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Just watched Record of Lodoss War, lolz 90s anime.

Man, Bebop. Haven't watch that in forever. It's a top fiver for me. Also one of the few anime that I PREFER in English audio.

Just watched bebop remastered a couple months ago, after like 6 years from the first time i watched it...

For the trigun fans, a movie is coming on april, not a sequel from the tv series but directly from the manga...
 

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I knew that there was talks on it to be soon.. Can't wait for that or the Gundam 00 Movie.
 

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Man, Bebop. Haven't watch that in forever. It's a top fiver for me. Also one of the few anime that I PREFER in English audio.

Il never forget when I first started watching anime and I herd you say anime was better in Japanese I thought you were nutts:laugh:

Boy was I wrong:respect:
 

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Il never forget when I first started watching anime and I herd you say anime was better in Japanese I thought you were nutts:laugh:

Boy was I wrong:respect:

Glad you came around. lol.
 

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(not to mention it really has helped me remember all the Japanese my inlaws tried to teach me so long ago)
 

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(not to mention it really has helped me remember all the Japanese my inlaws tried to teach me so long ago)

I actually find myself subconsciously understanding a little Japanese if somebody else is watching anime in the house, and find myself laughing at the jokes, then realizing after the fact that they weren't speaking english. lol.
 
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For me most of the dubs are horrible, most of the time they sound totally different and have no soul...
Anime is best enjoyed natural...

When you understand a little of japanese, you start notice the subs mistakes, specially when they are really bad...
 

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Its funny but from my perspective when I watch with Subs the voice matches the character pretty good (sweet/innocent) but once they add the dubs the voice reminds me of something quite far from sweet innocent (more like old hookers that smoked too much)

Yuk
 
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I'm not a native English speakers, so I can't judge the English dubs. I still prefer Japanese though. IMO when it's an action anime with main characters are adults, English dub is acceptable.
Comedy anime usually better with Japanese voices...

And I just watched Kenshin Trust and Betrayal again.... I think it likes my 7th time watching it... and it's still damn good!
 

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I'm not a native English speakers, so I can't judge the English dubs. I still prefer Japanese though. IMO when it's an action anime with main characters are adults, English dub is acceptable.
Comedy anime usually better with Japanese voices...

And I just watched Kenshin Trust and Betrayal again.... I think it likes my 7th time watching it... and it's still damn good!

Haha, I got you trumped! on the Trust & Betrayal.. lol.. Every monitor I bought, I watch the following

FF7 Advent Children
Trust & Betrayal
FMA Movie
Trust & Betrayal again.


Since I had the movie.. it's about 3-4times a year.. So, Quarterly.. But, I've seen FF7: AC More :p
 

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Its funny but from my perspective when I watch with Subs the voice matches the character pretty good (sweet/innocent) but once they add the dubs the voice reminds me of something quite far from sweet innocent (more like old hookers that smoked too much)

Yuk

oh yeah. even with good subs, lately i've been noticing "hey, there's other ways to translate that..."
 

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Its funny but from my perspective when I watch with Subs the voice matches the character pretty good (sweet/innocent) but once they add the dubs the voice reminds me of something quite far from sweet innocent (more like old hookers that smoked too much)

Yuk

Most of the voice actors for dubbed anime are from California. No offense to people on the west coast with that comment. Have you ever heard your female friends use some sort of fake voice? Hell even Bart Simpson was done by a chick. To find a truly dainty voice has to be one difficult task. Why they don't just use children is beyond me. It's got to be a decent solution and even better because they'll rarely ever be used for the role of a child again. Then no more hearing Robin from Teen Titans in every Anime/Video game I bought after 2004.
 
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Using kids sounds like a great idea. And let's face it, the majority of anime characters are kids/teens.
 
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The people who voiced those characters are not teens, the Japanese I mean. They're all 20s, 30s with kid's voices. :D

Or is it because they are Asian? :laugh:
 
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Its funny but from my perspective when I watch with Subs the voice matches the character pretty good (sweet/innocent) but once they add the dubs the voice reminds me of something quite far from sweet innocent (more like old hookers that smoked too much)

Yuk

Thats great way o putting things...

The people who voiced those characters are not teens, the Japanese I mean. They're all 20s, 30s with kid's voices. :D

Or is it because they are Asian? :laugh:

There are Male VA with very grave voices and many times they use female VA to sub young boys too...
 

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EXCELLENT!, that was Shikabane Hime: Aka. The ending was not really an ending but it was so dam good. There was no way I was not gonna watch every ep.

I saw Kuro also and while I enjoyed it it wasent as good as Aka and while not as retarded an ending as Utawarerumono it was just silly.



(And I dont think America is ready to lend its kids voices to anime yet, once they saw the un edited versions they would go crazy. So we are gonna have to put up with the over smoking hookers for now)
 
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Have you watched blood the last vampire??

You should check the original movie and then maybe the tv anime...

