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james039
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Nadja Applefield sighted. Nice to see she's made friends with the Ojamajo Doremi girls.
I've always been reluctant to check out sports-themed anime series, mainly because I don't like baseball, or tennis. 
I might actually look into Ookiku Furikabutte as a result of this column, though I ignored it when I first heard of it. |
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Dragynstorm
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Major points to you for not only the Detective Conan love, but also having Magic Kaito. <3 |
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Ranma824
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Actually no, you DID NOT need to mention that. You do a disservice to the show by looking at it thru yaoi-colored glasses. Yes, there are girls/guys who LOOK for this kind of thing. But if you don't even mention it in the first place; that idea won't even come into the mind of your average sports-anime watcher (or just regular viewer for that matter). |
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skyechan
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Well...Nadja took over Doremi's timeslot after all... I really wish this series was licensed for the US; I'd love to see more of it. :/
Let's face it: I only got into Detective Conan BECAUSE of Kaitou Kid. <3 I was absolutely shocked when I found the manga at Sasuga's storefront at Katsucon a few years back. They even had the then recently released volume 4! o_o;; |
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Dorcas_Aurelia
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It's only slightly more explicit then the review for the OVA collection. And considering that the consensus seems to be the "Kids" OVA is the only one that's more then incredibly average entertainment value, I'll thank Bamboo for saving me the cost of renting the disc to learn that little detail. |
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Keonyn
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I didn't care for the MushiShi film at all. The Ginko portrayal was only partially on the mark, but the rest of the cast was way off. They seemed far weaker and more dependent, which I saw as a major detractor. Plus, a lot of the acting was quite amateurish. It kind of felt like I was watching somebodies college project.
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Flarona
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Actually she's only been published in Afternoon, but I don't know, maybe she does have some fujoshi deep inside because also her earlier work Yukutokoro included some homosexuality (and mental and physical problems etc.) But one could also think about her works as something that doesn't materialize or estrange homosexuality which is still widely overlooked in Japan (or so I have heard). Oh, and usually BL series don't look like that (I even asked my friend about it). They should all look more bishounen than they do if this was a typical boy's love story for girls. 
That left aside, I am a girl but I don't really care about fanservice nor slash pairings (honestly!) but still I enjoyed the Big Windup anime. There was only one or two times when I briefly thought of something perverted and that's it. Now I'm reading the manga too because one of my friends recommended it to me, and I still like it although the last game I finished felt a bit too long. Most of the time Mihashi makes me want to tell him "ganbare!" (One should keep in mind that he was bullied in his previous school.) I guess this anime suits both boys and girls because it has two sides in it. Or more, depending on the way you count them. |
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pachy_boy
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With the Fullmetal Alchemist OVA, at least Bamboo's not complaining about Aaron Dismuke's voice change, an argument I have no understanding of. All in all, I still maintain this disc to be fun especially if you're a fan.
Also, for anyone who's watched the dub of the Mushishi movie (I just ordered my copy), does it sound like they used the same dub cast of the Anime, like Viz did with the Death Note films? If not, I'm glad there's a dub either way. I normally watch live-action Japanese movies subbed, but I showed select episodes of the Anime to my family, and the only way they would watch the movie is if it was in english. |
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Mohawk52
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Shousetsuka
Posts: 25 Location: Nagoya, Japan |
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I thought Mihashi from Big Wind-up was an interesting protagonist, if only because he wasn't typical. He was a wimp, he had confidence issues, and he was constantly picked on and degraded; yet through all this, he still wanted to pitch, and he never stopped chasing his dream, despite the hardships. Goodness knows I'd have quit the show immediately if he was another cocky prick like Ryoma from Prince of Tennis.
This isn't to say that I didn't want him to come out of his shell more, and I would have preferred that there was more progress, but he did learn to trust, even if it was just one person. I was satisfied enough with that. As for the homoerotic part, well...I saw the show while it was on TV in Japan (where I lived at the time). I thought the same thing, until I got a job at a local high school and helped out with the baseball club. This is just my personal experience, but those boys were really close. I suppose training everyday, mornings and afternoons, for a full year kinda does that to people. They were always all over each other, though I doubt any of them came out with the line, "I really like you!" But hey, as a major Japanese baseball fan, I have to say that it kept me highly entertained, and it stayed about as true to high school baseball as a show could. I'd recommend it for sure. |
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Sydra
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Agreed. The ending was particularly painful for me. They tried to make more like a bit of horror movie/ghost story with regards Nui. Really kinda ruined her character. |
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poonk
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). Seems like it's worth checking out, despite (?) the whiney hero.
I'd like to see Mushishi too, but that's mostly because I find Odagiri Joe charming. Even in a white wig. |
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Bob_The_Fish
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A Mushishi movie! Awesome!
I read through all of your reviews in the past few days (I honestly have been curious to see what reviews have been given out to some of my favorites, and I agree with a lot of your choices) . A heads up though, since streaming anime, you MUST, absolutely MUST watch Time of Eve. http://www.timeofeve.com/e/ The short snippets of a scifi world that not only alludes to famous works such as Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, but also gives a fantastic glimpse into various questions that the whole topic of artificial intelligence creates, yet does so, aptly enough, in a coffeeshop manner, (which coincidentally, is both the setting and the series' namesake, a coffeeshop named "Time of Eve"). You won't regret it. |
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GATSU
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Actually, it's because they used a DV recorder. And movies shot on that format tend to look like crap. But studios like to use 'em 'cus they're cheap. A few recent examples of that kind of lens(which I hear actually work) can be found in Public Enemies and Cloverfield.
I think Otomo might be one of those farmers. Keonyn: Yeah, the supporting cast came off amateurish, but their profiles added authenticity to the setting. If they cast a bunch of idols for those parts, you wouldn't take them as seriously. Or maybe I'm just glad it wasn't as much a total misfire like Steamboy. |
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