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In Reply to: Re: aw come-on, give me a break ... "SPAWN" & "5TH_ELEMENT" posted by Pam on February 15, 2000 at 22:48:59:
any done in a 'Heavy Metal' style?
Sure... Vampire Hunter D comes to mind, Odin (reminds me of some of the space stuff in Heavy Metal), Macross Plus, Princess Mononoke (parts have the atmosphere of some of Heavy Metal, especially the battle scenes, though it takes place in Japan circa 1300). Legend of Lemnear is a little like the part of HM in the future where the woman with the sword goes hacking things up...so are parts of Lodoss Wars. Really hard to classify some of them as we have so few equivalents... Midnight Panther for example has a Middle Ages European feel and is about a group of female assasins who like to have a litte romantic tryst while offing their victims... parts are drawn HM style, yet there is also an old crone who seems to be drawn for comic effect (not a super-deformed or cutesy character, but impossilby small, wrinkled and feisty). Then you've got MD Geist...a genetically engineered soldier who is pretty much a one man army... a rather grim ruthless tale. Historical stuff like Barefoot Gen, which is a realistic biography of a little boy who watches most of his family burn and tries to take care of his mother and baby after the Hiroshima bombing (Grave of Fireflies is similar). Contact a local anime club and they should be able to steer you in the right direction according to your tastes since there are about as many styles of anime as there are Hollywood movies (actually, anime is part of the Japanese movie industry, only they don't have to pay for over-priced actors and insanely expensive FX if they can draw it... kiddie cartoons, as we think of animation, is just a small part of the industry)
... how many anime's do you own?
Well, let me fire up my spread sheet and see. Um, 70 on DVD (that's counting multidisk sets like Fushigi Yugi, Bubblegum Crisis or Tenchi Muyo OVA's as one item and things like the 4 separate disks of Serial experiment Lain as 4 items so that's just a rough figure). Also got about a dozen on VHS, but don't buy tapes anymore. Kinda lucky actually... I work with a guy who is such an otaku that he's got about a 3-4 foot stack of LD's he's imported and uses scrips and a computer gen-lock to create his own subtitles on his wide-screen... that's how I got hooked on this stuff and saw Mononoke Hime before Disney approached Ghibli Studios about doing an English dubbed American release. So, I've seen a few things you can't get, unless you want to import and know Japanese (I didn't mention anything you can't order from Amazon, DVD express or http://www.animenation.com/ ) If you do know Japanese then you can get some fun stuff here: http://www.amy.hi-ho.ne.jp/jigs/index.html (they're still heavy into LD over there though and their DVDs may be coded to region 2... they don't use PAL like Europe though). You might check some of your local comic book shops (they sometimes carry manga translations and so may also become meeting places for anime clubs. Universities also sometimes have active clubs).
where does he get the usual LDs?
Don't know... seems he only buys regular movies on DVD (wouldn't mind getting a "lightly" used LD player myself if I could find a place where I could pick them up cheap like used LP's)
I'm on the other side of the coin. Actually this genre may make me buy a DVD player. I was hoping to hold out until DADs (audio DVD) were out.
Wow Pam that's plenty! I was really into it, more from a standpoint of looking at Japanese Manga as an art form. But, moving to Japan I'm drowned by all of it now, and plus my Nihongo (Japanese language)isn't up to par to constantly rent. I still in someway follow it, but only the animation that's new and breathtaking. I will watch an anime if the story is good also. It's funny how in America in my design college,it was hip to keep up with the latest Japanese anime, but in Japan, one is considered an Otaku...
Yoroshiku o-negai shimasu Joven samaMy nihongo isn't even kindergarten level yet, but my tomodachi (friends) help (and I help them learn English better, though the more we talk and exchange tapes the worse my English gets... love the language but am starting to think with joshi & words like atashi, nashi, ninjin, neko etc., leaving out articles and pronouns and muttering things like "ara ma'" I think we have created a new language that nobody else understands... would you believe Englanese or Janglish? (^o^)...picking up the hiragina and katakana but don't know if I'll ever manage the kanji).
Ha ha, I bet you are! My friend, Aiko, says her 6 year-old has her house so full of pocket monsters (Poke'mon) that she's about ready to tear her hair out! Perhaps you can keep us informed of new and breathtaking titles to watch for (Heck, I'm still waiting for a dvd version of Maison Ikkoku!)
