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Wow, I learned somthing from this! Nice job on the flash, you had good facts, good humor, good graphics, and great style. But... The sound was really bad. The voices were really soft, so I had to turn the volume wwwwaaayyyy up to hear them.... then came the part of the nucular bomb.... dude it was so loud that my windows almost cracked.... I also had to change my pants!So you might wana fix. Other then that, great movie, I can tell you worked hard on it.
Do'h!
I STILL need to look for AREA 88! Poor Shin... and do you happen to know the name of the one with the human bombs, where they had a star on them (which was the only way to tell they were bombs), and had a team of people that tried to save them? I think they weren't able to save any of the humans, but still, I heard it's good...
FLCL to the Max! (Hey, I was in a "fairly" good dub of it... I was Gaku...bleh XP) you gotta love a series with horns that grow out of a kid's head when he gets hit by a Bass guitar that then become robots which the kid's "Maid" then fights(Is it too clear that I'm trying to get people hooked onto Furi Kuri? Heh...). You GOTTA love Kamon, though... "He's stupid, and it's funny!", a guy explaining why Kamon acts how he does. ^_^ Know anywhere that sells Mazinger Z? I asked my Anime_n_Manga ML, and no one knows of anywhere to get them from. Go 08th MS Team!!!
Area 88 can be bought for only $25 in a two pack that includes Silent Service (also a good anime). As for that human bomb anime, I'm not sure. Sounds familiar though. Mazinger Z is still not avalable in the US, but the spin-off series, Mazinkaiser, just came out on two DVDs. The best people to ask about Mazinger Z would be those who have anime tapes in Italy and France.
It needed to be done, desperately...
Yes indeed.
As I've been dealing with the graphic novel biz for a few years now, please allow me to interject a bit of my unique point of view here.
If you are a capable artists, yet have little or no imagination whatsoever, please resign yourself to simple fan-art or get a job working for someone else! In a single day I run across liquid gobs of horribly unoriginal crap with a modern sugar-coating of cg coloring, masking weak storylines and horribly archetypal characters with genre-appeal and generic pop-flavored artwork. An unfortunate number of "otaku" are simply and sadly, only that. Fans. Fans with little to no ability who, god bless them, continually attempt to burp out "anime" or "manga" which is generally little more than a regurgitation of the watered-down garbage that they've seen on Toonami or Adult Swim.
Which leads to another point. People, please look around out there. After the decline in the late eighties, coinciding with the arcade industry slump, I know anime became scarce(If you don't know what I'm talking about, you were either too young or not paying attention.). And when Evangelion exploded onto American shores, I know you were happy. Anime series were suddenly coming out by the butt-shovel! But just because it uses Doe-eyed girls, mecha designs, and whatever other conventions you aquaint with anime, that doesn't mean it's any good! It's a problem of pop-culture. Some good series will come out. It will be an underground phenom for a while. Then, when pop-culture embraces it, companies begin snapping up similar items as fast as they can get them to market. Even if these similar items suck so horribly that they cause rectal burning, people will buy them, because now, it's "popular", and everyone wants to be with the "popular" crowd. Hence, after EVA, you get Trigun, the Sailor Moon Re-resurgence, Chobits, FLCL, Bebop, enough DB and DBZ to make you puke, Love Hina and on and on, as a new generation embraces their version of their predecessors' entertainment, completely forgeting(or ignoring) it's roots. There are hundreds of series out there to see. Some are even good. You just have to look for them, occasionally overseas.
In summary, if you really like Gundam, or Chobits, or Raxephon(or, god help you, DBZ), that's great, but please, unless you actually have something to say, don't try to tell a story. There's already enough bad anime making it to the U.S. every day. We don't need more.
As a whole, this was very entertaining. The artwork was pretty weak, yes, but it made up for it with content aplenty. I've been waiting to see someone do this, and I'm happy now. Thank you.
Good stuff
not gonna say or pretend to know everything about anime and say I already knew all of that like other assholes. nice job.
Anime, how I love you.
Wow, I know more about anime then I thought. Yea me! You left out a few things, but noting important at all. Nice job. The sound was kinda soft and the drawings got sloppy at a few points, but thats the only reason this didn't get a 10. Now if you excuse me I must watch my Inyasha and Blue Gender. and tomarrow it will be Blue Seed that I'll be watching.....GOD I LOVE ANIME!!!!!!