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Just spent the last 2 hours racking my brain and scouring my hdd`s to find a certain series.No luck.Hope someone here can suggest a name for me
Set in an old apartment block which houses only otaku girls/Fujoshi??
One of the girls rescues a girl off the street and takes `her` into the house to feed her or something.Turns out the `girl` is a rich guy in drag,who ends up helping them keep their apartment complex from being redeveloped
Not sure if this was Animé or Dorama,i remember watching it about 2 years ago so it is older series rather than new
Really bugging me that I can not for the life of me remember the title :(
 
ANDARIAL said:
Just spent the last 2 hours racking my brain and scouring my hdd`s to find a certain series.No luck.Hope someone here can suggest a name for me
Set in an old apartment block which houses only otaku girls/Fujoshi??
One of the girls rescues a girl off the street and takes `her` into the house to feed her or something.Turns out the `girl` is a rich guy in drag,who ends up helping them keep their apartment complex from being redeveloped
Not sure if this was Animé or Dorama,i remember watching it about 2 years ago so it is older series rather than new
Really bugging me that I can not for the life of me remember the title :(
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Princess Jellyfish?

(I think, I watched the first episode the other week to see what the fuss was about after it was licensed by Funi for release next year and it seems to fit the characters you mention ... although the guy in drag helps the girl save a jellyfish in a pet store which introduces the character if I remember correctly)
 
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Bingo that was it!
Don`t remember too clearly if I liked it or nor,lot of animé under the bridge since then but you know how it is you get a hankering after something and it won`t go away(even worse when you cant remember what it is you are wanting) :)
Cheers mate
 
ANDARIAL said:
Just spent the last 2 hours racking my brain and scouring my hdd`s to find a certain series.No luck.Hope someone here can suggest a name for me
Set in an old apartment block which houses only otaku girls/Fujoshi??
One of the girls rescues a girl off the street and takes `her` into the house to feed her or something.Turns out the `girl` is a rich guy in drag,who ends up helping them keep their apartment complex from being redeveloped
Not sure if this was Animé or Dorama,i remember watching it about 2 years ago so it is older series rather than new
Really bugging me that I can not for the life of me remember the title :(
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By 2 years do you mean 8 months ago? :p

As mentioned it sounds exactly like Kuragehime, which aired in Japan during the Fall 2010 season. It's a nice series, though suffers from pacing issues towards the end and would have really benefited from a few more episodes. Definitely worth watching though.
 
Ok, Eve 2.22 is rather good :D
Just finished watching it, and really enjoyed it, 1,11 seemed to follow the TV series rather closely, but 2.22 seems to be breaking away from the strict TV timeline/story whilst still following the basic story :)

I'm really looking forward to 3.33 or Q or whatever they call it:p
 
Werewolf said:
Ok, Eve 2.22 is rather good :D
Just finished watching it, and really enjoyed it, 1,11 seemed to follow the TV series rather closely, but 2.22 seems to be breaking away from the strict TV timeline/story whilst still following the basic story :)

I'm really looking forward to 3.33 or Q or whatever they call it:p
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Watched both 1.11 & 2.22 on Sunday, and have to agree with you, i really enjoyed both. Also watched the King Of Eden film, why the hell do they cut things off just as something (could) happen and with a relatively short "film". Found it a little annoying tbh (or it could just be me) Just have to wait for the next instalment now.

I was browsing the Blu-Ray and found the trailers on both the 2.22 and King of Eden films. Both films have Australian pirating adverts, are Manga just lazy or is it just a financial thing to not present it for the correct market?

Need some help, i was a bit late in buying Black lagoon Second Barrage, i have volume 1, but 2 & 3 seem to be out of print. Does anyone know of anywhere that has stock? Post links if thats possible or send mail via trust.
Thanks.
 
Re the Aussie anti piracy logo, from memory Manga tend to get Madman in Aus to author most of their discs these days, at least when both Manga and Madman have rights to the title.
It's basically a way of sharing the costs because we're both PAL (important for DVD's), and B countries, so effectively it only requires at most for the disc to be coded 2/4 for a DVD (Madman also used to share authoring with ADV UK back in the day).

IIRC Black Lagoon had a relatively cheap complete second barrage set a while back so you may be able to find that, or even the complete series 1 and 2 set at a reasonable price.

I ended up ordering the complete series of Claymore for ~£8 earlier from the hut :D
 
Werewolf said:
Re the Aussie anti piracy logo, from memory Manga tend to get Madman in Aus to author most of their discs these days, at least when both Manga and Madman have rights to the title.
It's basically a way of sharing the costs because we're both PAL (important for DVD's), and B countries, so effectively it only requires at most for the disc to be coded 2/4 for a DVD (Madman also used to share authoring with ADV UK back in the day).
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I thought it would be a cost saving thing, just seemed a little out of place on a UK disc.

Werewolf said:
IIRC Black Lagoon had a relatively cheap complete second barrage set a while back so you may be able to find that, or even the complete series 1 and 2 set at a reasonable price.
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Can't find anything cheap. Box set from $150. Even saw a $300+ tag for either disc 2 or 3. Looks like i'll just have to keep an eye out on the Bay.


