I actually use 3M's "General Purpose 45 Spray Adhesive" instead of this one though. For me, "45" can do permanent bonds or temporary ones, depending on the glue application.
I agreee with much of what you said, until you started generalizing that most poets (and scriptwriters by extension) are fools, and this:
we get nonsense like state legislatures introducing bills to make pi equal to 3
As Snopes explains, this is a false urban legend. Mark Boslough wrote a 1998 parody of the New Mexico evolution dispute in which Alabama passing a law redefining pi as 3. No state legislature in the history of United States has introduced a bill making pi equal to 3. The closest was a Indiana House of Representatives bill introduced for a misguide physician -- in 1897 -- to redefine pi as 3.2. The bill died in the Senate.
If most poets (and apparently script writers) are "fools," then what of people who perpetuate urban legends?
I've always wondered why there is a need for a movie of this...the six TV episodes themselves make for a great story, and there is nothing more that a movie could do aside from shorten the storyline.
Personally, I'll be continuing to watch the TV episodes myself. Modern 'movie magic' really can't do much for this.
In your post above, try replacing the words "movie" with "TV show," "six TV episodes" with "two books" (remember, the TV show covers part of book 2), and "Modern 'movie magic'" with "1980s British TV props."
I enjoyed the TV series as much as anyone else, but it was still the third "redundant" remake (after the vinyl record release and novel series). (After all, the diehard purists can sniff their noses at everybody with their original radio "Theater of the Mind" version.)
One of the more unintentionally funny images I found at maps.google.com is of the Anaheim "Big A" Stadium (home of the 2002 World Series champion "Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim," formerly Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels).
Instead of seeing the signature baseball diamond, we see the entire field turfed over for a monster truck rally:
what is the deal with naming superheroes something-boy. Or the japanese fixation with something-boy in general.
It's got to be hard to feel like a kick-ass superhero when you have 'boy' in your name. Oh No! It's AtomicWussyPants, run away!
The protagonist of Steamboy is not supposed to be a superhero, or kick-ass for that matter. He's Ray, a inventor who happens to be a thirteen-year-old... boy.
This is not a "Japanese" thing--you might have notice this little films last year called Hellboy. This is not a "superhero" thing either--think about the American fascination with "cowboy" mythos. Take a step back, and notice how the term "cow boy" sounds no inherently "kick-ass" than "steam boy." There certainly isn't anything "boyish" or very "Western" for that matter about Midnight Cowboy.
[I'll set aside the note that the Japanese animated science-fiction franchise Gundam was initially titled "Gunboy" during pre-production. That's a whole other can of worms...]
One interesting tidbit that Boomtown picked up but Voodoo Extreme and Slashdot left out is that the two met online through Lineage itself. A far less important detail (that Mainichi nevertheless decided to report) is that the man is in his 20s. (The woman is in her 30s.)
I prefer to buy the Japanese anyways. What's really shocking is, the price of the North American releases. These manga volumes come with a price of 300 yen or so -- in the past that would have been about 2 bucks, now its more like 3. Shipping, unfortunately, runs much deeper and will cost you 3-4 dollars per book depending on how many your shipping at once.
While I agree with many of your other points, very few manga cost 300 yen in Japan today. Book prices have slowly crept up in Japan--not as much as comics in America (anyone remember the 75-cent comics?)--but still higher than several decades ago.
For example, the Japanese compiled volumes of Naruto and Rurouni Kenshin cost 410 yen each. Add the $3-4 shipping you quoted, and it comes up $6.70-7.70. Meanwhile, the Japanese compiled volumes of Neon Genesis Evangelion cost a full Y567, which comes up to $8.11-$9.11 with shipping.
That's still 1-3 dollars lower than their North American equivalents, but the markup is not quite as high as you noted.
"That's not flying! That's falling with style.";)
-- Woody
All kidding aside, due props to the fellow. Anyone else had flashbacks to Pilotwings 64 on the Nintendo 64?
