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Orgun said:
bakum4tsu said:
hyper violent or pornographic??? usually i get the opposite thoughts like anime is for kids LOL
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Back to 1991/2 when Manga Entertainment started releasing Anime in the UK most of was very violent (FOTNS, AD Police etc) and then they released Urotsukidoji which skewed most people who weren't fans view of anime, and this is the viewpoint he was coming from.
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There's someone at work who think's it's all violence and smut/porn, twice i've had the same conversation about how it was the early Manga days that made people think that and it's actually very varied but it's quite frankly hard work to change peoples entrenched views.

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On the watching front I took a quick break from Geass to watch the Baka & Test OAV series. Good to see it was 2 eps rather than 1 as I feared.

Also Code Geass BD 17-21, stopped now becuase I know 22 is going to be hard to watch
 
Evangelion 2.22

wow! just wow!! fantastics. I was expecting something so good honestly. What it surprised even most of the quality of the imagem from manga uk dvd. Really great, very clean and colorful but it must be because of the tv settings/hdmi cable too. I've tried on the computer and it looks inferior.
 
Psycho Pass - Ep 15
Robotics;Notes - Ep 15
Carnival Phantasm Special Season

Oh god yes, I love me some Carnival Phantasm. I had no idea who the Green and Brown haired girls were though.
 
Journey to Agartha
I loved this film. Felt really Mononoke-eaque. I do have two concerns though:
1) Did Asuna actually do ANYTHING in the movie?
2) The Quaztel Coatl song...totally sounds like Lugia's song from Pokèmon 2000 xD
 
Code Geese: Lulus of the Rebellion 1-5

In a world where a prince can go into hiding by changing only his surname while continuing to live in a huge mansion and attend school, a young man named Lulus is given the power of Derren Brown by the mysterious Shih Tzu who enjoys Kwik Save No Frills® pizzas.

This pitch for this show must have been great:
"The basic outline of the project is this: What if Batman was Che Guevara, but also a hypnotist?" There is much nodding, and an unassuming bespectacled salaryman sheepishly raises his hand.
"Can it have giant robots and a moe little sister?" The chair of the committee fixes him with a steely glare.
"Of COURSE it can have giant robots and a moe little sister! Where do you think we are?"

Obviously, this is a show that requires perhaps a little more than usual in the suspension of disbelief department. But that's not to say that it isn't engaging, it is in fact very watchable and after these first few episodes questions abound. Will Lulu become more ruthless and (un)likeable as a result? Will Suzaku become the voice of reason or an establishment tool? Why aren't tops like Karen*'s popular? Will Nunnally ever open her friggin' eyes? I'm genuinely excited to find out.



*Seriously, it's Karen. The Japanese written text translates as Karen. It sounds like Karen. Karen is an actual name. I don't care how it's written in English in Japanese publications, they get things wrong all the time. Kallen is a ridiculous bit of translation and whoever was responsible for it should actually be shot as a warning to other translators.
 
ayase said:
Code Geese: Lulus of the Rebellion 1-5

In a world where a prince can go into hiding by changing only his surname while continuing to live in a huge mansion and attend school, a young man named Lulus is given the power of Derren Brown by the mysterious Shih Tzu who enjoys Kwik Save No Frills® pizzas.



size=85]*Seriously, it's Karen. The Japanese written text translates as Karen. It sounds like Karen. Karen is an actual name. I don't care how it's written in English in Japanese publications, they get things wrong all the time. Kallen is a ridiculous bit of translation and whoever was responsible for it should actually be shot as a warning to other translators.[/size]
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The L vs R issue plagues a lot of stuff, they went for Kallen. I find it somewhat annoying that you moan about that an then butcher C.C's name, (pronounced 'C two')

The no frills pizza is actually Pizza Hut, they stripped the advertising out for our releases (it was everywhere before as Pizza Hut were a major sponsor of the show)

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As for watching - Code Geass 22-25

Great to watch this series after seeing it on DvD back in the Beez days. Video quality is well up, sounds is the same (ie good). The excellent JP audio comentaries are present as are the picture diary extras. It is possible to flick between Eng and JP/Sub via pop up mid episode while the commentaries are accessible via the extras menu only (same as my Beez DvD's in this respect)

It is however missing the clean openings and closings, aswell as a next season preview at the end of ep 25. Also missing the on air endings to ep 24/25, which is bothersome as you get an extra C.C scene.

