Manga/Anime? what you guys into?

[Space Indaver]

Originally Posted by -John-

Sites i use most are
mangastream
and
mangareader

Does anyone know of a site similar to MangaStream for Amerian comics? That site seems ace.

[da_ticklah]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

No, I gave people like you a chance. I've asked anime fans for the name of something that will justify anime to me. That shouldn't be hard to do. Still haven't seen anything that didn't suck. And considering how people go on about the mildly bad Akira as some sort of seminal work, I'm completely sure you're wrong.

"Like any medium". Hah. It shouldn't be hard for people to find something to impress me, then. I've managed to find good everything else on my own. But somehow even asking anime fans what to watch I still end up watching something terrible.

I dont get Akira either but there is some quality out there but again we are talking about cartoons. two good ones are:

Ninja Scroll
Grave of the Fireflies

[benjita]

The problem with the "legend" of Akira is that it's so 15 years ago. And the animation reminds us too much of early '80s anime, kind of like a Gundam or Voltron. The dub company was an early company, so you look at it and you see outdated animation and bad dubbing. It really lost a lot in the vast improvements made in dubbing/animation over the last 10-20 years.

[da_ticklah]

Originally Posted by benjita

The problem with the "legend" of Akira is that it's so 15 years ago. And the animation reminds us too much of early '80s anime, kind of like a Gundam or Voltron. The dub company was an early company, so you look at it and you see outdated animation and bad dubbing. It really lost a lot in the vast improvements made in dubbing/animation over the last 10-20 years.

I saw Akira 15 years ago and didn't like it then I get Cheesy dubbing most of the Gundam (0080, 0083 series) I saw back then were Fan-subs so production quality was real spotty and I enjoyed those; Akira is just shit.

I've been a Fan of Robotech for 20+ years I know it's cheesy but I fell in love with it as a child.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by da_ticklah

Grave of the Fireflies

everytime i try to watch that i feel sick. i know thats how its supposed to be, but seriously, talk about a huge bummer.

[da_ticklah]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

everytime i try to watch that i feel sick. i know thats how its supposed to be, but seriously, talk about a huge bummer.

A good movie invokes emotion and Grave of the Fireflies invokes the hell out of some emotions. Nobody walks away from the passion of the christ happy and nobody should be happy watching this. But it is a good movie

[Junkenstein]

oh i know its great, i agree. just saying that some scene make me feel nauseous on a deep level and i never finsh the movie.

[hellbent]

[QUOTE=-John-;691952]
Afro Samurai i checked out and its pretty awesome but the sequel wasn't as good i thought. eventually i found GANTZ which is amazing the anime is only about 2 season but the maga is much longer so i started that and its pretty awesome. GANTZ had lots of violence and sexual content.

I just downloaded a live action gantz movie. not sure how it is, and ive only seen a few episodes of the anime.


btw, if you havent seen this yet, its tehawesome!
Starblazers / Space Battleship Yamato

[hellbent]

Originally Posted by da_ticklah

A good movie invokes emotion and Grave of the Fireflies invokes the hell out of some emotions. Nobody walks away from the passion of the christ happy and nobody should be happy watching this. But it is a good movie

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

oh i know its great, i agree. just saying that some scene make me feel nauseous on a deep level and i never finsh the movie.

are you saying youve never seen the end?

theres certain movies you have to see, but probably wont watch more then once. grave of the firelies is one. i loved but wont watch again city of angels, leaving las vegas, etc.

[Bucho]

The dub companies seem to use "voice artists" instead of actors, and they overplay the everliving shit out of it. And that's probably fine for kids' shows, where you have to play big and stupid to hold the kids' attention, but for non-kid stuff like Cowboy Bebop it fucks the characters into oblivion.

I don't speak a word of Japanese but from the few animes I've seen those saki drinking mofos play the characters' voices infinitely cooler. If I'd seen this scene below in dubs before I'd watched the show with the real Japanese voices I never would have watched the show. In fact I can't even watch this whole scene in dubs it's so abysmal. It sounds childish. It hurts me right in my soul. These guys look the same as Jet and Spike, but they're not Jet and Spike. They're ass.