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Tor Lugosi said:
iirc, the original plan was was for Sayla to be the final girl for Amuro. But for whatever reason Sayla's role got significantly reduced during production of the original show and then her VA got sick during Zeta, leading them to completely shelf her character.
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Damn really? Sayla is one of my faves too and I was getting into the whole story about her complicated relationship with Char being her brother. Ngl, I thought Beltorchika was her for the first few episodes until I figured out I was just retarded and i'm going to say Amuro has a thing for blonde women. Well, Hopefully nothing bad happens to Mirai where i'm at then. She has a cute family with Bright and I'm curious to see how she's fitting into the whole zeta picture.
 
Vapewizard said:
Much like with the final Evangelion movie I haven't really followed the series in ages but it's fun to watch the meltdowns on /a/ cause of the ending.
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Reposting this from the AOT thread:
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Syaoran Li said:
Something I've been thinking about today ever since @Dom Cruise mentioned it in an entirely different thread are those anime series that are pretty obscure nowadays but were popular at a specific point in time to a specific age group.

What I'm talking about isn't just anime that was really popular but then faded in popularity but is still well remembered within the fandom after its peak. I mean stuff that seemed like it was super popular for a brief while and then just became totally forgotten.

These were the sort of series that makes you go "You just had to have been there" or "It worked if you were at the right place and the right time"

You had a lot of those in the late 2000's when the anime boom was starting to go bust, but they existed before then and afterwards as well.

Some of the ones I can think of would be Elfen Lied, Fruits Basket, Vampire Knight, FLCL, Air Gear, OHSHC, Trigun, and Outlaw Star.

Cowboy Bebop might've fallen into that category had it not been the debut anime of Adult Swim and actually had a little bit of crossover appeal into the mainstream back in the early 2000's.

It's not just an anime thing, you see the same kind of phenomenon with western animation and live-action movies and shows too.
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FLCL and Elfen Lied definitely still get brought up as the "weird trippy anime" and "the edgy gore anime" nowadays, for what it's worth.
 
In case anyone was considering reading it, “The Legendary Hero Is Looking for a Wife“ is not only crap it has a massive ass-pull at the end to justify an obvious setup from the first chapter.

I should have known better, since I know from Bakuman that any series that wraps in under 20 chapters is typically considered a poor seller, but there’ve been a few short series recently that were food.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Something I've been thinking about today ever since @Dom Cruise mentioned it in an entirely different thread are those anime series that are pretty obscure nowadays but were popular at a specific point in time to a specific age group.

What I'm talking about isn't just anime that was really popular but then faded in popularity but is still well remembered within the fandom after its peak. I mean stuff that seemed like it was super popular for a brief while and then just became totally forgotten.

These were the sort of series that makes you go "You just had to have been there" or "It worked if you were at the right place and the right time"

You had a lot of those in the late 2000's when the anime boom was starting to go bust, but they existed before then and afterwards as well.

Some of the ones I can think of would be Elfen Lied, Fruits Basket, Vampire Knight, FLCL, Air Gear, OHSHC, Trigun, and Outlaw Star.

Cowboy Bebop might've fallen into that category had it not been the debut anime of Adult Swim and actually had a little bit of crossover appeal into the mainstream back in the early 2000's.

It's not just an anime thing, you see the same kind of phenomenon with western animation and live-action movies and shows too.
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These are a little bit too popular. I would say the real obscure shit lies on late 2000's-2010's OVAs and seasonals that might have garnered a little attention at the time but largely remained forgotten. So it's safe to put at least a decent amount of SHAFT's output from 2001 to 2012, short anime like Bernard-jou, Plastic Nee-san and Tanaka-kun, plus Blood Lad-tier shit which was pretty popular when it came out but faded into obscurity because the producers abandoned the franchise. Anything else?
 
I can remember that when I got onto anime back in 2009, the really popular ones in my circle were Witch Hunter Robin, Darker than Black, Pandora Hearts, Vampire Knight, Fruits Basket and Death Note...
 
