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Gunbuster 2/Diebuster episode 6

Well, the last minute or two was fantastic; anyone who's seen both Gunbuster and Diebuster will know why. And, would you believe, Beez failed to subtitle an entire line of important dialogue from that final sequence. But only in English; the French remained intact. Slow clap.
 
I'm just surprised you're not saying how badly DieBuster heavily relied on the original ending of Aim for the Top! to come to a closing.

Watched Kino's Journey 4&5 yesterday and HOLYSHIT at episode 4, that was amazing, I think I'm just going to disregard all opinions from a certain member from now on.

Eden of the East has finally hit the "This show is awesome" mark at episode 10 despite all the hype which it didn't need, too bad it's about to end. lol.

Guin Saga's latest episode 10 defined epic as far as a toned down for the kids battle could go. OST is released this month, I'll be downloading it. (Maybe even buying it)

Queen's Blade well... stuff is happening, but it's really not all that interesting. At least I enjoyed it at times even if I shouldn't have.

Going to watch new FMA now but I really don't like this episode judging from the previous series, hurry up and get to Greed, damn it.
 
Lupus said:
I'm just surprised you're not saying how badly DieBuster heavily relied on the original ending of Aim for the Top! to come to a closing.
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It did seem almost like an afterthought. Still, Gunbuster's ending is amazing and it was cool seeing it from a different perspective. Apart from the gratuitous tittage it's the only thing I liked about Diebuster. Trying to be positive here!
 
chaos said:
Ryo Chan said:
spice and wolf ep 3

i'm really enjoying it now, despite all the technical financial and trading talk XD
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I'm wondering if I need to see this one. Finantial? Trading talk?
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do it listen to the voice inside your head

*talks to Chaos via the microchip he inserted into Chaos' head*
 
Ouran 1-2

I'm not sure if this is going to be for me. As a comedy it doesn't have the "I-can't-believe-they-just-said/did-that" appeal of Ping Pong Club or Dokuro-chan, nor any strong male characters I can relate to. What it does have is lots of cliché pretty boys being all sparkly and lots of silliness. I get that it's a parody of shoujo anime, but since I'm not familiar with shoujo anime, much of it will be lost on me. Moreover, I sense a reverse harem scenario developing and that'll kill the show for me. We'll see how it goes.

EDIT: Oh, and I had little option but to watch in Japanese because there's no sign-only subtitle track and a lot of on-screen text. Seriously, Manga, everyone else can do it so why can't you?
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
EDIT: Oh, and I had little option but to watch in Japanese because there's no sign-only subtitle track and a lot of on-screen text. Seriously, Manga, everyone else can do it so why can't you?
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That would be a third track for BBFC to approve at the cost of a few quids (8??) per minute, which would take the profit of their cheap releases. It's a shame though.
 
I don't think it would because a sign-only track wouldn't contain anything that wasn't in the main subtitle track. MVM and Revelation manage to provide one, and they're much smaller than Manga.
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
I don't think it would because a sign-only track wouldn't contain anything that wasn't in the main subtitle track. MVM and Revelation manage to provide one, and they're much smaller than Manga.
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I understand that they should be techically the same, but I've seeing somewhere that BBFC charges individually for each track. Even though it's sign only subs. I remember the MVM guy mentioning they had to pay for stills simply because it played them automatically, instead of allowing the user to browse.
 
There's nothing on the BBFC's submission criteria specifically relating to translation of on-screen text which has already been classified on another track, so I can't be sure. But, as I say, if other distributors provide a signs-only track, even for shows with far less on-screen text than Ouran, there's no excuse for Manga not to. It's especially annoying given that they were recently boasting about the DVD's sales.
 
AFAIK every audio and subtitle track has to go through the process because even if the licensor said it was the same content, how would the censors know unless they watched it? After all (by paranoid, overzealous BBFC logic) it could have random expletives thrown in every 10 seconds. They would have to watch it, thus they would have to be paid for their (incredibly expensive) time. Seriously, at 6-7 quid a minute can I be a censor? I'd only get fired for passing everything with a U, but it would be worth it. :p
 
Their submission criteria does state that, for foreign language works, subtitle tracks other than English don't need to be classified, so they can't be all that paranoid. But they will classify "any English tracks" which may include signs-only. Apparently they take a "pragmatic approach when determining which elements require viewing on submitted media", which made me chuckle.

The submission criteria
 
So theoretically I could I create a new language which, when read by others, would appear to be composed entirely of expletives in various languages - And the BBFC wouldn't bother to rate it?

:lol:
 
The idea of a BBFC criteria amuses me.

Also, Ayase mentioned censors. How does this censorship works in UK? My understanding is that most distributors censor themselves in order to get lower age rating for whatever they are releasing, as it increases their revenue.

Isn't that always the case, except for pornography?
 
chaos said:
The idea of a BBFC criteria amuses me.

Also, Ayase mentioned censors. How does this censorship works in UK? My understanding is that most distributors censor themselves in order to get lower age rating for whatever they are releasing, as it increases their revenue.

Isn't that always the case, except for pornography?
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Not always. While this is broadly the case (which more or less means greedy distributors kowtowing to the BBFC anyway), but there have been some notable examples of actual "censorship" in the BBFC forcing cuts regardless of age certification and outright banning films / games. In this day and age to carry on with the attitude that the censors have some kind of moral authority over others and know what's best for the public is just archaic.

Links probably NSFW (now there's another thing that pisses me off but I feel obliged to mention it...)
 
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