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Sanosuke_Inara
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gwdone
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I love Gantz and always will. (Including the live action movie). It's what got me back into anime in a heavy way.
It and Elfen Lied came out around the same time. I was hooked on both. After those two my wallet really got "animated" I read the entire live action Gantz review. From what I gather the only adjustments to meet Zac's needs would be Kie doing all the bitching at the train station and Kay showing her tits. Those are things I can easily over look. I hope part 2 gets in theaters in the U.S. - I'll for sure attend |
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asimpson2006
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Didn't Death Note make eating potato chips a dramatic moment? What makes Stage 2 more shelf worthy than Stage 1 (both at stage worthy IMO) is there is a lot more character development especially Takumi, Itsuki, and Natsumi. Takumi because spoiler[he starts to care more about cars and what makes them work, especially with the end of the Second Stage he says that he wants to learn more about engines] Natsumi's change spoiler[realizing that her subsidized dating thing is not a good idea and stops doing it, then gets a regular part time job] is also good for her and shows that spoiler[she's willing to give up something for the one she loves.] I also though that they character designs were better in Second Stage, but I think everyone can agree that the CGI is bad. |
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RoverTX
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Two things related to your computer. 512MB, G4, wtf?! Do they pay you in burritos or something? The issue there is not only the low ram though but also your processor speed and graphics card I am guessing. Also the fact that no one supports G anything correctly anymore.
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purplepolecat
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I liked Gantz's ultra-cynical take on the human condition. What turned me off, and ultimately stopped me from finishing the series, was the pacing. Erin's right, they could have made Gantz 18, or even 13 episodes, just by cutting out all the scenes in which a character stands "paralyzed by fear", and we get a slow zoom or pan across their face while listening to their internal monologue. Whether the intention was to make the viewer frustrated with the characters, or just pad the running time at no additional cost, I guess it worked.
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CareyGrant
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Pacing! Yeah, I totally forgot to harp on that--one of the issues I had. I remember watching this series when it was first released in singles and being utterly frustrated beyond all measure that they'd take -most times- an entire DVD or two just to clear up one fight/scene. Talk about painful viewing at a glacial pace; I started to root for the villains just to hurry the story along. If there was ever a nominee for a Kai treatment, Gantz is it. But then the show'd be the length of an OVA or two. |
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enurtsol
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Because Germany has the autobahn with no speed limits!** The autobahn lobby in Germany is as powerful as the NRA lobby in the U.S., so it'll stay with no speed limits for a long long while. So you have to be a serious driver, serious enough to plunk $2k, to drive on the autobahn. You can't just have any green teenager or any old granny there. [** There's no speed limits, but they enforce other traffic laws much more strictly, like tail-gating or using the left-lane as passing lane only. You can't have anybody tail-gating or driving on the left-lane at 40 mph when suddenly there's a 200 mph Porsche barreling behind you out of nowhere.] |
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belvadeer
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Adventure Time sucks, and no that's not a blanket statement. I really dislike it. It's ugly, it's stupid and one of CN's worst shows to me.
When you say interspecial, do you mean aliens raping humans or animals trying to? Durarara is one of those current super popular anime right? Like K-ON? Last edited by belvadeer on Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:34 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Sanosuke_Inara
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CareyGrant
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Funny thing that, the Autobahn. A good friend of mine -a German national who married an American, currently attending Pharmacy school in San Francisco- said that, sure there's no speed limits, but they've got major issues with traffic congestion (especially during peak hours or around major cities) that it makes the "no speed limit" thing moot; unless you happen to be driving in the early AM or some ways from any city. Also, their public and mass transit systems are light years beyond our own. You really don't "need" a car, in most cases, to get around easily. |
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erinfinnegan
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I've trying to mention this as often as possible from the time I took over Shelf Life; I have three (major) criteria for Shelf Worthiness. A show doesn't have to meet all three, but the more the merrier. Here they are: 1. Re-watch value 2. Loan-ability 3. Super-cool extras too good to pass up #3 is why I made at least the first volume of the Dragon Box Shelf Worthy - I didn't want to re-watch it, but the packaging and extras are worthwhile. I suppose "Extras" extends to a nice presentation of the material.
Ha HAH I almost included a line about this in the column, but it was running long. Rin doesn't have the same pacing problems, it's better science fiction, but you're right, I wouldn't loan that to a coworker (unless I knew them super-well). I have the three pronged test above, where I would re-watch Rin. I might do an entire podcast about how I found Legend of the Over Fiend and Demon City Shinjuku way less offensive than Gantz. In those titles, like in Rin, there aren't scenes Gantz-like scenes where non-consensual sex is happening and bystanders are simply unwilling to try and stop it. Gantz is punishing you for being a viewer, and condemning you and other pedestrians. I've heard the movie Straw Dogs does this, but I'm way too squeamish to watch it. (Somehow Rin was OK though.)
No, not really. It is very competently written, and there's a thoughtful message at the end (and for the Straw Dogs reasons above). But I wouldn't have gotten to the end if I wasn't forced...
In an ideal world it'd be nice to have a closed caption track of the dub in addition to the subtitles. I mean, I'm not the one funding these productions, so... what's weird is that sometimes anime DOES get closed captions. My brother's friends work at a closed captioning facility and have worked on anime titles before. Those tracks don't make it to the DVD, though.
Yes, and it was ridiculous then, too. I thought the manga was way better for just this sort of reason; dramatic moments in manga don't always translate to the screen very well.
I keep forgetting that home video as a market hasn't been around all that long. I mean sure, people made 8mm home movies in the 50's and may have collected 16mm films, but those people were not average consumers. Collecting VHS tapes was only popular in what, the 1980's? That's only 30 years of home video. Especially television...in the 1990's I only owned like two volumes of the X-Files, because it was cumbersome and expensive to collect whole TV series.
Hahaha, like the old days of taping shows on SLP tapes. Or the more recent old days of filling up external drives and meaning to burn discs but never actually doing it... |
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wandering-dreamer
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Considering the amount of fanart and cosplay I've seen in the English speaking fandoms for this show (and, as a general rule of thumb, the English speaking fandom doesn't follow new shows as closely as Japan does) and since the DVDs sold 10,000+ copies of each volume in Japan, yeah I'd compare it to K-ON right now. Aside from that, I thought that the DVD looked super crisp on my computer (generally DVDs don't look that nice on my Mac actually, been meaning to tweak it to fix that) so it's interesting to hear other people say that. I wonder if Aniplex did something different to their discs to make a difference like that. |
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Sanosuke_Inara
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K-On has far more fanart than DRRR!! ever will, and yeah--DRRR's DVDs may sold over 10,000+ each volume, but did you know that K-On's Blu-ray numbers recently hit over 500,000? Am I saying that DRRR!! isn't popular? No. But face it, it's nowhere near as popular as K-On is. |
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erinfinnegan
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At Comiket last winter (the 2010 Winter Comiket) I was surprised by how many tables were devoted to Durarara. It was a good section of West Hall, about the same size as the Fullmetal Alchemist section (although in 2006 FMA had a huuuuuge hall). Anyway, the Durarara section was indeed much smaller than the K-On section, which was a huge part of East Hall. I wander which was bigger, the K-On section or the Vocaloid section? Vocaloid or Toho? Toho... or Hetalia? I should mention that the Durarara fandom was almost all girls reading/drawing slash doujin about the boy characters. The K-On section was in the extra-porn-ridden super-scary section so I didn't investigate it closely. |
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CareyGrant
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Remind me again... was that a left or a right turn by the vending machines nearest the furry pleasure dungeons on sub-basement 4? |
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