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tygerchickchibi

Joined: 29 Sep 2006
Posts: 795

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:21 pm

Never heard of the series.

*ducks.*

But yes, it's a good start. It's promoted on their turf, for one. Secondly, they're doing it in a timed fashion, though, so the episode is only going to be available for a certain time, correct?

But eh, still with an attempt, not everyone is pleased. >.>;

I may not watch it though, I prefer dubs, and I don't really care to read subtitles as of yet. I might just watch the first few episodes, then wait for the DVDs to come out if I really feel like buying it.

I've always liked ADV, I think most of my anime has come from their company. I just purchased all of Cromartie High School. xD

Myaow

Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Posts: 152

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:41 pm

I don't know about you, but right about now I'm willing to give ADV my first-born child for this service.

ZeroRyoko1974

Joined: 09 Jun 2004
Posts: 258

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:51 pm

what? This is inconcievable. An anime company streaming subbed episodes. I must be reading it wrong.

DonQuigleone

Joined: 31 May 2007
Posts: 141
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:17 pm

Vortextk wrote:

Buster Blader 126 wrote:

Call me blind, but what's exactly wrong with her shorts? Confused

Without being crude, there's no way to point it out(but maybe that will do it). I don't know if there's supposed to be something else going on there that I can't adequately see.

They're a bit loose on her? the only thing I could see was that her leg seems to go straight through the belt, but other than that...

Zac
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Joined: 05 Jan 2002
Posts: 4298
Location: Death Star Cocktail Lounge

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:33 pm

DonQuigleone wrote:

They're a bit loose on her? the only thing I could see was that her leg seems to go straight through the belt, but other than that...

Oh, for crap's sake, people.

Link is probably NSFW.

Mohawk52

Joined: 16 Oct 2003
Posts: 3857
Location: Celebrating Lindsey Hawker murder suspect arrest, in Basingstoke, UK.

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:43 pm

Zac wrote:

DonQuigleone wrote:

They're a bit loose on her? the only thing I could see was that her leg seems to go straight through the belt, but other than that...

Oh, for crap's sake, people.

Link is probably NSFW.

Mmm, yaaasss, that's the reason I have had to change the skin to Kurau. I 've got children that sometimes look over my shoulder here. ¬_¬

tygerchickchibi

Joined: 29 Sep 2006
Posts: 795

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:52 pm

Zac wrote:

DonQuigleone wrote:

They're a bit loose on her? the only thing I could see was that her leg seems to go straight through the belt, but other than that...

Oh, for crap's sake, people.

Link is probably NSFW.

xD Geeze....it had to go this far, didn't it...

This is kind of going off topic, is it not?

Zac
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Joined: 05 Jan 2002
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Location: Death Star Cocktail Lounge

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:52 pm

Mohawk52 wrote:

Mmm, yaaasss, that's the reason I have had to change the skin to Kurau. I 've got children that sometimes look over my shoulder here. ¬_¬

It's barely even noticeable in the Lagann skin, but that's why we offer people the ability to change skins.

tygerchickchibi wrote:

xD Geeze....it had to go this far, didn't it...

This is kind of going off topic, is it not?

Yes. Please get back on topic. I just couldn't handle another 5 pages of people desperately trying to deduce what he was referring to.

Pepperidge

Joined: 13 Sep 2003
Posts: 936
Location: British Columbia

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:24 pm

It's also debatable whether or not that's actually a cameltoe. I mean, unless you were looking for one. Anime hyper

Vortextk wrote:

*Bzzzttt*, Wrong. I know that's what you are arguing, getting tv time instead of airing stuff on the internet. What I am arguing is that for the most part, anime does crappy on TV. Sure, TTGL is probably a pretty good show for TV, but what I'm getting at is that I would imagine EVERY company would love to have all anime they license on TV with tons of viewers weekly. This is not the case however which is why the internet is a good option since it is most likely, vastly cheaper.

OK. Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant the first time. But how is this option cheaper for them? Cartoon Network and YTV would be paying ADV for the title, not the other way around. ADV's desire to confine their titles to their Anime Network platform is solely because they want to centralize control of exhibition for their titles, which I really don't understand.

Vortextk wrote:

It seems you weren't following my example with "moe comedy blah blah" either. With regular american TV programming, tons of completely bland, bad or ridiculous shows still receive enough viewers to stay on the air. In all cases for anime except for a handful of extreme popular cases in the past years, none do extremely well. Regardless of actual content and how good the anime may be, it's anime; a niche market that seems to barely be able to support itself on TV.

I'd go into my "anime actually is successful on Canadian TV, unlike American TV" rant, but that would be going too far off topic.

