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now i know people are entitled to their own opinion but the majority seem to love the show so who's right and who's wrong?

Media Blasters appears to be having a fire sale.

I don't know if this is good news or bad news.

They do seem to still have some of their titles listed for pre-order!

TarsTarkas wrote:

If Erin didn't want to hear you all moan and hate her, all she had to do is lock the topic. She wants you to talk about it, and she knows a lot of you disagree with her. It is kinda of disingenuous to say she is trying to shut you up, when the topic is unlocked.

For starters I doubt people are "hating" on her. And calling dissenting opinions hating and moaning is rather rude and belligerent on your part. Those who disagree with her have all the right to voice their opinions without being labeled haters or moaners because they disagree with her. Plus given Erin's track record of voicing views and reviews that seem to not make complete sense or contradict her own previous ones (such as calling Casshern Sins perishable but yet calling Gaogaigar shelf worthy) it's no wonder many seem frustrated or confused at this point.

Secondly actually no she couldn't lock the thread. Erin is not a moderator or admin so she can't lock anything. Only a moderator or admin could do that. Not trying to be rude towards you, just clarifying for you. It is also not her call to even make. Even if she went to the mods or admins and demanded it there's no guarantee they would. That's their call, and if no rules were being violated I trust the mods to have enough professionalism to leave it open for discussion. Plus doing that would only speak negatively on Erin's character trying to stifle discussion if she ever did try that and I would trust her won professionalism to prevent that.

I just hope at this point after all this we can move on from the continuing Casshern sins discussion. I don't think it's going any further then where it already has anymore so let's move on to the next topic for drama.

Woah this thread is a total 180 to the other Casshern Sins discussion thread. Erin has her own opinion and that's fine but I think I'll stick to other thread for discussion of the show to avoid all the chaos.

Btw your question about Ringo spoiler[Ringo is a new species, a possible human/robot hybrid, since she has the ability to grow while having a mechanical body. I guess you missed the part where Ohji explains that Casshern, Leda, and Dio were created to have the ability to reproduce like humans giving robots immortality in a sense. Ringo is the daughter of Leda and the father is never disclosed but can only be either Dio or Casshern.]

Well, reviews are opinions after all. It seems to me that if she hated the first part that much, she wasn't going to like the second part.

Can ANN have a more balanced review of part 2 completed by someone else?

At the level of "Everyone should find the show to be entertaining because ...", its very hard for anyone to be right

I like Casshern, but I'll be damned if I am gonna get all butthurt cause some person on the internet has a different opinion. Stick to your guns Erin, I know how you feel, I get this same reaction when I mention that I consider Akira perishable and Evangelion a rental at best...

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except that I do agree with her about that weird dream episode focusing on Lyuze

I thought this was the single best episode of the series myself. And it's pretty blatent that it's a spoiler[dream/ruin induced halucination]

I mean, I got annoyed with even the first episode of Black Lagoon, with all the people going on and on about how the world sucks, they're in hell, blah blah.

Obviously, Erin does not have the gift of prophecy. For if she did she would have just avoided Casshern all together.

to bad people will end up seeing her first (since the she reviewed the first bluray before you did both) and end up avoiding.

Can ANN have a more balanced review of part 2 completed by someone else?

Casshern Sins put me to sleep. I had to wake myself up through 3 episodes before I gave up.

diebuster wrote:

It's that she claimed that a voice actor for one of the characters was its only redeeming quality while she, I quote, "dumped on the animation quality" even though anyone with even the tiniest amount of animation knowledge should realize that it took far moare skill to draw and animate than the average anime.

Yeah...except that Erin actually has worked as an animator, so to suggest that she has no knowledge of animation is laughable.

Btw your question about Ringo spoiler[Ringo is a new species, a possible human/robot hybrid, since she has the ability to grow while having a mechanical body..] I guess you missed the part where spoiler[Ohji explains that Casshern, Leda, and Dio were created to have the ability to reproduce like humans giving robots immortality in a sense. Ringo is the daughter of Leda and the father is never disclosed but can only be either Dio or Casshern.]

IIRC...

spoiler[ Oji said that Leda couldn't have children. She either aborted or had a stillborn possibly. Ringo was found inside of another robot by Oji.]

Erin, I know how you feel, I get this same reaction when I mention that I consider Akira perishable and Evangelion a rental at best...

kakitamike wrote:

Casshern Sins put me to sleep. I had to wake myself up through 3 episodes before I gave up.

Although the show infuriated me too much to sleep through, I'm convinced that it is written for an audience that's half asleep at 2 or 3 in the morning. You can snooze through most of each episode and still get the gist of it.

Didn't expect GGG to be shelf worthy. Good news to me. I love GGG. It's a fun show. It's probably the one series that I was ever curious to watch and fell in love with. And I'm not a big mecha hound. But I have my moments.

I hope that one day 'MB' will consider bringing over the OVAs that mark the FINALE of the series. It's really worth seeing. The series itself isn't complete without those OVAs. In many ways, GGG marks the end of an era of the "over the top" robot shows. However 'Gainax' brought it back with 'GB2' and 'Gurren Lagann'.

Hardgear wrote:

Erin, I know how you feel, I get this same reaction when I mention that I consider Akira perishable and Evangelion a rental at best...

That is CRAZY. Akira's going to be the only thing I buy on Blu-ray the minute I get a Blu-ray playing device. (So far I've watched all the Blu-rays at friends' places.)

erinfinnegan wrote:

That is CRAZY. Akira's going to be the only thing I buy on Blu-ray the minute I get a Blu-ray playing device. (So far I've watched all the Blu-rays at friends' places.)

I hate this movie and almost nothing you can say will change my mind.

Yeah...except that Erin actually has worked as an animator, so to suggest that she has no knowledge of animation is laughable. She defended her position on the animation of Casshern Sins on last weeks Shelf Life forum by the way. If it bugs you that much, maybe you should go mosey on over and read it and find out why she doesn't like the animation on Casshern Sins. It's definitely a lot more constructive that just blindly accusing her of not knowing what she's talking about.

Thank you! Although, to clarify, my job title has never been "animator". I've worked as a Production Coordinator, a Script Coordinator, and a Production Assistant. When I was Post Production Coordinator I got to look at actual budgets and stuff. Most of the shows I've worked on were animated overseas.

My husband couldn't understand how anyone could possibly like Casshern Sins. He's read these forum threads and is absolutely flabbergasted.