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Fronzel
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Well, Viz is just batting a thousand recently, aren't they?
I really am going to have to start keeping a list of releases too damaged to be worth buying. |
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SouthPacific
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This is why I welcome our Japanese overlords. With them we might pay more (quite a lot more) but we'll also get quality in line with the prices we pay. This set may cost an odd $50 but with the defects and errors it has I wouldn't pay a single cent for it.
I actually watched the first 6 episodes dubbed and thought Ledo's dub actor was terrible in comparison to the original. And the whole "it was his first role!" doesn't really work since Ishikawa was also very green when Gargantia was aired back in 2013. Two fresh faces yet such an astronomical difference in their acting... 
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
 Posts: 3524 Location: Bellevue, WA |
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As someone who *likes* Sci-Fi, I dropped this halfway through and never looked back. The original concept seemed pretty compelling, but then it just turned into garbage. Uninteresting garbage that was trying really hard to Say Something Important... kind of reminded me of Waterworld, really.
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unitmikey
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After watching that first episode I was slightly unimpressed, but based on overall talk about this show, I'm going to give it another chance. I'm going to stream it so I guess the quality of the BD/DVD doesn't really matter at this time, it's still good to know that a quality show was pulled out (in terms of story) that I might have passed up on too early.
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trilaan
 Posts: 1054 Location: Texas |
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Hello again, lazy subtitling job, also the bane of my RideBack blu-rays.
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Hellwarden
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Sweet Jebus Viz. All your show I wanna buy, but you just can't seemingly put together a decent blu-ray for some reason!
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GVman
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And I also don't understand why everyone was so angry with Ledo. Apparently, when you're about to get raped, the correct response is to let it happen. Heaven forbid someone kills the rapist when trying to help the rapee escape. Poor rapist; he was only trying to commit the most heinous act a human being can do to another. |
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Animegomaniac
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It gets worse than that; It becomes a "Well, why can't we all get along?!" scenario between incompatible species spoiler[even if one was once human but is now a GELF] in an interstellar war because those spoiler[same two species can only get along as long as each stay where they belong.] Uh, "space"? "Well, them's fighting grounds." Yeah? {Even the series itself has nothing to say about it. Not in its scope for some reason} And in order to nail this "point" home, Lovecraftian adversaries not only become cute but they become spoiler[somehow human, tentacles disappearing at will,] even as they spawn like social insects like ants or bees. I can see more a case for empathizing with the monsters in Shiki than these things. And I'm fully on the side with humans in that show! Why? spoiler[It's a matter of choice] and humanity goes with form and function, otherwise you'd be calling the term "civilized"... which they are also not. Do they have a right to live? No, nothing has a right to live but they have a right to fight just as we have a right to wipe those abominations out {and a necessity. Hey, remember Neanderthals? Of course you don't...}. The flashback sequences were awesome, though, even if its conclusion was spurious. Entertaining start to the series though. |
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Fronzel
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Why was it necessary that Neanderthals be wiped out? Not to mention that it's not certain they were wiped out rather than being absorbed by interbreeding, or if they were wiped out that Homo sapiens were directly responsible rather than environmental factors. |
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ChocoBar1
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Funny when comes to FUNI mishaps with BD releases they never get called out.
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relyat08
 Posts: 4125 Location: Northern Virginia |
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This is probably the first positive thing I have actually heard about Gargantia. I have been interested in it for a while, mostly just because of the art and Urobuchi's name, but held off mostly due to the vast majority of reviews and opinions seeming very negative. Too bad the disk quality isn't very good. I would consider buying it otherwise.
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Gasero
 Posts: 939 Location: USA |
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Gargantia is an interesting series built up in the first half that failed to deliver in the 2nd half. There was a message there that I think lost it's way halfway though.
I did like the character growth of, Ledo, the main character. |
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Fronzel
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The failure of the finished version of the final episode of Gatchaman Crowds to be included on the Funi BD was noted in that review. Funi's Senran Kagura release hasn't received a full-scale review on ANN, but there was a news item noting that the OVAs were not included. Funi ran refunds for copies bought before a certain date from certain sources, by the way. If their attitude to their Sailor Moon release is any indication, Viz doesn't care what people think about their blunders. |
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getchman
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that's Sentai |
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MacAttack270
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I guess I'm in the minority in that I loved this show, as well as the release. Worth every penny in my book, but keep in mind I watched it dubbed and generally forego subs unless there's no dub available or it's atrociously bad (Higurashi).
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