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i introduce people to anime with Genius Party.

i've also had luck using School Days as an introductory series. /shrug.
they wanted something they couldn't find in american cartoons. it hooked them.

I don't know if this is exactly the "jewel" of my collection, since it's only VHS tapes, but I still adore the packaging for the subtitled version of the first season of Ranma ½, with the Rumiko Takahashi covers and the extra classy white clamshell cases.

I hate to think how much I spent on that: since these tapes pretty much had to be special ordered, by the time they made it to stores in Montreal, these tapes were around $60 Canadian each (for only three episodes per tape), or, if you do the math, $360 altogether, and I suspect I might be lowballing it a little. For only 18 episodes. You can get DVD thinpacks of entire series today for less than what I paid for a single subtitled Ranma ½ tape in the mid 1990's.

konkonsn wrote:

championferret wrote:

Brian, I hope it gives you comfort that a random girl on the internet finds you cute.

Seconded. Hope this brightens up your day! Anime smile

Beryl7 wrote:

Ah, I normally keep these kinds of comments to myself, but damn, Brian, you're pretty hot. ...Am I now the third chick to cast that opinion? Keep up the great work.

What do I say now? First I was like, I'll say seconded. Then I wondered, can I say "thirded?" Now I'm just like, fourthed sounds so weird, as does quaded. Shakespeare's one of the few who could've made those sound right and get them adopted into the English language. Anyway....yeah. You're just as adorable as your delightful writing.

Zac....so funny about that Fullmetal Alchemist tin. Heh.

Tu101k....I must admit, it made the Tenchi fan in me happy to see that your Tenchi collection was included in the column. I had a hard time thinking of what I would consider the jewel of my collection, since I love my anime and manga pretty equally, but I thought that if I had sent in an answer, it would've been my Tenchi Muyo! OVA box set. It's so beautiful and old school--as far as I know, only one other Pioneer title (El Hazard) was given that packaging treatment--and it has a bunch of extras on it. And it was a gift from my parents for Christmas, along with being one of the first box sets and full series I ever had, which is appropriate since, like you, Tu101k, Tenchi on Toonami is what first really got me into anime. There are so many reasons why I love Tenchi, but one thing I know is that I never get tired of Ryoko and Ayeka's antics. Other anime female characters fighting over a guy can sometimes be boring or cliche, but when it comes to Ryoko and Ayeka, they always make me laugh. I also feel warm inside knowing that I have Tenchi Universe, the three movies, Tenchi in Tokyo, and the Mihoshi Special/Pretty Sammy OVA, as well as Tenchi Muyo! GXP. Can't wait for Seikishi.... Very Happy

I have the old Gunslinger girl box set too. I have mine autographed by Laura Bailey, Luci Christian and Caitlin Glass. I can't remember if I got Chris Sabat's autograph on it as well - I think I brought to a con that he ended up not being at.

But my anime crown jewel is my Cowboy Bebop collection. It is sadly incomplete in some respects, but I do have all the art books, two full sets of one of the gashapon series, the harmonica necklace, and pretty much everything that was legally (and some that wasn't legal) released in North American, except for the original box (two expensive) and the remix box (I bought the singles in both the old and remixed versions). I will buy the bluray disc when ever they come out, even though I doubt i will get a bluray player (video on discs is so 1990's!)

Did I also mention that my collection was blessed by Wendee Lee? I also have Lin's autograph (Derek Stephen Prince), though Stephen J. Blum sadly skipped out of CN Anime this year. I even have the autograph of the lady that played the girl in the convince store in the movie (Michelle Ruff).

Zac wrote:

The jewel of my anime collection is the first-run tin + vol. 1 of Fullmetal Alchemist where they actually used my name on the quote, and then put the sticker with the quote directly on the tin rather than on the shrinkwrap, so if you bought the tin when it came out, my name is plastered right on your tin! HA HA HA

I ripped the stickers off, so no, your name isn't on my tin.

And that first FMA tin is one of the jewels of my collection because of the way I got it. I bought it used for $50 when everyone was selling it for $100 or more, thinking I was just going to get the tin plus vol. 1. Lo and behold, when I opened that tin, vol. 2-5 were in there also. No soundtrack but I think I got more than my money's worth.

Other jewels:
- My full Rozen Maiden box
- My Saber figure because it was the first figure I bought
- Black Lagoon V.1 w/tin because I won it
- Various Utena stuff (artbooks, Cds, postcards) because they are all imported. If anyone is interested, I'll post pictures of what I have
- Bunch of OOP manga (Secret Comics Japan, Four Shojo Stories, Short Program V.1-2, Adolf V.1, A, A Prime)

I wish I could enter the banner contest, but, alas, I am artistically challenged. Best I can do is an almost halfway decent frog and whale. Maybe I'll try anyway so everyone can have something to laugh at.

Stretch2424 wrote:

When it comes to recruiting B- and C- actors for dubbing work, isn't there also the problem that they are probably MPAA (I think) union members? Their union demands a very large "minimum wage" which is out of the question for dubbing work, and it frowns very heavily on members (or anybody else) who work for anything less. Or so I read somewhere.

