that's the same show.  According to RightStuf it was made in 1987.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 21, 2021, 09:15:04 AM
Is anyone watching Backflip (Bakuten) ?  I saw a short clip and it looked interesting.  I looked up the vas and the only one I could recognize is Shimono Hiro but when I started looking at the other artists and their characters I noticed that Miyuki and Sanada's vas are there also. 


Ponyfan

I have so broken you. I'm so proud :D
I don't know this anime though. I'll have to look it up.

@LAW - it is a very good, if entirely braintwisty anime series!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 22, 2021, 11:16:30 PM
Ordered both parts of Fruits Basket Season 2 from RightStuf since it's on sale right now.  I was going to wait for the holiday sale but a lot of the time the titles I want either aren't in stock (and I'd have to wait longer for it) or else it isn't one of the titles that goes on sale.  I have a list of titles that I check for but it's my luck that the ones I want the most aren't the ones that go on sale at that time.  So I figured it wouldn't be that much different pricewise and just got them.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 23, 2021, 01:15:28 PM
Watched the Ojamajo Doremi film "Majo Minarai o Sagashite/Looking for Magical Doremi" last night! It was, hm, it was okay? I didn't dislike it but I don't know if I really liked it, either, it was pretty cookie-cutter. I guess it was about what I was expecting though, except I did hope there'd be more... well, Doremi, in it! I still don't get why they decided to make a film about Doremi fans instead of a proper sequel... I'm a little disappointed at the complete lack of new music too (the soundtrack was just all new covers/arrangements of songs from the series), though the music was good, just would've been nice to hear a brand-new song or two! But at least we got a lot of nice new merch out of it all.

Debating which anime to rewatch next, Tokyo Mew Mew or Fruits Basket. Hmmm... leaning more towards TMM but still deciding ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on April 24, 2021, 07:43:26 AM
Jujutsu Kansei-Very entertaining.  I really like Itadori,  even if he has the unfortunate ability of stating the blatantly obvious.  Hah! Gojou is hilarious...and yes, he uh, has very pretty eyes. This is turning out to be a pretty funny anime so far. On par with Baby Beelzebub I think.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 24, 2021, 09:48:52 AM

Yes, I'm pretty positive that's the same show.  According to RightStuf it was made in 1987.


Thanks Pokeyonekenobie.   :)  The Snow White episode is more solid in my memory than some of the others but I do remember part of the Snow White and Rose Red one also.





I have so broken you. I'm so proud :D
I don't know this anime though. I'll have to look it up.



Yes you have. :D   

I'm currently rewatching Daiya season 1, Free season 3 and Fruits Basket season 2 part 1.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 25, 2021, 10:39:52 AM
I am about at the end of Daiya Season 2 again. That final game has so much good Miyuki dialogue in it.

I need to rewatch Free but I'm holding out till the summer since I always end up wanting to watch it when the Olympics are on.

I also need to finish Alderamin and am debating going back to rewatch Season 4 of Haikyuu because when I watched it before it wasn't finished yet.

I have a lot of stuff I want to rewatch and yet I am still rewatching Daiya, because it has eaten my brain. Although comparing these games to what's going on in the manga and especially seeing how certain characters have evolved through Act II is quite heartwarming.

Special shout out for Shirasu here.

I want to rewatch Yona but I'm gearing up to do that and then maybe reread the manga since I have so many volumes as yet unread and it makes sense to go back to the start and enjoy all the Taejun awesomes.

I really really hope they animate at the very least the next volumes sometime, because everyone who hasn't read the manga will never understand how epic Taejun is (or how epic Zeno is!) without it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 26, 2021, 01:02:10 PM
My copy of Free High Speed Starting Days came from Amazon today.  :)  I want to order season 2 part 2 of Fruits Basket but it's a little out of my price range right now so I will have to wait a while.
 

I have a lot of stuff I want to rewatch and yet I am still rewatching Daiya, because it has eaten my brain. Although comparing these games to what's going on in the manga and especially seeing how certain characters have evolved through Act II is quite heartwarming.

Special shout out for Shirasu here.

I want to rewatch Yona but I'm gearing up to do that and then maybe reread the manga since I have so many volumes as yet unread and it makes sense to go back to the start and enjoy all the Taejun awesomes.

I really really hope they animate at the very least the next volumes sometime, because everyone who hasn't read the manga will never understand how epic Taejun is (or how epic Zeno is!) without it.


I would love to see more animated Yona.   Everytime I think Taejun can't surprise me any more than he already has he does something that I'm not expecting.

I might watch Yona in Japanese this time.

I think Daiya has eaten my brain too. :) 

I just read that Free Final Stroke will be the last part of the Free series and will be divided in to 2 films to be released in 21 and 22.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 28, 2021, 03:20:34 PM
Originally Free was meant to have a release last year, to coincide with the Olympics, but I think it's not just the pandemic; I have a feeling it is also animated by the studio that was attacked in the awful arson incident, which has probably also had an impact. I suspect it's going to feature the Olympics. And Haru and Rin. Hopefully competing together in the relay. I guess we'll see. Maybe Ikuya as well...?

Taejun is awesome. It's as simple as that. He has some seriously mad moments, but he and his brother make a great doubleact.

Onto S3 (Act II) of Daiya. I still skip through the Komadai stuff because they irritate me. I mean, Ichidai Sankou are boring but I'd still rather watch them than Komadai and their sulky pitcher.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 30, 2021, 06:52:43 AM
Any Madoka Magica fans on here? :) They're finally making a sequel to "Rebellion"!!! (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103) I'm so excited! I didn't think they'd ever make another film, it's been so long since the last one. I hope it's good.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on April 30, 2021, 07:22:46 AM
Any Madoka Magica fans on here? :) They're finally making a sequel to "Rebellion"!!! (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103) I'm so excited! I didn't think they'd ever make another film, it's been so long since the last one. I hope it's good.

Yes, I'm very excited about it! Especially since I'm sure this'll mean a lot more new Madoka merchandise releasing, like figures...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 04, 2021, 08:31:02 AM
Any Madoka Magica fans on here? :) They're finally making a sequel to "Rebellion"!!! (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-25/madoka-magica-gets-new-anime-film-as-sequel-to-2013-rebellion-film/.172103) I'm so excited! I didn't think they'd ever make another film, it's been so long since the last one. I hope it's good.

Yes, I'm very excited about it! Especially since I'm sure this'll mean a lot more new Madoka merchandise releasing, like figures...

Oooh, I hope so! Got my fingers crossed for more Nagisa stuff, she's my favourite :D Well, third favourite, after Kyoko and Sayaka. But still! :P I love her.

I think this is anime-related enough to go here (it's a question about a song from an anime OST) - can anyone help me with a quick translation please? ソラ先生と牧田くん。光がさして reads as "Sora-sensei to Makita-kun. Hikari ga Sashite" as far as I can tell.. don't suppose anyone on here knows what the "Hikari ga Sashite" bit would translate to? "The Light is Shining" or something like that? The wikipedia article misread it as "sagashite" (looking for) and I can see that's not right and I'd like to fix it, but I'm not certain enough of the actual translation to fix it by myself, if that makes sense? And idk anyone else to ask so I'm asking you guys. ^^; Hope this isn't too off-topic or anything.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2021, 05:09:56 AM
Sashite is the continuous tense of sasu.

There are multiple sasu verbs and here it's in kana which doesn't help, but it probably is 差す...to shinehttps://jisho.org/search/%E5%B7%AE%E3%81%99 (http://So yeah, the light is shining or the light shines...?

So yeah, the light is shining or the light shines...?

[url=https://jisho.org/search/%E5%B7%AE%E3%81%99)

I hope that works?

Hikari is light, the ga is just a marker that says whatever the noun is (hikari), it's doing whatever the verb is (sasu).

I guess whoever did the wiki accidentally switched around the sa and the ga to make sagashite ;) Easily done when they shove things unnecessarily in kana...

Edit - it just occurred to me that the kana may have been deliberate. Sometimes they do that so a verb conveys multiple potential meanings. Sasu can also mean to point out or to pierce...maybe that's also significant.

https://jisho.org/search/sasu (https://jisho.org/search/sasu)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 05, 2021, 11:26:37 AM
Yeah, I can definitely see where they got "sagashite" from.

I checked the album liner and there's no furigana or anything for the track titles, so nothing to really clarify either way :s
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2021, 01:07:55 PM
Well, the verb in what you posted is in hiragana, so there's no need for furigana...there's no kanji to gloss, either with the sasu reading or any other.  Unless you mean somewhere else on the inlay :)

Is this a whole song, with lyrics? The clue may be in the lyrics.

But that's assuming it has an actual concrete meaning, rather than deliberately trying to convey multiple meanings...

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 05, 2021, 02:57:59 PM
Nah, it's an instrumental (background music), and the context it's played in doesn't really give any hints either (could be any of the things you suggested) :s
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Stellaluna on May 05, 2021, 07:30:19 PM
You guys, did you know that if you get a boba tea from KungFu Tea they give you a code to get 1 month free of Funimation streaming? Because of that, I've completely jumped back into anime! I just finished season 4 of My Hero Academia. I'm also watching Mushi-shi, Fruits Basket (the reboot), Sk8, and Ranma 1/2. I also re-watch Big Windup sometimes when I can't decide. It's a very cute summer baseball show.

Has anyone heard of these? I'm really enjoying Ranma 1/2 especially. It has such cute old-school charm!

Another show I just started following is called To Your Eternity. It's really beautiful, but the first episode is very sad.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 06, 2021, 01:40:15 AM
They're all pretty well known series I think, aside maybe Sk8, not sure about that one.

I've seen clips of Ranma, but I've never watched it. I know it was created by the same person as Inuyasha, but otherwise everything I know about it came from a Fushigi Yuugi friend who also liked it years ago :)

I am not caught up with Hero Academia. It's super mainstream but I like it though...I haven't seen the most recent series.

Furuba is <3.

Still holding out that Daiya no Ace is the best sports anime (also baseball) - but that's not on Funimation, only CR.

I don't know how it is in other places, but here in the UK Funimation doesn't have many shows that aren't dubbed, so I tend to prefer CR even if the subtitles are sometimes wonky.

Assassination Classroom used to be on Funi though, with both sub and dub. Should probably check if it still is...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Stellaluna on May 06, 2021, 04:34:00 AM
I think that's why I'm enjoying the Funimation app so far, because pretty much every show has a dub option which I prefer. It's harder for me to connect to the show when I'm always looking away from the action to read. But Fruits basket I've been watching both versions because I'm too impatient, so I'll watched the Japanese episode release and then watch it again once the dub episode drops.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 06, 2021, 06:34:05 AM
It's good that there's options for both!

I have to admit, I'd love to turn the subs off. I've been watching Chinese and Korean stuff recently and it's kind of a jolt realising I need to read the subtitles on the episodes because I don't know what's going on otherwise ;) I can pick up a few words of each - probably more of Chinese tbh than Korean - but yeah, reading subs can be a pain.

I used to watch dubs before I learned Japanese. Some of them were pretty ok, I think - I know Furuba was one, and Yami no Matsuei was another. But the Fushigi Yuugi dub was so horrible it ruined dub for me forever...

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on May 06, 2021, 08:52:10 AM
I think Chinese subs are even worse than Japanese. Either its too fast or too small. Thankfully, Netflix is streaming Heavens official blessing, so now I can actually see the subs. The original is so damn small, I can't see it.

The only thing I have watched lately is Thousand Autumns on WeTV APP or youtube. If you like action/martial arts or shonen genre, you might like this. Fair warning, it is based off a BL novel of the same name, but it is highly censored by china so you don't have to worry about any romance. I am reading the novel and have yet to see how those two can even be a couple....

 Thousand Autumns DESCRIPTION

Yan Wushi had walked a path full of blood and corpses.

He did not believe in the good nature of humanity. Even more so, he did not believe that there could be someone with great kindness and sense of justice, who would be so considerate of others without asking anything in return.

One day, Shen Qiao, who was the sect leader of Mount Xuandu, the number one Daoist sect under the heavens, was challenged to a duel but somehow fell off the cliff.

Yan Wushi happened to pass by down there.

Seeing Shen Qiao who was seriously injured to the point of dying, he suddenly came up with a perfect idea…

After thousands of autumns, who could stay eternal?

Associated Names
Qian Qiu


I haven't watched crunchyroll in forever. They have stricter blocks on VPNs than China itself :cry:

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 06, 2021, 01:07:03 PM
I finished Majestic Prince this week.  I liked it...except
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when they killed off a character that I didn't want to die because they were setting up a super-cute romance opportunity.  Monsters.

I started watching Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango) last night. It's made by the same company that made Sailor Moon and others from the 80s/90s era.  I've seen the live action drama that was made in Korea (I think) and I liked it so I thought I'd give this one a try.

I have seen the first 3 seasons of Ranma and I liked it.  I will probably pick up more seasons if they go on sale around Christmas again. 

I recommend Yuri on Ice if you're looking for something to watch.  It's fun and pretty.  And I second Assassination Classroom, especially if you like funny/quirky/sweet storylines.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2021, 04:59:47 AM
To be honest, having watched the Untamed drama, I'm amused at how much Chinese censorship will still allow to happen...

I'm also impressed with myself when I can understand some of Wen Ning or Meng Yao's dialogue without needing the sub. I feel like I have a Chinese word of the week when watching it ;) though some of the words sound close enough to Japanese that I know what they are, and that helps. I'd like to speak Chinese, but I don't suppose I could do it without a teacher. The tones make pronunciation complicated, even if it's not that hard to read the words or understand what I hear.

I've watched some of Heaven's Official Blessing. I feel like there's a lot thrown at the audience right at the start, with people and concepts and things but I will probably watch all of it.

I've seen Hana Yori Dango - the original Japanese drama. I feel like there's so much unhealthy going on in it and somehow it just works because well, it's all really shoujo. I've never seen the anime.

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge is another one I saw the drama for and not the animation. I'm attached to the drama version though, so I probably won't watch the animation.

...Ouran Host Club is better as an anime though. And frankly, I wish it didn't have so many volumes because I would've read it but that's too many books to buy from Japan ><. I'm interested in a bit part character who I'd like to read more about but he's not really in the series much.

Assassination Classroom is mad. It's so much fun but so mad. Except I admit I don't like the ending.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 07, 2021, 08:42:59 AM
I've seen Hana Yori Dango - the original Japanese drama. I feel like there's so much unhealthy going on in it and somehow it just works because well, it's all really shoujo. I've never seen the anime.

...Ouran Host Club is better as an anime though. And frankly, I wish it didn't have so many volumes because I would've read it but that's too many books to buy from Japan ><. I'm interested in a bit part character who I'd like to read more about but he's not really in the series much.

Assassination Classroom is mad. It's so much fun but so mad. Except I admit I don't like the ending.

Hana Yori Dango-Yeah, there's a lot of unhealthy stuff in the anime, too--like really violent temper tantrums that are (so far) not addressed as a problem. The guy is controlling, abusive, and basically psycho but the girl is okay with it because he's hot and rich so it's fine?  And it's very 90s in terms of hair/clothing but it's one of those that you don't take too seriously.  The opening credits look like a flash mob. 

I like the Ouran anime as well.  I haven't tried to read the manga.  The library has it so I could if I wanted to take the time one of these days.  But let's be real, I own the Fruits Basket manga series and have only read the first 6 volumes so far.  I need to finish that...

Assassination Classroom...I get you on the ending.  I have a friend who hasn't watched the last episode yet (even though she started watching the series in 2016) because I told her it made me cry and she said she isn't sure she's ready for that kind of emotional upheaval because I never cry and she cries at everything.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 08, 2021, 08:20:20 AM
Yeah. I think with AC the ending was inevitable, but I still don't like it. BUT I do love the story, the concept, the fact it's so off the wall...I was watching it constantly going...really? You went there? But it works.

Furuba has the weird distinction among my manga of being in three languages, although I might have got rid of the ENglish volumes now, actually, I'm not sure. When I was originally reading this - bearing in mind we're going back a long way - the English volumes were behind the French translation, and I didn't read Japanese then. So I bought some in Brussels in French so I could read the end of the manga >.>. I've not read it since then though. There are only some manga I've actually reread multiple times. :/

I agree on Hana Yori Dango. I think you just have to accept from the off that it's full of wrong, unhealthy, and plain wrong. And every single shoujo trope you can imagine on top of all of that...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 08, 2021, 04:08:35 PM
Life has been so crazy lately that I haven't had much time to watch anime.  :sad:

I've only seen a small clip of Assassination Classroom but it's on my  to be watched list along with My Hero Academia.

I'm still rewatching Daiya season, Free season 3 and Fruits Basket.   I've noticed more errors in the Daiya subs this time mostly with the names of the characters (the audio saying the names one way but the subs showing them in a different order)

I'll be watching Sailor Moon Eternal/Crystal soon after it comes out on US  Netflix June 3rd.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 09, 2021, 12:32:08 AM
I'm still rewatching Daiya S3.

Warning, sub rant in spoiler tag.

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Aside that line at the end of season 1 where Kanemaru's line is completely missing and they subbed it as 'what did he say?' instead (clearly a translator note NOT meant to go on the final version, although IMO what he says is clearly something like 'he held down the last innings without conceding a run' so Idk?)...I'm rewatching season 3/Act II and oh dear, that one episode where they call Kaneda a catcher even though pitcher is written on the screen in katakana...and switch around Yui and Masashi's names and batting order, again even though this is written on the screen...

Sigh. Sorry. It really annoys me that someone gets paid for that.

Other sub things that bug me are more nuanced. For example, there's one game where the dialogue says ichirui maniawanai (They - the fielders - didn't make it to first base). And the sub says something like "the runner is safe at first base!" Which technically means the same but isn't the same.

...And sometimes the subs cause war in the crazy sectors of the fandom. Furuya has a line in Act II that started a rebellion because of how it was subbed. Not that it takes that sector of the fandom much to throw unprovoked hate at Furuya, but even so.

Then there's all the times where they translate mukatsuku (annoying) as hate, which doesn't mean the same thing. "You're annoying" is not the same as "I hate you." And there's one dialogue where Eijun says to Miyuki something like, you were practicing seriously. And the sub adds, "for once", like it's a dig. But it's not.

It's really easy to see why that sector of the fandom take hate at characters and run with it, sometimes. It's just frustrating.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 12, 2021, 04:06:21 AM
The Daiya subs can be bad at times and really confusing if you have to rely on them  to understand what the characters are saying but I'll still take them of the auto-generated Youtube ones.  Those are so bad that they take me out of the episode I'm trying to watch.  I'm still amused that what was probably supposed to be something like "Miyuki called a time time out. I hope Nori's okay"  is translated by Youtube as "I have two pet bowls already"  :lol:

Komi Can't Communicate will become an anime in late 2021/early 2022.  I have several of the manga volumes but haven't read them yet.  I'm not sure how well the series will work as an anime.

Very small Daiya spoiler ahead

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It's so funny when Mochi,  Rousyke, Tetsu and Jun come back from training in their off time to watch part of the 1st years v. 2nd and 3rd years game and everyone starts commenting on how good a player Haruichi is and  Rousyke just smiles and doesn't mention the fact that Haruichi is his brother.





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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 12, 2021, 04:44:21 AM
We all need pet bowls!

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Yeah, I noticed that. Ryousuke pretending like he doesn't care at all yet is the most obsessed with his brother making a good showing of everyone.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 15, 2021, 04:22:12 AM
I found the Komi Can't Communicate Trailer. The narrator sounds really familiar to me but I can't quite place where I've heard that voice before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBiwDp6lzls


I also found Free the Final Stroke trailer. I'm putting it in the spoiler tags just in case there are references to the end of season 3.  I haven't watched this one because I don't want to spoil myself on the end of season 3.


Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fGCJZew22E


Crunchyroll has announced several series will be leaving their site soon. I looked at the titles and none of them were familiar to me. 

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 17, 2021, 04:17:08 AM
I should probably check to see what they're taking down, though it may not affect the UK region...there are some shows the US CR has which we don't have access to already.

So long as they aren't planning on taking Daiya away, though, I'll probably manage. No way I can afford to buy that on DVD with it only being available in Japan (£20/3 eps!)

It's not quite anime, although it sort of is because there IS an anime and it IS/WAS on CR, but I'm hoping my Japanese proxy reopens soon so I can try and track down the rest of the Nobunaga Concerto drama series. It was on CR but hasn't been for over a year now. I have the movie on DVD but not the series...and it's better than the anime.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 17, 2021, 03:52:01 PM
Today is Mochi's birthday and the 15th was Eijun's. :D  I took a screenshot of the the calendar page with their birthdays a few days ago.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 18, 2021, 12:05:03 PM
Today is Mochi's birthday and the 15th was Eijun's. :D  I took a screenshot of the the calendar page with their birthdays a few days ago.


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I have a paper file which has art of Mochi and Eijun on it, with a cake saying 'Omedetou' (Congratulations) and Miyuki standing in the middle. Whenever I look at it I feel like it was made for their birthday and Miyuki was the one who made it.

...I think Daiya has made us both a bit odd.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2021, 07:41:07 PM
I finished the 3rd season of Free.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 26, 2021, 07:07:18 AM
I added the Funimation app to my phone so I can watch shows while I'm on the exercise bike--but since it's the free version there are commercials.  Does anyone know if there's a way to access my downloaded library through it so I can watch the shows I already own without commercials?  If not, it's okay.  I'm using it to preview shows to see if I want to buy them during the holiday sales this year.   :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 26, 2021, 09:18:39 AM
I hope someone can help you with the Funimation app.  I tried watching Netflix on my phone once and I ended up with a migraine. 

I'll be watching Free High Speed and Free Take Your Marks soon.  :) I'm also still rewatching Diamond no Ace season 1.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 27, 2021, 04:30:12 PM
Another small  Daiya spoiler

Spoiler
That moment when Miyuki loses his temper and slams Eijun against the wall for insulting Chris still gets to me as does the moment when Eijun finds out how wrong he was about Chris, apologizes to him and asks him to teach him baseball.

I've noticed Kanemaru in the early scenes more than I did the first time.

I was surprised that the principals mentioned Kataoka's job being on the line so early also. 



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 03, 2021, 01:29:49 AM
On Daiya...

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Eijun's traumatised reaction to Miyuki actually losing his temper is also pretty intense.
There's that moment in Act II (watched it recently so remember it) where Eijun's yelling at the opposition that when a person who normally laughs gets mad it's scary. I feel like he's never forgotten angry Miyuki :) as rare as it is.

I've been watching Tiger & Bunny this week! Since it's on Netflix. It's from 2011. I remember when it came out, because I wanted to watch it - Morita Masakazu voices one of the lead characters and I've always liked him as a voice artist (he also does Ichigo in Bleach, and Gija in Yona among others). I also discovered Hirata Hiroaki is the other lead character, which is giving me Gojou vibes and making me want to dig out and rewatch Saiyuuki. Again.

Okamoto Nobuhiko also voices a character in it :D

But yeah. When it came out I wasn't able to get a hold of it. So randomly finding it on Netflix the other day, I thought I'd give it a shot.

In summary it's a story about a society of people where some are 'NEXT' (ie have special powers). Some become villains, others become superheroes who are contracted to save the city, at the same time appearing on tv and scoring points for the people they save, people they capture, etc.

It's plenty of weird but eh, I quite like it. At least, the interplay between Kotetsu and Barnaby is fun :) The other heroes are a bit...mad...but I guess that works.

Watching it I wonder whether it's total coincidence that Boku no Hero Academia happened, or whether it isn't. I guess heroes are a pretty common topic mind you. It's just the flashback with 'Mr Legend' makes me wonder...Tiger and Bunny was 3 years before BnHA started.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 05, 2021, 03:45:45 PM
Daiya

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I agree with you completely. I don't think Eijun's ever forgotten that or how much he misjudged Chris before he found out all of the facts about him.

I've also noticed that Chris' eyes don't have pupils a lot of the time in the early scenes with Eijun.  I thought at first it was an artistic choice like Ryousuke's eyes always looking like they are closed but then sometimes Chris' eyes do have pupils in them.



Tiger and Bunny sounds interesting.  I keep meaning to try My Hero Academia but haven't yet. 

I watched Sailor Moon Crystal/Eternal part 1 last night. It was well worth waiting for.  :D The honorifics confused me a bit.  It's been a while since I watched Sailor Moon Crystal but I don't remember them being that prominent in the dub in the other parts of the series 

I know that they were probably added to make the dub more accurate to the Japanese. 



Also I'm not sure but I think heard a mistake that wasn't fixed in editing.  It sounded like Helios didn't pronounce  Endymion the way the va usually does.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 05, 2021, 04:56:06 PM
Daiya:
Spoiler
Chris's eyes are a plot point thing...

I finished T&B. It had some moments but overall I'm glad I watched it. For me even if parts of the plot make you go 'huh'? if the characters are good and well crafted then I'm on board.

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Although he pretends to play it cool in public, I think Barnaby might actually crack up and go mad if Kotetsu isn't there to sort him out. He's a very emotional superhero.

 Apparently they're planning a second season, 11 years after the original. Sasuga Japan. They seem to have the original seiyuu on board - mind you Hirata Hiroaki has spent 20 years on and off voicing Gojou for Saiyuuki anime series so I guess 11 years is no big deal...


Apparently there are also a couple of movies. But it looks like I can only get them from Japan, and can't do that till Japan sorts out its postal service and my proxy service is up and running again. Adding that to the list, sigh...

Meanwhile, debating whether to dig out Saiyuuki and rewatch for the nth time. Could just rewatch my favourite OVA. That might do...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 08, 2021, 08:16:57 AM

Daiya:
Spoiler
Chris's eyes are a plot point thing...




Spoiler

I think I figured out why Chris' eyes change.  :)



I watched Sailor Moon Eternal part 2.  I think I loved it more than the 1st part.  Doing a 2 part movie instead of episodes seemed to help the plot flow more consistently.

The only thing I was disappointed with in the 2nd movie was

Spoiler
It didn't show Jadeite, Nephrite, Kunzite and Zoisite watching and worrying about Mamarou when he is sick.




I added Tiger and Bunny to my watchlist.

Today is Miyano Mamoru's birthday.  Crunchyroll posted a salute to him for his birthday using pics of different characters he's voiced and Rin was included.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 08, 2021, 08:24:16 AM
My CR app on my firestick is currently not registering that I have an internet connection, which is both weird and annoying. I think it's because our internet was completely down the other morning and since then there's some kind of issue with the IP...in any case, everything else works, and I can access it on the PC. But I hate watching anime on the PC, so hopefully it will either reset itself or I will be able to do something witrh the IP to fix it.

Can't do it this week though. Sister is here and working from home. Don't suppose she'd be too amused if I suddenly  messed the connection up xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 08, 2021, 08:40:56 AM
I hope your CR app starts working again soon.   My tablet often says there's not an internet connection when there is and there's one game on it that suddenly stops and resets itself almost every time I try to play unless I have it very close to the router.

I noticed there's a short anime for Way of the Househusband on Netflix  I picked up the first couple volumes of the manga last week but haven't read them yet.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: SunPony on June 08, 2021, 10:52:05 AM
Oooh, Tiger and Bunny is a good one!  My sis had to convince me to watch it but she was right and I loved it.  No one spoiled any of it for me (including myself), which was great given what happens in the series.  I've rewatched it several times.  Tiger reminds me of my dad, personality-wise, but I also identify with him due to...career-related reasons....while my sis is definitely more like Barnaby lol.  Blue Rose I wasn't wild about at first but I keep finding myself rewatching her episode...did you have any favorite episodes?

Yeah, I think there are two movies?  I watched the first one, but it is really kind of like a recap of the series so if you don't see it I wouldn't say you are missing much.  I haven't seen the second one but I would like to!  And I'm excited to hear they are finally going to do a second season!  There was talk about it years ago but then it didn't happen. 

T&B was supposedly kind of an unexpected success.  They hadn't planned much merchandise so what did come out sold out immediately at first.  The Figuarts figures in particular sold out immediately, it was insane.  I think they caught up though bc sis was eventually able to get a couple of model kits and I got a couple of books.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 08, 2021, 11:57:12 AM
I figured out how to access my digital copies on the Funimation app.  I have to watch them "In the Cloud."  It wasn't coming up before because I guess it needed time to register my sign-in or something but it's there now.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 08, 2021, 01:27:53 PM
@SunPony - I guess for me it's more individual moments than whole episodes. I think it starts off a bit...all over the place, but once it gets into a rhythm it's a good series. I'm interested to see how they take it forward if indeed the second season happens next year. Given how things ended up.

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I really like character bonds, and so I like Barnaby and Kotetsu's interplay especially when Barnaby is a mess and Kotetsu is being pseudo-Dad xD. I know it's not a funny moment exactly but Barnaby yelling at the end about practicing making chahan so Kotetsu can eat it made me laugh.

I also really like Origami. I have no idea why he's all kabuki and stuff when his real name is Russian...but eh. That moment at the end where he throws his shuriken to keep a certain villain in his place warmed my heart. He can be a hero too!

Yuri is also a good character. But I feel like we needed a bit more of him to flesh him out.

Sky High is just...xD

I don't really have an opinion of Blue Rose. She's a typical teenager I guess??

I'm glad I finally got to watchit.I remember there was some hype about it at the time...although I probably got that hype for it because I was following things with Morita Masakazu and he mentioned it in an interview or something. I was a lot more involved with the neoroma event stuff back then and he was often involved in those because of voicing characters in Kiniro no Koruda. I don't remember it being mentioned at one of those though, so it was probably something else he did.

Hirata Hiroaki is just an added bonus. They're perfectly cast.

The annoying thing is that I can see the Rising movie at a reasonable price on the yahoo auctions but there are all kinds of issues buying from Japan right now...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 08, 2021, 02:47:26 PM
The annoying thing is that I can see the Rising movie at a reasonable price on the yahoo auctions but there are all kinds of issues buying from Japan right now...

I was going to suggest you get the Rising movie from RightStuf but I don't know if they have any that are region free.  The Blu-Ray/DVD they have is Region A and the DVD is Region 1.  Not sure which region(s) you can use.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 08, 2021, 03:25:11 PM
The annoying thing is that I can see the Rising movie at a reasonable price on the yahoo auctions but there are all kinds of issues buying from Japan right now...

I was going to suggest you get the Rising movie from RightStuf but I don't know if they have any that are region free.  The Blu-Ray/DVD they have is Region A and the DVD is Region 1.  Not sure which region(s) you can use.

Thanks for that consideration :D My player is multiregion so that's not a problem. But I actually managed to find it just now on amazon japan, so I ordered a copy there. They can still ship to me, which is nice to know ;) I've bought manga from them recently so it should be fine :)

UK is region 2, and so is Japan. But I have a lot of US DVDs so having a multiregion player made sense.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 29, 2021, 12:55:09 PM
I've watched Free High Speed and Free Take Your Marks. 

I saw today that the new Fruits Basket has ended but there will be a separate anime  focusing on Kyoko and Katsuya's  (Tohru's parents) relationship  It's been a while since I've read Fruits Basket but I don't think remember there being much in the manga about Katsuya.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 30, 2021, 04:39:58 AM
Oooh really? :O I really need to watch the new anime, then, so I'm all caught up in time to watch this! Sounds interesting.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 30, 2021, 05:54:19 AM
I need to find time to watch the full Furuba all through now it's done :) I prefer series when they're not being aired, it's so much easier.

I don't think there was ever manga about her parents - I do think there was some manga about the next generation or something? I've never gone looking for it though.

I'm (re)watching Boku no Hero Academia. Because Tiger and Bunny made me want to. I still like the kids, I still hate the villains. It's actually interesting how many small things may or may not have been inspired by T&B. BnHA gets a lot of stick for being super mainstream - which it probably is on the broad scale - but eh, I like the characters. I also have the DVD now for the T&B movie, of which I've watched about 10 mins and the ending xD.

I hope when they do the new series that both Origami and Yuri get some more airtime too. Tiger and Barnaby themselves are my favourites, but I love those two as well. Yuri is so messed up, Origami needs hugs.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 30, 2021, 06:34:41 AM
Yeah, there is a sequel manga of some sort, Fruits Basket Another. I have it but I'll admit, I've never read it either (wanted to reread the original series first and just haven't found the time yet.. one day!).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 30, 2021, 07:23:01 AM
I haven't read Fruits Basket Another either.  I've looked at it several times but have always found other books at the bookstore that I've wanted to read more.  I'd love to know the basic outline though.

Spoiler
It doesn't make sense to me that if Tohru broke the curse how it can reappear in the next generation...


I need to finish season 2 of Fruits Basket.  I also need to order Season 2 Part 2.


I'm also rewatching Diamond no Ace.  Even though I know what's going to happen I get so caught up in the story that a lot of the episodes fly by and before I know it the credits are rolling.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 30, 2021, 07:29:29 AM
The most ridiculous episodes are when you have basically a whole episode for one at-bat. Especially towards the end of season 2, in that Yakushi game finale. I think it crosses three episodes for that inning??

I have the same wondering about Furuba. It's also part of the reason I haven't gone looking for it.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 30, 2021, 10:14:43 AM
The most ridiculous episodes are when you have basically a whole episode for one at-bat. Especially towards the end of season 2, in that Yakushi game finale. I think it crosses three episodes for that inning??



I agree.

There's one an episode where someone comes up to bat, there's a long flashback that takes up the rest of the episode and right before the credits the same batter is still standing at the plate.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 30, 2021, 10:35:27 AM
The most ridiculous episodes are when you have basically a whole episode for one at-bat. Especially towards the end of season 2, in that Yakushi game finale. I think it crosses three episodes for that inning??



I agree.

There's one an episode where someone comes up to bat, there's a long flashback that takes up the rest of the episode and right before the credits the same batter is still standing at the plate.


Ponyfan

Mind you...in the manga there's one at bat that took 4 weeks to complete. Because of a 2 week hiatus in the middle, true, but seriously.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 02, 2021, 06:01:02 AM


Mind you...in the manga there's one at bat that took 4 weeks to complete. Because of a 2 week hiatus in the middle, true, but seriously.



That's a very long at bat.


I started watching Yona in Japanese. :D



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 02, 2021, 07:08:08 AM
Rightstuf is having a sale.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 20, 2021, 01:26:01 PM
I'm hoping to have something to brag about by the end of the week. :D 

I found a really cute Sailor Moon bank at Hobby Lobby Last Week.  They had one of the characters from My Hero Academia (the one with green hair) and I think a Yoda one also.


I'm hoping the new Sailor Moon Eternal  movies will eventually get released for Western audiences on Blu Ray/DVD.  I think it has already been released in Japan. 


I also saw an advertisment for a new anime called Belle.  I couldn't read the poster since it was all in Japanese but the art style reminds me of the director of Mirai.

I'm thinking about finishing Fruits Basket Season 2.  I'm still on Diamond no Ace season 1

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I forgot how annoying Raichi is when he's introduced.  That constant laughing gets on my nerves a bit. 



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 23, 2021, 01:18:37 PM
My copies of My Roommate is a Cat and Fruits Basket Season 2 part 2 came today. :D


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 26, 2021, 09:12:56 AM
The 2nd trailer for Free Final Stroke has been released.  :D  I'm putting it in the spoiler just in case it spoilers anything.

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXcfX04GOs

I know that Haru is speaking but the trailer in completely in Japanese without subtitles so I can't understand what he is saying.

It goes really fast but I saw Haru, Makoto. Rin  and Souske for sure.  I think I also Ikuya and Albert.




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Bekuno on July 26, 2021, 09:19:47 AM
Been watching Godzilla Singular Point, it's much better than the Godzilla anime film trilogy. Lots of fun psuedosciene and fun designs.

