Japanese Manga

Indeed.

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With just 52 minutes to go, I think that just about makes my image of the year.
 
kupoartist said:
Indeed.

Zen-Master.jpg

With just 52 minutes to go, I think that just about makes my image of the year.
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Wow, that's ****ing hillarious. PERFECT. Saved to HDD, and you got a link to that? Is it Photoshop Phriday or Comedy Goldmine?

*Edit* found it...this one is quite funny.
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<RJMC> said:
I remenber I watched the movie of the season 1 or something like that,it was pretty cool and well done compared to the series,and involved nuclear missiles and all,my brother says the first one was the best cuz the kids where lost in the digiworld and that added coolnes not like in the second where they could travel from real world to digi world in a instant
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1st and 2nd were best seasons. 3rd was like, Oh, look, t3h Matrix! Everything after that was completely nonsensical.

I think the thread is perilously close to derailling, although I admit that is quite funny. I'm just glad noone's put in cosplayers yet. *Shudder*
 
Digimon was.... stupid.... horrible. Urgh.


Never could like the stoy nor the setting.
 
If you weren't my boss, I'd fire you for that.
 
Eh.... hehe..


In order to make this thread abit more... something...

Here is another sample:

(Image courtesy of auction.co.kr book samples, translation courtesy of yours truly.)

 
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
There's an Anime too, but even with the advantage of colour, it doesn't look half as great. The story, like Akira, is simplified and not nearly as compelling (though I suppose, the Manga is plain confusing at times until you re-read it). That's forgiveable in that the Manga was only 2 volumes long when the Anime was released. It took 12 years to make, in between the studio ghibli movie projects of Nausicaa, Laputa, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service and Porco Rosso.
 
That music video of that one artist...i forgot his name, Paul something. The video is manga style and shows how humans go to war and destroy earth etc etc and just how humanity ends itself. Really good video, hope someone can find it.
 
All that Studio Ghibli stuff, i actually consider to be something other than Anime/Manga, because its not just about robots, the end of the world, chicks with ridiculously long hair and bouncing breasts.

Instead, that Ghibli stuff usually has a fantastic story to tell and isn't overly self-indulged nor pretentious. Just straight up fantastic story-telling.

For the most part anyway. I have noticed in all the Ghibli films i've watched (Castle in The Sky, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Monoke) that the main protagonists ,always and without fail, have a moment of clarity at the end of the film where they finally fix whatever problem is plaguing everything, and its always done in the same manner. Everytime. Annoying, but hey, still better than anything else japanimation has to offer.
 
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
There's an Anime too, but even with the advantage of colour, it doesn't look half as great. The story, like Akira, is simplified and not nearly as compelling (though I suppose, the Manga is plain confusing at times until you re-read it). That's forgiveable in that the Manga was only 2 volumes long when the Anime was released. It took 12 years to make, in between the studio ghibli movie projects of Nausicaa, Laputa, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service and Porco Rosso.
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Ok, I'm gonna take a look at that, sounds rather interesting.

that the main protagonists ,always and without fail, have a moment of clarity at the end of the film where they finally fix whatever problem is plaguing everything, and its always done in the same manner. Everytime
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Yeah. They're all such happy endings. :hmph:


Anyway, more translations of auction.co.kr/Naver Books (C)2007 book samples.

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Nice translation numbers!

For those of you who don't know: You read manga from right to left, because its japenese.
 
kupoartist said:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
There's an Anime too, but even with the advantage of colour, it doesn't look half as great. The story, like Akira, is simplified and not nearly as compelling (though I suppose, the Manga is plain confusing at times until you re-read it). That's forgiveable in that the Manga was only 2 volumes long when the Anime was released. It took 12 years to make, in between the studio ghibli movie projects of Nausicaa, Laputa, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service and Porco Rosso.
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best ****ing anime out there imo. Nausica I mean.
 
