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Princess Mononoke Delayed.. To Add Japanese!
Dark Paladin writes: "It seems that Disney has had a change of mind (er, wallet) after hearing about the 4500 online signatures (and more on the way) regarding the DVD version of Princess Mononoke. You can read the official press release sent to DVD stores here. All I can say is: proof that sometimes The Man listens." This is very cool.
The last post was an accident... sorry!
Minor corrections and addendums, I think my info is correct as I own most of the titles listed ('cept Pokey & Akira)
El Hazard The Magnificent World 1 is on 4 VHS tapes, not 5. Seven eps total, one on the first volume, two on the following. The first one is as long as two of all the others, except the last one is a little longer. There are two TV series and an additional OAV series, IMO they pale to the original, the same way for Tenchi. Done by most of the same people too.
Escaflowne will be on 8 DVDs as far as I can tell. The present tapes are subtitled only. I can only expect the worst, pray for the best on the dub job, it will go to FOX Kids as noted elsewhere.
Ghost in the Shell Akira, Kiki and Totoro are theatrical movies running at about 90 minutes each, they are not episodic.
Grave of the Fireflies is also available on DVD.
Serial Experiments Lain has 13 episodes.
The mention of Evangelion is missing the movies, which there are several edits, and are mostly intended as a clarification of the last two episodes which apparently those two pissed so many fans off. There is a final edit of the EVA movies, known to us as "Revival of Evangelion" I believe.
For newer stuff, Trigun and Cowboy BeBop seem to be popular. Anything Lupin is hillarious and madcap insanity. Some people _really_ like Slayers, it's not my personal style.
For fantasy, presently the best I've seen is Record of Lodoss War. The OAV set is on DVD, the TV series will be in a few months.
I think the Anime subject addition was a good idea. That way some people can choose not to have it show up on their page. Another incentive for AC's to login...
A few additional titles that are quite fun:
Humour:
Irresponsible Captain Tyler
The City Hunter series
Dragon Half
More serious:
The "Patlabor" series
How nice of the gracious multinational corporation (as well as MPAA member) to allow us to fill their wallets in exchange for media we can only use on their draconian terms, further assisting them in their tyrannical court fight! Proof that execs really can be reasonable.
Let's see, things like Star Trek, comic books, computer games, Lego Mindstorms sets, the latest high-tech toys and gadgets, science-fiction, etc etc, are all universally embraced by geeks, often with a bit of pride to boot. Yet whenever an anime topic pops up on Slashdot we have some geeks here sincerely dismissing it as childish, stupid, dorky, etc etc.
Yes, there is awful anime out there, but there are also awful computer programs, Star Trek movies, useless gadgets, etc etc. For a geek to be so blindly dismissive towards anime smacks of hypocrisy; to adopt the same narrow mindset found in mainstream society that derides geeks as inept social misfits stuck in childhood. How Nietzsche.
After all, aren't geeks supposed to pride themselves as being more inquisitive, playful, and willing to experiment, no matter how supposedly "stupid" or "worthless" the subject may appear be? Aren't geeks supposed to be above proving how "cool" and "macho" they are, above tearing down others because they are different and "wierd"?
Don't slam anime unless you're willing to slam all the other geek hobbies on the same criteria.
Younger:
Kiki's Delivery Service (1 episode, vhs)
My Friend Totoro (1 episode, vhs)
Pokemon (tv)
Drama:
Macross Plus (4 episodes, 2dvds)
Grave of the Fireflies (1 episode, vhs)
Serial Experiments Lain (14 episodes, 4dvds)
Action:
Ghost in the Shell (1 episode, vhs)
Bubblegum Crisis (8 episodes, 3dvds, tape)
Akira (1 episode, vhs)
Random Highly Recommended:
If you can find these...
Escaflowne (7 vhs)
El Hazard (5 vhs)
Evangelion (26 episodes, 13vhs)
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*Pikachu*
It's been said before and I agree -- we really do need a topic just for ANIME. This one doesn't quite fit in topic=TV
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Here is a big company, Disney, trying to release a foreign film DVD into its own market. It is putting in big money in the efforts of selling a piece of work that many customers will fork over money for. But it fails to understand the basic motivations and the demographic that is buying this foreign work.
Whatever happened to market research? Whatever happened to giving your customers what they want? Is this big market giant asleep at the wheel?
It happened that this particular case, the fanatical customers were very vocal. But for your average movie, and your average audience, they are just silent. I guess in such cases, these sheep deserve to be ripped off, right?