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Just watched this dub again. It is as glorious today as it was back in the ‘90s. Its only rival in the glorious dubbing category is probably Ghost Stories.

 
Speaking of Evangelion:


I was gonna mix these two songs in rave.dj but someone did a better job without rave. BTW one of the comments:

Interesting note: "Hey Jude" was a song written by Paul mcCartney for John Lennon's son Julian, who was being neglected by his father when he started dating Yoko Ono. Parental neglect is a major theme in Evangelion. This works on so many levels it isn't funny.
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I don't know if any of you have heard, but apparently some company has released an English translation of the Samurai Pizza Cats Official Fan Book, which was released in Japan a few years back.

When I say "translation" it is a direct translation, and it's full of information about the original Japanese show - albeit there's very little about the English dub; I'd have liked them to put some work into finding people who worked on that and adding some info on that to the book. (None of the character biographies, from what I've seen, include the English names alongside the Japanese.)

However, I suppose it could be interesting if you wanted to know more about what the Japanese version was like. There's interviews with the original staff in it.

The same company's also got the license to print Rose of Versailles, and hopefully that comes out soon. (They've apparently been bleeding translators!)
 
Read and watched the manga and anime of Welcome to the NHK.

It’s kind of shocking how differently the adaptations are handled. And apparently the light novel they’re both based off of is different as well.

The manga was absolutely insane and Satao and Misaki’s relationship was abusive and psychotic on both sides.

Meanwhile the anime version felt less so and more well meaning by nature. Despite the fact both characters were negatively reinforcing each other in some way, neither really went out of the way to hurt each other for the most part.

The manga also had Satao do things like being forced to go back to his parents’ house where he gets caught masterbating, then later on partakes in an affair with Hitomi leading to her splitting up with her husband. Meanwhile, the “affair” never went beyond considering it with Satao before the two broke off and she went off to have a kid with her husband.

And I don’t even need to go into how Yamazaki’s problems were handled in both.

I guess I prefer the anime as it seemed a bit more grounded by comparison and felt a bit more heart warming in places. Whereas the manga felt more schizophrenic in tone. Which is what they were most likely going for considering the subject matter.

Either way, I enjoyed my time with them.
 
scorptatious said:
Read and watched the manga and anime of Welcome to the NHK.

It’s kind of shocking how differently the adaptations are handled. And apparently the light novel they’re both based off of is different as well.
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The book is also quite different; I'd call it closer in tone to the anime; the manga is a bit of an outlier.

The book also describes the end of the game they were designing, and it's actually... kind of interesting.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
I don't know if any of you have heard, but apparently some company has released an English translation of the Samurai Pizza Cats Official Fan Book, which was released in Japan a few years back.

When I say "translation" it is a direct translation, and it's full of information about the original Japanese show - albeit there's very little about the English dub; I'd have liked them to put some work into finding people who worked on that and adding some info on that to the book. (None of the character biographies, from what I've seen, include the English names alongside the Japanese.)

However, I suppose it could be interesting if you wanted to know more about what the Japanese version was like. There's interviews with the original staff in it.
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Shame they didn't talk about the English dub, but hey, it's better than nothing--and if it gets more people into Samurai Pizza Cats Japanese or English, that's good, too. Sounds like a fun read.
 
I remember watching bits of Samurai Pizza Cats as a very small kid. I think I was four or five.

All I remember is that there was one in white armor who was the “obnoxious one” who decided to take on this monster or something by himself, save the day, then got whacked on the head and scolded for going off by himself.

Could be thinking of something else entirely though.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Shame they didn't talk about the English dub, but hey, it's better than nothing--and if it gets more people into Samurai Pizza Cats Japanese or English, that's good, too. Sounds like a fun read.
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There's a few mentions, but the book is translated directly from Japanese and largely deals with the original show. The interviews from the original staff are well worth the cost of translating, though, and will probably shed some light on what the original show was like and clear up long-held misconceptions.
 
Came upon a few korean webcomics on my manga-reader app. Why is the quality so insanely high compared to manga? I know manga has a style and tone and sweatshop appeal and all that, but it's almost depressing how little it has evolved considering what webcomics look like these days. Or maybe it's just the norm in Korea; actually being up to date?
 
