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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #400 on: December 08, 2008, 02:13:23 AM »

And then she'll kill her voice after six episodes.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #401 on: December 08, 2008, 04:55:26 AM »

As much as I love that screen grab for the wondrous implications, on the other hand, I have to say: Japan, serious, cut it out.

Stop with the fucking eyes already.

That shit is creepy.

Blessed relief:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJjbIPqDUg
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...but is it art?

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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #402 on: December 08, 2008, 09:03:40 AM »

Round-eyes draw Beady-eyes, and Slant-eyes draw Bug-eyes.

Oi.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #403 on: December 08, 2008, 09:12:09 AM »

OBJECTION!
 :nyoro~n: :facepalm: :loser: :wheeeee:
Are a few examples.


I don't know if it's noteworthy for doing so, but :over9000: 's work is kind of neat because instead of just going nuts with real facial proportions, he draws HUGE EYEs and puts the rest of the head in pretty close proportion to it. Especially the ears.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #404 on: December 08, 2008, 09:39:26 AM »

And the hair.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #405 on: December 08, 2008, 09:50:20 AM »

There is no sense of proportion to those Rorschach tests he likes to claim are hair.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #406 on: December 08, 2008, 10:09:30 AM »

The hair is purely for character differentiation.  'Cause, you know, everybody has the same damn face.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #407 on: December 08, 2008, 10:17:17 AM »

Some have distinctive facial hair also, and some may even have scars. I think he also uses more than one kind of nose. But other than that, faces that aren't dramatically fatter, older, or younger than each other are identical.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #408 on: December 09, 2008, 06:41:10 PM »

Mass Naked Stupidity Events:













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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #409 on: December 10, 2008, 05:51:02 PM »

You know, the fact that there are over twenty thousand seeds when a new episode of Bleach goes up is pretty indicative of why anime can't seem to combat piracy effectively.

Hopefully the market can make a seamless transition to the Crunchyroll/whatever online subscription format and not splinter into a million little nickel-and-dime pieces.  Because I can pay $5/mo to watch the shows I want.  Five here to watch one, and there to watch another, and way over there for a third... not happening.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #410 on: December 10, 2008, 09:04:22 PM »

...I liked Trigun's dub.   :sadpanda:

It's ok, Brent, I liked it too.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #411 on: December 10, 2008, 09:06:26 PM »

:wub:


...Zangief got deleted?  srsly?
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #412 on: December 10, 2008, 09:13:32 PM »

Zangief is luv
:luv: :luv: :luv:
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #413 on: December 10, 2008, 09:25:01 PM »

I think he used to be wub at the oldhome.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #414 on: December 10, 2008, 09:38:28 PM »

We don't go to Oldholme.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #415 on: December 10, 2008, 09:53:12 PM »

Not without circle saws. Lots and lots of circle saws.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #416 on: December 11, 2008, 09:39:43 PM »

Hopefully the market can make a seamless transition to the Crunchyroll/whatever online subscription format and not splinter into a million little nickel-and-dime pieces.  Because I can pay $5/mo to watch the shows I want.  Five here to watch one, and there to watch another, and way over there for a third... not happening.

I remember cheerleading official anime download services long before they appeared. Another successful JDea.

I've been pessimistic about subscription services, though. I'll buy Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei at $2/episode, sure, because for $2 I get it concurrent with the Japanese release, professionally translated and on a reliable download, none of which are guaranteed by a fansub. It's the same successfull business model of D&D PDF sales, or even Steam.

But subscription, this places you at the mercy of the publishing website. There's diminishing incentive to a single service offering twenty series instead of five; odds are I only like a few series, or only have time to enjoy a few. What will happen there is that you'll see multiple subscription services, each with their own set of series, and you'll have to subscribe to them all to get the shows you want, and put up with whatever idiosyncrasies each publisher settles with - web-only, dodgy subtitle font, encodes in MOV or whatever.

The best solution might be to offer individual episodes for $5, a subscription to a series amounting to $2 or $3 per episode and offered retroactively to subscribers who start mid-way, a series-end sale price meeting or exceeding the subscription price, and a more expensive no-holds-barred monthly license affording access to all series released for its duration.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #417 on: December 11, 2008, 10:10:15 PM »

What will happen there is that you'll see multiple subscription services, each with their own set of series, and you'll have to subscribe to them all to get the shows you want, and put up with whatever idiosyncrasies each publisher settles with - web-only, dodgy subtitle font, encodes in MOV or whatever.

Which, you'll notice, is exactly what I was talking about.

Still, though, if you do the math... $5/ep, or really anything more than $1.25/ep, for every episode of everything is still worse than $5/mo subscription to each individual series, and carries no more guarantee of quality.  Selling it as a package at the end of the run is no different than selling a boxed-set DVD, just more immediate.

Right now Crunchyroll is offering a pretty good deal, and you're pretty much stuck hoping that the deal gets sweeter, and they encompass more, instead of the more probable outcome of several different flavors of the thing with one show you want to watch on each.

...makes no difference to me, of course.  I only watch one show, and it's really gotten pretty terrible.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #418 on: December 15, 2008, 12:24:37 PM »

We don't go to Oldholme.
Some still go there to farm Maou Rivendare's mount.
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Re: Jap Cartoons
« Reply #419 on: December 20, 2008, 03:41:10 PM »



Alright Toradora, alright. You win the season.

Next season, you face-off against Marimite 4, and Minami-Ke 3. Do you have what it takes to overcome such odds?



That still may not be enou-



Oh snaps.


Because I can pay $5/mo to watch the shows I want.

I'd welcome commercial interruptions for free, legitimate streams.
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