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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...

It's a major site with major influence. I like some of their columnists, like Mike Toole and a few of their reviewers (I was one of the few posters there who liked Erin Finnegan). They generally have a more "mainstream" appealing tone than I like (they have a tendency to get snarky about the...

Le Samourai got a botched restoration recently by Pathe, the same yahoos who screwed up the Children of Paradise restoration. If Criterion gets a different master, great. But one would assume they get the same as the french blu ray when they release the BD. Le Samouraï | Blu-ray: FR vs. DVD: US...

PUNCH PUNCH PUNCHEEEE DANDANDANDANBIDADAN BANBANBANBANZEEPIPAN GAN GAN TORIYAAAAA Best opening song ever!

This got mixed reviews from critics, but I have a soft spot for this one as it was the first anime TV series I watched entirely in HD. I think the one thing it excelled most at was building suspense. We need more of these crime action-anime these days.

In the behind the scenes dub feature, you see that Bolger actually physically acted out Umi's scenes as she was voicing her. Even in the sequences as mundane as Umi lifting something while she was talking--Bolger would mime that action. You certainly can't say she phoned it in. Love her...

I don't think so. From what I see, the NA edition's extras is basically the same as the From Up on Poppy Hill Yokohama Special Limited Edition disc that was released in Japan. With the inclusion of the english dub behind the scenes doc, of course.

The dub is generally good. The biggest change is the opening scene where dub Umi has some voiceover narration("I live up on Poppy Hill, every morning I raise these flags, blah blah blah.") to presumably state the obvious for the intellectually challenged audiences out there. I kid, I kid! But...

I think you misunderstand me. I am not saying "lower production values = inferior animation". I am not talking about skill or direction. I am talking pure resources. Of course, WE KNOW good animation when we see it, and we know anime can feature skillfully directed animation equalling and...

LOL. But wasn't Marine Boy anime? All that said, this preservation of the past is largely a cost-reward issue as Ed said. Disney is a big company, there are no rights issues, they can afford high end restoration equipment, and the stuff they keep in print is limited to their films mostly...

Perhaps he simply isn't an appealing screen presence. How can you articulate that? Personally, I just find him bland as vanilla in everything he's in. Even when he has a "good" performance, I just don't find him interesting to watch. It's just a vibe he gives off. There's nothing particularly...

LOL. This was never dubbed and anime sols isn't going to dub anything.

There are some who did it before they got famous for doing western cartoon voice overs. John DiMaggio did Golgo 13 Queen Bee and a few other anime here and there back in the day. Bryan Cranston did Macross Plus and a bunch of other Manga dubs. It's probably more common to find anime VAs in...

It happens in every era. Usually the people whose knowledge is limited to the very recent past don't stay fans for long. I think the average anime fan burns out within 6 or 7 years. You can usually tell who these are by their superficial reasons for liking anime. The ones who stick around will...

Now that a few months have passed since this thread was first made, I could see Sentai taking an interest in this through their Maiden Japan label.

Everything Osamu Dezaki ever directed should be on DVD or BD, IMO. I'm convinced he is one of the 5 most important directors in anime history.

Not finished this yet, but I'm really enjoying it. There's not an episode that goes by without some sort of interesting visual experiment or motif. Some people are turned off a bit by the melodrama, but I always feel that people underrate melodrama--and soap opera--as a valid form of Art...

Gainax today is still a very interesting studio, but they're more interesting from a animation standpoint than from a thematic one. That's not to say they don't necessarily have interesting things to say about the human condition or the world around us today, but they're more focused on creative...

Funny thing is I didn't mind Shana. I don't look at every anime girl as potential GF material for me to need to like them. I hated Yuji much more, quite honestly. I absolutely loathe these nebbish supposedly "nice guy" characters like him in anime.

Err, no, it wasn't. Lodoss Wars was a big deal at the time. Outside of Manga Entertainment's stuff which was the most popular anime out there (due to Manga's access to so many video retail outlets), Lodoss Wars was probably one of the most successful anime properties of all the smaller anime...

Wings of Honneamise is the kind of film that cannot be made in any other decade than the 80s. With a big budget and a creative freedom that just doesn't exist anymore in the more focus-group, marketing exec-controlled environment of today, you'd never be able to crank out this kind of film in...

YES. YES. I've been waiting for this ever since I was still in high school. That's a LONG time!

I'm of the opinion that they should have stopped at season 1. The writing in S2 was overall poorer, and the animation was obviously done by Sunrise's "B" team, compared to S1 where it was their "A" team. But CN commissioned for a S2, and they got it.

Sensitive though this may be, anyone who couldn't see where this wa ultimately s going from the very beginning obviously hasn't been around the hobby for very long.

Just watched this last night. It's surprisingly great! Not at all like I was expecting. For more than a decade I had assumed this was some low-rent Rumiko Takahashi-esque superhero comedy, based on Locke's rather child-like character design. It's anything but that. It's melodramatic, cheesy...

Oscar is a legendary anime character. It's no surprise to see her influence in a lot of places. Utena is another example.