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Count's been giving doomsday rants since 2012.

Give it a fucking break already.

GitS intrigues me most the closer it gets to that "Oshii" feel (2nd Gig pulls that off very well for example).

I feel no Oshii-ness from this, so pass.

Dragon Ball Z: Man Of Steel

1 hour ago, PokeNirvash said:

From what I remember, Betterman was the very first 16:9 TV anime. GITS and Paranoia Agent were just among the first 16:9 TV anime to air on [as].

1999? Holy shit...

Well, maybe not holy shit. I heard there were some OVA's released in 1.85.1 on LaserDisc in the 80's.

I think this and SAC were the first anime shows made for widescreen, but I could be mistaken.

4 minutes ago, ben0119 said:

If it is a case of a botched remaster that is quite unfortunate indeed.  I wonder if Funimation's versions look better or if they're the same.  Did they put this on Funimation Now or just releasing Blu-Rays?

Looks like an "animated in 480p LOL ur stuck in SD forever" kinda situation like all other early 2000s anime.

Only way you can really push something like that to higher resolutions is by going frame by frame in Gigapixel AI or something, because the standard QTEC method does jack shit.

Holy shit this hit the Lynch itch.

The perverted investigator guy even pulled a Audrey Horne... like, omg-

I'm gonna resist the urge to look up the rest of the episodes somewhere else and try to just absorb it week for week. I'mma savor this.

10 hours ago, stilgar said:

 

1 hour ago, naraku360 said:

No.

Yes.

5 hours ago, Chapinator-800 said:

So far it’s been a mess, but not the trainwreck I would’ve expected or hoped for.

I guess it’d be worth it because there are only so many shows left due to the COVID-19 delays and you get to see the freckled girl’s buttcrack a number of times.

But writing about it can be underwhelming because it’s messy but not messy enough that you can have a big laugh at it like Mirai Nikki or Kings Game. Maybe when more aliens come in, it’ll get there. 

Future Diary was fucking awesome tho.

42 minutes ago, elfie said:

Or they can get the rights to older anime that have no dub, and spend this coming year dubbing those instead.

Toonami can't dub shows themselves motherfucker.

Although come to think about it, I would like to see a Ghost Stories-style dub for Macross 7.

Spinning round...round...round...round...round...round...round...round...

GET ME OUT OF THIS CAGE

Genesis just put their whole Three Sides Live concert film on YouTube:



Ｉｎ　ｈｉｇｈ　ｄｅｆｉｎｉｔｉｏｎ　悦ギア

Future Diary is the only one of these that exists for me, sorry.

And no 4K / HBO's usual small-ass bitrate.

Don't

3 hours ago, brianycpht said:

So are you shifting now more towards using Kai as the base and just replacing certain characters. I’ve been spot checking the original episodes and have been suprised how characters like Vegeta and Krillin go back and forth between the Z and Kai dubs. How do you choose which version to use?

At this point pretty much.

It just depends on what sounds right. For example, most Frieza's henchmen are the Kai cast (with the exceptions being Jeice & Burter when I get to that point) because their script and performances are just "right" to my ears. At the same time, there's certain points early in Kai where Goku's annoyingly enthusiastic, and I feel like the '05 re-dub is sort of a perfect medium in a lot of those spots. I wanted Linda in there too for at least 1st form Frieza (Chris' will take over for 2nd form & up), but I down-pitched her voice by about 5% just to make her less screechy.

Then there's also cases where Kai has voices from several characters on top of each other, which gets difficult if I'm trying to splice in lines from an older voice actor. In about 95% of those cases I'm lucky and their speaking to the same voice actors, but in those 5% of cases I'll just be stuck with the original voices (It always happens though with minor characters that have like no more than 2 lines).

Then there's runtime to consider [I like to keep it broadcast-length minus the OP & ED] since there's only so many places that feel like a right start/endpoint for an episode and only so many words spoken by Hebert's narration.

Episode 31 - Namek's Defense up:

Splicing all of Frieza's and Gohan's lines in here was A LOT easier than I thought it'd be. The hardest part was finding a right endpoint to the episode, which I think works really well.

13 hours ago, HardcoreHunter said:

I mean I don't think food wars really fits either. Though yeah PA is just depressing and dark. Also if you already know the plot the story isn't all that worth the rewatch. The story revolves around the mystery. When you know everything it just feels like it's overly padded. 

That's like saying Twin Peaks is never worth a rewatch.

5 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

And it's a bit overly pessimistic at this point to assume 2020 will get any worse.

14 hours ago, elfie said:

Oh! Or Gunbuster!

No dub exists.

2 hours ago, elfie said:

With Japan's recent lockdown, I think MANY things of value are lost. Expect a ton more announcements of delayed anime to be made in the coming months.

Evangelion 4.fuck delayed thanks to Corona-chan:

Never seen it, so I'm down for some Lynchian madness.

Episode 30 - The Ruthless Frieza up:

Further honed my skills in matching footage (just realized there's an "equalize" effect tool in Premiere which got me pretty excited). Also an appearance of an insert song that was playing out of Roshi's boombox on the Japanese version, but was deleted in the English dub and replaced by the sound of a newscaster... I found a pretty cool way of circumventing that newscaster problem.