XYZpdq said:
Harmony Gold has gotten in cahoots with the rest of the Macross owners
"most" Macross is imminent through HG
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Funny enough only 1 series of them is Macross, the other 2 are not even close, they are bailing for the terrible PR of being cockblockers, now they are irrelevants, waiting for Netflix to go full ninjas and get 7, Plus, Zero, Frontier and Delta on their platform any time now
 
Holy shit. I-

Macross is finally gonna be free!? I can finally own and stream my favorite stuff in English???
(Hate that HG is involved but at this point I'll take it)
 
like_shutup_&_drive_scoob said:
Holy shit. I-

Macross is finally gonna be free!? I can finally own and stream my favorite stuff in English???
(Hate that HG is involved but at this point I'll take it)
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you already could
literally all Macross animated works are subbed except for maybe Macross Mecha Graffiti and Flashback, either legit or by fans
you could have imported the discs if you really gave a shit
 
Big West has evidently decided to simply agree with the judge that Tatsunoko's deal with Harmony Gold was legit.

Well, I never expected that to happen. Anyone think we'll get Do You Remember Love on DVD? With the Clash of the Bionoids dub too?
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
Big West has evidently decided to simply agree with the judge that Tatsunoko's deal with Harmony Gold was legit.

Well, I never expected that to happen. Anyone think we'll get Do You Remember Love on DVD? With the Clash of the Bionoids dub too?
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chatter I'm seeing is putting the exceptions to "most" possibly being DYRL for Toho and the other legal issues around it, II or Plus for the old USA deals, and 7 for the old rumored costs of the music rights
 
XYZpdq said:
Harmony Gold has gotten in cahoots with the rest of the Macross owners
"most" Macross is imminent through HG
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Does this mean we'll finally get a proper, uncut North American physical media release of the Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie only 37 years later (okay, probably 38 years later by the time it arrives in stores)?

EDIT: Ninja'd by @Steamboat_Bill.
 
sasazuka said:
Does this mean we'll finally get a proper, uncut North American physical media release of the Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie only 37 years later (okay, probably 38 years later by the time it arrives in stores)?
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there was one on VHS through Best Video but nobody noticed
but to answer the question, maybe. From what I understand Toho has a stake in it and it was in limbo for a while around the 00s even for people like AnimEigo who were working well with HG. So it might be why the new announcement is for "most".
 
Screw Danlon said:
In case anyone was considering reading it, “The Legendary Hero Is Looking for a Wife“ is not only crap it has a massive ass-pull at the end to justify an obvious setup from the first chapter.

I should have known better, since I know from Bakuman that any series that wraps in under 20 chapters is typically considered a poor seller, but there’ve been a few short series recently that were food.
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If you want something with a somewhat similiar romcom premise of dude looking for a gf and failing, The Lies of Sheriff Evans is better choice though it's a western rather than a fantasy. Also ongoing, A nice 7/10.
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Saw it coming a mile away but it still hurts.
 
XYZpdq said:
you already could
literally all Macross animated works are subbed except for maybe Macross Mecha Graffiti and Flashback, either legit or by fans
you could have imported the discs if you really gave a shit
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I mean I DID buy some bootleg versions but I don't speak Japanese so I couldn't get the legit releases. I meant physical media, not downloaded.
 
Can't believe it took me so long to watch Squid Girl, it's cute (but can't be binged), and the dub is pretty good. Christine Marie Cabanos has the right energy for Squid Girl that it's probably no wonder she was cast as Mako Mankanshoku (unless the dubs happened at the same time, but still).

About midway through the first season, I then started imagining how much fun it'd be to cosplay as Squid Girl for a convention just to have public freak-outs over the whales that have come onto land to intervene in the convention "inkvasion" while squirming with glee at how "real" cartoon characters look outside of the TV. If there was a way to make robotic tentacles for the hat or incorporate the brainwave technology of those Necomimi cat ears for them, think it'd be pretty sweet.
 
like_shutup_&_drive_scoob said:
I mean I DID buy some bootleg versions but I don't speak Japanese so I couldn't get the legit releases. I meant physical media, not downloaded.
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so you paid a bootlegger, but you care about legit not-downloaded versions?
that makes exactly no sense
just fucking download shit and bootleg your own copy, then go buy some toys and cds
that's what really matters for Macross moneychangers
 
XYZpdq said:
so you paid a bootlegger, but you care about legit not-downloaded versions?
that makes exactly no sense
just fucking download shit and bootleg your own copy, then go buy some toys and cds
that's what really matters for Macross moneychangers
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The entire reason why merch exists is because they know pirates will still fucking buy 300 dollar fully transformable motorcycles and planes.
 
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