Beastars S2 also came out, it's one of the best manga's I've ever read but I'm waiting on my partner to have time to watch it with me!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2021, 02:26:22 PM
I watched the start of beastars last night, will probably come back to it as I've got a few things on the go at the moment...

Been rewatching Bungo Stray Dogs on and off.

@Ponyfan,  re Free
Spoiler
Haru says something along the lines of
Spoiler
"My dream, everyone's dream. The view nobody has seen yet begins from this point." (Ore no yume, minna no yume. Mada mita koto no nai keshiki ga koko kara hajimaru).

The text banners on screen through the trailer say "Yume no butai (The stage of dreams)", "Sekai Taikai (World competition)" "Chousen" (Challenge)". "Shiren (trial/ordeal)" "Shouri e no saigo no tatakai (the final battle to victory).

Seems a bit dark and angsty. Definitely saw Albert, also Makoto, Rin, Sousuke and I am also pretty sure about Ikuya? As well as Haru

 Interesting that there's two parts to this release, one on 17th Sept and one in April next year. It was originally intended to coincide with the olympics...in a way that makes me kind of sad given the behind-closed-doors nature of the Olympics right now

Hopefully finally have my CR app sorted out.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2021, 06:43:42 AM


@Ponyfan,  re Free
Spoiler
Haru says something along the lines of
Spoiler
"My dream, everyone's dream. The view nobody has seen yet begins from this point." (Ore no yume, minna no yume. Mada mita koto no nai keshiki ga koko kara hajimaru).

The text banners on screen through the trailer say "Yume no butai (The stage of dreams)", "Sekai Taikai (World competition)" "Chousen" (Challenge)". "Shiren (trial/ordeal)" "Shouri e no saigo no tatakai (the final battle to victory).

Seems a bit dark and angsty. Definitely saw Albert, also Makoto, Rin, Sousuke and I am also pretty sure about Ikuya? As well as Haru

 Interesting that there's two parts to this release, one on 17th Sept and one in April next year. It was originally intended to coincide with the olympics...in a way that makes me kind of sad given the behind-closed-doors nature of the Olympics right now



Spoiler
Thanks for translating it for me. :D  It makes a lot more sense now that I know what Haru is saying and what the text on the screen means. 
I agree about the trailer. I'm sure there is going to be a huge cliffhanger at the end of part 1. The fact that the 2nd trailer shows Albert makes me think that there will be some kind of conflict between him and Haru and probably also Rin since I think Rin's coach told him about Albert.

The key visual also shows Rei, Nagisa, Gou and Kisumi in the stands. 




I got an email from Netflix about an anime called Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop. I think it's about a boy that communicates through writing instead of speaking.  It sounds similar to the plot of Komi Can't Communicate.   


I downloaded some anime songs from iTunes. :D

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 29, 2021, 02:01:21 PM
Still watching Bungou stray dogs. Also some random anime about rhythm gymnastics, out of curiosity. It's superbly unbelievable in places and had me playing seiyuu ID games but it's kind of cute. Now the Olympics are here I will probably rewatch Free and maybe Haikyuu since I realised I didn't just learn about baseball from Daiya, I also now understand volleyball enough to follow the game between Brazil and Japan earlier on...I still didn't see the end of Haikyuu s4 even though I've been roundly spoilered by people in the Daiya fandom who also read/watch Haikyuu. Now I have my CR app working again, I have a lot to catch up on...

Regarding the Free trailer...
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Predicting that it's the olympics and Haru, Rin and Ikuya are on the Japanese team, I don't know about Sousuke given he's definitely IN that trailer...and Makoto is there as a coach for Haru probably.

But there's an angst going on...so yeah.

I feel like they might fall short in the individuals but then will redeem themselves by winning a relay medal. Because you know, Free. And honestly, I'm also hoping it's the case because I WANT to see Rin and Haru swim together again.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 29, 2021, 03:20:44 PM
Is the rhythm gymnastics anime Backflip/Bakuten?  I know that one has a few Daiya vas in it including Shimono Hiro, and Miyuki's va. It's on my watchlist but I haven't started it yet.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 30, 2021, 12:04:49 AM
Is the rhythm gymnastics anime Backflip/Bakuten?  I know that one has a few Daiya vas in it including Shimono Hiro, and Miyuki's va. It's on my watchlist but I haven't started it yet.


Ponyfan

Yep, that's the one :) And yep, you're right :) Plus Ono Daisuke is in there too.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 14, 2021, 07:11:20 PM
Crunchyroll has been purchased by the same company that owns Funimation. (Sony?) 


I'm getting closer to the end of Daiya season 1.




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 15, 2021, 12:44:25 AM
Crunchyroll has been purchased by the same company that owns Funimation. (Sony?) 


I'm getting closer to the end of Daiya season 1.




Ponyfan

I have a feeling there was some connection between them before, because there was a spate of anime that vanished off CR when they were separated. I wonder if that will reverse that earlier situation. I think at that time dubs were mostly on Funi and CR had the Japanese...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 15, 2021, 07:14:19 AM
I've been wondering the same thing since I heard about them being owned by the same company now.  There was an anime on CR that I was interested in but when they separated that one went to Funimation.  At that time I could only afford one anime streaming service so I chose CR.


I might be start watching Haikyuu soon.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 18, 2021, 11:58:43 AM
Randomly watched some of Mashiro no Oto this afternoon.

I've actually had the opportunity to play a shamisen when I was in Japan, and it's a lovely instrument. I only had the one lesson but I did manage to play sakura passably by the end of it xD We have it on video somewhere...

The theme song from this series, Blizzard, is now absolutely stuck in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXUABwDwr6Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXUABwDwr6Q)

Also, listening to Shimazaki Nobunaga (Furuya/Haru/Yuki etc) do Tsugaru dialect is interesting. And a bit weird xD. I looked him up, because I figure doing that much dialogue in dialect would be hard, and apparently he's from Miyagi, which is somewhere up north but not that far..? I know Sendai is in Miyagi, but my geography of anything further north is a bit mediaeval xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 27, 2021, 07:55:32 AM
Another trailer for Free Final Stroke has been released.  I'm putting it in the spoiler tags just in case it contains spoilers.


Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5xtbQi6c_0

It's in Japanese with no subs.  There is a subtitled version also but I'm not sure how accurate that one is since I think someone added the subs to it.  This is also the first trailer where there are a few English words mixed with the Japanese. 


I know very little about real life competitive swimming but this scene from the trailer keeps distracting me.

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How deep is the pool that Albert (I think it's Albert) is swimming in?

   


I just listened to that song and it's going on my anime song playlist. :D   I'll put Mashiro no Oto on my watchlist too.   


I'm almost at the end of  Daiya season 1


Spoiler

It's so hard watching Eijun trying to pitch in the Yakushi  game and being unable to do so because of the yips.  I know it's during that game that Miyuki and Kataoka realized what was happening to Eijun. It has such a great impact on Eijun's character that I don't want to skip that arc but even though I know how it turns out  it's still makes me a little sad for him. 




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 27, 2021, 08:54:07 AM
I'm not sure if the Free trailer contains spoilers, but maybe hints...
Spoiler
I don't think there's anything in it that is a real shock though. Haru looking forward, Rin referencing his Dad, Ikuya saying he won't get lost any more...that he'll swim his own way..etc. The English is Albert, sounding impossibly American despite not being American, which always amuses me. That and the unnatural enunciation of all the English dialogue in this show...except probably Rin's.

I still sense some angst going on here though. 

Yeah, that image is...O.o.

The Mashiro no Oto anime ends in an odd and rather unsatisfactory place tbh.

It's apparently a long manga, like Yona, but I don't know if I am going to go after it yet. But the music is lovely :D And I do love that opening theme. It reminds me in places of some of the Haruka music, with the Japanese instrumental sections. May have to dig out my Haruka playlist (although they tend to use shakuhachi more than shamisen, it's still got that vibe).

Been randomly clicking on anime this week, in between other things :)

Daiya:
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If not for that yips arc I don't think I'd ever have got to like Eijun, so even though its angsty, I quite like it. In the current manga I'm still a bit annoyed at him.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on August 30, 2021, 02:50:06 AM
I need something new to watch.....
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 30, 2021, 06:51:36 AM
I've been clicking on stuff randomly on CR lately.

I watched Noblesse last night. It's utterly ridiculous on pretty much all levels, but I can't help wanting to hug M-21 so I ended up watching most of it. None of it makes a lot of sense, not least why they had teacups and victorian apparel 800 years ago, but anyways...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 01, 2021, 09:48:42 AM
I spent most of the day watching AMVs on Netflix..so bored....
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 04, 2021, 12:53:02 AM
I randomly discovered S-CRY-ed was on CR the other day. Also Vision of Escaflowne.

Super nostalgic as I watched both of those years ago. So I've been rewatching S-CRY-ed for old time's sake.

I know I watched it originally because Midorikawa Hikaru voices Ryuuho, but I am genuinely surprised Hoshi Souichirou voiced Kazuma because I've heard him in lots of things and I still really struggle to hear that it's him. Kudos to that. Midorikawa is more easily identifiable.

According to the copyright stamp on the opening titles, S-CRY-ed is from 2001. So it's 20 years old. It's probably at least 15 since I watched it if I'm honest.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: ridi on September 05, 2021, 04:19:12 AM
Just had another session catching up with the latest episodes of the Digimon Adventure 2020 reboot. It's such a chore to keep up because it's SO boring lmao. Admittedly I usually watch at 1.5x speed. But I feel like I have to complete it because the original 1999 anime is my favorite ever, and I love the cast of characters... even though their reboot versions are completely flanderized and range from annoying at worst to bland at best.

Only a few more episodes left and it's over :silly:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 05, 2021, 09:18:16 PM
I'm not sure if the Free trailer contains spoilers, but maybe hints...
Spoiler
I don't think there's anything in it that is a real shock though. Haru looking forward, Rin referencing his Dad, Ikuya saying he won't get lost any more...that he'll swim his own way..etc. The English is Albert, sounding impossibly American despite not being American, which always amuses me. That and the unnatural enunciation of all the English dialogue in this show...except probably Rin's.

I still sense some angst going on here though. 

Yeah, that image is...O.o.

The Mashiro no Oto anime ends in an odd and rather unsatisfactory place tbh.

It's apparently a long manga, like Yona, but I don't know if I am going to go after it yet. But the music is lovely :D And I do love that opening theme. It reminds me in places of some of the Haruka music, with the Japanese instrumental sections. May have to dig out my Haruka playlist (although they tend to use shakuhachi more than shamisen, it's still got that vibe).

Been randomly clicking on anime this week, in between other things :)

Daiya:
Spoiler
If not for that yips arc I don't think I'd ever have got to like Eijun, so even though its angsty, I quite like it. In the current manga I'm still a bit annoyed at him.




Thanks for translating the Free Final Stroke Trailer for me.  :D  I'm never sure if there are spoilers in those since I can't understand Japanese.   


Spoiler

I think Albert's going to be a key part of the main conflict in the movie.   



Daiya:

Spoiler
I really like the yips arc too but watching Eijun in the Yakushi game still gets to me.

I love Eijun vs Chris during the third year game. 
 
My opinion on Ochiai hasn't changed.  If I could thrown him out of the anime and manga I would. 



I finished season 1 of Daiya and will be starting season 2 soon.


I found out that The Adventures of the Little Prince is on Crunchyroll.  It used to air on Nickelodeon in the US in the early 80's. It was one of my favorites but I only remember a little bit of it  A few years ago I found an old VHS with a couple of episodes on it.  It will be interesting watching it in Japanese.


 I bought the first 2 volumes of Fly Me to the Moon manga and remembered that  I had seen an image similar to the cover image on vol 1 advertising an anime.  Looking it up I found the anime is called Tonikawa Over the Moon for You.


I shouldn't have been fooled by the pretty art on the manga covers. I was shocked by the opening scene.

Spoiler
Nasa lying in a pool of blood saying he didn't realize it would hurt so much to die. 



Even though it's a fantasy anime some of it is unbelievable.


Spoiler

Despite having 2 broken legs Nasa manages to get up, assure the truck driver he's okay and runs after Tsukasa.  When he find her she tells him that he shouldn't be able to move and that the adrenaline that has kept him conscious so far is going to wear off soon and he will pass out. 

I'm sure Tsukasa isn't an ordinary girl but even taking that in to consideration I find it hard to just go along with that.

When the  truck driver is calling an ambulance the subtitles say he says "We're over by that place near the the thing."  I had to laugh at that because I don't think help would be able to reach them with a description like that.   :lol:


I'll probably stick with it for a little bit to see if I like it.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2021, 01:17:46 AM
Being able to laugh at anime ridiculous is somehow therapeutic though :)

I mean in Noblesse...
Spoiler
They're trying to save the world from a time warp that might destroy everything, but their other skill is being an amazing butler and making great quality tea.

And yeah. Anyways.

That reminds me of Neoangelique as well, which I have a soft spot for since it's a Neoroma and I remember all the live event stuff around it as well. But I came to the conclusion that in that tea was the root of all evil.

Daiya:
Spoiler
I'm hoping Eijun's got his head straight a bit in the last chapter thanks to Nori being awesome and showing him how an ace should actually behave. I mean seriously, that kid.

Ochiai - I don't love him, but I warmed to him a bit after seeing his wife and daughter. It isn't in the anime though I don't think, only in the manga. They're at the training ground and for some reason the little girl is hunting ants.

I dunno though. He's really really annoying in the second season, and the things he says...yeah. I haven't forgiven him for telling Miyuki he's not fit to be Captain right when Miyuki is struggling with it himself. And trying to teach Eijun a useless pitch because he thinks Eijun is useless...telling Haruichi to use a metal bat...telling Furuya he can be the best in the world...all bad choices. But there's a moment where he says that he intended to sacrifice the autumn tournament for Furuya's development, right? Except the word he uses is more emphatic than sacrifice...

Also rewatched 'Hataraku Maou-sama' (The Devil is a Part Timer) recently. Also highly silly but it knows that it is, so it's quite good fun. Even if it's not clear how they suddenly learned to speak Japanese.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MouseCardinal on September 06, 2021, 04:24:35 PM
My favorite anime is Kimba the White Lion  :silly:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 12, 2021, 04:21:35 PM
Been rewatching the new Furuba. I never did get to the end of it yet, so I need to do that.

Last night I watched the ep in Kyoto and Nara. It's so detailed I'm actually sitting there watching it going, I know where that is...I remember that place...even to the point of the store Yuki is trying to buy snacks from. O.O. It made me miss Kyoto though :/ I've never seen it with the autumn leaves, only the cherry blossom, so now I want to do that. Sigh.

Also this isn't anime but whatever. After two years of trying to get a hold of it, not made easier by the pandemic and six months in which getting stuff from Japan was difficult...I finally got the Nobunaga Concerto drama on DVD. I had the movie but the series used to be on CR. The anime still is but I like the drama better, it has more content and Oguri Shun. So I've been watching that as well.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 14, 2021, 01:08:30 PM
Been rewatching the new Furuba. I never did get to the end of it yet, so I need to do that.

Last night I watched the ep in Kyoto and Nara. It's so detailed I'm actually sitting there watching it going, I know where that is...I remember that place...even to the point of the store Yuki is trying to buy snacks from. O.O. It made me miss Kyoto though :/ I've never seen it with the autumn leaves, only the cherry blossom, so now I want to do that. Sigh.



I need to finish it too. I'm in the early part of season 2. I know I haven't ssen the Kyoto episode yet.  I think they are all at the lake house that is owned by the Sohmas   I'm impressed with how beautiful the animation is.  It feels really immersive. 



Daiya:
Spoiler
I'm hoping Eijun's got his head straight a bit in the last chapter thanks to Nori being awesome and showing him how an ace should actually behave. I mean seriously, that kid.

Ochiai - I don't love him, but I warmed to him a bit after seeing his wife and daughter. It isn't in the anime though I don't think, only in the manga. They're at the training ground and for some reason the little girl is hunting ants.

I dunno though. He's really really annoying in the second season, and the things he says...yeah. I haven't forgiven him for telling Miyuki he's not fit to be Captain right when Miyuki is struggling with it himself. And trying to teach Eijun a useless pitch because he thinks Eijun is useless...telling Haruichi to use a metal bat...telling Furuya he can be the best in the world...all bad choices. But there's a moment where he says that he intended to sacrifice the autumn tournament for Furuya's development, right? Except the word he uses is more emphatic than sacrifice...





Daiya

Spoiler
I never forgave Ochiai for those things either.  The kindest thing I can say about him is that Ochiai did tell Eijun that if he gripped the ball differently he could create different pitches.  I think that's the basis of the Numbers? The first time I watched the anime I was really worried about what might happen to Eijun if Kataoka resigned.

I'm glad that Nori was able to help Eijun through what was dealing with.  I love Nori. 


I haven't watched another episode of Over the Moon for You yet.

I haven't finished Mr Love Queen's Choice/Evol Love either.  I think I made it to episode 11.   

Talking about the live dramas makes me what to look up the Daiya drama on Youtube again.  :D 

I started The Adventures of the Little Prince.  The opening theme song was a bit of a shock.  I knew it would be in Japanese but I thought it would be similar to the opening used in the dub.

This is the English theme song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=006lwHP3PDQ


This is the Japanese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVKXhLRPY5g


The Japanese theme is nice too.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 16, 2021, 07:37:11 PM
I watched the first episode of The Little Prince.  I thought that some of the dialogue seemed different in the Japanese version than in English and when I looked up some more information about the series I found out why.

Possible spoiler ahead.

Spoiler
In the English version it's implied that the Prince will return to his planet after he visits Earth and does so multiple times.  In the 2nd episode the Pilot finds a note from the Prince indicating that he found a goat (to eat the weeds that grew on his planet) and returned there.

In the Japanese version however it sounds like the Prince isn't coming back to his planet for quite some time if ever.  The Prince tells the space bird that he's afraid he'll die of loneliness because the only other living  thing on the planet that can give him companionship (the Rose Girl) hates him.
 


I got so excited about the Free Final Stroke movie that I didn't realize it will be a while before it's available to Western audiences.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on September 20, 2021, 07:40:54 AM
I met Eric Vale at FanX this weekend.  He's a very nice guy.  His wife was there and she was nice, too.  I had him sign a picture of Yuki Sohma.  He signed it with "Stupid Cat."  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 20, 2021, 01:58:30 PM
That sounds like a lot of fun Pokeyonekenobie.  :)  It makes me happy to hear that he and his wife were nice.  I've heard that some vas are not very nice to their fans at events.

I'd love to meet some of my favorite vas.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 21, 2021, 08:07:34 AM
I've met one Japanese seiyuu once. I met Kondou Takashi one time at an event in London. He was involved in some of the series and franchises that I liked, so that was fun. He was very nice, very humble. I'd love to meet more but they only tend to go to American events outside of Japan, and that's a biiiit far away. But it was nice to be able to speak to him in Japanese and surprise him by knowing what Haruka was. :)

I've been rewatching Kyou Kara Maou. It's from quite a while back now. The main character, Yuuri, is voiced (at least in the original Japanese version) by Sakurai Takahiro, the same voice artist as Miyuki in Daiya. Which is fun because Yuuri is also a baseball mad teenager who plays catcher ;)

Edit to add: An old uni friend of mine linked me this, which is apparently airing next year (seems like a series from what the text says). It will be interesting to see whether the international streaming sites picks it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW40VnNrowY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW40VnNrowY)

The anime is based around the stuff that I wrote my PhD on.

It seems to focus a lot on Shigemori. I hope that means he'll be less irritating than he is in the actual texts.

There's sadly no subtitles for the trailer. But the clip opens with the opening phrases of the actual war tale - "Gion shouja no kane no koe, shogyo mujou no hibiki ari" (The bells of the Gion Shrine echo the impermanence of all things). There's also a line in there that's very famous from the texts - "Kono Heike no ichimon de nai mono nado hito de arazu!" (Those who are not Heike are not really people!).

From that I expect it to follow the traditional 'demonise the defeated Heike' narrative that's common in the texts, but that's okay. If it becomes actually streamed over here, and people watch it, I'll probably just spend a lot of time pointing out the bits that are nonsense xD.

 I'm also curious that it seems to be based on a work by Yoshikawa Hideo, and there's a very famous work on this subject from the sixties (?) by a man called Yoshikawa Eiji. I wonder if there's a connection...

I definitely heard Sakurai Takahiro's voice in there as well.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 11, 2021, 11:14:58 AM
What is everyone watching lately?   

I've been rewatching Dayia season 2.  I'll probably also go back to Over the Moon for You.

I thought Komi Can't Communicate was going to be on Crunchyroll but it's going to be on Netflix instead with new episodes uploaded weekly. 

Has anyone heard if there's going to a release date for Western audiences for Free Final Stroke?  I'm thinking it might be closer to the Japanese release date for part 2 before we get to see part 1.  That being said I don't know how long it took for Take Your Marks and High Speed to be available after their release.   

That's interesting that an anime is going to based on stuff that you wrote your PHD on Taffeta.  I heard Sakurai Takahiro too. :)



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 11, 2021, 11:49:26 AM
I always re-watch Spirited Away in October.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 11, 2021, 01:22:47 PM
I rewatched Haruka 1. (Harukanaru Toku no Naka De or Haruka, Beyond the Stream of Time I think they called it in the translated manga/subbed anime release).

I like the manga better, not least because the best scenes in the whole narrative are in vol 12 and 13 and those didn't get animated. But I still love this series. It's a big nostalgia thing for me because Neoroma and the Neoroma communities were such a big part of when I started learning Japanese. Fushigi Yuugi was the one that got me to start learning, but Haruka got me on the Japanese history kick (especially Haruka 3).

I loved the songs, the seiyuu, the characters and especially the setting of the Haruka games, in Japanese history. I like Corda (they did have the maddest seiyuu) and am lowkey entertained by Angelique and Neoangelique (I used to blog about the neoroma series, events and games in the dim and distant past, probably 12 years ago now...) and I was always finding stuff to laugh at in those (beware the evil tea!).

I also then got watching some live event DVDs and reminding myself just why I love seiyuu so much. And right now I have the haruka songs playing on my hifi. So probably I'll watch some of the other stuff sometime. I brought some of the dvds back from Japan, including Kurenai no Tsuki from 3 and the movie from 1. But I can't currently get at my Haruka 1 manga because it's buried in a crate underneath another crate under all my Daiya manga. Very unsatisfying...

I miss Miki Shinichirou being in more anime. It was nice hearing him in Kyou Kara Maou as the Shin'ou and also in Haruka. But he doesn't seem to take as many main roles since he got more involved in the production company stuff. He's always been a favourite seiyuu of mine. Likewise Okiayu Ryoutarou, although I hear him in stuff a bit more often.

Ishida Akira is in Daiya (Nabe) but it was nice hearing his Yasuaki voice again. And his song, since he stopped singing for anime around that time (back in 2003ish) and hasn't done songs for any of his characters since Yasuaki.

I also watched Hakkenden again. I still don't know what's going on, but it doesn't really matter.

And now just restarted Saiyuuki Gensoumaden. Which I watch quite often really. Sadly only Reload Blast is on CR.

I did notice more and more older series are appearing on streaming services. So I live in hope that KKM, Saiunkoku, Haruka and the rest of Saiyuuki will appear there so that other people can enjoy them.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: OleGrayMane on October 11, 2021, 05:20:39 PM
"Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet" on Hulu. Nice and relaxing in a way, well at least so far: just up to ep 5.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 23, 2021, 01:08:09 PM
I watched the first episode of Komi Can't Communicate.  It wasn't quite what I was expecting but I did enjoy it.  I felt really sad for Komi when she was writing on the chalkboard and


Spoiler
told Tandano how lonely she feels  and that no one has noticed before because they're too stunned by her beauty or run away from her when she isn't able to communicate with them through speech.   




I felt the subtitles went a little too fast for me to be able to read them sometimes but I was able to keep up most of the time.


I have all of the English manga volumes released so far but I haven't read them yet.  Watching the episode renewed my interest in the manga though I got the first 6 volumes out (I had just put them away when I was rearranging my manga) and put them on the shelf. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 31, 2021, 09:34:37 AM
I haven't read Komi but I did watch the first episode of it. It's actually kind of interesting to me because I can relate a little bit to how she feels. I'm not sure if I will carry on watching it, but you kept mentioning it in the manga so I was curious :)

I also rewatched most of Neoangelique last week. Neoangelique I guess is most easily described as the action-adventure installment of the Angelique series, largely because things actually happen in it other than having tea and throwing elemental energy around to make plants grow. TBH Angelique is so much less known than Corda D'Oro and even Haruka that I'm surprised Neoangelique is on CR at all, but it saved me looking out my DVD.

Frankly most all of the Angelique series is a little bit ridiculous, and the guys do come out with some amazing cliche lines, as though they've been auditioning for a host club.  But I still like it, it's cute and nostalgic for me for reasons. It amuses me in lots of little ways, like

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Angelique learning to fight with a sword, Sedona telling her her outfit is inappropriately frilly and then finding her another equally frilly outfit to practice in.


and

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Why Hyuuga always has to practice his spear moves half naked, usually when other people are around

and the big one.

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That the root of all evil in Arcadia is tea.

Though I like how it tied in earlier Angelique stuff like the Hoshi no Fune and other things, I don't really like the ending because I feel like it only goes part way.

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The Queen is missing her guardians, after all, and I see absolutely no reason why. Where is she going to get her Sacrea from otherwise?

And of course, I'm continuing on with Saiyuuki again. Into the Kamisama arc. Remembering with regret that the next arc is Even a Worm, which is my favourite, but which the anime wrecked by trying to rush it through and so the best scenes are only available in manga and drama CD. Sigh.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 01, 2021, 08:07:44 AM
I'll probably watch a few more episodes of Komi before I decide if I want to keep watching.  I like being able to go from one episode to the next without having to wait for another episode to be uploaded so I'll wait for a couple more episodes to be uploaded before I go back to it. :)


Neoangelique is on my watchlist but I haven't started it yet.


I'm still in season 2 of Daiya.  Sometimes I get so involved in the episode that I have to remind myself that this is my 2nd time watching the series and I already know how it's going to turn out.

I've been trying to find out when we might expect a release for Western audiences for Free Final Stroke but I guess it's too soon for that information to be available.  I'm guessing that we might see the 1st part when it gets closer to 2nd part being released.

 The only information I've been able to find  so far is that Final Stroke might be using the same theme song as Dive to the Future ("Heading to Over" by Oldcodex)  and there might have been a film made out of season 3 episodes to promote Final Stroke.


Ponyfan


 



Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TwistedRiver on November 01, 2021, 08:35:36 AM
I'm in a bit of an anime slump if anyone wants to shoot some suggestions my way. Preferably if it's on netflix or crunchyroll or heck free to watch with prime.
I'm not big on mech animes, my tastes run the gamut though with just about anything else. My sister and I talked about rewatching the October anime (Slayers, Slayers Next, Slayers Try, Slayers Premium, Slayers Revolution, Slayers Evolution - R, and Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door) but we never got around to any of them. My health has put a damper on a lot of plans, I blink and I'm dozing off. :p
Anyway I'm craving something somewhere between the original Fruits Basket and Death Note. Like I said my tastes run the gamut and I'm in a slump so throw stuff at me and we'll see what sticks?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 01, 2021, 09:25:39 AM
@TwistedRiver - I'd recommend Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn) except for the annoying fact that only the first eight or so manga volumes are animated...of 36 so far.

It's still a great story, it's just annoying that that's as far as it's got.

I also really like Charlotte, Re:Life and Erased, albeit the last I prefer the drama version on Netflix than the anime on CR. Charlotte and Erased are quite short. Re:Life is a bit longer.


And maybe Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens - so long as you accept the premise that everyone is either associated with an assassin, or is an assassin, but they all hang out to play baseball with each other anyways.

@Ponyfan, if and when you ever watch Neoange, I will love to hear your views on it. I am fond of it but seriously, there are so many things that I still find funny.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 01, 2021, 09:47:45 AM
I'm in a bit of an anime slump if anyone wants to shoot some suggestions my way. Preferably if it's on netflix or crunchyroll or heck free to watch with prime.
I'm not big on mech animes, my tastes run the gamut though with just about anything else. My sister and I talked about rewatching the October anime (Slayers, Slayers Next, Slayers Try, Slayers Premium, Slayers Revolution, Slayers Evolution - R, and Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door) but we never got around to any of them. My health has put a damper on a lot of plans, I blink and I'm dozing off. :p
Anyway I'm craving something somewhere between the original Fruits Basket and Death Note. Like I said my tastes run the gamut and I'm in a slump so throw stuff at me and we'll see what sticks?

You can watch stuff for free on Funimation if you don't mind a few commercials. Seems like you're leaning to the supernatural side of things.  Not sure what you've already seen but here are some suggestions.  These are all available on Funimation if they're not on Netflix or Crunchyroll.

Assassination Classroom
My Hero Academia
Sword Art Online
Blue Exorcist
Rising of the Shield Hero




Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 01, 2021, 01:15:40 PM
@TwistedRiver - I'd recommend Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn) except for the annoying fact that only the first eight or so manga volumes are animated...of 36 so far.


I was also going to mention Yona.  :D  It's one of my favorites but there is so much more in the manga that the anime doesn't cover


Other top favorites of mine are


Ace of Diamond

Free!

My Roommate is a Cat

Sailor Moon



@Ponyfan, if and when you ever watch Neoange, I will love to hear your views on it. I am fond of it but seriously, there are so many things that I still find funny.

:)


Ponyfan
 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TwistedRiver on November 10, 2021, 04:40:05 AM
Thank you all for the suggestions. I will maybe try and look up and watch something before bed during the time I'm usually watching random doll vids on YouTube and what if anything sticks.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 10, 2021, 09:27:54 AM
I watched a few more episodes of Komi.  I'm still not sure if I'm going to keep watching.  Overall I really like the story (although the shorter stories in each episode were a bit confusing at first) but there are a few things that don't seem to belong and might have only been added to get a laugh from the audience.     

I wish that some episodes didn't show the animation rewinding to go over something another character missed.  I know it's an artistic choice but it made my head hurt a little watching it. 


I'm still watching Daiya season 2 :D



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 11, 2021, 03:49:20 PM
It reminds me of the scene in the Daiya anime where there's a ball exchange between Furuya and Eijun (I think) and it not only takes aaages (pause for emphasis) but it's repeated from one ep to another and I'm like...fast forward...

Rewatched Yona a couple of times ;)

Spoiler
Kija running through Awa with Jaeha in the jar is always one of my favourite dragon moments. I've worked out that everything in Yona is better when there are dragons.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 13, 2021, 07:01:40 PM


Rewatched Yona a couple of times ;)

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Kija running through Awa with Jaeha in the jar is always one of my favourite dragon moments. I've worked out that everything in Yona is better when there are dragons.

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That scene never gets old.   :lol:
 
I also love Yun's reply to Yona when Hak and Yona see Yun locked in the cage in Kija's village. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 26, 2021, 02:35:14 PM
Still watching  Daiya season 2.

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I have to keep reminding myself that Coach Kataoka doesn't end up resigning.  I get so involved in some of the episodes that I forget that I know how it's going to turn out.

I also spotted another error.  Coach Sakai called Kataoka Tetsu instead of Tesshin.  I thought at first it was just a subtitle error but the va did say Tetsu.





Has anyone been able to find out a release date for the 3rd season of Fruits Basket or when Western audiences might see Free Final Stroke?


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 26, 2021, 02:49:07 PM
I am not sure if it's a mistake or not.
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The Japanese name Tesshin is written with the characters 'Tetsu' and 'Shin',  which kind of squash together in the middle. So he might well have called him Tetsu based on that. However it would be a bit confusing given Yuuki Tetsuya is also a character...
Not sure. I don't have that manga volume, so can't check what it says ;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 26, 2021, 10:08:22 PM
I don't see them listed on RightStuf yet.  RightStuf is having their Black Friday Sale this week and should start the holiday sale next week (if they follow the patterns of past years).  Sentai Filmworks is also having a sale right now but it doesn't look like Funimation has started their official holiday sale yet.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 28, 2021, 08:45:45 AM
The RightStuf Holiday Sale has begun.  Depending on what you want it pays to check out the Sentai Filmworks sale, too.  Some of their prices are better on certain things. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 28, 2021, 02:23:53 PM
For some reason this song keeps playing on loop in my head lately. I don't know why. I did watch Neoange recently but I've watched plenty of other stuff in between. Oh well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFYvJmv9CI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFYvJmv9CI)

(Small spoiler warning for Neoange).

I need to stop rewatching Yona.

ALSO, I rewatched Charlotte and realised that I'm really very stupid and slow. It only just dawned on me that
Spoiler
Sala has the same power as Shunsuke does.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 29, 2021, 08:22:01 PM
RightStuf has both seasons of Grimm's Fairy Tales on a Cyber Monday special.  Get it before it ends at 11:59 PM CT time zone!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 07, 2021, 07:05:19 PM
I am not sure if it's a mistake or not.
Spoiler
The Japanese name Tesshin is written with the characters 'Tetsu' and 'Shin',  which kind of squash together in the middle. So he might well have called him Tetsu based on that. However it would be a bit confusing given Yuuki Tetsuya is also a character...
Not sure. I don't have that manga volume, so can't check what it says ;)


That's really interesting. 


I like the song too. :D I looked for it on US iTunes but I couldn't find it.


@Pokeyonekenobie.  I'm glad you were able to get some great deals from RightStuf. :)

I'm still in season 2 of Daiya. 

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Watching that Seiko player basically tackle Miyuki at the plate because he's determined to score and doesn't realize he's been called out still gets to me


I have a feeling we won't see Free Final Stroke part 1 until it's almost time for part 2 to be released.  I'm starting to wonder if the last season of Fruits Basket Blu Ray is delayed.  It seems we should have some indication by now of a release. 

I need to rewatch Yona.   


Has anyone watched Sword Art Online?  I have a non skippable advertisement for it on one of my anime DVDs but I had forgotten what the series was called for a long time.  Recently I an app ad I watched was for another Sword Art Online series and it made me think about it again.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 08, 2021, 02:08:20 PM
I need to stop rewatching Yona.

I may actually know some of the dialogue by heart now. Yes, in Japanese.

I have also been watching Re:Life again though.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 15, 2021, 09:56:53 AM
ReLife is on my watchlist but I haven't started it yet. 

Daiya


Spoiler
I don't remember Kosei being so annoying the first time. I'm sure he was and his behavior was probably overshadowed by my opinion of Mei at the time but now I almost can't stand it when Kosei's pitching with that attitude of his.   

I also can't remember when Kosei exchanged Line information with Eijun.  I thought it happened before the Fall Tournament final between Seidou and Yakushi but it must happen later.


I'm trying to decide what to watch after I finish Daiya.  I want to watch Haikyuu and also rewatch Yona (maybe in Japanese this time) and Free.


Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 25, 2021, 09:52:22 AM
So I just discovered that there's to finally be an anime adaptation of the incomplete arc of Saiyuuki, at least as far as I can gather. The Even A Worm arc kind of started to be adapted in Reload Gunlock but went a bit south because the story wasn't finished at the time it was animated.

The big problem, aside it being one of the most significant plot arcs in the manga, is that they then went on to animate Reload Blast, which connects onto the end of Even a Worm, and refers back to it.

Even a Worm is my favourite Saiyuuki arc. If they're really going to go back and animate the whole thing properly from start to finish, doing Hazel proper justice, and including certain important scenes for Hakkai and Gokuu, not to mention Ukoku...I will be very happy. I think it's the only arc that has not been properly animated. And it really needs to be because Gunlock just doesn't end right.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 28, 2021, 07:20:01 PM
I hope the anime for the Even a Worm arc will do it justice. 

