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Post by Eyz on Oct 15, 2010 23:55:33 GMT
The whole manga series was printed here in french (a long time ago, I'm sure it's long out-of-print and was never republished in more recent years) The manga is a whole lot nuttier than the anime. Really. It is. I rank it up there alongside Bobobo and Ambush Bug (yay! an American comic) as the holy crazy trinity of madness!
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Post by ZoDy on Oct 16, 2010 17:26:44 GMT
As a kid I was like one of the rare few that knew what anime was before it became main stream. First anime I truly fell in love with was Poke'mon but as I grew up I occasionly enjoyed short lived shows like Cowboy Be Bop and Outlaw Star, but the two anime's I loved to death was Dragon Ball Z (Who doesn't?) and One Piece! Which I'm still watching now...oh and Death Note was quite epic ; )
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Post by ontels on Oct 16, 2010 17:54:27 GMT
But anime was mainstream when Pokemon came out, infact Pokemon introduced allot of pople to anime.
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Post by frobman on Oct 16, 2010 18:09:46 GMT
No, it became more mainstream since Pokémon, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z to name a few. Before then, they were sort of obscure or nobody just noticed or cared as much. Like, how many of you thought Speed Racer was an animé? Who knew that they had dubs of Getter Robo G (Called Starvengers) and Grendizer in English back in the 80s? Nowadays, we get more anime than we used to, as well as noticing them more so, if that makes sense.
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Post by ontels on Oct 16, 2010 22:14:27 GMT
Yeah and Zody said he started with Pokemon, which means he jumped on the bandwagon WHEN anime became main stream not BEFORE.
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Post by frobman on Oct 16, 2010 22:59:40 GMT
I'm just saying that there were few dubbed shows back before then, if only by a few years. It only gotten more popular from the second half of the 90s.
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Post by ZoDy on Oct 17, 2010 13:06:03 GMT
Yeah and Zody said he started with Pokemon, which means he jumped on the bandwagon WHEN anime became main stream not BEFORE. Well if you wanna be precise the first anime I followed was Robotech which I had on VHS as a kid :B
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Post by Eyz on Oct 18, 2010 8:38:12 GMT
As a kid I was like one of the rare few that knew what anime was before it became main stream. First anime I truly fell in love with was Poke'mon but as I grew up I occasionly enjoyed short lived shows like Cowboy Be Bop and Outlaw Star, but the two anime's I loved to death was Dragon Ball Z (Who doesn't?) and One Piece! Which I'm still watching now...oh and Death Note was quite epic ; ) The good ol' times of Anime before it became mainstream... I still remember watching Cutey Honey, Lupin the 3rd, Goldorak/Grendizer and many others around '90-91 in french. Good times. Then Dragon Ball started here..but it wasn't yet mainstream..and wasn't even translated to english yet!
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Post by ontels on Oct 18, 2010 17:33:12 GMT
You get good anime even now.
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Post by Eyz on Oct 19, 2010 9:09:58 GMT
Well, I guess it depends on everyone tastes... But I find the current stuff...soul-less :/ Plus the computer drawn animes don't help either...I miss the hand drawn animation! (and I rather see a current anime OVA/movie over a television anime show...its so cheap, animation and story-wise... just head shots with mouth moving around...so few animation...) Like I said, to each their own
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Post by frobman on Oct 19, 2010 9:42:33 GMT
Good points of an OVA? Short story telling. Probably why I liked the recent Mazinger/Mazinkaiser/Koutetsushin Jeeg/Shin Getter Robo/New Getter Robo series. Mostly because they don't have to have lots of filler that's very common with Super Robot shows. Even Gundam does this with some of their movies (same story, but condensed in like say 3 parts)
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Post by Eyz on Oct 19, 2010 10:30:56 GMT
It's more precise, doesn't go too much into filler (apart from the well thought fillers for multiparts OVA), the story is more contained that way and the art stays top notch, since they aren't making a weekly show.
Well, I guess that's the real reason why I don't like current on-going anime shows. The art and animation gets pretty lazy. And even more in this day and age of computer animation :/
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Post by ontels on Oct 19, 2010 18:42:59 GMT
In my view they are less lazy because they don't have to draw evrething themselves. I've seen some hand drawn anime and the animation is C-R-A-P, plus with computers you can do cool 3D effects.
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Post by frobman on Oct 19, 2010 18:50:42 GMT
That sounds a bit hypocritical. (Less lazy because they don't have to draw everything. That still sounds lazy) What he means is that with computers, you just make a model and just digital puppeteer, which can sometimes be seen as lazy if they're overused in a hand drawn production and whatever.
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Post by ontels on Oct 19, 2010 21:19:22 GMT
Woops! I meant the animation is less lazy as in bad.
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