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  1. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Housing Complex C - "Optical Illusion" *series premiere* [10/1]

    Was expecting J-horror along the lines of Ju-On ("The Grudge") and Hell Girl, but this... ? :shrug: Pass. Too much talking and the atmosphere wasn't creepy enough. The characters were also boring. Atleast Iczer-One had legit horror moments.
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    "Pompo: The Cinephile" Talkback

    I didn't like this movie. Pompo was so annoying. The deconstruction of the film editing process was interesting, though.
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    What anime can you think of that unintentionally targets kids in Japan but is clearly adult worldwide?

    Those are not good examples. Grave of the Fireflies and Castle of Cagliostro were intended for family audiences in Japan, even those with young children. The former played on a double-bill with My Neighbor Totoro in theaters when it first came out in 1988. A lot of anime aimed toward younger...
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    Streamline Pictures' dubs of Castle in the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service

    The Streamline dub of Kiki only got released on laserdisc in Japan as part of a boxset with other Ghibli films back in the 1990s.
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    Saban's Sailor Moon. FEAR.........

    Back in the early to mid-1990's, Japanese imports were a hard sell to American network TV executives. It had to be made-in-America to be taken seriously. That changed with the surprise success of Power Rangers, which made it much easier for the Toei anime from Japan to later air on American TV.
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    Unconventional or unpopular opinions you have (re: animation)

    Different era. The T-shirts in the early '90s also had writings like "Underachiever. And proud of it!" with Bart aiming a slingshot, which some schoolboards took as causing disruption in the classroom. This article goes into the mentality of the time: The Great Bart Simpson T-Shirt School Ban of...
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    Unconventional or unpopular opinions you have (re: animation)

    I'm not a fan of Evangelion. After watching the original TV series and the Rebirth/EOE movies, I had my curiosity satisfied and felt it wasn't for me. While the end of the world and sociological themes were interesting, the characters were annoying. Also, some aspects of it were a little too...
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    Unconventional or unpopular opinions you have (re: animation)

    Keep in mind the show was very controversial in the United States early on in its run (where even the President publicly condemned it). It's more likely the Japanese distributer(s) wanted to avoid the show tanking because of the bad press it got in its home country. Rebellious child characters...
  9. SpaceCowboy

    AS Losing Nearly All of Their Fox Shows...and Getting Them Back

    Since AS appears to be using newer masters for Futurama, have Professor Farnsworth's "Sweet Zombie Jesus" lines been restored? They used to be edited years ago.
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    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    Whenever anime adaptations of her manga have been released by other companies, they've usually been given limited releases (except Urusei Yatsura aka "Lum the Invader Girl"). Back in the '90s, Viz was able to get Ranma advertised in practically every comic shop that sold anime and manga but...
  11. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    Sounds like they don't know how to market it. Viz has been making money off Takahashi titles for decades.
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    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    Probably because Viz didn't license it. I suspect Inuyasha got an extra push from Viz, because they are co-owned by the publishing company that handles Takahashi's manga in Japan. They often go all out compared to the few times other companies have gotten her anime in the US, because they...
  13. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Made in Abyss - "The Challengers" - *season finale* [4/9]

    'Cause it makes it look like Americans hate their childhood.
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    C&C - Made in Abyss - "The Challengers" - *season finale* [4/9]

    What a dark series (though not the darkest anime I've seen). It reminded me a little of Pan's Labyrinth or something else Guillermo del Toro directed. The subject of losing humanity is also a theme I've encountered before in countless Japanese media outside of their animation like theater plays...
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    C&C - Made in Abyss - "Nanachi" [3/26]

    I find the mysterious beings Riko and Reg encounter along the way more interesting than the main protagonists. This show kind of drags when it's just the two of them.
  16. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    That wouldn't necessarily bar it from being classified as anime. The Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland movie is now considered an anime by many people and its original screenplay was written by Chris Columbus (director of Home Alone).
  17. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Made in Abyss - "Poison and the Curse" [3/19]

    Yes. I meant the voice Brittney Karbowski uses for Nanachi sounds like the character suffers from the same nasal congestion as Wendee Lee's Konata.
  18. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Made in Abyss - "Poison and the Curse" [3/19]

