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Time-Traveller
We get so much junk and so little quality that it's getting real bothersome now that we can no longer import for reasonable amounts, PlayUSA low prices and low prices in general aside.
No Welcome to the NHK, no Genshiken, no Great Teacher Onizuka. These are three highly rated titles, all hard-hitting because of how close the stories are to reality. But, instead of these titles, we get Daphne and Desert Punk. We get more easy to sell shounen rubbish. We get more stories involving boys and robots. We get more fan service.
It's true that the three titles mentioned aren't exactly as sellable as robots, tits, James Bond and all the rest, but the series reviews speak for themselves. Overall quality is more important than a selling angle retards jump at like retarded monkeys in the hunt for a penis shaped like a banana. If rubbish keeps getting priority over 10/10 stuff, how is anime ever going to get respected by the masses?
I still can't get over no-one wanting to license Gankutsuou because of its main selling point - its unique visuals. Anime on TV tends to look decent at best most of the time, so for people to put their noses up over it just because Gonzo put actual effort and money in is crazy. It's even more out there when you take into consideration that it's quite possibly the greatest anime ever created. Do the important UK anime people really think it's ok to turn down the chance to license Gankutsuou and go on to license ******* Daphne instead, or release a title (Utawaresomonuromo) that would earn just a few weird glances if you asked about it in a store? Funimation clearly don't have the same problem with Gankutsuou that MVM do.
Maybe I'm being a tad too harsh. I recall reading that in Japan Claymore flopped because it lacked fan service and Code Geass R2 did the opposite. But we aren't in Japan and, right now, anime could do with more top end and less bottom of the barrel titles over here to help promote it. Manga are doing there part with cheapo releases, and they're releasing some good stuff, but even they have only gone for the easy to sell, non-realistic titles.
...This is kind of a pointless rant. I'm just pissed that I can't buy NHK right now (9/10), will have to import S2 of Genshiken and my only option with GTO is to pay something like £45 for two cheapo sets. These are titles that should be out over here by now; easy to get in art box collections. I don't want ******* TTGL (not unless sold for cheap) - I want meaningful titles; **** that hits home and isn't just watch and forget.
Someone better license Spice and Wolf. I'll forgive MVM for all their sins if, shortly after the US releases, they release 2x art boxes - like the recently released BL sets. It may turn out to be more than just a hopeless dream since S&W has a fox girl with much moe within, but due to the lack of boobs I'm not that hopeful.
No Welcome to the NHK, no Genshiken, no Great Teacher Onizuka. These are three highly rated titles, all hard-hitting because of how close the stories are to reality. But, instead of these titles, we get Daphne and Desert Punk. We get more easy to sell shounen rubbish. We get more stories involving boys and robots. We get more fan service.
It's true that the three titles mentioned aren't exactly as sellable as robots, tits, James Bond and all the rest, but the series reviews speak for themselves. Overall quality is more important than a selling angle retards jump at like retarded monkeys in the hunt for a penis shaped like a banana. If rubbish keeps getting priority over 10/10 stuff, how is anime ever going to get respected by the masses?
I still can't get over no-one wanting to license Gankutsuou because of its main selling point - its unique visuals. Anime on TV tends to look decent at best most of the time, so for people to put their noses up over it just because Gonzo put actual effort and money in is crazy. It's even more out there when you take into consideration that it's quite possibly the greatest anime ever created. Do the important UK anime people really think it's ok to turn down the chance to license Gankutsuou and go on to license ******* Daphne instead, or release a title (Utawaresomonuromo) that would earn just a few weird glances if you asked about it in a store? Funimation clearly don't have the same problem with Gankutsuou that MVM do.
Maybe I'm being a tad too harsh. I recall reading that in Japan Claymore flopped because it lacked fan service and Code Geass R2 did the opposite. But we aren't in Japan and, right now, anime could do with more top end and less bottom of the barrel titles over here to help promote it. Manga are doing there part with cheapo releases, and they're releasing some good stuff, but even they have only gone for the easy to sell, non-realistic titles.
...This is kind of a pointless rant. I'm just pissed that I can't buy NHK right now (9/10), will have to import S2 of Genshiken and my only option with GTO is to pay something like £45 for two cheapo sets. These are titles that should be out over here by now; easy to get in art box collections. I don't want ******* TTGL (not unless sold for cheap) - I want meaningful titles; **** that hits home and isn't just watch and forget.
Someone better license Spice and Wolf. I'll forgive MVM for all their sins if, shortly after the US releases, they release 2x art boxes - like the recently released BL sets. It may turn out to be more than just a hopeless dream since S&W has a fox girl with much moe within, but due to the lack of boobs I'm not that hopeful.
