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News Dragonball Z Starts Today, Plus Anime Bits
Of course DBZ is shunned by the hardcore anime fans, but I enjoy it (20 minutes of soap opera every evening on my tivo *grin*) and have been bored all summer with the reruns. But all that changes today at 5pm when Cartoon Network begins airing the 77 episode Android Saga.
Planet Namek has also confirmed that the remaining 174 DBZ episodes have also been purchased by CN. Also, the very cool site AnimeOnDvd.com has a list of Anime on DVD which includes DBZ, Tenchi, and Battle Athletes (I've recently started rewatching battle athletes while I wait for the next Bebop and Trigun, and I'm enjoying even more the second time through. Super happy fluffy, but highly entertaining). Oh, and Cowboy Bebop #5 is out tomorrow. Yum.
I wouldn't say that. The dub is embarassingly bad (especially that damned opening song), but that hasn't stopped me from watching it. They didn't hack the storyline to pieces like the Fox Escaflowne dub.
I mean, where else can you watch a 3-month fight scene? Remember, it was originally a weekly series.
Hell, just last week (where I'm watching, anyway) there was a 3-episode fireball attack. Where else can you get strung along on one attack like that for so long?
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Hey, where else can we find a show whose episodes consist of:
85% antagonists facing off with occasional yelling
13% jumping towards each other
2% action
All done with about 43 total frames of animation per episode. You gotta admit, they must make this show with pocket change... now that's efficient!
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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If this is a response to the fact this story got put up while others did not, well, all I can say is there are many other sites like this and worse comes to worse you can grab the slashcode and put up your own site with editorial control over the stories.
This is not the way to build a lasting empire.
Anyway.
I recently rented Ghost In The Shell DVD and just finished watching it. Being a big fan of anime, or at least a moderately big one, I was unimpressed. The sound was amazing, the action sequences (what, all three?) were good, but it seemed strung-out, over-long and the music after ten minutes kinda got annoying. I know this is one of those 'top-notch' anime movies, and while I thought Akira was a masterpiece, this seems like some pretty CG and interesting story wrapped around too-long shots of the city and that annoying soundtrack.
What I would like to do is hear what other people's definition of 'good anime'. What makes good anime? What makes DBZ so great? Or so bad? I would love to hear from the thousands of /.'s who regularly watch this sort of thing.
Thanks
Obi
Watch the karma plummet faster than Christina Aguilera on Carson Daly...
By no means is this even close to the upper echelon of anime.
Of course not. I'm not arguing that many anime fans consider it one of the best, just that they watch it anyway.
Despite everybody bitching about how bad it is, most of the guys I talk to who have joined anime watching clubs, get fansubs, and have large personal collections of anime still watch Dragonball Z. After all, it is anime piped conveniently into their homes, even if it is butchered.
People are lazy. 9 times out of 10, they'd rather have hot dogs served to them than go get steak themselves.
I think this is a case of the silent majority acting differently than the highly vocal minority.
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There's quite a bit more, I'm just too lazy to look.
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It seems like the heroes and their enemies reach the ULTIMATE POWER LEVEL in every single episode of DBZ. It's as if the writers want to make every episode have the hugest climax possible.
First of all, being a current CS student (at a seriously good CS school), I can tell you that half the nerds I know are into anime. It's one of those things, like Star Wars and Legos, that just has that "geek cool" to it.
Second, go to your damn preferences and exclude the anime topic if you don't want to hear about it.
Third, read the FAQ, where this exact question is addressed. Slashdot is under no obligation to confine itself to what you find interesting.
Fourth, someone says this for every anime topic that gets posted, so SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY.
What about Batman? I mean before they changed the art style to bring it in line with Superman. But I've never thought it was disputable that that was one of, if not the best, American cartoons out there.
I'm also a big fan of ReBoot. But it's not American. And I'll admit that its quality, as well as its status as a cartoon, are questionable.
In case I'm not on-topic enough for some people, I will say that I disagree with the point that "DBZ... show[s] that the fight between good and evil is far beyond some sucker trying to rule the world just because he was born bad..."
Last time I checked, that's almost exactly ever villain in DBZ. One freaking insane, generally ugly guy after another. And the one's that aren't plum loco end up becoming good guys (cf: Picolo, Vegeta). I enjoy Dragonball a lot. (both the one on Cartoon Network and the one in my Handspring Visor) But I'm not fooled for a second into thinking its and writing are good at all, because they're not. And I'm pretty convinced that it's not a dubbing/editing for American TV problem.
Well, I've just started collecting anime on DVD, and my guess is that it will completely destroy the laser disc and VHS markets within a year. Animeigo has already announced that they're going 100% DVD and I'm guessing others will follow suit. Anime fans tend to be a bit geeky and so have the latest toys like DVD players. Also, there is a huge advantage in including dubbed and subtitled versions on the same DVD. No more mulitple versions. You can even watch the Japanese unsubtitled if you want! (on most discs). Adding other subtitle tracks like French is very easy as well, increasing the market. Plus there's the fact that anime DVD's look awesome on my new XBR400. I doubt I will ever buy another VHS tape of anything. I don't even have my VCR hooked up to the TV anymore.
One of my cousins does voices for shows, commercials, etc. She's doing the voice for a little girl character (I'm not going to say the name here because I honestly don't know what the slimeba^Wlawyers would do) for at least one episode scheduled to air in October.
According to her, doing that first DBZ episode was fun, but it's a seriously weird show. I've seen two episodes, and I have to agree with her. Euch.
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There's a hidden scene in AIKa. If you freeze frame through the scene where she's whirling through the air, you can see her panties! Buy it now before they edit out the panty scene!
They great hting about the way the CN does these shows is that they play the end narration "Will Gku defeat Freeza?!!!!" and then, two seconds later, they display the title of tommorow's episode, which is entitled "Freeza Defeated!" My absolute favorite was the chilled narration about "Did Goku survive the destruction of Planet Namek?" and then: tommorow's ep title: "Goku's ALIVE!"
How many people remember where THAT snafu came from? (If you do remember, you certainly are old skool LOL)
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As for episodes, just about every POS DB/DBZ site will give you episode synopses, or you can just go to IRC and download the episodes yourself (dalnet/#DBZIRC is a start).
You're welcome.
http://dvdcity.com/codefree/codefree index.php3
Code-free dvd players. Some Macrovision free as well. Fully legal, apparently, as several makers (including MPAA member Sony!) are shipping them.
It's nice how the (mostly) free market works. Looks like Pioneer has found that customers know no borders...
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