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斯尼 德之王 said:
So a coworker was watching Grand Blue on her phone in Spanish and then we had a conversation about it. Correct me if I'm wrong. Does the main guy want to fuck his cousin? and another one of his cousins wants to fuck that same cousin? Was that a mistranslation just another weird Japanese thing?
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I don't know your anime specifically but Japan does legally permit cousin marriage. It is still considered odd socially in modern times, but you used to get a lot of arranged marriages with that sort of relationship.
 
There's finally a seinen scifi for the summer 2024 season called My Wife has No Emotion. It's the robot waifu chobits anime we've all been waiting for, though it seems to be more realistic than chobits. In these times, gotta say the initial impact of the first episode hits differently than the whimsical and comedic tone that chobits has.
 
Car Won't Crank said:
There's finally a seinen scifi for the summer 2024 season called My Wife has No Emotion. It's the robot waifu chobits anime we've all been waiting for, though it seems to be more realistic than chobits. In these times, gotta say the initial impact of the first episode hits differently than the whimsical and comedic tone that chobits has.
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The manga is great, but I'm surprised it's getting an anime. It's really slow-paced, and there's tons of world-building through lengthy exposition dumps. Some entire chapters just consist of two robots talking about epistemology or two people politely debating the ethics of anti-robot prejudice. Just seems like one of those stories that only really works in print.
 
Wtf I got word there's a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime coming? But why?
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Anyone remember St. Tail? Like a magical girl Kaitou Kid, this a dub from The Philippines
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oDzN2e4KFyo
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Saint Tail was pretty good. It was similar to Cardcaptor Sakura in tone, so I'd recommend it if you're a fan of CCS. Which you should be.

Atatata said:
All the nostaliafagging lead to nostalgiabait remakes, who would have thought?
It's started a while ago and it's going to keep coming.
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At least they're not replacing the characters with ugly black lesbians.
 
Anyone ever watch any of those OVA series that got licensed in the US, even though they were cut short? One of my favorites, that was released by ADV, was Mighty Space Miners, a neat show that should have been one of the classics of the 1990s but as happened with more than one title, it came down to money. It was planned to be 6 episodes long but only 2 where ever made due to poor sales. So you're left hanging with no conclusion, but what you do have is still great.


Some footage from this show was used on the Ultracity 6060 dub gag segment of MTV's Cartoon Sushi anthology back in the 1990s.

Another one, that I found kind of "eh" was a late 1990s entry, Ayane's High Kick released in the days when the OVA was as a format on the wane compared to the 1980s and early 1990s. Another show that was planned to last six episodes but was cut short at two (the US release, via one of Central Park Media's divisions lacked the previews for the third episode the original JP release did) featuring a high school girl who dreams of being a professional lady wrestler and has bombed her latest audition royally. She's facing trouble for skipping school to attend said auditions, then a mysterious and shady coach approaches her, offering to train her. Not that it's hard to fool her, but Ayane's new coach is actually a kickboxing coach who sees potential in her leg work but leads her on that he's training her for wrestling. That his dojo is a lot under an overpass maybe should have clued her in about this fellow...

 
Commander X said:
Anyone ever watch any of those OVA series that got licensed in the US, even though they were cut short? One of my favorites, that was released by ADV, was Mighty Space Miners, a neat show that should have been one of the classics of the 1990s but as happened with more than one title, it came down to money. It was planned to be 6 episodes long but only 2 where ever made due to poor sales. So you're left hanging with no conclusion, but what you do have is still great.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IF1-zGJDTg0
Some footage from this show was used on the Ultracity 6060 dub gag segment of MTV's Cartoon Sushi anthology back in the 1990s.

Another one, that I found kind of "eh" was a late 1990s entry, Ayane's High Kick released in the days when the OVA was as a format on the wane compared to the 1980s and early 1990s. Another show that was planned to last six episodes but was cut short at two (the US release, via one of Central Park Media's divisions lacked the previews for the third episode the original JP release did) featuring a high school girl who dreams of being a professional lady wrestler and has bombed her latest audition royally. She's facing trouble for skipping school to attend said auditions, then a mysterious and shady coach approaches her, offering to train her. Not that it's hard to fool her, but Ayane's new coach is actually a kickboxing coach who sees potential in her leg work but leads her on that he's training her for wrestling. That his dojo is a lot under an overpass maybe should have clued her in about this fellow...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SP8Rw0JzR4
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You should check out Variable Geo if you like OVA chick fighters.
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Just don't dig too deep and discover the sequel.
 
Betonhaus said:
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Looks like the golden era of Anime may be ending and we'll have to switch to French cartoons
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Huh. Shucks, I don't even watch anime anymore and now I want to pirate some for preservation's sake. Off the top of my head gotta dig up Trigun, GunXSword, all the GiTs anime & OVAs, and who knows what else.
 
crowabunga said:
Thanks, I'll take a look. Will probably end up a lot easier than the scavenging I was envisioning.
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just to warn you, I'm looking at it and it is horribly horribly organized (in terms of what Sonarr is looking for). There's a lot of garbage in it like dvd menu videos.

I wonder if when I'm done I should put the archive online somewhere like on bittorrent or a file share service

honestly there's a few series i have that were a royal pita to import properly, and i wonder if i should make a torrent of them and share them online in a format that easy to import into Sonarr or play on Jellyfin/Plex
 
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