What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!
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Animefreak17
Godhand
Note to self buy this series
unknownfate
Pokémon Master
Ah the 90's, when Anime characters still had noses 
black1blade
Thousand Master
So what's a decent watching order for macross then?
And another Sentai collector's edition joins my collection.
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Despite the damages to the box, you can't really notice it at all unless you look really close or at a certain angle. I'm amazed the damage didn't even hurt the yellow colour. The power of Sentai's Persona I guess.
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Despite the damages to the box, you can't really notice it at all unless you look really close or at a certain angle. I'm amazed the damage didn't even hurt the yellow colour. The power of Sentai's Persona I guess.
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Strat
Great Teacher
Probably SDF Macross, the original series, unless you're not really willing to invest too much time and just want to see what the fuss is all about in which case you could watch DYRL.black1blade said:
But Lavigne or qaiz probably know better
[edit] oh well
Animefreak17
Godhand
Unknownfate said:Ah the 90's, when Anime characters still had noses
And wasn't ruled by slice of life and high school lol
black1blade
Thousand Master
Oh I meant patlabor doh XD.
black1blade
Thousand Master
And there was much much less anime coming out. There are probably more shows coming out now that don't have school settings compared to the 90s because shear volume.animefreak17 said:Unknownfate said:Ah the 90's, when Anime characters still had noses
And wasn't ruled by slice of life and high school lol
IncendiaryLemon
Captain Karen
animefreak17 said:Unknownfate said:Ah the 90's, when Anime characters still had noses
And wasn't ruled by slice of life and high school lol
Dark times.
Animefreak17
Godhand
...... oh and moe I forgot to include that lol
NormanicGrav said:And another Sentai collector's edition joins my collection.
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Despite the damages to the box, you can't really notice it at all unless you look really close or at a certain angle. I'm amazed the damage didn't even hurt the yellow colour. The power of Sentai's Persona I guess.
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BTW this is the packaging that Amazon US used to send me the Persona 4 Collector's set.
Good lord.
qaiz
Pokémon Master
I don't know why but I just had a bath and while washing my hair I thought to myself "Why did he randomly ask about Macross? Maybe he asked about Patlabor and I instead wrote about Macross and I have egg on my face". Don't ask me why I think about such things while in the bath :|black1blade said:
Anyways to answer your question, there's two timelines, the Movie Timeline, which consists of the 7 Episode OVA (named The Early Days OVA, MVM released this on both DVD and BD) which then leads into the First Movie and the Second Movie. All three of these are directed by Oshii, the man who later went on to direct Ghost in the Shell. The OVA is really cool as you'd expect, but being only 7 episodes and two films, its pretty short. The two films are two of the greatest animated films on the planet, with an amazing soundtrack and beautiful animation, and although the first keeps in tone with the OVA, the second film is very wordy and political. There's a third film that came out in the early 2000's, it takes place between the two films, but it isn't really a Patlabor film and more of a thriller/Horror within the Patlabor universe.
The second timeline is known as the Television Timeline and was not only directed by a different person, but came out in-between the production of the 7 episode OVA and the first film. Being a separate timeline, its not connected to the Film Timeline but is instead basically a longer version of the 7 episode OVA, with the TV Series being 47 episodes with a 16 episode OVA sequel called The New Files. These two are the meat of Patlabor. Hopefully this isn't confusing, but here's an image to help just in case:
Both timelines are phenomenal, but I suggest starting with the TV Timeline (47 episode TV series and then the 16 episode OVA), so you get to known the characters and the world before watching the films, but you can't go wrong either way I guess. The TV series is available in multiple parts on Blu-ray: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and the sequel OVA (The New Files) which MVM released but on DVD also here.
Sorry for the unnecessarily complicated post lol. TLDR: I'd recommend starting with the TV Series and its sequel and then the 7 Episode OVA and films. Also, you might be able to find them cheaper elsewhere
black1blade
Thousand Master
Hmm interesting. I do admit that the OVAs and movies sound like they would interest me more although the tv series is probably good too. I suppose the problem is that I don't have a region free BD player. I would happily blind buy the OVA and movies on blu ray but are they available in region B? (they wouldn't be available in AUS would they?)
qaiz
Pokémon Master
The Patlabor TV Blu-rays, New Files OVA and Films are from the US with only the 7 Episode OVA being available on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK while The New Files OVA is DVD only in the UK and AUS however the US Patlabor Blu-rays are geo-locked as apposed to region locked and as such work flawlessly on my PS3. Instead of depending on region A, B etc they look for what county the player is set to. I'm sure that there's tricks you can get to getting them to play (like jumping to specific chapters etc).
black1blade
Thousand Master
Oh, yes I just got a PS3 from a friend of mine! XD