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Tenchi
 Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Since the question specified "well-written", basically every new show I'm watching, Taishou Baseball Girls, Sora no Manimani, and GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class, don't really apply. It's all basically the same moé slice-of-life vignette comedy with cute high school girls that I've been watching the past few years, for fun and for the pleasant, slightly nostalgic atmosphere, not because I'm looking for sophisticated and nuanced storytelling with mindblowing plot twists.
Though Taishou Baseball Girls has more of a serialized story arc than most of the other slice-of-life stuff, so I guess it's the most well-written of the three by default. |
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vashfanatic
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Nonono - he means in your well-written view. In other words, write him a well-written review, not just a rambling fangasm about how TEH AWESOME THIS NEW SHO IS GAIZ!! |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Hmm... I guess I must have been really tired when I read the question last night because I honestly thought he was asking which show was the most well-written and I'm someone for whom, when it comes to modern anime series, the quality of the writing is really only secondary. Or... umm... third-ary.
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Dr. Wily
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I fully support a Big O movie because if a Big O movie got made, there would have to be an ending. A beautiful, wonderful, ending to that show. Not a total mindscrew.
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DomFortress
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 Now I know I've got something to ask Uwe Bull to do when I see him next year. 
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RosaBatata
Posts: 36 Location: Israel |
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Both stores are of course located at Tel Aviv, the first is CNV- Comics and Vegetables, קומיקס וירקות, they sell Manga and comics in general for a fairly cheap price, you get 1 free volume for each 10 you buy as well. It's located at King George st. 40. here is their site- http://cnv.co.il/ Ah! I forgot! Just 2 weeks ago they opened another store in Ranana, which also sells manga! the address is Ahuza St. 125, you can get information on their site! That would mean there are now 3! The other store is Comikaza, also in Tel Aviv. They have a wide selection, but are pretty expensive (you can get 5% off with their member card, which costs 15 nis- about 4 dollars). They are located at the Dizingof Center. It might be a bit hard to navigate if you don't know it, so try asking for directions inside if you can't find it. http://www.comikaza.co.il/ Until a year or two ago there was a another store in Tel Aviv and another one in Rehovot, both of which specialized in ONLY anime and manga. As for manga that was translated to Hebrew, I haven't seen any myself, but I know that the CCS manga was translated, and I heard about King of Hell and Warcraft manga sold in Stimatsky, I don't know in what language. A friend of mine knows more about the subject, I will try asking him in the near future. |
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FlamingPinecone
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whats funniest is that if this is insulting anyone...its really head to figure who...but i'm sure michael bay would happily direct a lesser Baldwin brother in the lead roll "no no, more camp! and can you add emphasis on the "exterminating!" part?"" anyway, i'm still amused by the tift between bay and megan fox, who basically had the gall to call TF2 what it is: a big dumb action movie. bay responded actually very well with a "it made a star of you, what do you want?" (paraphrasing of course). anyway, summer anime I'm still catching up on my FMA manga and Brotherhood. i'm close to declaring FMA the pinacle of what a shonen series can do and rumiko takashi should go die in a fire. fawhoosh! |
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sunflower
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For summer series three have captured my interest. I tried a few more but those didn't. However I'm still watching:
Umineko no Naku Koro ni - It's basically like 10 Little Indians with a nasty witch / ghost thrown in, lots of murder and misdirection. Almost everyone in this series is thoroughly disagreeable and creepy, so all the deaths aren't really bothering me. And I have the feeling that those I like will turn out to be creepy as well. I wouldn't be able to take 26 eps of this, but I'll watch all 13 to find out what's going on. Taishou Yakyuu Musume - This is show about the girls baseball team in the 20s. Even though a lot of the characters are stereotypical, they do bring the sensibilities of the time into play and that's what makes it interesting. Plus it's a relaxing show to watch. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 - This has great animation. And, it has one of the most unlikeable leads ever, a teenage girl who is the epitome of the worst that teenage girls have to offer (hey, I was one once, so I know). But she is perfect in that she captures the essence of that self-centered time of life, and one of the things I like about the series is that we get to see her start to grow up and out of it. It reminds me of 12 Kingdoms in that I hated the heroine, but that extraordinary circumstances change us. The woman helping the children is not terribly realistic in that she's practically a saint, but ignoring that, it's a pretty good extrapolation of what might really happen. |
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vashfanatic
Posts: 3489 Location: Back stateside |
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HELL. YEAH! There's a reason it's the only shounen series I follow at this point.
I think she's only 12 (but I'd have to double-check), and as for self-centered... she acts like it, and yet, when the earthquake hits, spoiler[the first thing she thinks of is her little brother, and then risks life and limb to find him.] |
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sunflower
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Well, yeah, like I said, it takes a major catastrophe to change her. :) |
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Peries
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Saudi Otaku, try Virgin Megastore in Bahrain's City Center mall if you ever drive/fly there. They have a decent collection of anime that mostly comes in boxsets, at very reasonable prices as low as BD7 per boxset, all legal and licensed.
A good place for anime merchandise, models and figures, and manga would be Kuwait, although you'll find a bit of difficulty locating licensed releases there. If you don't mind pirated anime DVDs (which I don't advise, for quality and legality reasons), then the Kuwaiti DVD market is saturated with it. |
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REDOG
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You know brian, geographically speaking, the middle east the western part of asian continent.
I don't know a lot about stores. But manga and anime has a bad reputation here. Mainly because what we broadcast on tv is popular shows aimed for kids but with "violent" inclinations (dragonball z, naruto, bleach etc etc, and many game shows (bakugan, yu gi oh gx)). The kids parents see it and think all anime is violent and unmature. And the young adults (20,30 etc) think that "cartoons is for kids". In that case we stuck in the eightees. Which is pretty premitive you know. |
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REDOG
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You know brian, geographically speaking, the middle east the western part of asian continent.
I don't know a lot about stores. But manga and anime has a bad reputation here. Mainly because what we broadcast on tv is popular shows aimed for kids but with "violent" inclinations (dragonball z, naruto, bleach etc etc, and many game shows (bakugan, yu gi oh gx)). The kids parents see it and think all anime is violent and unmature. And the young adults (20,30 etc) think that "cartoons is for kids". In that case we stuck in the eightees. Which is pretty premitive you know. |
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eyeresist
 Posts: 995 Location: a 320x240 resolution igloo (Sydney) |
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So you've never seen a David Lynch movie? |
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Agent355
 Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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A few thoughts on the article and discussionm that followed:
1. FlamingPinecone, Fullmetal Alchemist is brilliant, but it has nothing to do with Rumiko Talkahashi. I don't see what she's doing to take away from the success of Hiromu Arakawa or FMA. Her style is very different. So leave your hate for a relevant topic! *mad* 2. The Nolans+Death Note=Great movie waiting to happen!
3. Baccano novels getting the translation treatment would improve the state of entertainment in the English-speaking world tenfold! 
4. I'd love to know more about Hebrew-language anime and manga. Besides CCS and Ghibli movies, what has been translated? 5. I was tickled pink whilst visiting an Iranian friend of mine who has Arabic and Persian sattelite channels, and watching an anime version of "The Little Princess" with her. She told me she grew up watching obviously Japan animated features, and I just had to wonder why that and other kid fare is available in the mid-east (and, presumably, Europe) but not the US...a question for a different Answerman, I suppose. 6. As for the first Q&A this week, I must admitt that wanting to be part of fan communities on various boards does affect my viewing habits considerably (particularly with long-running Shonen titles), and whether or not I actively keep up with an ongoing series. There is no shame to that once in a while, IMHO. |
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