Cactus Wings said:
Came upon a few korean webcomics on my manga-reader app. Why is the quality so insanely high compared to manga? I know manga has a style and tone and sweatshop appeal and all that, but it's almost depressing how little it has evolved considering what webcomics look like these days. Or maybe it's just the norm in Korea; actually being up to date?
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There are a lot of really shitty korean webcomics out there. People tend to not bother translating the ones with no redeeming qualities, though.
 
Least Concern said:
The trailer doesn't appeal to me, but the Aggretsuko show (also a Sanrio character) was so damn fun that it might be worth a look. I can't tell anymore, though, if that's real stop motion, or just CG which is made to look like stop motion. Hmm.
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Actually, Rilakkuma was made by San-X, not Sanrio. Also, I can assure you that this is legit stop-motion animation.
 
Bread Fetishist said:
Actually, Rilakkuma was made by San-X, not Sanrio.
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Oh. Huh. Yet another thing my ex-wife lied to me about.

Bread Fetishist said:
Also, I can assure you that this is legit stop-motion animation.
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Okay, cool. Kind of interesting how cel animation is pretty much dead now, but stop motion is still kicking around. I really liked the way Isle of Dogs looked.
 
Least Concern said:
Okay, cool. Kind of interesting how cel animation is pretty much dead now, but stop motion is still kicking around. I really liked the way Isle of Dogs looked.
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I suppose there's still a need for that craft that CGI can't replicate. Of course they could still animate with cels if they didn't mind using a digital camera in the final execution but nobody seems to bother doing that.
 
Cactus Wings said:
Came upon a few korean webcomics on my manga-reader app. Why is the quality so insanely high compared to manga? I know manga has a style and tone and sweatshop appeal and all that, but it's almost depressing how little it has evolved considering what webcomics look like these days. Or maybe it's just the norm in Korea; actually being up to date?
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There definitely are manhwa that resemble actual manga (dynamic paneling, etc), such as Witch Buster, but for the most part, the polished look is partially because of heavier use of photoshop/etc filters and flares that wouldn't work in b/w manga. For a webcomic that I find very impressive, 4-Cut Hero is so incredibly higher quality than most of the other ones.
Manah said:
There are a lot of really shitty korean webcomics out there. People tend to not bother translating the ones with no redeeming qualities, though.
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People fall over themselves to translate the ones that are basically porn though ?
 
I just finished watching the first season of Overlord and dear God is it good! Normally when you combine isekai with MMORPG you'll get something as terrible as Sword Arts Online, but not Overlord. Not only does the author through his creativity manage to make this work, he also uses said creativity to make common tropes of anime and the isekai genre in particular not only not annoying, but also puts interesting takes on it. Aniz is a very likable main character and his NPC underlings are just as lovable and creative in their own ways.

What I also like about our MC (whose real name we never really learn), is that unlike in most modern animu and mango, he isn't a high school kid or a NEET loser. As a matter of fact, in the very first episode he stated that in order to join his guild you had to fulfill two conditions: 1) Have a non-human avatar and 2) Be a functioning member of society.

Overlord had the potential to be a disaster, but instead it turned out to be a gift from Saint Nicholas himself. What got me into this anime is a podcast the boys from Anime Outsiders did on the show. I decided to give it a try and I was not disappointed at least.

It's been a while since I watched an anime where I was not just hyped but outright thirsty for the next episode. All hail Ainz Ooal Gown!
 
Fougaro said:
I just finished watching the first season of Overlord and dear God is it good! Normally when you combine isekai with MMORPG you'll get something as terrible as Sword Arts Online, but not Overlord. Not only does the author through his creativity manage to make this work, he also uses said creativity to make common tropes of anime and the isekai genre in particular not only not annoying, but also puts interesting takes on it. Aniz is a very likable main character and his NPC underlings are just as lovable and creative in their own ways.

What I also like about our MC (whose real name we never really learn), is that unlike in most modern animu and mango, he isn't a high school kid or a NEET loser. As a matter of fact, in the very first episode he stated that in order to join his guild you had to fulfill two conditions: 1) Have a non-human avatar and 2) Be a functioning member of society.

Overlord had the potential to be a disaster, but instead it turned out to be a gift from Saint Nicholas himself. What got me into this anime is a podcast the boys from Anime Outsiders did on the show. I decided to give it a try and I was not disappointed at least.

It's been a while since I watched an anime where I was not just hyped but outright thirsty for the next episode. All hail Ainz Ooal Gown!
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yeah i only watched about 4 episodes of it and it's not bad

should finish watching it
 
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