I heard Tiger and Bunny will have a season 2. 

I'm hoping we will see another season of Daiya (would that be Act 2 season 2?) but doubt it will happen until after the current game has ended.

I want another season of Yona also. :D

I finished Daiya season 2 and started season 3.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 28, 2021, 09:10:56 PM
There's finally a blu-ray release date for Haikyu Season 4.  :)

I ordered from both the Sentai sale and the Rightstuf Sale on the same evening so I could get the better deal on the titles I wanted.  I got my Sentai order today in a Sentai box with a RightStuf return label. :lol:  The Rightstuf order still says it's pending fulfillment. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 29, 2021, 12:55:10 AM
I still need to watch to the end of season 4 of Haikyuu, even though I know what happens (tribulations of being involved in Daiya fandom, you get Haikyuu spoilered as well xD). The animation wasn't as good for Season 4, IMO, although it was still miles better than some of season 3 of Daiya.

@Ponyfan, it depends on how the Inajitsu game goes, as to whether I want another season of Daiya *lol* but I figure that it is likely after the summer tournament ends, whichever way it goes. Act 2 season 2 seems likely.

I heard that about Tiger and Bunny as well. I have the movie but still didn't watch most of it. I don't know why...I guess because they're not really working together for most of it and the best part of Tiger and Bunny is their interaction with one another.

My fingers are crossed for Even a Worm. O.O

I still think it odd that CR has the rights to Reload Blast - which is the most recent part of the story - but none of the older material, so the only people who can really watch it are those who already know Saiyuuki. Sigh.

Edit to add: First ep of Zeroin aired :D Taffeta is happy so far, especially with the cryptic hints in the credits of what's to come. I'd need to check the manga to see whether the scene with Ukoku and Koumyou is actually from the start of Even a Worm, because it's also in the Burial OVA release and it might come from there, but it does make sense since Ukoku is important in this arc...

Only pain is having to wait a week for ep 2. Especially knowing my favourite part of the arc is probably some weeks away yet.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 10, 2022, 09:44:10 AM
@Taffeta

I'm happy to hear that the first episode was satisfying.  :)

I'm still watching Daiya season 3.  I saw the first few seconds of Haikyuu (There was a problem with a Daiya episode, and I was trying to figure out if it was a Crunchyroll issue or just an issue with that episode) and I will be watching that one also.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 13, 2022, 01:12:07 PM
I need to get back to Haikyuu and finally finish season 4.

Although it's not really anime as such, I noticed on CR that part of their winter new show collection is a drama version of Hakuouki (which is both an otome game/anime series). It's been a while since I watched the series - I still have trouble watching the last few eps of the second arc actually - but I'm curious about this so will probably watch it to see how it works out.

I still remember when I was in Japan that one of the museums in Kyoto was using Hakuouki to narrate the ideas of the Bakumatsu. There were animation story plans around, the series screening on a big screen in the middle and giant cardboard cutouts which were the only things permitted to take photos of in what was otherwise a serious collection of Bakumatsu paraphernalia. It's true Hakuouki does touch on a lot of things that actually happened but when I think of the whole oni/rasetsu aspect of the plot I do wonder what kind of Japanese history that museum was actually teaching anyone...

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Here's a slide from one of my teaching lectures, with some of the images from that museum o.O.

So anyway. Hakuouki drama. Awesome. 

I think some of the Hakuouki anime used to be on CR. Certainly the prequel did for a while I believe.

Second ep of Saiyuuki Zeroin also aired today :D. The only annoyance is having to wait a week for the next part. So glad they kept the original seiyuu even for Hazel and Gat.
The opening theme is also Granrodeo, which is a bit nostalgic...
Opening titles (typical anime theme, fighting etc):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRUk1jnb8M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRUk1jnb8M)
Those vines...O.O.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 15, 2022, 12:11:48 PM
That slide and information about the museum are really interesting. 

The Youtube link didn't work for me but I looked up the opening song for Saiyuuki Zeroin. I'll be adding that to my anime playlist if I can find it on iTunes. :)

Has anyone seen Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime?  It's just been released in the US for a limited theater run.  I was listening to the music earlier and I'm already captivated by it.

Here are a couple of songs from the movie.

Lend Me Your Voice in Japanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbhUCM5Z6s


A Million Miles Away in Japanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZrspJ7eVY


I don't want to get my expectations up too high for the movie. I was a little disappointed in Weathering with You and although I like Mirai enough to rewatch it occasionally there are other films that much higher on my list.


Ponyfan

 


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 15, 2022, 12:54:50 PM
So let me get this right, the English title is 'Belle' and the Japanese one is Ryuu to Sobakasu no Hime? How did that translation happen? The Japanese title means The Dragon and the Freckled Princess. I guess the princess is Belle? Does Belle have freckles??

The music is pretty though :D Especially the second one. It seems atmospheric.

I quite like Tenki no Ko (Weathering with You) but there are some moments in the plot that don't quite hold together as well as they might.

I like the Granrodeo opening for Zeroin (Kami mo hotoke mo) but I may like the closing theme song Ruten better. I haven't found either on itunes yet though :( Granrodeo has special nostalgia for me as they were a group brought together from the neoroma live events. The singer, Taniyama Kishou, is also a voice artist and was voicing Tsukishima Ren from Corda D'Oro at live events and the guitarist, Iizuka Masaaki, who was part of the stage band, and the rest is kind of history. I don't know if Taniyama still does voice roles, but being a singer was his dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMceoRhTekg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMceoRhTekg)
I found this clip of him singing one of Tsukishima's songs at a Neoroma event from back then XD.

Saiyuuki has a history of solid theme songs. A couple I like are Late Show from Burial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz9ZeqqJBCc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz9ZeqqJBCc)
and Sakura no Ki no Shita De from the Gaiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWlNv3uCqoM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWlNv3uCqoM)
They're pretty different, the second is very haunting and beautiful.

...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on January 15, 2022, 01:19:48 PM
I saw an advert for Belle back when I went to see a screening of the Doremi movie - IIRC it's a sort of "Beauty and the Beast" story so I guess that's why they renamed it to Belle? in an attempt to draw in that sort of crowd...? I dunno, the original title sounds more interesting to me personally, but I'll never understand how marketing peoples' minds work.

I thought it looked sort of interesting, I wasn't 100% sold on it though.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 20, 2022, 08:55:47 AM
Third ep of Zeroin aired...

I'm remembering why I love this arc so much. It's the small details between the characters and their interactions.

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Especially I suppose in this context given that they're dealing with issues of life, death and relife, as well as weighing the value of demon lives with human ones as well.

And now Ukoku has appeared too, to cause his usual level of trouble. Although this time actually as Ukoku, at long last.
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Ni Jianyi is fine and creepy in his own right, but I definitely prefer Ukoku as Ukoku
.

Also it's nice to see the nuances in Hazel's character start to show themselves.

I know nobody here cares but I no longer have anyone with whom to discuss Saiyuuki, so I'm afraid you guys get my random babble instead ;) Sorry about that...

CR has weirdly started airing Hakuouki season 1 anime eps as well as the new drama, but only as far as the drama has already shown. They do more or less match in terms of episode time so far, so I guess it makes sense but...yeah, it's weird. It has made me dig out the shinsengumi DVD and watch it again though.

AND I have been rewatching season 1 of Bakuman. While I still think Mashiro and Azuki's 'romance' is ridiculous, I do really like this story. Probably also because of the details between characters...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 21, 2022, 07:14:05 AM
I need to rewatch Weathering with You but I remember liking most of the movie until near the end.  At that point the plot seemed to suddenly take a turn that didn't make sense with the rest of the movie.


I agree with Carrehz about why Ryuu to Sobakasu no Hime was probably changed to Belle in English.  It's being promoted as a sci fi version of Beauty and the Beast from what I've seen so far.  I just looked up a little more info on the movie and the main character's name is Suzu.  Maybe that has something to do with the English version being titled Belle?   

I wonder if it will be like A Silent Voice though where the actual title on screen is "The Shape of Voice" but is called A Silent Voice everywhere else.


I like the Granrodeo opening for Zeroin (Kami mo hotoke mo) but I may like the closing theme song Ruten better. I haven't found either on itunes yet though :( Granrodeo has special nostalgia for me as they were a group brought together from the neoroma live events. The singer, Taniyama Kishou, is also a voice artist and was voicing Tsukishima Ren from Corda D'Oro at live events and the guitarist, Iizuka Masaaki, who was part of the stage band, and the rest is kind of history. I don't know if Taniyama still does voice roles, but being a singer was his dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMceoRhTekg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMceoRhTekg)
I found this clip of him singing one of Tsukishima's songs at a Neoroma event from back then XD.

Saiyuuki has a history of solid theme songs. A couple I like are Late Show from Burial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz9ZeqqJBCc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz9ZeqqJBCc)
and Sakura no Ki no Shita De from the Gaiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWlNv3uCqoM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWlNv3uCqoM)
They're pretty different, the second is very haunting and beautiful.

...

I like all of these but couldn't find a single one of them on US iTunes. :(  I did find some songs by  Taniyama Kishou though.

I'm still watching Daiya Act 2/Season 3.  The next series I start will probably be Haikyuu or rewatching Yona.  I need to get back to Komi Can't Communicate too.


Ponyfan
 

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 21, 2022, 09:43:13 AM
I kind of read that and facepalmed, but I guess I see it.

Suzu is the Japanese word for bell. It just feels like a bad joke, but I don't know which way around. Highly possible that if that's the theme of the story, the joke is on the Japanese side.

Weathering with you is actually called Tenki no Ko, I think? Which is literally, 'the weather child' or 'the weather girl'.

And it's not like all of the Ghibli films have straight translated titles so you're probably right. Spirited Away is Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi in Japanese. But to translate that literally would be a mess. Sen to Chihiro relies on a play on kanji readings, and kamikakushi, the idea of gods stealing people away, mostly children, isn't something found in the west. So 'Spirited Away' is a decent compromise. I've always wondered how much it makes sense to people in English/without the cultural context, but it seems really popular, so I guess it must somehow?

I think the plot of WWY did go a bit funny at the end. The whole idea of the shrine and the girl being the offering for the weather to stabilise is kind of logical, there are stories of miko (shinto priestess) doing dances for rain, and the idea of a miko as a conduit for stability or whatever...and she's basically a miko. But yeah, it does go a bit wonky towards the end.

I like Kimi no Na Wa much more.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on January 22, 2022, 04:22:01 PM
IIRC from what I read about it, the main character's name is Suzu in real life and Belle online (or something like that), so yeah the pun was there originally too. Shame they gave it such a generic English title though.

Renaming films in the localization process happens pretty often in both sides of the world, not just with anime films... I.e. Lady and the Tramp is called "Wan Wan Monogatari" (woofwoof story/doggy story) in Japan.

The weirdest Ghibli film rename to me is "The Cat's Repayment" being renamed to "The Cat Returns". I get most of the other retitled Ghibli films, but that one baffles me, what was wrong with the original title...? *shakes head*
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 22, 2022, 05:56:27 PM
The cat returns doesn't even make sense as a rendering of Neko no Ongaeshi anyway. The Cat's Obligation might be better...but returns? Returns what?

I admit I haven't seen the film, so may be missing something - I'm not really a fan of Ghibli - but still.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 22, 2022, 07:57:53 PM
I like Your Name a lot more too.  :D It's one of my top anime films.


I didn't know the Cat Returns was originally titled The Cat's Repayment.  That makes more sense to me than Returns. I thought that the title must have been referring to Baron returning.

I've been thinking about watching a few of the Ghibli films I haven't seen yet but their films are really hit or miss for me.  My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo and Whispers of the Heart are my favorites. The Cat Returns is okay  but isn't as good in my opinion as the ones I just mentioned.  I'm not a fan of Howl's Moving Castle or From Up on Poppy Hill.

Ponyfan


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on January 23, 2022, 02:01:32 AM
"Returns" always came off as a title referring to its pseudo-sequel status too - but that also doesn't make much sense, because it was actually dubbed before Whisper of the Heart! Weird stuff - the original title sounds just as good (compared to others where I can see they might not have sounded as snappy in English) so idk why they changed it.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 23, 2022, 10:04:17 AM
They may have gone with "Returns" because Haru fed a kitten when she was a child and then after she saved the cat prince from being run over by a car as a teen, it was discovered that the kitten had grown up and was going to be the cat prince's bride and the cats "returned" to repay her kindness.  The Baron and Muta also "return" to the kingdom of the cats.  I agree that other titles would have made more sense, though.

The Cat Returns was supposedly the story written in Whisper of the Heart, but the only similarities are The Baron and the human in the story is female.  There is a character named Muta, which was the name of the cat that kept showing up in Whisper and he even looks like the cat in Whisper.  I guess if you stretch you could say that there was a lot of editing that happened to the original manuscript that Shizuku wrote so of course it changed. 

It is weird because Cat Returns was dubbed into English and released in America before Whisper of the Heart, even though Whisper was created first and Cat Returns was supposed to be the spinoff/sequel.  But then, Free! Season 2 got an English Dub DVD release before Free! Season 1 (and I know that because I ended up buying Season 1 in Japanese so I could watch Season 2 in English and then Season 1 came out with the English Dub 8 months later so I ended up rebuying it) so...yeah.  Sometimes it just doesn't make any sense.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on January 23, 2022, 12:41:51 PM
Yeah, I know the story of Whisper/Returns, they're my favourite Ghibli films.

I think I recall hearing the delay in dubbing Whisper was because they were having issues getting the rights to "Country Roads" (apparently that's why the vocal songs were replaced for the English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service) and of course, a lot of the film hinges on the use of that particular song. I could be misremembering though.

The "Returns" title *sort of* works when you put it like that, but it still seems silly and arbitrary to rename it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 23, 2022, 04:58:08 PM
I don't suppose the date of the dub matters in either case, tbh. A lot of series and films and movies appear on streaming networks pre-dub but with translated titles. There are also a lot of anime that are not dubbed at all, but still have English titles for easier promotional purposes on those sites. So I guess Returns was a decision based on the plot and made by translators, not to do with the order of the dub.

I can't explain the decision to use 'returns' as it doesn't make any sense. Even if the cat returns, that doesn't convey why the cat returns, which is the meaning of the original title. But it is definitely true that some titles go a long way away from their original meaning when translated.

Free already has an English title, so isn't really a good comparison.

But Daiya no Ace, that Ponyfan and I talk about sometimes, has the English title of Ace of the Diamond, which is a correct translation of the name. But despite around 200 episodes of anime, there is no dub. And more than 10 years back now, Harukanaru toki no naka de was released on DVD in the US under the title Haruka: Beyond the Stream Of Time, which was also the title used on the manga. But the DVD doesn't have a dub, either. (In this case, thank goodness, since the subs made ugly messes of some of the oni names).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 27, 2022, 11:02:37 AM
I wish Daiya would get a wider release for Western audiences.  I'd love to own the series on DVD but the only DVDs I can find are from Japan and look like they only contain a few episodes each.

Since we have been talking about Weathering with You, I rewatched that the other day.   


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 29, 2022, 01:23:18 PM
I am waiting with fear for the day Daiya is no longer on CR. It's totally true with the Japanese DVDs, they're so expensive as well given how many eps there are. I have three o the OVA DVDs (2, 3 and 4? Maybe? Kuramochi, Nori and the one with the epilogue stuff/Jingu tournament after the autumn final...when one of the managers owns Miyuki for being shy about cheering) but that's all.

Caught up with Zeroin ep 4 today. Your quote for the week...

"I thought this might happen, so I took a correspondence course in lock-picking, just in case."
Hakkai xD.

Love seeing the nuances in Hazel's character properly fleshed out and Ukoku doing his usual mischief as well. The only problem is waiting a week for another episode...because every week has something of a cliffhanger.

Also, HiDive is such an annoying streaming service with its controls and interface on the firestick compared to CR and most others. Sigh.

Still watching the Hakuouki drama more from curiosity than anything else since I know the story pretty well and I probably do prefer the proper Shinsengumi drama now I've seen it. Although they're not doing the worst job of it ever. I feel like they jumped over some steps, but yeesh, the guy they got to play Itou is just chilling.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 30, 2022, 07:14:44 PM
I will be really sad if Daiya is taken off of Crunchyroll. I would miss being able to watch it whenever I want to. :(  I'm not sure why Daiya seems to be so underrated and not as popular as a lot of other animes. 

I'm happy that Zeroin is doing the storyline and the characters justice.  :)

I watched a couple more episodes of Komi Can't Communicate. I still have to get used to the multiple stories per episode format.

Spoiler

There's one story where a classmate becomes insanely jealous that Tadano has the desk next to Komi.  The classmate literally kidnaps Tadano and ties him up in her room so she can sit next to Komi without Tadano getting in the way.  Komi ends up going to the classmate's house completely unaware that she is holding Tadano hostage.   When Komi and Najimi find Tadano in the closet they free him and Komi refuses to be the classmate's friend due to what she did to Tadano.  The classmate later apologizes to Komi and Tadano saying that her behavior was too extreme   and asks if Komi will accept her as a fried.

I think the kidnapping story was meant to be funny but I didn't find it funny at all. I haven't started reading the manga yet so I don't know if it comes across better in the manga than it does through the animation. 


I'm going to watch The Wind Rises soon.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 04, 2022, 04:36:38 PM
They did something weird with this week's Zeroin. It was an omake kind of episode which means now my calculations for how the real plot is going to run are all out. I know the first half was Zakuro and Gokuu's manga omake. I have no idea about the second, aside it was an URASAI, which is usually an anime omake... though if I wasn't impatient for certain scenes to be animated I'd have actively laughed at the Saiyuuki guide to how to behave in a cinema.

Editing into previous post to avoid doubleposting, just caught up with this week's Saiyuuki Zeroin. It cliffhangered exactly where I expected it to...so next week will probably cover my favourite scenes.

Spoiler
It's weird seeing Ukoku animated so much as Ukoku, rather than Ni Jianyi, since the old anime barely ever touched on that aspect.

I wondered how they were going to do the scene with Sanzou and Gokuu, even though part of it was in the trailer. But I did think they'd end the episode with it and they did.

Looking forward to next week =D




Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 21, 2022, 04:27:31 PM
You can now download Crunchyroll to your Nintendo Switch.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 22, 2022, 07:28:06 PM
I heard about Crunchyroll and Nintendo Switch. I'd be interested in hearing how it works if anyone tries it out.  :)

I'm still watching Daiya Act 2.  I'll probably start Haikyuu soon.  I'm also thinking about rewatching Sailor Moon (either the 90's version or Crystal/Eternal)

I read that Makoto Shinkai is working on a new film called Suzume no Tojimari.  I don't know if the English title has been decided yet.

I know that I'm probably being impatient but I still can't find anything about a release date for Western audiences for Free Final Stroke part 1 or the last season of the new Fruits Basket.



Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 23, 2022, 05:45:34 AM
I've been back through watching some older anime from my DVDs the last few weeks. Also a couple of new ones. The salaryman's club seems like a bog standard sports anime but set in a company. But it has Miki Shinichirou voicing one of the main cast so I shall probably keep watching it.

Also, THAT EPISODE of Saiyuuki aired. I am pretty happy with it. Only the slight detail that Hakkai's real eye should have been gold/yellow...but otherwise, it felt so nice to see it animated after so long.

I'm maybe going to rewatch Haikyuu, at least season 3 and four, since I never finished 4 yet.

I also bingewatched Hakuouki, or at least, as much of Hakuouki as I can ever stand to watch without having an emotional meltdown because the second season is very hard going.

Spoiler
SO MANY character deaths.

Although for the first time,

Spoiler
I thought about Okita's death and realised that in a way the anime gave back to him the ability to die as a warrior, something denied him as a real person, because he died of TB. And for a warrior in that time, probably, he'd have preferred that. So in a weird way maybe it's fine that way. I dunno. Okita Souji's story is a sad one either way.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 01, 2022, 08:13:37 AM
It makes me really happy that Saiyuuki is doing such a good job at staying true to the manga. :)  It gives me hope that if the Yona anime ever continues that they can make it as good as the first episodes.


Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime will be released on Blu Ray in the US in May.

Crunchyroll announced today that they now have Funimation and Wakanim titles on their website.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 01, 2022, 02:45:38 PM
Yeah, Funimation announced that they are merging with Crunchyroll so soon their new releases will only be on Crunchyroll.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 05, 2022, 07:15:33 PM
Komi Can't Communicate season 2 will start in April. 

I saw an anime movie called Josee, the Tiger and the Fish at Walmart.  Has anyone seen it? I glanced at it and the description on the back didn't grab me but I didn't read all of it either. 



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Harmonie on March 05, 2022, 08:22:22 PM
Yeah, Funimation announced that they are merging with Crunchyroll so soon their new releases will only be on Crunchyroll.

Hm. I saw something about FUNimation titles coming to CR, but didn't catch the full context of the companies merging.

Streaming services consolidating isn't what I expected to happen in this age where everything is becoming its own streaming subscription service, but I'll gladly take it! I just hope that FUNimation is able to keep up with their dubs.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: TimeDance on March 05, 2022, 08:54:34 PM
Just watched season 2 of One Punch Man. Great show, though it definitely didn't have the same high-quality animation as the first season.

I see some people posting about Saiyuki. I was a huge fan back in the day and have fallen out of touch with it. I just realize yesterday that there is another Sayuiki Season, Reload something. So I'll have to go check that out.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on March 05, 2022, 10:21:51 PM
Not sure how I feel about the merger. I originally paid for both but ended up dropping CR because it was a pain in the ass to connect via a VPN. I have a year long subscription to Funimation. Do I get a refund if I cancel it? Also what I was watching has not been transferred to CR yet.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 06, 2022, 12:28:03 AM
CR and Funi were I think together as an entity for a while, at least with sharing material. Then they separated out. Now back together. I'm ok with this though. I like CR much more than Funi, and I just cancelled my funimation sub.

Also, I found out how to turn off subtitles on CR on the firestick the other day. At last :D

Although I do wish dubs were kept in a separate section. It's annoying when a series says there are new episodes but they're actually dub eps, or you click on a series to start watching it and it defaults to the most recent (lately, Portuguese dubs, twice). I also don't like when the Japanese version gets put as 'season 2' when it's clearly not.

Maybe with this merger and more dubs coming over from Funi, they should think about this. I really don't want to deal with dubs at all if I can help it, and it would be great for people who want them to be able to go straight to them without having to navigate a ton of versions to find the right language.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 07, 2022, 03:42:55 PM
I think the Funimation titles are moving in batches to Crunchyroll until everything is on one streaming site.  Out of the titles that moved on the lst the only one that interested me was the dub of Fruits Basket now being on CR along with the sub.  I still need to finish the new version and it looks like the Blu Ray release of the final season is not going to come out for a while.

When I started looking at subscribing to Funimation and Crunchyroll I chose CR because there were some titles on there I was interested in that weren't on Funimation.

I finally got a DVD copy of Sailor Moon Crystal set 3.  :D  I hope that the Eternal movies will be released on Blu Ray also. 

Today is the 30th anniversary of the anime of Sailor Moon.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 17, 2022, 04:35:42 PM
I've got around 10 episodes left before I finish Daiya for the 2nd time.  :)  I'll probably start Haikyuu next.


I watched a couple episodes of Komi Can't Communicate.  Watching the anime is making me want to read the manga because I want to see how the the stories play out there and what changes the anime may have made.

I also watched The Wind Rises and Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish this week.  I really enjoyed both films. 

The Wind Rises was interesting although it took me a bit to get used to the fantasy elements being confirmed to a dream world while the rest of the movie was realistic.

Spoiler

I've heard there's some complaints about the movie because it focuses on Hirikoshi Jiro, the man that designed fighter planes for Japan.  I thought the film did a good job of showing that Jiro was focused (at least in this version) on building better airplanes then what was currently made and that he upset that his designs were used for war.

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish took a lot of unexpected twists and turns.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 20, 2022, 12:03:19 PM
I've been watching a lot of random anime as they've come up on my feed.

Today I was watching Kemono Jihen.
Yesterday, The Detective is Already Dead.

...These are both a bit eccentric, especially the latter.

I also hardly ever watch Isekai anime because these days they are ten a penny and it's become a really overworked and unnecessary genre because of that. But I did end up watching the one with the 32 year old guy who ends up turned into a girl. Because it's crack. It's absolutely making a joke out of the whole Isekai thing but even though it's completely ridiculous it makes me laugh. So I've kept watching it.

Ep 11 of Saiyuuki Zeroin. Which was basically
Spoiler
Ukoku flinging Sanzou around and then threatening to erase him from existence.

Gat was very cool. Two episodes left.  I'm so glad they have all the original voice artists. Ukoku's guy is so good at being smarmy creep.

I thought the ep synopsis summed it up:
"Sanzou senses a presence. Unfortunately that presence has a name, and it's Ukoku'.

I keep thinking about rewatching Haikyuu but if I do I'm likely to start somewhere in the middle. I still didn't finish season 4, either.

Also watched Horimiya, now it's moved over onto CR.

Some comments...
Spoiler
I really like the beginning of it, but I feel like there could be more episodes overall with them in the second year building their connection and with Miyamura building his with the rest of the class. It kind of speeds through second year and spends most time in third year...

I wish Miyamura didn't cut his hair. It's a silly aesthetic thing - aside the fact he looks much better animated with long hair - but it's the reason he cuts it and keeps it cut that annoys me.

Spoiler
He cuts it because people are gossiping about him and Hori and he feels like his appearance is the problem, so he conforms by cutting it and then everyone thinks he's really good looking. Frankly, though, I preferred the long hair and piercings because that's him. Hori met him like that, and it was never an issue forf her. So I really wish he hadn't felt like he had to 'normalise' in that way.

The other thing that makes me uncomfortable is
Spoiler
Hori's fondness for being yelled at or even slapped. I don't care if it is her 'interest' to have that kind of interaction. I don't like it. Especially not in a high school anime, nor the way the students around them react to it most of the time. Also that Miyamura himself doesn't want to do it really and is bothered by it. It's just unnecessary and I don't like it at all.

The only other thing is that there are a lot of characters resolving issues alongside Hori and Miyamura and I mostly don't care about them. I mean, I think if the series was longer, it would be easier to care about them. But there are so many things not explored. Like, Yuki first sees Miyamura without his glasses jumping over the fence, and Miyamura mentions it to Hori and says he doesn't think Yuki knows who he was - but it's never followed up. There's no conversation ever about it. Miyamura's interactions with Ishikawa are all built up nicely, but there's literally nothing with him and Yuki.

Yanagi randomly appears and I don't really understand why. Although I think he'd be more interesting for Yuki than Ishikawa, that whole plotline seemed to run aground.

And all the conversations about using Miyamura's first name and in the end pretty much nobody does (maybe Hori's mother?) It's like, why bring it up if you're not going to use it.

The student council people...we don't see enough of the fact Sengoku and Hori are old school friends. Remi goes from being irresponsible and selfish to being a good friend to Sakura...I dunno. I feel like they could have done more with all this to flesh out the plot and character interactions so that I cared more about what these other characters were doing.


Overall, though, I thought it was cute. And I really like Miyamura as a character. I just like the opening episodes more than the later ones.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 24, 2022, 07:24:30 PM
Crunchyroll announced today that a lot of Sentail Filmworks series will be leaving the site at the end of the month.  It's a pretty long list.  Most of the titles I haven't heard of but I did notice Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun and some episodes of Food Wars.  Haikyuu seems to be staying for now.


Viz Media announced yesterday that they will be re-releasing the 90's anime of Sailor Moon on Blu Ray season set starting in June.  When Viz released them before each season was broken up in to 2 releases.  I'm not interested in the new release since I have the DVD sets of their last release.


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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 25, 2022, 11:08:37 AM
I wonder if they'll finish releasing the Crystal Sailor Moon with these blu-ray releases.  It seemed like they tried to release them with the 90s DVD sets before.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 25, 2022, 12:56:40 PM
Thanks for that heads up, Ponyfan. I went and took a look at the list. Most of them I don't know either, a couple I do and may rewatch if I can in the meantime. But fortunately nothing majorly important to me personally on that list *phew*.

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Post by: SunPony on March 25, 2022, 03:34:08 PM
I started re-watching Nadesico!  It's one of the only anime where I will watch the dub...  I'm not what it is about this series that I like so much, there are even aspects I don't like, but I watch it every few years for the past 20 years.  I think I like the mix of comedy and serious topics, and the large cast.  Has anyone seen it?  Ha, I might have made a post just like this last time I watched it...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 25, 2022, 07:20:27 PM
I wonder if they'll finish releasing the Crystal Sailor Moon with these blu-ray releases.  It seemed like they tried to release them with the 90s DVD sets before.

I hope so.  I'd like the Sailor Moon Eternal movie parts 1 and 2 to be released on Blu Ray/DVD so I can have all of them on physical media. 

Speaking of physical copies has anyone else noticed that some sets that were easily available to get a year ago seem harder to get now?  I was looking for info about a possible release for Free Final Stroke and saw that the previous seasons of Free are now double the price that they were last year because Amazon no longer has them in stock.

I picked up Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind last week but haven't watched it yet.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 26, 2022, 01:28:24 AM
I started re-watching Nadesico!  It's one of the only anime where I will watch the dub...  I'm not what it is about this series that I like so much, there are even aspects I don't like, but I watch it every few years for the past 20 years.  I think I like the mix of comedy and serious topics, and the large cast.  Has anyone seen it?  Ha, I might have made a post just like this last time I watched it...

I have, a very long time ago!! And I mean very long O.O. Like probably 2007 or thereabouts. I bought a bunch of DVDs back then and it was one of them.

I've noticed a few older animes creeping through onto the streaming platforms. Like, I rewatched S-CRY-ED a few months back for the first time in another really long time.

I really wish they'd put the earlier parts of Saiyuuki on at least one of these platforms. I think Gensoumaden is something like 2000, or maybe even earlier, so I get that it's old and the animation isn't the best quality but...it seems weird to me given that they've now animated Even a Worm and that Reload Blast is still on CR but without any of the stuff that came before it. Maybe it's a licencing issue but I still live in hope. It might be 25 years old but if it's such a big merchandise seller that they can still bother to animate that missing piece of manga in spite of the fact a new chapter comes out maybe every 2 years at best nowadays...it would make sense to not confuse potential new fans by starting the story in the middle.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on March 27, 2022, 11:11:04 AM
If you have access to Hoopla they've added some recently like Gakuen Heaven and Ranma 1/2.  The only drawback on Hoopla is each episode counts as a check-out so it might take a while to watch an entire series if you don't have enough check-outs available each month.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on March 27, 2022, 11:34:27 AM
I think Gakuen Heaven is another I have on disc somewhere from years back. I remember people talking about Ranma way back when but I never watched it. It is nice to see some of the older shows come back though *_*.

And I mean, Fushigi Yuugi is still on CR :D

I'm always a bit amazed that Yuugi is but the other one by Watase Yuu, Ceres? Which I chickened out of watching years ago seems to have disappeared into obscurity. If I'm willing to watch/read Yona, and I read Yuugi - which has its fair share of brutal - frankly, I probably shouldn't be bothered about Ceres. But I remember people used to talk about them both a lot, and now it just seems to be Yuugi.

It's funny thinking what shows were popular in the past but have become much more difficult to find now. I have both Saiunkoku and Kyou Kara Maou on DVD but neither have been on streaming services maybe since they began. It's a shame...

I know there were some issues with the US licencing company around both at one point, which meant KKM season 3 kind of fell through the DVD release cracks for a while. But they're both too good as series to just disappear.
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Post by: Ponyfan on April 02, 2022, 03:54:27 PM
A soundtrack for Komi Can't Communicate was released this week.  Almost all of the track titles are in Japanese so I'm not sure what which songs I would be interested in.  I googled one track and it translated to "I Love Fashion."


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 02, 2022, 05:26:05 PM
The last episode of Saiyuuki Zeroin aired on Thursday. I feel like something has finally been completed after such a long time waiting for it.

Spoiler
Hazel is such a much better character in the original narrative than what the Gunlock anime did trying to make him the villain, he's not a villain. But that end bit with Gat, and the play on words...it's all so moving and sad.

Through the story, whenever Hazel instructs Gat to attack, he says 'ikinahare' which is in dialect but it basically is an imperative of 'iku', to go. But it could also mean 'ikiru' - to live. And at the end, Gat tells Hazel that he always heard it that way, and tells Hazel to keep living...

I always hope that Hazel will come back into the manga although I think it unlikely.

Now trying to decide whether to rewatch it or watch Blast as the sequel to it. Decisions.

Also keep checking Itunes for the Granrodeo opening theme and the ending one. No dice yet...

Also been rewatching Assassination Classroom (ack, the ep in Kyoto has scenes that are so much more familiar to me now!). I want to watch Daiya but....well...I'm watching the manga a bit as well ;) I have some theories but I can't help being a biiit worried anyway, bearing in mind the last time Seidou played Inajitsu.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MissMagicalGirl on April 03, 2022, 05:27:36 PM
I've started watching Super Cub, it's really nice so far :) pretty wholesome
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 06, 2022, 01:47:40 PM

Also keep checking Itunes for the Granrodeo opening theme and the ending one. No dice yet...

Also been rewatching Assassination Classroom (ack, the ep in Kyoto has scenes that are so much more familiar to me now!). I want to watch Daiya but....well...I'm watching the manga a bit as well ;) I have some theories but I can't help being a biiit worried anyway, bearing in mind the last time Seidou played Inajitsu.



I've been looking for those songs on US iTunes too.  I have just a few episodes left of Daiya left before I finish watching the series for the second time.   


I found a post on Reddit that had most of the the Komi soundtrack titles translated in to English.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: MissMagicalGirl on April 06, 2022, 10:35:50 PM
I've started watching Super Cub, it's really nice so far :) pretty wholesome

Finished it, gotta say, probably one of my most favorite anime's ever. I love all of the characters so much, their friendship is so nice. I love Koguma's smile.

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I also love Shii's goofy smile in the last episode after she buys her Super Cub, so cute and wholesome.
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I also really felt for her when she broke her bike. She was really inspired to be like Koguma and Reiko, yet her only way of being like them got destroyed.

It has some bad CG, but that's forgivable in my opinion, I've heard the CG was done by one guy. Also I'm a Kemono Friends fan so I'm used to less than stellar CG, and Kemono Friends was for the whole anime, unlike Super Cub which is only sometimes.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 07, 2022, 01:13:22 PM
Leaving a brief taster here of Horimiya...
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlhweMsKqg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlhweMsKqg)
(He doesn't actually say 'it's egg time', but anyway, it's still cute)

I haven't seen either the Granrodeo or the other song on itunes yet although Amazon has them both. Even Amazon in the Uk but only on their streaming service, which I don't use. Sigh.

I don't really want to buy the whole album from Japan atm, as Japanese CDs are expensive. I'll just have to wait a bit longer and see if it eventually appears.

Saiyuuki does have some epic theme songs. I've said it before but it really does.

Also, the second season of Tiger & Bunny exists! I did watch the first ep though I need to go back and watch the movie before I continue, since I didn't finish watching that yet.

It's a bit weird hearing one of the new characters speaking with Furuya's voice. I mean, it's not like Shimozaki Nobunaga is a rarely heard voice artist but this is SO like Furuya, it's really weird.

Spoiler
The first ep started in such a BAM kind of a way that I admit I had to skip to the ending to just...make sure of something xD.

Also, Barnaby is still such a kid xD. It was funny how even though Kotetsu was late and they didn't manage to participate in the opening action of the episode, Barnaby was more cross about Kotetsu drinking his drink...

