Recent content by Silanda

It rubs me up the wrong way for a different reason: I like interesting commentary tracks. Matt McMuscles' gaming content doesn't tend to be particularly insightful and I don't believe he has an encyclopedic knowledge of anime either. His "What Happened" series, for example, is a good idea but...

I took a look at the case study for "I Spit on Your Grave" published on the BBFC's website. It provides no citations of research whatsoever, and is therefore utterly useless in more closely examining the BBFC's thought process or providing an evidence based justification for cuts. They claim...

Well, one's French and one's a low budget exploitation film. Whether or not Irreversible is an arthouse or film or not is debatable, but it is French, and French films always seem to be treated as arthouse films by default. The BBFC have shown elitist tendencies since forever; your average...

Sad. Animeondvd used to be my go to site back when I was at uni. Good reviews + a great community. When I pretty much stopped following anime after then, I stopped visiting, and by the time I returned to the fandom it had been sold to mania.com. I used to visit Animetric as well. I appreciate...

Already been mentioned but: Overrated - Ghost in the Shell (1995 movie) The visuals are lovely and the soundtrack works perfectly in the context of the film. However, I find the much vaunted philosophical aspects of the film to be shallow and presented in a way that is too obvious. IMO an...

Samurai Bride - 8/10 That score is relative to the type of show it is, but I really enjoyed this. The show succeeds in what it tries to be: it's a light hearted, comedy, fanservice, action show with lovely artwork and likeable characters. Yes, it's somewhat light on plot, but each episode...

For licensed properties, a race to the bottom is fine provided the drops in price are always met by at least a commensurate increase in sustained sales. If not, the profit margins become squeezed to the point that releasing anything other than the most popular properties may cease to be viable...

A bit late on the reply but it's worth pointing out that I've seen quite a few different sellers and buyers who have had exactly the same problem as the OP. Apparently ebay's global shipping program does repackage items, and have been known to damage them. It's one of the reasons I avoid any...

IMHO it's perfectly possible to argue against, especially when the "somebody think of the children" argument is weak and a transparent attempt to shut down debate. The trouble is that there seems to be no-one well positioned to do so who would be willing to. Anime and manga publishers in this...

Yep, it's a big problem that's helped suppress niche releases over the years, anime and regular film and TV. The fee might seem quite small, but for titles with really limited markets, having to pay BBFC submission fees can increase the sales needed to break even over a point where a release...

And what is wrong with that? What is wrong with treating adults as adults and letting them watch, read, or play whatever the hell they want as long as no-one is harmed to produce it or it can be proven with relative certainty that it causes harm? The only things that should matter when it comes...

Or they're just wildly inconsistent, and I say this as someone who's paid close attention to the BBFC's history of censorship. Let's be honest here, fan service material is, generally speaking, not inserted for some greater artistic purpose, it's either eye candy or it's humourous, yet the way...

The BBFC being wildly inconsistent? Nothing new there.

No I don't. To me this issue is quite clear: unless something can be proven to cause harm, or its publication would be illegal, there is no justification for censorship. This is my main problem with the BBFC: they make policy decisions based on public/personal opinion rather than evidence, and...

No, not as far as I can tell. The VRA does not specify what should or shouldn't be cut; the BBFC cut in accordance to the powers given to them by the VRA but the cut itself was to follow their own policy. They are not innocent at all here as they did it because, after all these years, they still...