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fighterholic
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Glad I know Japanese. |
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penguintruth
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It's not like they got every Gundam reference wrong (I think they even identified the Dom right for the gag with Excel's pants legs), but you're right, some of their info was innacurate, and for a show so heavily steeped in Gundam reference, that's not good. Er, so maybe they can pry Mark Simmons away from Bandai for a little while to get the notes right? |
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loplop
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Great, ADV gets to butcher another show. I'm still rather pissed off about the butchering of Comic Party Revolutions. They completely trashed the first 4 episodes by cutting 8-9 minutes from each one. What will they cut from Keroro Gunsou?
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darkchibi07
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Uhhh, the first 4 episodes were originally the OVA episodes that were cut down from time for TV broadcast. ADV has those TV broadcast episodes along with the other 9 episodes. Something tells me you won't respond to this. 
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biliano
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I know that you're one of the biggest Gundam fans on the planet, and I understand why you and all of the Gundan fans on the ANN forum (among other places) might be concerned about how ADV handles the franchise, but in my view I'm not dreading the eventual release of this series (which according to Diamond Previews is slated for February 2007). On the contrary, I'm looking forward to this series. I don't download anime so I haven't seen Sgt. Frog yet. I don't know how many Gundam references are contained in this series, and frankly I don't care (being that I'm not a Gundam fan to begin with). The Gundam references are irrelevant in my view. I'm mainly interested in this series because my favorite director (Junichi Sato) worked on this series, and everything he touches turns into pure gold. 
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Mihara
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"SGT Frog"? Why are they using that translation?
Meh, I look forward to this. They'll probably keep the in jokes, they'll probably have half assed explanations, but I already understand most of them on my own, so that won't bother me. |
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loplop
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Actually, I will. The fact was they were not presented in their original form of the OVAs, so Yes, it was butchered. What was cut out was significant, especially in episodes 1 & 4 of the series. I would have much rather seen Right Stuf release the series because they would have released it complete. I am going way off topic here. ADV has butchered more than one show, and I feel that this will be the latest . . . . |
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hikaru004
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Now to be fair about this .. How do we know that the OVAs were able to be licensed for R1? The license holder could have said no or were making it impossible like what's happening with Shana-tan. Besides, ADV didn't cut it down for TV. The original producers did. |
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Joe Mello
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Because they can. And probably because the manga did. For those dreading the release, I don't suppose FLCL as precedent could give you hope for the future..... Another thing: I thought this was licensed a long time ago. |
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HitokiriShadow
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The manga has been licensed for a long time, but there has ever been anything about the anime being licensed.
It probably would have been separate from the TV license and would have cost extra. |
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Zalis116
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Speaking of translation notes/references, CPR is yet another series that isn't getting deleted off my hard drive, since the fansubs do far more to explain the in-jokes, like Aya dressing in costumes from other Leaf games in the first episode. ADV doesn't come anywhere close to what TRSI did for the first series. And now that Sgt. Frog is being scheduled for February, it once again begs the question, "How can they announce a series three months before a DVD release, when this series is still MIA?" |
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Mihara
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Anime Lord
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AWESOME!!!
Keroro is so cool. I'm glad ADV got it.... Oh, and I'm kinda bothered by the fact that they might call the anime SGT Frog.  Why not just translate the title directly and call it SGT Keroro? I'll always be calling it Keroro Gunsou, so I guess it doesn't matter. 
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Nagisa
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Here's the thing. About 90% of all the referencial humor in Keroro Gunsou consists of Gundam and other Bandai anime references (or at least it has in the dozen or so episodes I've seen). Hell, the red frog, Giroro, is the epitome of every hard-boiled Zeon ace that ever existed (Ramba Ral, Norris Packard, Shin Matsunaga, et al). The show really wouldn't be half as funny as it is if you didn't know at least the basics of Gundam; to have a diminutive, megalomaniacal frog shout "even my own father didn't hit me!" just is not funny at all unless you know it's lifted from a certain scene in the original Gundam series with a certain slap-happy captain. And those sort of references occur several times in an episode. Yes, Keroro does cook up some original comedic material, but easily about 25-50% of the humor contained within requires a good working knowledge of Bandai mech anime, especially Gundam. And with ADV getting three Gundam references wrong to every one they got right in past liner notes and Vid Notes, yes, I'm dreading this release. Not merely as a Gundam otaku, but as a Keroro fan who knows the comedy just doesn't work if the company handling it doesn't know jack about what they're translating. This isn't Gundam fanboy rantings; given the very core nature of the show's comedy, ADV's obvious cluelessness about Gundam WILL sorely hurt the quality of this release. |
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wilson_x1999
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I was gonna answer this, but Nagisa already did 
If the ADV releases are crap, I'll have to spend LOTS, and I mean, LOTS of money on getting the R2 releases >.< |
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