Sparta said:
All that Studio Ghibli stuff, i actually consider to be something other than Anime/Manga, because its not just about robots, the end of the world, chicks with ridiculously long hair and bouncing breasts.
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Studio Ghibli is Anime simply because Anime is whatever animation comes forth from Japan. Defining Anime as anything else is thinking in the terms of about 10 years ago. Or just trying overzealously to distance an interest in the better examples of anime from the stereotype of what anime is. It's hardly like Studio Ghibli is the only example of anime that fails to fall into the narrow mind-set of companies like (the confusingly named) "Manga Entertainment" during 1990. The problem lies in that a lot of this style of anime simply isn't available, or widely advertised, or marketed towards someone like yourself (the recent influx of female interest manga/anime hardly fits the stereotype, though each make their own contribution to the image, positive or negative, of anime/manga).

Also, whilst there are shows about 'robots, piloted by girls with elastic breasts and ridiculously long hair, preventing the end of the world', it's hard to see why shows guilty of only one of each of those are classed as 'anime' when ghibli's output isn't. More to the point, it's probably short-sighted to claim that Ghibli films don't contain at least some of these elements. Nausicaa in particular is about the end of human civilization (or perhaps, in the aftermath of it), and the god-warriors are very clearly bio-mechanical giant robots, and were even animated by Evangelion's director in the movie. Laputa too has Smaller God-Warrior-like robots of mass destruction, and climaxes with the protagonist's foiling of the antagonist's plot to use a doomsday device. Otherwise, Miyazaki tends to simply focus on bizarre flying machines rather than giant robots. Sans difference really: it's just the inclinations of an older Japanese man and some earlier stage of a cultural obsession with machines.
 
Anime/Manga is just another way of storytelling.

/EDIT And offhand, I can't think off a anime that has Giant Robots, Girls with ridiculously elastic breasts and long hair, trying to save the world. I can think of many anime that has each or more of these elements, but none that has all. Someone will probably point one out to me before the end of the day though... assuming I can get onto the net.

By the way, have you watched Ghost in the Shell? All versions.
 
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ANIME BASEMENT NERD^^^^^ LMAO!!! GOT IT OFF ANIME-FORUMS.COM
 
Jintor said:
And offhand, I can't think off a anime that has Giant Robots, Girls with ridiculously elastic breasts and long hair, trying to save the world.
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I should think Gundam Seed qualifies. The robots are 20m tall, the Archangel Captain's boobs bounce everytime the ship gets hit, Lacus Clyne has ridiculously long, pink hair, and it all climaxes with the colonies trying to ray-gun the earth. By extension, Gundam Seed Destiny qualifies, because it was pretty much exactly the same thing all over again (but somehow even more incomprehensible).

Aside from that though, I don't think ridiculously long hair usually has a place in Mecha anime. Ridiculous hair is of course, everywhere.
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The 80s was a fabulous decade.
 
Gundam Seed... ah... still... hurts... my brain..... many people like it but I could never..... bear it....
 
15357 said:
Gundam Seed... ah... still... hurts... my brain..... many people like it but I could never..... bear it....
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The great thing about Gundam is that there are so many series, that there's always one that's even worse than the one you've seen and hated. Seed Destiny, ZZ, G, and Wing spring instantly to mind in this case.
 
kupoartist said:
The great thing about Gundam is that there are so many series, that there's always one that's even worse than the one you've seen and hated. Seed Destiny, ZZ, G, and Wing spring instantly to mind in this case.
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I loved 08th MS Team to dead...my favorite of the lot.
 
08th MS Team is good, but I wouldn't say it stands out in my recollections of what i've watched. It has a different feel to most other Gundam stuff, in that it's far less epic, and far more about people at war operating realistic machines and putting up with that situation. Mind you, I think 0080: War in the Pocket does that too, makes you care a lot more for the characters and lacks the 'OMG Space-Aids Ghinius has an ultimate super weapon and will own you all' plot that 08th MS Team ultimately undoes the feel with. Shame about the soundtrack mind you.

As I said, there's always something worse than ANY Gundam series. Well, except Gundam Seed Destiny :P
 
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