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And Zac should stay far away from the Golden Age trilogy, whose first page begins with lines like "Phaethon had been imagining the evening, perhaps, would be in miniature, for Rhadamanthus House, what the High Transcendence in December would be for all mankind. But he was disappointed. The review of one drab and uninspired extrapolation after another had drained his patience. Here was a future where all men were recorded as brain-information in a diamond logic crystal occupying the core of earth; there was another where all humanity existed in the threads of a plantlike array of sails and panels forming a Dyson Sphere around the sun..."

einhorn303 wrote:

And Zac should stay far away from the Golden Age trilogy, whose first page begins with lines like "Phaethon had been imagining the evening, perhaps, would be in miniature, for Rhadamanthus House, what the High Transcendence in December would be for all mankind. But he was disappointed. The review of one drab and uninspired extrapolation after another had drained his patience. Here was a future where all men were recorded as brain-information in a diamond logic crystal occupying the core of earth; there was another where all humanity existed in the threads of a plantlike array of sails and panels forming a Dyson Sphere around the sun..."

But even in this there are a few key seeds of exposition and some really interesting concepts, enough to make me curious to read more.

I suppose I should've clarified further - drop me into a confusing situation all you want, but that confusion needs to be compelling and interesting. If it's confusing AND just an obvious uninspired mishmash of extremely familiar visual cues, character types and sci-fi nonsense lifted from a dozen well-trod places, I'm out.

einhorn303 wrote:

And Zac should stay far away from the Golden Age trilogy, whose first page begins with lines like "Phaethon had been imagining the evening, perhaps, would be in miniature, for Rhadamanthus House, what the High Transcendence in December would be for all mankind. But he was disappointed. The review of one drab and uninspired extrapolation after another had drained his patience. Here was a future where all men were recorded as brain-information in a diamond logic crystal occupying the core of earth; there was another where all humanity existed in the threads of a plantlike array of sails and panels forming a Dyson Sphere around the sun..."

But even in this there are a few key seeds of exposition and some really interesting concepts, enough to make me curious to read more.

I suppose I should've clarified further - drop me into a confusing situation all you want, but that confusion needs to be compelling and interesting. If it's confusing AND just an obvious uninspired mishmash of extremely familiar visual cues, character types and sci-fi nonsense lifted from a dozen well-trod places, I'm out.

How the hell you gonna tell the quality of a blu-ray from a Youtube trailer?

I still have the original Record of Lodoss War on VHS cassette so it's definitely a high nostalgia buy if/when Media Blasters puts it out, especially on Blu-ray which I'm not holding my breath for though I would be super pumped if actualized.

Here's an old title I'd like to see rescued and given a quality re-release even though I'm pretty sure I would be the only one excited or actually pay money for it....Green Legend Ran. Just me? Ok, yeah just me...

Well, this is just great! I preordered the K-on! and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time BDs from Right Stufs Bandai sale and now I'm going to be paranoid that they're not going to work.

As for Freezing... I still don't get what the big deal is. Yeah, it's super-ultra gory... in episode ONE. I haven't seen a severed hand SINCE episode 1. A slashed neck once in a while, but how is that worse then say Bleach, when they almost cut people in half, blood included? Because there are boobies? Hate to break it to you, but even in regular fights, clothes get torn off. Let alone fights using nano-machined powered weapons, and throwing energy around.

The fact that you thought it was supposed to be sexy makes you guys way sicker then me.

Though, unintentionally, this may have revealed the rationale behind the "gore plus boobies" combo. "Its just so unrealistic that Ikki has all these fights that are massive enough to knock people's clothes off without ever having any body parts go flying too. It makes it hard to pretend that we're watching it for the fight scenese." "Ah, if you need some body parts flying around to keep up the pretense, we're happy to oblige."

So basically Freezing is just a gorier, sluttier version of My-Otome?

I think people who claim they like Ranma these days only do so because it's nostalgic for them, one of the first non-OVA or non-movie anime of considerable length that they were exposed to in the 90s.

Maybe it's because I buy all my Bandai disc years later but I have never had a problem with Bandai disc.