Overall a good release that has all the important parts with a few irksome locked features.
 
ayase said:
Obviously, this is a show that requires perhaps a little more than usual in the suspension of disbelief department. But that's not to say that it isn't engaging, it is in fact very watchable and after these first few episodes questions abound. Will Lulu become more ruthless and (un)likeable as a result? Will Suzaku become the voice of reason or an establishment tool? Why aren't tops like Karen*'s popular? Will Nunnally ever open her friggin' eyes? I'm genuinely excited to find out.
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I thought Code Geass was enjoyable enough, though only dubbed because Jun Fukuyama's hammier-than-a-pig-farm performance as Ledouch was unbearable, but it never truly grabbed me. I think a big reason for this is because the two leads are opposite sides of a really, really annoying coin. The theatrically smug one and the intolerably sanctimonious one. Ugh. It's a shame because the show looks great and has some mighty fine wimmins.

Incidentally, Quik Save still exists? Who knew.
 
ayase said:
This pitch for this show must have been great:
"The basic outline of the project is this: What if Batman was Che Guevara, but also a hypnotist?" There is much nodding, and an unassuming bespectacled salaryman sheepishly raises his hand.
"Can it have giant robots and a moe little sister?" The chair of the committee fixes him with a steely glare.
"Of COURSE it can have giant robots and a moe little sister! Where do you think we are?"
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You left the meeting before the real end (contains really generic spoilers, no details):
Board director: "Now that we are at this, why don't we just mix up every single f'ing anime subgenre and trope in one single show?"
All the others: "YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Followed by huge amounts of sake and fireworks (and most probably other stuff).



ayase said:
Obviously, this is a show that requires perhaps a little more than usual in the suspension of disbelief department.
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Hahahahah, definetely, but it's a great ride, enjoy it!

C.C. best anime character ever.



Teo
 
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:lol: @ teo

Rosencrantz said:
The L vs R issue plagues a lot of stuff, they went for Kallen. I find it somewhat annoying that you moan about that an then butcher C.C's name, (pronounced 'C two')
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Well that's another thing, it should be written like that then: C2 or C-two. You don't say "This car has a 1600 C2 engine" or "J R2 Tolkien" do you? Do you really find that annoying? You're welcome to find my sense of humour annoying but please don't take my comments the wrong way and think I'm some sort of whingeing uber-otaku who honestly gets uptight about these things. I mean I am quite annoyed, but more at the stupidity of everyone else in the world, constantly. Which for some inexplicable reason endears me to people, and as it's pretty much the only thing that does I don't intend to stop.

Rosencrantz said:
The no frills pizza is actually Pizza Hut, they stripped the advertising out for our releases (it was everywhere before as Pizza Hut were a major sponsor of the show)
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Yeah... That was what I was commenting on, that they'd stripped out the advertising and left the boxes blank like a no frills product.

fabricatedlunatic said:
the two leads are opposite sides of a really, really annoying coin. The theatrically smug one and the intolerably sanctimonious one. Ugh.
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Hmm, that doesn't sound so promising. I'm certainly getting a bit of a politician vibe from Suzaku but I thought Lulu might turn out to be a decent guy. We'll see.
 
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(re-watch)Yawara episodes 61-70,getting there only another 54 episode left lol,mind you it is one of those series that is that good you dont want it to end and i,ve got the two ovas, to look forward to after i finish the tv series,so plenty more Yawara to enjoy. :D
 
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