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, posted Tue 10 Dec 15:37:
I think that's right. IV was the short special. Yeah. ^_^;
Well, I won't be talking much after this post since I have finals this week.
What have we learned? Well, I've learned to stop slacking off and remind my parents to pay the fees for the internet connection. I couldn't connect at home for a week or so.
Seriously, we have learned that Kaorin and Chihiro have last names - Aida and Inoue respectively. We have also learned what was missing from the Kanon anime. There was a lot missing indeed.
What else? Call me slow for not noticing this earlier, but I'm sure of you people know about this already. In regards to fan subs helping the anime industry, it doesn't seem like GitS TV scriptwriter, Sakurai Yoshiki agrees as he mentions the hardships of the Japan anime business that they face against bootleggers. - Discussion is seen here as well as below.
I can understand that core fans cannot wait until the US version is released, but seeing the anime industry in Japan these days, it would help a great deal if fans would buy the proper DVDs, at least one or two volumes of their favourite episodes after seeing the fansubs.
Anime creators are really struggling for their living and the DVD price is kept high because of so many illegal copies. I.G. is trying to keep up our good quality anime, but it is becoming more and more difficult these days, when the copying techniques are so widely spread.
So, I'll just list some random stuff now.
It's obvious people will say Azumanga was the series of the year. (I am one of them.) Honestly, I wished I watched more series this year. There are so many out there that I wanted to watch in the past like the second Mahoro season. Actually, I want to see the first one also, since I haven't seen it yet. I also wanted to see Kiddy Grade. Gah! I've said this once and I'll say it again:
Finals, school, studying, I hate them all!
I was wrong that there would actually be an Air anime by the end of the year. Maybe next year. Probably.
Initial D - next year's big mess. Actually, it started out as a mess this year. Yeah, I never liked the series as a whole before the manga came out here, but giving the series the English changes did and still does make the series worse. The only trait I like about Initial D is its Eurobeat music. Other than that, there's not much else. Oh and while we're at the subject of music, the English version will have some new horrible music.
I don't know how the game got popularity, especially since the tracks are average in terms of accuracy of the series. Myogi is a loop and towards the end of Akina, I only see four hairpins, not five. I heard there will be a game upgrade, as the cars will be balanced out. True, I haven't played it, nor do I plan to, but I have seen a lot of events regarding Initial D. I even read a document a friend of mine printed out, which had a lot of Engrish by the way.
As for series I've been watching, I've been watching Noir as of late. I've also watched Plastic Little and some other series not at the top of my head now. Manga - I will be getting the latest Card Captor Sakura volume this week. Also, I will get the first Mega Tokyo volume this week. This is all before I go to the Philippines later this month. ^_^
I've touched Seiken Densetsu III again. Playing as the all-female team is fun. "Angela and Riesz don't go well together." Hah! That's not true when I carry the heroines team. Forget Duran, Kevin and Hawk. Give me Angela, Carlie and Riesz anytime!
What else? I've played KoF 2002, Guilty Gear XX and Soul Calibur II. I was sad to see Sunnyvale's Golfland take out Para Para Paradise 2nd Mix and replace it with Pump it Up!, the 2nd Premire. I guess people were getting tired of PPP 2nd Mix, but bring in DX!
KoF 2002 - I did lower Rugal's difficulty and yeah, it took me one continue to beat him. As usual, I beated the game w/ Mai, Yuri and Athena. Compared to 1998, this one is not that great. Yeah, it's a dream match, but it's not the dream match I hoped for. Don't know why, but I did not hear any classics and I heard they're supposed to be some in there. Of the three, this is the only one I did beat.
GGXX - GGXX is just like X, but a bit worse. Don't like the new art for the character portraits, I-no was cheap and I was somewhat down that the songs are mostly remixes. Still, the Dust attack did add flavor. New characters were okay, I guess. Is it fun? Yeah. Is it an instant classic? No.
