Flower Mound, TX – April 3, 2009 - FUNimation® Entertainment has acquired digital, broadcast, DVD and merchandising rights to the megahit anime series "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" from Aniplex and debuting on Japan's MBS and TBS nationally at 5:00 pm on April 5th.
Starting Thursday, April 9 at 10:00 a.m. CT, FUNimation will deliver high-quality, free, original Japanese dialogue accompanied by English subtitles, streaming episodes of studio Bones' new Fullmetal Alchemist via www.funimation.com as well as key video-sharing partners.
The first episode aired today, April 5, at 5pm in Japan. Imagine my surprise at 9pm EST when I read about it in the past tense on Wikipedia... Talk about up to the minute breaking news... :lol:
I love this time period... and how the Internet is erasing distance and time. I find as I become more and more hooked on anime as my main source of video entertainment that I'm watching more TV on the computer than on my actual TV...
I got hooked on BLEACH on YouTube, followed it to Dattebayo when they got serious about banning their fansubs from Youtube, which introduced me to the world of Torrents. This took me to Naruto Shippuden, as I'd already watched Naruto (and Bleach) on Cartoon Network and was curious about the sequel. I greatly respect Dattebayo for their decision to stop subbing Shippuden now that Hulu and Crunchyroll are streaming them... it's a good sign for Anime fans that some effort is being made to provide current Japanese releases outside of Japan, even if it's subtitled instead of dubbed. (actually starting to prefer that, if the subbing is done accurately and well.)
I've long been a fan of Big O, Inuyasha, Dragonball/Z, and the other Cartoon Network offerings. Now Hulu and Crunchyroll as well as Funimation are taking us US Anime fans seriously, at least. I've also been watching Guren Lagan (sp?) on SciFi, very strange show...
Of course, the DVR makes it simple... don't know how I lived without it. :)
-Av-
I have the entire series of InuYasha, Ranma ½, Yu Yu Hakusho, Maburaho, Steel Angel Kurumi, Martian Successor Nadesico, Full Metal panic, Card Captor Sakura, Love Hina, Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny, Evangelion Director Cut Editions, Utawarerumono, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Star Ocean EX and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Season 3 of Nanoha hasn't been released here in the US yet but I technicaly still own the entire known released season. :P
On the TV Side, I've seen most of Full Metal Alchemist, Big O, the original Gundam and Ghost in the Shell. Seen some Bleach, have the first season here on DVD and the first season of Rurouni Kenshin. Seen all of s-CRY-ed on Adult Swim too, need to get that on DVD at some point.
I love all the options available in Anime, SciFi, Magic, just plane humor, romance, adventure, etc. I'm not to big of a Gundam fan other than the original and seed versions. I like the seed ones because of all the scifi they put into it. If you go into their technical manuals you find some very interesting stuff in there. Nanoha, while being magic describes everything as 'programs' which gives it a bit of SciFi to it. Full Metal Alchemist is very well done and has some great chemistry/physics behind it. I have the movie which ends the entire series thus far, so I'm wondering what to expect in this new season.
Puny Puny Poemi FTW.
I love Scifi Animes with deeper events like a background paradigm shift.
Ghost in the Shell is nice for that reason.
Peh anime, hate it for so many reasons.
Only anime i ever liked was Zoids.
Never seen the attraction of it myself. but each to their own...
Quote from: TheJamsh on April 06, 2009, 06:53:51 PM
Never seen the attraction of it myself. but each to their own...
You likely haven't seen the good stuff :-P
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 06, 2009, 09:26:24 PM
You likely haven't seen the good stuff :-P
Like Puny Puny Poemi.
Guren Lagan is great. The story is an epic spiral getting large and larger and larger at an ever increasing and incredible rate. Logarithmic scale it is.
I hate that.
I like simple stories. Thats also why i hate most RPGs, too much story.
since no one cares, i shall now list my reasons for why i hate anime.
1: Stories, as i said above, not many things in anime can you just jump in and start enjoying it. Either the story makes no sense from first glance, or you will never understand unless you saw specific episodes.
