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Hey, Answerman! [2010-05-22]

the Rancorous wrote:

Mr. Jarin pretty much mirrors my own view on Gurren Lagaan, except that I thought the battle scenes were one of the worst features of it. Whoever yells the loudest wins; "my mecha can be more ridiculous than your mecha!" And then they had to throw in that tiresome "humanity is evil" theme . And yeah, Kamina was the most annoying character of the show rivaled only by 'needlessly flamboyant gay guy' (a character type that really needs to vanish or be restricted to just comedy stuff). I still have to shake my head whenever I see people going spoiler["OMG! Kamina died?! So unexpected and tragic!!!"] Are you serious? How could you not have seen that coming? It was obvious from ep 2 that was going to happen.

I dunno, I don't tend to do mecha anime, it's just not my thing, but I liked(liked, not loved) Gurren Lagann because I thought it didn't take itself seriously. Like everything they did felt like a rip on other mech shows. It's so ridiculous and energetic that I am a little confused on how people thought that it was taking itself seriously. That's just my point of view and it seems to be the common thing I have been hearing from the people I know who have seen it.

rinmackie wrote:

But it seems to me, most people don't really give it a chance and pass it off as another Twilight clone. (...) Of course, since I'm one of few people on ANN who like Vampire Knight, (and maybe the only one who likes the character of Zero), I'm probably posting to the wall, but I had to get this off my chest.

No, it's not a Twilight clone, because among other things its vampires actually act like real vampires. That's probably why it has an edge over it in my book. It has its own problems, but that's anther story. Mostly it just draaaaaags. This gets worse if you're bad and read the chapters as they come out, because you see how little happens every month. I quit doing that for just that reason, and plan to stick to the nice legal releases like a good little fangirl.

And yes, Kaname sucks. I really hate that guy. Zero, for all his wangst, is at least not a manipulative bastard.

And yeah, Kamina was the most annoying character of the show rivaled only by 'needlessly flamboyant gay guy' (a character type that really needs to vanish or be restricted to just comedy stuff).

I've always been curious to know if the boxset releases here in the US has had any impact on licensing for series. The market has obviously ditched the singles approach and I'm quite shocked the otaku market in Japan hasn't started against the singles there.

But then again, given what's coming out is dedicated to them, probably not wise for the otaku to punch the gift horse in the mouth.

Oh, and FUNimation's got some titles coming out with its S.A.V.E. line which I'm definitely picking up while many still list at $50 or more.

It's my money and you can bet I'm going to get the most for it.

I think this has a lot to do with how companies often gauge interest for a product after the first week to first month of sales. It's very rare that something like a movie or game will "gain steam" as time goes on and in fact, after the initial period most titles have "shot their wad" so to speak and are quickly forgotten about. Sales can rekindle interest in a title temporarily, but often aside from a couple evergreen titles, your back-catalog sales numbers come nowhere close to your new releases.

I read the Chrono Crusade manga and have watched the anime and both are equally good-as they have different takes on the same story.

vashfanatic wrote:

rinmackie wrote: But it seems to me, most people don't really give it a chance and pass it off as another Twilight clone. (...) Of course, since I'm one of few people on ANN who like Vampire Knight, (and maybe the only one who likes the character of Zero), I'm probably posting to the wall, but I had to get this off my chest. No, it's not a Twilight clone, because among other things its vampires actually act like real vampires. That's probably why it has an edge over it in my book. It has its own problems, but that's anther story. Mostly it just draaaaaags. This gets worse if you're bad and read the chapters as they come out, because you see how little happens every month. I quit doing that for just that reason, and plan to stick to the nice legal releases like a good little fangirl. And yes, Kaname sucks. I really hate that guy. Zero, for all his wangst, is at least not a manipulative bastard.

I haven't gotten around to watching the anime yet, and I read it in Shojo Beat until it stopped publication. When it first started it's run, it was up there on my list of things to read first, but as it went on, it wasn't interesting enough to read 1 chapter per month and some of the other series crept up the list of favs. So when the magazine stopped publication, I soon forgot how it started and how I thought it had been interesting at the start.

Eventually I will pick up some of the volumes from where the magazine left off(already did that with Sand Chronicles, and started collecting Nana from the beginning because it doesn't get enough love) but it's sort of fallen off of my radar. Though I imagine that when I start in on the volumes, I will like it more.

P.S. I don't think it's a Twilight rip off, I am so sick of hearing about Twilight.

P.P.S. I definitely like Zero WAY more than Kaname, he's so uppity.

Isn't English pretty much the second language of every country in western Europe (due to the cold war era, etc)? When watching anime with a school theme, classes in English are often mentioned and I think it's the same case in Europe. So I wouldn't be surprised if Vic Mignogna is quite familiar to anime fans over there.

I have taken great care to avoid anything Twilight. Even my 12 year old is completely disinterested despite being constantly bombarded with it at school. And as for VK being a Twilight ripoff (which I haven't heard btw) I need to point out that VK came first.

Anime_Rapture wrote:

vashfanatic wrote: rinmackie wrote: But it seems to me, most people don't really give it a chance and pass it off as another Twilight clone. (...) Of course, since I'm one of few people on ANN who like Vampire Knight, (and maybe the only one who likes the character of Zero), I'm probably posting to the wall, but I had to get this off my chest. No, it's not a Twilight clone, because among other things its vampires actually act like real vampires. That's probably why it has an edge over it in my book. It has its own problems, but that's anther story. Mostly it just draaaaaags. This gets worse if you're bad and read the chapters as they come out, because you see how little happens every month. I quit doing that for just that reason, and plan to stick to the nice legal releases like a good little fangirl. And yes, Kaname sucks. I really hate that guy. Zero, for all his wangst, is at least not a manipulative bastard. I haven't gotten around to watching the anime yet, and I read it in Shojo Beat until it stopped publication. When it first started it's run, it was up there on my list of things to read first, but as it went on, it wasn't interesting enough to read 1 chapter per month and some of the other series crept up the list of favs. So when the magazine stopped publication, I soon forgot how it started and how I thought it had been interesting at the start. Eventually I will pick up some of the volumes from where the magazine left off(already did that with Sand Chronicles, and started collecting Nana from the beginning because it doesn't get enough love) but it's sort of fallen off of my radar. Though I imagine that when I start in on the volumes, I will like it more. P.S. I don't think it's a Twilight rip off, I am so sick of hearing about Twilight. P.P.S. I definitely like Zero WAY more than Kaname, he's so uppity.

I love Zero. He is my favorite character. I read the manga as it's officially released and it's an excellent example of why you should buy a series because the tankouban are just beautiful. You can hold the book in your hands and drool over the bishies to your heart's content. Probably 90% of the manga I read regularly are official releases, either English or Japanese, because I love having the book in my hands and I can reread them as often as I like and use them for reference when reading later volumes. That's not impossible if you only read scanlations but it's a helluva lot more work to find the passages you want. Plus the official releases are always cleaner and have extras (I'm not going to go into the actual translation here; just talking about the physical properties of an actual book!).

As for Kaname being "uppity", the more you know about his background the more you can understand why he is who he is.

I have taken great care to avoid anything Twilight. Even my 12 year old is completely disinterested despite being constantly bombarded with it at school. And as for VK being a Twilight ripoff (which I haven't heard btw) I need to point out that VK came first.