Tee-hee, movies must be strange too... we steal YoJimbo and turn it into "A Fist Full of Dollars", and then it comes back over there under the title "A Bodygaurd in the Wild" Amazing!
dewa mata ne
Hagi-me-mashite Pamchan,Watackshi wa...that's where my nihongo usually ends. After being here for a year plus, my nihongo is up to slang level. I guess the shorter the word the easier it is to remember. Just the business nihongo is really tough and very proper. There's a phone on my desk I'll never answer it because they don't realise there's a gaigin on the other end and they'll speak so fast. But, with co-workers we reached common ground as we "oh-no" speak Japan-glish. I catch my self speaking broken english but sometimes there's no other way to explain things with my limited nihongo skills.
You're right about Poke'mon, every kid wants it. I send alot of stuff back to the niece and nephew in the states.I've lost track of what's new and the latest in Japanimation and I'll get back to you on the latest title I bought which was last year. It has some good 2D-3D intergration, but not as close as Masumiro Shirow's work in "Ghost in the Shell's video shorts" in the made to Playstation videogame. I'm planning on buying SONY's Playstation II which is being released here next month. It's a good buy as I can now watch, buy/rent Region 2 coded DVDs on it also.
Ja attode asylum shimasu..
Joven
Wa! Nani(*.*)... how can you call me "little" when I'm almost 50 years old? (^o^)
Yeah, they seem to care a lot about formality as well as trading business cards and all. So, do they call you "san" at the office? (books say this is like Mr/Ms etc. but really less formal... more like us using first names... dono or sama is more like Mr/Ms). You may enjoy Keichiro's home page http://home.att.net/~keiichiro/ for a perspective from the other side of the coin.Playstation eh? Maybe not video/audiophile but at least you can play games when there's nothing worth watching (maybe some of those dating games that seem popular over there (~_^) )
Summimasen Pamsan,
Gomen ne, I was told that adding "chan" was for indearment. I just add that to all the names of my co-workers since everyone's so nice.
They add the "san" and "kun" at the office. But the funny thing is that everyone either calls me by my first or last name. Since my business card is in nihongo on one side and english on the other with the name sequence vice-versa on both sides they just add san to which ever name. I don't mind, but I haven't been called by both names so much since High School.The Sony Playstation is going to be fun. But for a popular movie to show up on Region 2 DVD a will take a looooong time. Let's say about average 3 to 6 months after being released in the states to appear in theaters here, then the average wait from there to see it on DVD. My friends like watching the Region 1 DVDs that I get before the movies are released here, but they struggle with the english. From watching tons of Japanimation throughout the years without sub-titles or english dub, I can say sub-titles are a blessing, sometimes not perfect but better than nothing.
The TV shows here...hmmmm...the commercials...(~_^) I better stop here.
I'm going to check out Tokyo's MacWorld expo today. Nothing really new but I get to leave work early here on a nice, and cold Friday.
Ja ne
Joven
Quite okay. Tee-hee, I know, also used to make things like Wan-chan which is sort of an affectionate form of "doggie". I just get a real kick out of their contractions like "shuwa-chan" (Calling Arnold Schwarzenegger "little" is just a hoot (^o^)). Anyway, I just had to give you some o-kuso about it (flashed on Tenchi OVA's where Washu tells Ayeka to call her "Little Washu" and Ayeka gets this amazed, irate, amused and confused look and mutters "how can I call her little when she's 20,000 years old!".... a bit of a Peter Pan, that Washu!). Well, I understand the confusion... we print other Asian names like Ho Chi Min and Mao Tse-tung with family name first and given name second, yet we print Japanese names given then family, while they still do it the Chinese way... drives me nuts figuring out which name is which when you see it both ways... maybe they have the same problem with yours? And, they'll often just pick a piece of a long name (I get called Pamu-san). Someone started a trend of Americanizing Japanese names and its just led to some confusion. Ha ha, that's as bad as me watching The Spanish channel when I don't understand a word of it... I do turn off subtitles occasionally just to see how many words I can pick out, but then I'm one of those crazy types that would probably go wandering off into the boonies over there, figuring that hunger and constantly getting lost is a motivational opportunity to pick up the language faster :-)Ah, well, I watch some Japanese shows, news and commercials... Nani... Hentai desu yo! (^o^) Ah well, have fun
I wish you were around the corner so I could rent them from you.
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