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Trigun Coming to Cartoon Network
MoeMoe writes "Well I was just watching Cartoon Network and it looks like Trigun will begin airing in just a couple of weeks. The CN website gives a brief description here" Trigun is among my favorite anime series. It gets a little crazy by the end, but for the most part it's pretty lighthearted fun, with some great action. CN sure seems to love the Anime Sci Fi Westerns. I wonder if they'll carry some of the fluffier stuff besides Tenchi. Love Hina would be a fun choice. Or Excel Saga.
I used to watch anime all the bloody time, read fan translated mangas, etc. etc., but I just eventually lost intrest. Perhaps seeing all these great anime shows on local television will rekindle my intrest. Hopefully the voices won't be horrible - that's one of the things that turned me off back in the day.
I am a filthy pirate.
(For those who don't know, Love Hina is considered a "harem" anime, where all of the girls at one part or another are interested in the main character, who is usually a loser. I consider it a "fan service revenge" anime, because as soon as there is fan service, someone ends up paying for it, usually the aforementioned loser main character. I still enjoy the series, however.)
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Excel saga has some innuendo that cartoon network (if they had it) might filter out it, which would ruin the whole feel of the anime. I wish they'd do oh my goddess, or go with NG-Eva.
To most non anime geeks trigun is new. and its pretty darn good comedy/sci-fi im glad to see its getting better exposure.
Plus it has some of the most cosplayable chars around which is always a plus...(i look forward to handing candy out to the little vashes next holloween)
Won't you be my my neighbor?
not really.
It sort of seems that way, but if you finish watching the whole thing, then you take a breather and then watch the entire series again, you'll see almost from the very beginning that there are clues and other hints that Vash isn't the ditz that he makes himself out to be.
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Trigun is probably my favorite series. The show has all I look for: good characters and character development, silliness, seriousness, empathy, sympathy, apathy [all the pathies :)] and a good flowing storyline. I will admit that I thought this series was going to be nothing but
overexagerated expressions and childish antics. I was way wrong. I watched the entire series in two nights (I watched about 17 or 18 episodes on the second night alone.) This series totally engrossed my attention. (The dub is excellent!)
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Because they still get enuf veiwers. DBZ is what? 10 years old? And despite that it can take them a year to get in maybe 30 new eps, they still pull in plenty of veiwers.
Plus, Trigun is new to me. And I'm sure it's new to lots of people.
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I disagree with you here. Without giving too much away, the main difference between the first half of the series and the second half is that the first half is a lot more light hearted. It introduces to the characters, lets you get to know them, find the ones that you identify most with, and really start to like them. ... Then things stuff starts happening, and you really feel nostalgic for the early episodes where everyone was happy. That's the true power of the series. You really get a feel for how much is lost and why what's left is still worth saving.
I think I know you in person. Or someone like you. Are you one of those humourless bores who refuses to watch anything funnier and more action-filled than Wings of Honneamise?
And before you relaliate with some snarky comment about possible DBZ fandom on my part (which is untrue), let me say that I also appreciate some of the less well known gems of anime. Grave of the Fireflies and Azumanga Daioh come to mind.
Offtopic, but I think Grave of the Fireflies should be required viewing in high school history classes throughout the world.
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For the love of pete! Not CN again!!
They ALWAYS butcher things up.
Not to mention I don't like to watch ANYTHING dubbed other than the original language (at least in english anyways; I can deal with American movies dubbed in other languages....). Why can't they use the SAP mode to air both english (for those loonies) and Japanese (true anime connoisseurs) and subtitles in the closed-captioning block of it? Of course, like all things out of our control; if it makes sense, it ain't happening.
O well....at least I have my Trigun (R2 - Japanese) DVDs which cost me an arm and half a leg and my Excel Saga (R2 - Japanese) that cost twice that...plus my limited edition Berserk (R2 - Japanese) DVD set which cost me a part of my soul and my Those Who Hunt Elves I&II + extra fan-bonus DVDs; yup, you guessed it, the rest of my soul. Awww....I love my R2 DVDs. Speaking of which, I should borrow my friends Chobits (R2) DVDs and watch them over and over.
I kinda want to get Slayers (1st one, NEXT, and TRY) on DVD (though I have TRY and part of NEXT on LD back home), but lack of funds prevent it (and no...no R1 anime dvds for me).
And awww...the joys of being bilingual. I've gotta remind myself to thank my parents.
It's Japan. They have different moral values. We don't live in one big culture. Live with it. But keep reading, I've got more to say that might interest you.
