Not yet, but soon--I dropped by the local gaming/anime/nerd store and they had the first two seasons of Attack on Titan. Putting them on the Plex server at this very moment.
[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
hopefully you didnt pay a huge mark up.
Nope...cheaper than I could get them from Amazon by 50-75% (depending on the seller) which is why I snatched them up. I've been eyeballing them on Amazon for months (mostly region 2 sellers), but couldn't bring myself to pay that much for them. I didn't mind so much they were Region 2, because I have one of those rare DVD drives that doesn't give two shits what region a DVD is marked as (and, in fact, I bought this specific brand for that exact reason).
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nice, one of the fancy editions? the current season 1 and 2 set from "crunchyroll" aka the company formerly known as funimation is roughly 27 dollars on right stuff, so you paid like 14 bucks a set?
12.99 a season. I don't know enough about them to determine if it's a "fancy" edition. These are both branded with funimation, though.
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I've been trying to watch a classic series I always meant to get around to, but never did - Record of the Lodoss War. And like so many of these great classics, they show how far the medium has improved in general over the last 20-30 years.
It seems to me that Anime in the 90s and earlier were generally done by artists and not writers or cinematographers. There's a common thread in a lot of them. Aspects like overly-long establishing shots, lingering close-ups, long stretches of silence punctuated by overexpository narration, terrible pacing, and above all really bad voice acting. So much anime of the era got by on "hey, doesn't this LOOK cool?" factor, sort of like how most MMOs of the era were actually clunky, terrible games with excruciating gameplay but amazing-for-the-time graphics and character design.
Lodoss is exemplary of this era. It's almost a chore to watch. If any series needs an "abridged" treatment, it's this. Any given 24 minute episode really only needed 8 minutes to hit all its marks. The dub acting is particularly cringe, and is probably a historical contributor to why dubbed anime generates such strong negativity among the ultraweebs. There is not a single VA who is NOT trying to chew the scenery with every single line, overpronouncing every single word, and usually with completely incorrect emphasis and inflection - as if they were fed the lines in a vacuum without the script. Seriously, most Hentai I've watched - even from the same era - has better acting and better story pacing.
What a shame.
It seems to me that Anime in the 90s and earlier were generally done by artists and not writers or cinematographers. There's a common thread in a lot of them. Aspects like overly-long establishing shots, lingering close-ups, long stretches of silence punctuated by overexpository narration, terrible pacing, and above all really bad voice acting. So much anime of the era got by on "hey, doesn't this LOOK cool?" factor, sort of like how most MMOs of the era were actually clunky, terrible games with excruciating gameplay but amazing-for-the-time graphics and character design.
Lodoss is exemplary of this era. It's almost a chore to watch. If any series needs an "abridged" treatment, it's this. Any given 24 minute episode really only needed 8 minutes to hit all its marks. The dub acting is particularly cringe, and is probably a historical contributor to why dubbed anime generates such strong negativity among the ultraweebs. There is not a single VA who is NOT trying to chew the scenery with every single line, overpronouncing every single word, and usually with completely incorrect emphasis and inflection - as if they were fed the lines in a vacuum without the script. Seriously, most Hentai I've watched - even from the same era - has better acting and better story pacing.
What a shame.
and it got, what? 3 sequels? ive watched them all and they just get worse.
GasBandit
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It got a second season/series with 27 episodes, and I guess a short movie/quasi-spinoff series called Legend of Crystania, neither of which I think I'll be bothering with at this point.
GasBandit
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Ya Boy Kongming has started to lose me. The last 3 episodes have been very "Japanese Rap" centric with Eiko feeling like a B-plot. There's few things I can take less seriously than Japanese Rap. All the things that make most white rappers sound cringy are multiplied tenfold when applied to Japanese rappers. It's the musical equivalent of a preteen trying to make his voice sound lower to buy cigarettes. No matter how tough, or thug, or earnestly heartfelt the effort is, they all sound like Chika Fujiwara to me. I hope we move past the "Kabe-Taijin getting his mojo back" arc really soon.
GasBandit
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The full Kongming version has finally been released, and it continues to faithfully mirror the Jolly original.
GasBandit
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I think it's because nothing quite like that had been attempted before, so it was mindblowing. Like the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk. World-changingly influential... but today an airplane with that capability would be a monstrous failure.
GasBandit
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Voice Actor Billy Kametz Passes Away at 35
Voice actor of Josuke, Naofumi revealed stage IV colon cancer diagnosis in April
He was the English VA for Naofume in Shield Hero and Josuke in Jojo.
Voice Actor Billy Kametz Passes Away at 35
Voice actor of Josuke, Naofumi revealed stage IV colon cancer diagnosis in Aprilwww.animenewsnetwork.com
He was the English VA for Naofume in Shield Hero and Josuke in Jojo.
That sucks and at this age. Reading the article I learned he was the english voice of White Blood Cell in Cells at Work!. That stood out to me the most, because of the cause of his death.
GasBandit
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I have to say the latest episodes of Komi Can't Communicate are really good. They've actually got me feeling more kindly toward Naruse Shisuto than when I had been while reading the manga, and they've really turned him from a background annoyance to one of the better running gags of the season. Especially since they gave him the YGOTAS Duke Devlin "sexy funk background music" gag treatment, it's really taken him up a notch.
GasBandit
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Kongming S1 is over and I'd give it a solid B. I got lost by the rap subplot a bit, but the show came back around. While not an epic, gripping story, it was easy to watch. I don't know if it'll get a second season, but if it does I'll probably watch it, though they'll be hard pressed to make the S2 opening as fire as season 1.