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Tenchi Muyou 3?
randomErr write: "AIC, the people who did the good Tenchi episodes, has announced here that they are doing another series. They haven't said if it would be a based on the OVA series or a continuation of Tenchi in Tokyo. BTW, if you can't read Japanese, Click Here for a bad translation by Anime News Network." You guys know about Tenchi, right? It's about the high school kid that meets up with a demon, and the creepy 700-year-old mummy morphs into a girl space pirate? I love anime.
Tenchi Muyo: 6:00pm PST on Cartoon Network
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That would be really cool. I am chemically addicted to Tenchi Muyo; it easily rates as the best anime I've ever seen. Hell, it's probably the best thing I've ever seen on video, anime or no..Hopefully if there is a new series, it will be more along the lines of the OAV (or at least the first TV series) rather than Tenchi in Tokyo, which was somewhat painful to watch.
Of course, the movie Tenchi Forever was billed as the last chapter in the series', and it will be hard to live up to those standards (the last few scenes were just incredible; just ended everything perfectly).
So I can add it to my exclusion list? I don't care for it, and 'Japanese company to make another cartoon' isn't very newsworthy, even on a slow news day. How about Cartoon Network to make Powerpuff Girls movie? Don't remember that one passing by.
That was such a grossly silly and utterly uninformed assessment of anime that it'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic to read it here on Slashdot, a place where people didn't used to accept journalistic fud. But times change.
The medium is not the message, nor vice versa. You can express any message in any medium, and I don't hear you say "[film/Internet/TV] is child porn" despite the fact that each of these mediums occasionally features an item with those qualities. And so it is with anime. The vast majority of it doesn't even feature sex, let alone with children, so your remarks are utterly ridiculous.
But if you still have an open mind, let the medium itself do the convincing. Watch the wonderfully produced DVD set Tenchi Muyo Ultimate Edition (a hilarious comedy with wonderful characters) and the Ghost in the Shell DVD (a beautiful and pensive thriller), and try to find a trace of child porn in them.
Having said that, if a person sees children in films and instantly thinks "child porn" then maybe it's time to wonder not about the films but about the person that's watching them. Under that kind of skewed judgement, all anime, all of childrens' TV and a hell of a lot of other things are also tarred. It's a ridiculous assessment.
The medium isn't the message.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
Nerds like mecha design, and traditionally anime features a lot of it, or at least the large SF sub-genre does. It's quite pervasive, from nano to mega gadgets and worlds and universes, to the mechanization of the mind and soul, as well as advanced science as magic.
But yes, those that don't relate to anime ought to be able to filter it out.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
First of all, not anime is equal. That's sort of like saying "Western Live-action Shows" are all the same. Last time I checked, WWF != Touched By An Angel != Baywatch. Get a clue, and don't condemn the ways of foreign lands before looking at the ways of your own people.
Secondly, have you actually --watched-- Tenchi Muyo? Yes, some of the girls are hot. In the uncensored versions, they are even naked (not any degree of detail, thoguh) when they take a baths.
(Cartoon Network simply paints bathing suits over on them.) More often then not, it is a device to get nosebleed comedy out of Tenchi, and not done out of lustful desires of animators. Besides that, there is nothing wrong with the naked body. I'm sorry you have trouble understanding it, but when you have statements issued by the Pope (who I consider far more christian and understanding of the ways of the world than you might ever hope to be), there is absolutely nothing wrong with the human body in any state of nakedness, however, when it is lusted after outside of marriage (and inside marriage in extreme cases), that is when there is a problem.
You even seem to think that stories that include themes of violence serve no purpose and should be condemned by Westerners. First, you should probably burn your copy of the bible, because you will only get a few pages into it when you read of murder in the story of Cain and Able. Considering that much of Western society is based on teachings and lessons from the bible such as the ones brought up by said story, do you really have __ANY__ position to judge the "moral-less" people of the East? I doubt it. In fact, violence is very rarely rewarded in any for of anime I've seen, except for the perverted type, which you really have to actively hunt for if you want to find any of it anyway. Otherwise, most anime still plays out like more of the Western shows and movies should. It's generally obvious who the heros and villians are, and in the "WWF" of Anime, Dragonball Z, you can hardly count the number of times Goku grants mercy to the villian and gives them a second chance to live their life.
I'm sorry, but I just had to correct you blatant lack of clue.
BTW, I believe that anyone who commits violence and rape have a genetic disposition for it and no fear for the law. Media has very little effect on decisions that flawed. I believe western punishment should be a bit more like that of the east, sans tendencies to punish those who are not quite proven guilty.
This has been news in Japan for quite a long time now, and anyone who visits virtualy any Tenchi Muyo website that features an epsiode listing would know this.
Cheers!
This is just OVA episodes 13-18.