2: I understand its from Japan but its being dubbed in american, cant we have simpler names? Instead of Alibosdihdeanoi cant we just have Alib or something?
3: Hair, this is probably one the biggest gripes i have. The hair of most people in anime is so very unrealistic to the point of wtf. What kind of girl has 4 ft blue hair that stands perfectly in a position without anything holding it that way?
4: They have too much dialogue. Sure its all drawn, but we have whole minutes where some character is just having an inner monologue talking about things that are so obvious.
5: All the character sets for anime are exactly the same, you got an Emo, a peppy, a happy, a optimistic, etc.
Quote from: cheesepuffly on April 07, 2009, 10:21:44 PM
I hate that.
I like simple stories. Thats also why i hate most RPGs, too much story.
since no one cares, i shall now list my reasons for why i hate anime.
1: Stories, as i said above, not many things in anime can you just jump in and start enjoying it. Either the story makes no sense from first glance, or you will never understand unless you saw specific episodes.
2: I understand its from Japan but its being dubbed in american, cant we have simpler names? Instead of Alibosdihdeanoi cant we just have Alib or something?
3: Hair, this is probably one the biggest gripes i have. The hair of most people in anime is so very unrealistic to the point of wtf. What kind of girl has 4 ft blue hair that stands perfectly in a position without anything holding it that way?
4: They have too much dialogue. Sure its all drawn, but we have whole minutes where some character is just having an inner monologue talking about things that are so obvious.
5: All the character sets for anime are exactly the same, you got an Emo, a peppy, a happy, a optimistic, etc.
Then Puni Puni Poemy is fauxr you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puni_puni_poemi
You misunderstand Cheesy. Its not the content, but the scope. As in, they start in caves and end up fighting in giant galaxy sized robots.
I recall once reading an article that asked "Why is there so much nudity in Anime?". The answer that came back was well written; it explain Anime as being similar to Hollywood where you will find a whole range of items. OOOH, I still have that question/answer saved, so I'll just post it:
QuoteSubject: Why Does Almost All Anime Have Nudity?
January 14th, 2002
Question
Why do most anime have nudity? I love anime but I can't watch most of it because of nudity and sex. And why do they always show what's under their skirts?
Answer
There are two different answers to this question that need to be addressed, or more accurately, the answer first needs to be defined before it is addressed. Anime covers every genre imaginable- from comedy to romance to horror to science-fiction to drama to sports. Anime is also created for all audiences. I don't mean to say that all anime is family friendly but that some anime shows are intended for pre-teen children; some anime are intended for young adult women; some anime are intended for young males; some anime are intended for mature viewers; and some anime is pornographic in nature and intended only for interested adult viewers. Therefore it would be fair to compare the anime industry to the Hollywood film industry. Many Hollywood films include gratuitous nudity, violence, and sex while many others do not. In the same way that it would be a gross overstatement or generalization to say that "almost all" Hollywood movies include nudity, it's not exactly accurate to say that "almost all" anime include nudity. It would be impossible to compile a list of which anime include nudity and which do not, but please take my word for it that there are numerous anime series that do not include any graphic nudity. While it may be taken for granted that some family and children's shows like Detective Conan, One Piece, Rave and Pokemon do not contain any nudity, there are examples of even relatively mature, adult oriented shows like Cowboy Bebop and the new Vampire Hunter D movie do not, in fact, include any graphic nudity or any sex.
The anime that's available in America may seem to be rife with sex and violence, but significant domestic releases such as the films of Studio Ghibli, the aforementioned Cowboy Bebop, the nearly 100 episode long Rurouni Kenshin, Ah! My Goddess, Gundam Wing, the nearly 80 episode long Card Captor Sakura, the nearly 80 episodes of Slayers, the nearly 50 episode long Orange Road and nearly 100 episode long Maison Ikkoku, just to name a few, do not include any nudity. The list of anime available in Japan that do not include any nudity could include thousands of titles. It may seem as though "everything" has nudity, though, because it's natural for domestic translating companies to want to import anime with a heavy exploitation quotient because, after all, sex sells.