And him happily feeding his plants who are now all over his formerly empty apartment...is so cute. I mean, he is a messed up kid, and Kotetsu is like partner-dad all in one, but now he has a leafy family to keep him company too :D

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 19, 2022, 09:41:26 AM
I know what you mean about Amazon having some music that you can't find anywhere else.  I don't use Amazon Music either, but I've found several songs/albums on there that aren't on iTunes. :(


I'm interested in the Horimiya manga and anime now. 



Also, the second season of Tiger & Bunny exists! I did watch the first ep though I need to go back and watch the movie before I continue, since I didn't finish watching that yet.

It's a bit weird hearing one of the new characters speaking with Furuya's voice. I mean, it's not like Shimozaki Nobunaga is a rarely heard voice artist but this is SO like Furuya, it's really weird.



I finally got used to Nori sounding like Zeno sometimes but for a long time it always took me out of the anime a bit because I would picture Zeno instead of Nori while he was talking in that voice.


Since I've watched all of the Free series, I hear Haru in Furuya more often.     I also hear Miyuki in Taejun which I think is the most jarring combination between characters. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on April 19, 2022, 12:04:05 PM
Leaving a brief taster here of Horimiya...
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlhweMsKqg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlhweMsKqg)
(He doesn't actually say 'it's egg time', but anyway, it's still cute)

I haven't seen either the Granrodeo or the other song on itunes yet although Amazon has them both. Even Amazon in the Uk but only on their streaming service, which I don't use. Sigh.

I don't really want to buy the whole album from Japan atm, as Japanese CDs are expensive. I'll just have to wait a bit longer and see if it eventually appears.

Saiyuuki does have some epic theme songs. I've said it before but it really does.

Also, the second season of Tiger & Bunny exists! I did watch the first ep though I need to go back and watch the movie before I continue, since I didn't finish watching that yet.

It's a bit weird hearing one of the new characters speaking with Furuya's voice. I mean, it's not like Shimozaki Nobunaga is a rarely heard voice artist but this is SO like Furuya, it's really weird.

Spoiler
The first ep started in such a BAM kind of a way that I admit I had to skip to the ending to just...make sure of something xD.

Also, Barnaby is still such a kid xD. It was funny how even though Kotetsu was late and they didn't manage to participate in the opening action of the episode, Barnaby was more cross about Kotetsu drinking his drink...

And him happily feeding his plants who are now all over his formerly empty apartment...is so cute. I mean, he is a messed up kid, and Kotetsu is like partner-dad all in one, but now he has a leafy family to keep him company too :D


Have you tried Freegal?  I have access through my library card and they had a bunch of stuff from Haikyu so they might have some of what  you're looking for.  The catch is that you can only download so many songs a week (I think my limit is 3) so it might take a while to get all the songs you want.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 19, 2022, 12:51:24 PM
I ended up buckling and buying the single versions of Kami mo hotoke mo and ruten from Amazon Jp when I bought some Horimiya volumes. THey arrived this week and I'm glad I got them, although it then made me want to rewatch Zeroin. Sigh. It's a vicious saiyuuki cycle xD.

Also found the official kami mo hotoke mo pv on yt. It's a bit weird. But anyway. It's arena safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7NANtBVb4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7NANtBVb4)

I think the Horimiya anime is cute, it's just missing a lot and especially the 2nd half feels rushed. What I didn't realise was how much was not in the first half, even though the first couple of episodes jump quite quickly. But I really love Miyamura as a character, just generally.

The voice artist thing is always fun. Sometimes it's more jarring than other times. Miyuki's seiyuu, Sakurai Takahiro is also in Haikyuu, he's Tsukishima's older brother and that's also a bit odd, especially when he's explaining volleyball rules in Miyuki's voice!

And the character Eijun's voice artist does is so completely different from Eijun...I mean, you can hear it, because Eijun does have serious moments, but it's kind of hilarious.

Okamoto Nobuhiko (Ryousuke/Sinha/etc) is also in haikyuu but you know he's a bit of a voice chameleon, sooo...

In Tiger and Bunny, Tiger is voiced by Hirata Hiroaki, who I know best as Gojou in Saiyuuki, which is kind of interesting. And Barnaby's voice artist is Morita Masakazu, who is Gija in Yona, as well as a ton of other characters. When I first saw Yona it took a while for me to register that Morita was his voice artist. But I knew that he voiced Barnaby years ago...and the voices are a bit similar when I think about it.

I like playing spot the seiyuu, but it's harder now as I'm less closely focused on the newer voice artists unless they voice characters I like...

On Zeno, Nori, and Shimano Hiro, the first time I encountered that seiyuu was Haruka 5, when he was the bratty little brother whose name I can't remember. But what stuck in my head was one of the live events where he's opening the show, and was hilarious. He does a great job with both Zeno and Nori. I admit I read the manga and I hear his voice when Zeno speaks. I just wish it was there for real.

But hey. Saiyuuki took 15+ years to do Even a Worm justice. It took even longer to get Furuba properly animated. Maybe one day Yona will get the same treatment. So long as it's the same seiyuu (as Saiyuuki was), then great.

ALSO someone put this on YT and so I'm sharing it. This is an omake (URA-SAI) scene from Saiyuuki Zeroin. It contains no spoilers, some not graphic violence, 2 buckets of water, a dragon and a group of travelling delinquents being silly about cinema rules. Just because.
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6bSlvZgRw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6bSlvZgRw)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 06, 2022, 07:24:13 PM
I finished Daiya and started watching Haikyuu.  I wasn't impressed with the first episode.  It seemed really boring to me and if I didn't know that the 2nd episode is more engaging than the 1st one, I might not have been motivated enough to keep watching.  I think I will enjoy the series though.

 I'm already trying to spot the vas in Haikyuu. :)  I thought I recognized a couple of them already.  I was wrong on the first character's va.  I haven't heard the second character's name yet so I can't search for his va yet.

Sailor Moon Cosmos/Sailor Moon Crystal Stars arc will be released in '23.  I don't know if it will be divided in to 2 parts like Eternal/Dream arc was.  I'm looking forward to seeing how Cosmos handles the Sailor Starlights.  the 90's anime made some major changes to them that aren't in the manga.



Also found the official kami mo hotoke mo pv on yt. It's a bit weird. But anyway. It's arena safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7NANtBVb4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7NANtBVb4)



That was interesting.  I thought it was a little weird too but at least the artists look like they're having fun. 
 



ALSO someone put this on YT and so I'm sharing it. This is an omake (URA-SAI) scene from Saiyuuki Zeroin. It contains no spoilers, some not graphic violence, 2 buckets of water, a dragon and a group of travelling delinquents being silly about cinema rules. Just because.
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6bSlvZgRw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6bSlvZgRw)


This one was funny.  :lol:  At 1:04, does it say "Don't bring your white dragon inside?" I thought I saw Hakuryuu on the screen.   I also love the line "no shooting movies or guns in cinema."



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2022, 12:38:13 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Haikyuu has a horrible first episode :) But it does get better. Though I still think Daiya is better, Haikyuu is somehow gentler.

I actually don't think I've watched ep 1 all the way through. I tried and failed a few times so ended up skipping to episode 2 and that worked better.

Yes, it does say white dragon :D In this case it's the name of the dragon, Hakuryuu - at least in the anime. In the manga he's called Jeep, but I guess there are copyright issues with that.

I watched the rest of season 2 (part 1) of Tiger and Bunny! Apparently the second half of the season is coming in the autumn or something. There was a cliffhanger but it was also a good point to end it on. I still love this show.

And also Yuukoku no Moriarty. Which was interesting and quite clever too.



Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Mareacooda on May 07, 2022, 01:18:34 PM
I enjoy anime...  Newest "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" season 1 I added my collection....
I like see New revised "Fruitbasket" out curiousity ... I have watch  and own old version and plus complete manga series.. Has anyone out there watch both "Fruitbasket"? I curious opinions revised version....

Anyone who looking buy anime/ manga, figures ect should check out www.rightstufanime.com is great....
I do like watch Anime on www crunchyroll to see I like series...  I enjoy Inuyasha and spotted  "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon"  which a bit behind on....

I lately seemly not feeling it anime I looking something fresh with good laughs...  I tend normal lean fantasy and reverse harem special when Female has no clue that male friends like her...  My favorite Is Host Club... I get such kick that female dress up as male to entertain other females none females relies such..... Males in the club don't relies they strong feeling for female character...   I enjoy the twisted and I like main characters attude.... Another I like  "Wallflower" and "Kiss him not me"..
I think kinda looking something fresh... any suggestions?
Any good laugh anime anyone would suggest check out?


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 09, 2022, 08:33:44 AM
I enjoy anime...  Newest "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" season 1 I added my collection....
I like see New revised "Fruitbasket" out curiousity ... I have watch  and own old version and plus complete manga series.. Has anyone out there watch both "Fruitbasket"? I curious opinions revised version....

Anyone who looking buy anime/ manga, figures ect should check out www.rightstufanime.com is great....
I do like watch Anime on www crunchyroll to see I like series...  I enjoy Inuyasha and spotted  "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon"  which a bit behind on....

I lately seemly not feeling it anime I looking something fresh with good laughs...  I tend normal lean fantasy and reverse harem special when Female has no clue that male friends like her...  My favorite Is Host Club... I get such kick that female dress up as male to entertain other females none females relies such..... Males in the club don't relies they strong feeling for female character...   I enjoy the twisted and I like main characters attude.... Another I like  "Wallflower" and "Kiss him not me"..
I think kinda looking something fresh... any suggestions?
Any good laugh anime anyone would suggest check out?

I like the new Fruits Basket.  It does follow the mangas better, since they're actually finished now.  They weren't finished when the first anime was made.  I've not watched Season 3 yet, but Season 2 introduces both the horse and the rooster, neither of which were in the first anime.

It sounds like you would enjoy Ranma 1/2.  I also recommend Assassination Classroom (though, I will warn you, the ending made me cry).  You might also enjoy Rin-Ne. If you want a reverse harem, you'd probably enjoy Brothers Conflict.  I tell everyone to watch Yuri On Ice, because it's just so pretty to watch and the music is awesome.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Haikyuu has a horrible first episode :) But it does get better. Though I still think Daiya is better, Haikyuu is somehow gentler.

I actually don't think I've watched ep 1 all the way through. I tried and failed a few times so ended up skipping to episode 2 and that worked better.

I finished Daiya and started watching Haikyuu.  I wasn't impressed with the first episode.  It seemed really boring to me and if I didn't know that the 2nd episode is more engaging than the 1st one, I might not have been motivated enough to keep watching.  I think I will enjoy the series though.

Whenever I recommend Haikyuu, I try to point out that the first episode isn't good and to give it until after the second episode to judge it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 09, 2022, 09:26:40 AM
I also like the new furuba better, because it follows the manga more accurately. I've seen all the way through to the end and I'm quite happy with it.

Assassination Classroom's ending I dislike because it's frankly pointless. I think it's a great and clever storyline, and very tongue in cheek, but I don't like how it ends. I recently rewatched most of it but stopped before getting to the end for that reason.

Host Club is a classic, so is Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (the Wallflower). ;)

I guess it depends whether you like blood, guts and tears in your reverse harems or whether you don't. I mean, Fushigi Yuugi springs to mind but...
Spoiler
there is a fair amount of character death. One scene of which reduced a male friend of mine to tears and made him declare that shoujo is 100x more brutal than shounen when it wants to be.

Two series I love are Harukanaru Toki no Naka De (for reasons, although I like 3 best) and Saiunkoku Monogatari but neither one are streaming anywhere at the moment.  Saiunkoku isn't exactly reverse harem, but it has a female central character who wants to be a court official, but ends up in the imperial harem being tutor to the Emperor. It's based off light novels and I love it because literally nobody in it is as straightforward as they first appear.

Kiniro no Koruda/Corda D'Oro was streaming on CR up until recently but I noticed it had gone of late. Both those are reverse harem and set in a real world scenario, no blood guts or violence, although there is a fairy xD. They're set in a school with a music department.

 There is still Neoangelique on Crunchyroll but again, that's a bit more fantasy world, even though it is technically reverse harem (as it's neoroma).

I found Yuri on Ice hard to get into. I am very character driven but couldn't get drawn into either of the main characters. I know it's really popular though.

With Haikyuu, it's a good, safe sports anime. There's no major emotional conflict to deal with, the team follows all the usual milestones for a team in this kind of story, and so on. The characters are well written and likeable and it's very enjoyable to watch...probably to read as well. But it is very safe in terms of its plot choices, and there's not much in the way of massive plot twists that you don't see coming.

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Though every time Yamaguchi nails a serve I'm right behind him.

Daiya no Ace is still my top sports manga/anime. Although it is occasionally soul destroying. Unlike Haikyuu.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 09, 2022, 12:28:32 PM
I like both versions of Fruits Basket.  :)  I need to catch up on it but  I'm halfway through season 2. I love that the new version sticks closer to the manga and the characters have a lot more depth than they did in the original.  My main issue with the original anime is

Spoiler
That it implies at one point that Tohru has to choose between Yuki and Kyo and that accepting Kyo's true form means that Tohru is rejecting Yuki.


I still like it though.



Whenever I recommend Haikyuu, I try to point out that the first episode isn't good and to give it until after the second episode to judge it.

I haven't finished the second episode yet but I already like it more than the first one.





Daiya no Ace is still my top sports manga/anime. Although it is occasionally soul destroying. Unlike Haikyuu.


Daiya is still my favorite sports anime too. :D  It's a little funny watching Haikyuu after Daiya because I already see some similarities between Eijun and Shoyo. 


I'm still watching Komi Can't Communicate also.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 11, 2022, 10:01:41 AM
This is a spoiler so only open if you know Haikyuu already or don't mind being spoiled but this is my hands down favourite scene in the whole Haikyuu anime...(from season 3).
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c7_gCfEPa0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c7_gCfEPa0)

Since I watched Tiger and Bunny's second season recently I went and rewatched some of Boku no Hero Academia last night. When T&B first came out there weren't any shows like it, but I feel like it's interesting that it's having something of a revival. Almost feels like the popularity of BnHA might be driving it. I've always felt like the characters in BnHA were fine but the villains boring to the point of annoying. I feel like it's all worked in more tightly in T&B because it's a smaller group of characters overall.

Okumoto Nobuhiko doing his voice chameleonics between the two. You so can't hear Bakugou in Origami or vice versa...

And also in Haikyuu, of course ;) Apparently no limits to his vocal talents o.O. I know who he voices in Haikyuu but always forget.

And then Daiya to round it up...
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev26ZCTDQL4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev26ZCTDQL4)

I need to go back to Komi. I watched the first ep but got distracted, which is a bad habit of mine. I'm also slowly rewatching Saiyuuki Reload Blast, and marvelling in how the arc feels so different from Even a Worm. I like Blast but I miss Hazel. :(

Going back to above, I have a weird nostalgic fondness for Inuyasha, but Yashahime is a massive disappointment to me.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Mareacooda on May 12, 2022, 04:27:27 PM
I haven't watch all Yashahime but I see sample on AMV and looks maybe series one slow movers.

I own Saiyuki orginal series and one movie.... I have seen Reload... I have go back watch them...   I like concept how Buddhist Priest Sanzo opposite one would expect think priest would be....   
 
I know enjoy from time to time out box concept to classic stero-type excepted I think why enjoy Anime not just good artwork but different bird eye view....   

Series I hoping see season 2 "Servamp"
I have see Brother Conflict and its one I not sure 100% like or dislike...

I haven't see many sport anime...  Actually I think about I don't think I have....   I do have enjoy non anime sport movies so I don't know why not check any anime sport series....   I thought about check out Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club.... Have anyone see this series?
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 12, 2022, 05:11:24 PM
I like Free. I like the characters so it doesn't really matter that much to me that it's about swimming specifically.

Saiyuuki Zeroin is kind of like the new version of fruits basket in that they went and remade Reload Gunlock series only with actually following the manga Even a Worm arc instead of just making it up at the end. It's one of my favourite storylines but it is only on Hidive at the moment. But it has been nicely done, so I recommend if you liked the other Saiyuuki stuff. :)

There are a lot of shows that need added seasons. I did watch Servamp ages ago. I think I quite enjoyed it.

Yashahime feels to me more like animated fanfiction, though I'm sure it isn't.
Spoiler
I'd have liked it to have centred more around the actual original characters.I can't care about the main cast because the original cast are mostly absent and thus there's no sense of connection. Plus Sesshoumaru and Rin are 2 of my favourite characters from the original so I really don't like how they've worked that out. I assume it comes from manga and this is the will of the creator, pushing out the original cast like that...but whether it is or it isn't, it's just not my preference. I gave up after a few episodes and haven't gone back.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 14, 2022, 11:18:00 AM
I don't enjoy watching most real life sports but some of my favorite amines are sports amines.  Daiya is one of my top amines and I also like Free.  I'm enjoying Haikyuu now that I've made it past the first episode, but I keep seeing similarities in the characters in that and Daiya.


I keep hoping that Yona will eventually get a 2nd season or another anime like Fruits Basket did.  There's so much in the manga that needs to be animated. 

Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime will be released soon in the US. 

I wish there'd be some news on when Free Final Stroke part 1 will be released outside of Japan but it looks like we're going to have to wait for quite a while. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 14, 2022, 11:51:57 AM
I also think there are some overlaps between Daiya and Haikyuu characters, but I kind of shy away from saying it most of the time because there are a lot of people who will swear blind that it's not the case.

Although with that said, some of the Haikyuu characters that seem similar to Daiya ones at first are maybe not as similar as the series goes on. So that's good I suppose.

Spoiler
I don't really know what happens to Sugawara as the series goes on. O.o. It's interesting.

I started watching the first ep of Requiem of the Rose King. I had high hopes for it since it seemed to be from the perspective of Richard III, but the moment it said in the intro that it was based on Shakespeare I guess I knew what was going to happen, and even in the first 5 minutes I was proven right.

I shall put the mediaeval historian's rant in spoilers.
Spoiler
I had to do a lot of work on the Wars of the Roses for my A levels and my first degree; I did my undergrad dissertation on the subject of kingship in this era. It doesn't take a lot of research to realise that the real Richard was completely different from how Shakespeare and common tradition likes to portray him. He certainly wasn't a backstabbing, usurping mass-murderer...most historical evidence suggests the opposite. Although the princes in the tower is a story that runs and runs, the reality is that right now we don't even know the princes were murdered, let alone who was responsible if they were. All the other deaths and conspiracies Shakespeare and the Tudors put at his door have been debunked by historians. 

Shakespeare's play is famous and popular, but entirely Tudor propaganda. It's designed to legitimise the founding of the Tudor dynasty as kings and queens of England - despite their being a family who began illegitimate and who were only legitimised by Richard II on the condition they didn't try to take the throne.

I had really hoped that this anime would be a more nuanced and balanced story, but I guess it's just easier to follow form and do what everyone else has already done, ad nauseum.

I guess to some people maybe it makes a good story. But it's a story written already by someone else. At least be original and present a different side.

Maybe when I stop being annoyed at it I'll look at it as a representation study, but right now I'm just cross.

But so I don't end my post on a Taffeta patent rant, I also watched the first few eps of SpyxFamily and that is just too funny. Anya is adorable. Tasogare and Yor are hilarious parents. It's just fun. Silly. But fun.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 17, 2022, 03:30:06 PM
The library where I work now has circulating blu-ray players.  What that means is we can now start to order some of the Anime series that are blu-ray only!  Before we could only get them if they were DVD or Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs.  This means I can actually request some of the series to see if I want them before I buy them. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 21, 2022, 03:37:08 PM
I watched Nausicaa the other day.  It was different than what I was expecting it to be but I still enjoyed it a lot.  :)

I also bought Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime today. 




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 23, 2022, 04:28:41 PM
SpyxFamily is the gift that keeps on giving. Seriously. I have so many hopes for Tasogare, Yor and Anya as they navigate being a family while trying to save the world.

Anya is so cute. Clip link in spoiler tag.
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nHpuMNA6kY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nHpuMNA6kY)
Note: Relevant stuff ends at 1.10, after that is random nonrelated.

Also, on an unrelated note, this theme song is still eating my brain horribly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4REhyrzmEkk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4REhyrzmEkk)
(Warning for scenes of fighting etc).

I actually went back to watch Kuroko no Basuke this week as well. I watched the first eps ages ago but just decided to watch it again. I still feel like the kiseki no sedai idea is pretty ridiculous...I mean Daiya has the Inajitsu team and they're pretty high rated but not unrealistically so, IMO...) but I do kind of like the idea of a main character like Kuroko.

Me watching sports anime when I don't care at all about the sport being played xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on May 24, 2022, 06:30:32 AM
Binged through Made in Abyss this past weekend... 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 24, 2022, 07:05:55 PM
SpyxFamily is the gift that keeps on giving. Seriously. I have so many hopes for Tasogare, Yor and Anya as they navigate being a family while trying to save the world.

Anya is so cute. Clip link in spoiler tag.
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nHpuMNA6kY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nHpuMNA6kY)
Note: Relevant stuff ends at 1.10, after that is random nonrelated.

Also, on an unrelated note, this theme song is still eating my brain horribly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4REhyrzmEkk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4REhyrzmEkk)
(Warning for scenes of fighting etc).

I actually went back to watch Kuroko no Basuke this week as well. I watched the first eps ages ago but just decided to watch it again. I still feel like the kiseki no sedai idea is pretty ridiculous...I mean Daiya has the Inajitsu team and they're pretty high rated but not unrealistically so, IMO...) but I do kind of like the idea of a main character like Kuroko.

Me watching sports anime when I don't care at all about the sport being played xD.

Anya is cute.  :lovey:  I'm going to add SpyxFamily to my watchlist after watching that clip.

I also listened to the theme song for Moriarty. I like it.  I was going to add it to my anime playlist but it's not on US iTunes. :(


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 30, 2022, 10:28:35 AM
I watched Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime.  Some of it was good but the ending wasn't satisfying to me and left me wanting more.  I didn't feel like the conflict was completely resolved.

Spoiler
There's a huge online world called U.  When a person downloads U, the U device scans their biometric information and creates an avatar.  The U device also merges the avatar somewhat with the user's physical body.  If the person using U is hurt their avatar reflects that.  At one point Suzu bumps her head and her avatar also has bump on her head.


In U, Suzu becomes Bell, a beautiful singer.  One day an avatar called the Beast crashes her concert and is being chased by the Justiciars.  One of them says the Beast is nothing but trouble and he will erase the Beast's avatar from U revealing who the real person is.  Bell/Suzu wants to find out more about the person behind the avatar.


It was worth a watch and a lot of it kept me captivated but there's at least one shot where the computer animation is horrible and looks out of place with the rest of the scene. 

I was kept guessing about who the Beast was until it was revealed.  I thought that I had figured it out, but I was wrong.   


I was surprised that the film showed an abusive father in a realistic way and how much what he was doing to his sons hurt them not only physically but emotionally as well.     



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 30, 2022, 02:58:27 PM
I'm on a sort of sports anime kick and finished watching Salaryman's Club today. The company names are so unsubtly changed from real Japanese companies but whatever xD.

It feels like a long time since I watched an anime where Miki Shinichirou voiced a main role.

I know he does a lot of side parts still but I kind of miss it, I guess now he does more production etc, that's why, but still. It was nostalgic :) (I know he voices one of the coaches in Haikyuu but can't remember which right now. Is it Date? *ponders*)

I've also almost finished Kuroko's Basketball. Or rather, Kuroko's Power Rangers, as I'm now going to call them, because ridiculous powers + colour coding. xD.

AND the new ep of SpyxFamily, which had not enough of Anya in this week :(

Spoiler
Yor's family has some big problems. Watching Tasogare outsmart Yuri was fun though. Hopefully he keeps it up next episode
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 31, 2022, 07:42:19 AM
I watched Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime.  Some of it was good but the ending wasn't satisfying to me and left me wanting more.  I didn't feel like the conflict was completely resolved.

Spoiler
There's a huge online world called U.  When a person downloads U, the U device scans their biometric information and creates an avatar.  The U device also merges the avatar somewhat with the user's physical body.  If the person using U is hurt their avatar reflects that.  At one point Suzu bumps her head and her avatar also has bump on her head.


In U, Suzu becomes Bell, a beautiful singer.  One day an avatar called the Beast crashes her concert and is being chased by the Justiciars.  One of them says the Beast is nothing but trouble and he will erase the Beast's avatar from U revealing who the real person is.  Bell/Suzu wants to find out more about the person behind the avatar.


It was worth a watch and a lot of it kept me captivated but there's at least one shot where the computer animation is horrible and looks out of place with the rest of the scene. 

I was kept guessing about who the Beast was until it was revealed.  I thought that I had figured it out, but I was wrong.   


I was surprised that the film showed an abusive father in a realistic way and how much what he was doing to his sons hurt them not only physically but emotionally as well.     



Ponyfan

Agreed.  I think it's like a mashup of Summer Wars and Beauty and the Beast but the ending could have done a little more.
Spoiler
Like, why didn't she take the boys home with her?  Leaving them with their father wasn't necessarily going to solve the problem.  Once she was gone there was nothing to stop him beating the boys again.  They could have shown her taking them to a family member's house, from their mother's side perhaps, on her way back to the train station.  It wouldn't have been a big scene but it would have been better closure for those characters.  And it would have been an interesting bit of irony to have the main Justifier guy BE their dad, who seemed pretty stressed out about his work, which is part of why he beat the boys.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2022, 12:22:21 PM
I watched Belle/Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime.  Some of it was good but the ending wasn't satisfying to me and left me wanting more.  I didn't feel like the conflict was completely resolved.

Spoiler
There's a huge online world called U.  When a person downloads U, the U device scans their biometric information and creates an avatar.  The U device also merges the avatar somewhat with the user's physical body.  If the person using U is hurt their avatar reflects that.  At one point Suzu bumps her head and her avatar also has bump on her head.


In U, Suzu becomes Bell, a beautiful singer.  One day an avatar called the Beast crashes her concert and is being chased by the Justiciars.  One of them says the Beast is nothing but trouble and he will erase the Beast's avatar from U revealing who the real person is.  Bell/Suzu wants to find out more about the person behind the avatar.


It was worth a watch and a lot of it kept me captivated but there's at least one shot where the computer animation is horrible and looks out of place with the rest of the scene. 

I was kept guessing about who the Beast was until it was revealed.  I thought that I had figured it out, but I was wrong.   


I was surprised that the film showed an abusive father in a realistic way and how much what he was doing to his sons hurt them not only physically but emotionally as well.     



Ponyfan

Agreed.  I think it's like a mashup of Summer Wars and Beauty and the Beast but the ending could have done a little more.
Spoiler
Like, why didn't she take the boys home with her?  Leaving them with their father wasn't necessarily going to solve the problem.  Once she was gone there was nothing to stop him beating the boys again.  They could have shown her taking them to a family member's house, from their mother's side perhaps, on her way back to the train station.  It wouldn't have been a big scene but it would have been better closure for those characters.  And it would have been an interesting bit of irony to have the main Justifier guy BE their dad, who seemed pretty stressed out about his work, which is part of why he beat the boys.



Spoiler

I agree.   I even watched the credits for a while to see if there was another scene with the boys, but I didn't see one. 

I thought maybe Suzu felt okay leaving the boys with their father becasue she knew that the police would be coming the next day and Kei? (the older one) said that he would stand up to their dad and fight back.  That being said she went all that way to check on them so it doesn't make sense to protect them once and then leave them in the same situation. 

Also, if Suzu was able to discover who the Beast and the Angel really were because the younger brother was humming the song Bell sang just for the Beast, couldn't everyone else on U have done the same thing to find out Bell was Suzu?

I thought the Justifer guy was going to be the boys' dad too.  His anger at the Beast avatar and the guy wanting to reveal him would have played perfectly in to it really being their dad.

I thought the Beast was going to be Suzu's childhood friend Shinobu since he said he knew she was Bell in U. 




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 04, 2022, 12:19:20 PM
I really should check out Belle myself... when I looked it up a few months ago, I thought the synopsis sounded a bit 'meh' for the same reasons you guys mentioned so I didn't bother to look into the screenings of it that were going on over here.. but I wouldn't mind watching it at home sometime.

Is anyone else looking forward to the Tokyo Mew Mew New anime airing next month? :) Silly name for a reboot (I always cringe when reboots/remakes/etc just put "new" into the title, it sounds silly/weird after a few years have passed! it's not gonna be new forever! XP) but it looks like it's gonna be good, especially since from what we've seen of it so far, it seems like it's taking cues from the original anime as well, instead of just being a 1:1 remake of the manga. The old anime added a lot to the manga so I'm excited to see they're not throwing it out completely.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 04, 2022, 07:34:24 PM
Free Final Stroke part 2 has been released in Japan.  I hope this means that countries outside of Japan will finally get to see part 1.

Here's a couple of trailers for part 2.  One of them has subtitles and the other one doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLRwsl-uW0 no subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GKWYr0VfWI - with subtitles.  I don't know if the subs are correct. 

I started watching Spy Family.  I thought Yuri's voice sounded familiar, but I couldn't quite place it.  I was surprised when I found out that has the same voice artist as Raichi from Daiya.  Loid/Twilight's va is also in Daiya as Maki from Sensen Academy.   


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 05, 2022, 01:00:45 AM
On the Free subject, I played the subless trailer and
Spoiler
It seems like Haru's having a crisis and they're all resolving to step up to support him...at one point one of them gets annoyed and tells him to hurry up and realise it. They seem to be talking about a relay so as expected they're probably going to swim one on the international stage.

I'm going to have to go look these up properly though.

I am so amused that you're hunting up voice artists now xD.

...Yuri's VA reminds me of another character from something else.

Edit: And it's Kuroko from Kuroko's Power Rangers Basketball. Well, that's probably why given I've been watching that lately as well.

Tasogare's is fine as Maki, and fine in SpyxFamily, but I want to throw things at him for his earbreaking 'foreigner' Japanese in another series he's in.

 Looks like he's also in the cast of Kuroko.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 05, 2022, 06:17:05 PM
On the Free subject, I played the subless trailer and
Spoiler
It seems like Haru's having a crisis and they're all resolving to step up to support him...at one point one of them gets annoyed and tells him to hurry up and realise it. They seem to be talking about a relay so as expected they're probably going to swim one on the international stage.

I'm going to have to go look these up properly though.

I am so amused that you're hunting up voice artists now xD.

...Yuri's VA reminds me of another character from something else.

Edit: And it's Kuroko from Kuroko's Power Rangers Basketball. Well, that's probably why given I've been watching that lately as well.

Tasogare's is fine as Maki, and fine in SpyxFamily, but I want to throw things at him for his earbreaking 'foreigner' Japanese in another series he's in.

 Looks like he's also in the cast of Kuroko.

Free

Spoiler
I took a closer look at the trailer and one of the scenes is Haru collapsing (I'm assuming either right before or after a race) and his coach racing to his side.  There's also a shot of Rin with either Haru or Sousuke (I can't tell for sure who's standing next to Rin from the back) in front of a huge pool.





Continuing on the va character trail, Franky Frankin in Spy Family has the same va as Keishuk in Yona.



Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 05, 2022, 06:30:10 PM
Free:
Spoiler
I'm guessing Haru had one of his "I can handle everything alone, whoops" moments, like when he weirded out, stood up in the race in season (2?) and then yelled all kinds of stuff at Rin.

...Which I suppose was actually payback for Rin shouting stuff at him in season 1, but there we are.

I'm too lazy to translate the trailer since there's already one out with some kind of subs (I didn't watch that one though).

I noticed that collapse scene as well. I guess post-race, maybe racing the blond guy, whatever his name was (the 'Swedish' guy who has a suspiciously americanised accent :O) I'm really happy it seems to have Rin back in the mix properly. It was fine in the last season but I didn't like him not being with the others any more.

Miyano Mamoru aside, and he tries his best, I also like that Free bothers to have cast for English speaking characters that are native speakers or enough so that you can believe them. I watched some of another series recently with a character who is meant to have studied in England and there's a scene where he's correcting all of his teachers' pronunciations...but horribly.

I looked up the dvd of the first part of the Free special and it costs (in currency conversion) £55, which is probably around $70. For just one dvd. So I will be waiting for CR to pick it up I guess :) I'm sure they will, eventually.

It's funny, although I know Keishuk does have a role in the anime, I feel like most of his stuff is manga so I always forget he has a voice artist...

I just watched the latest ep of SpyxFamily :D Anya's botched grammar attempts at politeness are win.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 07, 2022, 03:31:27 PM
Free:
Spoiler
I'm guessing Haru had one of his "I can handle everything alone, whoops" moments, like when he weirded out, stood up in the race in season (2?) and then yelled all kinds of stuff at Rin.

...Which I suppose was actually payback for Rin shouting stuff at him in season 1, but there we are.

I'm too lazy to translate the trailer since there's already one out with some kind of subs (I didn't watch that one though).

I noticed that collapse scene as well. I guess post-race, maybe racing the blond guy, whatever his name was (the 'Swedish' guy who has a suspiciously americanised accent :O) I'm really happy it seems to have Rin back in the mix properly. It was fine in the last season but I didn't like him not being with the others any more.

Miyano Mamoru aside, and he tries his best, I also like that Free bothers to have cast for English speaking characters that are native speakers or enough so that you can believe them. I watched some of another series recently with a character who is meant to have studied in England and there's a scene where he's correcting all of his teachers' pronunciations...but horribly.

I looked up the dvd of the first part of the Free special and it costs (in currency conversion) £55, which is probably around $70. For just one dvd. So I will be waiting for CR to pick it up I guess :) I'm sure they will, eventually.

It's funny, although I know Keishuk does have a role in the anime, I feel like most of his stuff is manga so I always forget he has a voice artist...

I just watched the latest ep of SpyxFamily :D Anya's botched grammar attempts at politeness are win.


Wow, that's really expensive.   :shocked:  I'm hoping both parts will be released on one DVD or that Crunchyroll will get it.  I think they got the Demon Slayer movie after it had been out for a long time. 

The theme song for Free Final Stroke part 2 by Oldcodex isn't on US iTunes.  I feel like it's starting to become a trend that I can't find anime songs on Yotube as easily as before.


Free

Spoiler

Didn't Rin's coach mention something at the end of Dive to the Future about being careful if Rin was racing against Albert because even the best racers have problems that seem to come out of nowhere and cost them the race when Albert is the opponent?

I'm guessing that they're probably all at the Olympics and Rin is most likely competing for Australia.

I'd much rather listen to the Free cast speak English than the Daiya vas for the American team.   



I need to watch more Spy x Family episodes. :) I'm also thinking about starting Backflip.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 07, 2022, 04:19:51 PM
Free:
Spoiler
Rin will compete for Japan, surely? His Dad wanted to be a swimmer for Japan, and Rin is Japanese, even if he's studying over there. I'll be surprised - also disappointed - if this isn't them all on the same relay team for Japan.

You're right about the thing Haru's coach said though. Probably that's a factor since the guy is in the trailer.

I watched Backflip a while back. Like Tsurune it's short but sweet ;) I also watched Re-main, which is a bit of a brain twist but I guess it's fine? And some weird anime about a pop star who quits to become a hors jockey...yes, I've been going through all the sports series of late.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 13, 2022, 07:33:30 PM
Free

Spoiler

You're right. Rin should be competing for Japan, not Australia. 

In the subtitled trailer Makoto says "Haru, I'm glad you're okay."  I'm assuming that happens after Haru collapsed. 

I hope that they're all on the same team too. :) I think there's something about all of them swimming a relay together that brings out the best in them.



Spy Family

Spoiler

I can't stop watching.  It's so much fun. :D  I think Anya's va really makes the show and reading the manga in this case wouldn't have the same effect.