SCII - SCII's visuals are wonderful! My gosh! The game is so beautiful! Still, 3D fighters are not my cup of tea. I was also let down that I heard English tracks.
*I remember back Elly's "Sorry," sample.*
Bleh! What else? It's still a button masher. That's why Virtual Fighter has always been my favorite 3D series. It's not a button masher series. Still, SC II's a decent game. I've heard somewhere that Talim (the first character I picked) was Filipina. If that's true, it's about time a Filipino got put in a video game! Hee hee.
Which one really stood out the most? To be honest, they're on par with each other. They all have their pluses and minuses.
Wah! Okay. I better hurry up and finish this.
Title - # of episodes - Details and website
Macross Zero - ? - You know what this is. The first DVD will be out on the 27th. Most likely, it's a new OVA series.
http://www.macross.co.jp/zero/
Limeiro Senkikan - 13 - Written by Akahori Satoru, it's a clone of Sakura Taisen. Bunch of girls in a military academy, fighting evil with mecha and spiritual powers, taking place in WWI Japan, very similar indeed. It's being done by KSS, so it should be fairly high quality. This, I'm going to check out.
http://www.kss-inc.co.jp/anime/raimuiro/
Stratus Four - 13 - I think it's about four girls in a Blue Angels type of team. It's directed by Mori Takeshi. (Vandread) Charaters designs are by the Aika team. Might check it out, if I have nothing to do.
http://www.kids-station.com/program/reco_next/main.html#a01
Mouse - 12 X 15 min. - Also written by Akahori Satoru, basically about a super-thief and his 3 S&M lovin' assistant girls. (Don't ask.) The manga's pretty hentaiish, but most of it will be dropped for TV, I assume. I doubt this will be ranked high on my list in terms of series to watch.
http://www.younganimal.com/mouse/
Astro Boy - ? - New Astro Boy. Pretty self explanatory. I'll check it out.
http://www.animax.co.jp/happynewanimax/index.php3
Wolf's Rain - ? - You should know what this is by now. I know I'm looking forward to this.
http://www.bones.co.jp/ur/ur.html
.Hack - ? - More .Hack, but this one looks kiddy. Oro?
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/hack_udeden/main_index.html
Nanaka 6/17 (as in Ranma 1/2) - ? - It's about a girl (Nanaka) who's 17 years old, but goes through some trauma over a guy and gets the personality of a 6 yr old, thus you have the 6/17. Sounds like a shoujo series, but it's actually based off of a shounen manga. I'll analyze this more before I think about watching it.
http://www.jcstaff.co.jp/osirase/nanaka.htm
Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto - ? - It's about a girl who's trying to become a witch in modern day Tokyo. Well, modern day Tokyo with magic users running around. To some of you, this looks kinda boring, a la Piano - again to some of you (since I never saw that series yet), but there been hearing a bit of hype over this show for a few months now. Plus it has some nice art. Hope the series lives to its hype.
http://www.yume-mahou.com/
Gun Parade March - 12 - Based off a PSX game, it's about a bunch of kids battling evil with mecha, this time in a futuristic setting. Hmmm....
http://www.kuroitsuki.com/gpm/gpm.html
Onegai Teacher - ? - More Onegai. Two new characters are shown. Hope it will be decent.
http://www.please-please.jp/one2/index.html
Scrapped Princess has been pushed back.
New on FS
Spiral - 9
FmoS - 30
Tenchi! GXP - 10
Gundam Seed - 9
Haibane Renmei - 8
PoT - 54
Overman King Gainer - 8
Mao-Chan - 18
Mahoromatic II - 8
Wow! That's a lot right there. One last statement. It's a darn shame I heard that Holiday will be out for a while. I guess this discussion is in honor of him.
Edit - I just added in some extra statements.