And while you at it check the classic movies Vampire hunter D and bloodlust...
 

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That was one of the very first animes I saw (when I used to watch at netflix) It was really good.

I never saw blood+, is that as good?

I never cared for Vampires, Horror and stuff like that. Its amazing how the Japanese make it so much more watchable/interesting to me..
 
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Is Gintama ok anime?I dont have anything to watch atm,so wanted some ideas
 
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Speed grapher??
Now thats something quite unique...

I am trying to think about anime similar to ga rei or shikabane...

There's an excellent ghost/poltergeist anime with lots of suspense, not much gore or horror stuff, but genuinely scaring bits of animation...

The name's ghost hunt...

And just remembered some other good stuff, this time a 4 ep ova, the name's Demon Prince Enma, rare stuff, but good horror anime...

Here's part of ANN review on DVD 1:

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Throw together veteran creator Go Nagai and Elfen Lied director Mamoru Kanbe, and what do you get? For lack of a better example, you get Demon Prince Enma; a solid horror OVA that does interesting things with both, without redefining either.

Springing as it does from the same visual sensibility, there are many similarities between Enma and Elfen Lied—most noticeably in Kanbe's skill with composing grotesque-yet-beautiful images, the use of stunning background art, and a knack for racking up tension. But where Elfen Lied's horror lay in its clinical depiction of hideous acts of violence and the dichotomy between tender normality and the unspeakable insanity that threatens it from the shadows, Enma's is a creeping dread stemming from alienation, indirect violence and narrative misdirection. Where Elfen Lied set its stage with a graphic demonstration of its willingness to butcher traditionally unkillable characters, Enma kicks off with a grueling chase that immediately casts doubt on who it is that is the monster and who it is that is the victim. Of course, pulling bad-guy/victim switcheroos could easily become shallow trickery, but Nagai and Kanbe have the good sense to root their horror in their characters' psychology. Each revelation uncovers the workings of one character's mind, and the most frightening thing about each episode—as creepy as the monsters get, and things don't get much creepier than living dolls—are the ugly little psychological openings that the monsters use to worm their way into their hosts' souls. "
 

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Yeah, to me, Blood+ wasn't a good enough anime made for how geat the movie was. I love watching the movie. It's dark and twisted.. The series, was washed up to "try" and hook other people.. If they only "screened" how Witch Hunter Robin did.. But, they tried to make it to main stream. IMO

Speed Grapher is a great anime. I can't believe it took me so long to watch it.. I think it was when Area 88 came out.. I was hooked on the style of it over everything else.. Just like it took me forever to see Samurai Gun.. Samurai 7 came out around the same time... Bad thing for me since I was still buying.. lol.. But, I still watch Samurai 7 every now and again.. Also, Samurai Deeper Kyo. Man, that wasn't long enough. IMPO
 
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For as good as enma is, ghost hunt is more complex and complete, and might require more "nerve to watch"; Speed grapher is full of weirdness, like a character that makes things blow with his camera, underground cults, weird monsters, etc, most of the story is about the main character that messed with that underground cult, even going as far as running with their princess, them going after him and he beating every single of them, nothing new but certainly diferent...

More about ghost hunt, also from ANN, the second part review

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The first season of Ghost Hunt mostly painted itself as a supernatural mystery series, one which occasionally displayed a creepy intensity laced with hints of danger and menace but rarely edged down a truly dark path. A sprinkling of humor kept the stories from ever getting too heavy as they profiled Mai's exposure to the realms of psychics and the supernatural.

That changes in the second season, however. Oh, sure, the bits of humor still linger, and the series tosses in some vague romantic rivalries to try to spice up the character interactions a bit, but this trio of four-episode story arcs use an exploration of more macabre themes to ramp up both the threat level and the intensity, resulting in a second half which carries more decided horror overtones. This is especially evident in “The Bloodstained Labyrinth,” the second case on this volume, which at its peaks – the dream sequence at the end of the second episode and the climax near the end of the fourth – is as nerve-wrackingly intense as the best anime horror scenes. Partly due to that, “Labyrinth” is arguably the best of the series' eight cases. "

Be sure not to miss it, although u said you didnt really care for that stuff, these are some of the best the genre has to offer...

And while on the subject, today i came across a review from something i watched some time ago, Rin: ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~

Some bits from it:

"RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ is yet another in a long line of “adult” anime series where the word “adult” doesn't necessarily mean “mature”, rather simply that the series is completely inappropriate for kids. However, as hilariously extreme as Mnemosyne gets, it still somehow manages to avoid that creeping juvenile feeling that infected previous attempts at this genre (Speed Grapher, that means you). It is by no means a series to be taken seriously and should probably be watched one episode at a time rather than shotgunning the box set in a single sitting (one can only take so much of this at a time), but if you're looking for fun, weird, entertaining sleaze without a hint of irony or cutesiness, this is it.

Just keep the volume down so your neighbors can't hear all the moaning and stabbing."
 
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