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Holding off on Lodoss War for now.

I got Slayers instead. All the seasons. It looks interesting and I like Lisa Ortiz and Eric Stuart and Crispin Freeman. Here's hoping its fun.
Interestingly I had most of the themes on my ipod and didn't realize it lol.

I want to see the OVA and film collection but they haven't been rereleased. Does anyone know why?
 
jellycar said:
Holding off on Lodoss War for now.

I got Slayers instead. All the seasons. It looks interesting and I like Lisa Ortiz and Eric Stuart and Crispin Freeman. Here's hoping its fun.
Interestingly I had most of the themes on my ipod and didn't realize it lol.

I want to see the OVA and film collection but they haven't been rereleased. Does anyone know why?
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I get the feeling those rights are either lost or have reverted to whoever owns the rights the the franchise itself and they're waiting for a new buyer.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
I get the feeling those rights are either lost or have reverted to whoever owns the rights the the franchise itself and they're waiting for a new buyer.
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That's pretty typical when the rights aren't entirely together like that for series spread over TV, OVAs and movies.
 
Whelp I discovered Toonami Aftermath and hooked it up to my Roku. It's a pretty neat site that does a decent job at replicating Classic Toonami. You even got Fox, WB, and Adult Swim stuff on their.
 
Watched the first episode of Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu! anime adaption. They included the statue of liberty part, but omitted a 'certain' part, they never even put 'you know who' in his place:

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So I watched Nausicca yesterday. It was my first Ghibli film and overall a good first impression. If the later Ghibli films continue this streak then I can see why they are so widely renowned. Toonami Aftermath is airing the fist of the North star movie so I'm watching that now.
 
Notgoodwithusernames said:
So I watched Nausicca yesterday. It was my first Ghibli film and overall a good first impression. If the later Ghibli films continue this streak then I can see why they are so widely renowned. Toonami Aftermath is airing the fist of the North star movie so I'm watching that now.
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Nice you started with Nausicaa that way, Miyazaki at least kept it going as far up to Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away before the decline starts to take shape.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Probably because I first watched it as an adult and not a squealing teenager, but I like both series equally. Although Brotherhood has the proper, true ending, the 2k3 series actually tied up its own loose ends its way, even if it took until a movie to do it. I'm also a sucker for bittersweet endings and dark stories, so while I think the 2k3 series had an ending that would cause most people to ugly cry, I thought it was fitting for how the original series set itself up when it deviated from the manga.

I think that's why Fruits Basket getting the Brotherhood treatment is going to be interesting because both adaptations thus far have a lot in common, the only difference is with Akito's portrayal and the 2019 series adapted just a bit more of the manga (though I think some of it is chronologically out of order? Ayame wearing the wedding dress was in the original but it's not in the 2019 anime). It also kinda changed up some of the comedy, I'm not gonna lie. I think the comedic pacing was handled much better in the original 2001 series and not just because it was a literal 1:1 adaptation of the manga.

And I enjoy the Yuki fangirls' wackiness in the original better.
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It's weird that FMA has two different continuities with their own endings that way.


Syaoran Li said:
I will be the first to admit that I prefer FMA 2003 over Brotherhood and the manga.

Yes, Brotherhood was more faithful to the manga. But that doesn't automatically make it better,

It was kind of annoying as a fan of the first anime seeing everyone trash FMA 2003 solely because it dared to deviate from the manga. Even friends of mine who loved the first anime back when it was airing on Adult Swim decided to take that view. What's even more ironic is that a lot of them also complained about all the filler episodes in Bleach and Naruto.

This mindset was at its worst back in the early 2010's right after Brotherhood came out and was very popular.
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For a literal decade now, which boggles my mind, I've not seen Brotherhood nor read the original manga because I could never decide which to do first, as one will spoil the other.

But they've recently started re-releasing the manga in very nice hardback editions, so I will probably just read the original manga,

But part of why I never got around to Brotherhood was because I loved the 2003 series so much and walked away from the movie pretty satisfied by the ending, even if it was bittersweet, so Brotherhood was just not quite able to grab my interest since I had already felt like I had said "farewell" to those characters and that world.

It's been long enough now though that I definitely want to revisit that franchise for the nostalgia.

R.A.E.L. said:
Amen. The 2003 anime still gets trashed to this day and people are told to skip it, which drives me up a wall. I love it to death and always will. Watched a couple episodes of Brotherhood and honestly didn't care for it, same with the manga. Being closer to the manga doesn't automatically make an adaptation better; hell, sometimes the manga itself isn't even that great.
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Ok, now that really sucks if people are telling newcomers to just skip the 2003 series, that's bullshit.

Notgoodwithusernames said:
oh god I've heard about that. From what I understand back in the day CN ended up marathoning Naruto episodes just to push through the filler. I had a friend who said he got burned out on the series because of this
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Filler is what killed my interest in both Naruto and Bleach.
 
