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Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Sumire Uesaka is the bee's knees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZD2A5mQZSI

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Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
you don't need to play chaos;child (or is it chaos;head?) to play steins;gate, right?

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Nah. It's at best a thematic connection.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Acerbatus posted:

you don't need to play chaos;child (or is it chaos;head?) to play steins;gate, right?
Well one of these is an obscurity and the other is one of the biggest anime of the 2010s, so

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
yeah every other science adventure vn is kinda just like. something you can read if you have interest. but you don't really, have to

scary ghost dog
Aug 5, 2007
the war commentary in tanya the evil reminds me of a somehow less subtle fullmetal alchemist

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

i cant wait for photon melodies!!!!


....i hope the stuff that isnt altered fable isnt dogshit!!!!

Aurora
Jan 7, 2008

are the other not steins gate things not good

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Captain Invictus posted:

people posting about their first experiences with anime reminded me of this chestnut from back in the day

Back in I wanna say 1999 or 2000, on a very basic craigslist-esque site called Bartertown where people traded MTG cards and warhammer figures, I traded a bunch of shittily-painted warhammer fantasy figures for a bunch of "random" anime VHS tapes and playstation 1 games. I got Alundra, Thousand Arms, Legend of Legaia, and a couple other games in the trade, as well as VHS tapes of Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2, an anime with busty cop ladies with a very 80s or 90s aesthetic that iirc started with a bunch of people storming the precinct and brutally mercing a bunch of people? I think that was the one, I may be conflating that with a different series though. And a tape of some old mech anime with women pilots and the biggest drat thighs on a mech suits I've ever seen. and lastly a bootleg VHS tape of some sailor moon hentai that just had "SAILOR MOON" scrawled on it that I gave to my sister because she was super into sailor moon and I thought she might want it. Mom was not happy with the guy sending porn to children, and also wasn't too thrilled by the lady cop one that had people getting brutally murdered on screen, so I had to go through her whenever I wanted to trade with people on Bartertown after that.

Oh and he also included the entirety of the Gargoyles cartoon in gloriously lovely 144p on over four dozen CDRs, which, like, okay sure why not

I hope you have enjoyed my story

In 2004 I downloaded the entire original run of FMA on a torrent which needed my computer to stay on for more than a WEEK

It took so long I burned it all to CDRs which ended up getting passed around highschool. I should have probably charged for that lol. CDRs held 700mb and each fit 3-4 episodes so it was like, a massive stack of them for the whole series.

We used to watch Naruto weekly back then too. On weekends We’d all go to a friends house that had a bunch of extra computers so we could play Warcraft 3 or something and GameCube Smash on the tv and we would download the latest 50MB episode of naruto from a weird fan site with direct downloads of naruto episodes

scary ghost dog
Aug 5, 2007
never got to watch much anime as a kid but i got a subscription to shonen jump around the initial print premiere of yu gi oh and i got a gangan subscription to read fullmetal alchemist every month

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Aurora posted:

are the other not steins gate things not good
I haven't read any of them but I remember the Chaos Head and Robotics Notes adaptations being bad or boring

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Aurora posted:

are the other not steins gate things not good

the other adaptations are generally bad though occultic;nine has some cool episodes, the vns i've heard mixed stuff about. generally that they have interesting stuff but s;g is just the most well put together. some people like chaos;head

The Colonel fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jul 16, 2020

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Dangerous Person posted:

The booklet that came with the Megalo Box blu ray is super nice. Full of concept art and interviews and such

shame about the ending, it was a fun series while it lasted

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Every time I see the name Megalo Box I think of Medaka Box.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I remember people being down on RoboticsNotes, but I've seen some people holding a torch for the VNs ever since they got locs announced.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

chumbler posted:

Every time I see the name Megalo Box I think of Medaka Box.
every time i see the name megalo box i think mega blox

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

I think of Globox from Rayman

Captain Cappy
Aug 7, 2008

Medabots.

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




Im gonna do it.

Im gonna watch Welcome to the NHK finally.

e: Dub or sub or does it matter for this one?

Furnaceface fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jul 16, 2020

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Man Dosanko Gyaru sucks now.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/961234/1

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Furnaceface posted:

Im gonna do it.

Im gonna watch Welcome to the NHK finally.

hell yeah

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Furnaceface posted:

Im gonna do it.

