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Oneeyedjacks
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May I ask where exactly you got the rating numbers for these shows? Be nice to see them for my self. Also where the heck is the dub cast for Kekkaishi? It airs soon and still hasn't been announced yet. Last edited by Oneeyedjacks on Thu May 13, 2010 2:02 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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asimpson2006
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So Kekkaishi is another case of "it gets better" later on. I'll have to add to my give it a watch after I determine if I am going through a full bloom anime burnout, or just a English dub burn out. |
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Jedi General
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You're telling me. It is just over two weeks until Kekkaishi's premiere and Viz has still given us nothing regarding its cast? Why?
"It gets better later" is a problem that plagues many great shonen series. You'd think people would have figured this out by now and have learned to have more patience when it comes to the genre. Apparently not ... |
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John Casey
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[This is not an imageboard. That isn't to say that posting images is forbidden, just that they need some written substance to back them up.~Zalis
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Labbes
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Does the show stay faithful to the manga source, or is the TV-end "non-canon"? It's been a while since I watched it, but iirc, there was quite a bit of closure. |
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Agent355
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Classicalzawa, I echo your sentiments here exactly.
Reasons why you should give Kekkashi a chance (IMHO): 1. It's based off a really great shonen manga. Like others have sad, it starts off slow, but as the series goes on the mangaka builds up a wonderful world filled with a well developed, multi-layered plot and interesting characters. 2. Yellow Tanabe stated in her author notes that she was adamant that her female characters not be sidekick/damsel in distress types. Tomine, being older and more disciplined, has an edge that simular heroines do not, and her grandma is straight out awesome. 3. Masamori, Gen, and real consequences to conflict that don't get retconned in the next chapter/episode. I don't know why I feel Kekkashi is better than other shonen standards, but I look forward to every volume of the manga with a baited breath these days. If the anime is true to its source material, this should be a great show. It'll just take a while. Does anyone know at which point in the story the anime ended? |
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Kyogissun
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That's going to be the difficult part, as I don't know if AS shows their ratings aside from the 12:30-1:00 am timeslot and... then it's gone forever. Last weekend, saturday night, they posted their ratings and Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, if I remember this CORRECTLY... Came in with 418,000 viewers. I know for a fact they broke 400k but my memory vaguely remembers the exact amount. If I could link you to a video, I would, but all I have is that significant memory that whilst watching Bleach repeats, being there was nothing else on at the time, I saw that pop up and I was a little wide eyed for a moment. Still, this is a fact. I know what I saw and... Honestly, I was amazed myself. I truly was not expecting FMA to make such a comeback like it has but... People are apparently giving it the support it needs and deserves and actually watching it. The fact that it's cleared 1/3rd of the usual ratings for the sunday night 11pm timeslot family guy gets is amazing to me. |
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Otaking09
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I got interested in this series primarily because Taku Iwasaki is the music composer. And he's one of my favorite music composers in anime! Maybe even more so than Yoko!!!
Still... considering what people say, I do like slow-starters/slow burners, and I find Soul Eater mostly enjoyable (for those who feel insulted by this comparison, don't), so it seems like this show is definately worth a shot! My only concern is who'll dub it? Ocean Group or... the same company that does Naruto and Bleach. I forget what it's called... Personally, I prefer the latter. And, speaking of dubs, if they do dub Cross Game, they should have Johnny Bosch play Kou Kitamura. I've watched up to episode 40 of Cross Game and... he would pretty much perfect for it... He could use his Renton Thurston voice for his boy ver. and his regular voice for his teenage ver. But that's just me. |
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IncompetentOverlord
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Agree 100%.The characters in this series may be fairly standard, but the interesting use of the Barrier Spells as the primary method of attack as opposed to the standard fireball/sword approach was interesting to me. The Tower defense story structure also really drew me in on this one. |
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Seljuk
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I mean, I would say that's hit or miss. After re-watching the first 20 or so episodes, Bleach was much better at the start. Black Cat was awesome all the way through. Naruto and Reborn got better later. It really just depends on the series, and your perspective. Also echoing others who didn't like Soul Eater. The characters were just too....out there. I really don't think it would have gone over well on AS. |
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Ranma87
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I like the manga for this series although I never did get a chance to watch the anime.
I suppose i'll give it a try when it airs on adult swim.
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LKK
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Several people have said that the manga gets better farther into the story. My question is does the anime reach the manga's "better" point? Or does the anime end beforehand?
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yaminokaitou
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I'm a big fan of Kekkaishi, though I will admit I didn't really get into it until Gen showed up. Still, it was an enjoyable series and I really grew to love the characters. It was great having a strong lead female who didn't have a D cup size or didn't flaunt her chest around. And Yoshi's obsession with cake was hilarious. But what I really liked best was that the characters actually looked Japanese, as oppose to having red or even pink hair. That was a nice change. I don't have cable TV, so I'm waiting for the DVD release. I'm really looking forward to picking this up. |
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ArsenicSteel
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"More discriminating viewers, meanwhile, may find themselves rolling their eyes at the tired old concept of protecting loved ones, defending one's family honor, and fighting to become stronger. (Oh, and baking a legendary cake.) Sure, this action series dishes out some thrilling fight scenes, and there's at least a hint that the story builds up as it goes along. But not everyone can be so patient in waiting for that buildup to come."
Pretty harsh review. Also there is a reason patience is a virtue. I have yet to see the concept of fighting to become stronger or protecting loved ones become cliche to the extent it makes people roll their eyes. Keep in mind I am talking about the concept alone and not the actual implementation. The first episodes are introductory and just some foundation to the story, which hasn't been touched much at this point. Baking a cake(lol), let me know how that works out. Why pick this over Soul Eater? Well not having to worry about Blair and her nakedness compulsion is one reason. Kekkaishi is just a good anime that doesn't resort to fanservice to bring in viewers. |
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somehowbandai
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That, and AS knows that (a)they don't really care about anime or its fans so why cater to them with Soul Eater, and (b)the show that the internet likes more is not necessarily the more profitable one, because everyone just watches anime online (note their little torrent alert about kekkaishi before B the other night xD)...they've never liked their anime programming all that much and if Kekkaishi will do well enough it's cool, it can hang out with bleach and inuyasha and stuff.
This is our chance to see if [as] really does determine a show's success among those teenage girls in america who are flooding conventions in greater and greater numbers. For once they're picking up a title that isn't such a blockbuster everyone's-seen-it, and I wonder what the results will be. Any guesses on dub cast? I'm sensing Yoshi may end up being Brad Swaile or something, there's gotta be a heavy-hitter in the cast to counteract the lack of exposure it's been getting on [as], and it's a Viz. Maybe Yuri Lowenthal. |
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