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Machius
 Posts: 23 Location: Australia wishing I was back in Japan |
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The whole Reborn thing. Yes for some reason it's insanely popular over here in Japan. It's one of those changed while it was a manga things. At the start when it was first released it was intended as a generic shounen slapstick manga, however in order to maintain or increase popularity over time it gradually morphed into a shounen action manga(and became half way decent because of it). It's a lot like Negima going from a harem comedy to a shounen action style.
Gateway Drugs- Yes when you get down to it there haven't been that many brilliant gateway animes in recent times and I'd pretty much always go with the Cowboy Bepop, Samurai Champloo, Full Metal Alchemist, Death Note options. However if I had to introduce someone to anime using recent anime, there's Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hellsing Ultimate, The Girl who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, even Dennou Coil depending on the person. Although actually Eden of the East stands out as a recent anime with a good, not too otaku centric original story. The one drawback to that is that the second film needs to come out first and the whole thing needs to be dubbed. |
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qollocust
 Posts: 182 Location: Philadelphia |
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A couple thoughts I'm having here...
Reduction in fansub downloaders - While I do think things like crunchyroll and the US companies streaming video have stopped a lot of people from downloading anime, do you think it may also have to do with the quality of anime being produced? I think a lot of people just don't want to watch everything that's coming out now. I know when I looked at the most recent season, nothing stuck out to me as something that I should check out right now. Sure every show will always have its fans but not everything has mass appeal. Gateway anime - I really can't think of anything from the last 2 years or so to reccommend to a new fan. I really like Baccano but I wouldn't give it to someone who is not familiar with anime. I don't think there is anything wrong though in reccomending older titles to new fans. Sure some are harder to find then others, but why not focus on what's the best overall rather than what's new? I still loan out Cowboy Bebop to everyone I know just because I think it's a great series and you don't have to be an anime fan to watch it. Like everyone else though, I too am still waiting for that next "big thing" that will explode like so many series did the first half of the decade. |
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N15PCA
 Posts: 37 Location: San Tan Valley, AZ |
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I'm 34 and watch anime. I'm a dying breed when comes to watching anime.
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animepuppy
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I guess this is why I prefer manga over anime.
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belvadeer
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Wow Liam could have been an English teacher? That's awesome! He and I could have been in the same line of work!
It was nice to hear this podcast, I really liked it guys 
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rainbowcourage
 Posts: 1216 Location: what is commonly known as "hell week" |
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This show was a lot of fun. First: don't replace the theme song! Every time I hear it I envision you guys on some tropical island.
The range question was ironic because if I had to pick voice actors who show range in their work it would be Liam O'Brien (and Steven Jay Blum, of course). Liam sounds totally different in all his roles--from the polished effeminate but also insane Cavalcanti to husky altruistic Tenma to Lloyd. Oh, Lloyd. I partly got my sister to watch all of Code Geass for the Lloyd segments because she loved his ridiculousness. Speaking of Code Geass, gateway drug anime from the last five years...you guys are right, it's hard to find blockbusters that appeal to everyone, but Geass might be one of them. NANA or ParaKiss are good for the ladies, while Monster is the first show I've been able to get my father to watch. There's also Eureka 7, which seems pretty accessible to people open to fantasy. And it remains to be seen how Soul Eater does if that is indeed the new AS show. Anyway, kudos to Liam, he was a really funny, down-to-earth guest. |
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The King of Harts
 Posts: 6712 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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I love it when a voice actor is also a fan. I'm not going to hold it against the ones who aren't, but it's always nice to hear that they enjoying being in it and watching it. It's like when pro football players talk about how much they love playing Madden.
