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On March 22 2011 19:49 zalz wrote:
Cowboy Bebop was just a very western-oriented anime. You don't have any face-deforming frames or typical anime imagery (think sweatdrop etc).
It is quite literally what you would get if an American company produced something anime but only borrowing the style.
The fighting scenes are pretty much still the best you are going to find in any anime, both in choreography and animation. Less is certainly more in this case, no need to have giant laserbeams to keep things exciting.
Finally i think the fact that it had a very solid dub and aired on MTV really made it popular. It was pretty unique for it's time, the time when downloading tons of anime was for the majority of people a technologically impossible feat.
Back then Anime was new and especially stuff like Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the shell weren't just new, they were also cool, it was stuff that you could tell your friends about it.
Today Anime is more of a niché thing and certainly has a nerd-stigma on it. Let's be honest the average joe is not watching anime and isn't intrested in it in the least.
Cowboy Bebop was a show that cleared the road for a golden-age of anime wich has since dissapeared when companies flooded the markets with trash and killed the goose with the golden eggs. Maybe it's part nostalgia when you could still believe that anime was going to take over the world.
I liked Cowboy Bebop, but it wasn't anything that "cleared the road for a golden-age of anime" or anything. I don't see how you could really make that statement, but w/e. Maybe in America, but even then I'd say that was in the 80s, with Robotech.
Also, Radical Edward says lol@you saying it "doesn't have any face-deforming frames or typical anime imagery"
On March 22 2011 17:14 Liveon wrote:^ Except that Code Geass stays good till the end and Death Note gets bad after a certain amount of episodes. Started watching Level E yesterday, that show is brilliant. Lots of humour and unexpected events 
Code Geass started good, then became bad, and then became hilarious, and stayed funny until the end, when they someone got divided by Zero.
On another note, I'm liking this Battle Moon Wars game. lol Type-Moon stuff done SRW style, its a really good idea. Phantasmoon reminds me of why I'm such an Arcueid fan lol. Fuck how good characters are, I'm going to have my main team made up entirely of my Type-Moon Waifus/Waifu Candidates.
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Super Robot Wars K, so fun. It has Zoids Genesis as one of the series in it
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How does Zoids Genesis compare to Chaotic Century?
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On March 22 2011 20:05 Tenshik wrote:This thread has turned into, I watch Adult Swim, I have opinions. Anyway, wtb seeders for Kampfer, mother of god. Though my apparent disdain for mainstream anime may be fairly prominent in my writing, I do wish to convey Code Geass rocks. Show nested quote +On March 22 2011 19:44 Latham wrote:On March 22 2011 19:36 Spazer wrote:
Whaaat. Always-broke bounty hunters is an awesome setting. Just look at Firefly. Just so you know how much I know about Firefly: I had to google it. Googled <<Firefly anime>>. Didn't find anything about sci-fi setting. Clicked random forum links and found out it was an american tv series. Regoogled <<Firefly TV series>>. Chose wiki link and checked if the plot description has anything to do with bounty hunters and space. ... Whaaat?! Netflix, watch the first episode alone, it's one of the most prominent fuckups SYFY has ever done by canceling the series. The show was amazing and has a huge following but they still managed to fuck up the scheduling for it and therefore canceled due to low viewers... Anyway, Serenity is the Theatre movie about Firefly. iirc it's after the series >.> Can't remember been about a year.
That's the West for you. Cancelling the good stuff, airing the bad stuff.
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On March 22 2011 23:16 Sentenal wrote:
How does Zoids Genesis compare to Chaotic Century?
it's pretty baller to say the least. I liked both but I must say I really liked Genesis alot more, Because of the storyline, and because Shizuka Itou as Kotona Elegance
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On March 22 2011 23:25 Blasterion wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2011 23:16 Sentenal wrote:
How does Zoids Genesis compare to Chaotic Century? it's pretty baller to say the least. I liked both but I must say I really liked Genesis alot more, Because of the storyline, and because Shizuka Itou as Kotona Elegance
One of the things that I really liked about Chaotic Century was the war backdrop between the Republic and the Empire in the show. Did Genesis have anything like that?
This Zoids talk is going to get me to rewatch Chaotic Century and watch Genesis, lol
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On March 22 2011 23:27 Sentenal wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2011 23:25 Blasterion wrote:On March 22 2011 23:16 Sentenal wrote:
How does Zoids Genesis compare to Chaotic Century? it's pretty baller to say the least. I liked both but I must say I really liked Genesis alot more, Because of the storyline, and because Shizuka Itou as Kotona Elegance One of the things that I really liked about Chaotic Century was the war backdrop between the Republic and the Empire in the show. Did Genesis have anything like that? This Zoids talk is going to get me to rewatch Chaotic Century and watch Genesis, lol
The whole premise
Spoilers: but not really spoilers
Guy gets zoid, home razed by enemy zoids
quest to fix home, sees people die by enemy zoids
macro up large army with heroes
Tries to fight enemy zoids.
