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I also love me some easily digestible Shounen and Shoujo goodness, but the fact of the matter is, once you get to a certain age, your brain wants more mature stories too. But since there are fewer of us who like that sort of thing (and those of us that do tend to be busy with jobs and kids, and don't buy as much related stuff, by and large) we are something of a niche audience. It's the exact same thing as Hollywood movies, which are predominantly big explodey blockbusters.

Girly girls in frills and wielding cute pink and bejeweled weapons, regardless of how ass-kicking they may be, would just never fly in Hollywood. Their outfits would be replaced with black leather and they'd carry guns to blend in with all of the other trash YA out there.

About the sailor moon movie, I am expecting in the near future that some studio will buy the movie rights for peanuts (we can't say SMC is the highest point of the franchise) and produce an snafu that will make Dragonball Evolution look as a disc worthy of every penny of your money.

Dreamworks already has a CGI Peanuts film in production due for 2016.

No wait, you mean "for peanuts" as in they'll buy it cheaply. That's my thinking pattern when I'm half-asleep.

That first question kind of made me sad since I enjoyed Princess Jellyfish far more than I thought I would and wish we'd see more shows like that. At this point, I try to be grateful for what we do get and make sure I plunk down some money to get a copy.

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And then, this new brightness problem started to crop up. Except, it's not so much an issue with brightness as it is the "gamma curve" of the image: the black parts are still perfectly black, but everything else gets much brighter than it should be.

This is just a guess, but maybe at some point someone is changing the colorspace between YCC and RGB thinking it is the same thing, when TBT, even if there are 16 million colors, there is no exact match for many colors in the other colorspace. When we add deep color and scRGB to the fray, well, you can clearly SEE how computers can help make a pretty bright mess of everything.

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That first question kind of made me sad since I enjoyed Princess Jellyfish far more than I thought I would and wish we'd see more shows like that. At this point, I try to be grateful for what we do get and make sure I plunk down some money to get a copy.

Yes, Princess Jellyfish was a good show and people should watch it. If you liked Fruits Basket you should like this.

Of course, Funimation isn't doing Princess Jellyfish fans too many favors by only keeping it in print on DVD. Thinking back to the last format transition, I sure don't remember any shows in the late 90s/early 00s being released on VHS and DVD, but only being re-released on VHS.

It's not about Megan Fox's acting talent: why would anyone think that a clearly grown woman would portray a schoolgirl? Fox can do college girl, but Sailor Moon? You're on Anime News Network! Read the news here, not some site that's "reporting" such things.