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I didn't dislike the first part but the second part was definitely much stronger.
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Asimo posted:Yeah, I get the impression that Space Dandy is going to aggravate the hell out of a certain subset of spergy nerd who takes things way too seriously, and for that I can't help but love the show already. Personal taste is a thing that exists! I enjoyed the stupid narration and setting stuff in the first part, and was too busy ing at the alien designs during the restaurant section to care too much about boob jokes one way or another. Others may not have cared for that! The whole "only idiots do / don't find this funny this" thing is a bit silly. It's funny, the second part made it feel like a slightly more grounded Inferno Cop with better animation. And then Emperor Inferno Cop showed up. Zorak fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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I found the first half pretty amusing, if only for the fact that loving Hooters is a universal chain. To me, Space Dandy is very evocative of The Fifth Element with how bizarre, silly, and stupid the universe is.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 08:57 |
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I'm not sure what to make of the 4th wall irreverence and the Breastaurants but if we get anything later on as breathtaking as the second half, then I'll watch these. Absolutely loved all of the weird alien designs.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 08:58 |
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I honestly can't wait how they're going to justify the supernova and so far my favorite part is the narrator.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 08:59 |
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A Bystander posted:I honestly can't wait how they're going to justify the supernova and so far my favorite part is the narrator. Well immediately before they warped in, they unraveled the fabric of space time. It could be that every episode they're arriving on a different planet as a result of that space time unraveling, and are going to die at the end of each one as well.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 09:02 |
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Zorak posted:Personal taste is a thing that exists! I enjoyed the stupid narration and setting stuff in the first part, and was too busy ing at the alien designs during the restaurant section to care too much about boob jokes one way or another. Others may not have cared for that! The whole "only idiots do / don't find this funny this" thing is a bit silly. If nothing else, it's very... unique so far. Haven't seen anything like this in ages.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 09:02 |
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Honestly, I dunno how well the first scene will play in Japan since it's basically one long homage to the Cantina in Mos Eisley. Was Star Wars ever a big thing in Japan?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 09:04 |
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Yep. Honestly, I'm pretty sure Star Wars was a big thing everywhere that had electricity.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 09:07 |
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Well that was pretty cool. I'm indifferent about the first half, but the second half definitely made up for it. I'm actually happy that I didn't bother watching the leaked first half since it would have discouraged me. One thing's for sure, I'm going to try to watch the entire thing dubbed, really impressed with it here. But then again, Funi tends to do excellent work with comedy works.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 09:15 |
I think it was a combination of seeing most of the first half of the episode in promos and them trying too hard, but I found it unbearable but the second half more than made up for it and look forward to the explanation of screwing with reality and Dandy killing them all. Now to see it subbed.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 10:20 |
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Asimo posted:the whole of it (especially the second half) had this sort of disjointed surreal pace while still making complete sense. It's kind of hard to explain. I think what you're looking for is 90s as gently caress. It's like bizzaro world for anime. Reminds me of the first time I ever saw an episode of Outlaw Star or something like Megas XLR. It's silly, it's fun, and really really doesn't take itself too seriously. I don't care about the occasionally wonky animation, I don't care about the complete nonsense of a plot, I just don't care. This is a show that doesn't make me laugh, it made me smile fairly consistently which is probably a harder thing to pull off. The Douglas-Adamsy feel is also good. I got a bowl of cheetos, a can of Mnt Dew and my pants are most definitely missing. My body is ready for the rest of this show, because baby it's the late 90s/early 2000s all over again.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 10:53 |
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Status of Anime: Still not saved. Kinda good episode though, mostly interested in seeing if they are going to do anything interesting with ripping space-time in half. e: Also Meow is totally a space bunny Rexides fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Philip Rivers posted:Honestly, I dunno how well the first scene will play in Japan since it's basically one long homage to the Cantina in Mos Eisley. Was Star Wars ever a big thing in Japan? Star Wars kickstarted an entire generation of scifi anime, starting with the likes of Dirty Pair and Space Adventure Cobra.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 15:30 |
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The first episode didn't set my world on fire, but that may be a function of the shows (and their first episodes) I was led to compare it to coming in (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, maybe Outlaw Star). Tough to judge where this thing is headed from that first episode. First episode is up on adultswim.com. You'll have to sign in with your cable/satellite provider. Ep 1: http://video.adultswim.com/space-dandy/live-with-the-flow-baby.html
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 15:51 |
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I'm the type who will still laugh at certain juvenile humor so I found the whole package Dandy gave in the first episode pretty good to hook me in for humor and action. The line "Where Zero G meets double D" in particular comes to mind. I am pleased with this dub, so I'm definitely going to tune in and watch it every week. I can't even remember the last time I watched anime on my actual TV that wasn't reairs of Bebop, it's kind of nostalgic. My only actual complaint is the fact I'll miss out on the amazing OP every week due to them cutting it down.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 16:22 |
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So, Wakanim has uploaded the episode to UK folk. They managed to wrangle download-to-own rights for this. The downside is that the dub and sub are separate purchases and each individual format (i.e. 720p and 1080p) are in turn separate purchases. And that All the Anime has promised to have the discs out this year. But still, I wouldn't have thought Funimation would allow downloads of their dub.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 17:46 |