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MS may be evil, but they never forced me to buy a new version of windows to get the latest web browser.
In case you haven't read month-old news, Microsoft announced it will no longer release standalone versions of Internet Explorer for old versions of Windows.
Bebop was originally planned as a television series -- with no straight-to-video or Original Video Anime (OVA) plans. When 14 episodes couldn't be aired on regular airwave broadcast television in Japan because of "issues," the entire 26 episode was later released on satellite television and home video. Even then, the satellite television run came two months before the home video release in 1998-1999, so none of these 26 episodes were ever OVA or straight-to-video.
It's not strictly a cultural thing. Didn't like half of the episodes not even air on Japanese television because of how extreme some of it was?
Only 12 of the 26 episodes originally broadcasted on Japanese television. (A 13th television-only compilation episode was assembled to round out the broadcast at an even quarter of a year, or 52 weeks divided by 4.)
That leaves 14 episodes that originally didn't air. The producers wanted to show all 26 episodes on broadcast television, but as the producer Masahiko Minami puts it, "issues" came up. Why were so many episodes left out? Since some of the affected episodes were part of multi-episode story arcs, their entire arcs had to be taken out of the original broadcast.
All 26 original episodes were later released on satellite television and home video in Japan. (The original airwave broadcast was at 6 p.m., while the later satellite run was at the less restricted midnight timeslot.)
An entire article about Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop, and not even a mention to the master of music Yoko Kanno.
Fear not, we at EX.org devoted an entire interview to Yoko Kanno last year. ^^ (We even included a surprise Q&A with her Escaflowne partner Hajime Mizoguchi.)
At the time we visited their office, the Bebop producer, director, and character designer were all there, but not Kanno. However, we did cover the first live concert of Maaya Sakamoto (Hitomi's character voice and opening theme singer for Escaflowne in Japanese) this month, and guess who was there to greet us.... You will find coverage of that concert in EX.org later this year. Please keep reading!
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The Vision of Escaflowne: Many people didn't manage to see this one, as it was overshadowed by Evangelion (which ran the same season, in the same time slot). It's good. Damn good. Earth girl goes to medieval fantasy planet that has big mechas and a massive ongoing war. Extremely well done.
Escaflowne did get overshadowed by Evangelion (even its own producer admitted it ^^;), but it ran after Evangelion ended, in a different timeslot. It's just that almost *every* project for a few years afterwards were affected (positively or negatively) by Evangelion. The industry folks in Japan even have several names for it ("Eva Shock"), and one mainstream newspaper called the phenomenon the third wave of Japanese animation (after the ones launched by Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam).
Fortunately, Escaflowne is experiencing something of an resurgence thanks to the upcoming movie and other releases on both sides of the Pacific.
I second your opinion on the Vision of Escaflowne, I was looking to see if anyone else recommended it before I put my two cents in. I myself was disappointed with the ending, felt it was rushed. The producers knew they had the leeway of making a movie to tie up loose ends (in production now).
The producers decided not to go that route. ^^; Escaflowne the Movie will not be a followup to the series, but an entirely separate storyline. You can catch Escaflowne the Movie at its American premieres at Anime Expo and Otakon.
IFor more information, everybody, on anime and manga, the best English language online resource I've seen is EX.org , which might be the best online magazine I've seen, period.
I second that EX recommendation, although I'm somewhat biased. =)
It is absolutely imperative that you find and watch The Vision of Escaflowne, which is scheduled to be released on DVD shortly.
Unfortunately, the DVD release in United States and Canada have been pushed back to October 3. =/ The good news is that Fox Kids will be showing it on American television this fall.
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I know it's been mentioned before, but the Macross Plus 4-part series (on 2 DVD's) is awesome.. the animation is great, the music is great, the acting isn't half bad either. Do NOT mistake the miniseries for the movie, they chop out 2 and a half hours and the whole thing doesn't make sense anymore.
