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Coster said:
I'm not apologizing for anyone but Japanese guys possessing child pornography is basically Tuesday so I'm not surprised. The production and distribution of it was banned in 1999 but actually possessing it wasn't banned until 2014.
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Really? They banned owning three years ago. No wonder Japan get a reputation of being deperaved.
 
atm said:
The movie was actually pretty good though as I recall. I watched the series in a dead-brained stupor because it was alright to look at. Glad I stuck it out though, if only for the movie.
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K-On's adaptation isn't good either but I enjoyed it even still (I love the 4 koma though) I could not get into Tamako at all. After ep 10 I was like "fuck I'll just watch that edgy gambler show." I did. I shouldn't have.
 
Just finished watching nine episodes of One Piece. I'll watch some more on Saturday.
 
I wonder if people who are foolish enough, to start watching either one piece or detective conan, from ep1, actually exist in this day and age.

Vrakks said:
I can't be bothered to watch anime. Is there anything short (<3 hours total) anyone can recommend?
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Withuit even knowing what kind of genre you'ld like, it's hard.
 
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Trilby said:
If only by coincidence. Part of that also had to do with the success of shows like Tetsuwan Atom (both domestically and internationally when NBC's syndication firm picked it up to distribute in the states) that led to the boom in studios providing "Terebi Manga" with the hopes of mimicking the same success Osamu Tezuka had. Toei's first TV series from 1963 was "Wolf Boy Ken", which interestingly got picked up by Universal's TV division though I don't think it played stateside at all (apparently Hanna-Barbera VA's Daws Butler and Don Messick were brought in to do voices on this).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vPXH7XGTKKg
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You also had the fact American animation studios were gutted by the 1970s as the golden age ended, and Hanna-Barbera and Filmation were notorious for their poor (but somewhat charming) quality. It took some years to raise a cheap labor pool in Taiwan and South Korea, which Japanese and French animators we previously outsourced to started using around the 1980s.

Halberd Sonichu said:
Really? They banned owning three years ago. No wonder Japan get a reputation of being deperaved.
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To be fair, it wasn't until quite recently here in the U.S. that possession was banned, too. I'd like to hear Watsuki's side of the story, especially why the fuck he had it at his office.
 
Nazi vegeta said:
really from ep1? Isnt one piece like 900eps?
How much time did it take you to get up to date?
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I started it from episode one exactly mid-July and am currently at the Law vs. Doflamingo fight in the Dressrosa arc (fucking hell, Law's backstory was... damn), sooooo about four months' time. However, I've slowed down this past month because (sperg warning):

- 9anime's servers were acting up (I like it because it goes immediately to the next episode). KissAnime is okay and all, but it's slow on my laptop without AdBlock (and downloading is a hassle with One Piece). This is why I got into the habit of watching it on the television through the Xbox, although that habit started because we have some of the DVDs, and I had promised one of my brothers I'd start watching it once we got the first several episodes on DVD.

- My brother keeps bugging me to "Keep watching, you're getting to the good part!" and I'm all "Let me watch at my own pace, dude!" since he just wants to sperg about One Piece with me so bad. Back when I first started watching, I went with the "three episodes a day" rule, which was more-or-less actually four episodes a day, truthfully, which starting around the Arlong Park arc, episode intake increased to the point where I watched 50 episodes in two days just to finish Marineford. I am really ahead of schedule in that regard.

- I watched it dub, and I just fucking love the dub. Even though I watched the films as I went along, midway into the Fisher Tiger flashback I had to switch to subs (though if I had waited a few days, I'd have seen the entirety of the flashback dubbed), so the shock of it being basically "permanent" at this point got to me and I started slowing down, though honestly I kinda needed to start taking breaks anyway (and part of that might be because it's so mentally and emotionally exhausting). Voice-acting really is fantastic, though, but I was just too used to the dub. (Sonny Strait's Usopp gives me so much life.)

- Toei Animation being Toei Animation. I do think people are over-exaggerating things about Toei "ruining" One Piece, but I am noticing things here and there that are starting to bother me. A damn shame, too, since again, the voice-acting and the soundtrack are amazing. It's just the animation has been spread too thin at this point and also the quality in the way it looks seems to have dropped. Really too much of a shame it couldn't have the Water 7-through-Thriller Bark look forever.

- God Usopp has been the highlight of Dressrosa for me, and I'm sad that he's absent after Zou. But at least I'll get more Brook later, I'm missing him way too damn much.

Yeah, I think that covers my journey with One Piece thus far.
 
I still am kinda baffled by the ruroni kenshin news. If it turned out that the creator of some super skeezy fan service show had issues, that wouldn't surprise me, but Kenshin didn't have any weird sexual stuff in it at all from what I remember. It's also crazy timing given whats going on.
 
Right now, I'm taking a slight break from anime to read through Tsukihime. I want to have proper context as to why the anime is utter dogshit before I start it.

Kari Kamiya said:
Back when I first started watching, I went with the "three episodes a day" rule, which was more-or-less actually four episodes a day, truthfully, which starting around the Arlong Park arc, episode intake increased to the point where I watched 50 episodes in two days just to finish Marineford. I am really ahead of schedule in that regard.
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Busted a gut laughing at this because my old room mate did the same exact thing. Slowly made his way up to Arlong Park, and then kicked binging into maximum overdrive. He was really sick too, so he had no obligations but to watch One Piece.
 
El Porko Fako said:
Right now, I'm taking a slight break from anime to read through Tsukihime. I want to have proper context as to why the anime is utter dogshit before I start it.
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The source material is literally proto fate after a much better work so...what did you expect?
 
^The anime's character design is superior, even to what was released of the VN remake. The OST is quite good, too. Apart from that, it indeed might as well not exist.

Also, Nasu actually conceived Fate earlier. A literal prototype anime adaptation short was released.
 
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