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| justicekyo 481th Post
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|  "Re(1):Newtype, new anime and new manga V"
, posted Tue 10 Dec 15:52
quote:
I think that's right. IV was the short special. Yeah. ^_^;
Well, I won't be talking much after this post since I have finals this week.
What have we learned? Well, I've learned to stop slacking off and remind my parents to pay the fees for the internet connection. I couldn't connect at home for a week or so.
Seriously, we have learned that Kaorin and Chihiro have last names - Aida and Inoue respectively. We have also learned what was missing from the Kanon anime. There was a lot missing indeed.
What else? Call me slow for not noticing this earlier, but I'm sure of you people know about this already. In regards to fan subs helping the anime industry, it doesn't seem like GitS TV scriptwriter, Sakurai Yoshiki agrees as he mentions the hardships of the Japan anime business that they face against bootleggers. - Discussion is seen here as well as below.
I can understand that core fans cannot wait until the US version is released, but seeing the anime industry in Japan these days, it would help a great deal if fans would buy the proper DVDs, at least one or two volumes of their favourite episodes after seeing the fansubs.
Anime creators are really struggling for their living and the DVD price is kept high because of so many illegal copies. I.G. is trying to keep up our good quality anime, but it is becoming more and more difficult these days, when the copying techniques are so widely spread.
So, I'll just list some random stuff now.
It's obvious people will say Azumanga was the series of the year. (I am one of them.) Honestly, I wished I watched more series this year. There are so many out there that I wanted to watch in the past like the second Mahoro season. Actually, I want to see the first one also, since I haven't seen it yet. I also wanted to see Kiddy Grade. Gah! I've said this once and I'll say it again:
Finals, school, studying, I hate them all!
I was wrong that there would actually be an Air anime by the end of the year. Maybe next year. Probably.
Initial D - next year's big mess. Actually, it started out as a mess this year. Yeah, I never liked the series as a whole before the manga came out here, but giving the series the English changes did and still does make the series worse. The only trait I like about Initial D is its Eurobeat music. Other than that, there's not much else. Oh and while we're at the subject of music, the English version will have some new horrible music.
I don't know how the game got popularity, especially since the tracks are average in terms of accuracy of the series. Myogi is a loop and towards the end of Akina, I only see four hairpins, not five. I heard there will be a game upgrade, as the cars will be balanced out. True, I haven't played it, nor do I plan to, but I have seen a lot of events regarding Initial D. I even read a document a friend of mine printed out, which had a lot of Engrish by the way.
As for series I've been watching, I've been watching Noir as of late. I've also watched Plastic Little and some other series not at the top of my head now. Manga - I will be getting the latest Card Captor Sakura volume this week. Also, I will get the first Mega Tokyo volume this week. This is all before I go to the Philippines later this month. ^_^
I've touched Seiken Densetsu III again. Playing as the all-female team is fun. "Angela and Riesz don't go well together." Hah! That's not true when I carry the heroines team. Forget Duran, Kevin and Hawk. Give me Angela, Carlie and Riesz anytime!
What else? I've played KoF 2002, Guilty Gear XX and Soul Calibur II. I was sad to see Sunnyvale's Golfland take out Para Para Paradise 2nd Mix and replace it with Pump it Up!, the 2nd Premire. I guess people were getting tired of PPP 2nd Mix, but bring in DX!
KoF 2002 - I did lower Rugal's difficulty and yeah, it took me one continue to beat him. As usual, I beated the game w/ Mai, Yuri and Athena. Compared to 1998, this one is not that great. Yeah, it's a dream match, but it's not the dream match I hoped for. Don't know why, but I did not hear any classics and I heard they're supposed to be some in there. Of the three, this is the only one I did beat.
GGXX - GGXX is just like X, but a bit worse. Don't like the new art for the character portraits, I-no was cheap and I was somewhat down that the songs are mostly remixes. Still, the Dust attack did add flavor. New characters were okay, I guess. Is it fun? Yeah. Is it an instant classic? No.
