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Metalface Mark said:
Greetings from LA. Some of the costumes at the anime expo here are utterly fantastic, ill post pics when i return, there must be 3 or 4000 cosplayers all staying in this one hotel, i got in the lift earlier to find paedobear in there already, not often you can say that!

My daughter is off to some competition thing, she's having the time of her life.
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That sounds like great fun :)

It's one of the things I would love to do sometime, go to one of the big US conventions.
 
Finished watching Angelic Layer ... it's good despite the constant "it doesn't matter how nasty someone is, as long as you do your best then they'll come around and you can have fun together".

Watched the unspellable Utawarerumono this weekend from my backlog. Thought it was generally quite good but could have done with the loss of a couple of characters as it all seemed a bit to easy at times.

Watched the first episode of Needless, (don't bother) and the first couple of Sea Story (ok but a bit weak)
 
memyselfandi said:
Finished watching Angelic Layer ... it's good despite the constant "it doesn't matter how nasty someone is, as long as you do your best then they'll come around and you can have fun together"
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It's a good semi-light-hearted series, even if it is very predictable in some areas. And being that it is done by CLAMP, I do love some of the nods, and especially the crossover with Chobits.
 
Well, got the final LE disk for Clannad After Story last week I have the full set. Now if you think about the release of the first series from ADV, two double DVD cases with the series across four disks and minimal extras, certainly no physical ones.

Here's what you get for the R2(J) After Story set, (and this is roughly the same as you could get for the first series) ...

Firstly, two artboxes:



... and they are nice ones, none of this flimsy boxes we have been seeing on R1 releases recently. Nice, solid with a slightly textured finish giving a material like effect.

But why the two boxes, it's only a 26 episode series??? ... here's what you get:



... that's right. You get one box for 8 DVD's the series is released over plus another for the books which come with the volumes, (and if anyone knows where to get the volume 8 LE for the first series for a sensible price then let me know as that had the second artbox for that series and had a really short print run).

The books in the box consist of
- Episode 1 full commented story board
- Episode 1 script
- Interviews with VA's
- Two books of design sketches
- Detailed design drawings for majority of characters, locations, etc
- Fanart/Thank you and congratulation cards

In addition there's been a Dango notebook, two mini jigsaws, yellow flower seeds, Botan cable tidy, Sunohara Hai screaming thing, a pink paw print hanky (not pictured) and a alternate world robot key ring

Slightly different ....
 
Sparky__H said:
30Min Trailer of 2.0 is already about.

memyselfandi - Did you want the fat pack or is that the only way to buy afterstory?
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The above is all of After Story in LE form. You can get it in regular edition whcih just gets you normal DVD cases.

What I am missing is Clannad Volume 8 LE with the LE being the important bit ... and not for a stupid amount of money which is the only amount I've seen it offered for. That will include volume 8 in a crystal, not amway, case, an artbox for the books provided with that series and maybe another extra.

Going rate seems to be >£100, frequently more than twice that ...

That would complete my original Clannad series to match the After Story set above, (currently I have volume 8 of the original series in regular edition transplanted into a case of the correct type to fit the artbox).


edit: on another topic, it would appear that the R2(J) release of MoHS Season 2 may well have English Subs ...
 
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I haven't seen a mention of it here, but has anyone watched any of gintama yet?

I recently watched the first 60 or so available episodes on crunchy roll and i have to say i find it the best shonen series i've seen. It just sems very adult whilst also delivery good humour by the spade.

Just want to know what others think of it really.
 
