Well I guess it did well enough in Japan to warrant a sequel. That good enough for you? Personally I couldn’t really get used to the character designs, plus the fact that the main character is a mass murderer
Lots of things do well enough in Japan for a season 2. Some of them are even good! 
I wasn’t terribly impressed with Angel Tails. It has a cute intro theme 
and that’s really about it. Problem is, with 12 angels, a main character, and 13 episodes’ worth of screen time … even a supremely skilled director would be hard pressed to make something good out of all the angels. Unfortunately they didn’t really do anything good with any of them (at least that I saw). With as many characters as it had in it they would have needed at least 3 or 4 times as many episodes.
And the writing would have needed to be improved. It was a fairly predictable standard shounen harem show, aside from the mass murdering aspect. Nothing special.
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quote:Double Huzzah! RightStuf just announced the release of Maison Ikkoku Box set #5
Originally posted by perigee:
In case anyone else is following the story about the MI release, Viz announced at Comic-Con that the street date for box set #4 is November 23rd. They also said it would be a limited edition available only through Viz and TRSI, leading to speculation that the rest of the series might be in jeopardy due to poor sales.
quote:It looks like us long-suffering MI fans may finally see the rest of this series come to DVD! [preorder link]
Many people have been anxiously anticipating the next release for Rumiko
Takahashi's wonderful romantic-comedy series Maison Ikkoku... well wait no longer.
Under partnership with VIZ - LLC, Maison Ikkoku DVD Box Set 5 will be exclusively
available from The Right Stuf and VIZ's online store!Currently set for release on May 17th, 2005 - the 5th set will contain 12 episodes
on 3 DVDs (episodes 49-61) and will come with both the original Japanese dialogue
with English subtitles and a first-ever dubbed English track!
Yup yup now comes the interesting part as I believe after box 5, none of the episodes had translations or dubs done for them. Let’s see how long it’ll take for box 6 to come out.
Didn’t the VHS dubs end with the episodes in box set #3? I thought that was the reason for the long delay between it and set #4. Also, there has been discussion on the AOD board about new VAs recruited for the remaining releases.
Another alternative to Angel Tales would be the newly release Sister Princess series. In this case, you got 12 would-be sisters instead of reincarnated pets.
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Originally posted by OleGoatweed:
Another alternative to Angel Tales would be the newly release Sister Princess series. In this case, you got 12 would-be sisters instead of reincarnated pets.
This one isn't that great either. Apparently the games are many times better.
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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
This one isn't that great either. Apparently the games are many times better.
Well it was great enough to get sequel just like angel tails [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img] If only we could get the games released here.
I just wanted to let people know who don’t know already about the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children movie coming out.
Trailers and things can be seen at http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dvd/ff7ac.
So far, it looks so much better than Spirits Within. Just wanted to revive this thread, also.
Okay, the link’s working now. Apparently, there was a period at the end of the link address. Oh and that official site’s in Flash, so sorry, Nandemonai.
However, there’s an unofficial English site at http://www.ff7ac.net/. So, people like Nande, can go there.
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I’m getting a big “page not found” from that link.
More importantly Air tv has just started to air in Japan I hear it’s really good.
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Originally posted by wanfu2k1:
More importantly Air tv has just started to air in Japan [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img] I hear it's really good.
It's been airing for a month already. And it is pretty good. I've only seen the first episode, but I'm interested in the rest.
It’s really good. 
I’ve been getting the raws as they air in Japan, and I’m enjoying it a lot.
Plus, Kunisaki Yukito is teh awesome. :>
Well yeah it’s been out for a month, but this thread had been dead for far longer and I didn’t feel like giving it a Phoenix down But now that it’s been revived I feel as I should contribute
Air has been “airing”… LoL, get it? “Airing”. Air… heheh.
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Originally posted by Giovanni:
Air has been "airing"... LoL, get it? "Airing". Air.... heheh.
*whistles for the vampire lemons*
Get him! Bad pun!
:>
AAIIEE!!!
runs away
I know this isn’t anime, but I didn’t really want to start a new topic. I’ve probably started two or three topics since joining. Anyway, has anyone seen this one cooking show called “Dotch Cooking Show”? If you’ve listened to the Ai Yori Aoshi Pine soundtrack, they parodied that show on that one drama track.
But anyway, I got hooked on it. It’s about this show that has seven guests and these two hosts each present a dish. Like this recent one was a choice between Roast Beef and Cold Pork Shabu. And the guests have to vote on which one of the two dishes they want to eat. They try to persuade the guests by showing them the special ingredient and how it got made or grown or whatever the special ingredient is. They vote three times and the last time they vote, whichever side has the most votes gets to eat the dish they chose. The losing side doesn’t eat anything and just watches the winners eat.
It’s a very addictive show, especially when you come from a Japanese family and don’t mind eating most of the stuff they have on. Like one show had Tuna Donburi or Uni Donburi, which is sea urchin and it’s a very unique taste and looks like a brain. So, if you guys receive Asian channels, more specifically that show, I’d suggest you go and watch it. I’ve searched around very little, and it looks almost like it’s shown only in So. Cal. Aside from Japan, of course. I’m sure other networks in other areas and other states have it as well, but Channel 18 in So. Cal. seems to be the popular one.
Wow, this was a long post. I guess I needed someone to talk to or something.
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quote:
Originally posted by Nandemonai:
*whistles for the vampire lemons*
Your punny little Vamipre lemons will never be a match against my Edo-Japan native Ninja lemons...
(WTF?)
and, just to not leave tottaly off-topic-ly(??):
Anime:
Naruto
Shingetsutan Tsukihime
Wolf's Rain
Bleach
Manga:
Bleach
Naruto
Slam Dunk
D.N.Angel (it's been a while since it got licensed but just some time ago i started reading it, i didn't like the anime that much(
Saint Seiya (Yeah, recently got licensed here too)(i'm talking about the manga, the anime was a while ago since was aired on tv)
Saint Seiya G
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2°
Ikkitousen
Rurouni Kenshin
.Hack//DUSK
Nadesico (the Spanish version -From spain- but i'm not able to find more than 2 vol...)
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Those are big posts…