There are also 3 Tenchi movies. In English, they are called Tenchi Muyo in Love, Tenchi Muyo 2: The Daughters of Darkness, and Tenchi Forever. They are all good, but my personal favorite was Tenchi Forever, since it was in my opinion the one that dealt with issues of love and sexuality in the most mature fashion.
The women of Tenchi are each worth a book in themselves, and it would take too long to list them here, but I'll put in a plug for my favorite, Ryoko the silver-haired asskicking space pirate.
Both the dubbed and subtitled versions of the Tenchi material is good (although I don't like the English actor who does Tenchi's voice.) The American actor who dubs Ryoko is fabulous. On this topic, by the way, I have written an article discussing why I prefer dubs to subtitled animé movies when the dubs are good quality. If you take a look, please let me know what you think!
"I am MOOOOJOOOO JOJO. And once the Powerpuff Movie that is being made will be released after it is finished filming, the film that is being filmed, then I will go to the theater and purchase a ticket for one to see the Powerpuff Movie, and the one ticket that I have purchased will be used for my admittance so I can see the movie. I will then proceed to go into the theater to see the Powerpuff Movie and NOT the new Charlie's Angels movie and NOT the new Cheerleader movie, that peice of crap about the cheerleaders at a competition, however, I will proceed to enter the Powerpuff theater and walk into the doors, which will be opened, for if they are not, than I shall open them so they will be opened......"
Sigh.
Anime is not a genre purely intended for children. Anime is just another way of making films and TV shows in Japan. The genre ranges from kids shows to.. um.. definitely not for kids shows. While there are a number of rather sick movies that no one in Japan would think are appropriate for children, they are, by far, not the majority of what is on TV and in the rental stores.
It's also worth noting that the Japanese read comics, known as manga, well into adulthood. It's just another media to them, like TV and novels. I think you should do well to remember that the earliest cartoons in America weren't targetted to children at all. The creators of Bugs Bunny were targetting adults when they were making their cartoons, not kids.
However, the Japanese portrayals of violence are starkly different from American ones, and I believe this is related to the radically lower levels of violent crime in Japan. Violence in anime is often shown with the full context of its consequences. Murder is not censored as it is in America, because the Japanese choose to show what happens afterwards. It establishes just how far the villians are willing to go, and it shows the wreckage and ruinage that violence leaves in its path.
Maybe the Japanese can deal with this kind of disturbing imagery, but for us in the West this is nothing more than a primer for violence and rape [...]
Its funny you mention that since the rates of violent crime, rape, child molestation, and teen pregnancy in Japan are far, far lower than in America and even than in large parts of Europe. It seems that we're the ones doing things wrong, doesn't it?
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
And your comments make no sense when applied to my post :)
"Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki Third series. Listen to the fans cry out for it! Tenchi fans gave us their thoughts with 1500 reader questionnaires. We are investigating the status of this new series."
I still haven't seen anything even semi-official that this will be a TV series rather than an OVA, just the rumors on the internet, but I could live with 9 hours more of the OVA continuity. That would make up for Shin Tenchi/Tenchi in Tokyo, which was utter tripe in comparison to either of the other two series. (Well, the first LD set box had pretty good cover art of Ryoko. But that was about it.)
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KDE Ryoko Theme
All I really did was take Ryoko art from the Web and create a bunch of configuration files to map it to the K Desktop Environment, so I don't deserve much credit. The real credit goes to Cabbit.com where there are a lot of Ryoko pictures available for download (and which I have no involvement with at all except to think it is a cool site.
I'm glad that the reports of Tenchi's demise were "greatly exagerated," I only hope this movie will be as good as the first Tenchi OAV series.
"So," said Ryoko, as she prepared to blast Tenchi to smithereens.
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
This isn't a slam on America, by the way. We started with a pretty much empty slate a couple of centuries ago and as nations go we're still in our youth. Culturally we didn't have the best upbringing (Puritans, bleh) so it'll take a few centuries before we've settled down to the same sort of relaxed and mellow vibe that you get anywhere in the older cultures like Europe and Japan. Time will tell whether aging will turn America into a fine wine or a vinegar.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
It's vastly oversimplyifying things to place the blame for all that simply on cartoons.
Oh, I'm not. In fact, I'd say it's the reverse in action. Their culture's emphasis on responsibility for one's actions is probably the primary reason that they portray violence in that fashion. Of course, they also often have good ol' cartoony violence where someone bonks someone over the head with a fatally heavy object and tears just stream from the victim's eyes, but that's known to be comic exaggeration. Such behavior in real life would be considered unacceptable, but it's funny for the extreme personalities in anime to do it.
I've taken Japanese, and some of their cultural constructs -- responsibility, in-group/out-group mentality, and levels of politeness -- are drilled into their language itself. It seems to be that it'd be much easier to instill a group ethic in children when your language doesn't distinguish between singular and plural. One is just the smallest group.