I loved the episode where Anya wanted to play "rescue the princess" at the castle and how seriously all the other spies were taking it even though it was supposed to be game.  I was surprised Twilight can tap morse code with his foot. (I had to pause that scene a couple of time so I could read the subtitles and the translation of the message at the same time.)

That scene with Yor fighting Twilight made me hope that she never has to fight him for real.  I know she was drunk but it seemed like her Thorn Princess nature came out in that moment and she wasn't acting.

 



Horimiya showed up in my recommended CR shows (Kuroko's Basketball did also).  I added it to my watchlist. :)

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 16, 2022, 07:23:01 PM
I watched a couple more episodes of Haikyuu.

I found Okamoto Nobuhiko's character. I have to admit that was surprising since Nishinoya is such a different character from Daiya's Ryosuke.  There was a moment though that I thought I heard Ryosuke's voice when Nishinoya wasn't yelling.

I thought Oikawa sounded familiar, so I looked up his va and discovered it's Chris from Daiya.

The new Viz Blu Ray release of the first season of Sailor Moon is out.  I don't have the new set but from the reviews I've seen so far it looks like they are using a different master than the sets they released before.   


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 18, 2022, 07:36:31 PM
I watched another episode of Spy Family.

Spoiler
Damien Desmon is a little creepy and also seems to be a spoiled brat.


I thought I heard another familiar voice in Haikyuu. Asahi has the same va as Tetsu in Daiya. I'm starting to wonder if there's anyone in Daiya. that isn't also in Haikyuu. :lol:  I can't stop following the va character trail :D 


Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 19, 2022, 02:15:51 PM
I'm so amused xD.

I'm thinking that Mochi's VA isn't in Haikyuu. I know he's in Tsurune mind you. Mochi's VA is also a stage director or something - he directed or produced the live action Daiya stage show I believe.

I'm not sure who else isn't. Miyuki's, Eijun's are there. Quite a lot of them :D

Oikawa sounds unlike Chris, but he sounds a lot more like Namikawa Daisuke normally does, so he's easier to pick out.

I'm caught up with SpyxFamily. Bless Anya xD.

Also rewatching Idolish7. It's a silly anime really, although the actual character stuff is decent so I watch it. But two things still really annoy me.
Spoiler
#1 Nagi. Nagi is meant to be a 'foreigner', speaking Japanese, but his voice artist is a Japanese person exaggerating bad stereotypical 'foreigner' Japanese, which is emphasising how an American speaker might pronounce Japanese words. But no foreign speaker of Japanese with as many words as Nagi would pronounce as badly as he does. I've spent a lot of time around non-Japanese who speak Japanese, and I've never heard any of them mangle the language like that (I was always complimented for my accent by my teachers as well).

They should have cast someone who was actually a foreigner in Japan, if they wanted that nuance. All it sounds like is they're making fun of foreign speakers of Japanese in a really crass way. Also it hurts the ears. And, in one scene, Nagi speaks absolutely flawless Japanese...so even the character is only pretending. It's just horrible, and it makes me really hate what should be a likeable character. He's just one big (blond) stereotype.

#2 The music. Especially I7's music. I'll set aside whether seiyuu who can sing is important here, given that the seiyuu (aside Nagi's) do a decent job of the characters. But the use of English in the songs makes them incompehensible. I speak both English and Japanese and the songs are entirely nonsense. Given the premise they were meant to be written by some great and famous songwriter, it's just not believable.

And, if you're going to go to the trouble of ridiculing foreigner Japanese, you should at least be able to use competent English, both in dialogue and especially in songs. There's a moment where they have some random 'American' artist appear, but the 'English' he speaks is massively unnatural. It reminds me of that horrible game in Daiya. :/ It feels like it was written by google translate.

...A side note. Calling someone 'girl' is not polite. It might appear in some English language pop songs. It's not a means by which to refer to your boss. (See Nagi)

Speaking of that boss, Tsumugi - she would be my #3 complaint, but she actually improves as the series goes on, and stops being told what to do so much by a cocky 17 year old. She also shuts down Gaku beautifully twice without even realising it, which is amusing. She's a bit naive and too much of a pushover to begin with, but she at least does care about her band.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 23, 2022, 04:03:28 PM
I think Mei's va is in Haikyuu too.

I need to go back and watch the parts of the Daiya stage show that are on Youtube.  I know I watched some of it but not much maybe because I wasn't completely though the anime yet (I'm not sure though because it's been a while.)   I liked the parts I watched though. :D  You can tell that everyone involved really loves Daiya and is trying hard to do justice to the material and the characters. 

I watched a couple more episodes of Komi. I like it but it's something that I don't feel compelled to binge watch to find out what's going to happen next.

Spoiler
It was funny when Tadano breaks the 4th wall and mentions that there's a new character 2 episodes in a row. :lol:


I think the final episode of this season of Spy Family will be on Crunchyroll this weekend.

Ponyfan

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 26, 2022, 10:53:49 AM
I was looking for the Daiya stage show on Youtube and found this voice artist thing.  I can't understand much of it because there aren't subtitles but it looks like most of the main cast are at the real Jingu stadium and come out on the field and say something in their character's voice, plus a lot of back and forth interactions with each other.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylQGAJy7sOI


I also found some fun promo videos for the Dayia stage show.  I love seeing how in to the characters the actors are even when they're just doing a promo.  At one point one of the actors tells another one that they broke character and the other agrees that he forgot and spoke as himself for a moment instead of the character he is portraying.

The next season of Spy Family will air in October.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 26, 2022, 12:00:04 PM
I did watch some of that thing at the Jingu stadium a while back :D It's so stupid and typical seiyuu madness. I think Okamoto got a lot of teasing. He's actually quite a funny guy, though. I still remember him in one of the Haruka events, with Abe Atsushi (I think?) as his pair, and they had to do an improvisation scene...and Okamoto ended up playing a girl, and a giant demon bug, all in the same skit...

It seems like a lot of the Daiya seiyuu suck at baseball a bit though ;)

Oosaka Ryouta's yelling as Eijun all the time is actually kind of funny when compared to a couple of his other much less shouty characters. His Haikyuu character is basically the exact opposite, although you can hear it compared to the rare moments Eijun is serious.

I did think there would have to be a s.2 of SpyxFamily. Anya hasn't saved the world yet!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 02, 2022, 01:49:18 PM
I didn't watch the game but I was wondering if the Daiya vas were actually trying to play baseball or if it was more for show like the Globetrotters basketball team.



I don't think I've found Eijun's va in Haikyuu yet.  I'm looking forward to trying to spot him.  :D

I watched episode 8 of Spy Family


Spoiler
Yuri seems like an innocent man until his more sinister side is revealed. I feel like in Yuri's mind anything goes as long as he's able to protect the country he and Yor live in.  I also get the impression that it's only a matter of time before all of the secret identities are revealed.

I bought the Sailor Moon R movie today. The plot sounds the least interesting of the 3 SM movies to me, but it completes my set.  It also had a bonus episode on it that was originally shown with the movie in theaters.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 16, 2022, 07:57:22 PM
I finished Spy Family

Spoiler
I love how Anya was able to hear Ken (I think that's the little boy's name that was drowning? and put herself at risk to try to save him even if Twilight had to rescue both kids. 

Sometimes I wonder if Anya will ever tell Twilight that she can read minds.

The aquarium/penguin episode was cute.  I don't know how Twilight was able to learn all of the penguins' names in such a short time.  He does mention the contest where he won the stuffed penguin but I'm not sure if that happened before or after he was inside the exhibit. 

Can the white dog see the future?



The US has a release date for the final season of Fruits Basket.  It will be in October.  Akito is on the over.

I thought I found Free Final Stroke on preorder on RightStufanime but when I looked at the description it looked like it's just a movie made out of season 3/Dive to the Future episodes with some extra scenes.  I'm hoping  the season 3 movie might be a clue that we'll see at least the first part of Final Stroke in the US soon.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 20, 2022, 03:51:08 PM
I'm pleasantly surprised to find that they decided to do a second season for the Classroom of the Elite, since there's a bunch of books and it's a clever concept...I need to rewatch the first part though to remember exactly how it ended up. Today I also discovered The Devil is a Part Timer is also getting a second season. That's so silly that I'm going to be watching that as well. World domination from a fast food restaurant. Kind of. :)

Hoping there are still plans for more Tiger and Bunny come the autumn. I suppose that one depends on Netflix though. :/

@Ponyfan, Eijun's VA doesn't appear right at the beginning. I'm not even sure if he's in season 1, tbh. He might be...I can't remember, but he might not be. He's definitely in Season 2.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 20, 2022, 04:12:58 PM
I thought Devil is a Part Timer ended in a weird spot so a second season is a welcome announcement.  There are others out there that would benefit from a second season, too but who knows if that'll happen.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 22, 2022, 12:44:00 AM
I thought Devil is a Part Timer ended in a weird spot so a second season is a welcome announcement.  There are others out there that would benefit from a second season, too but who knows if that'll happen.

No kidding. I complain about this a lot, I know, but Akatsuki no Yona has so much unanimated manga that it's almost criminal.

It did take 15 years or more for Saiyuuki's Even a Worm arc to be properly animated, mind you. And it took 10 or 11 years to get Tiger and Bunny a sequel. Maybe there's hope...

I agree about Devil is a Part Timer. It's such a fun concept, I look forward to seeing where it goes next.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 22, 2022, 07:26:21 AM
Don't forget the RightStuf Birthday Sale.  Next week (starting Sunday, I think) is the last week.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 04, 2022, 07:42:10 PM
Crunchyroll and Rightstufanime announced today that rsa has been bought by Crunchyroll. I guess that means they're owned by Sony now.

I thought I heard another familiar voice in Haikyuu but wasn't quite sure if I recognized it or if it's just that I've watched so much anime that everyone starts to sound like another character I've seen. It turns out it was someone that I know from Daiya.  It was Mei's va voicing Kemma.   Kemma sounds like a tired version of Mei to me.  I guess because he doesn't have that arrogant tone that Mei usually does.


I fiinally finished the first season of Komi.  :)


Ponyfan 


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 05, 2022, 10:36:33 AM
I've just sorted through my DVDs and so found a bunch of anime I haven't watched in years or have never watched. DVDs I didn't realise I even had O.o. I'm not keeping all of them, some are going to charity shops, but I feel like I ought to be watching some of these...sometime.

My CR is driving me crazy at the moment with buffering though. It's been like that since the Funi merger, and I know it isn't my app or my tech, because it mysteriously doesn't happen with currently airing anime. I could watch SpyxFamily just fine, but watching an ep of, say, Daiya, involves about 10 points where the ep buffers. It didn't used to happen prior to the merger. I wish they'd also upgrade their servers at the same time they add a ton more members and anime, sigh.

I didn't mention it at the time but I watched Blue Period on Netflix a few months back and enjoyed it. Definitely a recommend from me.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 09, 2022, 06:26:07 AM
I've seen Blue Period manga but wasn't sure if it was something that I'd be interested in.  I'll check the anime out though. :)

Fruits Basket season 3 is up for preorder on Amazon now.

I've made it halfway through season 1 of Haikyuu.  I like it, but Daiya is still my favorite sports anime.  It looks like they'll be an announcement this week about Haikyuu season 5.


My CR buffers sometimes too especially if I try to pause an episode and go back because I couldn't keep up with the subtitles. Then it takes me a few tries to get the episode to restart smoothly.   There's one episode of Daiya (I think the first or second episode of Act 2) where there's something wrong with the episode on CR.  In a few seconds it turns in to pixels and the sound becomes distorted.  It only happens on that episode though and not any of the others.  If you can make it past the opening the rest of the episode plays fine.  I wonder why that one episode is messed up and none of the others. 

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2022, 02:18:39 PM
I don't think it messes up for me, but I admit I do a lot of fast forwarding on those eps because of the brief recap and also because Komadai as a team annoy me, especially their pitcher. So I skip over that stuff.

Daiya is better than Haikyuu, just not so many people watch or follow Daiya because it's less accessible without a dub/manga translation. I want a new season of Daiya but I'm also torn because I only want one if they win this game xD.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 13, 2022, 03:54:12 PM
Komi season 2 has a digital soundtrack released already.  Once again all the titles are in Japanese, but I found a playlist on Youtube where someone translated them to English. That being said I have to go back to the Japanese tracks and try to figure out the titles on the English list because the person that translated them didn't put both titles on there.

I don't think it messes up for me, but I admit I do a lot of fast forwarding on those eps because of the brief recap and also because Komadai as a team annoy me, especially their pitcher. So I skip over that stuff.

Daiya is better than Haikyuu, just not so many people watch or follow Daiya because it's less accessible without a dub/manga translation. I want a new season of Daiya but I'm also torn because I only want one if they win this game xD.



I agree about Komadai.  The only one of those guys that doesn't get on my nerves as much as the rest is the catcher (I think? The one that tries to apologize to Miyuki). but the less I see of that team the better.

I also want another season of Daiya only if they win the current game.  Otherwise, I'd rather the anime stay where it is.


I've noticed that the animation in Haikyuu looks a little sloppy at times.  There's certain scenes where the characters faces look like they're coming through the volleyball net instead of being behind it. I know Daiya's animation isn't always perfect either but it's a little distracting in Haikyuu


It looks like the big Haikyuu announcement wasn't for a season 5 but a 2 part movie finale like Free Final Stroke.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 14, 2022, 03:06:00 PM
Well, Haikyuu has a weird overall manga ending. Although I suspect they will end it with the game that season 4 builds up to.

Which, bearing in mind I didn't read the manga, but can't help but see the spoilers for,
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yes this is a proper spoiler click at own risk
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I'm talking about them against the Nekoma lot
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they lose.

The Haikyuu animation gets weirder imo in Season 4, it took me a while to get used especially to Asahi's hair.

I feel like some of the Haikyuu characters also have slightly ridiculous appearances. Compared to Daiya where there are some wonky noses and let's not talk about the Americans...but otherwise the worst is pretty much occasional pink hair and guys who look accidentally in their forties (Inui, Azuma, LOL). Daiya is a much longer and much more brutal manga though. Maybe that's another reason Haikyuu has a bigger following, because it's easier to digest and not as hard on the nerves. I like Haikyuu a lot, especially from season 2 - and there are some moments in season 3 which I think are epic...it's just a lot more gentle than Daiya.

Agreed on the Komadai players. The catcher is ok, but that pitcher needs a slap. He's also responsible for a lot of Furuya's slump in early Act II, honestly. Though Furuya got to grow as a character so I guess it's ok.

Been watching Love All, Play (badminton anime). I'm not quite sure about the characters, not entirely, though they're not too bad. The ace though...I don't even know where to begin. Especially when I realised his seiyuu.

I haven't watched much anime recently, though, because of having to be careful what electronics I could run during the heatwave. My room is at the back and south facing, so it's been a bit of a sauna this week. No air con but great insulation.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 20, 2022, 07:08:12 PM
Daiya

I've always wondered why Inui looks so old when he's supposed to be a high school student. :lol:

Another thing I don't like about the Komadai  team is when they're criticizing Furuya for leaving his hometown and going to play for Seidou instead.   If those are the type of people Furuya had to deal with in junior high, I don't blame him for wanting to play somewhere else.


 Haikyuu

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I'm glad Karasuno won against Date Tech.  I was afraid it was building up to almost winning and then losing at the last second.





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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 21, 2022, 01:05:58 AM
Bearing in mind how Furuya was treated in middle school, it's honestly not the business of the Komadai lot what he decided to do. He obv. went to Tokyo because he read the article on Miyuki, but it's still a big deal decision to make, to try and put all that behind you in search of a catcher who can actually work with you. So yeah, that irritated me, too. I don't like them at all.

Inui probably got struck by lightning ;)

He's not a bad guy though. He just looks older than Kataoka ;)

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 25, 2022, 10:34:24 AM
I'm not sure how many people have seen this already, but this is Saban's attempt at bringing Sailor Moon to the US before the real anime was.  I'm posting it here because I know we have some SM fans here.  Thoughts?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2VOuqaOnk



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The pilot is so bad that it's funny in places. :lol:  There's a huge plot hole in the pilot that I assume would have been explained later on.   I know someone must have worked hard on Saban Moon for the pilot to exist but I'm glad that it was never picked up for a full series.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on August 25, 2022, 01:19:29 PM
OMG someone finally found the pilot?!?! Holy cats, I've been waiting for this day for years!! I knew we'd get it eventually! Omg I can't wait to watch this XD This was one of my lost media holy grails, I can't believe it's out there finally!!! Thanks for the link Ponyfan, I probably wouldn't have seen it for ages otherwise.

edit: Okay I watched it :D

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omg it's so bad XD the animation is so janky and baaaad, especially during Queen Serenity's big speech. The poor kitty playing Luna is clearly not having a fun time.

Gotta say, the transformation sequences looked pretty good for their time. Total 90s cheese sure, but you can tell that's where most of their budget went.

and omg all this time I really thought the stupid dancing bits were just something they filmed for the promo video, but no they're actually in the pilot :lmao: I'm trying not to be too harsh on it since it's just a proof of concept (I don't think a full series would've been much better, but I assume it would have at least had more of a semblance of a plot) but... omg who thought that would be a good way to sell the concept? :silly: The animated parts at least get their idea for it across, but the live action stuff is just a total trainwreck LOL. And was it taking place in a boarding school???

Interesting that they called Usagi "Victoria", that's what the DiC promo vid called her too - have you seen that vid Ponyfan? It has a bunch of weird, early English names for the girls. I always wondered where those names came from, guess they were Toei's creation if Toon Makers used them too.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 29, 2022, 06:45:42 AM
@Taffeta

I read somewhere that Furuya and Eijun find out at some point that they read the same article about Miyuki.  I agree with you about Inui looking older than Kataoka.

I've wondered if Haruichi and Ryousuke's pink hair is a family trait.  I just remembered their mother is the OVA about their childhood but on my screen, it was hard to tell if her hair color is dark brown or a darker pink than her children.

Spy Family season 2 will start on October 1st. :D

Saban/Toon Makers Sailor Moon


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I liked the transformation sequences too. I'd have to do a side-by-side comparison to the original Sailor Moon but some of them looked pretty close to the anime's shots.

I'd like to know how Sailor Mercury ended up in a wheelchair on Earth/flying space chair in the animated part when she wasn't originally shown using one.  Was she injured in one of the worlds and that meant she was also injured in to the other one?

I'm also assuming that Darian didn't die in the spaceship explosion since Tuxedo Mask (I didn't catch if they said a name for his TM form in the pilot) showed up in the animated world.

The boarding school setting reminds me of Mia and Me but I feel like M and M is better executed than this would have been.  In Mia and Me, Mia enters a magical animated world through a magic book.  The book always has something written in it that directly deals with the events in the animated world.



I just looked up the DIC promo video.  I had to laugh at naming Ami "Blue" and The Masked Tuxedo. :lol:  It also amuses me that they mentioned the Carmen Sandiego animated series. Here's the link to the DIC promo video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXqoPgbH0c



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on August 29, 2022, 06:56:33 AM
I love the DiC promo vid XD Especially "Blue".
I think Toonmakers would've called him The Masked Tuxedo too, since they had Moon as Victoria, I think Toei came up with those weird names from the DiC vid.

(Re: Saban Moon)
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Yeah, I thought some of the attacks were more-or-less traced over from the originals too.

I didn't notice Mercury's wheelchair was missing in the first bit!! It'd be interesting to find out if they did have anything planned there (or maybe it was just a goof? XD). I wish we knew a bit more about their version of the story, how the overall plot would've gone, etc.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 29, 2022, 03:08:34 PM
That Sailor Moon pilot made my friend and I die laughing. 
Re: Saban Sailor Moon
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Mercury is in the futuristic "spacechair" in the beginning bit.  She's just almost always so far in the background or only her head is showing so that you don't really notice it until later in the episode.   The transition from fighting to daydreaming in class doesn't work at all for me.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 30, 2022, 06:23:45 AM
I love those lines in the DIC promo "Girls will love SM's transformation from everyday schoolgirl into glamorous superhero.  Boys will love the nonstop action."  :lol:

Saban Moon

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I missed Mercury's spacechair at the beginning. 

I'd like to know a little bit more about where they were going with the SM story too.  I feel like the broad strokes are there, but the finer details weren't completely thought out it.  We only see Queen Beryl in the pilot, but I wonder if we would have seen Jadeite etc. if this became a full series.

I think Saban was implying that the magical jewels were the source of SM and friends' power and also that Luna would be the link between SM on Earth and Queen Serenity. There needed to be more on how they transitioned to the animated world from the real world.




I started Komi season 2.  Overall, I like the series, but Yamai gets on my nerves easily.

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This is the 2nd times she's gone to extremes using questionable methods to find out more about Komi. The first time she literally kidnapped Tadano and held him prisoner in her room.  In last episode I watched Yamai decided she wanted to see Komi's underwear so she tried to trick Komi into standing next to a puddle so Yamai could see.

I know it's supposed to be funny, but it just isn't to me.




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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on August 30, 2022, 04:10:34 PM
I love those lines in the DIC promo "Girls will love SM's transformation from everyday schoolgirl into glamorous superhero.  Boys will love the nonstop action."  :lol:

That one gets me every time XD

Saban Moon:
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I'd love to know if they planned to use the other villains, too. I think it's interesting how the cat monster in the pilot is clearly based on Bakene (http://wikimoon.org/index.php/Bakene), that's a pretty deep cut, especially for something like this. All the other recognizable elements in the pilot are just basic SM stuff, and then there's a random mid-series youma in there... I really wonder where they got him from. Maybe Toei just showed them a bunch of youma designs and they picked one at random, idk.

And yeah idk why they didn't properly explain the transitional parts. It's weird since like... I get that this was just a proof-of-concept pitch, but it's just not presenting its concept very well! :P The animated part at the beginning gets the general plot hook across nicely, and then they just lose it completely when they get to the live action bit and just have a bunch of dancing - with one or two lines thrown in that sort of hint at the girls' personalities here - instead of continuing to explain their version of the plot, or introduce the characters, or... gah!! It's so confusing, it doesn't explain anything.

I think Saban was implying that the magical jewels were the source of SM and friends' power and also that Luna would be the link between SM on Earth and Queen Serenity. There needed to be more on how they transitioned to the animated world from the real world.

Yeah, that was the impression I got, too. I dunno why they couldn't have just put in a couple more lines explaining that :/ It's weird since the animated parts are... well not fantastic :silly: but they get their point across, you can get a feel for what that part of the show would be like. and then the live action stuff is just a total mess? It feels like they had completely different people working on them or something.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2022, 09:57:22 AM

Saban Moon:
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I'd love to know if they planned to use the other villains, too. I think it's interesting how the cat monster in the pilot is clearly based on Bakene (http://wikimoon.org/index.php/Bakene), that's a pretty deep cut, especially for something like this. All the other recognizable elements in the pilot are just basic SM stuff, and then there's a random mid-series youma in there... I really wonder where they got him from. Maybe Toei just showed them a bunch of youma designs and they picked one at random, idk.

And yeah idk why they didn't properly explain the transitional parts. It's weird since like... I get that this was just a proof-of-concept pitch, but it's just not presenting its concept very well! :P The animated part at the beginning gets the general plot hook across nicely, and then they just lose it completely when they get to the live action bit and just have a bunch of dancing - with one or two lines thrown in that sort of hint at the girls' personalities here - instead of continuing to explain their version of the plot, or introduce the characters, or... gah!! It's so confusing, it doesn't explain anything.

I think Saban was implying that the magical jewels were the source of SM and friends' power and also that Luna would be the link between SM on Earth and Queen Serenity. There needed to be more on how they transitioned to the animated world from the real world.

Yeah, that was the impression I got, too. I dunno why they couldn't have just put in a couple more lines explaining that :/ It's weird since the animated parts are... well not fantastic :silly: but they get their point across, you can get a feel for what that part of the show would be like. and then the live action stuff is just a total mess? It feels like they had completely different people working on them or something.


Saban Moon

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That's really interesting about Bakene.  It's been a while since I watched the original SM so I've forgotten a lot of the Youma designs.

One thing I did find interesting about Saban Moon is that the girls seem to be aware of what's happening in the real world while in the animated one since they talk in the animated world about missing the dance.

I finally figured out what this reminds me of.  It reminds me of when someone tried to bring Rainbow Brite back but implied that she'd forgotten everything that happened in Rainbow Land and was living as a normal girl on Earth.  RB was seen looking at the sky and drawing rainbows.



There's character songs for Free Final Stroke. :D  Some of them are on Spotify.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2022, 11:08:33 AM
I'll have to look the songs up. Miyano Mamoru is a decent singer/has recorded and Rin is my favourite character xD.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2022, 12:16:06 PM
I'll have to look the songs up. Miyano Mamoru is a decent singer/has recorded and Rin is my favourite character xD.



Rin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mv6iVLkhv8&list=OLAK5uy_mknk6pEmVF7BRB4BDhT7Wccoq2T2AsGBk


Haru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC-oaeRvABk&list=OLAK5uy_kf1-b2a8dJwAzooc2eJC5GJ3qHjlStygE

Makoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON1ZRm6zOlI&list=OLAK5uy_ltwPe3xLirIzergrjX0Of_5rXuuFmHRfA



Ikuya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojd-2T814P0&list=OLAK5uy_naTxkiJlQmsuPctDBoksOFTBVeb-g5o9o


Asahi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krF8FqzX60k


Nagasi and Rei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS8wuMqXF-0&list=OLAK5uy_kfDEmsKhbqHh2qKT--CGj4dy_xTDTK_7g



Hiyori and Kaede  (I'm not sure who Kaede is?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XcKoD08Wik&list=OLAK5uy_m7unKB2qS1laIX8mmqMA2WNixpgr5x3Hc


Natsuya and Nao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XcKoD08Wik&list=OLAK5uy_m7unKB2qS1laIX8mmqMA2WNixpgr5x3Hc


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 06, 2022, 01:00:59 PM
Thanks for the links, ponyfan, I'll check them out :)

While we're sharing links, here's an old Free one with the seiyuu (for Nagisa, Haru, Rin, Rei and Makoto) singing one of the stupidly catchy theme songs (It might be the one with the camel, I can't remember...)

Miyano Mamoru is the tall guy in black with red tartan on his shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgazQehXuk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgazQehXuk)

I know Hirakawa Daisuke (Rei) is also a decent singer although he has quite a distinctive voice.  In the above clip he's wearing glasses and a tie. I also just discovered he was also in Daiya, though I missed him completely xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1k7UzHEO-k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1k7UzHEO-k)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 06, 2022, 03:41:06 PM
Thanks for the links, ponyfan, I'll check them out :)

While we're sharing links, here's an old Free one with the seiyuu (for Nagisa, Haru, Rin, Rei and Makoto) singing one of the stupidly catchy theme songs (It might be the one with the camel, I can't remember...)

Miyano Mamoru is the tall guy in black with red tartan on his shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgazQehXuk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgazQehXuk)




That is the one with the camel.  This is the 2nd time today I've listened to Splash Free. :D  It's really catchy even if I can't understand most of the words.  I always love seeing the actors behind the voices enjoying themselves.  It looked like the video from the 1st ending of the anime was playing on the stage while they were singing.   




I know Hirakawa Daisuke (Rei) is also a decent singer although he has quite a distinctive voice.  In the above clip he's wearing glasses and a tie. I also just discovered he was also in Daiya, though I missed him completely xD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1k7UzHEO-k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1k7UzHEO-k)

I missed him too, although I mostly know the main Inashiro players and get confused on the ones that either don't get as much screen time or lines in the anime.

Speaking of Daiya va's, Rachi's va is in Komi Can't Communicate.  Here's a clip of his Komi character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXXWpLJdzuw&list=PLw7jObHhDHKEsDMeL-0VyalwfJMuVnfWC&index=5


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 07, 2022, 10:07:36 AM
I think I can hear Raichi, although it's the moments when Raichi isn't laughing maniacally or yelling about something. It's as different as hearing Sawamura's seiyuu in other things, namely Haikyuu xD.

I think pretty much everyone seems to be in Daiya o.O.

I think the only Inajitsu people I tend to remember are Fukui the current captain, Mei and his posse, and Itsuki. Also Harada of course. I think Hirakawa's character is an Inajitsu third year, so probably has plenty of lines in THAT game that I don't want to rewatch.

I have a lot of anime to catch up on.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on September 07, 2022, 01:47:06 PM
I'm behind on anime, too. About 4-5 weeks behind on Tokyo Mew Mew New x__x To be honest I'm not really enjoying it - it's alright, it's just, I dunno, something about it's just leaving me cold. I was expecting changes and updates, etc, but I just don't get what they're doing with Mint's character... But the original (both anime and manga) is one of my favourite series so I really did want to at least get through the first cour for the reboot before giving up on it. Just gotta find the time...!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2022, 12:13:24 PM
I've heard so many Japanese vas now that most characters sound like other characters I've heard before.  It's usually more of "I think I know that voice" than being able to guess who the va is right away. I start following the va trail to see if there's a connection to a character in a series I've watched. :D  It amazes me that Ryousuke from Daiya, Sinha from Yona and Nishinoya  from Haikyuu are all voiced by the same person.  Sometimes though I think I hear a little bit of Ryousuke in  Nishinoya.


I've almost finished season 1 of Haikyuu. No sign of Eijun's or Miyuki's vas yet.   

I need to catch up on the new Fruits Basket.  I think I stopped halfway in season 2.


I had heard that Sanrio put some of their characters in the Unico films.  Last night I was watching Unico in the Island of Magic and saw this.


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I think the penguin must be Tuxedo Sam. I never noticed him before.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on September 10, 2022, 02:08:35 PM
Omg it totally is Tuxedo Sam!! That's so cute, I love it when companies sneak in cameos like that.

I found Sailor Moon in one Wedding Peach episode :) In the top left corner, next to the blonde guy:

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 10, 2022, 07:26:43 PM
I see her.  :)  That's really interesting. 


I signed up for Spotify and found a lot of anime soundtracks there.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 12, 2022, 06:12:46 AM
Okamoto Nobuhiko is a true voice chameleon. He always amazes me with the flexibility of his characters. I first encountered him as Okita Souji in the Haruka 5 game, and on stage at their live events, and he did do some voices in those - but I think I've gained appreciation for it over the years. Some seiyuu are very distinctive and immediately recogniseable - like Ishida Akira (Nabe in Daiya). Others are a lot more chameleonic and props to them.

I think Eijun and Miyuki's seiyuu are both in season 2. Actually, I'm 100% sure they are, but I am not sure at which point exactly they come in. Miyuki's I think you'll pick up easier though.

I'm watching Love All Play, and the main character is voiced by Haruichi's seiyuu. One of the others is voiced by Taniyama Kishou, who I didn't realise still did anime voices since Granrodeo took off as a band. I recognised Haruichi's, but props to Taniyama, I didn't get him right away.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on September 13, 2022, 02:28:50 AM
The devil is a part timer has a season 2? Sweet.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 01, 2022, 12:11:40 PM
I think the next season of Spy Family comes out today. :D

I started listening to the Free Final Stroke character albums on Spotify.  I'd love to know more about Timeless Blue.  It's featured on every album with each character singing it.  I can't tell if they are singing the same song multiple times or each singing a different verse.  It's really interesting though and makes me wonder if all of the Timeless Blue versions will be combined in to one.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 01, 2022, 02:35:08 PM
It's not that uncommon when you have a theme song sung by the characters for the Japanese production industry to milk the song by selling separate tracks of the same song from each of the seiyuu. Sometimes you get half tracks, so people can karaoke one part with the other part recorded in. But it's a weird thing.

I would assume Timeless Blue is either the opening or ending theme of the movie.

I was rewatching Hataraku Maou-sama (The Devil is a PartTimer) last night and realised Maou Sadao is voiced by Eijun's seiyuu. It's a bit uncanny xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 04, 2022, 11:14:01 AM
That explains why a lot of the Daiya soundtracks on iTunes have the track with the character's voices and an instrumental track on the same album.   :)

I watched the trailer for the Devil is a Part Timer season 2 and I think I hear Eijun's normal voice (although he sounds like a slighter older Eijun) in Maou.

Edit:  I found this shirt at Walmart and had to grab a pic.


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It's not in my size though. :(


The eyes remind me of Sailor Moon, but I couldn't find any SM or Toei writing on it.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on October 04, 2022, 01:32:34 PM
XD I love that shirt.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 05, 2022, 01:36:01 AM
It looks kind of generic female anime eyes to me, though I guess that fits SM since SM is one of the archetypes of that style IMO xD.

It says kawaii, sugoi desu (I'm cute and awesome). Which is pretty generic and probably can't be linked to a character.

I still have a twitch when I see kawaii in western merch but at least it's in characters, which makes it less twitchy.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 05, 2022, 10:21:56 AM
Thanks for translating Taffeta. :)  I'm always at a loss when there's Japanese on shirts because I can't read it, so I never know if it's just the character's names or something that actually makes sense.  It amuses me that it says, "I'm cute and awesome."

I agree that they're probably not SM eyes (I think it would have Toei and SM markings on it if it was) but it still reminds me of her.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on October 05, 2022, 10:57:00 AM
I definitely think it was inspired by Sailor Moon. It makes me think of her first transformation and I've noticed that's kind of the go-to scene for when US peeps want to parody girls' anime these days. Not just the eyes, but the colours and sparkles are very SM-esque.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 05, 2022, 12:29:26 PM
I just went on Youtube and grabbed a couple of screenshots of SM's eyes during her transformation. :D

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Post by: Carrehz on October 05, 2022, 12:53:14 PM
Yup, those are the shots I was thinking of ^^
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 14, 2022, 04:27:12 PM
I finally finished Haikyuu season 1.  I really enjoyed it and will be starting season 2 soon.  I'm looking forward to hearing more of the Daiya vas in season 2, :)


 The last episode of season 1 though was a

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a little sad and reminded me a lot of the aftermath in Daiya after the first Seidou vs Inashiro game. 



I'm waiting for a few episodes of the new season of Spy Family to become available on Crunchyroll before I start watching them.



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Post by: Ponybookworm on October 15, 2022, 04:43:30 PM
Here for the first time because Netflix UK has Studio Ghibli films on it!!! Seen a few already!!!
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 16, 2022, 05:56:13 AM
Here for the first time because Netflix UK has Studio Ghibli films on it!!! Seen a few already!!!

Do you have any favorites yet?  Ghibli films are hit or miss for me, but there are a few that I really like. :)

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Post by: Ponybookworm on October 17, 2022, 01:29:51 AM
There are some really cute ones with great stories in them I saw one about this forest & the Iron city or something. It was good. There was another about a bamboo girl whose father seemed obsessed with getting her married to the richest man he could find... but she had other ideas, good for her!!! My Neighbour Totoro is also really adorable, & I love how Totoro & his friends comfort the children. Bakana says Totoro is her ideal xxx I may watch Spirited Away next. I hear good things about it...
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 17, 2022, 10:57:31 AM
There are some really cute ones with great stories in them I saw one about this forest & the Iron city or something. It was good. There was another about a bamboo girl whose father seemed obsessed with getting her married to the richest man he could find... but she had other ideas, good for her!!! My Neighbour Totoro is also really adorable, & I love how Totoro & his friends comfort the children. Bakana says Totoro is her ideal xxx I may watch Spirited Away next. I hear good things about it...

I think the one you're describing with the forest is Nausicaa, but I might be wrong.  Castle in the sky also has kind of a forest and an iron city with a bunch of robots.  If it has the big pill bug things it's Nausicaa.  If it's got flying machines, pirates, and robots, it's Castle in the Sky.  Although, maybe they have different titles depending on where you live in the world.

My nephew used to refer to Totoro as "the monster bunnies" because I first introduced him to it when he was 2 when my sister needed a break from Finding Nemo (which was the only movie he watched for a solid 6 months).