Im gonna watch Welcome to the NHK finally.
stay safe

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lukako is really cute and I think the mc is in denial about being gay for him

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




This show has swearing.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
wasn't ruka an option in a recent steins;gate dating game spinoff or something

kind of a cool thing to do

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Colonel posted:

wasn't ruka an option in a recent steins;gate dating game spinoff or something

kind of a cool thing to do

Yes, and I'm 99% sure he's got a paired ending in Steins;gate itself.

The main character is totally insufferable in an entertaining way, everyone else seems alright so far.

Acerbatus fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Jul 16, 2020

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Ruka does get a paired ending in the original but that's in the timeline where they were born female.

No idea how they handle it in the date sim spinoff

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Furnaceface posted:

Im gonna do it.

Im gonna watch Welcome to the NHK finally.

e: Dub or sub or does it matter for this one?

It's really preference on this one. I would say overall the subs are probably better, since the performance of the english VAs is all over the place in quality, but Chris Patton does a fantastic job as the main character Satou, and us even better than the Japanese Seiyuu in my opinion.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Waffleman_ posted:

GKIDS announced the First dub cast today, so they're definitely set to release it this year. The real question is whether they'll do their usual theatrical release, go for an online premiere, or just go straight to BD and digital.

It was a pretty good list. I think Richard Epcar's worked on the franchise before. I know Michelle Ruff voiced Fujiko before.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Motto posted:

I remember people being down on RoboticsNotes, but I've seen some people holding a torch for the VNs ever since they got locs announced.
Robotics;Notes has direct connections to s;g so people were expecting something more like it, but r;n is mostly its own thing tonally.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

S;G has a bunch of nods to C;H (any time they mention Shibuya or FES basically) but they're really not important. C;H doesn't even have an official English release.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
IIRC Mages teased that they might do CHNoah in English at some point but that was a couple years ago now

also, on the subject of My Darling's Embrace and Luka

quote:

Luka’s Steins;Gate: My Darling’s Embrace route seems like it would be one that could be difficult to approach. How did you ensure that the writing in it came together as well it did and was sensitive to his identity? Were you concerned about how his storyline would be received?

Elliot Gay: So I actually handled Luka’s route in Darling, and yeah, I kind of knew going in that it would be difficult. The problem you run into with characters like Luka is that you’ll have comments in the JP script that aren’t meant to be read as offensive or problematic, but that read as such in English. Making the reader feel that way is not the intent of the Japanese in those cases, so the issue is how to find words that carry the same meaning without all the unnecessary, mean-spirited/bigoted baggage they might carry in English.

Luka is a wonderful, wonderful character, and I truly felt his route in My Darling’s Embrace was one of the more touching ones, so I did a lot of talking with non-binary friends and family about language and what was concerned the proper way to phrase certain things. I think there’s always a concern over how storylines like his will be received, but I had faith in the original Japanese script.

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet

Tunicate posted:

shame about the ending, it was a fun series while it lasted

I was cool with the ending. I just don't know what a second season of that show is gonna be about

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Dawgstar posted:

It was a pretty good list. I think Richard Epcar's worked on the franchise before. I know Michelle Ruff voiced Fujiko before.

It's basically the cast from parts 2, 4, and 5.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Dangerous Person posted:

I was cool with the ending. I just don't know what a second season of that show is gonna be about
Fallout from their shenanigans at the end of the season, maybe?

Acerbatus
Jun 26, 2020

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

kirbysuperstar posted:

IIRC Mages teased that they might do CHNoah in English at some point but that was a couple years ago now

also, on the subject of My Darling's Embrace and Luka

so far luka seems pretty cool, and his portrayal has a bit more nuance compared to the usual "Otokonoko" thing where it's more played as a joke instead of either a fondness for crossdressing or an ambiguous gender identity.

I guess say, Astolfo in Apocrypha also had a 'fondness for crossdressing' but he did it explicitly as a joke so :shrug:

Acerbatus fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jul 16, 2020

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i wouldn't describe astolfo's character as purely just a joke when it's, how he is across the entire series. sometimes a writer can make a weird joke out of it but mostly astolfo is just how he is

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

Tunicate posted:

shame about the ending, it was a fun series while it lasted

The ending was good

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Acerbatus posted:

I guess say, Astolfo in Apocrypha also had a 'fondness for crossdressing' but he did it explicitly as a joke so :shrug:
not really? it makes astolfo happy so they do it.

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dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

from the standpoint of wanting the characters' actions to make some tangible impact on wider society, it's a bit disappointing

but it delivers on an ending that works for the characters and doesn't retread AnJ just because it was created in commemoration of it :shrug:

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