General anime thoughts/discussion thread.
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I personally disagree with your view of Ikuno as a token character, but I can accept how you might reach that conclusion.
There is, however, a gulf between tokenism and homophobia. An absolute yawning gulf. Surely you see that?
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I checked out the CeX in my town and while I didn't pick up anything I did have a quick look at the anime DVD section.
Found some old releases that might be curious to some!
Cardcaptors the Movie (the English dub edited version of Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie)
Urusei Yatsura: Only You (the first film in the Urusei Yatsura series, Mamoru Oshii's directorial debut)
Salaryman Kitaro (a 20 episode anime series from studio JCF, aired in 2001. Takashi Miike did direct a live-action adaptation of the manga in a film back in 1999)
The Slayers Gorgeous (the fourth film in the Slayers series)
Found some old releases that might be curious to some!
Cardcaptors the Movie (the English dub edited version of Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie)
Urusei Yatsura: Only You (the first film in the Urusei Yatsura series, Mamoru Oshii's directorial debut)
Salaryman Kitaro (a 20 episode anime series from studio JCF, aired in 2001. Takashi Miike did direct a live-action adaptation of the manga in a film back in 1999)
The Slayers Gorgeous (the fourth film in the Slayers series)
D1tchd1gger
Shrine Maiden
Does sound like it.
Yes! That trailer is from the Japanese BR release 10 years ago!!
Who do we need to bribe around here to get this done. Maybe a certain someone who worked at Beez, who licenced it for DVD, and is currently CEO of a certain Anime distribution company
On that subject I found this on the Q&A thread from 5 years ago!
Unless it was Lain, I which case MVM beat them to the punch, I don't think any have a UK Blu-ray?
Nadia does, courtesy of Manga/Animatsu. No idea whether it's OOP by now, though.
ayase
State Alchemist
Eh, sounds like planet-ess to me.
Planetes would be my guess since it was a Beez licence and is a Sunrise title, so presumably Andrew has connections there. Maybe a bit much to hope five years down the line though...
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Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
Heh, I'll probably be dead in 5 years - I'm getting too old to have to wait that long for anime titles to release on Blu-ray - But if it is Planetes, I'll just have hold out on my deathbed until it ships to me and I can watch it quick, lol...
I'm rather enjoying the series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba so far. I love the story as well a few of the characters in the series and its always cool to see epic fight scenes. All I will say is the boar head guy wow... a crazy guy but funny and entertaining.
ayase
State Alchemist
It’s not a series I’d even be particularly interested in owning anyway but still, I think it should be available for those who would be. You’re probably aware of my views on these issues by now, which is that fantasy and fiction shouldn’t be subject to banning or censorship. In the case of animated content there’s not even a question of subjecting child actors to potentially dodgy situations - It’s total fantasy and while I’m generally open to looking at arguments from both sides, the idea that fictional drawn, animated or written content can be dangerous is just so insane and archaic to me I really don’t understand the people who believe it. The BBFC’s views on anime are wildly inconsistent anyway, they mandated that single frame cut of Geass but let through Made in Abyss uncut...
Should bad laws be obeyed though? Perhaps a bit of a general question to ask here, but I feel that if a law is stupid or wrong it should probably be ignored, if not purposely broken. It’s not like the people who make the laws have any more moral authority or are any less fallible than anyone else. They’re not gods, much as they might like to be thought of that way.
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
I have watched Code Glass twice and I can't remember the image. The fact people get so riled up over something so insignificant to the ploy. And that AL show that got banned sounds awful really damages AL being the Criterion of anime cos god they aint anymore with some crap they release. The BBFC have more power these days and like rape being made an 18 ooh gonna affect a lot of anime and I'm sorry it was made by thatcher in the 80s to protect "the Kids" all is meant for is a guide and the fact Kaze didn't resubmit it to me suggests something to hide, manga going to resubmit it is the right thing to do. Also the fact AL did submit that trash but won't submit Fate Illya 2rei just suggests they used it as an excuse.
ayase
State Alchemist
@thedoctor2016 did AL ever express any desire to be “the Criterion of anime” though? It sounds more to me like they simply failed to live up to your own personal expectations of them to not release any low-brow smut, which is fine, but they don’t exist to cater to your own personal tastes. Is it really any surprise after that experience that they wouldn’t want to shell out the BBFC fees in an attempt to get things passed that almost certainly wouldn’t? It’s just money down the drain.
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
Well they decided to license a show that was sex among two underage women. Maybe it was FUNi forcing them but they did license that.
What I would do to the BBFC is make it tax payer funded so its free for companies but that wont work because people would state supported censorship so you cant win.
Al describes it self " Our emphasis is both breathing new life into much loved classics and introducing the cutting edge of what Japanese animation has to offer. " So not Criterion but Cutting edge of Japan animation. Sister new devil is indeed that as Eureka Seven Hi Evo that is cutting edgly bad
What I would do to the BBFC is make it tax payer funded so its free for companies but that wont work because people would state supported censorship so you cant win.
Al describes it self " Our emphasis is both breathing new life into much loved classics and introducing the cutting edge of what Japanese animation has to offer. " So not Criterion but Cutting edge of Japan animation. Sister new devil is indeed that as Eureka Seven Hi Evo that is cutting edgly bad
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ayase
State Alchemist
The only kind of ratings body I’d be okay with is one with only the power to rate, with no power to demand cuts or refuse a rating. Also, like in the US, I think distributors should be allowed to release things unrated if they choose. Probably most would still pay for the rating, especially if there was no chance it was going to be refused or cuts demanded.
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
America only exists like that because the first amendment. We don’t have that.
ayase
State Alchemist
You’re absolutely right, the UK does not have freedom of speech enshrined in law, and that’s terrible.
Lambadelta
Mad Scientist
It's literally a 1-2 second background where when Shirley is talking in the changing room a girl who looks somewhat underaged is getting changed. (Though if shes in the same school as Lelouch and Shirley then shes obviously not underaged)
Thought I'd shunt this to the ongoing discussion here. 
This is genuinely possible. Code Geass (and Paranoia Agent) could just have been unlucky to land in the lap of someone at the BBFC who holds a generally negative view of anime as a medium. But there doesn't seem to be any mechanism whereby the distributor can protest the body's findings and have it viewed again by another member for a second opinion. And this, to me, is a huge failing and quite worrisome.
ayase
State Alchemist
They're a law unto themselves, and that's probably the worst part. Harking back to that old discussion you linked Neil, a reminder that in the end, the only kind of drawn pornographic content the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 rendered specifically illegal was hardcore loli/shotacon. Decisions about anything softer than that are being taken by the BBFC using their own discretion and they are in no way forced to make them by any laws. They're an independent morality police, without any oversight, regulating what legal adults in the UK are and aren't allowed to see.
Azar
Death Scythe
@D1tchd1gger Have you seen what some moron(s) on MAL have done to Chihayafuru 3's rating? This season has been brilliant so far and doesnt deserve this. 
Im sure it'll get fixed eventually though.
Im sure it'll get fixed eventually though.
D1tchd1gger
Shrine Maiden
Having a quick read through the thread about it sounds like some people have made bot accounts just to reduce the score and they're blaming fans of the big shows like Vinland Saga and MHA, etc because it was higher than them! That's just sad.