Spirited Away is really cute.  But I think my favorite Ghibli film so far is Whisper of the Heart.  Though there are several that tie for second place.  Howl's Moving Castle and From Up On Poppy Hill are really good, too.  I don't know if I could ever rank them from my favorite to least favorite, though, because so many would be in tying positions.

Just watch all of them.  :lol:
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Post by: Taffeta on October 17, 2022, 02:07:17 PM
Mononoke-hime also has a contrast with the wild girl of the forest vs the city. I have no idea how that's been translated though in terms of names...

I don't really like Ghibli. I don't know how to explain why except that it's somehow stylised in a way I don't click with. I do like Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away in English) and Mononoke-hime though.

I have no idea how Spirited Away makes sense in English mind you, given how much cultural stuff is in it.

I also met one of the directors from Totoro, at an event in London. It was a panel with him and a voice artist and I went to see the voice artist but it was interesting hearing him talk about how Totoro was put together. I've still never seen it - I've seen several but for some reason never that one.

I prefer Kimi no Na Wa I think.

@Ponyfan - yeah, but
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The 3rd years don't have to retire, so it's really not as impactful.

I'm doing the same with Spy Family. I am working though Devil is a Part Timer though. Decided to rewatch s1 first to get my bearings since it's been a while.

And Tiger and Bunny season 2 part 2 came out just before I went away. I did already sneak peak at the ending and
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It's both what I expected and not entirely what I wanted, although it's fine I suppose.

The main appeal of T&B is
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The friendship/pseudo-family relationship between Barnaby and Kotetsu anyway.
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Post by: tikibirds on October 17, 2022, 03:04:11 PM
Spirited Away and the cat returns are my fav - but I'm into Japanese mythology stuff.
The others, i don't really care much for.
In 2016, I went to the Ghibli Museaum in Mitaka, Japan. It was pretty neat but too crowded.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 17, 2022, 03:30:36 PM
I've only seen a few of the Ghibli films. Out of those my favorites are Whisper of the Heart, Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro. :) I didn't like Howl's Moving Castle or From Up on Poppy Hill (I liked the singing in that one).  I enjoyed The Secret World of Arietty, The Wind Rises and Nausicaa, but I'm not sure that they fall in to the favorites category.  The Cat Returns is okay. I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch Grave of the Fireflies.

@Taffeta

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I completely agree with you about Karasuno's loss vs Seidou's.  Karasuno losing and the aftermath was a bit sad, but it didn't make me want to cry like I wanted to with Daiya.  Also, we don't see anyone suffering through the same type of trauma like several of the Seidou players did.  Like you said, it's not as final in the same way Daiya is since the third years aren't forced to retire after the loss in Haikyuu.



I've been thinking about watching Your Name again.  It's been a while since I've seen it.



I love that Ghibli Musuem ticket.  :lovey:  Are those film cells on it?


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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 17, 2022, 04:13:26 PM
Grave of the Fireflies is beautifully done, but it is a REALLY hard watch.  It's historical and history is not pretty. 

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You've got the horror of the bomb drop, the terrible way the aunt treats the main character and his sister and the harsh way that they are forced to live alongside the way that the main character is such a good big brother to his little sister and the hope that things will turn out better than they actually do.  You know from the opening scene that things are not going to end well.

The Cat Returns was supposed to be the story written in Whisper of the Heart, which from the hints in that movie make it really hard to put together that they're the same story but book editing and revising are a thing so... :shrug:  It's still a fun story, though.
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Post by: Carrehz on October 18, 2022, 07:54:58 AM
Yeah I always figured The Cat Returns was just a later revision of Shizuku's story, like maybe she came back to it as an adult and rewrote it - or maybe it's a sequel to her first story ;) I guess they didn't want to just rehash the fantasy scenes from Whisper. I like all the nods they did fit in though, like the main instrumental theme in Returns being the music that plays over Whisper's first fantasy scene.

I don't think I'd ever watch Grave of the Fireflies. It sounds well-made and all, but reading a synopsis was enough for me.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 18, 2022, 07:09:14 PM

I don't think I'd ever watch Grave of the Fireflies. It sounds well-made and all, but reading a synopsis was enough for me.

Same.

I really like In This Corner of the World except for one scene right at the end that I think is too graphic and wasn't really necessary. I always fast forward through that because seeing it once was enough.  I have to be in the mood for In This Corner of the World though since it's such a serious anime.


Ponyfan
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Post by: Taffeta on October 19, 2022, 01:23:56 AM
I had to teach the period surrounding Grave of the Fireflies. I don't feel like it's something I want to settle down and watch.

People talk a lot about the two major incidents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but a lot of Japan was destroyed by firebombing at the end of the war. But a lot of atrocities happened in the war, from all angles, and all sides. It's complicated.
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Post by: Ponyfan on October 27, 2022, 06:34:50 AM
Another hard to watch anime is A Silent Voice.  It's really good, but also intense and doesn't gloss over the hard stuff.  If you were bullied in school that also makes it tough to get through it as one of the main characters is bullied mercilessly for something that isn't her fault.   I've  heard the manga is even more intense and has scenes that weren't included in the movie.  I have the manga, but haven't read it yet.


I still need to start Haikyuu season 2.  Maybe I will do that this weekend.  I haven't felt up to keeping up with subtitles lately.

Amazon has the Fruits Basket prequel about Tohru's parents up for preorder.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 02, 2022, 07:06:22 PM
I started season 2 of Haikyuu.  The first episode had a lot of funny moments.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 02, 2022, 09:13:30 PM
I just finished rewatching Death Note (since it was Halloween).  Now I've got Yuri on Ice on while I work on Nanowrimo sprints because the music is awesome and I've seen it enough that I don't have to watch it.  But it's so pretty to watch that I look up regularly.  Good thing I can type without looking at the keyboard or my screen.
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 03, 2022, 03:44:01 PM
I saw a post on Facebook today for an anime called Love Flops.  It mentioned that   Daiya's Eijun's va has a role in it.  Here's a clip of it from Youtube. I think I hear Eijun's voice a little bit especially  at :23.  I also found out that he voices Adrien/ Cat Noir in the Japanese version of Miraculous. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02MuV0aWdU




Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 12, 2022, 07:23:02 PM
I think I'll be having an anime film marathon soon.  :D  There's a few of them that I want to watch, but don't feel like I have the time right now. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 14, 2022, 08:01:11 AM
I feel like whenever you post something seiyuu related, Ponyfan, that I have successfully brainwashed you ;)

Eijun's seiyuu does get around a bit.

I'm still watching The Devil is a Part Timer. I'd forgotten that Lucifer is voiced by Shimano Hiro (Nori/Zeno/etc). He does it really well. It's such a silly show, honestly.

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Post by: Ponyfan on November 25, 2022, 10:59:24 AM
I feel like whenever you post something seiyuu related, Ponyfan, that I have successfully brainwashed you ;)


You have. :D  I find myself going down the va trail sometimes trying to track down a voice that sounds familiar, but I haven't quite been able to place.

I thought I recognized one va the other day, but going through the work they've done, I didn't find any titles or characters I was familiar with.


I've watched Josee, The Tiger and the Fish, A Silent Voice and Your Name  (I'm starting to wonder if I should buy a back op copy of that one in case I wear the current copy out) this week. :D

 I've also gotten a little further in season 2 of  Haikyuu. I thought I heard Ejun's va in one of the Fukurodani players, but I need to hear them speak more to confirm if it's the character I think it is. Kemma from Nekoma sounds like a bored/tired version of Mei from Daiya to me.


I watched a clip of Shimano Hiro in The Devil is a Part Timer. :) 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on November 25, 2022, 05:30:58 PM
RightStuf and Sentai sales are happening...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 27, 2022, 03:38:52 PM
Ah, I need to get back to season 2 of Devil is a Part Timer.

I also need to watch part 2 of season 2 of Tiger and Bunny. I want to but there's also a sense of not wanting to, not only because I know it's the finale, but I cheated and checked how it ends and...

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I'm not surprised by the ending, it's expected and logical but in a way a bit sad.

I quite like Kenma. I didn't to begin with but I got to like him overall. Funnily there are a couple of players from other schools who I got to like over time - or at least, didn't hate.  There's one who is very annoying in the game but in the post-match stuff in one section he's actually quite amusing. Weirdly.

I watched the first ep of Kimi ni Todoke. I get what it's doing but I don't know if I'll go back to it.
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Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2022, 03:23:59 PM
 Haikyuu

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I don't have much of an opinion on Kemma yet, but I do like that he and Hinata are friends even though they're on different teams.  Their friendship seems genuine too. Kemma was one of the first to notice that Hinata was missing at the practice match when he and Kageyama had to stay behind and take their make up exams.

The final season of Fruits Basket is out on Bluray as well as the prequel movie about Tohru's parents

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I heard that most of the movie is Kyo recapping stuff that happened between him and Tohru and very little time is actually spent on Tohru's parents' story.



Edit: I also found out today that The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is on Crunchyroll. :D  I've been wanting to see if but the Bluray/DVD seemed to be out of print. Now I can watch it.


Ponyfan


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Post by: Ponyfan on December 30, 2022, 03:40:30 PM
What has everyone been watching?  I'm only a few episodes in to the second season of Haikyuu.  I rewatched Belle the other night.   I'm thinking about watching The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.  I think it's the same story as the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter?

I hope we'll hear something soon about fourth season of Daiya. :D

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 30, 2022, 06:55:23 PM
This week I've watched Tamako Marketplace and My Next Life as a Villainess.  Both are cute and fun.
I just finished re-watching Maid Sama. 

I think it's the last week of RighStuf's annual sale so if you've been waiting for good deals, now's the time to look for them.  I cross-checked the prices against the Sentai sale, since a lot of those were way cheaper from Sentai (even though they get shipped from RightStuf). 
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 31, 2022, 08:01:22 PM
The RightStuf sale ends in just over an hour so if you were going to buy something, now's the time.  Also, all the "Daily Mega Deals" are back on Mega Deal price!
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Post by: StarryEmerald24 on January 04, 2023, 01:27:50 PM
Tamako Market/Love Story is probably the most adorable anime I've ever seen. My sisters showed me that one years ago.

I watched Rascal Does not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai and the movie (Rascal Does not Dream of a Dreaming Girl), both twice, around the holidays and I really enjoyed it. It's kind of a teenage supernatural drama and it had me crying at one point when it came to the sister rivalry episode. When I initially told my sister the title, she laughed it off, like "okay... watch what you want..." but it's a lot better than the title suggests. I like how the movie ties up the show nicely, though it felt like they put a lot in an hour and a half.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 05, 2023, 07:15:47 PM
One of these days I'll have money to spend on the Rightstuf sale.  :( The timing wasn't right for one that just ended. 

I'm going to be rewatching Yona of the Dawn soon.

I got a cute Fruits Basket/Hello Kitty poster.  It shows Tohru with a Hello Kitty bow in her hair and Yuki, Kyo, Momiji and Shigure  in human form with their animal ears sticking out of their heads.




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Post by: Carrehz on January 06, 2023, 07:43:28 AM
I got a cute Fruits Basket/Hello Kitty poster.  It shows Tohru with a Hello Kitty bow in her hair and Yuki, Kyo, Momiji and Shigure  in human form with their animal ears sticking out of their heads.

OMG I just looked this up and the art is so cuuuute!! :lovey:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 06, 2023, 03:39:21 PM
I got a cute Fruits Basket/Hello Kitty poster.  It shows Tohru with a Hello Kitty bow in her hair and Yuki, Kyo, Momiji and Shigure  in human form with their animal ears sticking out of their heads.

OMG I just looked this up and the art is so cuuuute!! :lovey:

I was going to share the link from Amazon here but wasn't sure if that was allowed.  I'm not a big Hello Kitty person but I love the art.  I think it's the animal ears that got me. :D


Ponyfan
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Post by: Lady Frostbite on January 11, 2023, 03:13:51 AM
I was reminded of Ai No Kusabi .... I watched it ONCE, I KNEW what was going to happen  and it still punched my feelings inside out  :wail: I mean the 1992 original, I havent seen the partially cancelled remake
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Post by: kestral_kitsune on January 11, 2023, 04:55:33 PM
late to the show but just started watching my hero academia

also there's an anime i forgot existed I too Watched Ai no Kusabi before, and found it again and oh the feelings
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 11, 2023, 07:35:59 PM
I just picked up My Hero Academia S5 Pt2 on DVD and I kind of love that the cover artwork says "My Villain Academia."
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 12, 2023, 10:06:42 AM
I feel like for a mainstream shounen series BnHA is not bad. I can't stand any of the villains, though, and find their motives/actions/everything kind of all over the place. But I do like the class of kids, and Deku/Bakugo's rivalry/mutual competition evolution, etc.

I feel like the villains are always trying to hard, and All for One is OP thus annoying.

I'm not up to date with it though.

I don't think I've seen Ai no Kusabi, but I do remember Nabari no Ou did it for my emotions. And probably not for the reasons most people would think.

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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 13, 2023, 07:29:10 AM
I feel like for a mainstream shounen series BnHA is not bad. I can't stand any of the villains, though, and find their motives/actions/everything kind of all over the place. But I do like the class of kids, and Deku/Bakugo's rivalry/mutual competition evolution, etc.

I feel like the villains are always trying to hard, and All for One is OP thus annoying.

I'm not up to date with it though.

I don't think I've seen Ai no Kusabi, but I do remember Nabari no Ou did it for my emotions. And probably not for the reasons most people would think.

Yeah, I agree about the villains not making much sense but I like the interactions the kids have. 

The end of Assassination Classroom always gets me, which surprised me the first time because the show is so quirky and fun that you don't want it to end, but you know that's how it has to be.
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Post by: Taffeta on January 14, 2023, 06:34:33 AM
Yeah, the end of Assassination Classroom is like that for me too. I like the show and the quirkiness and the kids, but I don't really like the ending.

I live for the character interaction in both shows though.

Okamoto Nobuhiko voices both Karma in AC and Bakugou in BnHA which is a bit mindblowing (in the original Japanese).

I feel like both characters ought to be unlikeable but they're somehow not.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 14, 2023, 03:52:00 PM
Assassination Classroom is on my "to be watched list."  I don't know what the ending is, but reading what you're saying about it is making me a little nervous. :unsure:

I need to get back to  Haikyuu but haven't felt relaxed enough lately to enjoy watching Crunchyroll, due to some real life stuff going on.

I ordered both the original Fruits Basket anime and the final season of the newer one from Amazon.  I know there are some people that don't like the original series for different reasons, but I will always like it.  :D

I picked up The Tale of the Princess Kaguya today.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 14, 2023, 06:42:14 PM
Assassination Classroom is on my "to be watched list."  I don't know what the ending is, but reading what you're saying about it is making me a little nervous. :unsure:
Ponyfan

Let's just say it will make you feel all the feels. 

I still need to get season 3 of the new Fruits Basket.  I haven't seen it yet.  I also enjoy the original series, so you're not alone there. 

I watched Recovery of an MMO Junkie and it's pretty cute.  I also enjoyed Run With the Wind.  I wasn't sure about that one when I picked it up but it was a fun one.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 15, 2023, 04:45:49 AM
I didn't finish run with the wind. It was ok but I didn't connect to the characters.

I still think watching Assassination Classroom is worth it. It's quite a long anime overall :)

I liked the original Furuba but prefer the new. Although they changed all the seiyuu, I found that it didn't matter to me much in the end.

CR was having a rough time yesterday for me and didn't want to load anime, but I did eventually get it to work. I rewatched the start of SpyxFamily...
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on January 16, 2023, 12:44:03 PM
At church yesterday I was playing a "get to know you" game with the new class I get to teach and I got asked what my favorite cartoon was.  I went with Disney's Alice in Wonderland because I didn't want to explain what "Assassination Classroom" or "Yuri on Ice" were to a bunch of 7-yr-olds!  :lol:  I suppose I could have gone with "Haikyu" but knowing some of these kids they'd go home and ask their parents to watch it and the language isn't what their parents would appreciate. (Yes, we are in a tiny, religious community so even the mild swears of Haikyu would be very much complained about as inappropriate for that age group.)  But I know I have a bunch of little nerds in my class because we played Pictionary and the pictures included Link from Legend of Zelda and an Oreo guard from Wreck-it Ralph and one little girl said her favorite game was Mario.  Maybe I should have said Pokemon, even if it isn't really my favorite.  They would have at least known what it was.

Currently watching Amagami SS.  I'm pretty sure it's based off a dating sim since each 4 episodes is a story arc with the main character dating a different girl.
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Post by: Bekuno on January 16, 2023, 01:00:47 PM
I just started watching Trigun because I was really impressed with the trailers for Trigun Stampede, but I want to watch the original series first. Really loving it!!
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Post by: Ponyfan on January 17, 2023, 04:26:33 PM
There's a new trailer for the Sailor Moon Eternal/Cosmos movies  featuring the Sailor Starlights.  The trailer is in Japanese.  I don't think there are any spoilers, but I will put the trailer in the spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpmunRdWROI

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on January 21, 2023, 07:27:54 PM
I'm rewatching Yona of the Dawn.

Major spoilers in the tags if you haven't read the manga.

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Knowing everything that's been revealed in the manga about how Yuhon and Yona's mother were actually killed and why puts a different perspective on Suwon and Yona's conversation after Yona saw Suwon kill Il.  I wanted to shout at the screen that Yuhon was responsible for Kashi's death and Il killed Yuhon in retaliation.

Seeing how Taejun acts in the anime makes me feel a little bad that the anime stopped before we got to see what he's really like. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on January 22, 2023, 12:47:17 AM
I'm rewatching Yona of the Dawn.

Major spoilers in the tags if you haven't read the manga.

Spoiler
Knowing everything that's been revealed in the manga about how Yuhon and Yona's mother were actually killed and why puts a different perspective on Suwon and Yona's conversation after Yona saw Suwon kill Il.  I wanted to shout at the screen that Yuhon was responsible for Kashi's death and Il killed Yuhon in retaliation.

Seeing how Taejun acts in the anime makes me feel a little bad that the anime stopped before we got to see what he's really like. 



Ponyfan
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The kill cycle with the parents is a really unpleasant and quite tragic mess. As much as I don't really hate Suwon, I feel like so much unnecessary tragedy and...all of it actually goes back to the ancient time and the blood curse going through his family. Zeno explaining that to Suwon was actually helpful though it's still all very sad. If not for the curse, then Suwon's father would likely have been king. And the curse is part of the reason he was so brutal...and yeah, it's a mess.

Although. When Suwon told Zeno he never thought of Yona as his heir, that annoyed me. After everything, he's still trying to deny her the throne based on something her father did, or his belief that she's incapable (although he must see she isn't). It's like he can't let go of this hero complex that HE has to save Kouka all on his own.

I always feel like that about Taejun. I love him as a character (sad we haven't seen him for a while :'() but the anime makes him out to be unpleasant and his arc is RIGHT after the series ends :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 03, 2023, 07:43:44 AM
Serious question for you lot.

I work in a library.  We need to update our Anime collections.  Moreso in our Adult area than Kids or Teen, but suggestions for those areas would be welcomed as well.  We don't do Anime that are basically porn (we live in a religious community and know those won't check out well so we Interlibrary Loan those titles if they're ever requested and honestly I don't think it's happened more than twice in the 10 years I've worked here).  We have stuff like Rorouni Kenshin, Attack on Titan, Trigun, Gate, and Yuri on Ice in the Adult section.  Our Teen section has stuff like One Piece, Dragonball, Naruto, My Hero Academia, My Love Story, His and Hers Circumstances and Sailor Moon (Teen has the largest selection--basically anything that has teenaged characters that doesn't have a lot of gore and excessive swearing).  The Kids section has stuff like Pokemon, Digimon, Hello Kitty, and lots of Studio Ghibli--you know, stuff kids can watch without their parents having to check it out first. Our checkout numbers on some of the ones we have aren't great so we thought if we revamp it a bit, it'll be better all around.

We want to know which Animes are current, popular, really good or just ones you wish you could find in your library.  (Even if you think we might have them--or I listed them as examples--put them on your list so we can get an idea of whether or not things we have are worth keeping around.)

Thanks everyone!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 03, 2023, 01:58:50 PM
If you don't have Fruits Basket, that might be one, as it's quite mainstream popular and long-surviving, although it does have issues of abuse and such in it which may keep it in the teen section. Given the titles you already have, though, I can't imagine it being a problem series (unless people turning into animals is problematic.)

I'm trying to think of completed series that might go down well. It's harder to source currently airing series unless they're long ones...

Do you have Haikyuu? That's quite popular and as a sports series might go down well. I'd recommend Daiya but it has no dub. Haikyuu does.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on February 03, 2023, 06:32:21 PM
We have the original Fruits Basket series but need to get the new one.  We have some that only have subs, like Uta No Prince Sama, but I don't know if the ones with English dubs tend to check out better or not.  It may depend on the story.  I'm currently watching Haikyu with the librarians in charge of the Teen and Kids collections so I think convincing them to pick that one up for the Teen section once we get ready to buy things will be easy.  I haven't seen Daiya yet but as much as it's mentioned on this thread, it's probably worth checking into for the library.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 04, 2023, 12:17:36 AM
I don't know if Daiya has an official US DVD release, actually :/ I didn't think about that, since I know it hasn't got one in the UK.

I'll also throw out there Tiger and Bunny, since I know that one does have DVD releases, in parts, and there are movie DVDs too. If BnHA is popular, T&B might work out too, since it's also superheroish and comedy (actually older than BnHA but the newest season was last summer).

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 04, 2023, 03:39:39 PM
Taffeta has made some great suggestions. :D

I love Daiya, it's one of my absolute favorite animes, but I don't think it's been released on DVD in the US.   I know when I looked before, all of the DVDS I could find for it were sold from Japan.  I wish it more popular here as I think an anime centered around baseball would be a hit in the US and more people would discover how great it is.

My Roommate is a Cat is good.

I have to recommend Yona of the Dawn. :D  It's another favorite of mine. It can be violent at times and when people are wounded or killed there's usually a little blood shown, but it's not what I would consider gory.   Yona does have dragon gods including one that became human.  The dragon gods also give their powers to humans and the first people that were granted those powers had to drink the dragon's blood to get them.


I also like Free. 

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 08, 2023, 07:28:39 PM
I got excited for a minute today when I thought I saw a Facebook post confirming another season of Daiya, but it was just a character post for Haruichi's va showcasing his roles.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 09, 2023, 09:58:24 AM
CR has it in for me at the moment, I swear. Back in Jan I had an issue where it wouldn't work on the firestick. Fixed that. Woot! So I was watching some dramas on netflix for a couple of weeks. Come back to CR today, watch one episode of Horimiya and then boom, the whole thing goes down again. Looks like this is the whole platform down, not just me, but the timing? I haven't used it for 2 weeks, it's last outage was apparently 2 weeks ago...

Gah.

Annoyed -.- As if it isn't bad enough I have to turn off subtitles every episode if I don't want them there on the firestick. It can remember my settings on my other devices, why not the one I use most?

Back on the topic, I also recommend My Roommate is a Cat.

I held off with Yona simply because it's a great anime but only such a tiny % of the overall story.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 10, 2023, 12:36:36 PM

I held off with Yona simply because it's a great anime but only such a tiny % of the overall story.



I was so caught up in relearning all of the things I'd known, but forgotten, like the way Yun treated Yona when they first met, that I forgot for a moment that there's so much left out of the anime.   :blush:

I was watching Komi earlier and one of the characters called Komi "shisho." It made me smile because I immediate though about Eijun calling Chris that.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on February 11, 2023, 06:50:45 AM
I managed to get Horimiya back working again, I admit, I'm guilty of really only watching the first half of the series though, because...
Spoiler
I don't like his hair cut.

Also, though...

Spoiler
Since I read the manga, I feel sad so many scenes got taken out for the anime. It needed to be longe. I don't really like Sengoku, Sakura, Remi or their plotlines in the anime because their characters are truncated. The manga does help with that, there's a great manga scene where Miyamura and Sengoku are coming up with amazingly ridiculous reasons why they shouldn't have to go swimming...

I think the voice cast for the anime are great so it's sad not having those scenes animated.

I watched the first couple of episodes of Blue Period as well (Netflix). It's the second time for me watching this series, but this time I noticed additional details in Yuka's character as well as Yatora's artistic road of discovery.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on February 11, 2023, 10:15:46 AM
Started watching Junji Ito's Tales of the Macabre. I like it so far, though a few episodes were just so-so.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on February 12, 2023, 07:08:33 PM
I thought I'd checked iTunes before for some of the themes from Yona, but never could find them.  I looked again today and found a few. :D



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 18, 2023, 03:49:08 PM
I finished rewatching Yona. :D   There were a lot of things that I knew happened, but I had forgotten because it had been a while since I watched it.  I still found myself on the edge of my seat during the events in Awa even though I already knew the outcome. 

I want to get back to watching Crunchyroll.  Hopefully everything will run smoothly once we get everything fixed with our Internet.  I need to watch the latest Spy Family episodes and also get back to Haikyuu. 

I've been wanting to watch The Tale of Princess Kaguya, but haven't yet.

I saw that Spy Family Season 1 part 1 blu ray has a release date in the UK, but not in the US.

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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on March 26, 2023, 04:47:44 PM
It looks like Spy Family part 1 will be released in the US too. :) 

Crunchyroll has been announcing a lot of new series or seasons for a lot of animes.  I'm still hoping for news of another season of Daiya. :D

A new trailer has been released for Sailor Moon Eternal/Cosmos.
This one shows  Sailor Galaxia and Chibi Chibi. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4g1-tHZYJg


Has anyone watched Song of the Sea, the movie based on the legend of the selkies?


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 17, 2023, 03:25:19 PM
Is anyone interested in Suzume?/Suzume no Tojimari?  I found one theater playing both the dubbed and subbed versions near me, but I don't feel like I can stay awake long enough in a dark room to justify paying theater prices right now.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 18, 2023, 01:30:56 PM
I'm not familiar with that. I don't pay a lot of attention to full length films, I admit. I got put off going to the cinema by the monster that is the 12A (aka bring your kid to the film and let them run riot and ruin the film for strangers).

And they don't tend to air films in Japanese here. In London I did see Tenki no Ko, but that was before Covid. I ahven't been to a cinema since the pandemic.

I have been looking out for any information on Daiya Act II getting another season, but nothing yet. I guess April 2023 isn't going to happen. Maybe autumn? Maybe next year? I can't imagine it won't happen.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 18, 2023, 05:27:48 PM
Anime films do get subtitled screenings over here, but they tend to be special "event cinema" rather than a regular screening. I think Showcase is screening Suzume with subs... I haven't really looked into it since I'm not really familiar with Makoto Shinkai's stuff, it doesn't really grab me.

There's also the annual Scotland Loves Anime film festival which does limited screenings at select arthouse theatres, although I'll admit I only know about that because they did the Ojamajo Doremi movie last year :B I'd never heard of it before then, heck I only found out about it last year purely by chance.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 19, 2023, 02:56:25 PM
Anime films do get subtitled screenings over here, but they tend to be special "event cinema" rather than a regular screening. I think Showcase is screening Suzume with subs... I haven't really looked into it since I'm not really familiar with Makoto Shinkai's stuff, it doesn't really grab me.

There's also the annual Scotland Loves Anime film festival which does limited screenings at select arthouse theatres, although I'll admit I only know about that because they did the Ojamajo Doremi movie last year :B I'd never heard of it before then, heck I only found out about it last year purely by chance.

Yeah, sorry, I phrased that badly. I meant here as in where I currently live. I saw both Tenki no Ko and Kimi no Na wa in London in Japanese, but it's not something they roll out everywhere, and, well, this is not the cutting edge of international culture...seeing as we technically don't even have a city.

I think my sister saw Kimi no Na Wa in Japanese in Oxford. She doesn't do that a lot, so the memory stood out.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 19, 2023, 05:15:38 PM
Ohhh I get you - sorry, I thought you meant "here" as in England in general. Yeah, my town doesn't get many subbed screenings either.. I *think* the cinema in town might have Suzume but I'm not certain. I had to travel for the Doremi screenings.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 21, 2023, 10:17:32 AM

I have been looking out for any information on Daiya Act II getting another season, but nothing yet. I guess April 2023 isn't going to happen. Maybe autumn? Maybe next year? I can't imagine it won't happen.

I keep hoping for news too. Every time I see a post about new key art, opening themes or anything about a new anime season, I get excited for a second because I think maybe it will be about Daiya, but then it's not. :sigh:  I can't see it not happening either

Spoiler
due to the way the final game ended between Seidou and Inashiro ended.



I was also hoping for a new season this spring, but now it looks like it will either a fall or winter release.

I've also been waiting for news about Free Final Stroke being released outside of Japan but haven't heard anything about that either.


I think the theater where I live is running limited screenings of Suzume/Suzume no Tojimari. Last week there were 3 a day and this week there are only 2.  None of the screening really work for me right now and I also haven't been in a theater since the pandemic.  I'll just wait for the Blu Ray release and hope that I won't be disappointed. 

Makoto Shinkai's movies are hit or miss for me.  I love Your Name/Kimi no Na Wa and most of Weathering with You/Tenki no Ko although I think W with You gets a little lost towards the end of the movie and could have had a better ending.  I didn't like Garden of Words at all or Fireworks.


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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 23, 2023, 02:21:16 PM
Yeah, Tenki no Ko (shorter to write, LOL) kind of has a plot, works, and then goes off on a weird meander which doesn't seem to end satisfactorily. The art is pretty but I admit, I didn't even notice the brief scene of the characters from Kimi no Na Wa.

I love that one though. I think it's beautifully put together.

Also, Weathering With You is a bad joke, really, it doesn't make a lot of sense in English. Tenki no Ko just means "The Weather Girl" or "The Weather Child" - which would have worked as an English title, right? :/

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 23, 2023, 05:59:19 PM
I don't understand why a lot of anime movies get retitled, honestly. It makes sense if it's some untranslatable pun, or something that just doesn't sound good in English, but then you get perfectly translatable titles getting renamed for no reason. (I think I already ranted about Ghibli's "The Cat's [cats'?] Repayment" being renamed to "The Cat Returns" earlier in the thread? :P)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on April 24, 2023, 04:01:09 AM
True.

Mind you, it's difficult to know where these kinds of translation things happen. Whether it's in a Japanese office somewhere or a western one or somewhere inbetween. Certain English words that have very defined meanings in English have completely different meanings in Japanese, so it's possible something got lost in translation with some of them.

Eg  'Tension' in Japanese means excitement, which is not how I'd describe it :P
'Anniversary' is a vexed word too, the Japanese word 'kinenbi' and their katakana version of our word often doesn't mean anniversary like we think of it, but more like a red letter day.
Revenge also has some odd nuances in Japanese...
And so on.

Mind you, Tenki no Ko is very simple really. Tenki means weather. If you break it down into characters it means 'heaven's spirit' which means the Japanese name may be a play on words given the plot, but otherwise...'weathering' doesn't go into that at all. As for 'ko', it's technically child, but it's often used colloquially for a girl. So I would still think 'The Weather Girl' makes for a snappier English title.

On the other hand, you have names like Spirited Away, which takes the concept of kami-kakushi from the original title (literally the concept of kami abducting or hiding people who go missing) and anglicises it in a way that makes the underlying idea comprehensible, even if the words are totally different.

So eh. Sometimes it works I guess.

I am still on the fence with Kimi no na wa. It doesn't mean 'your name' exactly, because of the last 'wa' - it's more like a question, 'what's your name?' or a vague unended sentence 'Your name is'...but I guess those don't work well in English either.

/Japanese language ramble xD.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on April 26, 2023, 04:22:47 PM
I think "The Weather Child" or "The Weather Girl" both would have been good English titles instead of Weathering with You.


 
Yeah, Tenki no Ko (shorter to write, LOL) kind of has a plot, works, and then goes off on a weird meander which doesn't seem to end satisfactorily. The art is pretty but I admit, I didn't even notice the brief scene of the characters from Kimi no Na Wa.



I think Taki and Mitsuha are kind of just there in W with Y for no reason other than Your Name is so popular.  Taki shows up in his school uniform at his grandmother's house when the main characters from W with Y are there also.  Taki also comments about them being "little kids" which makes me question how old Taki is supposed to in W with Y.  Mitsuha is working as a cashier in a store that Hodaka shops at.

I've heard that one of the teachers in Garden of Words is also one of Mitsuha's teachers in Your Name, but I don't remember any character names from Garden of Words.

I read somewhere (although I can't find it now) that in the Japanese version Hina's brother name is Nagisa, but in English it's shortened to Nagi.


True.



On the other hand, you have names like Spirited Away, which takes the concept of kami-kakushi from the original title (literally the concept of kami abducting or hiding people who go missing) and anglicises it in a way that makes the underlying idea comprehensible, even if the words are totally different.



There's an early episode of Sailor Moon where Rei explains being spirited away when a lot of people suddenly go missing and she is suspected of being involved because she was one of the last people to see a child alive before she disappeared.



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Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on April 27, 2023, 04:52:19 AM
yeah, I understand retitling if the original title is either a hard-to-translate pun/meaning/etc, or if it just straight-up does not sound good in English. the other Ghibli example I always think of is Only Yesterday.. the original title is "Omohide Poroporo" - omohide (or omoide, they used an archaic spelling) = memories, poroporo = onomatopoeia for something falling, like raindrops, say. Sounds good in Japanese but there's not really any way to put that in English without it sounding clunky... the official English title gets the idea across *and* doesn't sound awkward.
(I don't like the film at all, but I can at least admit they did a good job with the title :P)

Tenki no Ko... eh. I can see that "Weathering With You" is a snappier-sounding title (to an English ear) than "The Weather Child/Girl", but there's nothing wrong with translating the title literally, either. That one just seems like change for the sake of it, to me. Not a big deal, but at the same time, why bother changing it?

Sometimes the Japanese crew mess up the titles too, though. thinking of the Ojamajo Doremi film - the original title was Majo Minarai o Sagashite - Looking for Witch Apprentices. The official English title was Looking for Magical Doremi. Honestly neither title is brilliant - the English title actually probably is less misleading - but it's weird because the writers did an interview where they explained they specifically DID NOT put "Doremi" in the title to make it clear this was a spinoff and not a sequel. So.... why put it in the English title? o.O And that was definitely picked by someone at Toei; it was all over Japanese promotional stuff... outside of Japan, it only got a very very limited screening in UK and... France, I think? don't think the US got it at all... so not sure which market they'd have had in mind when they picked that - "Magical" is the official English title for the series and they have used it on Japanese materials, merch etc before, but they usually just stick with the original title "Ojamajo". the series was popular in most European countries back in the day, but the English dub was a typical crappy early 2000s 4Kids dub, they only just barely finished out the first season before dropping it... it's never had a huge presence in the US/UK... so it'd be weird for them to consider those markets when titling it??? Especially given how limited a release it received in the West? It's obscure enough that I can't really imagine there were a lot of people who saw the English title and went "Oh cool, Doremi, I remember that! Gotta see THIS film!", you know?
(Ahh, I went on a tangent, sorry. ^^;)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 01, 2023, 02:30:08 AM
Tangents! My favourite thing! LOL :D

Yeah, Omohide is a classical Japanese spelling おもひで so that's interesting. I think that spelling might still have been in use up till the war but I've seen them use those kinds of spellings in anime titles and so on to add the sense of an older time. There are a whole bunch of Harukanaru Toki no Naka De character songs that use archaic grammar constructs like kikite instead of kiite for 'listening' and so on.

Japanese is full of onomatopoeic words, too, like the pika from pikachu comes from pikapika, it doesn't actually mean electricity although Pikachu is often translated as electric mouse. It's more like sparkle sparkle mouse - but with only half the sparkle (I raise you one tangent, LOL).