If there's an anime that needs a Brotherhood treatment, it's gotta be Trigun. Sadly, I doubt that's going to happen, apparently Badlands was a base-breaker or something (I liked the film, I dunno about other fans) and I think the series in general hasn't always been super popular in Japan.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
If there's an anime that needs a Brotherhood treatment, it's gotta be Trigun. Sadly, I doubt that's going to happen, apparently Badlands was a base-breaker or something (I liked the film, I dunno about other fans) and I think the series in general hasn't always been super popular in Japan.
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Trigun is another one where I never got around to reading the original manga because I felt satisfied by the TV series ending, which sure, may have left a lot open, but I felt it had a proper emotional resolution, it's still one of my favorite final episodes of any anime.

Still, I should definitely read the original manga and you're right, it could use a new TV series, since as great as it was at the time the original TV series is sadly very dated looking today.

But it's funny how you have many examples of anime/manga that was more popular in the US than Japan and vice versa, same deal with Cowboy Bebop, but since both Bebop and Trigun were literally western themed, it kinda makes sense.

But shoot, I'm part of the problem as I never saw the Trigun movie either, in fact I kinda forgot that was a thing, but if Gungrave could get a new game, I guess don't write Yasuhiro Nightow franchises off completely.

As for animes I'd like to see get the Brotherhood treatment, well Read or Die would be number 1 of course, ideally I'd want a follow up to the OVA and TV series, but since so much time has passed it's more likely any new anime would be a re-adaption of the original light novels, which would be fine as well.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Trigun is another one where I never got around to reading the original manga because I felt satisfied by the TV series ending, which sure, may have left a lot open, but I felt it had a proper emotional resolution, it's still one of my favorite final episodes of any anime.

Still, I should definitely read the original manga and you're right, it could use a new TV series, since as great as it was at the time the original TV series is sadly very dated looking today.

But it's funny how you have many examples of anime/manga that was more popular in the US than Japan and vice versa, same deal with Cowboy Bebop, but since both Bebop and Trigun were literally western themed, it kinda makes sense.

But shoot, I'm part of the problem as I never saw the Trigun movie either, in fact I kinda forgot that was a thing, but if Gungrave could get a new game, I guess don't write Yasuhiro Nightow franchises off completely.

As for animes I'd like to see get the Brotherhood treatment, well Read or Die would be number 1 of course, ideally I'd want a follow up to the OVA and TV series, but since so much time has passed it's more likely any new anime would be a re-adaption of the original light novels, which would be fine as well.
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Both Trigun and Read or Die are perfect and don't really need the treatment.
 
Human Flesh said:
Both Trigun and Read or Die are perfect and don't really need the treatment.
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It's not that the Read or Die TV series didn't have an ending that works well enough as a conclusion, but a few things were left open and dammit, I just loved it so much that I want more! Maybe I'm being greedy though.

But the original light novels tell a completely different story, so there's still a lot of material to cover, the whole business with "Grandma" and all that.

At the very least I just wish the light novels would finally get official English translations.
 
Dom Cruise said:
At the very least I just wish the light novels would finally get official English translations.
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There has to be some sort of need for the publishers to do this. Sadly older series don't receive this treatment unless they are very popular. It might sound crazy but filling out monthly polls the publishers have (Seven Seas ect ect) might have some effect? Yeah I know but it doesn't hurt to try.
 
Human Flesh said:
There has to be some sort of need for the publishers to do this. Sadly older series don't receive this treatment unless they are very popular. It might sound crazy but filling out monthly polls the publishers have (Seven Seas ect ect) might have some effect? Yeah I know but it doesn't hurt to try.
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If the Vampire Hunter D novel series could get translations though I'm not really seeing why an anime that aired on Adult Swim couldn't.
 
Dom Cruise said:
If the Vampire Hunter D novel series could get translations though I'm not really seeing why an anime that aired on Adult Swim couldn't.
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The Read or Die TV series aired on G4. Adult Swim showed the OVA a few times.
 
Rofl Ousama Game: The Animation is such a piece of shit. We're supposed to be taking the slaughter of an entire class seriously, but they fuck it up with such silly scenarios such as a student throwing herself out the window because she lost a popularity contest (didn't survive the night), a newly-blind chick finding her way to the beach and writing a perfect message in the sand before drowning herself, another chick being set aflame and doesn't even flinch while she talks to her surviving classmates, and some dude's hands being popped like a zit and he bleeds out. And it expects us to feel sorry for these characters whose names we don't remember and are so one-note that they have to resort to villainy in order to stand out from the cast.

And this is only the halfway point where I'm at. I took a week break just 'cause and those moments are the only ones I even remember because I thought they were bloody hilarious. I hope the second half gives me just as many lulz.

:story:

(The OP is shockingly tolerable, though.)
 
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