The General Anime Thread...

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Shut up and take my money! :drool:
 
Oh yeeaahhhhh! I love Subaru though.




I heart Louise but there are so many better shows to spend money on.

If Sentai does a $30-40 full series boxset like they've done with other stuff, I'd like to have it on my shelf.
 
The ending is not a "very small fraction of the show". Just because the last episode of, say, a 26-episode series technically only makes up 1/26th of the show's runtime, that doesn't mean its quality only affects ~4% of the show's overall quality.

Stories are meant to have conclusions. Satisfying ones. ****ing up the ending is way worse than having a bad episode somewhere towards the middle or beginning of the show. Ruining the conclusion could, in some extreme cases, ruin the whole story that's been built up to that point.
Though in the case of anime, mainly with adaptions (Which is the vast majority of anime), it's about advertising (As I say, anime is advertising. It's not a stretch to say this whatsoever.), not to have satisfying conclusions. The number of adaptions I've seen that have had actual conclusions is very few as the anime ended before the source material, or they never got far enough.

Also let me ask you this, if Cowboy Bebop had an atrocious ending, would it be a bad show and should we discredit it? Should we forget it had amazing characters with a ton of depth, backstory, catharsis, development, and a compelling story just because it had a ****** ending?
Ugh, somebody (Sentai Filmworks preferably) needs to pick up the Zero no Tsukaima license. I'm trying to convert this torrented version to work on my PS3 and the stupid subs won't work no matter what I do, except the one time I accidentally converted it with an English dub. This is why I like using official streaming services or just buying DVD/BDs...
They have season 4, so it is possible, but risky considering how awful season 1 did with FUNimation. If they got season 1, could it even do better than it did for FUNimation?
 
They have season 4, so it is possible, but risky considering how awful season 1 did with FUNimation. If they got season 1, could it even do better than it did for FUNimation?

Did Funimation ever release it? Geneon did way back, and some of their licenses went to Funi, but I don't know if Funimation actually did their own version. I think a no-dub, low-cost barebones boxset release like Sentai's been doing would do pretty well.
 
Though in the case of anime, mainly with adaptions (Which is the vast majority of anime), it's about advertising (As I say, anime is advertising. It's not a stretch to say this whatsoever.), not to have satisfying conclusions. The number of adaptions I've seen that have had actual conclusions is very few as the anime ended before the source material, or they never got far enough.

Also let me ask you this, if Cowboy Bebop had an atrocious ending, would it be a bad show and should we discredit it? Should we forget it had amazing characters with a ton of depth, backstory, catharsis, development, and a compelling story just because it had a ****** ending?They have season 4, so it is possible, but risky considering how awful season 1 did with FUNimation. If they got season 1, could it even do better than it did for FUNimation?

If Cowboy Bebop's 2-episode climax was "just okay" instead of being fantastic, the show would still be good, but it'd detract more than just 1/13th of a point from my current opinion of the show. The punch that the amazing conclusion packs plays a significant role in making Cowboy Bebop a truly incredible show. Without it, the show would still be good, but it'd be an 8/10 instead of a 10/10. And if the ending were actually bad and not just mediocre, then it could be a 7/10 or worse, depending on just how bad it is and how much the excitement of the previous episodes depended on building up to it.
 
Did Funimation ever release it? Geneon did way back, and some of their licenses went to Funi, but I don't know if Funimation actually did their own version. I think a no-dub, low-cost barebones boxset release like Sentai's been doing would do pretty well.
FUNimation never did their own release (Where you wouldn't see the big Geneon Entertainment logo on there) like they've done with Black Lagoon and Ergo Proxy for example.

When the Geneon license expired in 2010, they did not license it because it sold ridiculously bad for them.
If Cowboy Bebop's 2-episode climax was "just okay" instead of being fantastic, the show would still be good, but it'd detract more than just 1/13th of a point from my current opinion of the show. The punch that the amazing conclusion packs plays a significant role in making Cowboy Bebop a truly incredible show. Without it, the show would still be good, but it'd be an 8/10 instead of a 10/10. And if the ending were actually bad and not just mediocre, then it could be a 7/10 or worse, depending on just how bad it is and how much the excitement of the previous episodes depended on building up to it.
So nothing like a 4/10-1/10? Alright, though I'm not a big fan of knocking down many points just because of how the ending turned out. I was foolish for example to give 5 Centimeters Per Second an 8/10 instead of a 9/10 just because I found the ending awful (I will not discuss it again until I rewatch the film on CR during Shinkai day in March, so let's not go there).

Speaking of that film, really hope Sentai rescues it and puts it on Blu-ray.
 
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FUNimation never did their own release (Where you wouldn't see the big Geneon Entertainment logo on there) like they've done with Black Lagoon and Ergo Proxy for example.

I'm fairly certain that the one I have is FUNimation. Mine does say Geneon, but this is the cover reversed. It has a FUNimation pamphlet of future releases and a logo too. It was most likely a license rescue.

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Yui :drool:

Also, this was up for pre-order, so I pre-ordered it. Yes, this movie is worth importing and double-dipping when FUNimation releases it, plus it has English subtitles that they used for film festivals. And I actually triple-dipped on Eva 1.0, so eh.
 
FUNimation didn't really license rescue it. When Geneon went under, FUNimation merely distributed some stuff on behalf of Geneon while not having the actual license.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-03/funimation-agrees-to-distribute-select-geneon-titles

To name a few, The Familiar of Zero, Black Lagoon, Ergo Proxy, Shakugan no Shana, When They Cry, The Law of Ueki. The only ones out of those they ended up holding the license to themselves after the Geneon license expired were Black Lagoon, Shakugan no Shana, and Ergo Proxy.

Took a while for them to get those out because of the Geneon Universal merger in 2010 that screwed everything over for them.
 
Not really, it doesn't matter what show, if it's OOP, it's probably going to go for a lot.
 
^ At the moment no anime for a week 'cuz I'm part of Pacquiao's back up entourage and currently staying at MGM Grand. :indiff:

-> Will watch Ray once I get home. ;)
 
Yui!!! <3


Since I woke up super early for no reason, I think I'll try to catch up on all this anime. So far behind.... UGH.
 
You don't know behind until you're more than 100 episodes behind.:p
 
That's just way too much. More than 5 shows at a time is just going to kill your enjoyment, oh wait.
 
If I were to start it and it sucks I would be disappoint.

Being 100 episodes behind on stuff you watch just because you have to complete it is stupid. I'd rather watch Dexter, Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones if I were that behind.

Or rather, not have a schedule and watch when you can.

I should see if I can get my new laptop to stream. I'll play the kind of shows that Hei would like but doesn't watch. :lol:
 
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