Regardless of the ratings that a show gets, a television airing will still give a show far more exposure than ADV's streaming endeavour. The only people who are going to find GL streaming online are active members of the online anime community. On television, mainstream audiences who have even just a passing interest in anime will be exposed to the series. Even if the ratings aren't great (which won't necessarily be the case), it wouldn't really matter so long as Adult Swim is willing to give it a timeslot.

v1cious

Joined: 31 Dec 2002
Posts: 3870
Location: Fresno, TX

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:29 pm

DigimonTamer wrote:

I applaud ADV for finally stepping up and doing something while all the other companies seem to enjoy sitting there doing nothing.

But did they have to do it with yet another mecha show? I'm so sick of mecha and it's really one genre that needs to disappear. Mecha hasn't been relevant since Escaflowne aired in 1996.

actually it's more of a series for people who don't like the mecha genre. it's not emo ,and it's from the creator of Furi Kuri... unless of course you consider spoiler[mechas getting punched out of space/time, throwing planets, galaxies, etc.] cliche. in my personal opinion, it's the best series of 2007.

DigimonTamer

Joined: 19 Nov 2007
Posts: 41

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:44 pm

v1cious wrote:

DigimonTamer wrote:

Ideon did the whole overpowered universe destroying mech thing 30 years ago, it's nothing new. I personally think it's one of the weaker series of the year. It's just a bunch of yelling and fighting without much plot. It's perfect for 8 year old kids with short attention spans.

Yeah, this is perfect for ADV to launch the service with.

Samurai-with-glasses

Joined: 17 Aug 2005
Posts: 628

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:45 pm

DigimonTamer wrote:

Says the one with "Digimon" in his name. Wink

DigimonTamer

Joined: 19 Nov 2007
Posts: 41

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:00 pm

Samurai-with-glasses wrote:

DigimonTamer wrote:

Says the one with "Digimon" in his name. Wink

lol true, but Digimon really is a good show, Wink

Kalium

Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Posts: 84
Location: Michigan

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:52 pm

reanimator wrote:

Kalium wrote:

I'd be more impressed with this if the quality of the subtitling wasn't so low. The timing was often poorly done, and lines were on the screen for far too little. This feels like a rush job, and is decidedly inferior to fansubs.

There it goes again. Already comparing commercial subtitles against fan subtitles. Are you watching Anime only to read subtitles, or read subtitle to understand the foreign language dialog?
In most cases, companies have good track record on subtitled videos to all audience, not just Japanophile Otakus. So give it a rest with "fansub = good, commercial sub=bad" notion already!

I have nothing against commercial subs as a whole. I dislike poorly done subs in all forms. When the timing is sufficiently bad that I have to go back and rewatch a clip of video to find out what was said, then something is seriously wrong. When a line is only on the screen for a fraction of a second because another character speaks and I can't read all of the first line, then the subbing is seriously screwed up. All of this applies to both fansubs and commercial subs. It's more tolerable in the former than the latter - I'm not paying for fansubs.

Oh, and I resent being labeled a 'Japanophile Otaku'.

Regardless, the subbing quality on this is far below anything I would accept on DVD. If I saw this level of quality on a commercial DVD, I would immediately suspect a bootleg. Failing that, I would attempt to return the DVD, and failing that sell it to someone else. I certainly wouldn't be buying anything more in the series. If they want my money, they have to earn it. I will not fork over money for crap.

reanimator

Joined: 25 Nov 2007
Posts: 303

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:59 am

[quote="Kalium"]

reanimator wrote:

Kalium wrote:

Quote:

When a line is only on the screen for a fraction of a second because another character speaks and I can't read all of the first line, then the subbing is seriously screwed up. All of this applies to both fansubs and commercial subs. It's more tolerable in the former than the latter - I'm not paying for fansubs.

Quote:

Oh, and I resent being labeled a 'Japanophile Otaku'.

Regardless, the subbing quality on this is far below anything I would accept on DVD. If I saw this level of quality on a commercial DVD, I would immediately suspect a bootleg. Failing that, I would attempt to return the DVD, and failing that sell it to someone else. I certainly wouldn't be buying anything more in the series. If they want my money, they have to earn it. I will not fork over money for crap.[

I apologize for labeling you "Japanophile Otaku". It was not a right label. Anyway, I see this as a trade-off. Since I'm not paying for Anime Network's online service, I'm more forgiving on subtitles. I've seen my share of poorly subtitled J-Drama videos from TV as just as everyone else who lives area with large Japanese expatriate population.
For DVD's, you have right to complain about quality of subtitle. However, that alone can't justify overall quality of the DVD in order to get refund from a retailer. It's better off making complains directly to companies like ADV about the subtitle quality so that they can either release or exchange for better version.

On the side note, I'll reserve "Japanophile Otaku" to people who watch nothing but fansubs; who think they know "Japanisu" like native speakers by watching only subtitled videos; make knit-picks on translation on every subtitled lines of any Anime video or whatever Japanese shows; who think Japan is superior to everyone else.

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