SCII - SCII's visuals are wonderful! My gosh! The game is so beautiful! Still, 3D fighters are not my cup of tea. I was also let down that I heard English tracks.
*I remember back Elly's "Sorry," sample.*
Bleh! What else? It's still a button masher. That's why Virtual Fighter has always been my favorite 3D series. It's not a button masher series. Still, SC II's a decent game. I've heard somewhere that Talim (the first character I picked) was Filipina. If that's true, it's about time a Filipino got put in a video game! Hee hee.
Which one really stood out the most? To be honest, they're on par with each other. They all have their pluses and minuses.
Wah! Okay. I better hurry up and finish this.
Title - # of episodes - Details and website
Macross Zero - ? - You know what this is. The first DVD will be out on the 27th. Most likely, it's a new OVA series.
http://www.macross.co.jp/zero/
Limeiro Senkikan - 13 - Written by Akahori Satoru, it's a clone of Sakura Taisen. Bunch of girls in a military academy, fighting evil with mecha and spiritual powers, taking place in WWI Japan, very similar indeed. It's being done by KSS, so it should be fairly high quality. This, I'm going to check out.
http://www.kss-inc.co.jp/anime/raimuiro/
Stratus Four - 13 - I think it's about four girls in a Blue Angels type of team. It's directed by Mori Takeshi. (Vandread) Charaters designs are by the Aika team. Might check it out, if I have nothing to do.
http://www.kids-station.com/program/reco_next/main.html#a01
Mouse - 12 X 15 min. - Also written by Akahori Satoru, basically about a super-thief and his 3 S&M lovin' assistant girls. (Don't ask.) The manga's pretty hentaiish, but most of it will be dropped for TV, I assume. I doubt this will be ranked high on my list in terms of series to watch.
http://www.younganimal.com/mouse/
Astro Boy - ? - New Astro Boy. Pretty self explanatory. I'll check it out.
http://www.animax.co.jp/happynewanimax/index.php3
Wolf's Rain - ? - You should know what this is by now. I know I'm looking forward to this.
http://www.bones.co.jp/ur/ur.html
.Hack - ? - More .Hack, but this one looks kiddy. Oro?
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/hack_udeden/main_index.html
Nanaka 6/17 (as in Ranma 1/2) - ? - It's about a girl (Nanaka) who's 17 years old, but goes through some trauma over a guy and gets the personality of a 6 yr old, thus you have the 6/17. Sounds like a shoujo series, but it's actually based off of a shounen manga. I'll analyze this more before I think about watching it.
http://www.jcstaff.co.jp/osirase/nanaka.htm
Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto - ? - It's about a girl who's trying to become a witch in modern day Tokyo. Well, modern day Tokyo with magic users running around. To some of you, this looks kinda boring, a la Piano - again to some of you (since I never saw that series yet), but there been hearing a bit of hype over this show for a few months now. Plus it has some nice art. Hope the series lives to its hype.
http://www.yume-mahou.com/
Gun Parade March - 12 - Based off a PSX game, it's about a bunch of kids battling evil with mecha, this time in a futuristic setting. Hmmm....
http://www.kuroitsuki.com/gpm/gpm.html
Onegai Teacher - ? - More Onegai. Two new characters are shown. Hope it will be decent.
http://www.please-please.jp/one2/index.html
Scrapped Princess has been pushed back.
New on FS
Spiral - 9
FmoS - 30
Tenchi! GXP - 10
Gundam Seed - 9
Haibane Renmei - 8
PoT - 54
Overman King Gainer - 8
Mao-Chan - 18
Mahoromatic II - 8
Wow! That's a lot right there. One last statement. It's a darn shame I heard that Holiday will be out for a while. I guess this discussion is in honor of him.
Edit - I just added in some extra statements.
nice read, Jazzie!
personally, i liked 2002... it felt refreshing after the horrid 2001.
havent play GGXX yet.
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