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PS1gamenwatch said:
Should this be a series
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I was going to say that I think some dead voice actors would need to be recast (I can't believe Inoue You, the voice of Kanuka Clancy, has been dead for two decades as of this February 28th) but, looking more closely, it seems that the animator for this fictional Patlabor reboot OP figures they'd just replace the existing characters with new ones anyway, as though it's a different Special Vehicles Division.
 
Since someone here showed the German Captain Future intro, I thought I'd also share the US one:


Yes, Captain Future got an English dub... two of them, actually: one by Ziv International, one by Harmony Gold. However both companies only dubbed four episodes each (and in Ziv's case they end on a cliffhanger). Ziv's is the one that actually made a cool new theme song, the HG one just recycled Robotech music.

This intro is nostalgic for me as its actually an intro I saw as a wee toddler.... but only the intro, which was a trailer on the release of a different Ziv dub, something called Angel (aka Hana no Ko Lunlun):


Ziv did a lot of anime--Captain Harlock (though I don't think they did the version that aired on TV), Green Forest, a Little Lulu anime, and some weird King Arthur anime are all ones I immediately remember. This was back in the day when you sometimes found tapes for rent at Gas Stations. Remember that?

...........

Recently I've been on a "nostalgic anime" kick. Though it mostly revolves around the Toonami era, you guys have a way of jarring my mind into other eras.

So here's a question: What anime do you consider nostalgic?

One odd one in my case: Tenchi Universe (aka Tenchi Muyo TV)... I didn't even watch this, but for some reason that intro takes me right back and makes me feel like I could go to Suncoast and buy something all over again.

 
ZMOT said:
not with the paperwhite, but tbh I'm not a fan of kindle in general. might have changed by now but for the longest time kindles worked the same way as printers - cheap to get you into the amazon ecosystem, and a pain in the ass to deal with if you wanted to do something else. I think some could be rooted, but that's usually outside the average reader.

for manga itself it be worth to take a look around, there's tolino (although that might be yuropoor brand, dunno if and what their name is) and the kobo (which ironically know belong to rakuten) which in some countries is as big, if not bigger, as kindle.
there's also quite a few chink ones based on android.

my best suggestion is to check the nip sphere and see what they use, especially if you want to buy off amazon (although rakuten or another shop might sell the ebooks as well). then check size and price - since most of them aren't as heavily subsidized as the kindle they will be more expensive tho.
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I've done a bit of research and there are other ebook store alternatives in Japan, such as Book☆Walker (owned by Kadokawa Corporation - has some ENG support), Booklive (by Culture Convenience Club Co.) and Honto (from Dai Nippon Printing Co.). BookWalker seems to be the most "gaijin-friendly" as, unlike Amazon JP, it doesn't require a VPN & japanese billing address to purchase ebooks while it's also possible to use Paypal there too. The selection of books is nowhere as big as Amazon though and they all have their own separate ecosystem.

I think I'll primarily stick with Amazon JP in spite of the initial hassle, but it was still worth a look in case any kiwi user here is similarly interested.

As much as I do prefer the paper touch and physical books, importing mangas and other books from Japan has gotten too expensive with the current shipping fees and additional taxes. Going from 80€, to import ten shonen volumes, to 30€ with the digital versions is no joke.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
Man, that'd be something, but I don't know how well it'll be received. It may do well in Japan, but Americunts will not take to it well post-George-kun. Like there's probably a reason we haven't had more You're Under Arrest since 2008 and it may be for the best.
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>inb4 glowniggers add loli/pedoshit to it

No thanks. Evil can’t create anything new.
 
Registration said:
The system is clear in fate because it is the introduction to all we see before, it is made for all newbies to understand what is going on and later routes adds or show stuff in different light, something that UBW anime had to still do it since the foundation wasnt set.

And I think as an adaptation, it is ok, not because the anime itself is bad but because the original route (fate) isnt that interesting, it is a simple story (my favorite fate adaptation is the manga since it fuses fate and ubw with sparkles of HF. Making more interesting middle.

And the tone of it is closer to the VN than UBW, the comedy bits and the action are closer ti the original than the explosive and flashy UBW or HF.

What I really dont like is the music.

