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It's been ages since I've delved into manga, but Monster was my definite favorite series that I read. Beyond the story and the characters I really loved the pacing. Every chapter seemed to end on a high note or cliffhanger* without things being needlessly dragged out. Back then it soured me a little on every weekly series that didn't have an end even remotely in sight. I never bothered with the anime because how was it ever going to be remotely close to that fantastic experience? I'm saddened to hear that they didn't release the entire series tho. *not really cliffhangers when you can binge the whole thing, but you know what I mean
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The anime wasn't quite on par of course, but it stuck to the source material like glue and is still a step above for it. Comics are a bit freer in terms of budget and pacing and like you said, Monster as a manga was gorgeously honed in on being a page turner. I even bought that first volume at the height of my teen "all my media must be cute" phase and still devoured it in an hour. Plus Urasawa just really nails the perfect expressions for each panel.  It's a manga I really want to recommend to Western comic fans but drat if it isn't hard to get around that stigma.
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Das Boo posted:The anime wasn't quite on par of course, but it stuck to the source material like glue and is still a step above for it. Comics are a bit freer in terms of budget and pacing and like you said, Monster as a manga was gorgeously honed in on being a page turner. I even bought that first volume at the height of my teen "all my media must be cute" phase and still devoured it in an hour. Plus Urasawa just really nails the perfect expressions for each panel. Those new collections they've been putting out for the last couple years are absolutely worth it. Big investment now, but I got each of them as they came out and could not wait for the next volume each time.
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Robindaybird posted:Honestly, even for Anime - Winter is always a weak season, but it looks positively dire this time. Little Witch Academia is the only promising one and who knows when Netflix will put that up. the kyoani monster girls show (wait why are you running? stop!) looks like it will actually be pretty decent, the madhouse ACCA show looks like it will at least be decent, potentially better than that, the second season of the rakugo show will probably be good. then maybe one or two of the other things will be watchable
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Unmature posted:Those new collections they've been putting out for the last couple years are absolutely worth it. Big investment now, but I got each of them as they came out and could not wait for the next volume each time. Oh hell, I got my complete set during their first US run. I could not keep out of that poo poo! This last Christmas I just finished out my 20th Century Boys collection and I'll have an easy wrap up with Pluto. It's good to know they're still publishing Monster though, in the very likely event one of my volumes fall apart. I started buying them... It was 13 years ago now. 
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Probably because I watched the sub first, and also because I'm not American, but I loathe the dub on Cowboy Bebop. I can't stand more than 10 seconds of it because I like CB so much and the dub destroys the characterisation in the Japanese voice track.
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Das Boo posted:A part of me hopped at one time this was because of licensing issues with Del Toro developing it as an HBO series. Which wow, I thought that might actually happen at some point. I managed to catch its one run on Sci-Fi which was nice, because it was extremely my mom's poo poo and she has trouble with the right-to-left manga format. Nah, this was years before the HBO series was a thing. They released the first DVD set and it sold like garbage, so they didn't release the rest of the series. It used to be on iTunes, but not anymore.
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Das Boo posted:Oh hell, I got my complete set during their first US run. I could not keep out of that poo poo! This last Christmas I just finished out my 20th Century Boys collection and I'll have an easy wrap up with Pluto. It's good to know they're still publishing Monster though, in the very likely event one of my volumes fall apart. I started buying them... The first time I read 20th Century Boys I did it in about four days. So, so good.
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Waffleman_ posted:Monster is so good, but Viz has given up on it in the west, so it's not legally available anywhere. Gotta go that deep web that daaaark web. Man I wish someone would animate glass shark ThePlague-Daemon fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Aw man why isn't A Ghufi Movie out on bluray :\
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my friends... in a way we are all naked
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Moon Atari posted:I also got roped into seeing Sing, it was what I expected it to be, but I was surprised that the reaction by the kids in the audience seemed so unenthusiastic. The only laughter was to the fart joke. The real reaction was to the five seconds of minions in the trailer to Despicable Me 3. Kids were screaming in ecstasy, doing flips, one kid does a victory lap of the cinema. They really love those things hey.
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Hedrigall posted:Aw man why isn't A Ghufi Movie out on bluray :\ Right? What the hell, Disney. Will Smith would probably play the mouse in Dumbo if anyone. Though my dream casting would be Kevin Hart. No CGI needed. Just put some ears and a hat on him.
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:http://deadline.com/2017/01/will-smith-dumbo-tim-burton-disney-movie-bad-boys-for-life-1201883196/ Will Smith is gonna voice the racist crows
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lmao, how could they have released this thing? Since when does hermione have freckles lol.
