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MarshalBanana
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This show was very engrossing. I hope it gets a UK release, I would like to rewatch it.
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Gemnist
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:44 pm
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Sentai, when will you learn to dub?
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killjoy_the
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 2:16 pm
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I feel like the show lost all of its atmosphere in the last arc, and instead turned into Scooby-Doo.
It felt very jarring (though the comedy scenes were always silly, they never got in the way of the actual plot) and dumb.
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Brand
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 2:39 pm
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| Gemnist wrote: | | Sentai, when will you learn to dub? |
Considering when Funimation released the first series years ago it did abysmally for them, I am not shocked that Sentai didn't do a dub as they are pretty expensive.
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12skippy21
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:08 pm
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| MarshalBanana wrote: | | This show was very engrossing. I hope it gets a UK release, I would like to rewatch it. |
So would I. This was the show that sealed my fate and got me into anime (plus buying all the manga, my poor bank balance).
I do not know if this could get through the BBFC uncensored though. Scenes of child abuse and suicide (especially those in the first season) would unlikely get through unscaved.
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Gemnist
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 7:09 pm
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| Brand wrote: |
| Gemnist wrote: | | Sentai, when will you learn to dub? |
Considering when Funimation released the first series years ago it did abysmally for them, I am not shocked that Sentai didn't do a dub as they are pretty expensive. |
Sentai is cheap, often going for the lowest good quality for their releases. Also, it was Geneon that had the license; Funimation only handled the making of the home media, so it wasn't really their series until Geneon closed down (as with Black Lagoon and Ergo Proxy), at which point the show went unlicensed before finally being picked up by Sentai.
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maximilianjenus
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 7:15 pm
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I lveo how learned, several years later that the mistery liquid rika is drinking in the "filler" arc was actually wine watered down (with tap water, because satoko got mad at rika buying good quality/mineral water)
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DuelGundam2099
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 7:36 pm
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Hmm, another review where story and overall grades are identical despite the other scores being lower. In all serious though, music and some writing aside it didn't have much going for it; granted it is at least better than the first series which it kind of needed for the setting to work.
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GEO9875
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:05 am
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Shame about no dub option, oh well, just sticking with season 1 i guess...
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:41 am
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| killjoy_the wrote: | | I feel like the show lost all of its atmosphere in the last arc, and instead turned into Scooby-Doo.
It felt very jarring (though the comedy scenes were always silly, they never got in the way of the actual plot) and dumb. |
Well they had to wrap up the series some how and after knowing who the true villain was from the previous arc. If you are honestly interested try watching a let's play of the ps2/ps3/vita port with subs.
Now in the last arc of you are given a choice and it will result in the death of some-one in the group and has bigger impact than the ending R7 originally wrote. This branch is not in the PC version licensed by manga gamer.
"I'm sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes"
As for the review good job as always Rebecca keep up the good work.
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MarshalBanana
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:18 am
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| GEO9875 wrote: | | Shame about no dub option, oh well, just sticking with season 1 i guess... |
You are only doing yourself a disservice, Kai is where all the questions from season 1 are announced.
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jymmy
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:15 am
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| Quote: | | It has been a long time coming, but finally the second season of When They Cry, When They Cry: Kai, has gotten an official English-language release |
... in North America. I've owned an official English-language release of Higurashi Kai for years now, and so have many in North America, at least according to forum posts on this website.
It's also quite strange to speak of fidelity to the manga when each is an adaptation of the game and Kai largely aired alongside or before the same content's publication in the manga.
| DuelGundam2099 wrote: | | Hmm, another review where story and overall grades are identical despite the other scores being lower |
That makes sense to me. What else matters? Assuming you include story-appropriate characterisation, everything else is just window dressing. Well-animated trash is well-animated trash; an engrossing story with poor animation is just that: a good movie/series/whatever that happens to have unimpressive animation.
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Hideki-Motosuwa
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:05 am
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Oh.......a sub only Blu-Ray from Sentai? Who would have thought. Guess I can add this to my "To Have" list now.
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pachy_boy
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:11 am
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Some may be dissatisfied with Kai's change in tone from the first season, but when I watched it this was where the overall story got at its most intriguing/compelling, and made me realize that Higurashi was in fact a story, and not just a series of alternate tales where the same friends kill each other in different ways as Season 1 would probably have lead to believe. I also found myself caring/rooting for the characters in a way I never would've expected as things got exciting, which helped make the story's conclusion all the more breathtaking in its own right. So kudos to Sentai for finishing the series's release, including the upcoming epilogue OVA that is Rei that truly caps off the story on a poignant note.
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DuelGundam2099
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:17 am
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| Quote: | | What else matters? |
The hundreds if not thousands of people it takes to construct the music, making sure the music fits, mixing the audio correctly, having the appropriate volumes, frame the cells correctly, animate the individual cells correctly and consistently, making sure the senses of the audience is not assaulted by color choices, said color choices having the correct tone, placing detail into each individual cell both in animated and background portions, syncing audio so it isn't distracting, having cast members hurt their throats to deliver lines in specific manners, etc. You know, stuff that qualifies animation as animation.
| Quote: | | everything else is just window dressing. |
This is ignorant, this is a standard for books and other text-only stories. If you're going for a visual medium such as movies, TV, animation, comics, etc. other aspects do matter or else your audience will likely up and leave you. On top of all that, ignoring everything I mentioned above is unprofessional, more effort goes into these than mere story-boarding and a script. Plenty of articles here have gone over how difficult the living conditions of these people are both at the economic and social level, to call all that work "just window dressing" can easily be translated as "all your work never mattered because of some unwritten standard". All of it matters, window dressing would count more toward merchandising and behind the scenes stuff.
| Quote: | | an engrossing story with poor animation is just that: a good movie/series/whatever that happens to have unimpressive animation. |
And the technical aspects are what make the animation engrossing in the first place, not every medium is supposed to follow the same standards as another. There are different types of audiences for different types of stories, applying a standard like "only this aspect counts" is just plain silly, it all matters.
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