It just doesnt fit. You have this whole show being as 00's as it gets in the animation, art style and then the music is... To epic and grandiose. There isnt that electronic feeling of the visual novel, that repetitive beats that makes you feel at home by how much you hear.
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Im that guy, haven't played the games, but i feel that. Again i see both sides. Personally i feel they underutalized the music they had in deen, i thought UBW did that a lot better, but i also have not played the games. Personally i loved the dark tone of zero, and how it felt consistant, at least partially with UBW. But i get that's not how the series is supposed to be. Watching deen, and now starting on apocrapha, Fate is kinda goofy. I get why it rubs people like you the wrong way, at the same time, fate zero is still my favorite so far for how far they were willing to go. Again i'm new to this, and that gives me a fresh perspective. I do get both sides, personally i just like the Ufotable adaption better.
 
Log Horizon is such an overrated pile of crap, oh my god. I got to episode 13 and I am just about done given that the best thing to happen so far was Nyanta, the fujoshi furry bait character. I'd heard so many things about this show being smart, or different, or unique, but it's babby's first .hack sign with worse writing. I don't really mind trope ridden, badly written isekai when it realizes what it is and just tries to have fun, but this show wants you to take it seriously even though it doesn't take itself seriously.

It'll set up really interesting plot points, then completely ignore the consequences of them or pretend it didn't happen, or it'll reference traumas and past events that are totally unearned, if not downright nonsensical. Am I really supposed to believe you've got some sort of deep set trauma from a fucking MMO? Seriously? At least in Overlord, the writer was smart enough to present Ains as being an autistic, no friends weirdo who took the game way too seriously compared to everyone else, but Log Horizon wants me to think every main and secondary character lived and breathed this game and took all their relationships in it as serious as their closest IRL ones. Even to the point that people are still role playing in literal Purgatory.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Im that guy, haven't played the games, but i feel that. Again i see both sides. Personally i feel they underutalized the music they had in deen, i thought UBW did that a lot better, but i also have not played the games. Personally i loved the dark tone of zero, and how it felt consistant, at least partially with UBW. But i get that's not how the series is supposed to be. Watching deen, and now starting on apocrapha, Fate is kinda goofy. I get why it rubs people like you the wrong way, at the same time, fate zero is still my favorite so far for how far they were willing to go. Again i'm new to this, and that gives me a fresh perspective. I do get both sides, personally i just like the Ufotable adaption better.
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Did you watch the heaven's feel movies? If not dont watch apocrypha yet, there are lots of things there that only makes sense if you get the whole context of all 3 routes. Just watch the movies before moving on to other stuff. It is really important

Zero is my second least fate of all ones since I think it is really boring and uninteresting in all levels. Every world building aspect of it is not interesting and the main character dilema was done better in ubw. And I read the books too before watching.
 
Registration said:
Did you watch the heaven's feel movies? If not dont watch apocrypha yet, there are lots of things there that only makes sense if you get the whole context of all 3 routes. Just watch the movies before moving on to other stuff. It is really important

Zero is my second least fate of all ones since I think it is really boring and uninteresting in all levels. Every world building aspect of it is not interesting and the main character dilema was done better in ubw. And I read the books too before watching.
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We will have to agree to disagree on Zero, that F-15 fight was amazing, tell me otherwise lol. As for the HF movies, not yet. I wanted a little bit of a break from the main timeline, and if im being honest, the Astolfo memes, which... the charecter is basically nothing like he's made out to be. Like HE IS, but he's also a dingus that's straight.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
I wanted a little bit of a break from the main timeline, and if im being honest, the Astolfo memes, which... the charecter is basically nothing like he's made out to be. Like HE IS, but he's also a dingus that's straight.
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Astolfo is a serviceable comic relief who gets some decent hidden depths as the series goes on. The only thing about Apocrypha I found legitimately off-putting was Jack the Ripper. I get what they were going for but I really wish they could have gone about it in a different way.
 
DrearyDoomguy said:
Astolfo is a serviceable comic relief who gets some decent hidden depths as the series goes on. The only thing about Apocrypha I found legitimately off-putting was Jack the Ripper. I get what they were going for but I really wish they could have gone about it in a different way.
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Yeah... i only finished episode 8 last night, so don't know how Jack's story ends, but rape happy loli that eats hearts is what the kids call "a bit yikes bro"
 
WelperHelper99 said:
We will have to agree to disagree on Zero, that F-15 fight was amazing, tell me otherwise lol. As for the HF movies, not yet. I wanted a little bit of a break from the main timeline, and if im being honest, the Astolfo memes, which... the charecter is basically nothing like he's made out to be. Like HE IS, but he's also a dingus that's straight.
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Then watch other thing, because not only you will not understand the third magic you will also see a very similar pairing with deen fate stay night with sieg and jannu. Since it is the basis of the pairing. You could pick literally any other fate but not apocrypha since you wont get the paralels by going backwards between both Shirou and the overall story.

