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This pretty much sums up Eva.
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Nov 20, 2013 16:09
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Today is always the least enjoyable day.
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Nov 20, 2013 22:15
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His smile is gone for good.
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Nov 21, 2013 00:34
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"No Gendos allowed!" 
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Nov 21, 2013 00:46
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Is that part of some merchandise or just a one-off piece of artwork?
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Nov 21, 2013 02:44
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probably a one-off 
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Nov 21, 2013 03:51
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:"No Gendos allowed!" "Azukas" fits better.
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Nov 21, 2013 04:29
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You must run away.
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Nov 21, 2013 17:13
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On the subject of overlapping series, I just finished RahXephon. It's almost embarassing how derivative it is, but if anyone really wants to see "what if there were a totally unambigious and straightforward version of Evangelion where everyone's nice to Shinji and he turns out to be a compassionate, well-adjusted young man" well, there it is. 
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Nov 22, 2013 03:37
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:On the subject of overlapping series, I just finished RahXephon. I keep meaning to watch that series. Worth it, in your estimation?
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Nov 22, 2013 06:53
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Spiritus Nox posted:I keep meaning to watch that series. Worth it, in your estimation? You could do worse, but you could do a lot better. There are a few good character moments, but the supporting cast has better-developed motivations than the protagonists, who are supposed to be lovers tragically separated by a twelve-year temporal anomaly, but it never shows you anything about their backstory or relationship until the very last episode and as a result just comes off as weird and skeevy. On top of that the main conflict of the show is really weakly portrayed -- there are some unique monster designs, but they never feel viscerally threatening at all, even when they're destroying whole cities. There's kind of a half-hearted attempt to make them only ambiguously evil or hostile, but since you learn almost nothing about their real motivations they just feel blank and incomplete. Someone once described it to me as "unfinished ideas for Eureka Seven that got left on the cutting room floor" which seems apt. That said, for a BONES show it has an unusually coherent ending. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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Nov 22, 2013 07:44
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It also has Episode 19. Rahxephon is, I'd say, above-average but not by much, and has some really creative and amazing mecha designs. The Vermillions are among my favorite Mecha designs ever. They're just damned classy, the sleekness of a fighter jet mixed with a mecha, but also having a significant sci-fi feel. The levels to which it gets wordy, "philosophical", and just jammed up its own arse at times really hurts it though. There's some pretty ugly monologues later in the series, and that purple-haired Rei-alike just loving sucks. The manga is literally completely different from the anime aside from the character designs/names and titular mecha. The plot is much more coherent(and dark), and goes from beginning to end in only three volumes. The ending is a pretty big bummer. I liked it a lot and have the three volumes on my shelf.
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Nov 22, 2013 12:19
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I started Rahxephon for the same reason all those years ago when it came out. It starts out strong and is very interesting initially, but I stopped watching after 7-8 episodes because it just doesn't get all that great.
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Nov 22, 2013 15:36
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Maybe I'm just easily pleased or impressed or maybe it's because it's been quite a while since I've last watched it all through but I quite enjoyed RahXephon (emphasized by the fact that I wrote the ADTRWiki article for it ). I thought it was quite refreshing to not have a mecha anime with everyone having crippling depression, anxiety or massive, almost all-encompassing amounts of teen angst all over the place. There's still a bunch of it from the main protagonist I guess, considering the circumstances. I thought it had just the right helping of "teenager doesn't know what the gently caress" and the resulting angst/crisis or whatever you wanna call it without it being as overly down-your-throat and sometimes immensly confusing as NGE. Personally I also really dug the whole musical theme of everything, from the Dolems to all the other references they put in there. I'd definitely recommend watching it if you like mecha stuff.
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Nov 22, 2013 15:39
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The best part of RahXephon is Hemisphere. And the SRW MX rendition of it.
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Nov 22, 2013 15:41
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They even got Tiffany Grant in on the English dub!
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Nov 23, 2013 03:19
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Someone once described it to me as "unfinished ideas for Eureka Seven that got left on the cutting room floor" which seems apt. Eureka Seven came out three years after RahXephon, so the relation between the shows is a little different.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:17
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The Devil Tesla posted:Eureka Seven came out three years after RahXephon, so the relation between the shows is a little different. Huh, I must be thinking of something else, then. I know it was that exact phrase. EDIT: Probably Xam'd, then, which I still haven't seen.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:20
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3.33 has a release date in the US finally! Too bad it's the 18th of February. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GS1DM2S/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Nov 24, 2013 05:41
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Gaseous Snake posted:3.33 has a release date in the US finally! Too bad it's the 18th of February. Wow, $30-35. That's pretty steep, even for a Blu-Ray. Though I guess the Evangelion Perfect collection is going for close to $200, so who can tell what's reasonable or not anymore.
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Nov 24, 2013 11:18
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At least the US cover doesn't look like total rear end http://www.amazon.de/Evangelion-3-33-Blu-ray-Special-Edition/dp/B00EZCVFGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385293523&sr=8-1&keywords=evangelion+3.33 ugh...