Werewolf said:
I ended up ordering the complete series of Claymore for ~£8 earlier from the hut :D
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Good price, bought it last year when it first came out in a box set. Enjoyed the series, wish i had more time to go back and re watch it, but barely have the time to watch the new stuff i have.
 
BeanBandit said:
Need some help, i was a bit late in buying Black lagoon Second Barrage, i have volume 1, but 2 & 3 seem to be out of print. Does anyone know of anywhere that has stock? Post links if thats possible or send mail via trust.
Thanks.
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Have you tried looking on Amazon Canada? ... searching for Black Lagoon on there returns one copy of volume 3 in stock at 26.99CDN on the first page of results and the second page has volume 2 from a market place seller who look like they may ship internationally for ~52CDN

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Finished re-watching Rideback earlier. Nice action series about an ex-ballerina who ends up mixed up in some things involving Ridebacks which are a kind of combination between a motorbike, a segway and a robot. A reasonable series although the plot could have been better at times. Does look really nice on BD though :)
 
memyselfandi said:
Have you tried looking on Amazon Canada? ... searching for Black Lagoon on there returns one copy of volume 3 in stock at 26.99CDN on the first page of results and the second page has volume 2 from a market place seller who look like they may ship internationally for ~52CDN
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Thanks for that, I had completely forgotten about Amazon Canada. Was just about to order from there when i remembered Madman Entertainment. They have the box set in stock, and should work out a little cheaper than from Canada.

Anyone have any experience with ordering from Madman?
 
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I didn't find it a bad series as such ... it just wasn't very strong and the ending ... well you'll see
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Yeah, having watched it now, I've gotta agree. At the start I was thinking nothing serious but it might be relaxing. By the end I was wondering how the hell they planned something like that seriously.

Disappointing and very poor ending.
 
Ano Hana ending is quite the tearjerker :'(.

You knew everything was leading up to the final episode. Still not up there with the likes of Clannad, but i enjoyed it from start to finish.

That's the trouble with series that hinge on being emotional and dramatic, there is only so much they can do with a 1 cour run.

That's why Clannad will always win in the 'Emotional Slice of Lice' category, as it had 50+ episodes to tell it's story. Nothing will come along to displace it until there is another series that runs for 50+ episodes.

Still Ano Hana was better than a fair few, so i'd probably rank it in the following..

1. Clannad
2. Angel Beats
3. Ano Hana
4. True Tears
4. Kannon
5. Air
 
NuclearWinter said:
By 2 years do you mean 8 months ago? :p

As mentioned it sounds exactly like Kuragehime, which aired in Japan during the Fall 2010 season. It's a nice series, though suffers from pacing issues towards the end and would have really benefited from a few more episodes. Definitely worth watching though.
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Only 8 months ago?Damn looks like the Alzheimers is kicking in :p
Having a rewatch ,up to about ep 6 .I think I remember wishing for a few more eps or another series the first time I watched it
 
Demoniser said:
Ano Hana ending is quite the tearjerker :'(.

You knew everything was leading up to the final episode. Still not up there with the likes of Clannad, but i enjoyed it from start to finish.

That's the trouble with series that hinge on being emotional and dramatic, there is only so much they can do with a 1 cour run.

That's why Clannad will always win in the 'Emotional Slice of Lice' category, as it had 50+ episodes to tell it's story. Nothing will come along to displace it until there is another series that runs for 50+ episodes.

Still Ano Hana was better than a fair few, so i'd probably rank it in the following..

1. Clannad
2. Angel Beats
3. Ano Hana
4. True Tears
4. Kannon
5. Air
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FMA Brotherhood? :P Not very sad per say, had its teary moments but the ending was quite positive really. Still, 64 episodes.
 
SeeKified said:
FMA Brotherhood? :P Not very sad per say, had its teary moments but the ending was quite positive really. Still, 64 episodes.
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I would have mentioned it but it's not really a slice of life show. But i would rank it up there with Clannad and Eureka Seven as those rare examples of shows that had lot's of emotional drama, and were given enough time to tell a great story.
 
Demoniser said:
Ano Hana ending is quite the tearjerker :'(.

You knew everything was leading up to the final episode. Still not up there with the likes of Clannad, but i enjoyed it from start to finish.

That's the trouble with series that hinge on being emotional and dramatic, there is only so much they can do with a 1 cour run.

That's why Clannad will always win in the 'Emotional Slice of Lice' category, as it had 50+ episodes to tell it's story. Nothing will come along to displace it until there is another series that runs for 50+ episodes.

Still Ano Hana was better than a fair few, so i'd probably rank it in the following..

1. Clannad
2. Angel Beats
3. Ano Hana
4. True Tears
4. Kannon
5. Air
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I watched the last episode of Ano Hana earlier ... I think that the reason the series worked very well was due to the story being very "small". We're used to things in this genre which are many layered and, sometimes, quite complex in their stories but Ano Hana has a fairly small, simple, premise and stuck with it without succumbing to the urge to try and expand into more plot elements ... as such it worked really well even as a short single cour series.

You did know what the outcome was going to be before the final episode, hell you could probably guess most of it after the second episode, but it was done very, very well and once you started watching you were glued all the way through to the end of the episode.

I thought the series was very good ... yes they could have done more with more time but what they have got is a good drama series.

Personally I'd rank it higher that Angel Beats but that's just personal choice.
 
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