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The Mike Toole Show - Rumiko Rundown

Waffitti wrote:

I haven't watched InuYasha since it first aired on Toonami. The dub was...odd. 40+ epsiodes in, Kagome's name was changed to "Agome" ("cago me" is portuguese for "shit myself")

That is always a potential problem with names, including product names.
I wonder what Spanish-speaking countries did with Castle in the Sky. Since "la puta" is Spanish slang for "the whore", searching for Laputa could take on a somewhat different meaning.

I wonder what Spanish-speaking countries did with Castle in the Sky. Since "la puta" is Spanish slang for "the whore", searching for Laputa could take on a somewhat different meaning.

I do not doubt that a lot of people have shipped Seshomaru and Miroku, but you were probably thinking of Sango and Miroku.

My memory gets pretty fuzzy when it comes to Toonami (it came here in '02 and was moved to midnight in '04), Sesshomaru was InuYasha's brother, right? I remember he used to walk around with a comic relief gremlin or something?

I wasn't very big on romance, seeing dudes with swords that heal and guys with magic holes in their hands was enough to hook me in.

Although one of my other cherished memories come from Robot Chicken and a sketch they did with a father getting into Inuyasha from his daughter and getting to be more of a addict than her (and all in the end so as to turn her off of it so he could watch what he wanted, but still), as it really underscored just how much that series had permeated American media culture. Not to mention the sketch in its own right was fairly amusing.

On the topic of Beautiful Dreamer, wasn't it really divisive among fans when it came out for being more Oshii than Takahashi and lead to Oshii to distance himself from adapting other people's things and more towards what he wanted to make? (and didn't he make a film that was kinda sorta the Summer Wars to Beautiful Dreamer's Our War Game!?)

Those characters were definitely part of the attraction for me. Especially since neither of them wanted what they had.

Watching Sky Crawlers, I felt like Oshii was living through his old plots over and over, day after day, and never noticing....

I'm sure she has plenty of positives but brevity and conclusions will never be a part of it.

For me nothing tops One Pound Gospel, both the manga & OVA, but that's partially due to relative lack of familiarity with Takahashi's works. I've only seen bits & pieces of InuYasha, I remember seeing the Ranma fighting game on SNES when I was kid but have never read the manga or watched the anime, I read only the first few chapters of Rin-ne, and I've never seen any of her other works, minus OPG. Still, OPG is extremely well done, the comedy is funny, & even the boxing matches themselves are exciting; I really didn't expect Takahashi to know how to do boxing as well as she did.

That said, I will eventually buy that first BD set of Ranma 1/2 (that's all you really need to watch, right?), and I would buy those Rumic World OVAs if they ever got a DVD re-release. I'm interested in seeing more of her work, but like Mike said the biggest issue if the phrase "out-of-print". Really, for someone so iconic & popular it's surprising that so much of her stuff is OOP.

Ranma 1/2 aired in Brazil in 2006 (tough it was originally meant to air in 2000) on Toonami, censored, at 1:40-2:05 in the morning. I didn't watch it (damn you parents that thought that Toonami was too violent! [tough it did allow CN to air raunchier stuff]). It did get aired uncensored late at night (not on CN though) alongside Love Hina, Trigun and Samurai Champloo. I didn't watch it (mostly due to a combination of not being able to stay up late and not knowing that it was airing). I only watched it years later when I found dubbed episodes on YT.

I never watched all of it, I wanted a clear resolution and was tired of the running in circles that seemed to go on forever. Looking back, the Shampoo episodes would be the last ones I'd ever watch again (Mousse is the only chinese character that still kinda sorta holds up). I don't know why, but I really like Hawaiian Kuno and Pantyhose Taro (nice designs I guess).

I haven't watched InuYasha since it first aired on Toonami. The dub was...odd. 40+ epsiodes in, Kagome's name was changed to "Agome" ("cago me" is portuguese for "shit myself") and subpar synching/mixing. The dub took a nosedive in quality during the third season: The dubbing studio had money problems, VAs were replaced, the studio's owner did VA for a lot of extras, names were changed, and, to top it all off, the last episodes were never dubbed.

I never cared much for the romance in the series (I never really cared much for InuYasha and Agome either, Sesshomaru and Miroku seemed more interesting to me), and the storytelling made the series feel like it was going someplace, avoiding the burnout feeling that Ranma gives.

Unfortunately the one-offs never were brought over here, they seem really interesting (and don't drag on forever). I'll try to find fansubs or something.

I watched a few episodes of Ranma back when I was first getting into anime in the nineties. Everyone was obsessed with it, but I was the only one who wasn't. I might give it another try, one of these days. The only series from Rumiko that hooked me in right away was Inuyasha.

I'm obsessed with Inuyasha and know the series backwards and I'm certain her name was never Agome. Where did you hear that?

InuKag1 wrote:

I'm obsessed with Inuyasha and know the series backwards and I'm certain her name was never Agome. Where did you hear that?

Just as an example, watch this video, InuYasha calls for "Agome" 2 seconds in. And listening to later episodes he continues to call her that for the remainder of the series.

...I forgot that Sango's VA was the same one that did female Ranma and that Agome's was the one that did Nabiki, Miroku was Young Happosai...