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Kill la Kill is the greatest adaptation of the Shadow the Hedgehog game EVER!

Chrno Crusade the Anime was a mistake

Dangan Ronpan or howver you spell it is overrated as fuck.
 
I've been re-watching death note lately and its pretty ok, not amazing work some paint it as. I'd say it it get weaker as soon as Light and L meet face to face and continues it trend of being alright until L dies and it just become a eh when Near(or Mini L) takes his place.

other then that I wasted a day watching Zetsubou Sensei. its as pretty solid episodic show. while I can't name character outside the teacher(maybe). Its knows what type of show it is and has some fun with it, even if its a bit all over the place at times.
 
I've been watching old DVD's of the Cardcaptors anime I bought at a flea market recently, and as horrible as the dub edits were, I still like the Nelvana Cardcaptors adaptation unironically.

Don't get me wrong, the original Cardcaptor Sakura is superior to Cardcaptors in nearly every way, but there is still a certain charm to the Nelvana dub. Similar to the 90's Sailor Moon dub. It's campy and the edits often don't make sense, but that's part of the appeal at times.

Or maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, who knows?
 
Syaoran Li said:
I've been watching old DVD's of the Cardcaptors anime I bought at a flea market recently, and as horrible as the dub edits were, I still like the Nelvana Cardcaptors adaptation unironically.

Don't get me wrong, the original Cardcaptor Sakura is superior to Cardcaptors in nearly every way, but there is still a certain charm to the Nelvana dub. Similar to the 90's Sailor Moon dub. It's campy and the edits often don't make sense, but that's part of the appeal at times.

Or maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, who knows?
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Maybe it's just me, but it could be because the Ocean/Nelvana dub is actually fucking listenable. I'm still in disbelief NIS America just slapped on the Animax dub and released it state-side just because it was "more faithful".

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting forevermore for Tokyo Mew Mew to get rescued and given a proper dub.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Maybe it's just me, but it could be because the Ocean/Nelvana dub is actually fucking listenable. I'm still in disbelief NIS America just slapped on the Animax dub and released it state-side just because it was "more faithful".

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting forevermore for Tokyo Mew Mew to get rescued and given a proper dub.
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The 4Kids! time was a weird era of dubbing ...
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
The 4Kids! time was a weird era of dubbing ...
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It was, but I have to give them credit for introducing an entire generation to anime (at least for those who didn't have cable), and they helped skyrocket some great voice actors to stardom where Central Park Media failed. Even though they fully reaped what they sowed and Al Kahn is a yellow-bellied bastard who jumped ship with his money, I legitimately was sad to see 4KIDS go simply because their demise signaled the end of Saturday morning cartoons for future generations. I'm honestly curious as to how they could've adapted to online streaming had they still been around long enough to do so--I think they had shows streamed on their website before FUNimation did it.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
It was, but I have to give them credit for introducing an entire generation to anime (at least for those who didn't have cable), and they helped skyrocket some great voice actors to stardom where Central Park Media failed. Even though they fully reaped what they sowed and Al Kahn is a yellow-bellied bastard who jumped ship with his money, I legitimately was sad to see 4KIDS go simply because their demise signaled the end of Saturday morning cartoons for future generations. I'm honestly curious as to how they could've adapted to online streaming had they still been around long enough to do so--I think they had shows streamed on their website before FUNimation did it.
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4Kids was arguably the wound that did Saturday morning cartoons in. Well, not necessarily them, but when Pokemon was a big hit, the networks were inundated with anime in an attempt to leech off the craze, and arguably contributed to why Saturday morning ended as early as it did. (There are articles about "the death of Saturday morning" that go back to 2003, for Chrissakes.)
 
What's the first annie may you ever watched? My dad was an OG weeb in the early 90s so he had an Akira VHS. Never really unironically watched anything else.
 
Mine was either Samurai Pizza Cats(because it came on tv before school) or My Friend Totaro(pretty sure my family rented it when I was young.
 
My parents swear up and down I watched Sailor Moon as a kid, but I don't remember it very well, so I like to say my first three anime were Pokémon, Digimon, and Cardcaptors. But I believe my actual first was Speed Racer as we had a VHS tape of the "Car with a Brain" episode I watched over and over again before Sailor Moon and Pokémon.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
My parents swear up and down I watched Sailor Moon as a kid, but I don't remember it very well, so I like to say my first three anime were Pokémon, Digimon, and Cardcaptors. But I believe my actual first was Speed Racer as we had a VHS tape of the "Car with a Brain" episode I watched over and over again before Sailor Moon and Pokémon.
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When I was a kid I had 11 video tapes of Speed Racer and I would watch them over and over.
 
aaah the early 2000s. day zero of the weeb virus that doomed many lives. Honestly I can't remember the first one i watched, but the ones that always out stuck in my mind the most were pokemon and G Gundam. Pokemon seem been the gate drug for a lot of weebs.
 
My first major anime interests were Digimon, Sailor Moon, Monster Rancher, and of course, Cardcaptors. Never got into Pokemon as a kid, weirdly enough.

I'd also like to drop an honorable mention to Flint The Time Detective. I loved that show as a kid, but it fell off the face of the Earth once Fox Kids/Fox Family died and I don't know anyone else who watched that show back in the day.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I'd also like to drop an honorable mention to Flint The Time Detective. I loved that show as a kid, but it fell off the face of the Earth once Fox Kids/Fox Family died and I don't know anyone else who watched that show back in the day.
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I have that saved on my computer for whenever I get to it, is Fox Kids where it first aired? I thought it was like on Nickelodeon much like Grimm Masterpiece Theater. Lol man, that's what I get for trying to balance it out with Kids WB (like I have vague memories of Teknoman being advertised on Fox Kids, but never watched it).

Speaking of stuff falling off the face of the earth with a network, does anyone else remember Spider Riders?
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I have that saved on my computer for whenever I get to it, is Fox Kids where it first aired? I thought it was like on Nickelodeon much like Grimm Masterpiece Theater. Lol man, that's what I get for trying to balance it out with Kids WB (like I have vague memories of Teknoman being advertised on Fox Kids, but never watched it).

Speaking of stuff falling off the face of the earth with a network, does anyone else remember Spider Riders?
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I think it debuted on Fox Kids, and I know for a fact it aired on Fox Family back in the late 90's/early 2000's, so it was probably on Fox Kids at the time if it was also on Fox Family.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I think it debuted on Fox Kids, and I know for a fact it aired on Fox Family back in the late 90's/early 2000's, so it was probably on Fox Kids at the time if it was also on Fox Family.
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I somewhat recall hearing about it being on Fox Kids at the time - it was a part of their post-Pokemon all-anime lineup. Fox Family - I did the research on this - repeated the Fox Kids lineup on Sundays.

It couldn't have been Nick because they emphatically declared they would never air anime at the time... and the year after that they showed the crappy 90s remake of Speed Racer.
 
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