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Moon Atari posted:lmao, how could they have released this thing? Since when does hermione have freckles lol. Why'd you photoshop it? The original is perfectly bad.
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Dumbo will be a man and animal story where Will Smith takes care of the Dumbo after being seperated from his mother. 
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The live-action remakes sometimes make sense like The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella. Not to mention that there were live-action versions before Disney's anyways. Dumbo would sort of make sense as a CGI remake, but a live-action/animated hybrid horrifies me. Even the CGI isn't blasphemy since Walt remade a few cartoons (like Orphan's Benefit and The Ugly Duckling). The only reason it would even be worth it is that the remake is that radically different. Which will happen since Dumbo is barely over an hour long. You'd think they'd opt to do Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, or even The Rescuers first.
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I'm pretty sure they are doing Aladdin. Swear I heard about it in the last thread.
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In this version, they flip everything and make sure there's no message, like with The Jungle Book. In this case, Dumbo learns to fly and then instead of the French copying his design for bombers, he himself becomes a bomber, and personally delivers payload after payload of firestart over the civilian neighborhoods of Dresden
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Pick posted:In this version, they flip everything and make sure there's no message, like with The Jungle Book. In this case, Dumbo learns to fly and then instead of the French copying his design for bombers, he himself becomes a bomber, and personally delivers payload after payload of firestart over the civilian neighborhoods of Dresden A Trump era hero
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Egbert Souse posted:You'd think they'd opt to do Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty well Maleficent already happened and apparently both Aladdin and The Little Mermaid are in the wings if Beauty and the Beast is a hit After seeing recent stills for Beauty and the Beast I am more interested in it than I thought I would be, at least as far as costume design goes because I am in love with Gaston's red jacket 
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Aces High posted:well Maleficent already happened and apparently both Aladdin and The Little Mermaid are in the wings if Beauty and the Beast is a hit Oh, I completely forgot about Maleficent. To Disney's credit, it's actually a terrific film and exactly how a remake ought to be handled. Cinderella was great, too. I'm hesitant about Beauty since the animated film isn't that great in my opinion. I saw it again after not seeing it since I was a kid and it really doesn't hold up well. And Gaston's voice... (Though, I'm biased since I think Cocteau's film is a masterpiece)
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Pick posted:In this version, they flip everything and make sure there's no message, like with The Jungle Book. In this case, Dumbo learns to fly and then instead of the French copying his design for bombers, he himself becomes a bomber, and personally delivers payload after payload of firestart over the civilian neighborhoods of Dresden I'm sorry, are you trying to cast shade on Jungle Book and this theoretical version of Dumbo or are you trying to sell me on it
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Egbert Souse posted:Oh, I completely forgot about Maleficent. To Disney's credit, it's actually a terrific film and exactly how a remake ought to be handled. Cinderella was great, too. so this is what it means to be... triggered
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My sister sat me down to watch Frozen Fever and all of the animated shorts on the disc and had no idea Disney did John Henry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuNckYmnkC0 Rent all 7 minutes of it Ondemand for two american dollars Edit: Oh Yeah, It Was pretty awesome.
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Pick posted:so this is what it means to be... triggered my favorite part of that post is at the end he bashfully admits to thinking Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast is a masterpiece, like that's weird or something
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Egbert Souse posted:Oh, I completely forgot about Maleficent. To Disney's credit, it's actually a terrific film No it's not.
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Aces High posted:After seeing recent stills for Beauty and the Beast I am more interested in it than I thought I would be, at least as far as costume design goes because I am in love with Gaston's red jacket Jesus christ Egbert Souse posted:I'm hesitant about Beauty since the animated film isn't that great in my opinion. I saw it again after not seeing it since I was a kid and it really doesn't hold up well. And Gaston's voice... Oh my god
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My Disney playlist on shuffle is loving amazing for getting through a dreary work day before Switchmas tonight. I just went from Hellfire to You Know Who You Are (from Moana) to Hakuna Matata
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Hedrigall posted:My Disney playlist on shuffle is loving amazing for getting through a dreary work day before Switchmas tonight. I just went from Hellfire to You Know Who You Are (from Moana) to Hakuna Matata Dang, I just realised that Moana is structurally a palindrome.
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Shadow Hog posted:MoanaoM I think she's saying the plot has a mirrored structure, because yeah, that's the first thing I thought too.
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Fangz posted:Dang, I just realised that Moana is structurally a palindrome. Could you clarify what you mean? I'm a bit curious but don't quite get it.
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