    That scene with Riko was... hard to watch. Finally, the bunny girl in the ED shows up and sounds similar to Konata from the Lucky Star dub.
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    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    There's also Lupin III: The First, which convinced me CGI anime could work with the right team.
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    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    I'm still waiting for that Cowgirl Ed series where Ed is the main character.
  21. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    At first I thought this was a premature April Fools joke. Ironic considering they were the same studio that animated Dragon Half, a gonzo D&D anime from 1993. Despite being only 2 episodes, I felt it had a lot more energy than the last two FLCL seasons combined. I recall Gainax sold off a fair...
  22. SpaceCowboy

    If Toonami did air older anime,,

    Somehow I doubt AS would want to license an old show they haven't aired before that has a lot of episodes and would require editing. Not sure if Media Blasters still has this. No HD masters exist and the only surviving video masters look bad on modern TVs. ADV did one over a decade ago, but...
  23. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    Yes, they're currently having Gunbuster dubbed for the first time.
  24. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    They produce dubs, but they're often not recorded where the companies are located if that's what you're asking. I think the Lupin stuff is outsourced to various LA-based studios that share the same voice actor pool.
  25. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    There's Discotek, AnimEigo, Rightstuf, and Media Blasters.
  26. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    Not on this side of the Pacific, because it's in a complicated rights mess over in Japan due to its music tracks.
  27. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    I would suggest Toonami dig into old IPs they already own and try rebooting them as anime for the block. Like what Adult Swim used to do with obscure Hanna-Barbara properties when they first started.
  28. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    I don't think an edited version of Panty & Stocking would have worked anyway. Too many of the jokes revolve around sex and bathroom humor that are out of bounds for what AS could likely get away with. Gantz might have been tied up with ADV wanting to promote their Anime Network at the time...
  29. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    The only information I could find is on Sola Digital Art's Japanese page, which says they're awaiting a release in Japan. The English page doesn't say anything.
  30. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    The original gets a fair amount of airplay on AMC.
  31. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Blade Runner: Black Lotus - "The Human Condition" [11/20]

    It's not an apartment. It's the interior of the Ennis House in Los Angeles.
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    Unpopular Opinions

    Many comparisons have been made between Black Swan (2010) and Perfect Blue (1998) as if Darren Aronofsky cribbed from Satoshi Kon, but I think he improved upon the source material. Nina's paranoia in Black Swan comes off as a lot more scary than Mimi's in Perfect Blue, because it's told from...
  33. SpaceCowboy

    King of the Hill returning to Adult Swim after 3 years

    I'd think it's more likely this show is a lower priority for them to keep exclusive, because it's been out of production for so long. It's also possible the syndication rights were still available and AS jumped at the opportunity.
  34. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Blade Runner: Black Lotus - "All We Are Not" [11/13]

    This reminds me a bit of Battle Angel (the manga, not the live-action James Cameron movie), but with the main heroine fighting Matrix-like humans instead of mutated cyborgs. The mural Elle walks by of herself sprouting angel wings looks a lot like Gally/Alita from the manga cover pages. Doesn't...
  35. SpaceCowboy

    C&C - Fena: Pirate Princess - "The Chosen Maiden" [10/23] *SEASON FINALE*

    I wanted to like this show, but the characters kept putting me off (except maybe Karin, who seemed to have something resembling a distinct personality). It reminded me of those bad one-shot OAVs from the '90s Bennett the Sage reviews.
  36. SpaceCowboy

    Unconventional or unpopular opinions you have (re: animation)

    Outside of anime fandom, the only people I've come across who remember it are those who saw it on TV back in the 1960's. Atleast in the US, it pretty much fell off the radar after the original show stopped airing in the 1970's and never recovered. The 2000's reboot may have gotten overshadowed...
  37. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    That trailer's giving me Alita vibes.
  38. SpaceCowboy

    "Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

    After seeing the newest Rick and Morty anime short (the Akibahara one), I wonder whether the possibility of an actual anime series being greenlighted becomes more likely by the day.
  39. SpaceCowboy

    Animation on Fox – News and Discussion

    With Disney having no involvement with these new Fox Entertainment shows, could it open up the possibility of Adult Swim getting them second-hand? After the sale of FX to Disney, Fox Ent. has no dedicated entertainment outlets on cable.

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