Of course it's alot more exciting than that hahaha, but still it's the general idea
I will either stream Genesis or Super Robot War K on Friday 19:00 on my stream your pick =P
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19:00 what time zone? Either one would be fine, but episode 1 of Zoids Genesis would be a good preview for the show
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EST always sorry hahaha, At least let me get home to stream it >.< hahaha Listening to a economics lecture right now
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But Friday at 7 PM is usually when Southlight streams. Now I'm torn 
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On March 22 2011 23:47 Ferrose wrote:But Friday at 7 PM is usually when Southlight streams. Now I'm torn
But, Southlight won't be streaming for 2 weeks that's why I am streaming in his place
quoting from his statement pages ago.
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Friday at 7pm, I'll try to be there
I wonder if I should get into this streaming thing anytime. More mecha streams is always good.
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On March 22 2011 23:53 Sentenal wrote:Friday at 7pm, I'll try to be there I wonder if I should get into this streaming thing anytime. More mecha streams is always good.
I've Streamed so far
G-Gundam
Gao Gai Gar
Zeorymer
King Gainer
Full Metal Panic
only partially btw those series are friken long as hell except Zeorymer
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Can't forget the anime I grew up with
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Too bad I never finished it... Almost missed my first flight to Australia cause I waited to finish the episode on Cartoon Network when Shiryuu battles Shura haha
Anyone else dislike when two anime characters battle (especially sword fights) and they just run past each other and 3 seconds later someone gets cut? I know it appears in heaps of good anime (I've seen it on Rurouni Kenshin, Fairy Tail, Samurai Champloo, Saint Seiya) but I think its a pretty lazy and undramatic way to end a fight...
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iirc Uta said that he won't be streaming for a while, I'll laugh if that extends till Alchemy release in April.
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On March 22 2011 23:58 Ecael wrote:
iirc Uta said that he won't be streaming for a while, I'll laugh if that extends till Alchemy release in April.
Still needing to stream the end of Cartagra. No idea if I'll be able to get to KnS before Alchemy. Streaming Alchemy regardless of school situ because I'll be playing that anyways (lol).
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On March 22 2011 23:58 ChaoticBlack wrote:Can't forget the anime I grew up with Too bad I never finished it... Almost missed my first flight to Australia cause I waited to finish the episode on Cartoon Network when Shiryuu battles Shura haha Anyone else dislike when two anime characters battle (especially sword fights) and they just run past each other and 3 seconds later someone gets cut? I know it appears in heaps of good anime (I've seen it on Rurouni Kenshin, Fairy Tail, Samurai Champloo, Saint Seiya) but I think its a pretty lazy and undramatic way to end a fight...
Haha, I dunno if I hate that, it just seems like its a generic way any anime tries to have some dramatic conclusion to a fight, without making it seem one sided. Like if two characters are fighting, and one just clobbers the other one, the fight is going to seem rather one sided, but if they both slash each other, and leave you for a second wondering who won, its just a device to build suspense. Its definitely not creative, but I don't really mind it.
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I liked Cowboy Bebop, but it wasn't anything that "cleared the road for a golden-age of anime" or anything. I don't see how you could really make that statement, but w/e. Maybe in America, but even then I'd say that was in the 80s, with Robotech.
Also, Radical Edward says lol@you saying it "doesn't have any face-deforming frames or typical anime imagery".
Together with other high quality anime of it's time it allowed anime to actually be popular with the masses.
"Maybe in America"
Well that's kind of the entire point.
Dutch cinema might be popular in Holland but i am pretty sure nobody else in the world will ever even see a single film.
South Korean cinema is far more far reaching with stuff like Oldboy finding a happy reception across the seas.
Anime is popular in Japan but outside of that it's a very niché market at best and one that carries a heavy stigma of being nerdish. Like i said, normal people don't watch anime. I feel like i have to say that i don't mean that anime viewers aren't human, i watch anime myself, but i atleast recognize that the average normal person is not going to be intrested in watching anime in this day and age.
Back when Cowboy bebop came along it really seemed like anime was going to break through into America and for a short while it did. Over the last few years a ton of anime companies have collapsed wich should show that the initial expectations were not lived up to. The market got drowned in horrible shows because companies thought that people wanted anime, regardless of quality. Clearly, they did not.
The almost universal praise the show draws seems rather the opposite from what i experience here in Holland. Most people i hear talking about it do so in disgust, they seem to utterly despise an anime that isn't just mainstream amongst anime fans but mainstream in...well...the mainstream.
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On March 22 2011 23:58 ChaoticBlack wrote:Can't forget the anime I grew up with Too bad I never finished it... Almost missed my first flight to Australia cause I waited to finish the episode on Cartoon Network when Shiryuu battles Shura haha Anyone else dislike when two anime characters battle (especially sword fights) and they just run past each other and 3 seconds later someone gets cut? I know it appears in heaps of good anime (I've seen it on Rurouni Kenshin, Fairy Tail, Samurai Champloo, Saint Seiya) but I think its a pretty lazy and undramatic way to end a fight...
Is that power rangers? And btw, Adult Swim is and was like the only outlet of anime on cable for the past 10 years, then Satellite and the influx of of 3000 channels and only 10 are good era began. So now syfy has anime and there are a couple asian channels that do it as well, and i think an entire anime channel that spams fruits basket down your throat last i checked, But the point being anything being talked about was the staple for adult swim. What did it used to be called back then, toonami? With the robot dude? Good shit. Oh and to answer my own question a few pages back, 3.5mm phone jack into RCA jacks did the trick for computer to stereo sound.
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