Culturally we didn't have the best upbringing (Puritans, bleh) so it'll take a few centuries before we've settled down to the same sort of relaxed and mellow vibe that you get anywhere in the older cultures like Europe and Japan. Time will tell whether aging will turn America into a fine wine or a vinegar.
I'd just like to comment that like the analogy here. Don't completely knock the Puritans, though. Our country was founded by their descendants, and much of the reason for the First Amendment comes from their reactions to religious oppression (even though they did a little themselves).
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
You have a trailing 'u' in the title.
Don't try to correct spellings, when you don't know a thing about Romanization. Japanese pronunciation includes what is known as long vowels. When a mora (Japanese syllable) is followed by a repitition of the vowel component (i.e. o-ka-a-sa-n), the vowel sound is held for twice as long. By default, all Japanese mora are pronounced just as fast as each other.
This means that there is a difference between obasan (aunt) and obaasan (grandmother). The Japanese vowels are a, i, u, e, o (Ah, Ee, Oo, Ay, Oh). Combinations like 'ai,' 'ue,' and 'au' make sounds like 'Aye,' 'Oo-Eh,' and 'Ah-oo' (or Ow as in Chow). However, 'ei' and 'ou' are a long 'e' and a long 'o'. In fact, a long 'o' is more commonly spelled 'ou' than 'oo,' and a long 'e' is more commonly spelled 'ei'.
Now for Romanization. Muyou, or "a lack of need for," would be spelled differently under different romanization methods. Most romanization methods would have you spell it either "muyou" or "muyo" with a bar over the "o." Since it's hard for people to type the "o" with a bar over it, which is the most common way of spelling a long "o," people drop it.
However, this is incorrect. This spelling would confuse "muko" (bridgegroom) with "mukou" (beyond) and "oki" (open sea) with "ookii" (large). Few people would drop double consonants (which I haven't covered here), but many drop double vowels. The correct way to handle it is indeed the way that they did for the site. "Muyou" captures the actual pronunciation and kana spelling of "mu" (nothingness) and "you" (use).
Side note, tenchimuyou is also how you say "this side up," or "do not turn over."
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Maybe this is why I stopped watching TV. Leave it to my dumb luck to turn on the telly for the first time in three months and see that.
If I ever see anything I really love on American TV, like Shinseiki Evangelion or Serial/Visual Experiments Lain, I'm throwing the TV out the window and moving to the UK. Hey, otaku, remember when we were just another breed of comic-book freaks? Ahhhh, those were the days... I never had to worry about it gaining "acceptance" (if you can really call the whirlwind rape and pillage that is a 90's American fad "acceptance") . . .
And FYI, Taco, you dumbfuck, Ryoko never "morphed" into anything. You just saw the first half of the first episode, right? Don't try and sound familiar with someting you're not. You're starting to sound like Katz. What's up?
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I like to watch.
Seems like a post of a deliberately inflammitory nature against the topic of a discussion group. I believe that's the very definition of a troll.
While I do watch a lot of anime, I also recognize Sturgeon's Law in effect. However, the poster didn't site any examples. He just made a blanket assertion that seemed intended to offend people in the way only ignorant blanket assertions can. That he did it as an AC instead of being willing to take the karma as it can shows that he knew it would be found offensive.
By the way, do you even know what censorship is? The whole point of the moderation system is that nothing is censored. Posts never get pulled off of Slashdot articles. They are just subjected to peer evaluation. If you want to read every post, they are all still available for viewing. However, if you are willing to set the threshhold a little higher and trust your peers to raise the signal-to-noise ratio, then it's your own doing that block you from seeing them. Browse at -1 if you want to read it all or don't. Just don't accuse moderators of "censorship" when it clearly isn't.
Fah. I bet you'd accuse of scientific journals of censorship for bothering to check the research before posting any crackpot theory that gets submitted.
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Here's my translation of a few bits. The stuff on the middle right of the cover picture says:
"Tenchi Muyou!"
A new publication enters the stage!!
700-year Ravaazu (Lovers?) 3
The bit right below the small picture of the cast relaxing on the beach says:
A "Tenchi Muyou! Ryo-oh-ki" original comic, "700 year Ravaazu (Lovers?)" (I can't find a translation of the "chiba jirou" on picture or immediately following this.)
It will be a biographical comic that once again searches the world of "Tenchi Muyou!". Even though it is early/soon [to say so], [it is in] the middle of a rise in popularity. (Then after that, I can't even guess at what the katakana's supposed to say. "Karaa 4 P & Monokuro 28 P")
It sounds to me like they're just running an original comic series in their magazine. No new anime series, I'm afraid. I haven't gotten into the text next to the picture of Ryouko or the text at the bottom with the various cast members.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I am the writer of the Tenchi Muyo FAQ's. They are finished, just not posted yet. If someone will look here later, I will post them. The spoiler pages (which was also maintained by me) is gone for right now, until I post more.