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Ontopic: Yeah.. I realize that those anime expressions are unique to anime, but as a person who's not accustomed to them, I feel that they take away from the quality of the show. Example: Fullmetal Alchemist. This show is one of the best anime I've seen. It is very dark and an engrossing story. Like one review said... when you watch it, you don't think.. "What's gonna happen next?" You think "What will the Elric brothers do next?" The show progressely gets darker and darker. HOwever, it has a tendency to use werid facial expressions and werid anime techinques.. ("pandering" is that what its called?) to add "humor." As a viewer, it often isn't "humorus" and it actually ruins the atmosphere... Imagine if the show was becoming tense and action/revelations was mounting up and up.. then all of sudden, a werid anime techinque pops up... it ruins the suspense... However...it does not happen too FREQUENTLY in Fullmetal Alchemist, and the quality of the story overriddes it. Back on topic.. I misread the topic title.. I thought it was a poll for favorite AS shows in general, so I edited my post. |
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04-13-2005, 06:06 PM
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I don't think they're running Trigun currently. They go off and on with the show.
I think Cowboy Bebop did the anime facial expressions perfectly. The only one that had them was Ed becuase she was the comic relief. And aside from a huge grin, her's really weren't that over the top. None of that "falling over whenever someone says something surprising" bullsh*t, anyway. Well, Cowboy Bebop was a great show is just about everyway, anyhow. |
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04-13-2005, 06:29 PM
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Trigun still comes on. Every night, right after InuYasha.
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04-13-2005, 06:36 PM
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Trigun never got it's due I think...it was'nt mainstream enough and only appeared in the U.K (birefly) on the CNX block before it became Toonami, and they never aired it afterwards. At all.
They don't air Alchemist either, (yet, they might though) which is a shame, as I find it and Shaman King to be the finest Anime dubs (and anime shows) in YEARS |
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04-13-2005, 07:25 PM
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One other anime show did it well too: Escaflowne (offical title: Visions of Escaflowne).. they had "expressions" which they used to show.. disgust or envy.. it wasn't as...natural as Cowboy Bebop, it was apporpriate and wasn't excessively used or too overlydone. Pity Escaflowne focused too much on Hitomi (the female character).. I always found Van to be more interesting... |
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04-13-2005, 07:31 PM
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I have fansubs of the entire Escaflowne series and the movie laying around somewhere. I traded the first two seasons of the Real Ghostbusters for them.
I made it through the first 3 episodes before I lost interest. I should probably give it another try, I just keep getting side-tracked. |
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04-13-2005, 07:35 PM
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Waaaay off topic, but... I've got one problem with the Shaman King dub, and that is Lenny's voice. He just looks like he deserves a deeper, more bad ass voice.
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04-13-2005, 09:10 PM
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It starts off weakly.. I personally didn't really get interested until Episode 8? (i'll have to look later) and then I didn't really get hooked until episode 13 or so.. At first, its just a dopey love story.. but eventually, it refocuses on political intrigue and the question of Fate/Free Will... and then it uses the love story to end the series (which will make sense if you watch it) Its not as specatular as Cowboy Bebop or FMA... I didn't like the love story at first, but by the end, I liked it.. it made for some teary moments... Hitomi isn't an interesting character though... I always perferred Van, and feel that the show could ahve been better if it focused on Van more.. but it has a speical place in my heart as my first anime series... I guess its something that one should watch once then sell it? I liked the movie though.. the movie will probably be better if you saw the series first, so you can see all the changes they made to the cahracters/story...If it wasn't so short and the romance so forced, it could have been better than the tv series. Last edited by IceFlash78; 04-13-2005 at 09:16 PM. |
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04-13-2005, 09:40 PM
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04-13-2005, 09:41 PM
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The series did a great deal of marvelous things, the concept of Escaflwone and the execution with the anime however, are always uneven, on one side, Van, Alan, and many of the other male, beastial and female characters are particulary strong and fleshed out, but Hitomi seems very...VERY forced.
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That's not to say I don't like Yu-Gi-Oh and Naruto, both mangas are great. |
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04-13-2005, 09:58 PM
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04-14-2005, 09:27 AM
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Well, when I traded my Real Ghostbusters tapes for Escaflowne I was expectng a real sword and sorcery series but it felt more like...a magical girl series. It deserves another chance. But I instantly disliked Hitomi. First she was gushing over that trackstar, then she was gushing over that blonde guy, all the while you knew she was going to end up with Van since he's the hero.
I dunno, maybe I should watch the movie first to get a better feel for the series and then try and watch the entire tv series if I like it. Maybe I can appreciate it more. |
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04-21-2005, 01:13 AM
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Favorite:Futurama
 Then Da Robot ChickenLeast:ATHF (Im gonna get hung for this) Family Guy, Tom goes to the Mayor,Milk Chan.
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04-21-2005, 07:47 AM
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Tom and Milk Chan I can understand...and I can forgive it. But Aqua Teen and Family guy? (stabs Strkyer) I'm less forgiving about that |
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04-21-2005, 08:00 AM
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Im also in the minorty here.
favorites: family guy and futurama. least: ATHF. i hate that show. i dont know why either. i just absolutly hate it with a passion. its silly too. cause its just a cartoon. |
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04-21-2005, 08:26 AM
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I just bought the Harvey Birdman Volume 1 set, and that must say something about how much I dig that show, since I haven't bought any of the other sets of the AS toons.
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04-21-2005, 10:42 AM
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Favorite: 1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force; 2. Family Guy; 3. Robot Chicken Sandwich/Futurama Least: 1. Super Milk Chan (wow... second worst thing to come on the Cartoon Network, in general, next to that Totally Spies bullsh*t); 2. Tom Goes To the Mayor (just retarded as hell); 3. Sealab 2021 (it's not that bad, but I seem to not find the humor in this show a lot of the time)
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04-21-2005, 12:26 PM
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What is Milk Chan? Isnt that some cutey anime character like Hello Kitty? I never saw that show. I just got the last of the Adult Swim DVDs Ill be buying for awhile recently. I might get some of the Space Ghost ones though. The Brak Show on DVD haha oh man
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04-21-2005, 05:37 PM
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Favorites: Futurama/Family Guy/ATHF/Harvey Birdman/Sealab 2021
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04-21-2005, 10:23 PM
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I just don't Like Seth Macfarlane's work in General and ATHF is Boring to me a whole bunch of rambling sentences that go on.........and.....on............ya know what I mean?..........
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