It's nowhere that drastic at all... =) The video version only clocks in at 157 minutes, and after removing the multiple ending credits, it's quite close to the 115-minute running time of the Movie Edition. (The Movie Edition economizes on the running time by showing prologue/back story during its opening and ending credits.) In fact, there is 20 minutes of movie-only footage -- roughly the same amount of footage that exclusive to the video version.
Ironically, the creator Shoji Kawamori says that the movie edition is closer to the original script of his story. He and the scriptwriter (Cowboy Bebop's Keiko Nobumoto) originally wrote the script as a feature-length film, and it was only at the distributor's request that they rearranged the story with three tacked-on cliffhangers and released it on four videos first.
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I've used Avery's "Removable Glue Stic" to make any paper into a sticky note:
http://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=product.Hiera
3M sells a similar glue as "Scotch Restickable Adhesive Glue Stick."
http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/en001/home_lei
For my larger projects, I've used 3M's spray adhesive:
http://www.3m.com/us/mfg_industrial/adhesives/fra
I actually use 3M's "General Purpose 45 Spray Adhesive" instead of this one though. For me, "45" can do permanent bonds or temporary ones, depending on the glue application.
As Snopes explains, this is a false urban legend. Mark Boslough wrote a 1998 parody of the New Mexico evolution dispute in which Alabama passing a law redefining pi as 3. No state legislature in the history of United States has introduced a bill making pi equal to 3. The closest was a Indiana House of Representatives bill introduced for a misguide physician -- in 1897 -- to redefine pi as 3.2. The bill died in the Senate.
If most poets (and apparently script writers) are "fools," then what of people who perpetuate urban legends?
http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm
I enjoyed the TV series as much as anyone else, but it was still the third "redundant" remake (after the vinyl record release and novel series). (After all, the diehard purists can sniff their noses at everybody with their original radio "Theater of the Mind" version.)
One of the more unintentionally funny images I found at maps.google.com is of the Anaheim "Big A" Stadium (home of the 2002 World Series champion "Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim," formerly Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels).
h eim,+CA&ll=33.800307512283325,-117.88272142410278& spn=0.005332231521606445,0.005525350570678711&t=k& hl=en
Instead of seeing the signature baseball diamond, we see the entire field turfed over for a monster truck rally:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Anaheim+Stadium,Ana
Close ... the Japanese word for "cancer" is "gan"--which is pronounced the same way as the Japanese word for "gun" ("gan").
The protagonist of Steamboy is not supposed to be a superhero, or kick-ass for that matter. He's Ray, a inventor who happens to be a thirteen-year-old ... boy.
This is not a "Japanese" thing--you might have notice this little films last year called Hellboy. This is not a "superhero" thing either--think about the American fascination with "cowboy" mythos. Take a step back, and notice how the term "cow boy" sounds no inherently "kick-ass" than "steam boy." There certainly isn't anything "boyish" or very "Western" for that matter about Midnight Cowboy.
[I'll set aside the note that the Japanese animated science-fiction franchise Gundam was initially titled "Gunboy" during pre-production. That's a whole other can of worms ...]
Indeed--here is the original Mainichi article for those who can read Japanese:
http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/it/game/news/200501One interesting tidbit that Boomtown picked up but Voodoo Extreme and Slashdot left out is that the two met online through Lineage itself. A far less important detail (that Mainichi nevertheless decided to report) is that the man is in his 20s. (The woman is in her 30s.)
While I agree with many of your other points, very few manga cost 300 yen in Japan today. Book prices have slowly crept up in Japan--not as much as comics in America (anyone remember the 75-cent comics?)--but still higher than several decades ago.
For example, the Japanese compiled volumes of Naruto and Rurouni Kenshin cost 410 yen each. Add the $3-4 shipping you quoted, and it comes up $6.70-7.70. Meanwhile, the Japanese compiled volumes of Neon Genesis Evangelion cost a full Y567, which comes up to $8.11-$9.11 with shipping.