The Japanese absolutely mess up their own translations too, and especially their own name spellings when they try to romanise character names, because they don't always transliterate it in a way that makes sense. The thing they do most often is forget their own rules about long/short vowels, even though it matters so much (eg Yuuki vs yuki, courage vs snow, biiig difference). With for example Daiya no Ace, you see the school often written as Seido in Japanese material as well as English, even though it's Seidou, because the character for 'path' (michi/dou) always has a long vowel. I also see Seidoh. I hate that form of romanisation, it's a thing but it's an ugly thing that doesn't make any real sense. Still the Japanese do use it, probably more than we do *lol*.

So you get short vowels where you should have long ones. A random H appearing where it shouldn't be. Things like Jya instead of Ja, or sya instead of sha. Sometimes you see a random W in the middle of a word too, where the long vowel is. I feel like this vowel thing is a problem when people want to learn Japanese since the Japanese themselves don't represent it always when they try to romanise, and then English speakers also don't, and although you can hear it if you listen, I think it really confuses people. Especially when they don't learn kana.

I remember when I was following Bleach, Ukitake Juushirou's name would be rendered Jyuushirou, Jushiro, Juushiroh, and so on. And I saw Japanese sources write out Kyouraku Shunsui as Kyoraku Syunsui...so yeah.

Then there's wo and o, but that's not actually incorrect, tbh, it just looks a bit left behind in modern Japanese from when there was also wi and we, which are seldom if ever used today.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 01, 2023, 12:27:22 PM
That'd make sense - Omohide Poroporo is basically all 50s/60s nostalgia, so I suppose the older spelling helps convey that.

Don't even get me started on romanizations :p Especially wonky official ones. You mentioned Pokemon - the one that always drives me nuts is how they insist on romanizing Plusle's name as "Prasle" >_< I mean, yes, that's a valid way of reading プラスル, but it's etymologically wrong - it's meant to go with Minun - plus and minus. It's particularly annoying since they DID change the official romanizations around at some point and make them more consistent across the board! Suicune went from "Suikun" to "Suicune", for example. Same name, just standardizing the spelling across all merch/countries. And the English name is Plusle, so you'd think they'd want to coordinate... but Japanese merch continues to use "Prasle" and just, argh. >_<

Going back to the Doremi film for a mo, I found out last night it's getting a BD/DVD release over here!
https://animeuknews.net/2023/04/anime-limited-reveals-april-2023-pre-orders-with-pompo-the-cinephile-free-final-stroke-looking-for-magical-doremi-more/
I didn't think it would! It's been over a year since the screening... I figured if they were going to release it, they would've done by now. It's such an odd, niche thing to release, a 20th anniversary film for a series that never really properly made it over here x) Although it was popular in other countries that actually got a proper dub (France and Italy LOVED it), so it could be that we're just getting it because of that, I dunno.

So excited! They're even including a translation of the booklet included with Japanese home video releases, omg <3 I wish they'd license the actual series already, but I didn't think we'd ever see anything Doremi-related make it outside of Japan again... it's a start!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 01, 2023, 02:42:28 PM
The Omohide spelling is obsolete by 1950s but to create that idea of 'old', it probably works I guess? I dunno. The Japanese are very clever at using their language on multiple levels that isn't easy to convey in English, but that would be another tangent sooo I won't go there :D

I remember when I was in Japan, visiting pokemon centres, and not really knowing more than 5 Japanese pokemon names so that was interesting xD. Agreed on Plusle. In English that makes more sense. That seems half-romanised, which is also annoying.

People putting an accent on the e in Pokemon also annoys me. Do we need it? I mean, does anyone actually say Poke Mon after hearing the anime theme? I dunno. Weird.

I actually like Suikun, it makes me think 'water lord'. LOL :)

There are so many things Japan has that don't come over into English. I mean, Daiya's manga is literally years behind in translation, and only available digitally I think? Daiya's a longer running series than Haikyuu and massively successful over there, but even in the US, where baseball is a big deal, it hasn't had the attention Haikyuu has. Haikyuu is cool and all, but very safe in comparison to Daiya. Maybe that's part of the reason. I dunno.

All that said, there's so much more now than we had going back even ten years. I'm showing my age now, but I love that it's possible to stream so many series now that would never have made it here before.

And then Netflix picking up series like Tiger and Bunny, which was originally in 2011. I am still sure that it influenced BnHA in regards to the idea of a superhero industry scenario, but of course it's less well known because it's older and, until Netflix picked it up, difficult to get a hold of. I wanted to watch it back in 2011 because of Morita Masakazu voicing Barnaby, but never managed to find it then (no licencing and such). So happy that I can see it now. Great series. Although I still need to watch the 2nd half of season 2, I just don't want to because I know it is 'the end' xD.

Oh, going back to my name transliteration rant for a moment - Saiyuuki. Ignoring the fact the names are all based on Chinese ones, I still don't understand how or why the official translit of Gojou's name is Sha Gojyo. Especially the 'Sha' part, because it's literally written SA GO JOU さごじょう. Gojyo is what I said before, people writing out j-yo instead of jo, and then ignoring the long vowel. But Sa? Nope. Don't understand.

Genjou Sanzou and Son Gokuu also get contracted to Genjo Sanzo and Son Goku, but they irk me less than Gojou's name does.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 02, 2023, 08:23:46 AM
I'm not a huge fan of the accent in Pokemon, either, though it's better than the Romanization early Japanese merch used - "Pockemon" XD which arguably makes more sense, but it reads weirdly to my English eyes. I always want to read it as Pocky-mon.

I think the accent's probably an artefact of the series being first localized in the late 90s, though. going back to Doremi again - how that's been stuck with the official English title "Magical Doremi". And I get it, it's cause "Ojamajo" is an untranslatable pun (ojama = clumsy, majo + witch, she's a clumsy witch) and there's not really any snappy way to localize it, that's the best title Toei could come up with back in the day. But it's hard not to feel like they'd have just kept it as-is if it had been localized nowadays instead of in the late 90s/early 2000s, you know? I've noticed these days, a lot of titles like that are just being kept in Japanese and explained on the back blurb of the book/DVD/whatever. And the English subs for the movie DID keep it as "Ojamajo" for the one line of dialogue where it's used as a phrase and not when referring to the series (which must've confused anyone who wasn't familiar with the show, lol, they didn't explain it or anything). So it's hard not to get a bit frustrated at being stuck with these, I guess you'd say almost outdated localizations, just because they want to stick with it for consistency's sake. If that makes sense?
The accent thing bugs me less, but I still wonder if they'd have done it nowadays, now that anime/manga/Japanese pop culture in general is so much more of a widespread thing and there's not really the sense of "this is a scary foreign word, we need to make sure the pronunciation is clear!", you know?

(but then idk, Flabebe's name is spelt with accents in the English ver as well, but not in Japan, so *throws hands up in the air* who knows! haha)

I like Suikun, too. Just looks cooler somehow. I can see why they'd want it to be consistent though.

All that said, there's so much more now than we had going back even ten years. I'm showing my age now, but I love that it's possible to stream so many series now that would never have made it here before.

God, yes. It still absolutely blows my mind at the fact that this stuff is fairly mainstream nowadays. I remember when you were lucky to find ANYTHING anime/manga-related in a brick and mortar store over here, now I'm seeing stuff like Sailor Moon drinks at TK Maxx, Hatsune Miku birthday cards at Tesco. Alright, most of my favourites are still Japan-only :P that's the trouble with being a magical girl fan, if it isn't Sailor Moon or Madoka Magica (maybe Cardcaptor Sakura, I still don't see stuff for that as much as the other two though), good luck seeing it in the UK/US. But still, just that we've come this far, it's so amazing and wonderful.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 02, 2023, 01:53:27 PM
Accents clearly for us ignorant english speakers, although English is an accentless language mostly so it's kind of ironic and lol xD.

Ah, yeah, mahoushoujo stuff hasn't massively jumped the ocean, has it? I remember the Pretty Sammy stuff that was spoofed off Tenchi Muyou (my first anime back in the dark ages), but that's about all other than Sailor Moon.

In my case it's the Neoroma, which are technically otome game franchises that have a lot of media spinoffs. I got sucked into them through seiyuu, live events, learning Japanese and stuff which began with Fushigi Yuugi and chasing up other things those voice artists had done. But it's a good example. The original Angelique stuff wasn't subtitled for a long time, and I remember using Etoile as my 'how good is my Japanese now' guide as I only had it without subs. Used to watch it every so often and see how much more I understood *lol*. It's all subbed now though I don't know that it's had a western licensed release. Neoangelique has, though. Think it's still on CR. Angelique is a lot silly but I have fun with it anyway.

Kiniro no Koruda (Corda D'Oro) and Haruka did a bit better, there are English manga volumes for both and the anime series were both released in the west - though with Haruka, it's only the Hachiyoushou series from Haruka 1 and the specials from 3 (the best release) have never got out of Japan. I brought one back with me from when I was there, as well as the Haruka 1 movie complete with Suefumi plush :D

Kiniro no Koruda 1 and 3 have both been on CR and thus pretty mainstreamed.

But all the extraneous stuff - live events, music CDs, drama cds, etc - are all Japan only.

And then there's Sotsugyou M, another series (from around 2000) that I got into because of seiyuu, that has literally nothing released in English. The (very bad) OVA is/was on YT with fansubs but the manga, novels, drama CDs (in which the real characters/story reside) never got a release here.

I think that's a sign of the time it was released. Now it might've made it because of the increased exposure manga gets through sites and so on.

The UK was particularly slow in getting anime and manga in stores. It's nice to see more of it now, but 9/10 the series I'm interested in don't show up in the high street. Still, it's something, and having more asian drama/animation on netflix has been a boost as well.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 02, 2023, 06:47:32 PM



There are so many things Japan has that don't come over into English. I mean, Daiya's manga is literally years behind in translation, and only available digitally I think? Daiya's a longer running series than Haikyuu and massively successful over there, but even in the US, where baseball is a big deal, it hasn't had the attention Haikyuu has. Haikyuu is cool and all, but very safe in comparison to Daiya. Maybe that's part of the reason. I dunno.

All that said, there's so much more now than we had going back even ten years. I'm showing my age now, but I love that it's possible to stream so many series now that would never have made it here before.



I don't understand why there's hasn't been more effort to bring Daiya over in English to as much as some other series.  You're right the English manga is only available as e books and is still in Act 1 (volume 43 comes out this month).   It's not easy to find if you're not looking for it either and even then, it feels like you have to jump through hoops to get to the e books.  Information on new volumes is limited and only appear a few weeks before the release date.  I feel that the only people who are going to go through the effort to find the e books are the ones that are already fans of Daiya.   I'm glad it's available in English in some format in the US, but I don't think it's trying to get new fans, only relying on the established fan base. 

There used to be a Daiya calculator app in the App store but the last time I looked for it, it wasn't there anymore.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 03, 2023, 08:02:32 AM
Daiya might be more popular if the anime was more readily available as well.  I work at a library and sometimes people don't request the mangas until after they've viewed the anime and it piques their interest.  I know I'd like to watch it, but this thread is the first place that I heard of it and the DVDs are pretty pricey.  So accessibility is hindering its popularity.  Is it streaming anywhere other than Crunchyroll?  (I don't have regular access to streaming sites so I haven't been able to look for it.)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 03, 2023, 08:38:44 AM
Yeah, I've heard part of the problem with mahou shoujo stuff is that it tends to be merchandise-driven in Japan. I'm pretty sure that's why 4Kids dropped their dub of Tokyo Mew Mew, because they couldn't get a merch deal for TMM.  Heard similar for why the second half of their Doremi dub was streaming-only (keep in mind this was when streaming was VERY much in its infancy... releasing the back half of the dub on YouTube was a very novel idea at the time), think the word was the merch didn't sell well enough. though again, it sold extremely well in other countries.... but then, they actually bothered to advertise the show and air it at times kids were actually likely to see it!!! From what I've heard, 4Kids saddled both shows with crappy timeslots and did the bare minimum for them. I've even heard a rumour they only did Doremi because they got it with another show (One Piece?)... dunno if that's true, but it really wouldn't surprise me :/

(Not that 4Kids' dubs were good or anything, they were awful, but that's besides the point)

I don't think that's as much of a "thing" now that most things are streaming-only or going straight to home video, but still.

The other problem is that no one wants to dub girly stuff. :/ I'm convinced Madoka Magica primarily got released here because it's "dark" and edgy and "not like those OTHER kiddy magical girl shows!!!". I like Madoka, but still.

it'd also help if magical girl shows didn't always get compared to Sailor Moon >_> or being accused of being a ripoff, by ignorant people who don't realize the genre goes back to the 60s and was around looooong before Sailor Moon came onto the scene... I know Wedding Peach got hit HARD by that. People just saw the transforming heroines and insisted it was a ripoff because they didn't realize it was a pre-existing genre and didn't bother to do their research -_- Even now you'll usually see WP marked as a "Sailor Moon ripoff", when they really don't share many similarities past some shared cast and crew and the same basic genre.

I wish more companies would take a chance on a magical girl series, though. :/ I get that Doremi would be a bit of a risk (it's 4 1/2 seasons long, not the sort of thing you want to gamble with, I suppose), but Tokyo Mew Mew's reboot is being simulcast (and dubbed, I think) but the original still hasn't been properly released in English, which is bonkers - there's definitely a market for it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 04, 2023, 11:07:59 AM
Re Daiya - it's a good point. I think part of the problem is there isn't a DVD release in the west, and Japanese DVDs are ridiculous (you get 3 episodes and pay $30? something like that). I only have a couple of the OVA DVDs but even then the others don't have subtitling on them if you happen to need that, so CR is literally the only outlet.

Maybe the sheer length is offputting as well. There are almost 90 volumes in total, which would be hard to keep in print.

On the Mahou Shoujo, people are like that with stuff. See people calling the Worst Witch a HP ripoff when it's older, and so on.

I still get annoyed when people try and make that comparison between Haruka and Fushigi Yuugi, because it's just idiotic. Haruka is younger than Fushigi Yuugi, true enough, but Haruka 1 is set in Heian Japan and Fushigi Yuugi is set in a book world in Ancient China.

Conclusion - people don't care about knowing stuff anymore.

It doesn't help that forums are largely defunct, too. In the past having detailed discussions and debates on specific anime was really common, now there's none of that. I even remember a group dedicated to seiyuu and another dedicated to Neoroma. Good luck finding anything like that now :/ Maybe in Japanese, but I don't use social media.

I think the story that Yona didn't get more animation was related to merchandise sales but I don't know if it's true.

And then there are series like Saiyuuki which get updated, if you're lucky, once every few years, but since the late 90s when it came out, they've gradually animated (in one case re-animated) all of it, in one way or another. It just took them until last year to finally get to the Even a Worm arc and do it justice.

Saiyuuki seems to be a big merch seller, which has kept it afloat through all of the years the mangaka has been ill or busy with other projects.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Destiny on May 04, 2023, 12:17:22 PM
Quick question!

Where does everyone go to watch anime?
I've mainly used crunchyroll, but with them putting most of their stuff behind a paywall and lots of other sites adding anime, I was wondering where I'd most likely get my moneys worth.


(Also taking notes of every show mentioned in this thread I don't already know. Can never get too much).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 04, 2023, 04:05:49 PM
Quick question!

Where does everyone go to watch anime?
I've mainly used crunchyroll, but with them putting most of their stuff behind a paywall and lots of other sites adding anime, I was wondering where I'd most likely get my moneys worth.


(Also taking notes of every show mentioned in this thread I don't already know. Can never get too much).

Honestly, I wait until the Holiday sales on RightStuf, Sentai Filmworks, and Funimation websites between Thanksgiving and New Year's and stock up on DVDs for the year. I make a list and then hope that they are on sale.  If they're not on enough of a sale (or if I'm not dying to watch it) I put it on my list for the next year.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 05, 2023, 11:06:06 AM
Crunchyroll and Netflix/Amazon mostly. I just wish I could more easily turn the subs off when I use the firestick for CR. I have no problem on my fire tablet, but I have to do it episode by episode on the stick :/

I've had premium on CR for a long time. It has its moments but for me it works well because ir doesn't prioritise dubs. They have their audience, I'm just not part of it :)

I also have a bunch on DVD though. Some from Japan, some from Europe, some from here.

We don't have all the streaming services the US have, but I feel like the availability now is better than it used to be.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 06, 2023, 12:09:10 PM
Those are all good points about Daiya.  I guess it just gets to me sometimes that the effort hasn't been put in to bringing Dayia to a wider audience than some other shows.  I can't see a series set about baseball being unpopular in the US.  I'm not  a real life sports fan, but I love Dayia and I've learned a lot about baseball from just watching the show.

I didn't realize the Japanese DVDs didn't have subtitles. I'd be completely lost without them as I only know about 4 words in Japanese.

I think another season of Yona must have been planned based on the last scene in the series.  I still hope one day we'll either see another season or a another series that retells the story from the begining like the recent Fruits Basket series. 

I agree that magical girl anime is a lot older than Sailor Moon, but that is the one that everyone usually thinks of.  My grandparents had a video of a couple of episodes of Hana no Ko LunLun (Angel in English) that I have a vague memory of watching.


I usually watch Netflix or Crunchyroll for anime. :D  I discovered Yona on Hulu though.  I also have a lot of anime Blu Ray/DVDs.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2023, 02:24:56 AM
Baseball doesn't exist here. I mean, they keep trying to make it catch on. BT sport insists on foisting the US baseball league on us, usually at antisocial hours because of time difference, and there are occasional series where baseball teams come play at the London stadium or somewhere in the summer, but I think cricket still has a hold on more people here thanks to the hundred and so on.

I don't like cricket, and have tried watching US baseball but (no offence) I found it dull. I *did* enjoy watching the Olympic baseball, but (probably because of the fact my only knowledge of baseball came from Daiya), I enjoyed Japan and Korea's games more than the US ones.

I'm a football (soccer) person though. ;) I have watched a few football anime, the best being the one that has a very brutal first episode, name eluding me right now. But
Spoiler
when they kill off a main character in ep 1 of a sports anime you know they mean business.

Japanese DVDs sometimes have close caption subtitles for people who have hearing issues, but I've never yet had a Japanese DVD with subtitles in English.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 07, 2023, 09:12:54 AM
I'm a football (soccer) person though. ;) I have watched a few football anime, the best being the one that has a very brutal first episode, name eluding me right now. But
Spoiler
when they kill off a main character in ep 1 of a sports anime you know they mean business.

That sounds like an interesting anime.  Is it "Knight in the Area" (Area no Kishi)?  It came up in a Google search.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 07, 2023, 01:59:53 PM
I'm a football (soccer) person though. ;) I have watched a few football anime, the best being the one that has a very brutal first episode, name eluding me right now. But
Spoiler
when they kill off a main character in ep 1 of a sports anime you know they mean business.

That sounds like an interesting anime.  Is it "Knight in the Area" (Area no Kishi)?  It came up in a Google search.

Ah, yes! That would be the one. Like the smooth library skills you used there tracking it down ;)

Spoilers below but...
Spoiler
=The main character and his brother are in an accident in the first episode, in which the mc's very talented brother dies...and then there is a whole heart transplant narrative that happens and the story kind of progresses with MC playing ball with his brother's heart.=

I have to say that for a sports anime, that's a pretty unique premise. Unfortunately the anime ends in a really odd place.
Spoiler
There's a subplot with the MC's childhood friend who is also a footballer and plays for the Japanese women's team, one of her matches is kind of the end of the anime.

Iirc there is more manga but I never looked that up.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 12, 2023, 12:27:53 PM
Knight in the Area sounds interesting.


There's rumors going around that there may be some news soon about the Yona anime, but it's not from reliable sources.

I found out Insomniacs After School has an anime, but it's only on Hidive.

I'm thinking about watching Blue Period.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 13, 2023, 12:42:44 PM
I would love to see more Yona anime, even if they only dealt with the volumes after 8, because we all need more Taejun. We just do.

...I was rewatching some of Daiya season 2 lately.

Spoiler
The first time I watched Inajitsu v Ugumori I felt like it was karma after THAT summer game with Seidou, but now, with the hindsight of the other game, I think about it a bit differently, and there's Kunitomo observing the  lack of leader in his team with Harada gone, and then sending Itsuki with Fukui to watch the Seidou game (Miyuki)...it really underpins how much the thing that Inajitsu doesn't have, for all the things it does, is basically Miyuki. And a team that operates around that core, as a team, rather than just a bunch of talented individuals. Subtle moralising there!

I've watched Blue Period twice. I enjoyed it :D I think it challenges preconceptions quite nicely.
Spoiler
Yuka is an interesting character.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 25, 2023, 03:38:31 PM
I would love to see more Yona anime, even if they only dealt with the volumes after 8, because we all need more Taejun. We just do.

...I was rewatching some of Daiya season 2 lately.

Spoiler
The first time I watched Inajitsu v Ugumori I felt like it was karma after THAT summer game with Seidou, but now, with the hindsight of the other game, I think about it a bit differently, and there's Kunitomo observing the  lack of leader in his team with Harada gone, and then sending Itsuki with Fukui to watch the Seidou game (Miyuki)...it really underpins how much the thing that Inajitsu doesn't have, for all the things it does, is basically Miyuki. And a team that operates around that core, as a team, rather than just a bunch of talented individuals. Subtle moralising there!


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I always thought it was karma too especially considering how Shirakawa and some of the other players acted during that game.  Now that I think about it though, I can see what you mean about the lack of leadership after Harada retires and the difference between that team and Seidou.

During the All Stars vs US game, didn't Miyuki say something about they all had to work together as a team instead of focusing on what they could individually?

A lot of new anime has been announced but still nothing about Daiya or Yona.  A new series about  Horimiya is coming.  It's supposed to include scenes that from the manga that didn't make in to the first anime. 

It's been a while since I watched anime but I'm hoping to get back to Haikyu and Spy family soon.  I also have a couple of movies that I bought, but haven't had a chance to watch yet.  I'm still watching Komi Can't Communicate too.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 26, 2023, 08:29:49 AM
My Majo Minarai o Sagashite/Looking for Magical Doremi DVD/BD set arrived today :)

I was surprised to find it has a French dub as well as an English dub (as well as the original JP audio w/ English and French subs). Not sure where the English dub's come from, haven't been able to find any info on it... it's kind of wonky (and oh GOD their pronunciation of Japanese names/words is so bad!!) but... could be worse? It's interesting, lol.

I wish it was the original series, but I'm so happy to see something Doremi-related get an official English release!! I'm glad they made it a dual-format release too, since I don't have a Blu-Ray player. My only real complaint is that the case it comes in is horrible, it doesn't have enough space for both discs?? One of them just loosely slides in behind the other. This is the first DVD/BD combo set I've bought (yeah, I know, I'm old), is this sort of box design standard for them? :s
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Waves And Water on May 28, 2023, 03:38:15 PM
You Lie in April was both beautiful yet very sad. The Promised Neverland watched both series I was left in tears, best ending ever. Pokémon and obvious fave to enjoy. Not crazy on that Go character. Clannad loved this series, very well done, been crying throughout. Death note very creepy but had an interesting story. Black Clove total shocker on the last episode I watched, amazing plot twist, but what is with leaving us sitting on a cliffhanger. Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are both cleverly created, loved the plot twist and rich character stories. Astro boy a childhood fave I use to watch. The modern upgrade series is pretty groovy too. Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet had a very interesting story had me hooked to the end.

Yes I did see Yuri on Ice, but I’m not to crazy of the obsession on guys liking guy thing. Yet I have to admit, the skating choreography was brilliantly done. Did keep me tuned into the end.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on May 31, 2023, 02:52:41 AM
I saw Yuri on Ice but I don't really understand why it was so hyped. Genuinely. I have no problem with the BL undertones. I just don't think it was that good *lol*

I won't watch YLIA because I don't need to be made to cry by stuff. I know it's very highly rated though. I DID watch Promised Neverland, only the first series though. It's so twisty and so clever, I need to go back and watch season 2. And I need to rewatch Moriarty the Patriot, although really I should just get back to reading the manga as the anime is missing a lot and goes on after. I'm just lazy. Sigh. XD.

I'm still rewatching Daiya, onto season 3 again and it is making me think of the as yet unanimated stuff. One scene in particular I *really* want to see animated, but who knows if I will...

Actual spoiler here for the manga but
Spoiler
The end of the Seidou Inajitsu game has a great interaction between Miyuki and Mei and I want to hear the seiyuu voice it as well as seeing it in colour/motion. It's very moving.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2023, 03:36:11 PM

My only real complaint is that the case it comes in is horrible, it doesn't have enough space for both discs?? One of them just loosely slides in behind the other. This is the first DVD/BD combo set I've bought (yeah, I know, I'm old), is this sort of box design standard for them? :s

None of my DVD/Blu Ray sets so far have been like that.  There's always been plenty of room for all of the discs although a few have had them slightly stacked on top of each other where you have to take Disc 1 out to get Disc 2. 






There's a new trailer for Sailor Moon Eternal Cosmos featuring The Three Lights/Sailor Starlights. I'm putting  t in in a spoiler because it does give some important information away about them if you're not familiar with the SM manga. 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5fQ67PZOg


I haven't read the Stars arc of the manga.  Are the Three Lights supposed to be brothers  when they're in their human disguises?   


There's going to be a second season of Spy Family.

I think Your Lie in April is on my watchlist, but there's a lot of series that I put on there that I haven't gotten to yet.  I'm also thinking of starting Backflip.

I hope Daiya gets another season. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on May 31, 2023, 04:17:08 PM


There's a new trailer for Sailor Moon Eternal Cosmos featuring The Three Lights/Sailor Starlights. I'm putting  t in in a spoiler because it does give some important information away about them if you're not familiar with the SM manga. 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5fQ67PZOg


I haven't read the Stars arc of the manga.  Are the Three Lights supposed to be brothers  when they're in their human disguises?   


Ponyfan

I haven't read the manga but I did watch the original Sailor Stars season of the 90s cartoon.
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I think in the original cartoon they were brothers but they genderbend when they transform so that might be why that season wasn't released in the US until recently, with the redubbing of the show.

What I want to know is if they're going to continue dubbing the Sailor Moon Crystal series.  They stopped after Season 3 (at least, I haven't seen a Season 4) and if it follows the original series then Cosmos would coincide with Season 5 (Sailor Stars).  Or is it "skipping" because they've cut out all the fluff and Cosmos will be Season 4? 

I know some people don't care about dubbing but I don't know Japanese so if I watch a show that isn't dubbed I can't do anything else because I have to read the subtitles.  Sometimes I just like to listen to the show.  Right now, I'm re-listening to Ultimate Otaku Teacher.  :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on May 31, 2023, 04:36:56 PM
(Re: Sailor Moon)

Spoiler
In the manga the Starlights/Three Lights were crossdressing women, in the original anime they changed them to genderbenders. Are they back to being crossdressers in Eternal?
(Haven't watched the trailer yet since I'm just about to head off to bed, sorry if that answers it ^^;)

I don't remember them being brothers in the manga, but I'll admit it's been a good while since I've read it. I just checked Wikimoon and that doesn't say anything about them being brothers. Might be new?

Pokey - There isn't a fourth season of Crystal, they made two movies (Sailor Moon Eternal) instead. Then the Cosmos movie is essentially taking the place of a fifth season :) No idea if Eternal has been dubbed though.


My only real complaint is that the case it comes in is horrible, it doesn't have enough space for both discs?? One of them just loosely slides in behind the other. This is the first DVD/BD combo set I've bought (yeah, I know, I'm old), is this sort of box design standard for them? :s

None of my DVD/Blu Ray sets so far have been like that.  There's always been plenty of room for all of the discs although a few have had them slightly stacked on top of each other where you have to take Disc 1 out to get Disc 2. 

That's what I was anticipating the case would look like, the slight overlap, but no. :s There ARE slots for both discs but they overlap to the point where it's literally impossible to click both discs into place at the same time (if that makes sense). I have no idea why the heck they did it like this :/ It's so annoying cause the rest of the set is damn near perfect, this is the only real flaw (there's one or two other things I'd tweak if I could, but they're nitpicky), but it's a pretty big one :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 01, 2023, 07:03:51 AM
The two Sailor Moon Eternal movies cover the Dead Moon/Pegasus arc. When they made the movies, they dropped Crystal from the name and went with Eternal.  They are dubbed. :) I remember watching them in English on Netflix.  I think you just have to change the language on Netflix from Japanese to English. 

Sailor Moon Three Lights/Starlights

Spoiler

I thought the trailer I posted yesterday showed the transformation sequences, but it doesn't.  :blush: 

This one does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQohquKq6TY



In the trailer, it looks like they're women crossdressing as men because when they transform it looks like their normal clothes go away and they're in their Sailor Starlights outfits.

That's really interesting if they are brothers in their human disguises.





Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on June 01, 2023, 10:50:34 AM
I see.  That makes sense.  Eternal hasn't had a DVD release yet, has it?  I thought they might release it soon since they're releasing the original series on Blu-ray again.  I have limited access to Netflix, so I'll keep it in mind. (Basically I only get control of it when my parents are out of town, which isn't likely to happen again until September so I don't know when I'll get a chance to watch it.)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on June 01, 2023, 02:15:37 PM
(Sailor Moon)
Spoiler
I watched the vids - yeah, I think they're back to crossdressers. I'd expect *some* sort of indication of genderswapping if that's what they were going with. That's nice, I never really understood why the original anime changed them to genderbenders.

I found Fruits Basket Prelude on DVD today for only £5.99 :frolic: I still haven't watched any of the new anime but I couldn't resist buying it (I know I'll buy it eventually, might as well get it when it's on sale :P).
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 02, 2023, 09:09:00 AM
I keep hoping for a Blu Ray/DVD release of Eternal too.  My SM anime feels incomplete without it.

Carrehz, congrats on your find. :)  I have all of the new Fruit Basket series except for that one. 

Horimiya, the Missing Pieces will start next month.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Flitter on June 02, 2023, 04:35:51 PM
I saw Yuri on Ice but I don't really understand why it was so hyped. Genuinely. I have no problem with the BL undertones. I just don't think it was that good *lol*
I'm re-watching it right now.   ^.^
The themes of confronting anxiety and self doubt, and challenging your self image in order to allow for personal growth really resonate with me. Plus there's a lot of detail in the character's actions and quirks that make so much sense once you learn more about their histories and I love that. I can totally get it not being someone's cup of tea but it's honestly one of my favorite anime. I think I've watched through it once a year at least since it aired.  :lol:
I'm holding out hope that the movie will eventually be completed and maybe a season 2 will get made.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on June 03, 2023, 10:44:23 AM
I saw Yuri on Ice but I don't really understand why it was so hyped. Genuinely. I have no problem with the BL undertones. I just don't think it was that good *lol*
I'm re-watching it right now.   ^.^
The themes of confronting anxiety and self doubt, and challenging your self image in order to allow for personal growth really resonate with me. Plus there's a lot of detail in the character's actions and quirks that make so much sense once you learn more about their histories and I love that. I can totally get it not being someone's cup of tea but it's honestly one of my favorite anime. I think I've watched through it once a year at least since it aired.  :lol:
I'm holding out hope that the movie will eventually be completed and maybe a season 2 will get made.

Yeah, I think it's a personal taste thing. Normally all those things are the things that hook me into an anime, but I was kind of disappointed by Yuri for some reason. I can't really explain why, it just didn't resonate for me somehow. I think I didn't feel/believe all of the characters enough, maybe.  Well, each to their own, right? :)

@Ponyfan - there are a lot of pieces of Horimiya missing in the anime adaptation :/ Are you saying they're going back to reanimate some of those? The style they used for that series was great, as were the voice artists, but it's sad that some things were omitted. Some of my favourite manga scenes like
Spoiler
the trip to Kyoto and the excuses to get out of swimming...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 06, 2023, 12:10:01 PM

@Ponyfan - there are a lot of pieces of Horimiya missing in the anime adaptation :/ Are you saying they're going back to reanimate some of those? The style they used for that series was great, as were the voice artists, but it's sad that some things were omitted. Some of my favourite manga scenes like
Spoiler
the trip to Kyoto and the excuses to get out of swimming...

Yes. :)  The new series will include scenes that weren't in the first Horimiya anime. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on June 17, 2023, 03:17:02 PM
I picked up the Spy Family part 1 season 1 Blu ray/DVD set this week.


I wish we'd hear something about the Free Final stroke movies being released outside of Japan along with Sailor Moon Cosmos.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 04, 2023, 08:08:39 AM
Lately I've been rewatching Tiger & Bunny. I say rewatching, but I actually still need to properly finish the 2nd half of season 2.

I always enjoy this series, and little details are always so key to bigger things going on. For example
Spoiler
in the episode with Fire Emblem and Sky High, there's a moment of tension between Origami and Rock Bison which is referred back to in the next episode
. But most of all I just love the evolved teamwork/relationship/friendship/partnership between Kotetsu and Barnaby, from the awkward start to the point they are at now.
Spoiler
Barnaby's filling his house with plants and referring to them as his friends is also adorable LOL

There are so many awesome little moments that sums them both up, for example
Spoiler
in the first ep of season 2, when Barnaby is sulking with Kotetsu over finishing off his juice (very immature), yet still knows without words what Kotetsu expects him to do in a battle situation.
. The moment when
Spoiler
Yuri asks them both why they decided to remain as heroes, and Kotetsu excuses himself from the room so Barnaby can speak privately without him overhearing.
There's also the fact that
Spoiler
despite Barnaby's insecurities in season 1 over Kotetsu's motives, when Ryan is trying to convince him Kotetsu is trying to break up their partnership, Barnaby sticks firm to his belief.
.

It's just a great series for character moments, even while it's massively spoofing the superhero concept and weaving in some really dark and unpleasant twisty stuff as well. It helps that Morita Masakazu and Hirata Hiroaki are both amazing seiyuu supported by a pretty decent cast, too.

But yeah. I was surprised when they decided to make a new season after 11 or so years but so glad they did.

Although I do wonder
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what happened to the president, since he seems to have been replaced in all hero related decision things by Yuri (not that I mind, Yuri is more interesting, but still).
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Post by: Ponyfan on July 04, 2023, 04:13:25 PM
Tiger and Bunny is still on my watchlist.  Hopefully, I'll be able get started on it soon. :D

I saw a post on Facebook that the Free characters are being used in a collaboration with a Japanese company, but I have no idea what the products are or what type of products the company sells.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 05, 2023, 04:06:27 PM
RightStuf's birthday sale is going on this month.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 05, 2023, 07:14:39 PM
A Sign of Affection manga series is getting an anime.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: tikibirds on July 11, 2023, 01:32:39 AM
I hear The Devil is a part timer is starting season 3 in a few days  :biggrin:

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Where does everyone go to watch anime?
Mostly Funimation. I had Crunchyroll for a long time but they started blocking VPN access and I never restarted my account when I left China. I also use Netflix and WeTV for chinese animation/shows.
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Post by: Taffeta on July 16, 2023, 12:41:51 AM
I still didn't finish season 2 of it yet, LOL :)

Been watching Tiger and Bunny still. Finally watching through the last half of the second season. Although I know how it ends, which is one reason that I've been watching it so slowly.

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It really is the end, which makes me a bit sad.

So some plot spoiler comments below, please do not read them if you are going to watch T&B and want to enjoy it in its full glory...I just want to babble a little.

First of all...
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Yuri.
It's just sad.
I mean, I don't think there's another way to resolve it than how the show did. I just still think Yuri's whole life has been sad - haunted by the ghost of his father, trying to promote justice, trying to take care of his mother, trying to find his own justice...
I do wonder how Tiger and Barnaby must've felt when they discovered who Lunatic really was.

