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Throughout the year I've been gradually watching Kimagure Orange Road (it's on both Crunchyroll and Retrocrush, watching old anime has never been so convenient) and I like it quite a lot. Been on my rotation whenever I don't have anything in particular to watch since it's always a good time. I generally dislike saying that something couldn't be made these days but it is true that the show would be different today if only because it'd be split into multiple seasons of 12 episodes each. There's a stretch of a dozen episodes or so where the cast does various summer vacation things and it hits differently when it's a chunk of episodes in a 50ish episode series as opposed to being its own separate season. At any rate it's consistently good! The core dynamic of the love triangle is basic but compelling and it frequently does a particular kind of sitcom thing I love, which is that there are plenty of character details that are only mentioned in a single episode. Why is Ayukawa in such good shape? Why, because she works out by wrestling at a local gym and in fact it's one of her big hobbies. This comes up in a single episode and then never again. It really adds a lot of variety to the episodes as these things can just happen without worrying about perfect consistency. Hey, it's the 80s, most of the audience isn't as obsessive about lore compared to today. Also all of the openings rule so much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2OmXgEBT-w
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SatoshiMiwa posted:I get why your equating the explosion of digital fansubs with the growth of the internet but the early days of the internet absolutely lead to more VHS fansubs getting circulated around than them just staying at certain universities or fan clubs. The early days of internet fansubbing were rough in their own ways too because there was absolutely folks that would lord it over others (much like how I'm sure happened with VHS fansubs too, tho I wasn't old enough for that era of anime so I can't speak to any personal experience on that). I remember poo poo like a fansub group that at one point refused to release new episodes of something unless they had X many people in their irc channel. That kinda dumb dick-waving. The actual problem is something that's not unique to anime, there's just too much stuff out there!
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Jul 27, 2022 21:11
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Sakurazuka posted:One Piece also had Kaizoku subs who, as far as I can recall anyway, were pretty decent other than their insistence that 'nakama' was a word of such intrinsic value to OP that it should be left untranslated. They were in fact the fansub group I was specifically thinking of when I said there was a group that refused to release a new episode until getting a certain amount of people in their irc channel haha
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Jul 27, 2022 21:48
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The first show I watched via fansubs was Naruto but the first show I caught from start to finish and kept up with as it aired was the original FMA. Something I do miss about that era is how most seasons would have one or two big shows that everyone in a community would be watching, whether they were enjoying it or if they merely felt the need to have a take on it (but something I really don't miss about that era is people making a huge deal about dropping a show haha). It doesn't happen much these days but that's more a factor of the oversaturation of entertainment as a whole no matter the medium, really.
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Jul 27, 2022 22:52
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Cumdog Millionaire posted:What's Robot Carnival about? It's a collection of shorts and the only thing they have in common is that each one has something to do with robots, whether directly or indirectly. It's pretty neat!
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Jul 28, 2022 18:40
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Streamline Pictures sure had some pretty good voicework and some real bad dub scripts. They're definitely a big part of why a lot of folks were confused by Akira ages ago.
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Jul 30, 2022 19:47
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SatoshiMiwa posted:We still get weird and fun stuff that's original these days but it has to have a light novel or manga first given cross media marketing. Something like G Gundam for an established series feels like it wouldn't happen though Sometimes it happens with completely original stuff too but unless it gets some real good word of mouth (Like say, last year's Oddtaxi) then it can just come and go without much notice. Heck to tie it into older anime the creator of Dennou Coil directed a new anime this year, his first in almost 15 years! A sci-fi anime not based on anything (The Orbital Children). But for all intents and purposes it might as well not exist for most people.
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Aug 1, 2022 13:18
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Arc Hammer posted:What was the consensus on the tachikomas back in 2000s discourse? I only really started watching anime around 2011 (as on seeking out shows rather than dismissing everything as porn or pokemon/digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh/ and being too co for it) so I only watched SAC for the first time about a decade ago when the series was aired on official YouTube channels. I didn't like the tachikomas back then as a teenager for much the same reasons I didn't like Ed in Bebop. What's this cutesy poo poo doing in my cool hard-core adult shows? Nowadays i am a lot more lenient on this kind of stuff when it is used well and I really enjoy the counterpoint test characters like Ed or the Tachikomas provide to otherwise grim procedurals. Speaking as someone who was around while SAC was getting fansubbed, I definitely remember that plenty of folks loved 'em.
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Jan 7, 2023 02:06
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Dawgstar posted:There's a YouTube channel that has Cat's Eye up all official like (at least in the States) and I'd forgotten how easy to watch in chunks it is. Hitomi is sort of dating Toshio, who is a cop which is unfortunate, but also Cat's Eye make the cops look like buffoons so net positive. Yea it's also all up on Crunchyroll too. Never been a better time for folks to check out Cat's Eye.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:22
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kirbysuperstar posted:Yeah Gainer has a dub, nothing wrong with it on that front from what I remember. Think it was one of the earlier roles I heard Kirk Thorton in. Yea I remember watching the dub and thinking it was fine enough. Not spectacular but perfectly watchable.
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Heavy Metal posted:I just saw a reddit thread today where someone asked if the animation in Monster holds up, and mentioned they had never seen an anime that old (from 2004). May the anime gods have mercy on their soul. Way I see it, at least if they're asking that question it means they're curious about checking it out! That is sadly above and beyond what plenty of folks do. Admittedly it's a problem that extends beyond anime since it's not uncommon to see folks that refuse to watch movies that are "too old", while carving out an exception for certain franchises that are still relevant today like Star Wars and the like.
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Feb 28, 2024 16:42
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Vandar posted:Orange Road is one of those series that I've always heard is supposed to be incredible, I've just never gotten around to it because there's just so much else out there. It's great and since it's basically a sitcom it means you can dip in and out of it as you please. I'm glad it's very readily available these days, being on both Crunchyroll and Retrocrush definitely got some folks to check it out that might not have otherwise.
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Love Hina falling by the wayside makes sense to me since it's important but also in a way that had many things following in its footsteps. Like for a western comparison I'm thinking about how there's a ton of sitcoms that were popular and influential back in the day but are watched by very few today. Just happens to most stuff out there.
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