The Anime Thread: Finding Good Anime

[Medic_wheat]

English dubbed? 

[roflmao]

Pretty nice.
From this point of view, Bubblegum Crash's box design looks like My Little Pony softporn.

[DragonmasterDan]

English dubbed? 

These are subtitled.

[Medic_wheat]

I wonder if Funimation will do a dubbed version of these two movies.

[DragonmasterDan]

I wonder if Funimation will do a dubbed version of these two movies.

It's Discotek that has the rights. So it's unlikely.

And I'm not a fan of Funimation's dub cast in general.

I do like the old Pioneer/Geneon dub cast even if the localization weren't the most literal but even then I'd watch with both the original Japanese cast and the dub.

[SignOfZeta]

I seriously doubt Discotek could be the company we know them as if they were pissing away twice as much as money on every release just to provide a dub that probably only %1 of their already really small customer base would ever watch. They include period dubs (which I enjoy for Unico) but most of the time their attitude is "dub it yourself, we aren't made of money, you illiterate otaku scum".

Ok, that last part is mostly me...

[DragonmasterDan]

I seriously doubt Discotek could be the company we know them as if they were pissing away twice as much as money on every release just to provide a dub that probably only %1 of their already really small customer base would ever watch. They include period dubs (which I enjoy for Unico) but most of the time their attitude is "dub it yourself, we aren't made of money, you illiterate otaku scum".

Ok, that last part is mostly me...

If the dub already exists they'll try to get the rights for it.

But yeah, they're not going out of their way to finance new dubs.

[ShadowKitty777]

I would recommend checking out One Punch Man if you haven't already.

I saw Frozen. It was slightly above average. I don't hate it or anything, but I do have trouble understanding its popularity. I bet the boys in Disney's top secret audience pacification institute have some good data on this, but they probably didn't expect this level of popularity either.

Yeah I agree that Disney def had some analysts in on this one. I think most of the popularity/hype comes from the fact that it had a lot of "progressive" themes that has become really popular in social media right now. I'm not saying it's bad for it, but it is just why I think everyone is making it seem like it's a special snowflake.
I enjoyed the movie though.

[ClodBuster]

I just placed my order for the Robot Carnival and Orguss DVDs at Rightstuf. Thank god they're finally accepting Paypal payments. Discotek Media themselves don't accept international orders - bummer! But I think that's not too bad, since Robot Carnival was on discount ($10 off) on Rightstuf. They also claimed that Orguss would be on discount, but I see the same price of $49 shown on Discotek's shop.

I'm so excited!

Yes! They finally arrived!
Now it's time to dig out that old region modded DVD player. The last time I used it was before the move, since then the PS3 has become my working horse for Blu-ray movies.

I still remember how I performed the mod on that Toshiba SD-220E. Not the usual way by using secret IR remote codes, no this one needed a CD-R burned with some firmware update that somehow removed the region check. Thank god it also has no trouble playing both NTSC and PAL.

[elmer]

Just finished the 1st season of Aldnoah.Zero on Netflix.

Definitely not going to recommend it.

It was entertaining enough to actually watch the whole season, but the story didn't really work, and the ending was a bit naff. Don't know if was just a poor translation job.

They really had to do some major "you-didn't-see-what-you-thought-you-saw" to get the 2nd season made.

[Medic_wheat]

Started picking up some anime again from used movie stores and what not. Here's what I have found so far.







Never heard of this anime and unfortunately it seems to be only English sub as I usually prefer dubbed. Seems to have character designs by the creator of Akira. Found that there is a blursy compete collection English dubbed for like $30 new. Unfortunately it is region 5 so I will need to invest in a region free blursy player eventually. There are a few other blursy complete collections of like to get that never made it to NA. Moral Oral is one that frankly surprises me seeing how it is a NA produced claymation show.




Fan of this spin off series. They have the two other DVDs that complete it but it am being a tight wade and waiting to see if they go on clearance as well.



Hoping it is a movie as it seems interesting.



Another "older" anime that was made in modern times. Or at least in character design and art. Not sure how many are in this series but the cover art and back plot grabbed me 



Not sure if this is the complete collection but this and the caption harllack series that came out in the mid 2000s will make me happy.



I think I am only missing vol 4 but I hope it is as good as the rendition of count of monti cristo.



Most expensive anime I have picked up recently at $65. But this is SO hard to find with the English dub. I have the sub version as well on DVD I got for $3.99 but prefer the dub.

These next few I got at a half price book clearance. All DVDs $2 or less. Some not anime.








Figured I love the game let's check this out. Not sure if there are more in this series or what. Will be watching tonight.

[Medic_wheat]

These I have picked up throughout the year as well





An extremely underrated series that I am having a HELL of a time competing.

 


Sure the bluray is out but this collectors edition is sweet.



Only missing the first DVD I think. Also so wish the sexual to the Afro Samuri collector edition matched this one in style. Now it looks like the odd DVD our. When ever I get around to picking up the sequel.



On the look out for the second half.



Wouldn't mind a redo of GANTZ to more closely match the manga. Who knows.

Also steamboat was fun.



Found a complete set minus the movie on eBay for less then what it would have cost for the seasons I was missing. Now I have season 1 2 part 1 and 3 part 1 as extras. Probably trade for more anime. To me G1 TF is basically anime lol.



Honestly don't know if I want to bother getting the original series to pair with these or not. But boy do I remember buying them when they where new and it was like $35-40 a DVD and they would have like 2 episodes a pop. Grrrr.





Another underrated series that is balls hard to find.

[Medic_wheat]

I am amazed on the number of collector editions and near complete series I can find for cheap.

But hen again I haven't bought anime since like 2004 maybe lol.

For the most part I would download, stream, or rent from a local rental bookstore (and burn copies with clone DVD) lol. It wasn't until pretty much last year I started picking up some to own.

[Medic_wheat]

Turns out the PS3 for bluray is region free. Neat. Guess I can pick up some blurays now that have been on my want list.

[in99flames]

I like the Hellsing series. Always entertained me.

I watched Angel Beats recently. Pretty good series. Pretty deep story. Lots of funny parts....lots of sad parts. Definitely Worth a view.