Phoen1x said:
My copy of Blood The Last Vampire should be arriving in the next few days, planning to get the series after watching that.
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I haven't got round to watching the Anime version of the movie.
I watched the live-action movie last month in the cinema which I though was alright if you didn't take anything seriously :p

Watched the first minute or so of the Anime version and it was the same as the first minute of the live-action film so didn't watch the rest. Will save it for later :)

The series doesn't seem to follow the same line so far which is good :)
 
Smit said:
I haven't got round to watching the Anime version of the movie.
I watched the live-action movie last month in the cinema which I though was alright if you didn't take anything seriously :p
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Often the way with live action Anime conversions :)

Smit said:
Watched the first minute or so of the Anime version and it was the same as the first minute of the live-action film so didn't watch the rest. Will save it for later :)

The series doesn't seem to follow the same line so far which is good :)
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I think it's kind of similar to GitS and GitS:SAC in that they are slightly parallel universes, so not quite the same storyline and/or characters.
 
New series: Canaan, first ep released yesterday - anybody watching this?

Just watched it and it seems like it'll be an awesome girls with guns anime. Beautifully animated, although the first ep doesn't seem to explain exactly what's happening plotwise. There clearly will be a plot though, with synaesthesia playing a major part in it. Just not 100% sure what it is :p The action and gunplay is quite excellent though.
 
Ok just been doing some pre-ordering and i was wondering with Gits 2.0 coming out in EU shortly. Has there been any rumblings of a 3rd gig being made. If so i may lay a very large egg.........
 
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New series: Canaan, first ep released yesterday - anybody watching this?

Just watched it and it seems like it'll be an awesome girls with guns anime. Beautifully animated, although the first ep doesn't seem to explain exactly what's happening plotwise. There clearly will be a plot though, with synaesthesia playing a major part in it. Just not 100% sure what it is :p The action and gunplay is quite excellent though.
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Have it but not had a chance to watch it yet.

Bevysters said:
Ok just been doing some pre-ordering and i was wondering with Gits 2.0 coming out in EU shortly. Has there been any rumblings of a 3rd gig being made. If so i may lay a very large egg.........
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Got the Japanese blu-ray release of Gits 2.0 ... not bad for the most part. Haven't heard anything about a new series though, which would be good, but I wouldn't rule it out.

<insert rude word>, True Tears has slipped till mid-August, along with a couple of weeks delay for Code Geass R2 Pt1 ... it really would be nice if Bandai could release something on time (with working disks). I suspect that this will mean Sola will slip as well otherwise Bandai will have three releases on one day (18/08) which is unlikely.
 
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lsg1r said:
ok I've just watched the eureka 7 film and I'm like, it would have been ok if I hadn't seen the series. Surprisingly I wasn't as badly disappointed as I was expecting to be too.

Now I'm a huge fan of e7 series and rate it as a top 5 type anime so I suppose I was one of the people that the film was aimed at. The problem is that its not e7 enough, they've got the same characters but they're different personalities and considering it was the people that drew you into the story of e7 then thats not a good thing to do.
I can understand why its been done in the way it has (its explained about half way through and I'm not going to go all spoiler on you) and if you watch it as a separate entity based on this then it works fairly well in that context.

I'd also say that if you go into the story expecting a re-imagined series of the original then (think fma etc) I think you would be wrong to do so as I'd class it more as a side story due to the above.

If you've watched e7 then realistically you are going to watch it and I would recommend that you do actually watch it at some point, the re envisaged nirvash is pretty cool although maybe lacking some of the elegance of the series version.

Plus it was rather entertaining trying to spot the bits which were ripped straight from the series and the end style/image of eureka was nice too :)

If I was to give the film a rating out of 10 I'd say a 7 with the series being one of my few 10/10 series. If I hadn't have seen the series then I suspect the film could have been a 9/10 maybe even a 10/10.
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I just finished it myself and found it incredibly weird and ill admit im still a bit confused as to what the hell actually happened throughout the film and the ending felt very evangelion.

I think the film is definitely worth seeing but only after you've seen the entire series for obvious reasons. As a stand alone/add on to the series it works well but i wouldn't say it has the 10/10 status id give the series.

Some of the animation looks really nice and it was funny spotting where they'd cut costs by adding a frame or two from several episodes in the series.
 
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