I also need to rewatch the movie, since I can't remember what happens on Justice Day and why it might've shifted Yuri's stance from proactive vigilante to law abiding overseer.                                                             

I also think that
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Tiger and Barnaby should always be working together. :(
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: NovelNerd on July 24, 2023, 07:29:34 AM
I'm back on a Sailor Moon kick. It happens at least once a year and with the release of the last Arc movie I couldn't help myself. I'm reading the manga, watching the old anime and the Crystal anime.  :lol:
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 25, 2023, 10:30:29 AM
Randomly looking for dvds of Saiyuuki zeroin (the only Saiyuuki anime I don't have a DVD for yet) and came across this...
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Ridiculously cute. Sadly out of my price bracket but still. LOL. He looks so fed up xD.

I also found a bunch of themes and character songs for T&B on itunes. It's still novel for me that those kinds of songs show up there now. I've been collecting seiyuu songs since 2007 and it used to be a lot harder to get the CDs, let alone getting them like this.
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Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 25, 2023, 04:12:40 PM
Randomly looking for dvds of Saiyuuki zeroin (the only Saiyuuki anime I don't have a DVD for yet) and came across this...

Have you checked RightStuf?  It's the last week of their birthday sale and I think they had some of the Saiyuuki animes on sale.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 26, 2023, 10:53:02 AM
Randomly looking for dvds of Saiyuuki zeroin (the only Saiyuuki anime I don't have a DVD for yet) and came across this...

Have you checked RightStuf?  It's the last week of their birthday sale and I think they had some of the Saiyuuki animes on sale.

It's more a problem that there only seems to be a blu ray release :/  It seems mad given that the series is as old as it is, both the manga and the anime...that the final animated section would only be available in the one format, but hey. There we are.

The Burial arc wasn't ever released in the west on DVD as far as I know; I had to get a Japanese ex library copy second hand for that one :/ Maybe this will end up being the same - but right now it doesn't look like there are dvds anywhere.

In the meantime, happily it's still on hidive, and is genuinely the only reason I still have a hi dive sub.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 27, 2023, 03:07:54 PM
Randomly looking for dvds of Saiyuuki zeroin (the only Saiyuuki anime I don't have a DVD for yet) and came across this...

Have you checked RightStuf?  It's the last week of their birthday sale and I think they had some of the Saiyuuki animes on sale.

It's more a problem that there only seems to be a blu ray release :/  It seems mad given that the series is as old as it is, both the manga and the anime...that the final animated section would only be available in the one format, but hey. There we are.

The Burial arc wasn't ever released in the west on DVD as far as I know; I had to get a Japanese ex library copy second hand for that one :/ Maybe this will end up being the same - but right now it doesn't look like there are dvds anywhere.

In the meantime, happily it's still on hidive, and is genuinely the only reason I still have a hi dive sub.

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of animes are being released only on blu-ray.  It's caused some problems for the library where I work because the librarians are hesitant to purchase a blu-ray only copy when most people around here only have DVD players.  We still have people ask us for VHS tapes.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on July 30, 2023, 11:33:11 PM
The RightStuf sale is winding down.  All the month's Megadeals are back on Megadeal prices.  So if you want something, get it soon!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on July 31, 2023, 04:19:16 AM
Randomly looking for dvds of Saiyuuki zeroin (the only Saiyuuki anime I don't have a DVD for yet) and came across this...

Have you checked RightStuf?  It's the last week of their birthday sale and I think they had some of the Saiyuuki animes on sale.

It's more a problem that there only seems to be a blu ray release :/  It seems mad given that the series is as old as it is, both the manga and the anime...that the final animated section would only be available in the one format, but hey. There we are.

The Burial arc wasn't ever released in the west on DVD as far as I know; I had to get a Japanese ex library copy second hand for that one :/ Maybe this will end up being the same - but right now it doesn't look like there are dvds anywhere.

In the meantime, happily it's still on hidive, and is genuinely the only reason I still have a hi dive sub.

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of animes are being released only on blu-ray.  It's caused some problems for the library where I work because the librarians are hesitant to purchase a blu-ray only copy when most people around here only have DVD players.  We still have people ask us for VHS tapes.

Right. Saiyuuki is a manga that began in the late 1990s (even though technically it isn't finished yet, lol), and the first season was animated some time around 2000. So it's logical to assume that a lot of the Saiyuuki fandom have been in it for a long time. This is my favourite arc as well. The last time they semi-animated it, the manga wasn't finished (mangaka was ill) and so they 'made up' a lot of things. By contrast, the Zeroin series is very very accurate to the actual manga, so of course I want it. I'm not really inclined to buy a blu ray player just so I can watch Saiyuuki though. Sigh.

It's a similar annoyance to the last Haruka game being released on switch. I mean, I would understand but all the others have been released on Playstation portable or vita. I was prepared to upgrade to vita, but why switch? After 20 years on playstation consoles? Seriously? Gah...

Back on the topic, I've rewatched Salaryman's club and then followed up with Love All, Play this week. I don't know why but I was on a badminton anime kick (or a sport anime one in general).

It's so rare hearing Miki Shinichirou voice characters these days, now he's so involved in other stuff like producing. It's a shame - he was one of the first seiyuu I became a fan of way back, so it's nostalgic to hear his voice again.

Last night I also watched a couple of episodes of the new Horimiya series and while I think doing the series like this is a bit clumsy, I was so happy to see
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both the Kyoto trip and Sengoku and Miyamura's negotiations over not going in the pool
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("My arm will explode!" "Most folk would say they had a cold." "I have a cold that'll make my arm explode!")
animated at last.

And I randomly watched Tomo-chan is a girl. Carol is hilarious.
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Post by: Carrehz on August 04, 2023, 10:38:52 AM
I wish they'd release more anime on DVD too, even if it was just a make-on-demand sort of thing that'd be better than nothing :/ It's so annoying when something I'd be interested in actually gets licensed (which seriously only happens once in a blue moon in the first place :P) but it's only on BD, I don't want to get a Blu-Ray player just for one or two things! x) I was so happy when I found out the Doremi film was being released as a BD-DVD combo set. Having a useless (to me) extra disc lying around is a bit annoying, I guess, but at least I can watch the DVD! More companies need to do that, seriously.

It's like how a lot of stuff these days is only on vinyl instead of a CD :p Just release them in both formats! That way everyone wins.
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Post by: Taffeta on August 08, 2023, 10:48:46 AM
I still haven't found a DVD release for Zeroin, but at least it's still streaming on HiDive. Though it will always annoy me that they didn't animate Hakkai's eye colour correctly in the pivotal scene. Never mind. Sigh.

I've sometimes bought DVD releases from other countries if it's anime because the other dub/sub language isn't an issue for me, but it does seem to be less common that DVD releases in general are happening. Buying DVDs from Japan direct is also expensive if the series is a long one - they charge so much for so few episodes per disk.

I rewatched Heine, the Royal Tutor last week. I love this anime just because of Heine's little asides and the nonsense of it. It's a great anime to unwind to if you don't want to think too hard, but it's not stupid or dumbed down either.

And I watched the first eps of the new Kenshin anime. I've seen the old one a few times and I'm curious to see where they go with this one. Saitou Souma is a great choice for Kenshin's VA. I was sitting there watching and thinking, where do I know his voice from? I was sure he was in Daiya, and he was (Mukai Taiyou), as well as Haikyuu (Yamaguchi Tadashi), but when I went through his resume of roles I realised that what Kenshin was reminding me of was William in Moriarty the Patriot. Which actually makes it a great choice because like William, Kenshin has light moments and dark moments.

Can I also say that I really love the closing theme, Kissaki.

Keep checking to see if there's an announcement to animate the rest of Daiya but not so far. Sigh.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 09, 2023, 06:47:31 PM
I'm still really behind on a lot of anime. :(  Maybe soon I'll be able to catch up at least a bit.


When I was looking to get Yona, I had to get the Blu/Ray DVD sets (2 sets)
instead of the single Blu Ray set because I didn't have Bu Ray player at the time. 


Keep checking to see if there's an announcement to animate the rest of Daiya but not so far. Sigh.

Me too.  Since the manga has finished, I don't see a reason why the rest wouldn't be animated. If they need to go back and redo some of the Act 2/Season 3 stuff that was missed (I think you mentioned a game between 2 of the other schools was not animated.)  they could easily just add it to an episode or at least have the characters talking about it.


I also keep hoping for more Yona, whether that's more episodes added to the original or a completely new series retold from the beginning like the recent Fruits Basket series.


I was surprised to see a picture of Mao from The Devil is a Part Timer on McDonald's Facebook page today.  I'm not exactly sure what they're doing but it's something called a "Tie in Meal" and they mentioned several movies/tv shows that have featured McDonald's in some way.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 10, 2023, 05:19:41 PM
I was surprised to see a picture of Mao from The Devil is a Part Timer on McDonald's Facebook page today.  I'm not exactly sure what they're doing but it's something called a "Tie in Meal" and they mentioned several movies/tv shows that have featured McDonald's in some way.


Yeah, I heard they were doing meals "As Featured In" TV and Movies, so you can order a meal "as Featured in Loki" right now and it looks like it comes with a Sweet and Sour sauce packet with the Loki logo on it.  So since The Devil is a Part-Timer basically takes place in a McDonald's (but not called McDonald's), it doesn't surprise me they might use that as an inspiration.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 12, 2023, 07:46:54 AM
I need to go back and start watching Devil is a Part Timer from the beginning of s2 as I got a bit lost trying to watch from the middle *lol*.

I'd love to see more of Yona animated. Even if it was only the first stretch of manga after the series ends, because TAEJUN.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 17, 2023, 07:26:49 PM
I was surprised to see a picture of Mao from The Devil is a Part Timer on McDonald's Facebook page today.  I'm not exactly sure what they're doing but it's something called a "Tie in Meal" and they mentioned several movies/tv shows that have featured McDonald's in some way.


Yeah, I heard they were doing meals "As Featured In" TV and Movies, so you can order a meal "as Featured in Loki" right now and it looks like it comes with a Sweet and Sour sauce packet with the Loki logo on it.  So since The Devil is a Part-Timer basically takes place in a McDonald's (but not called McDonald's), it doesn't surprise me they might use that as an inspiration.

I've gotten the Loki Sweet and Sour sauce a few times. My family just asked for Sweet and Sour sauce (not the Loki sauce) and that's what came with the chicken McNuggets.  The McDonald's cups I've seen so far don't mention The Devil is a Part Timer, although they list a bunch of other movies and TV shows.  I think the Devil is a Part Timer cup might be white, but I'm not sure.



I'd love to see more of Yona animated. Even if it was only the first stretch of manga after the series ends, because TAEJUN.



Yona
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I agree.  It would be nice to see that whole arc animated since we find out what Sinha's power really is and see Taejun's character development.   I know the anime didn't have much to work with on Taejun since it ended right before that arc starts, but he is such a deeper character than he appears at first.   Same goes for Zeno.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 19, 2023, 01:37:10 PM
Yes...
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Zeno is actually fascinating on so many levels.
As for Taejun, if you only watched the anime, you'd never realise what an amazing character he is.

I should really mention this in manga but since we're talking about Yona here, vol 42 is due out Oct 20th.

Yesterday I caught up with the new ep of Kenshin (I do like Saitou Souma's voice for him!) and finally finished SpyxFamily. Been stuck on ep 22 for ages (lol) but now complete. Of course, that's until there's a new series.
Can I just say how much I love this series.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 25, 2023, 03:30:19 PM
Someone posted a picture of Moa on the McDonald's digital order boards, but I haven't been inside a McDonald's to confirm that.  I did ask my mom about it and she said she didn't notice if there was an anime guy (because she wouldn't know who Moa is) on the boards.

Yes...
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Zeno is actually fascinating on so many levels.
As for Taejun, if you only watched the anime, you'd never realise what an amazing character he is.




Yona
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I completely agree.  Sometimes I feel bad thatI  thought Taejun was such a jerk at first before knowing more. The anime wasn't kind to him. but it is true to what they had to work with at the time. 

I still can't stand Suwon being nice to Yona and Hak right before he kills Il.  I know he's a really complex character, but it feels so fake to me now.  That being said., I know Suwon really cares about them and has mixed feelings a lot about the consequences of his actions and what that did to their relationship. There's a really interesting theory I've read about whether Suwon really wanted to have Yona killed that night along with her father or if he was trying to delay the guards long enough for Hak to step in and save Yona. 




While looking for some Sailor Moon stuff on YouTube I found some interesting commercials with the characters. They're in Japanese.  There's some abrupt cuts because the person uploading them is focusing more on the animated parts than the products being advertised.


Set 1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nKp12AH_Ds

Set 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qsBxkCHZo

Set 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0dK8kqaIS8

Set 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JSQDmGDDi8

Set 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUU5gJW4uuQ


More


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LW1U_AKtEo


This last one is 30 minutes long.  There are some different ads in there than the others I posted. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rV3i71C8c


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 26, 2023, 01:56:47 PM
Yona
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I stopped hating on Suwon ages ago. I mean, the whole vicious cycle of revenge is brain-hurty to the extreme, and he's really just caught up in the maelstrom.

I restarted watching Furuba (the 2019 version) yesterday. Skipped the fourth episode though.
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I don't lik Kagura, generally, but I also don't find her aggression funny...maybe it was in the nineties when the manga was written, but still...it's always bothered me.

Also been watching Link/Click, though I keep having to remember to put the subtitles back on because my Chinese is nowhere near my Japanese (lol).

And caught up with the latest Kenshin episode.
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Megumi still annoys me. I know she gets better, but still.
Pretty sure I heard Okiayu Ryoutarou's voice in there somewhere too. Need to go back and look at the titles...
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 28, 2023, 03:25:08 PM
It amuses me that Daiya taught me what "baka" means in Japanese.  :D  I was watching a Sailor Moon clip in Japanese and Rei said "baka" several times. I don't need the subtitles for that word.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on August 28, 2023, 03:44:32 PM
I watched all of the reboot Fruits Basket this weekend, including the prequel movie. 

Currently listening to My Hero Academia while I'm working.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on August 29, 2023, 12:31:52 AM
It amuses me that Daiya taught me what "baka" means in Japanese.  :D  I was watching a Sailor Moon clip in Japanese and Rei said "baka" several times. I don't need the subtitles for that word.


Ponyfan

LOL yeah, Eijun's other name could be 'baka' really, considering how many times he gets called it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: NovelNerd on August 30, 2023, 07:23:28 PM
I watched the first season of Demon Slayer since everyone always talks about it. Not too bad
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 01, 2023, 03:26:29 PM
I watched the first season of Demon Slayer since everyone always talks about it. Not too bad

Demon Slayer is okay, but pretty much all of the main plot points in the first season were predictable. I don't know if it's because I watched Bleach and there are clearly nods to Bleach throughout, or if it's just really standard in its plot twists, but there was only one thing in 24 episodes that wasn't obviously coming ahead of time.

The MC is fine, but his two closest supporting buddies are both really annoying. Especially the blond one, who ruins Shimono Hiro's voice with all his screaming.
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Tanjirou also keeps his sister in her box far too often in moments when she could legit be out there being more useful than he is. She is the best character in the whole show in my opinion - when let out of her box.

Maybe it will be better if I watch season 2, but the best things about season 1 for me were the soundtrack and animation quality. Didn't hate it but don't understand the hype.


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 01, 2023, 07:10:38 PM

LOL yeah, Eijun's other name could be 'baka' really, considering how many times he gets called it.


It's been a while since I watched Daiya, but I think Mochi calls Eijun "bakamura" or something like that early on.  I guess it's fitting since Eijun gives everyone nicknames.


Demon Slayer is not for me.  I've seen a short clip of it though.  I always think of Zenitsu as "the guy that yells a lot."

I think I'm going to have to rewatch all of the new Fruits Basket.  I made it about halfway through season 2 the first time.  I meant to get back to it, but didn't.   


There's some rumors going around that Sailor Moon Cosmos will be coming to Netflix in a few months.


Speaking of va's, Eijun's va is also the voice of Cat Noir from Miraculous in Japanese.  I was listening to "Cat in the Night" in Japanese and I thought I heard a little bit of Eijun. 

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 03, 2023, 12:53:25 AM

LOL yeah, Eijun's other name could be 'baka' really, considering how many times he gets called it.


It's been a while since I watched Daiya, but I think Mochi calls Eijun "bakamura" or something like that early on.  I guess it's fitting since Eijun gives everyone nicknames.


Yep, he does. :)

Zenitsu! That's the guy. Yep.

I haven't tried to watch MLB in Japanese. I have watched some eps in French but that's all. I am way out of touch with it though now. I suppose it makes sense. Eijun's seiyuu does get around a bit.

Speaking of spotting Seiyuu, I was definitely right that Okiayu Ryoutarou was in the new Kenshin. He's voicing Hanya. There are a few what I call 'old school' seiyuu now floating around in that, after Hiyama Nobuyuki had a brief role as a local gangster type.

I'm sure most of these guys are in the currently airing Bleach anime, but I hate the manga arc so much I can't bring myself to watch any of it. That last arc ruined Bleach for me and I'm still pretty angry about it, even now xD.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 23, 2023, 11:56:40 AM
I keep hoping there'll be an announcement soon about Daiya continuing, but so far I haven't heard anything.   

Another word I learned from Daiya was "shisho."  It pops up from time to time in Komi as one character considers Komi his mentor.


I've heard there's a little bit of arguing going on about the Sailor Moon Cosmos movie because they use the same song from the 90's anime that the Three Lights sang at their concerts in Cosmos.  I haven't seen Cosmos yet, since I don't think there's a way to do that outside of Japan right now, but I don't really mind if they use the same song. I haven't read the stars arc of the manga yet, but I assume the Three Lights sang something at their concerts.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 24, 2023, 04:17:30 AM
I've been watching Bungou Stray Dogs. I've watched it a couple of times before, but always ended up stopping at the same point. This time I've drilled through and although I haven't completed it, I'm glad that I did.

I can only imagine the fun and games in the studio when Dazai and Chuuya have a scene together, as their voice artists Miyano Mamoru and Taniyama Kishou are old friends. Have plenty of live neoroma dvd events with the two of them, including at least one when they sing together.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on September 25, 2023, 03:32:06 PM
I read a Daiya fanfic that was partly based on Bungo Stray Dogs. 


The new season of Spy Family will be on Crunchyroll in October. I still need to finish season 1. 

I'm thinking of maybe getting some Qposket figures. 


Still nothing I can find about a release  of Free Final Stroke outside of Japan.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 25, 2023, 04:20:30 PM
I read a Daiya fanfic that was partly based on Bungo Stray Dogs. 


That's...scary. LOL XD
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on September 26, 2023, 06:13:38 AM
husband and I watched the live Action One Piece - which wasn't AWFUL... but then we had the brilliant idea to watch the animated series... it's like 20 seasons , 1000+ episodes, and I almost regret starting because we will have to finish, and it takes so much time...   LOL 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on September 27, 2023, 03:33:56 PM
I never got into OP. I saw clips but didn't really find it funny, and it's so long that I didn't want to get bogged down in it *lol*.

I've finally started watching Violet Evergarden. I've heard lots of good things about it. Did not expect Koyasu Takehito voicing a key role though.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 21, 2023, 07:18:19 PM



Small Sailor Moon rant ahead

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I don't get why so many people don't seem to understand that
Mamoru is basically the guardian/prince of the Earth.  He can use the powers of the Golden Crystal much like Usagi can use the Sliver Crystal.  I think Helios can also use some of the powers of the Golden Crystal, but I think it's more a case of protecting it until Mamoru can use its power on his own.



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 22, 2023, 01:39:40 AM



Small Sailor Moon rant ahead

Spoiler
I don't get why so many people don't seem to understand that
Mamoru is basically the guardian/prince of the Earth.  He can use the powers of the Golden Crystal much like Usagi can use the Sliver Crystal.  I think Helios can also use some of the powers of the Golden Crystal, but I think it's more a case of protecting it until Mamoru can use its power on his own.



Ponyfan

Hang on...
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I thought it was flat out said he was the prince of Earth.  So it always made sense to me that he had powers just like Usagi, who was the princess of the Moon.  Do people really not understand that?  Weird.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 22, 2023, 09:57:48 AM
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His name is Mamoru. It literally means 'to protect'. It's been a long time since I watched any SM but that seems pretty obvious...o.O.

I've dug out Saiunkoku Monogatari and have been happily rewatching it. It's still a masterpiece. It's a shame it's not on any streaming channels.



Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 22, 2023, 04:50:10 PM


Hang on...
Spoiler
I thought it was flat out said he was the prince of Earth.  So it always made sense to me that he had powers just like Usagi, who was the princess of the Moon.  Do people really not understand that?  Weird.


Spoiler
I think it's stated somewhere too that Mamoru is the prince of Earth.  If I remember correctly the reason he got so sick in the Dream arc was because Elysion was dying.   He also said a few times that he was connected to the Earth.

I've seen a lot of people asking why there's no Sailor Earth or if Helios or Chibiusa is the guardian of the Earth.




Spoiler
His name is Mamoru. It literally means 'to protect'. It's been a long time since I watched any SM but that seems pretty obvious...o.O.







Spoiler

That's really interesting. I didn't know Mamoru meant "to protect."



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on October 30, 2023, 03:43:02 PM
I was watching Komi the other day and at one point Tadano takes his temperature.  When the thermometer is shown, the reading is in Celsius.  I thought that was a nice touch that the show kept the Celsius instead of changing it to Fahrenheit.

I'm still hoping to hear more about another season of Daiya.

Walmart has cut their anime section down again.  There were only about 2 rows of movies and the rest of it was Crunchyroll prepaid membership cards.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on October 31, 2023, 07:30:16 AM
Yeah, the problem with Walmart's Anime section near me (aside from being small) is that anymore it's all Dragonball, One Piece, and Naruto/Boruto. I know they're "popular" but I don't get the appeal.  And they shelf-sit because people either already have them or people don't like them.  They didn't even carry the last part of Pokemon Black & White in the stores, which I think would have actually sold if only because kids are being introduced to Pokemon daily.  I'm even giving out Pokemon cards for Halloween this year because they're so popular around here.

Anybody else bummed that RightStuf merged with Crunchyroll?  I don't like the monopoly Crunchyroll is making with our Anime options.  I liked comparing prices on different sites, even if it all got sent from the RightStuf warehouse.  There were times it was cheaper to put in the order direct from Funimation or Sentai instead of RightStuf but now I don't know if Crunchyroll is going to do any decent sales.  At least Amazon might still have a cheaper price for some things but they don't carry everything.  I don't like streaming shows because where I live the internet has a tendency to be spotty.  It annoys my parents when they can't get their streaming services to work so adding another one wouldn't help anything at all. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on October 31, 2023, 11:54:23 AM
I don't think CR do half the things over here that they can do in the US. I've heard it's now a channel on Amazon as well, but not on my Prime as far as I can see. Not that it matters since I've been using CR's app through my fire stick for years.

I get more annoyed with things that are on Hulu, which often means that IF they come out here, it's on Disney+. And that's fine, since rn we have a special offer subscription to that, but they don't tend to add them until the season has done airing.

Although it's interesting how anime (older, not just seasonal) is starting to be more available on streaming platforms, I still have to dig into my older DVDs from time to time. And there's a lot too much isekai and harem trash atm as well, which makes it harder to find something worth watching.

In the spirit of Halloween, I rewatched Ghost Hunt this week.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 20, 2023, 07:23:33 PM
I logged on to Crunchyroll to watch something for the first time in a long time today.  I was afraid I might have a little trouble keeping up with the subtitles since I'm a little out of practice reading them and watching something at the same time.  To my surprise though, I was able to keep up better than I thought except for when I first started watching the show and when multiple characters were having conversations at the same time and there were two sets of subtitles to try to follow.  Trying to follow two sets of subtitles has always been tricky for me and I end up having to go back and focus on one set at a time so I can keep up with everything going on.

I really hope that Daiya gets another season and I'd love it if Yona did too :D


I never bought anything from RightStuf but I enjoyed going to their website and looking. They usually had publication dates for manga that weren't up on Amazon yet and also sometimes they used the Japanese covers if the US version wasn't ready yet.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on November 22, 2023, 03:05:15 PM
I've been watching the apothecary diaries. It's annoying waiting week by week for an episode though.

I've also been watching some donghua, blame my colleague, it's her fault. I can actually recognise proper words and sentences in the mandarin dialogue now, though, not just sounds, which is awesome :D

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on November 30, 2023, 12:21:48 PM
Here's what the anime section looks like at Walmart now.

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The whole shelf below the manga is all Dragonball. 


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 02, 2023, 08:26:12 PM
Yeah, I still don't get the appeal of Dragonball but to each their own.

I haven't ordered any new DVDs from Crunchyroll like I normally do from RightStuf because I didn't see any at a price that I just had to have it this year.  And some of the stuff I've been watching isn't in their sale so for now I'll pass. I don't think they do their sale like RightStuf used to, where they add new things every week, which is kind of a bummer because that makes it less likely to go on sale right now.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 05, 2023, 05:37:35 AM
I've never understood why people like Dragonball either. When you say that in an anime-centric space folk usually react like you just declared war or something, but I have watched bits of it and it was so. dull.

Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on December 05, 2023, 07:35:55 AM
I've never "gotten" Dragonball either. No offense to anyone who likes it, but it's just not for me. Just feels like sometimes it's all you can find in the way of anime/manga stuff over here :/
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: cowboyopossum on December 05, 2023, 08:03:32 AM
I feel the same way about Naruto- I could just never get into it.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Carrehz on December 05, 2023, 09:02:25 AM
That's funny you mention Naruto - I was *this* close to including that in my post too X3

Honestly a lot of the popular/mainstream series don't really do it for me. I wish more shoujo stuff (esp. mahou shoujo/magical girl) was released in the UK!
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 05, 2023, 11:17:40 AM
I could insert my rant about how a lot of not great but 'popular' (and mostly aimed at guys) stuff gets adapted properly while good stuff like Akatsuki no Yona is still awaiting season 2...but I won't. Ahem.

I never got into Naruto.

I was absolutely on board with Bleach, until the final arc, which trashed the characters, timeline and continuity, and was just a bit rubbish. (But did get adapted into an anime, see rule above about popular/aimed at guys).

I've never watched One Piece either. I saw clips. Not my humour, and it's way too long to want to slog through. The fact the live action was filmed in English makes me shudder. I have no issue with dubs. I have issue with westernised retellings of Japanese series. Reminds me how everyone said the Hunger Games was original, as if Battle Royale never happened. (And I hate them both, but srsly).

There's a lot of hype rn about Demon Slayer. Aside Zenitsu, who needs to be hermetically sealed in something unbreakable, so nobody can hear him screech, it's not that offensive. It's not massively creative, either - it follows most every shounen trope in existence. But I can live with it. I understand more why people enjoy that than DBZ. It may not be a dazzling work of literature, but it does have a plot. And Nezuko is cool, when Tanjirou lets her out of the box.

So donghua isn't technically anime (I don't really like calling it anime, LOL), but I have just finished Mo Dao Zu Shi's animated version. Interesting how it differs from the live action. Books next, when I've finished trawling through Heaven Official's Blessing. (Badly hope they animate all of that, want to see them animate the Ghostbusters II-esque stomping around on the crown of a divine statue whacking enemies because it's hilarious.)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 05, 2023, 03:37:18 PM
I haven't watched Dragonball or Naturo at all.  They don't seem like the type of anime I would enjoy.  I don't mind that they exist, but I think a whole shelf full of Dragonball gives a false sense of variety.  If you take in to consideration that all of those sets are part of the same series, the store only has a few different types of anime including some Studio Ghibli movies.

I wish a wider variety of anime was available worldwide.  Dayia is great, but is only on Crunchyroll outside of Japan and a few small clips here and there on Youtube. 



Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Pokeyonekenobie on December 05, 2023, 04:12:57 PM
I have honestly tried to watch Dragonball, One Piece, and Naruto.  I don't care for any of them, but my nephew adores them.  And I'm sure I like shows that other people don't get, either.  But it is annoying when Walmart decides that one or two series is all anybody could ever be interested in, so why bother stocking a variety?  Especially when what my Walmart stocks sits for years so they won't get anything new and if what they have sells, they only restock those titles so they still won't get anything new.  I can still get One Punch Man Season 1 at one of the Walmarts near me.  I'm pretty sure it's from the first batch they stocked.  One of the Walmarts near me (there are 3 within a reasonable distance) has a history of stocking more Anime than the other two, so it does have to do with the purchasing manager but even they aren't great at variety.  It's still a lot of Dragonball, One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.

I see so much variety that has been available on RightStuf and now Crunchyroll that I just don't believe it's because they think it won't sell.  They're just lazy about looking into what people might actually want. 
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 10, 2023, 10:35:57 AM
Series I am enjoying right now - the Apothecary Diaries and Ron Kamenohashi's Detective whatever the English title is.

I restarted Chihayafuru but got a bit bogged down and haven't gone back to it.

Finally Heaven Official's Blessing had ep 6 animated but still no Qi Rong. I don't like Qi Rong at all, but I want to know how they're going to handle yelling-sweary-brat given all the censorship.
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: lovesbabysquirmy on December 10, 2023, 11:48:49 AM
I have sacrificed so much of my life to Dragonball and Naruto and One Piece... aurrrrrrgh

It happens when you have to balance things from Sailor Moon and Fruits Basket and others. 

and there's always more Ghibli to watch...  I want a sequel to Pom Poko thank you very much
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 12, 2023, 07:17:18 PM

Finally Heaven Official's Blessing had ep 6 animated but still no Qi Rong. I don't like Qi Rong at all, but I want to know how they're going to handle yelling-sweary-brat given all the censorship.

I've seen/heard a lot about Heaven's Official Blessing, but haven't got in to it yet. 

There's a couple of trailers for the Sign of Affection anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50CI8LVwEY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWymIR_6BA


I thought I heard some familiar voices in the trailer and it turns out Eijun's va and Asada's va in Dayia have roles in this anime too.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 13, 2023, 12:58:15 PM

Finally Heaven Official's Blessing had ep 6 animated but still no Qi Rong. I don't like Qi Rong at all, but I want to know how they're going to handle yelling-sweary-brat given all the censorship.

I've seen/heard a lot about Heaven's Official Blessing, but haven't got in to it yet. 

There's a couple of trailers for the Sign of Affection anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50CI8LVwEY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWymIR_6BA


I thought I heard some familiar voices in the trailer and it turns out Eijun's va and Asada's va in Dayia have roles in this anime too.


Ponyfan

I think overall I prefer Mo Dao Zu Shi to Heaven Official's Blessing although I like both. (I have started using the Chinese title for MDZS simply because every version I see of it has a different translation. Just based on the characters, reading it in Japanese rather than Chinese, I think the title is "Ancestral Master of Demon Magic", but yeah. Mo Dao Zu Shi is easier to write. I have seen the donghua and drama for Mo Dao Zu Shi, but I haven't read it yet.

 I'm on the final part of the book of Heaven Official's blessing, and some parts of it are fundamentally crazy, but that's true of the other one as well ;)

S2 Ep 7 dropped today. Still no Qi Rong, though he will probably show up next week. I enjoy seeing Mu Qing and Feng Xin squabbling so I guess it's fine. Because I'm this far into the book, I know mostly what happens with the characters so seeing them animated from as far back as probably book 2 is a bit weird. But reading it has definitely helped me get to grips with everyone's name and who is who.

I wish I didn't have to wait a whole week for new episodes of the Apothecary Diaries. I am going to look into the LN in the new year but I don't want to do that while the anime is airing. I can read translations of the Chinese stuff because my Mandarin is nowhere near good enough - but I feel like reading translations of Japanese stuff is cheating, so I would rather pick up the novel from where the series ends.

Sign of Affection...Yubisaki to Renren? I've heard the English title mentioned, first time I've seen the Japanese, it's kind of cute (means something like connected by fingertips? Attached by the fingertips?)

I think Eijun's seiyuu gets around a fair bit. Furuya's as well. He's in a lot of stuff.

One of my friends has been watching anime recently. Mostly her fiance's recommendation I think, but it's quite amusing that she's now talking about it and I'm like, yep, another one bites the dust...

I caught up with Dead Mount Death Play (actually, that's a lie as there was a new ep dropped today or yesterday which I didn't see yet). I don't know still what to make of this series because sometimes it feels choked up with too many characters and sometimes there are unnecessarily fanservicey scenes (though they're not so much offensive as just, well, girls having a conversation naked in the shower...?) but I still feel like the basic plot (aside the first half of the first ep which is horrible) and the main characters are worthwhile...? I am thinking this is going to end on ep 24 or 25. We're on 22 now and while a lot has happened, there's a lot that is still...not settled. I imagine that means a future series...I'm not driven to go read the manga on this one so I guess we'll see?


Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 13, 2023, 03:33:40 PM
In English I think  Mo Dao Zu Shi is The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. I haven't got in to that one either.

That's really interesting about the Japanese title for A Sign of Affection means connected/attached through fingers tips.  I have the manga but haven't started reading it yet.


For some reason we have Starz on our cable boxes even though as far as we know we didn't add Starz to our tier.

 A couple of the Starz channels have been playing one of the My Hero Academia movies in Japanese with subtitles.  I tried to watch a little bit of it today, but it seemed that the subtitles were way off. There would be a line with subtitles and then several lines without before they showed up again.  It was really hard to follow what was being said when the subtitles were missing.  They also seemed delayed and didn't match up exactly when someone was speaking.


I read a rumor that TV Tokyo has confirmed there won't be another season of Dayia for the foreseeable future. :(

I sent a friend a copy of Your Name and Totoro a few years ago.  She told me she loved Totoro. I never heard back if she liked Your Name.  I'm hoping she did as I feel that's an anime that can be shared with people that aren't anime fans.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Taffeta on December 14, 2023, 04:40:59 AM
Mm, that's the translation title used for the books, but the drama is simply "The Untamed" and the donghua animation has another title translation version completely. So until I saw the actual characters used to write it, I wasn't sure what the title was ;)

Mandarin isn't the same as Japanese, but it's probably closer.

No Daiya any time soon? Sad if true :/ Maybe next year.

My friend who is just getting into anime saw Your Name and really enjoyed it. :)
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: Ponyfan on December 27, 2023, 07:33:53 PM
Small Sailor Moon rant ahead.

Sailor Moon Cosmos part 1 and 2 just came out on Blu Ray/DVD in Japan last week.  Since then the SM group I'm in on Facebook has had a lot of Cosmos posts.  I don't mind that in itself so much as I do the content.   If someone says they bought the movie, their post is flooded with requests to upload the movie somewhere so more people can watch or post screenshots.  What really annoys me the most though is people posting spoiler screenshots and clips without warning or assuming that everyone's read all of the manga so there's no reason to not show major plot points involving the characters.  For example, someone posted a screenshot from the movie along with the corresponding page of the manga and said "why was it done this way."  I saw another post that said "that didn't happen in the 90's anime."  I've read up the Stars arc of the manga so I know the basics, but not the specifics (I do know about the major change to the Starlights from manga to anime though)  I don't want to see major plot points spoiled on Facebook.

The US has a release date for Suzume and Spy Family Season 1 part 2.  :D

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Anime?
Post by: KarentheUnicorn on December 28, 2023, 12:02:29 PM
I've been watching the apothecary diaries. It's annoying waiting week by week for an episode though.


I love Apothecary Diaries show and manga. I love Jinshi and MaoMao!!


Also I've recently gotten into Sugar Apple Fairy Tale; at first I thought it was gonna be meh...but I found myself liking it enough that I bought the light novel vol 4 so I could continue reading the story.
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