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Nov 24, 2013 12:46
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cafel posted:Wow, $30-35. That's pretty steep, even for a Blu-Ray. Though I guess the Evangelion Perfect collection is going for close to $200, so who can tell what's reasonable or not anymore. All TV editions of Eva are officially out of print. RightStuf and Amazon have been selling through their excess stock this year and all sets finally went out of stock recently. As with high demand products that recently go out of stock and are out-of-print, the prices are high for any remaining copies (see Bandai's stock after everything went out of print/out of stock as well. It doesn't reflect on anything that is in stock or will be in stock shortly like the 3.33 release. In addition, Amazon hasn't applied their usual higher discount to the release as it was just solicited last week. $30-35 USD is the MSRP for the title (just like 2.22). Amazon will have a much cheaper price between now and February since they have a good relationship with Funimation. It's easy to tell what's reasonable if you know what's in stock and what's not. It's not that difficult to find decent deals for Funimation titles.
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Nov 24, 2013 15:20
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cafel posted:Wow, $30-35. That's pretty steep, even for a Blu-Ray. Though I guess the Evangelion Perfect collection is going for close to $200, so who can tell what's reasonable or not anymore.
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Nov 24, 2013 17:59
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Does anyone else feel bad for Matarael? He kinda got a bum deal in this "be a world-shattering nightmare" gig. All his evil brothers and sisters are flying around with crazy designs, destroying the minds of children, leveling entire cities, and generally being awesome. I'm giving a free pass to crazy-dancing-gemini guy and lava-manta-ray guy because they had the decency to take effort to kill. Suddenly, here comes a fat stupid spider that moves at a glacial pace and whose only form of attack requires him to stand perfectly still directly above the target. I understand the point of the episode is to show how vulnerable humanity is without its shiny new god-toys, but any monster that can be defeated by "the electricity not being off" really deserves some sympathy.
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Nov 24, 2013 18:51
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ultimatemegax posted:All TV editions of Eva are officially out of print. RightStuf and Amazon have been selling through their excess stock this year and all sets finally went out of stock recently. As with high demand products that recently go out of stock and are out-of-print, the prices are high for any remaining copies (see Bandai's stock after everything went out of print/out of stock as well. It doesn't reflect on anything that is in stock or will be in stock shortly like the 3.33 release. Y'know, this kind of gets me hoping that Funimation will get the rights for the dub if Gainax (and/or whoever the distributor is Japan-side) decides to do a 20th anniversary remaster, if only to get some new copies in circulation and to bring down the price to something saner.
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Nov 24, 2013 18:57
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Regalingualius posted:Y'know, this kind of gets me hoping that Funimation will get the rights for the dub if Gainax (and/or whoever the distributor is Japan-side) decides to do a 20th anniversary remaster, if only to get some new copies in circulation and to bring down the price to something saner.
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Nov 24, 2013 19:20
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Yeah, I honestly would figured that if anyone new managed to wrangle the rights for the original series stuff, they'd have to re-do the dub from scratch. The reason I was thinking Funimation was because they've already got the rights to Rebuild, and they've also got at least some of the core cast members from the original on their payroll.
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Nov 24, 2013 19:26
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It wouldn't be evangelion without there being some sort of dubbing-related clusterfuck involved, would it?
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Nov 24, 2013 20:06
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Couldn't they just licence the vocal tracks* from Sentai? Sounds like a win-win scenario. I just wish they'd release a better-qaulity version of EoE. The blood in particular looks wrong. *Eva trivia: The vocal track includes the berserk Evas' roaring, which ADV therefore had to redub.
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Nov 24, 2013 21:05
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House Louse posted:*Eva trivia: The vocal track includes the berserk Evas' roaring, which ADV therefore had to redub. Which is a drat shame, because instead of replicating the method by which the roars were made (recording Megumi Hayashibara screaming and then pitching it down) they just inserted some canned siren soundbytes for the Death:Rebirth movie.
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Nov 24, 2013 22:48
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mr. stefan posted:(recording Megumi Hayashibara screaming and then pitching it down)  That is pretty amazing. Is that how they did it in the series, or just for the movies?
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Nov 25, 2013 00:18
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Paracelsus posted:
I'm fairly certain that's the way its always been done, since the example showing it to me (a youtube video that I can't find anymore) was of unit 01 going berserk on Zeruel. From what I can tell of my copies of the episodes, the dub team tried on at least a couple occasions to rip the japanese audio and splice it into the english dub track.
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Nov 25, 2013 02:26
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Definitive version of Cruel Angel Thesis Edit: Posted before  , in my defense I searched for soundclound links but whatever.
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Dec 1, 2013 21:08
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Pro click.
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Dec 1, 2013 21:16
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It was posted a while back, in YouTube form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0
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Dec 1, 2013 21:19
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On the first page, even
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Dec 1, 2013 21:26
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Looks like Funimation will have 3.0 playing in theaters starting January 10th. A trailer with the dub cast has been posted. http://www.funimation.com/blog/?p=2838
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Yushiro posted:Looks like Funimation will have 3.0 playing in theaters starting January 10th. A trailer with the dub cast has been posted. Oh cool that's not too far away from Univ of Washington so I could go and watch that pretty easily. Remind me to rewatch 1.0 and 2.0 to get up to speed on this one. I saw 3.0 few months ago and was eh on it but may give it another go to see if it's any better.
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Yushiro posted:Looks like Funimation will have 3.0 playing in theaters starting January 10th. A trailer with the dub cast has been posted. I'm assuming they haven't listed the Canadian theaters yet? I'm hoping it's in my area (Calgary), or at least within spitting distance.
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