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Julia-the-Great
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The best part of "Star Gentle Uterus" is that it's an attack by a woman who can turn into a man.
 We watched Sailor Stars in our anime club a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure Star Gentle Uterus was everyone's favorite attack...
I'd been planning on writing in Rose of Versailles for my answer, but ended up not having the time to. Oh well, at least it gets the love on the forums... |
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Lenks
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Maybe they're playing on the fact that ChiChi is slang for breasts in the Spanish language? Chichi is also a term for fussy and pretentious in the French language, IIRC. |
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Primus
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Brian said he was disapointed in DBE. Because he was expecting a terrible moive, instead, he got a silly kids movie. If anything, that implies he didn't outright hate it. |
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The Xenos
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Damn. This column brings up a good point. Has there really been no tentacle porn of note since 1994? For shame. Seems there is a total lack of good tentacle sex in anime today. We should all be ashamed that the industry is lacking.
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bayoab
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I don't know if it was a flu outbreak or what specifically since "flu like symptoms" doesn't necessarily mean the flu. I just know about it because I saw about a dozen people in different irc channels and different social groups came down with it within the same 24 hour period. None of them mentioned seeing a doctor about it so I don't know if it was ever officially diagnosed. |
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Anime World Order
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The story I keep hearing about why Rose of Versailles never came out in the US is "Riyoko Ikeda is crazy." Apparently people have tried to get it released here, but she just won't give it up or something.
The fans of the original manga detest the show because it's so different in tone and deviates substantially from the source material. Personally, I greatly prefer the show, nonexistent budget and all, since it was written by Yasuhiro Imagawa of Giant Robo/Shin Mazinger Z fame. I don't typically get autographs, but I got my Pandora's Box autographed by him last time he came to America.
This is the best Freudian slip ever. |
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Tamaria
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That makes even less sense than "the license is expensive." Both the manga and anime are available in other languages, so that would mean she absolutely hates America (and/or Canada and/or the UK and/or Australia) for some reason or other. |
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luffypirate
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probably has to do with all that h1n1 hype i'm surprised no one said anything about gokinjyo monogatari. now that show is an unlicensed gem 
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moroboshi-kun
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I love anime with a mad passion, but I do have to come to the defense of some of my western animator brothers and sisters.
While I do think that a fair chunk of western animation is lacking, especially when it comes to variety, there are some very notable exceptions. The most obvious is Pixar, who seem incapable of producing anything other than exceptional, ground-breaking work. They've done superheroes, a rat that cooks, sci-fi, and...well, I'm not sure how to categorize "Up" but it was exceptional. I don't know if anyone else on the planet is doing as good traditional, full animation as they are. I'm not overly fond of Dreamwork's pictures, but Kung Fu Panda was better than it had any right to be. DC's animation studios are doing some pretty good work. The Wonder Woman feature was fantastic, and I've heard good things about Green Lantern, which is sitting in a Neflix envelope on my shelf right now. On TV, the list is pretty short. I like Metalocolypse, but calling that animation is a bit of a stretch. But there is the just-too-good-to-be-true Venture Brothers, and while it's run ended, I think Kim Possible was just 10 kinds of awesome. It seems like that anything on TV that isn't done for kids has to be a parody or ironic - Robot Chicken, Metalocolypse, Moral Oral, and even Family Guy and the like. I wish there was a bit more room for serious western Sci-Fi or fantasy, or romance, or really just about any of the genres anime touches. I'm really digging Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 right now, and there's no way that ever could have been animated over here at this point. The odd thing is, the west has source material just crying out to be animated. Even if you just look at comics and toss out the superhero stuff all together, there is a wealth of great material, from Fables to Preacher to 100 Bullets to about a hundred other great, indie-ish books that have come out in the past decade. What the commercial viability would be, I don't know. I tend to think that " I like it, so everyone would like it", which I should know by now isn't true...actually, it turns to to be the opposite of true (aka false) most of the time. But hey, there's never been a shortage of windmills to go charging at. EDIT - When I mentioned that Pixar does "traditional" animation, what I was referring to was animation that follows principles like overlapping action, secondary movement, and all the 12 principles of animation that good ol' Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson laid out in "The Illusion of Life". Just clarifying....sorry 'bout that... |
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Mohawk52
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vashfanatic
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Except that the show "Anal Sanctuary" actually exists. I fear it may not have been a slip at all, and this brave poster was unafraid to let us all know that he or she wants an old porn series licensed more than anything in the world.
And the anime adaptation of "Angel Sanctuary" is 1) available in the US and 2) stinks to all hell, so just read the manga anyway. |
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Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18182 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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"Of note?" Probably not, though it certainly has popped up from time to time in hentai titles since then and is still quite prominent in recent dojinshi and fan art. Concerning pre-2000 titles that I have a mad-on to see licensed, I'll be the second to bring up the second half of Kodocha. Even if it wasn't dubbed and had no extras, I'd buy a second-half boxed set in a heartbeat. (I also recall Laura Bailey, the voice of Sana, once saying on a commentary track that she'd love to dub more of it, too.) Sadly, the title never sold well enough in its first half for that to ever be likely to happen. And concerning diseases spread at conventions: that's pretty common in my experience. I have been going to gaming conventions or card tournaments several times a year for more than 20 years now and can't count the number of times I've come down with some kind of cold in the wake of them, especially ones during the winter months. |
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vashfanatic
Posts: 3489 Location: Back stateside |
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And as something that people will parody. It's become a perennial joke. |
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Agent355
 Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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Excellent point, Moroboshi-kun! I find it so frusterating that Hollywood is willing to shell out money to make awful live-action adaptations of any comic that's the least bit popular in the US, complete with cheesy acting and special effects, yet no one wants to take the chance to make an animated adaptation that might just look and "feel" better.
I've long dreamed of "Y: The Last Man" getting an anime-style adaptation, rather than the rumors of a live-action movie that might never be made. Grr! On the other time, sometimes Japan takes notice and people collaborate to make adaptations, as with "Witchblade" and the Emmy-nominated "Afro Samurai," neither of which I saw, but both give me hope of future collaborations. A girl can dream... I'm really late on the game here, but I finally had a chance to check out "Avatar: The Last Airbender" this summer, and it's fantastic! I'm blown away, and can't wait to watch the whole series! IIRC, it was really popular for Nick, and it's obviously anime-influenced, so why is there nothing like it airing now? What are the creators up to? What happened?! |
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penguintruth
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Imagawa did that show, too? I think I'd rather get my Giant Robo set autographed, though. |
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