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Daemonblue
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Wanna first point out that Nura is in Junior Highschool, not Highschool. He is kinda only 12 after all. As for the low ratings, if they showed the "incident that happened 4 years ago" as the first ep (first chapter of the manga) the scores would've probably been higher as it explains why he was adverse to becoming the supreme commander, rather than the anime just making him seem like a little kid that would never exist in real life (who wouldn't wanna be the leader of 100 demons :X). That was one of the reasons it got somewhat low scores.
Anyway, other than the missing chapter and them starting the show a bit mid-arc and then returning to what was chapter 2 in the manga, it's following relatively close to the source material, and hopefully it doesn't go off on a tangent cause it's actually pretty good. |
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garfield15
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Well, it's confirmed for 24 episodes so it's gonna go off eventually...
You should hear him as Tetsugyu in Giant Robo. You won't even think it's the same guy. Also his Lucario is pretty good. |
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garfield15
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Well, it's confirmed for 24 episodes so it's gonna go off eventually...
You should hear him as Tetsugyu in Giant Robo. You won't even think it's the same guy. Also his Lucario is pretty good. |
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mglittlerobin
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Those ginormous collections made me go "wow!"
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wandering-dreamer
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If you mean "go off and do it's own thing" then no it shouldn't, it's got enough material to either end on the next major arc or if they pace it really fast there are a few mini arcs they could use to fill up the last few episodes. And I agree that it would've been nice if they had included in the first chapter in somewhere, Rikou feels less like a whiny little kid and more like a mature little kid after that. |
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Mohawk52
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penguintruth
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Listen to a Giant Robo English dub? No thanks. They're both terrible. |
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triangle_man
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Those are amazing shelves. It's nice to see someone with a few Kurosawas in their collection. I'm a bit surprised they haven't gotten Yojimbo/Sanjuro on BluRay yet though. It's soooo much better looking than the original DVDs. I also wonder if they'll triple dip when Seven Samurai comes out on BluRay. I know I will.
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kayue
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Gotta admit that I too, was put off by the low ratings for Nura at first. But having read some of the manga, I had to watch the show.
It does start off slow and generic, but the manga does pick up, and the anime seems to be doing so too. They've just finished Gyuki's story, (not quite as dramatic as the manga) but plenty interesting, so I have great hope for the upcoming episodes. I'm not a great fan of football either (or of sports in general) but I love sports anime. Don't know why. And I enjoyed Eyeshield 21 for the most part. Sena is adorable (if a bit pathetic), but seeing him mature is praiseworthy. Though I somehow have gotten bogged down in the endless tournaments after spoiler[Sena was unmasked] and have yet to start watching again. And YES, watch Hunter X Hunter. One of the greats, IMHO 
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erinfinnegan
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Crud! I'll have to edit that... |
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machetecat
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The box set of Ninja Nonsense released before this one actually did come with a headband and Onsokumaru stress ball thing... I use it to hold all my ponytails now.  He looks like he's trying to break the bonds instead of taking a dump or whatever that expressions's supposed to be.
I love that show to bits. It's absolutely hilarious, which kinda surprised me. I show it to all my crack-loving friends now.
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JLightstar
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I'm glad that you liked Eyeshield 21. I really wanted to support this series legally but after the demise of the dub and the time between the episode being subbed on Crunchyroll and the announcement of the dvd by Sentai Filmworks, I was almost thinking about buying Japanese or Korean editions ( If they were available.) My only complaint about the dvd was the constant nicknames Hiruma was giving Sena and Kurita that just didn't seem like something an American translator would use ( Man Pig for Kurita, Mana user for Sena. Who speaks like this.) Plus the way they sorta added a little american trash talk to Hiruma " Come on Ladies!" and of course, replacing the F bomb for "Freaking" I came to terms with it. Plus, since they got the clean textless opening and ending animation, they didn't bother using it to put their credits in it. They decide to use a black screen to run their credit of people that are important. ( The credit of the songs and performers were missing....) I do want to point out for people who are fluent in japanese and are wanting to view the episodes without the english subtitles. You can turn them off if you have a subtitles buttton on your dvd remote. Now If Sentai Filmworks would announce the release date for collection three I would be all set.
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Mikeski
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After a few critical responses to recent Shelf Lives, I'd like to say that this one rocked.
Specifically, a Ninja Nonsense review, because I've already seen it... What made Bamboo's version of Shelf Life (or any other "personality-driven" review column) very useful to me was the history of reviews of shows I had watched. Knowing how the reviewer and I react to the same show means I can read a scathing review of a new show and say "you know, I'd love this", or read a glowing review and say "yup, better pass on this one."
And having "bad guys" in sports stories who flaunt the rules and get away with it is practically the defining trope of the genre (right after "plucky underdog wins at the last second through sheer perseverance".)
And even though you know every harem comedy will have the Beach Episode, the Onsen Episode, and the Festival Episode, with the same jokes (hey, it's Onsen time, think the guys'll get caught peeking? Think the tsundere one will punch the milquetoast male lead into the next prefecture for it?), they can still be funny. Even though you already knew the next line when Johnny Carson said "take the Slauson cutoff..." it was still hilarious... in fact, that was why it was hilarious. Or, as the site says, tropes are not bad. * - know why there's a box to be thought outside of in the first place? Because most of the answers are in the box. |
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sonryu
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erinfinnegan
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That's true of all the Sentaiworks releases I've watched so far. The Right Stuf/Nozumi puts a still image from the show under the translated credits. The black Sentaiworks credits - which usually have no music under them - bothered me at first, but now I'm used to it.
Hooray! You're in luck, since there are a lot of re-releases lately.
This is something my husband and I talked about my Japanese friend's dad in Japan once. He said something like, "You Americans are idiots; it's incredibly expensive to invent something new. It's much cheaper, and therefore much more profitable, to improve on an existing invention." And he's right. If you think about in terms of something like, say, the ipod - Apple didn't invent the first MP3 player, they just made a better one that people liked. |
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