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Funny you should mention that, because I have decided to write my own Slice of Life story about a Historical Reenactment group. I've been writing outlines for it on notebook paper. It'd be my first serious attempt at original fiction.
If you want to read it when it's written, I'll keep you posted.
But to get back on topic, I've decided to go on a childhood nostalgia binge and rewatch the shows that got me into anime as a young child.
Those shows are Digimon Adventure, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Monster Rancher. I would add Flint The Time Detective to the list, but that's not available for streaming as far as I can tell.
It's a shame I can't go for full authenticity and rewatch Nelvana's Cardcaptors or the Cloverway dub of Sailor Moon from the 90's. Although both dubs were of questionable quality at best and heavily bowdlerized,
I do miss both of them for nostalgia value and they had their own campy charm. That being said, I do like the Viz dub of Sailor Moon and the Animax dub of Cardcaptor Sakura is decent but not great.
I do have a compilation DVD of Cardcaptors episodes from the early 2000's that I bought at a flea market. I may rewatch that again as well.
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For me, I got into this in the mid 90's when I was buying tapes of Tenchi Muyo! from different stores. I have a soft spot for the Pioneer dub of the series (less so the Toonami edited version, I always thought that was a bad idea with the OVA episodes).
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There's one about Heavy Combat or "dressing up in medieval gear and hitting each other" called Shoujo Kishidan x Knight Tale
Yes it's a "primarily male hobby but all the participants are cute girls" manga.
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Sounds cool. I'd like to get some updates on it.
Yeah, the Cloverway dub is like spread out on out-of-print DVDs (but it's easily accessible on KissAnime), as is Cardcaptors. But all of the Ocean dub of Cardcaptors is on YouTube, so there's at least that for a closest legal streaming service. Quality's like all over the place, however, so I'm questioning a little if they were all even ripped from DVDs. I thought I heard a boxset was released years ago but was discontinued pretty quickly due to low sales, yet I can't find any evidence of it, which I'm a little upset about. At least the first movie's still available; I'm still glad that I got the original Pioneer print as a birthday gift, and I still have like two of the Pioneer volumes, though they're obviously from when Kids WB was airing them. A shame.
It's also too bad I never got myself a copy of the second movie, so I only saw it once when I borrowed a friend's (rented) copy. It was released to select theaters not that long ago, but I was unable to go see it.
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I just sent you a PM about my story, and to get back on topic, I will definitely check out Cardcaptors on YouTube. I didn't know it was on there. Thanks.
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I swear to God, Yuru Camp is at least ten times more effective than any antidepressant. It's a feel-good series that's cute and comfy as fuck. And as you can see from the opening theme camping and its ABC is easy as 123.
Out of context that sounds like the title of an anime about Veeh.
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https://youtu.be/kP2KATrNlbE
apparently some anime director was a holocaust denier and that warranted 15 minutes of mental gymnastics
apparently some anime director was a holocaust denier and that warranted 15 minutes of mental gymnastics
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It seems to me that the only people who have an issue separating art from creator are people who feel the need to constantly virtue signal on social media and YouTube. Just love what you love.
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I see since it's based on a manga (a 6 volume one at that), it does make me wonder if they did cram it all into 13 episodes or not. Too often when they're only budgeted for that many episodes, the only thing they could do is a cliffhanger, or find a point to end and assume the viewers will have already read the manga or will go and read it afterwards. The "Go read the book" mentality in anime can be quite disgusting for first-time watchers, especially those outside Japan where the manga might not even be readily available in a translated edition (legit or illegit).
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I apologize for thefftopic:nature of this post, but here goes.
Do any of you ever have a "dream" idea for anime or manga? I mean, I know it's spergy to think of this, but is there a particular subject, theme, or setting you'd like to see covered in anime or manga that is currently not covered as far as you know?
I'd love to see a comedy or Slice of Life anime about tabletop role-playing games. We've had similar projects about MMO's and video games, so why not old-school RPG's? Could be fun.
The same goes for LARP and Historical Reeanctment. Especially with the weirdos that those two particular communities are known to attract.
I’d like to see this:
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Out of curiosity, what got you guys into anime? Not sure if this has been discussed, but I'd be curious to know, and would be interested in any cool stories. Was it just watching Pokémon/Digimon/Yugioh as a kid, or something else?
I'm weird, as I didn't really get interested in it until my late 20s. I was on a big JRPG kick for some reason, and absolutely fell in love out of nowhere with the Legend of Heroes series. I went seeking something, anything with a similar style and themes, and I guess I came to the epiphany that anime was a good place to find it. I had never watched anything before outside of a few episodes of Pokémon as a kid, but I sat down and binged FMA:B over three days and was instantly hooked. This led me to other normalfag series like Death Note, AoT, Cowboy Bebop, Eva, etc., etc., etc.
What's surprised me the most is the scope of what anime and manga is. I had fallen into the trap of believing the stereotype that pervades the west of everything being moe loli trash or stuff for autistic children, but there's just so much stuff out there. Saying "I don't like anime" is akin to saying "I don't like TV," or "I don't like books." It's too general a statement.
This revelation also creates a sense of frustration that I will likely never be a guru in the hobby. It's too wide and too deep, and I started too late to ever have a full grasp of it. I go to /a/ and even lurk this thread, and I barely understand half of what is being talked about. As a general rule, if they don't sell t-shirts of it at Hot Topic, I probably can't engage in a meaningful conversation about it. And that pisses me off, because I love the medium and the culture that surrounds it, but the time needed to become fluent would be tantamount to a full time job.
But I keep pushing on. I'm usually trucking through one or two classic series at a time, while keeping up on a current season show. I've also cultivated a small, but respectable manga collection over the last couple of years, which has kept me sane as my hobby of collecting vidya has sadly been put on the back burner for the time being.