Firstly, I haven't seen a lot of anime, as I'm fairly selective and only watch the good stuff. But of those I've seen I haven't had a problem with the sexuality, and that includes Love Hina (although I found the bouncing boobies in the original Gundam Seed opening a bit much. But hey, I'm a legs man). I even watched a couple of episodes of GTO at a local anime club. Meh. It helped that there was an interview with the series creator before the showing; it allowed me to see the intelligence behind all the "perverted" stuff going on.
Artists explore taboo in their artwork. We've been doing it forever, and that's part of what makes art interesting. It doesn't mean that the artists are pervs/murderers, it's just an expression, it's art. Live with it, it helps make the world go round.
I don't find the anime's exploration of sexuality offensive. But I do find Hollywood's obbsession with violence very offensive. I generally steer away from action movies, but I've watched a few. Die Harder was great. Assassins was excellent (though not popular).
But there was one movie, I don't remember the name anymore, some Snipes flick (you know, typical "ONE MAN must SAVE US ALL"), where the gore was just over the top. The setting wasn't a gory movie, he was an agent of some kind, and, while violence was expected, gushing blood and having the bad guys get killed by steel beams smashing through their windshield and heads, and their car exploding, while Snipes looks back with a "serves them right" face, is just too fucking sickening. Everything in the movie was like that. Shit like that just gets rated R, where it's basically a porno of action movies.
And why was Assassins not popular? The common cry was, there was not enough killing. I, who did not care for such things, thought it was fantastic. Cool and calculated, moody, with character development - something rarely found in the cookie-cutter characters of today's Hollywood movies. Perhaps the movie was not that great; I was young then and my tastes have grown. But lamenting it because there was not enough killing is stupid, but obviously, that was what the market wants. And assassins don't kill people left and right, they take targets down one at a time. You're not going to find a lot of blood in such a movie.
Some artists in a culture are not as smart as others. Some, while in a culture that loves watching violence, will end up making crap like that Snipes movie. Some, in a culture that finds sexuality taboo, will make perverted crap.
The Japanese created Street Fighter. In response, Americans created Mortal Kombat, which was very popular in North America (heh, more dull wombat. ah, the memories. I hated that game, too offensive). Japanese like boobies. Americans like blood. Which is better? You can't honestly answer that.
Moderators should have to take a reading comprehension test.
What about .hack//SIGN? That's an amazing, geekish series they show at midnight eastern on Saturdays.
Essentially, this show takes place in an immersive Everquest-on-whale-steroids called "The World" and follows a PC (Player Character) named Tsukasa who can't log out. Granted, it loses something in the dubbing, but it still is quite kickass.
I used to be someone else. Now I'm someone better.
Real life is underrated.
If CN were really shrewd (which I am becoming more and more convinced they are not), they would license a show that a) actually had more than 26 episodes so i don't have to watch asteroid blues 298347923874 times, and b) is not continuity-dependent, so burgeoning anime enthusiasts don't need to sit in front of out-of-order reruns pretending to understand what's going on
Odd... they imported Dragonball / Dragonball Z, each of which have far more than 26 episodes--and they show them in order.
Continuity is NOT the problem here, cubyrop. The problem is them stretching their anime resources too thin for too small a source of good import material. *sigh*
Trigun, of all things? Trigun!
Even if they do this on Adult Swim only, it's going to get butchered. Admittedly, Love Hina would get it even worse, but still, Trigun's going to go through the freaking shredder.
Most anime just plain shouldn't be shown on TV at this point in time. Not until the culture is ready to take it uncut, or at least with minimal editing (I don't count dubbing as "editing" so much as necessity, given that relatively few people would be willing to watch this stuff subbed on TV). And that, I fear, isn't going to be for a long time.
What would be left of Excel Saga after the censors got to it? Apparently the last episode is so bad we're not even going to watch it at the more formal meeting of the Anime Club I go to. They would have to take out a whole character for sure. And several of the subplots throughout the series wouldn't be "fit" for the US audience.
Also, in my opinion its not really a very good series. Its feels kind of recycled after a while. We're on episode 22 or 23 and the last good episode we watched was the one with the attacking pandas, and that episode was in the single digits. Granted, there are still some funny moments here and there.
Now, Witch Hunter Robin, thats a good series. Perhaps CmdrTaco wouldn't like it since he apparently isn't a big fan of plot (I assume when he said "kind of crazy" he was refering to actual plot development). It starts out being a police-but-with-witch's anime (with some pretty neat episodic plots) but at about episode 15 or so it starts getting into the over-arching plot thats pretty nifty.
My favorite anime is Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu. You can BitTorrent it at AnimeSuki.com. Its really funny in a unique way. Don't be quick to judge it as as yet another "WTF Anime", I definitedly started liking it the more I saw of it (though I had more or less decided to watch the whole thing after seeing the intro). Theres good character development, none of the characters are as superficial as they first might seem. Depending on its time slot, they might not have to censor too much, but who knows.