I like the industry guests you guys have and everything, but I like the VA interviews better and it'd be cool if you guys had a few more in the upcoming shows. Gateway Anime: I'm weird in that the two shows that got me hooked on anime weren't what one would call a gateway show. Instead, they were Sorcerer Hunters and Shuffle, the type shows everyone says don't make good introduction shows. I then immediately jumped right into more "otaku" shows like Kanon, Haruhi, Azumanga, Ef, and two Makoto Shinkai films in Voices and Place Promised. I didn't know any better because I didn't have anyone to hold my hand along the way, but here I am, 2 years later, 238 shows later, and still deep in the fandom. I said all that to say that it's a little unfair to label a show a non-gateway show because any show can get anyone hooked, it's depends on the show and the person. EDIT: What was the...um...segway(?) from? I feel like I've heard it before, but I can't place it. |
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rainbowcourage
Posts: 1216 Location: what is commonly known as "hell week" |
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In terms of the segue, I believe the breakdown says: "21:04 Break time! Enjoy some wonderful voice acting and brilliant dialogue from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence!" |
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The King of Harts
Posts: 6712 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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I suppose I should start reading the breakdown then. Silly me  And thanks for showing how to spell segue correctly.
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chrisb
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Amazon Marketplace is your friend when it comes to Utena  , I did have to pay freaking 60 bucks for the final DVD though... it's actually quite easy to find from my experience , you just have to tell your friends that google shopping search or Amazon is a good way to find the show. Most of the time my friends just bum anime DVDs off me if they're interested in it anyway. And there are no bootlegs on Amazon, only certain sites like "fox-anime" which steal your money anyway and you never get the product.
Fansubs are also quite easy to find too, but the series remastered is available for about 200-300 dollars... which I need to save up for. A good show to turn people off from anime? Arjuna, seriously I love the show but people I've shown it to downright hate it. Last edited by chrisb on Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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russ869
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The best anime to introduce newbies in the last 5 years is hands down Black Lagoon, for basically all the same reasons as Cowboy Bebop. There's nothing particularly Japanese about it for most of the episodes (although the last arc is entirely Yakuza centered). It's an completely action packed nihilistic shoot-'em-up. For a series centered around gratuitous violence, it's actually pretty intelligent going so far as to wax on about Sartre philosophy, ethics, and the banality of evil.
I introduced many non-anime fans to this show with great success. All the references to Hollywood blockbusters help place the characters in an easier to relate to position. Anyone who loves John Woo movies with crazy bar shootouts or who likes depressing pessimist poetry like Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club will like this show. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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I got more emails from people telling me to not change the theme song than I did actual entries. I'm still kinda torn on what to do. I did get your entries though, so thanks for that. Notably all of the entries I did get were from folks like you with songs their bands have performed before; no original work was submitted. Which is fine, but I'm not really interested in turning the theme song into an advertisement for someone's band rather than an actual theme song for our show. |
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tuxedocat
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Nice to hear that Amazon keeps an eye out for bootlegs with its resellers. -Still, I usually "gift" anime series to my friends to introduce them to the media, and a $25.00 to $30.00 complete boxset in a thinpak is affordable to buy and ship. Plus the fact that I want to trick my friends into thinking that collecting this stuff is actually affordable.  Utena is way too expensive, notably due to your mention of the $60 final volume. For myself, paying a price like that is o.k. (I lost nearly all of my anime collection two years ago when a neighboring apartment caught fire and spread into mine. So I know first hand how expensive and frustrating it is finding all of those out-of-print titles to replace what was lost.) Fansubs are just not an option to suggest to my group of newbies, so I can't go that route.
Baccano!! and Mushi-Shi are my two favorites right now. Since most of my newbies are book readers, they are used to hanging with the story until it picks up. Many books take 50 to 100 pages to get to the meat of the story, and a lot of them are written in a non-linear way, so Baccano!! is not a problem for my crowd. In fact, that kind of story telling is a selling point. |
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8461 Location: Penguinopolis |
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I think it's possible that Soul Eater may be that next "addiction" entry-level anime, if it airs on Adult Swim, and if Funimation drives it hard enough.
Liam O'Brien is a pretty decent voice actor. Like him as Tenma in Monster. It was nice to hear from a VA with a family of their own, too. |
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KanjiiZ
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The theme song always reminds me of Hawaii for some reason.
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