I dont think any of previous fate went into what the grail really is, only HF explains the whole deal
 
Registration said:
Then watch other thing, because not only you will not understand the third magic you will also see a very similar pairing with deen fate stay night with sieg and jannu. Since it is the basis of the pairing. You could pick literally any other fate but not apocrypha since you wont get the paralels by going backwards between both Shirou and the overall story.

I dont think any of previous fate went into what the grail really is, only HF explains the whole deal
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Damn it. The cost of astolfo memes was fucking myself over. Fine, ill start lol
 
Fount of BadSpeak said:
At least in Overlord, the writer was smart enough to present Ains as being an autistic, no friends weirdo who took the game way too seriously compared to everyone else
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Hey, to be fair Ainz did have in game friends, they just stopped contacting him. Though, I wish there was a bit more about his past in the dystopian future at the start.
 
Saw this take being passed around by people saying "REAL ANIME FANS NEVER SUPPORT OR SUPPORTED PIRACY", and disregarding that it's a Twitter post from a grifting lolcow I have absolutely no use for, he actually isn't wrong. I don't like it when those sorts of people put me into a situation where I actually have to "hand it to" an lolcow.

Anime would barely exist in the West at all if not for piracy. Once upon a time if you wanted something that wasn't Akira, a title released via an outfit like Streamline Pictures, something chopped up like "Robotech" or something some Westerner who had some money took an interest in, it was basically all bootlegged. People tell tales of the olden times, when they'd come across tapes of anime in Hawaii, that had been passed about with painstakingly prepared fansubs, or copies of untranslated manga they couldn't understand but enjoyed anyways.

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From the source of this particular finger-pointing "ANIME PIRACY!!!" spasm, a gimmick account on Twitter that must be run by some buckbroken Western industry insider like a "translator", since whoever they are they're huge proponents of “Western localization”...

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If you pirate a manga that hasn’t had an official English release in 30 years you are taking food out of Shonen Jump executives' mouths!
 
Commander X said:
Saw this take being passed around by people saying "REAL ANIME FANS NEVER SUPPORT OR SUPPORTED PIRACY", and disregarding that it's a Twitter post from a grifting lolcow I have absolutely no use for, he actually isn't wrong. I don't like it when those sorts of people put me into a situation where I actually have to "hand it to" an lolcow.

Anime would barely exist in the West at all if not for piracy. Once upon a time if you wanted something that wasn't Akira, a title released via an outfit like Streamline Pictures, something chopped up like "Robotech" or something some Westerner who had some money took an interest in, it was basically all bootlegged. People tell tales of the olden times, when they'd come across tapes of anime in Hawaii, that had been passed about with painstakingly prepared fansubs, or copies of untranslated manga they couldn't understand but enjoyed anyways.

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From the source of this particular finger-pointing "ANIME PIRACY!!!" spasm, a gimmick account on Twitter that must be run by some buckbroken Western industry insider like a "translator", since whoever they are they're huge proponents of “Western localization”...

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If you pirate a manga that hasn’t had an official English release in 30 years you are taking food out of Shonen Jump executives' mouths!
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"Real anime fans don't support piracy."

"Real pedophiles don't actually hurt kids." I swear to everyone here, that there are real, living, breathing people who believe this, many of which are pedophiles or are sympathetic to pedophilia. Remember that degenerate writing for Salon?
 
You know, anti-piratefags are really pathethic, most of the content I love was never even available in my country or even translated in a single print run from 20 years ago, it was mostly because some dude loved it so much and decided to translate it and photoshop it (this shit takes time) for others to see. not even anime shit but manga that has few people that knows.

Jesus, we were previously talking about fate/stay night and still dont have official translations for any language that isnt korean, 20 years after the release.

Only a complete retard would be against piracy, right now I am reading Ad Astra - Scipio and Hannibal. Do you think Viz would translate a manga about romans vs carthagenians fighting to release in the North american market? Get fucking real
 
These "woke"/preaching types never seem to be into otaku culture in the first place. And by otaku I don't mean the coomer stuff, I mean all the content made during the golden age. I doubt any of them would feel nostalgic watching something like:


Call me paranoid but I wouldn't be surprised to see they're doing to anime the same they did to vidya. Trying to be into "high art" anime, wanting anime to "grow up", to appeal to the West and all that.
 
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