Kolya on 6/1/2009 at 21:04
You're an expert, huh?
ercles on 6/1/2009 at 21:17
A humble one, apparently.
Angel Dust on 6/1/2009 at 21:31
Regarding anime, does it refer just to Akira type stuff or is it any Japanese animation including the likes of 'My Neghbour Totoro' and 'Grave of the Fireflies' etc? Just wondering as I've never been clear on the term.
june gloom on 6/1/2009 at 21:37
I think when most people think of anime they're thinking of Pokemon and Naruto.
When I think of anime (that I enjoy) I usually think of Elfen Lied, or movies like Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
I think as far as anime is concerned my only guilty pleasure is Evangelion. Even if occasionally delves into the realm of silly-bullshit-that-doesn't-make-sense.
Jason Moyer on 6/1/2009 at 21:47
Starblazers is the only anime worth a crap.
Random_Taffer on 6/1/2009 at 21:54
Over emotional androgynous wankers that jump around like twats with huge swords and about ten pounds worth of hair gel.
Oh, and also Bethesda.
Let's hire a couple celebrity voice actors that voice one character each and have the rest of the game be noticeably voiced by the SAME TWO FUCKING PEOPLE!
Celebrated mediocrity = The Halo series.
Trance on 6/1/2009 at 21:59
Invoking Sturgeon's Law for the anime thing. There may be a significant majority of crap in the anime genre, but that goes for everything else in life. Every anime fan has at least a few titles or series that they really like based on quality and not on any overblown fight scenes or fanservice.
The American and Japanese population at large has one thing in common: they don't "get" each other and have never really made any serious effort to do so. What we have today is a half-assed attempt at cultural assimilation between the two countries; people latch onto the loud bits and ignore the subtleties that flesh out one's perspective on a people.
EvaUnit02 on 6/1/2009 at 22:13
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I think as far as anime is concerned my only guilty pleasure is Evangelion. Even if occasionally delves into the realm of silly-bullshit-that-doesn't-make-sense.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZJc2hyymmc)
Nothing cryptic to decode about NGE, once you realise that the overall plot doesn't matter - the way that both endings go to surrealist hell cements this. Ignore the references to the Dead Sea Scrolls and all that other crap.
It was all about the characters and their relationships. Amongst the key main themes was interaction between individuals and that pain is inescapable part of life. There might be no pain when the entire population is a collective consciousness of primordial sludge, but life just isn't worth living without other individuals. Oh and the big secret about the Eva Units was that they're literally powered by maternal love, hence the adolescent pilots.
Anno's follow-up series, His and Her Circumstances, makes perfect sense once put into context; feeling perfectly natural when sitting next to Evangelion in a filmography list. Mind you he's churned out some pure garbage since becoming a happy, well-rounded individual, namely the live-action Cutie Honey film.
Random_Taffer on 6/1/2009 at 22:18
Directly translated lines from games that the director didn't have the sense to reword.
From House of the Dead 2.
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http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/hotd2/clip6.mp3) "Don't Come! Don't Come!"
"This is supposed to be something like "stay away!" or "get back!", but due to the wonders of bad localization, instead it sounds like the zombies are pretty excited and could blow at any minute. This clip also demonstrates that they used pitch shifting to broaden their cast. The first set of dialogue is one clip, and the very next one is the SAME source audio, pitch shifted down. In the game it's not immediately obvious, but in the soundtest, it stands out clearly."
-- A hilarious site
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http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/index.html) www.audioatrocities.com
Trance on 6/1/2009 at 22:19
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
YT video of yet another goddamn airplane
ffs stop it already, it's not cool anymore