So yeah, that's my story I wrote to kill time while I'm at the laundromat. How about you guys?
I'm weird, as I didn't really get interested in it until my late 20s. I was on a big JRPG kick for some reason, and absolutely fell in love out of nowhere with the Legend of Heroes series. I went seeking something, anything with a similar style and themes, and I guess I came to the epiphany that anime was a good place to find it. I had never watched anything before outside of a few episodes of Pokémon as a kid, but I sat down and binged FMA:B over three days and was instantly hooked. This led me to other normalfag series like Death Note, AoT, Cowboy Bebop, Eva, etc., etc., etc.
What's surprised me the most is the scope of what anime and manga is. I had fallen into the trap of believing the stereotype that pervades the west of everything being moe loli trash or stuff for autistic children, but there's just so much stuff out there. Saying "I don't like anime" is akin to saying "I don't like TV," or "I don't like books." It's too general a statement.
This revelation also creates a sense of frustration that I will likely never be a guru in the hobby. It's too wide and too deep, and I started too late to ever have a full grasp of it. I go to /a/ and even lurk this thread, and I barely understand half of what is being talked about. As a general rule, if they don't sell t-shirts of it at Hot Topic, I probably can't engage in a meaningful conversation about it. And that pisses me off, because I love the medium and the culture that surrounds it, but the time needed to become fluent would be tantamount to a full time job.
But I keep pushing on. I'm usually trucking through one or two classic series at a time, while keeping up on a current season show. I've also cultivated a small, but respectable manga collection over the last couple of years, which has kept me sane as my hobby of collecting vidya has sadly been put on the back burner for the time being.
So yeah, that's my story I wrote to kill time while I'm at the laundromat. How about you guys?
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I like to say my childhood shows were Pokémon, Digimon, and Cardcaptors, though Yu-Gi-Oh took over for Cardcaptors when it ended (so four, I guess). I never had cable so I didn't grow up on Toonami, but it was still coming on TV more thanks to 4KIDS, and we'd rent a couple of Ghibli films (if I remember right, I might've seen Princess Mononoke when I was eight because someone from church recommended it to Dad to rent for a movie night, but I was an X-Files fan and recognized Gillian Anderson's voice, so yeah). A friend in middle school had been renting DVDs from the library, so I borrowed a couple of the copies of Scrapped Princess, one of Kodocha, and the second Cardcaptors movie.
But I think what permanently got me into anime was when my late grandfather gave me the Escaflowne movie (the ultimate edition, so I got the soundtrack) for my 13th birthday. I had never heard of it before (I missed it when it was on Fox Kids, probably for the best), but it was literally my first exposure to a more mature anime not Princess Mononoke. I was mesmerized--about a year or two later, I got into manga (Fruits Basket was my first), and I've been into anime and manga since.
Though I got more into anime once I entered college and binged a lot of shows during those few years. Not the smartest thing to do, but eh, still no regrets.
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I watched a lot of Toonami as a kid (mostly Sailor Moon) as well as Pokemon. My brother also used to get these DBZ magazines that eventually became general anime ones, and I wound up reading them. My first manga was Instant Teen Just Add Nuts, which I only found out about because the magazine recommended it. Not long after I started watching Fruits Basket - which I think was also a recommendation - and the rest is history.
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The manga is currently ongoing and the anime stopped approximately 26 chapters in.
There has been news about a continuation to the anime, but probably not until 2019 or 2020.
Probably because there's probably not enough material to cover a second season. Especially since that the author is on a "when it's done" kind of time frame and every chapter is released around every 4-8 weeks.
Like a lot of kids, I watched Pokémon, Digimon and Dragon Ball Z. With a little bit of Sailor Moon. I also watched Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky.
It wasn't until I think High School when I watched some of the less mainstream stuff like Fullmetal Alchemist, Azumanga Daioh, etc. And I followed the FMA manga and Yotsuba@! series.
Since then I had mild interest in both. I can't say I'm a hardcore enthusiast for both as most of the time I just watch/read the stuff on free websites. And even then I'm fairly selective and tend to avoid the super popular stuff or those that have hundreds of chapters.
God I sound like such a hipster.
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For someone my age, I didn't have Toonami, Pokemon or anything during start of the century as my starting point, rather, it was the VHS tapes and late night TV viewings of anime that got him into it during the early/mid 90's, though before that, we did have some stuff that came on TV, but wasn't often referred to as anime (like Voltron or Robotech or such). The 1980's had a lot of these obscure programs and movies you either saw on TV or your parents rented at the store, so I was always seeing these odd things and enjoying that they were different (like the Unico movie on The Disney Channel). In the 1990's, I started to hear of this "Japanimation" (as they were calling it) often in the context of sci-fi, and comic shops would often get those types of tapes for pretty high prices for their time. It was quite a smaller world then it seemed, in terms of what was available or what you had to get if you knew the right channels. I got into tape trading when I discovered a newsgroup for it (alt.video.tape-trading), I would be trading episodes of MST3K or something else I had for whatever show wasn't legitimately available yet. In those days, whatever got subtitled meant relying on fan translations that would be duped through Amiga computers from another VHS or LaserDisc source (as the earliest fansubbing was made practical with them).
Of course I also bought legit tapes as well, though on early series I got into was Pioneer's Tenchi Muyo! series (most mall stores often carried the English dubbed tapes since those were cheaper). I used to be overwhelmed whenever I went to Record Town and saw their anime section grow.
Of course I also bought legit tapes as well, though on early series I got into was Pioneer's Tenchi Muyo! series (most mall stores often carried the English dubbed tapes since those were cheaper). I used to be overwhelmed whenever I went to Record Town and saw their anime section grow.