You're thinking of SAG (the Screen Actors Guild). The MPAA is the Motion Pictures Association of America (the folks who regulate movie ratings, etc.). But you're right, SAG actors are a lot more expensive, but a number of dubbing studios do, in fact, use SAG actors in anime. Bang Zoom hires a lot of SAG actors (Crispin Freeman, for example, is a SAG actor), and publishers like Bandai do a decent number of union dubs. The thing about SAG, though, is that they say they care about making sure their talent only work union gigs, but seem to completely look the other way about anime (in the voiceover world it seems "anime" is a third-world nation). Many of your favorite English VAs may very well be working both union and non-union gigs. Sometimes they do it under different names (that's why on the actor pages for Encyclopedia entries on ANN you'll sometimes see several names listed for the same actor), but more and more often they'll just use whatever name because the union doesn't seem to care and the anime dub fans like name recognition.

Tortoiseshell Tabby Girl wrote:

konkonsn wrote:

championferret wrote:

Brian, I hope it gives you comfort that a random girl on the internet finds you cute.

Seconded. Hope this brightens up your day! Anime smile

Beryl7 wrote:

Ah, I normally keep these kinds of comments to myself, but damn, Brian, you're pretty hot. ...Am I now the third chick to cast that opinion? Keep up the great work.

What do I say now? First I was like, I'll say seconded.

Thirded, in this case. And now, to start off my first post in this forum...

asl please. Razz

_Emi_ wrote:

I ripped the stickers off, so no, your name isn't on my tin.

My, aren't you perceptive.

Don't some hentai dubs hire porn um people? That's like D-List, or something.

Also, seeing VA's in commercials, other work, etc. really depends on your location. If you're in LA, you'll like find the odd commercial with a voice over done by a familiar voice. Same goes for Texas, New York (CW4kids, duh), Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto.

With Vancouver, those VAs get a lot of non-anime work. Canadian animation studios often hire studios in the Vancouver area to record dialogue. You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard Matt Hill, Gary Chalk, Scott McNeil, etc. in Canadian animated shows.

Matt Hill has a distinctive voice, with that said, I'm pretty sure I heard him in a Sports retailer commercial on the radio a while a go.

abunai wrote:

Hmmm... memo to self: launch new line of Answerbrain plushies. Deluxe edition to come with special earplugs for protection against squealing fangirl voices (safety first).

- abunai

I will buy an Answerbrain plushie if the brain part means it is a zombie plushie. Zombie Plushies are awesome.

Sidenote: I don't squeel. I can't even sing past alto pitch. Razz

Stretch2424 wrote:

My favorite anime artifact would be something I made myself--an artificial Halloween Jack-o-Lantern which I carved with the figures of two Mushi-Uta characters. It took a lot of time and trouble (those thick styrofoam pumpkins wear out the blades of X-acto knives like crazy!)

If you do it again, it's very much worth it to pay for a heated craft knife/woodburning tool. I carved a cat-o-lantern for a work demo one year (we sell the fake pumpkins), and they work really well- although they raise a good stink if you're not careful and scorch the pumpkin.

Funniest thing I've read in a long time wrote:

“They,” in this case being “Statuo Licentia Orientales Alacritas,” an ancient cabal full of secrets and darkness, call upon the powers of Ba'al beneath the crusts of the earth. Every first Sunday of October, a hooded figure appears under the Masonic ruins of Masonic, California, clutching a bloodied skull and a stone tablet, forged from the sediments from Christ's tomb. This stone tablet contains the names, written in the blood of children, of the shows They have deemed worthy of being licensed.

Brian, I love you.

I do not think good voice acting has to do with money but also with the willingness and love actors and production staff involved show in their work

Take for instance anime in Europe in the late 70s till the 90s. Italy, France, Spain, Germany i.e. countries with a strong dubbing tradition produced some of the best dubs that exist for animated TV shows. Especially series such as those of Leiji Matsumoto had very good dubs. As aforementioned, the World Masterpiece Theater series in their dubbed versions surpass even the Japanese versions in quality. And their budget was far below Disney during that time.

Even if you watch those series today you'll recognise their high quality. It isnt just matter of money but also of approach. In Germany the voice actors had prior to that experience in audio book story telling, while in Italy voice actors that became popular in work besides cartoons, started their career with anime Thanks to the dubs anime turned popular.

Keep in mind that one tends often to find a foreign language better than his own.

As for my favourite collections, it has to be the DVD of Kihachiro Kawamoto and the DVD of Yoji Kuri.

As for regular anime series and movies the classic Jack and the Beanstalk movie, the series Treasure Island and some of the World Masterpiece Theater series are a treasure I'll never give away.

Zac wrote:

The jewel of my anime collection is the first-run tin + vol. 1 of Fullmetal Alchemist where they actually used my name on the quote, and then put the sticker with the quote directly on the tin rather than on the shrinkwrap, so if you bought the tin when it came out, my name is plastered right on your tin! HA HA HA

lol, that's the one I have. Hooray for marketing! Razz

Also here is the obligatory crappy MS Paint entry for the contest.

That smell you are smelling now is boredom...

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