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Tae posted:edit: Now I'm getting PTSD of the days of 3 episodes/30 dollar dvds 
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One episode was mostly for longer OAV's with fewer episodes though, Evangelion was on 13 VHS tapes with two episodes each. 
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Mar 2, 2015 12:30
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I was too young in the 90s to even recognize anime. Pokemon was just another cartoon to me but I remember regular stores like Target and K-Mart carried a lot of the early Indigo League episodes like with Lt. Surge and Sabrina on VHS and I got a few of those. I don't even know how I watched things on VHS anymore. No dual audio tracks, no special feature selection, it was like caveman times.
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Mar 2, 2015 12:43
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Sakurazuka posted:One episode was mostly for longer OAV's with fewer episodes though, Evangelion was on 13 VHS tapes with two episodes each. Was an OAV though! Good call.
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Mar 2, 2015 12:52
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From what I've read in the Megaten wiki, the second novel has a demon baby or some poo poo (Loki and the literature? teacher's child). The pregnant lady even goes batshit and becomes half demon and grows some scales and it's all very gross and crazy. Also, from the summaries and the OVA, the protagonist dude comes out as one hell of a jerk, because the teacher (Ohara) had no part in his early trauma of getting his poo poo kicked in for... rejecting a girl's advances? Is there some detail that the summaries miss or is the characterization really that bad?
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Mar 2, 2015 13:12
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NikkolasKing posted:I was too young in the 90s to even recognize anime. Pokemon was just another cartoon to me but I remember regular stores like Target and K-Mart carried a lot of the early Indigo League episodes like with Lt. Surge and Sabrina on VHS and I got a few of those. What gets me is that the episodes weren't even in order, instead they were grouped by some weird loving theme! Here buy this vhs of pokemon containing 3 episodes where Ash eats a lot of food! Who watches a show like that??
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Mar 2, 2015 14:29
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Zereth posted:You tiny baby. Try $30 ONE episode VHS tapes. No, but it was Pokemon and DBZ that the tapes were bought for. I think close to a 1000 was spent on those two animes alone. FUNImation busting out 6 episode dvds was a goddamn historical revolution in comparison.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:03
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I will never forget that one MegaTen anime OVA that ended with the protagonist going Super Saiyan against Satan.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:09
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D.O.G.O.G.B.Y.N. posted:From what I've read in the Megaten wiki, the second novel has a demon baby or some poo poo (Loki and the literature? teacher's child). The pregnant lady even goes batshit and becomes half demon and grows some scales and it's all very gross and crazy. Also, from the summaries and the OVA, the protagonist dude comes out as one hell of a jerk, because the teacher (Ohara) had no part in his early trauma of getting his poo poo kicked in for... rejecting a girl's advances? Is there some detail that the summaries miss or is the characterization really that bad? Nope, that's pretty much right, it's that bad. The protagonist is basically a sociopath that magically stops being a sociopath for no apparent reason. Eventually he gets put on trial and sentenced to a public hanging for murder and unleashing demonic hellspawn on the earth. I'm guessing the author is expecting the reader to sympathize with him by that point but he's so unlikable and it's such poor writing I doubt anyone really would.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:11
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Phantasium posted:I will never forget that one MegaTen anime OVA that ended with the protagonist going Super Saiyan against Satan. Tokyo Revelation was cool and also kind of gay.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:24
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Genpei Turtle posted:Nope, that's pretty much right, it's that bad. The protagonist is basically a sociopath that magically stops being a sociopath for no apparent reason. Eventually he gets put on trial and sentenced to a public hanging for murder and unleashing demonic hellspawn on the earth. I'm guessing the author is expecting the reader to sympathize with him by that point but he's so unlikable and it's such poor writing I doubt anyone really would. Really the only thing I took away from the novels is Loki is a legacy douchebag for the franchise and Cerberus is more significant than I gave it credit for. Cerberus is basically one of the first demons the guy summons and if my memory's right, he's pretty much the guy's go to monster.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:44
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Where the hell did you guys live? All I remember at Blockbuster as a kid were Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:02
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yeah my movie rental store didn't have any bizzare 90's hentai, I had to look hard for that stuff
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Mar 2, 2015 17:08
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Unmature posted:Where the hell did you guys live? All I remember at Blockbuster as a kid were Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes. RIP Wherehouse, a fantastic rental chain. There were a few multi-story ones in the city, their selection was insane.
