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b4k4ni04
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Honestly, they need to. The story is not complete without the Second Season. ... great. With You -絆- Just called dibs on being the song stuck in my head for the moment @.@;. (Topic jump -> GSG) I've long wanted and only recently purchased the Viridian Collection for the 1st season. Fansubs were inconsistent for -Il Teatrino-, but I somehow plowed through the raws. I enjoyed the fact that it was not a sequel, but more of a filling in the gaps, and putting more focus on a chronological story. Whereas the first season focused more on "The girl has a mechanical body. However, she is still an adolescent child" .. Er, more on the girls and conflicts surrounding their changed reality. When I find the (money/shelf space/box set) I'll be sure to pick -Il Teatrino- up as well  . Good to see a good review for it. Same for Higurashi. ... damnit, now Kata tsubasa no tori (Umineko's OP) has claimed rights to momentary stuckness. :arghfist: ...
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GATSU
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Or sell arid land to yuppies who waste our tax dollars bailing them out of fires and killing poor firemen in the process. 
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Kenotic
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No kidding. I have the first season as single discs ('twas a happy place around my house when Funi announced they were continuing!) but the case that came with the first disc is sitting the closet. I don't need creepy shots of Mion/Shion Twin-cest showing on my shelf. |
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jmfsilenthill
 Posts: 1863 Location: Chinese cartoons are srs biz |
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I watched a couple episodes of Higurashi online a few months back. I must say I was thoroughly disturbed(in a good way) by cutesy schoolgirls turning homicidal. I really want to finish watching the series, but I wonder if rightstuf will reduce the price on their old stock of the single volumes?
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B-503_MIA
 Posts: 149 Location: Green Bay, WI |
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Agree with you about Revenge but I really did enjoy the Esperanza character... She was cool & enigmatic &, most important of all, a hot redhead  Then they spoiler[offed her & totally wasted the character (& build up) in a manner that actually made me angry... I haven't been that annoyed at the seemingly senseless killing of a character since Emma Sheen in Zeta Gundam. ]The trolls also got a little too much face time...
I just looked at the wiki page on Orphen & I finally got the whole Black Tiger/Shrimp Boy running joke... How embarrassing  I guess I assumed it was something the dub lost in translation.
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joystick1101
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This isn't entirely true, since the 1st two disc have 5 episodes. So the 1st disc gives you two complete storylines and a half. You can watch disc 2 without disc 1 but you won't know whats going on in episode 6. Thats the only instance though. |
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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Like Bamboo says, the show's production values were never great to begin with, and they look dated today. The story... yeah, the first season was better, but it was still nothing special, and there were a lot of random filler and side-quest episodes. The dub is a vast improvement on the lame, clichéd, heard-it-a-hundred-times Japanese dialogue. With the writing of Steven Foster in the first season and Kathleen Moynihan in Revenge, the Orphen dub shines with the same kind of spark and originality as other ADV dubs like Colorful, Milk-chan, and Ghost Stories. I watched both seasons in English with the (vastly-different) subtitles on, and found the English dialogue simply more entertaining than what I was following in the subtitles. I know Bamboo didn't care for the dub 8 years ago, and true, it inspired a lot of controversy for being highly unfaithful to the original. One example from season 2 (which was relatively faithful, compared to season 1) :
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pparker
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Hard for me to understand the dislike of some for Higurashi S2. Higurashi is one serial story, 50 episodes long. If you stopped watching Eureka Seven at episode 26, it would be the same. You would have watched half the story. Sure, some shows fail in the second half, but Higurashi isn't one of those.
The story changes tone in the last half (as many do). You slowly climb a hill of questions in the first half, then increasingly run down the other side of solutions. You quickly start gaining some answers to the WTF loops of the first half, and there is less pure shock value from horror. That and the characters develop (as they should), becoming more proactive and focused on a common goal as the story morphs toward an action thriller from a horror mystery. I never lost interest, because I was invested in the characters, themselves fascinating and worth watching, plus the quality production values. But also some of the most moving, even wrenching, episodes and performances occur in the last half--part of that tone change that may put some people off. Altogether, I thought it was a brilliantly constructed and very well executed combination of humor, drama, action and horror. I'm in that lobby, too, just ranting instead of crying 
On GG, interesting to find that Bamboo has a much better opinion of it than nearly every other fan on the planet. I finally bought it blind, having neglected to finish the fansubs. For once, I'll skip re-watching season one in hopes the drop in art quality doesn't seem too stark. |
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pachy_boy
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Exactly what I was going to say! Regardless of what any forumites that disliked When They Cry 2 say about it, the second season is exciting and breathtaking as all heck where you really root for the characters fighting for a happy ending thanks to the first series, and it shows how the first season is NOT just a series of varied stories that reboot every time and even explains it. It needs to be licensed, and I need it to be a part of my library, period. The thinpak looks nice, but I'm glad to have gotten the artbox with all its singles and the nice When They Cry pictures contained within. |
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Flik
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Glad to know that I'm not the only one this has happened to. I ordered the new boxset of Mahoromatic (seasons 1+2) off RightStuf last week and it is also liscensed by Sentai Filmworks. I was slightly upset to find the exact same box configuration you described here. A spindle of disks with a piece of foam on the other side. None of the other 30+ dvds of anime I own are packaged like that, and it's a pretty cheap way to do it. It makes the boxset unnecessarily bulky and unflattering to the eye as well. Oh well, you can't really tell when it's sideways on the shelf anyways. |
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Veers
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I didn't care for much of the cast and the plot has too many holes and the setting needed more exploration and I kept watching it because I kept hoping that I'd get answers, but they really never came, which left me feeling like I'd wasted a lot of time on the show. |
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vashfanatic
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I think it would be unprecedented, actually. This has happened once or twice before, so it didn't really throw me.
So they took a spell invocation and turned it into a bad pun? Glad I pretty much never watch dubs that so I didn't have to afflict myself with that, then. 
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panzer.time
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I know how that is. My grandparents live in a house in Huntington Beach without AC, and it's no fun to visit them when it's hot. At least you don't live in the South. It's been in the nineties every day for like a month with 100 percent humidity (save the last four days or so, which have been in the 60s-70s). |
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CCSYueh
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I think it's one of the roles that really made me respect Koyasu's willingness to go all out on a role. The comparison between his performance & Chris Patton's is so extreme, it's pathetic. spoiler[it's after he's died & has possessed his catatonic mother. ] I played it for my daughter & SHE thought it sounded like a chick, but it hits enough of his notes, I know it's Koyasu. I had already played it 3 times because I thought it might have been a chick doing it. It is totally & completely out there. His Ballardbird doesn't touch it, though I respect Andrew Watton for going as extreme on that one. Radium Lavans on the bridge in ZOE:Idolo barely scratches the surface of Koyasu's psychoboy talents Blame the American director for not pursuing the vision laid down in the original version, or the American VA for wussing out & not going as far. FlameSoul is incredible if just for that segment. |
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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 "...make like a tree and leave!" would've been a bad pun.
Actually, every single spell in the Orphen dub is changed to some other dialogue. A lot of the bickering and bantering between characters is wholly re-written, especially Volcan's lame death threats. To put it one way, I wouldn't call anyone who has issues with these dubs an uptight purist. But they are a lot of fun if you enjoy a little Fosterization from time to time. |
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