Recent content by Leaping Larry Jojo

It is getting significant interest outside of the usual anime fanbase. I am following its U.S. popularity with interest.

Most people here pretty much echo my thoughts. Although, the truth is this is a very dense film that can be talked about for a long time, which bodes well for its ability to stand the test of time. People should still be talking about the film's meanings 20 years from now. I think the subject...

My memories of Shirley Temple are indelibly linked with Martin Prince's rendition of "Good Ship Lollipop" in that old Halloween episode of the Simpsons. You know, the one where King Kong eats him/her. :sweat: Yeah, as everyone here has said, most of her movies are a chore to sit through today...

Well, I had the most un-pronounceable last name of all the students in every class I've ever been in, and I pretty much just let them pronounce it any way they wanted to. If they asked me, I would give them the "proper" pronunciation ONCE, but after that, I wasn't going to waste the next 5...

I'm gonna break ranks from most and say that there are still a few things about the old dub I personally prefer, and it's not just nostalgia. I think despite the muddled translations and name mis-pronounciations, the original dub's voice actors were generally better cast. Their voices more fit...

Aside from the music and the intro, M & H is nothing at all like Cowboy Bebop. And the director of Cowboy Bebop is the music director here anyway, so he's entitled to steal from his own stuff. Cowboy Bebop certainly can be accused of stealing as well--its opening may be legendary, but the...

It depends what you mean by framing. It's a little like those old decorated war veterans that saved so many lives or killed so many enemies in 'Nam or WWI or WW2...and then end up slipping in the shower and breaking their necks at the age of 55. Crap happens. You don't always get a good ending...

Happy endings are overrated for a show like this. I thought the ending was appropriately grim.

Yeah. Some of the younger anime fans are getting WAAAY to paranoid about this thing. Research the marketing reasons behind their doing this and you'll find that the shows that end up sub-only most likely wouldn't even be the shows most fans like in the first place.

There are a lot of weird fetishes in the US of A. Just check Pornhub's online territorial fetish map of the USA :sweat:

I always wondered how well Yamada's First Time sold. I don't see it mentioned a lot in fan circles, but many stores around here that carried it seemed to sell out quickly. It hasn't seen a re-release even though it's been almost two years since it was last released. I'm tempted to assume it sold...

All right, what the heck, I just finished it: Michiko and Hatchin.

There's a reason why I wasn't specific about it. If you haven't seen the film and don't want to spoil the movie for yourself, avoid reading spoilers.

Another possible theory is that they are releasing a gimped release to keep the door open for yet another blu ray release down the line with a "proper" aspect ratio. GOTTA MILK EM ALL

4K is still pretty pointless and expensive as even many theatres today don't actually run 4K presentations of modern movies, most digital "prints" you see in theatres these days are actually 2K files, which of course is just slightly above 1980 x 1080p anyway. We are already close to the same...