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Mar 2, 2015 17:18
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Unmature posted:Where the hell did you guys live? All I remember at Blockbuster as a kid were Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes. Florida 
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Mar 2, 2015 18:31
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Unmature posted:Where the hell did you guys live? All I remember at Blockbuster as a kid were Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes. Blockbuster definitely had an animation section into the latter half of the '90s. It was stupid because their policy was to make anything unrated a Youth Restricted Viewing title (which was treated in their system like an R), so all anime was considered equally dangerous. Copies of Tenchi Muyo were stuffed away in the same corner as the rape monster movies.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:15
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I do remember having to go to the far away mall to get fansubbed DBZ tapes. This was way later though, they were only 15 bucks. It was cool to get a random three episode chunk from a saga that wouldn't air here for years and have no idea who any of the characters were.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:18
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Erebus posted:Copies of Tenchi Muyo were stuffed away in the same corner as the rape monster movies. sounds about right
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Mar 2, 2015 19:21
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Unmature posted:Where the hell did you guys live? All I remember at Blockbuster as a kid were Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes. These weren't rental stores, these were general media stores like Suncoast that was 99% DVD's.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:35
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Tae posted:These weren't rental stores, these were general media stores like Suncoast that was 99% DVD's. Mine was a rental store. It was a placed called TNT.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:37
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My Blockbuster had anime, as well as other local places. One day when I was 11 or 12 I figured I'd see what it was all about. To my young mind it made sense to get a good value for my money so I checked running time and rented the longest one first. That happened to be Akira. So the best anime ever was my first. The rest was history and I made it my mission to rent everything everyone had. Nobody had any tentacle porn but I did run across more than a few soft porn and softcore romance anime, End of Summer and Mermaid Scar and I also got to see confusing poo poo like Dog Soldier, and Grave of the Fireflies. I still Akira, Tank Police, and Bubblegum Crisis from time to time. 80s anime is best anime.
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Mar 2, 2015 19:38
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Atlus updated their Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker website with some more information about the game. Seems like there's an easy mode option (no hard mode, sadly),  the ability to skip cutscenes , and new BGMs by Shoji Meguro which probably means something to nerdier people.
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Mar 3, 2015 05:52
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shoji meguro is the composer for every SMT game (persona included) so its' just saying that they didnt get some intern to do the new songs
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Mar 3, 2015 06:04
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Endorph posted:shoji meguro is the composer for every SMT game (persona included) so its' just saying that they didnt get some intern to do the new songs He wasn't for SMT4, which is why the soundtrack for SMT4 was mostly forgettable.
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Mar 3, 2015 06:26
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Unmature posted:Where the hell did you guys live? All I remember at Blockbuster as a kid were Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z VHS tapes. All I had growing up was a family owned chain called Video Club. They were the first in town to get in on the VHS boom of the late 80s and rented out high end audio/video equipment. I'm pretty sure one of the owners was a basement nerd because the anime shelf was impressive as hell. Had fansubs, too. I saw my first anime from there, the 1989 City Hunter movie. Then I went down the deep end with Wicked City. Then I fell off the earth when I saw my first hentai (which I'm pretty sure didn't have a warning on the box). Can't remember the name but it was about two witches that needed to gently caress this guy to get a passing grade in witch school. I wonder how many basement anime nerds ma and pa rental places created. e: I rented the Sega CD from them. $20 for the weekend plus a $50 deposit so I could play Lunar. Ended up renting the Dreamcast as well.
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Mar 3, 2015 06:28
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Man I wonder what the mom and pop video store owners are all doing nowadays. 
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Mar 3, 2015 06:43
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Somehow they're still open in my town but I'm 100% positive they're fronts for illegal poo poo. I get a serious Black Books vibe too because the owners are all curmudgeonly and there's a 99% chance a used bookstore is next to them.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:01
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Atelier Shallie comes out in a week I'm excited
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Mar 4, 2015 06:46
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Cake Attack posted:Atelier Shallie comes out in a week
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Mar 4, 2015 08:01
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i love march because for the past couple years an atelier game has come out in march and i don't realize it's nearly out until like a week before hand and I don't have to wait, it's just a great game out of nowhere also speaking of gust why does ar tonelico have such good music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSUaKHRz44 this should not be the ost of the titty anime game
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Mar 4, 2015 08:55
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Maybe I'll actually finish this one instead of getting halfway through and going eh, nah.
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Mar 4, 2015 08:55
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Cake Attack posted:also speaking of gust why does ar tonelico have such good music? Whatever other flaws they have, all Gust games tend to have good music, and they went all-out on the Ar Tonelico franchise since music is a major plot and gameplay element of those.
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Mar 4, 2015 09:09
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Ar Tonelico is guilty pleasure trash.
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Mar 4, 2015 09:15
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i never got into ar tonelico but boy do i love the music
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Mar 4, 2015 09:17
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Oreshika is cool.
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Mar 4, 2015 09:20
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i would go to bat for ar tonelico 2 as a good game with some dumb but fairly ignorable moments 1 is bland and 3 is  tho
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Mar 4, 2015 09:23
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Endorph posted:i would go to bat for ar tonelico 2 as a good game with some dumb but fairly ignorable moments
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Mar 4, 2015 09:27
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Oreshika is cool. Tell me more, with your soothing voice.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Tell me more, with your soothing voice. First impressions are that it's a little confusing, with certain things that you can do from the start not actually explained until later, the framerate reaches Vita Altier levels on some dungeons and when certain abilities in combat are used which sucks. You can scan your face to be animefied for your clan head that all of your decendants will share features from, which I think is funny/cool. You can choose to have your little weasel girl assistant do all the heavy lifting when it comes to planning out each month, I'm not sure if this is a bad thing to do or not but it makes the game alot less daunting at least so far. You can take pictures at locations in dungeons too for some reason. Here's my clan head and his two brothers chillin. 
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My character married a goddess and we had a brown skinned kid with red hair. Neither of us are dark skinned or have red hair...I think I need to talk to her about this.
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