This, of course, is the answer to why anime includes so many "panty shots." To a large degree, anime is intended for male viewers, and with the amount of anime that's available in Japan, it's understandable that producers and animators would want to include an occasional "hook" in their anime productions to catch the attention of male viewers. Keep in mind that this sort of "innocent" titillation isn't held in nearly the same degree of taboo in Japan as it is in America. While American culture has developed with a strong sense of shame about nudity and things sexual, Japan is a culture that has developed with socially accepted mixed public bathing and pornographic ukyou-e woodblock printing a cherished form of cultural high art. To minimize Japanese history and culture into a pillow book is of course, absurd and not my intention. These are but two isolated examples taken out of context that, nonetheless, support my point.
It's not exactly appropriate to say that "almost all anime" has nudity as there are more examples in Japan than I can name which do not contain any nudity. Just within the past few months of television anime Fruit Basket, Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Inuyasha, Sugar, Tenshi no Shippo, X, Hikaru no Go, Kokoro Toshokan, Rave, Prince of Tennis, and Cyborg 009 are only a handful of examples of series with no nudity. Anime is Japanese and is made to appeal to Japanese fans and reflect Japanese cultural values, expectations and standards. It's unreasonable to expect Japanese or any culture and its art to compromise itself to suit the tastes of a viewer from a different culture. I can only suggest that if you are offended by nudity and sex in anime, you may want to be more selective in what you watch.
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I used to like Cardcaptors when I was about 9, and I still have no idea why...
Going back to the dialog, some of it is really weird... expect the unexpected... WTF? :lol:
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 07, 2009, 11:19:48 PM
You misunderstand Cheesy. Its not the content, but the scope. As in, they start in caves and end up fighting in giant galaxy sized robots.
Yeah but thats the same thing as the theory of evolution but i do not see any anime about that.
Or i can just play Spore.
Quote from: cheesepuffly on April 08, 2009, 02:43:48 PM
Yeah but thats the same thing as the theory of evolution but i do not see any anime about that.
Or i can just play Spore.
Actually, it is about Spiral Beings, those being with double helix DNA. Evolution is a topic in the anime, though it is purposely an interesting science fiction view.
To understand Anime you have to at least try to understand the Japanese culture. For one thing it's very male-dominant and age-specific. So, basically older males run the world there... and of course it's both technologically addicted (cool toys) AND spiritually diverse.
This gives rise to lots of young-looking (even if not actually young), scantily clad women wearing childish-looking clothes, flashing bits of cleavage and panties if not actually running around naked, using high-tech gadgets while performing amazing feats of magic and, quite often, gymnastic moves that would snap the spine of any Olympic gymnast. (That is, when the young-looking women aren't actual spirits, robots, or aliens themselves...)
Keep that in mind while watching Kagome and Inuyasha, the Sailor Scouts, the Card Captor girls, the Major and Bato and the Tachkomas, etc.. Lots of girls in school uniforms with short skirts, fantastic demons, curvy cyborgs, and full on insectoid robots... all running around fighting others of that list.
It's usually all over the top, showy, and overly linguistic (shouting the name of the move to increase the move's power, or yelling the name of the character or enemy while striking a cool pose) while at the same time being either really obvious or a total shock...
Now, I tend to like the ones that have giant robots or other high tech (GITS, Big O, Voltron, Gurren/Lagan), full out magic (Inuyasha, Death Note, Bleach, FMA), lots of fighting (all of them) all the while while having some sort of interesting or different outlook on society and/or reality.
The internet is opening up new opportunities for us Anime newbs, where before you were stuck with whatever you could borrow, afford at Best Buy, or watch on Cartoon Network. I've been browsing Hulu and Crunchyroll and have found some very interesting shows (Linebarrels of Iron, Blue Gender), which while not always understandably translated for Americans can at least be paused or reviewed until you understand what's going on... :lol:
I've found I prefer Subbed to Dubbed most of the time, although Bleach and FMA are a cut above some of the others where that's concerned, and of course I can do without Cartoon Network cutting and slashing, making blood black, rewording conversations and otherwise just dropping 'objectionable' content. But then, I don't have the usual 'Americanized' outlook on this stuff... I don't need it cleaned of sexuality OR made needlessly violent, which is what a lot of foreigners think is necessary for Americanized TV.
