Forum - View topicShelf Life - Beck to the Future
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CaptainAvatar
 Posts: 381 Location: Saint Louis, MO |
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You kids are making me feel rather old! (There is a clue to my age in my user name, which I have come to hate and wish I could change!) Beck is up next in my Netflix queue, and once Shuffle is all out, I'll give it a rental too. I love reviews and throughly enjoy Bamboo's column, but ultimately I judge the shows for myself (although I am in agreement with Bamboo much more often than not!  ).
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8JF
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A stab of a guess would say 67 was your birth year.
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LydiaDianne
 Posts: 5633 Location: Southern California |
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Don't you DARE claim you're old...I'm only a year behind you! |
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MokonaModoki
 Posts: 437 Location: Austin, Texas |
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Yeah... I'm older than that by a couple years.
It's nice to see the continuing Beck love happening. I'm a big Beck fan with a completely filled amp box, all the manga released here, a poster signed by the dub cast and directors, and a little framed display for all seven guitar picks. That's right. Seven.
In any case, knowing what I do about the progression of the manga after the events of the anime leaves me at a bit of a loss to know how they could have ended it otherwise (without introducing huge cliffhangers and/or spoilers). I just took the little montage sequence as a "and the story went on" signal and just continued the wait for more manga. Trivial footnote: for the slideshow sequence at the end, Greg Ayres and Brina Palencia were in the recording booth at the same time. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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Oh yeah? Do you have the collectible guitar trading figures?? Because *I* do.  Though I don't have the full set, which I'm bummed about.
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MokonaModoki
Posts: 437 Location: Austin, Texas |
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No ma'am, I have not, and I bow down to the master. But I would snap them up in a heartbeat given the chance. And happy birthday! edited to fix very busted quoting Last edited by MokonaModoki on Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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8JF
Posts: 88 |
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Me? Don't you mean SNL67?
I'm working on complete decade #3 not starting #5 |
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LydiaDianne
Posts: 5633 Location: Southern California |
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Yes, I meant SNL67. Crap! Did you have to do your math that way? 
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Shenmei
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Need to get my shelves filled up. D:
Moving around doesn't help. And continuous buying and saying "I'll take the picture after I buy this" doesn't help... Need to post my collection soon. Been meaning to for a year. |
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CaptainAvatar
Posts: 381 Location: Saint Louis, MO |
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I'm not claiming to be old, just that all the youngsters around here sometimes make me feel that way. Lets face facts, I am above the bell curve as far as average age of most anime fans these days! |
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irishninja
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I think I might be right there with you on upping the age average around here. That just makes us dignified, right? Maybe gentrified? Or... uh... maybe just old?
... Anyway, happy birthday, Bamboo! I agree. I really wish my shelves were as organized as this week's collection. Alas. :\ Oh! And I'm glad to hear that Beck didn't completely fizzle at the end. I trust your opinion, so I'll check it out now.  Thanks!!!
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Vicserr
 Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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Yup, In out time we had to walk 20 miles everyday, on a dirt road, under a thunderstorm to watch anime on dinky analog Standard Defintion sets, some of then were monochromatic screens and in mono, with the pictures drawn on cels and photographed 24 cells just to make 1 second of animation . You kids and your direct dowloaded, 16:9 HD, GC filled, computer colored anime think you have it made...
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CaptainAvatar
Posts: 381 Location: Saint Louis, MO |
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Yeah, one look at my avatar and you will see a character from my first anime love, Star Blazers, which was watched in syndication on this quaint thing called a "UHF TV station"! |
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Vicserr
Posts: 480 Location: Carolina, Puerto Rico USA |
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Yup! My first exposures to anime were of the same vintage, Spanish dubbed versions of Mazinger Z, Space BattleShip Yamato, Space Pirate Capt. Herlock, BotP among others. 
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hogkill3
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I actually registered an account just so I could reply to this.
"Let me say this: if there is one show out there right now currently being released that totally deserves the hype, it's Fullmetal Alchemist." I completely respect the majority of reviews on shelf life but I have to say that statement is total bs. And all these statements people are making about FMA being the best show, or the show that got them into anime, make me want run to the nearest animecon and start punching people. Now I may not have seen as much anime as some of you, I've ony watched about 80 shows and maybe 20+ movies but FMA is definitely the most overated show out there. Not just because it gets more attention than it warrants, but because its BAD and gets touted as the best show out there. Out of all the shows I've seen only two shows were worse than it, Trinity Blood and Lucky Star. The story is about a kid who desecrates his moms corpse, and blows up his brother, attaches his soul to a suit of armor and then goes on a journey looking for a magical gemstone that can get his brother's body back; this is not a good story. Along the way I am forced into watching crappy battle scenes, and the LARGEST AMOUNT OF EMO SCENES present in any anime. I cannot stand the incredible amount of emo scenes in this show, not just because they are emo but because I didn't find the stuff they were crying about sad, just stupid. Brother being blown up and stuck to a piece of armor = stupid not sad. This show is probably entirely to blame for the emo fad that is spreading across north america. And as for shows I have seen that deserve this kind of hype they are: Gantz, Berserk, Cowboy Bebop, Haruhi, Death Note and Beck. And yes I do think Gantz is an amazing show. I get the feeling that all the people who didn't like it are the emo FMA fanatics. And the show that got me into anime was definitely Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. If FMA turned you on to anime stop cutting your wrists for looks and please follow through. It deserves a 7 out of 10 at best. |
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