What are you Watching?

[greg]

Oh, I know I will. I've watched the entire show already via fansubs. I didn't know that the TV series came out after the movie, though. I figured it was the other way around. The voice actors are different, even. Cobra and Jane were voiced by some rather famous celebrities for the movie. Anyhow, anyone who accuses fansub watchers of being scum who do not support the industry by not purchasing DVDs have not met me. I make a point to buy shows I have enjoyed as fansubs, and there are cases of shows in which I've watched the fansubs, later purchased the DVDs, and simply haven't gotten around to re-watching the shows as DVDs. (Fate/Stay Night, Dirty Pair, and Grenadier are a few I can name at the top of my head.) I still need to buy the Harlock series though. I'm pretty sure I never actually got to see the end and what happens with the Mazone because the fansubbers ceased their work on the show once it got licensed (either that or it was just AnimeSuki's policy to remove the seeds once it became licensed).

Regarding what you said about Nozomi, I just looked at my Lupin box set, since it's the only Discotek series I own (the rest being movies and such), and I saw that it was 23 episodes on 4 DVDs. Does this really show? We haven't watched it yet.

[llj]

Cramming 6 or 7 episodes into one dual layered disc usually is stretching the limit. Most Funimation and Sentai discs do this, as well as Discotek. If they have really good encoders, it won't matter much, but I often see more obvious artifacts and such in Funimation DVDs which are cranked out very quickly. I'd say Discotek takes a bit more care in their disc quality, even if they're using less space.Theoretically, a higher bitrate per episode would result in better video quality. I usually find Nozomi's DVDs have very high video quality compared to other DVD companies based solely on eye test, so my theory is that the higher bitrate per disc does help them.

I also checked my Nozomi DVDs and generally they do use dual layered discs, by the way.

[greg]

I'm up in the mountains for the weekend at the in-laws' place, and I've been hauling ass with the Yamato 2199 fansub episodes. I just finished episode 12. After renting these at Tsutaya and not understanding a lot (plus my non-SF-minded wife didn't really explain much to me), I am understanding everything now.

[ParaParaJMo]

Last episode of Hajime no Ippo Rising aired at 1:35 this morning. I hope they do more seasons in the future. I really love the manga. I will probably watch Shounan Junai Gumi next or just wait until summer for Sailor Moon Crystal

[SteveH]

Gundam Build Fighters is building to an epic climax. I thought "the world can be saved by building Gunpla" was kind of a joke but that may be exactly the direction they're heading!

I mean, when the magical particle dingus goes into overdrive and suddenly a 1/144 scale A Bao Q appears...

[greg]

I mean, when the magical particle dingus goes into overdrive and suddenly a 1/144 scale A Bao Q appears...

Even at 1/144 scale, that has to be pretty huge! I have seen dioramass of A Bau A Qu at the Shizuoka Hobby Show, but they weren't the whole thing.

[Ben]

I just thought I'd mention that I'm working my way through Macross Frontier, and have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, rehashing the love triangle formula again doesn't do much for me, but I like the character designs, the music is fantastic, and the Bajura or whatever they're properly romanized as are an interesting enemy.

[SteveH]

I mean, when the magical particle dingus goes into overdrive and suddenly a 1/144 scale A Bao Q appears...

Even at 1/144 scale, that has to be pretty huge! I have seen dioramass of A Bau A Qu at the Shizuoka Hobby Show, but they weren't the whole thing.

It is very huge. Think Tokyo Dome for the arena, it bust out of the top and is something like 6 stories high over it.

And it had a Colony Laser inside as a hidden weapon! Very video game for the final 'boss'

I don't know why more of my 'circle type' aren't talking about this show. It's so exactly aimed at us, as well as kids.

[davemerrill]

I haven't seen most of the latest anime season. I've missed KILL LA KILL and GUNDAM BUILD FIGHTERS and we only watched the first episode of SPACE DANDY. Haven't seen any of ATTACK ON TITAN. There's a lot to get caught up on and I never have the time.

We've watched our way through the first season of CAT'S EYE and are now working our way through the second series, the one with the completely misleading opening credits. They're still fansubbing BAXINGAR and we're working our way through that, and I wasn't sure how much I was going to like it at first, because I really liked BRYGER and this show is a serious departure thematically, but it's grown on me.

We did see the new CG CAPTAIN HARLOCK movie and while in ways it's a radical departure from the Harlock we've gotten used to, in other ways it gets things right. Still not sold on the weird figure animation, though. They're still stuck in Uncanny Valley. It is, however, a gorgeous spectacle of an outer space movie, full of fleets of space warships and ridiculously exaggerated super-weapons.

[ParaParaJMo]

Well, the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure anime series based on teh first two manga stories are on my list and then I plan to watch Taiyou no Kiba Dougram