-Av-
Less fighting more thinking, then again I saw this a bit ago: Kino's Journey (Kino no Tabi)
Quantum scifi stuff: Noein (Also has a coming of age story in there.) Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaQIedxf4ZE)
Daiguard is pretty good to, kinda funny, giants robot, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapwFU9sGYA
I understand the Japanese culture fine, heck i wanted to learn Japanese instead of Spanish this year but yeah.
The point is, i prefer cartoons, adult or kid ones.
They are a bit more open minded, er more variety in what happens.
Im not saying all anime plots are the same, but the are very similar
Family Guy FTW!!!
I wish the telly wasnt busy when family guy's on. I get The Simpsons instead. Still good, though.
check PM ahad
Quote from: TheJamsh on April 09, 2009, 07:31:18 PM
Family Guy FTW!!!
American Dad FTW!!! (beats the crap out of *insert random anime show here*
You've DEFINITELY been watching the wrong anime.
Quote from: Avatar on April 08, 2009, 11:48:20 PM
Keep that in mind while watching Kagome and Inuyasha, the Sailor Scouts, the Card Captor girls, the Major and Bato and the Tachkomas, etc.. Lots of girls in school uniforms with short skirts, fantastic demons, curvy cyborgs, and full on insectoid robots... all running around fighting others of that list.
Kagome has a physics defying short skirt. No matter how much wind is going on or if she is falling, the skirt never goes up. This was done intentionally by the original staff, not something that happened on its way to the US.
And lets not forget Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, 10 year olds playing with magic equivalent to nukes. :D
Cartoon Network's censor base is somewhat depending on the time space the show is on. Non-Adult Swim at 5am Sunday morning, don't think they have it anymore, but that showed Gundam Seed. There was some cuts made, usually if someone was about to explode spewing guts all over the place and a little less dirty mouth, but compared to censoring else where, it was by far the least I have ever seen CN do. Adult Swim on CN is even better, they censor only what is absolutely necessary by law.
I also prefer subtitles and Japanese audio compared to dub. Allot of anime I have the dub just lacks emotion, its empty and shallow. Sometimes it is down right horrible with them trying to mimic the Japanese voice. This isn't to say dubbing hasn't made progress; InuYasha, Full Metal Panic, Full Metal Alchemist, Gundam Seed and Martian Successor Nadesico are good examples where the dub quality wasn't bad. Not AS good as the original Japanese voice acting, but a sign of progress. Although at the same time, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Ranma ½, Maison Ikkoku and Angelic Layer were just HORRIBLE in dub quality. *shivers* I do bare through it though as I like to watch an Anime in both English and Japanese, I find the differences between the two to be interesting.
Oh an "Family Guy" and "American Dad" are not Anime's. :P
I know that, im not stupid.
Still prefer that to almost all anime, except Zoids.
I think CN's light touch re: censorship and/or reworking is something that's growing, as they take anime fans more seriously. They're not cartoons, for kids, they're an adult form of art that can depict things otherwise very costly or impossible through any other visual medium.
I think this will continue, possibly thru the internet only, as they realize that it's adults that want to watch these things WITH the adult content. I can handle actually seeing someone's head cut off, realize that blood is red, and can handle major characters being killed in action.
Extra points for figuring out where this came from:
"Sgt. Knox got out right after you did!"... um, yeah, sure... (this sort of thing actually ends up detracting from the sacrifice the character makes for his friends, btw...)
I love it, though, that it's all going so mainstream and is being accepted/embraced by so many new fans. :)
-Av-
I don't mind guts as long as it pertains to the plot. Certain Anime's are too dark for my taste. But I can sit through the Director's Cut of Evangelion and still hold my lunch so I have good tolerance for that stuff. On exclusive adult anime (Hentai), I do draw the line at guro content though. It discussed me so I carefully tread through galleries with special searches to avoid that crap. It is funny though that in Japan they censor the genitals but allow guro.
