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| Tashoku Kisune 1239th Post
 
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|  "Watched new anime"
, posted Sun 20 Oct 16:51
Ok... spent this past weekend stockin' up on new anime. Just to let the people here know what I've seen.. and what I thought of it.. might as well post it... no?
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1) Earthian- Got to see the whole thing. And for those of you who might be familiar with it... then you already know it's about gay angels. For those of you who haven't seen it... if you're sensitive about homosexual relationships between men.. uhh.. don't watch it. As for me.. it's obviously my thing. It's a very girly style and a highly emotional plot. But overall.. it's one of my favorite things to see. Also, I have a certain loyalty towards it for the wings along. I have a small thing for winged pretty men. ^_^;
2) X [one]- This is CLAMP's "X" made into a series. It's very very good with spectacular animation and a good plot. The voice acting is even pretty good. The music is wonderful.. and once again.. the animation is absolutely beautiful. It's actually better than the movie in some places. The movie moved too fast and since this is the series it has all the original characters. In the movie Shougo Asagi replaced the manga's Kakyo. That might have been a bad thing too... Shougo was given the power of water which was supposed to be Yuuto's. And that left Yuuto powerless other than for his whip-sigh thing.
2) Revolutionary Girl Utena (Movie)- Uhh.. not toooooo bad. It definitely wasn't my favorite, though. Music was alright... definitely. And the backgrounds were great. However... the over all changes I found to be disappointing. Things were a tad to.. blunt for my taste. The manga has much more subtlty. They turned Utena and Anthy into raging lesbians! In fact... Utena's first line (i think) is more or less hittin' on a girl. It really disappointed me.. too blunt for someone who's read the manga first. (I love the manga, though.)
3) WeiB Kruz (Night Hunters)- Very good.. saw episodes 1-5. To be frank... I liked it. The animation is fairly good. The voice acting isn't so bad either. The plot isn't nearly as complicated as X or angsty seeming as Earthian... but it's not so bad. However.. I have my suspicions as I was once told that the series ends in a rather stupid way. Of course, I haven't seen the end (but I hope to).
4)Escaflowne- VERY good. I had a few doubts about it when it got going. For a moment I thought it was boring but it picked up. I think it could have used a tad bit more background. They left a lot of things to the imagination that could have been resolved in more of their dramatically animated scenes. But oh well... For once my favorite character lived. And for that I have to be thankful. LOL...
*mild spoiler, possibly*
Dilandu, I think his name was. Not sure.. don't take my word for it. He'd be the crazy white haired guy that wears red.
*end slightly spoiler*
Other than that.. it was really good. I recommend it to those who like the fantastic. If you're a day dreamer, this could be for you. ^_^
5) Excel Saga - pointless. That's all I can call it... pointless. However, it's rather funny indeed. It's lacking in serious plot... hell.. it's lacking in plot. In fact.. each episode is unrelated silliness and repetitive running gags. The characters are funny, that's for sure. And it's obvious that many of the voice actors have also acted for Slayers in the past. (Slayers as in the one with Nagha, or however you spell her name.) Cute style, though.. funny if you like senseless comedy.
That's it for now.. though I'm headin' towards watchin' Vampire Hunter D: Blood Lust. (Just got my hands on it..)
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| Taa kun 371th Post
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| "Re(1):Watched new anime" , posted Sun 20 Oct 17:20
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2) X [one]- This is CLAMP's "X" made into a series. It's very very good with spectacular animation and a good plot. The voice acting is even pretty good. The music is wonderful.. and once again.. the animation is absolutely beautiful. It's actually better than the movie in some places. The movie moved too fast and since this is the series it has all the original characters. In the movie Shougo Asagi replaced the manga's Kakyo. That might have been a bad thing too... Shougo was given the power of water which was supposed to be Yuuto's. And that left Yuuto powerless other than for his whip-sigh thing.
Err, originally CLAMP found the water powers cool in the movie then gave it as an hidden power to Yuuto. The movie inspired the manga in this case...
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5) Excel Saga - pointless. That's all I can call it... pointless. However, it's rather funny indeed. It's lacking in serious plot... hell.. it's lacking in plot. In fact.. each episode is unrelated silliness and repetitive running gags. The characters are funny, that's for sure. And it's obvious that many of the voice actors have also acted for Slayers in the past. (Slayers as in the one with Nagha, or however you spell her name.) Cute style, though.. funny if you like senseless comedy.
Are you talking about english dub ???
For the japanese dubbing, Nagha's seiyuu is effectively here, but she's the voice of the female dog in the episode of Meshi's big adventures (the dog-food suply), otherwise, no Slayers seiyuu...
Tsukurimashou... Tsukurimashou...
Sate sate nani ga dekiru ka na ?
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| Rid Hershel 3802th Post
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| "Re(1):Watched new anime" , posted Sun 20 Oct 17:34:
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2) Revolutionary Girl Utena (Movie)- Uhh.. not toooooo bad. It definitely wasn't my favorite, though. Music was alright... definitely. And the backgrounds were great. However... the over all changes I found to be disappointing. Things were a tad to.. blunt for my taste. The manga has much more subtlty. They turned Utena and Anthy into raging lesbians! In fact... Utena's first line (i think) is more or less hittin' on a girl. It really disappointed me.. too blunt for someone who's read the manga first. (I love the manga, though.)