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Rexides posted:Status of Anime: Still not saved. Meow is a proper space Cabbit
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 18:20 |
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Is QT's Japanese voice auto-tuned the same way it was in the dub?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 18:31 |
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Steve Jorbs posted:Is QT's Japanese voice auto-tuned the same way it was in the dub? Nope
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 18:33 |
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The subbed version is up on Funimation's site now too! For those of us (like me) who have the lowest of low-tier cable. http://www.funimation.com/shows/space-dandy/videos/anime ... Not that their player seems to be working at the moment. For any video I try. e: Well it didn't work in Chrome, so far so good in IE. e:e: haha, Space Parfait a kitten fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Delusibeta posted:So, Wakanim has uploaded the episode to UK folk. And it has the full OP & ED in Wakanim's stream. If this turns out good (Irrelevant space-opera with Looney Tunes Physics? Well, you have my attention at least...) I'll probably buy the DVDs rather than the videos from Wakanim if they're coming out quickly. I'm about to watch it full in Sub to see if I prefer it from the Dub. The Dub just seemed a little flat at times, but it could just be the writing! Space-Not-Hooters can't really carry enough jokes. I rather liked the "There is a catastrophic war between two powerful empires, each struggling to take over the universe - but who gives a drat, back to the spaceship with a coconut tree in it" bit.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 18:51 |
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That ended a lot like the early episodes of Sealab 2021.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 19:27 |
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The second part of the episode was fantastic to look at, but the dub really does seem to drag it down sometimes. I need to give the sub a shot.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 19:29 |
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Hmmm... Neither Funimation or CN's sites are working for me. Let's see what they suggest in support... "Please disable NoScript and all anti-tracking software, as well as HTTPS..." NOPE.AVI Thank God for BitTorrrent. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 19:58 |
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araeris posted:
I didn't know this option existed. Thanks for fixing that! I probably won't cancel my cable tv now.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 20:07 |
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Someone on my Twitter feed said that someone on the JP staff for the show said that the dub script changes supposedly ruin certain aspects of the show. Can anyone confirm any major differences in the two regions' versions?
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 21:06 |
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Having now seen the first ep in both sub and dub form, I like them about equally. I think the Japanese voices sound slightly better and the English script is just slightly funnier, so it's a tie. Note that my Japanese language skills aren't good enough for my opinion to include the accuracy of either translation. Portable Staplefrog fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jan 5, 2014 |
# ? Jan 5, 2014 21:14 |
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This felt like I was watching something out of an issue of Heavy Metal Magazine animated. Something about not just the art style, but the themes and characters. Very interesting.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 21:16 |
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I really enjoyed the episode as a whole, though the first part was immature, seeing Breasturants just makes me think that Earth is ruled by President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho and that makes it even greater in my opinion
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 21:23 |
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Animation in the second half was very ... expensive-looking, I guess. Other than that the whole thing just feels so very mildly entertaining, that it's impossible to see how it will be anything other than a gigantic bankruptcy ticket for Bones. I hope you guys are ready to buy BDs in droves, because Japanese commenters seem to hate it.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 21:44 |
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From this first episode, I absolutely plan to buy it. I absolutely do.
Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Rodyle posted:I'm so happy my hopes that this would be Zapp Brannigan The Anime weren't let down achillesforever6 posted:Its like a combination of Zapp and Johnny bravo in space and I loved every minute of it Anyone who didn't immediately think that this was Zaphod Beeblebrox: The Anime get the gently caress out.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 21:56 |
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darkgray posted:Animation in the second half was very ... expensive-looking, I guess. Other than that the whole thing just feels so very mildly entertaining, that it's impossible to see how it will be anything other than a gigantic bankruptcy ticket for Bones. A Watanabe show being more popular in america than japan? Stop the loving presses
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 22:07 |
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Yes, this is probably going to be one of those infrequent cases where the bulk of a show's profit comes from the U.S. (or from foreign markets in general). After all, it's already known that Adult Swim is co-funding Space Dandy.
wielder fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Takoluka posted:Someone on my Twitter feed said that someone on the JP staff for the show said that the dub script changes supposedly ruin certain aspects of the show. Can anyone confirm any major differences in the two regions' versions? Relin fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 5, 2014 |
# ? Jan 5, 2014 22:34 |
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The alleged tweets: Apparently they have already been deleted.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 22:38 |
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Watanabe is pretty freaking great as anime goes. I'm pretty pumped for watching this when I get back to a place that has proper internet.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 22:40 |
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FYI if you have Hulu Plus you can watch the episode there instead of dealing with Funimation's lovely player.
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# ? Jan 5, 2014 22:40 |
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OneStopShop posted:The alleged tweets: Don't need to say alleged, the tweets happened. Bahi tweets a ton of insider stuff and deletes most of it immediately because he's a young dude living his dream, basically. FWIW he also tweeted: 419913614200680448 (2014-01-05 19:29:41) - @braves133 No problem, I have to remove the tweet though, some people might not like this criticism lol. But I liked the voiceacting in both 419916626285592576 (2014-01-05 19:41:40) - @tondog @braves133 I enjoyed the dub too, the voice actors did a good job. I was only reffering to the english script.
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