That's still 1-3 dollars lower than their North American equivalents, but the markup is not quite as high as you noted.
"That's not flying! That's falling with style." ;)
-- Woody
All kidding aside, due props to the fellow. Anyone else had flashbacks to Pilotwings 64 on the Nintendo 64?
In case you haven't read month-old news, Microsoft announced it will no longer release standalone versions of Internet Explorer for old versions of Windows.
Slashdot: IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version
If that is not forcing you "to buy a new version of Windows to get the latest web browser," then what is?
Bebop was originally planned as a television series -- with no straight-to-video or Original Video Anime (OVA) plans. When 14 episodes couldn't be aired on regular airwave broadcast television in Japan because of "issues," the entire 26 episode was later released on satellite television and home video. Even then, the satellite television run came two months before the home video release in 1998-1999, so none of these 26 episodes were ever OVA or straight-to-video.
That leaves 14 episodes that originally didn't air. The producers wanted to show all 26 episodes on broadcast television, but as the producer Masahiko Minami puts it, "issues" came up. Why were so many episodes left out? Since some of the affected episodes were part of multi-episode story arcs, their entire arcs had to be taken out of the original broadcast.
All 26 original episodes were later released on satellite television and home video in Japan. (The original airwave broadcast was at 6 p.m., while the later satellite run was at the less restricted midnight timeslot.)
An entire article about Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop, and not even a mention to the master of music Yoko Kanno.
Fear not, we at EX.org devoted an entire interview to Yoko Kanno last year. ^^ (We even included a surprise Q&A with her Escaflowne partner Hajime Mizoguchi.)
EX 4.5: Interview with Kanno Yoko
EX 4.5: Escaflowne Panel
(Yes, I'm shamelessly biased.
At the time we visited their office, the Bebop producer, director, and character designer were all there, but not Kanno. However, we did cover the first live concert of Maaya Sakamoto (Hitomi's character voice and opening theme singer for Escaflowne in Japanese) this month, and guess who was there to greet us
Escaflowne did get overshadowed by Evangelion (even its own producer admitted it ^^;), but it ran after Evangelion ended, in a different timeslot. It's just that almost *every* project for a few years afterwards were affected (positively or negatively) by Evangelion. The industry folks in Japan even have several names for it ("Eva Shock"), and one mainstream newspaper called the phenomenon the third wave of Japanese animation (after the ones launched by Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam).
Fortunately, Escaflowne is experiencing something of an resurgence thanks to the upcoming movie and other releases on both sides of the Pacific.
The producers decided not to go that route. ^^; Escaflowne the Movie will not be a followup to the series, but an entirely separate storyline. You can catch Escaflowne the Movie at its American premieres at Anime Expo and Otakon.
I second that EX recommendation, although I'm somewhat biased. =)
Unfortunately, the DVD release in United States and Canada have been pushed back to October 3. =/ The good news is that Fox Kids will be showing it on American television this fall.
Escaflowne Compendium on DVDs
Escaflowne Compendium on television series broadcast
It's nowhere that drastic at all ... =) The video version only clocks in at 157 minutes, and after removing the multiple ending credits, it's quite close to the 115-minute running time of the Movie Edition. (The Movie Edition economizes on the running time by showing prologue/back story during its opening and ending credits.) In fact, there is 20 minutes of movie-only footage -- roughly the same amount of footage that exclusive to the video version.
Ironically, the creator Shoji Kawamori says that the movie edition is closer to the original script of his story. He and the scriptwriter (Cowboy Bebop's Keiko Nobumoto) originally wrote the script as a feature-length film, and it was only at the distributor's request that they rearranged the story with three tacked-on cliffhangers and released it on four videos first.
The moral? Watch both. =)
Macross Compendium on Macross Plus