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areaseven
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I got my copy of Panda-Z this week. $15.99 isn't too bad, as you're practically paying for the PVC figure. Still, five episodes per disc is really not enough.
BTW, the Area 88 OAV is still better than the TV series. |
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Ramadahl
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I'm glad someone else found Innocence pretentious, when I said that people just looked at me like I was crazy...
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Bruce Lee
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Is there any relation between the Area 88 game and OAV/TV Show?
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drwyrm
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To be fair, what you said was:
For that matter, the same could be said of the first two OVA series and the movie, since they all pretty much required familiarity with the games to have any idea of what was going on. With regard to Ecole de Paris, though, what you said wasn't really true. For example, when the priest tells Erica that dancing is the fun thing that men and women do at night that Lobelia was talking about, someone who played Sakura 3 would then know why Erica woke Ohgami up by doing her 'Good Morning Dance' after she spent the night at his apartment. The Sakura Taisen animation products are to the games what Advent Children was to FF7: fan service. If someone who had never played FF7 were to watch it and then complain that it didn't make any sense, then they would just be told to play the game; why should this be any different? Admittedly, the lack of ST games in English kind of limits the audience on this side of the Pacific to importers who either buy the Japanese (or Chinese PC) versions of the game, but to say that fans of the series (who, over here, have either played the games and know what's going on, or haven't played the games and haven't cared that they didn't know what was going on when they watched the previous anime) should stay away from it seems like a blanket statement made by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. I haven't watched them in a while (since they came out in Japan), but I don't remember them being all that bad. The ST games are pretty cheesy to begin with, so you can't really expect anything that different from the anime. Anyway, my main point was that Ecole de Paris, Le Nouveau Paris, Ouka Kenran, and Gouka Kenran were all made for fans of ST, and not for the anime market at large, and so they assume that the viewers were already familiar with the characters and subject material. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to release stuff in the U.S. that exists to flesh out existing characters when the work that originally had those characters in it isn't available, but for some reason they continue to do that with Sakura Taisen. |
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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*cries at ADV's ugly choice of DVD covers for her Loki-sama*
 Must go out and buy, must go out and buy now. Lokiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
I'll probably throw a fit once I hear adult Loki's dub voice, cause there's no way they'll find a guy to live up to Sakurai Takahiro, course I don't plan on listing to that thing much anyway. I'm so crazy about this series, I scare myself with the amount of doujin I bought based on it. Finally, I can throw out my icky hongkong bootleg. But bleah, hate their choice of the covers. |
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