CN censors out most of the blood in Naruto but at the same time, they are aiming to show this to 10 year olds. While Adult Swim starts usually at 11pm and gives the nice "The following is for mature audience, viewer discretion is advice" warning. I believe CN actually rates their shows as well so in theory if you actually had parents who gave a damn and took the time, could program their TV's V-Chip to filter out shows based on rating. At the very least, you could set your TV system to block CN during the time block Adult Swim airs on.
And isn't that from Starblazers?
I am curious though cheesepuffly, if you like Zoids, why not any similar Anime's like Gundam Seed or Martian Successor Nadesico? Is it because of plot, which Zoids does have, at least from what I've seen. So I'm slightly confused to what Zoids is offering (or not offering) to you that you like.
Well, for one thing, i know gundam, not sure about martian but they both, as with most, feature HUMAN like robots. Zoids offered animals. Which are superior to humans anyway.
The Simpsons,Family guy and South Park are dysfunction family people.
Quote from: cheesepuffly on April 10, 2009, 02:33:30 AM
Well, for one thing, i know gundam, not sure about martian but they both, as with most, feature HUMAN like robots. Zoids offered animals. Which are superior to humans anyway.
While I disagree with that, you obviously have not seen Gundam Seed. There are several mobile suits based off animal forms instead of human forms.
Several, but i assume they were not the main feature right?
Besides, another thing i liked was atleast in Zoids New Century, there really were no magical mystical junk other than that the Liger Zero could pilot itself but meh.
That's not so strange in Anime, as they seem to believe there IS a ghost in the shell... :) for example Big O is alive, apparently, or at least sentient enough to do some things on it's own.
I don't find that at all strange in an ultra-advanced futuristic mechanoid marvel like some of these Anime feature. I think in the future it'll be odd if your vehicle doesn't have some autonomic-type reactions at times. Imagine piloting something that dodges for you intelligently, so you still have control but don't get hit by too many weapons for your human mind to avoid...
I confess I find it odd that so many Mechs are humanoid... bulldozers don't look like giant humans with giant shovels, tanks don't look like giant humans with giant rifles, and I'm a firm believer in form following function. The only advantage to using the human form in a mechanoid is to allow it to use human devices, or to otherwise duplicate an action the way a human would. So I can see humanoid robots but am baffled by the giant versions fighting on the battlefield.
But then I'm not Japanese. Probably seems perfectly logical to them, and it will to us when their army of Gundams rolls over the globe in 2015... :)
-Av-
Zaft in Gundam Seed Destiny used non-humanoid mobile suits when a humanoid mobile suit did not fit the job correctly, such as fighting on desert terrain. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJphRMAMbJs&feature=related
Oh and, the Zoid units were rendered in 3d which made it kinda cool. Was there a Gundam series with that?
Yeah, it's called Puni Puni Poemi.
Quote from: cheesepuffly on April 11, 2009, 12:40:09 PM
Oh and, the Zoid units were rendered in 3d which made it kinda cool. Was there a Gundam series with that?
Anything modern is computer assisted at least.
assisted but gundams still looked drawn (not that theres anything wrong with that)
Quote from: cheesepuffly on April 11, 2009, 08:14:41 PM
assisted but gundams still looked drawn (not that theres anything wrong with that)
So did the Zoids 99% of the time to me, Chaotic Century and the one w/ Liger Zero.
EDIT: For Gundum, here you can kinda see the 3D:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48wic_gundam00-17-gundamthrone-gnmegalaun_shortfilms
They have gotten MUCH better at hiding it.
Liger zero was New Century i think.
But er no, the zoids themselves were the only things that were in 3d
the battlefields, weapon effects, and people were not in 3d.
Quote from: cheesepuffly on April 11, 2009, 11:43:40 PM
But er no, the zoids themselves were the only things that were in 3d
the battlefields, weapon effects, and people were not in 3d.
I was NEVER confused about that. There is no need to point that out. That does not change what I said. :-P
Or does it :-o