Seems that you didn't liked it too much... I think that the movie wasn't intended to follow the manga at all, but to tell an alternate story, less shoujo-ish and definitely more sexual. And well, Utena wasn't really a lesbian in the series... and the public somewhat wanted that, so they changed it.
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4)Escaflowne- VERY good. I had a few doubts about it when it got going. For a moment I thought it was boring but it picked up. I think it could have used a tad bit more background. They left a lot of things to the imagination that could have been resolved in more of their dramatically animated scenes. But oh well... For once my favorite character lived. And for that I have to be thankful. LOL...
Other than that.. it was really good. I recommend it to those who like the fantastic. If you're a day dreamer, this could be for you. ^_^
Well, that's a big spoiler... there's a spoiler button in the post screen to avoid it. ^^
If you're talking about the movie, it's ok, but go and watch the series now, it's way better, and one of the reasons that made me start to watch anime.
Oh, and enjoy Vampire Hunter D, it's very nice.
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| Iggy 848th Post
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| "Re(1):Watched new anime" , posted Sun 20 Oct 23:50:
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2) Revolutionary Girl Utena (Movie)- Uhh.. not toooooo bad. It definitely wasn't my favorite, though. Music was alright... definitely. And the backgrounds were great. However... the over all changes I found to be disappointing. Things were a tad to.. blunt for my taste. The manga has much more subtlty. They turned Utena and Anthy into raging lesbians! In fact... Utena's first line (i think) is more or less hittin' on a girl. It really disappointed me.. too blunt for someone who's read the manga first. (I love the manga, though.)
If I can just say a little thing about Adolescence Mokushiroku....
First, the manga is pure crap. Here, we don't say Saito Chiho, we say "Satan". the art is awfull, the way the story is told is tasteless, and most of all, the DEVIL just want to tell her stupid story about princes and princesses (like if she hadn't enough with all the crap she did until then). "Oh, and most of all, please, don't talk about lesbians! oh, it disgusts me, guys that go along, yes, I like it, I'm a yaoi-fangirl, but no, Utena and Anthy shouldn't go together!". She asked for a guy beeing along with Utena in the movie to prevent her to be 100% lesbian... poor girl.
On the other hand, then, the movie is magistral. It's very hard to understand (I stayed in the theatre all the afternoon, I saw the movie 3 times (and had to see Akihabara Dennôgumi 2 times, arrgghh), and even then I missed a few things) but it is one of the few anime I saw that don't only try to entertain, but also try to tell something (like the series, that is). And in a artistic point of view, the movie is a pure success. It fills some of the holes of the series, clears many unnecessary things and explain many things obscure in the series (the theme about the identities of the characters, for example). Many themes are less explained in the movie (the "gara" part, sorry, I don't know how to say "hitogara" in english), so the movie and the series must be seen together, and they had to waste time with the useless Tôga thing. I don't understand how Saito Chiho, beeing there from the very begening, can make Utena and Anthy not lesbians. I mean, this is the whole point of the world created! What would mean all the references to Oniisamae, SM and Berubara? Nobody took time to explain her the rainbow flag thing?Anyways, it is for me the most fabulous experience I ever had in a theatre. Much more interesting than all the egocentrist gay movies about identity and such, to say the least.
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| Taa kun 373th Post
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| "Re(2):Watched new anime" , posted Sun 20 Oct 23:54
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Hmm, none of the VA's on the Japanese side are from the Slayers (for the main characters). In fact the big one is more famous for her roll as Usagi in Sailor Moon (Mitsushi Kotono...Because of her I can't watch Sailor Moon without thinking of Excel...:)
Excel = Kotono Mitsuhishi (Sailor Moon, Katsuragi Misato, Narumi Madoka from the recent Spiral, ...)
Hayat = Ohmi Minami (Ruri Hoshino from Nadesico, Dwelg from the recent Kiddy Grade, ...)
Ilparazzo = Koyasu Takehito (Shingo from KoF, Eddie from GGXX, and a lot of anime, he's the voice of the leader of the WeiB Kreuz, and the leader of the real boys band named WeiB Kreuz, ...)
Tsukurimashou... Tsukurimashou...
Sate sate nani ga dekiru ka na ?
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| OmegaDog
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| "Re(4):Watched new anime" , posted Mon 21 Oct 15:33
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Ilpalazzo! HAIL LORD ILPALAZZO!!!
Excel Saga is great. The american dvd is nice since you have the pop ups that help you pin point the obscure references with explanations about them. Ah and the Resident Evil parody was hilarious.
And why do i like it? because they crammed so much detailed comedic nonsense in every episode. My kind of humor!
Exactly the reason why the university anime club kept asking for more -- I love the series myself. I haven't watched the ADV DVD, but I'd definitely like to, given how much good I've heard of it. We actually showed the Slow As Hell Anime fansubs, and they also did an exceptional job at commenting. However, we got to episode 18 of 26 (at the end of the academic year) when we got word that ADV was about to begin releasing the series, so out of courtesy (and much to the chagrin of club members) we didn't continue it the following year. [We would have several new members the following year, anyway.]
Once all the episodes are released, though, we may try to obtain permission from ADV to show it -- we might have an off-day marathon of the episodes we already showed previously in club. By the time the final episodes are released, though, I might already be out of the university -- so that would be a decision for a future anime club officer to make.
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