Yay, Happy Lesson!
And for dessert, have some lovely Happy Lesson cheesecake wallpaper.
I haven’t actually seen the show, but this page should make you understand why I want to. Watch out for nose bleeds, you pervs
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Originally posted by ekylo:
I've been considering picking up Someday's Dreamers myself. The preview was enough to intrigue me. Have to let my credit card recover a little from this holiday season though...
But have you also got Magic users club too!
Just to get even for telling me about
Someday's Dreamers.
What I really want is a Anime of the month club for the boxed sets.
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Ah yes very cool wallpaper indeed, more good reasons to look forward to this release. They are even releasing the manga version of it soon or volume one anyway, not that it perhaps will be anything like the anime.
Is Magic Users Club an anime too?
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
Ah yes very cool wallpaper indeed, more good reasons to look forward to this release. They are even releasing the manga version of it soon or volume one anyway, not that it perhaps will be anything like the anime.Is Magic Users Club an anime too?
But when humanity is threatened by an alien force so powerful that all of Earth was left helpless, it became clear to anyone with any common sense that no one could ever stand against them. Luckily, our brave Magic User's Club doesn't have much of that...
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I admit it, my interest has been peaked in that anime. Now to save the 81 dollars up to purchase it.
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
I admit it, my interest has been peaked in that anime. Now to save the 81 dollars up to purchase it.
That is for the DVD version. The VHS tapes are a lot less I think for the set.
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Originally posted by woodelf:
That is for the DVD version. The VHS tapes are a lot less I think for the set.
Well I have been having a strange run of extreme good luck with DVD while a run of minor bad luck with VHS for some reason lately. Good suggestion though, still going to save for the DVD.
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
I admit it, my interest has been peaked in that anime. Now to save the 81 dollars up to purchase it.
Magic User's Club/Mahou Tsukai Tai! is a very good anime. In fact, it's one of the better anime that I'd forgotten all about; I need to make a list of things I want to rewatch.
In short, the characters actually develop, things actually happen, and it comes to a real resolution.
Oh, a word of warning: the domestic release decided to obscure the show's original release information. The 6 OVAs were the original work; the TV show came later, and follows the OVAs in terms of continuity. The DVDs totally disregard this, and simply number the episodes "in order", starting with the OVAs and going right through to the TV show. This is the proper order, but it seems kind of...odd.
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Originally posted by woodelf:
But have you also got Magic users club too!
Yes I have. Heck, getting my first DVD drive was more or less driven by the fact that I could only find volume 7 on DVD. It's sad when my anime addiction drives what computer upgrades I do... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
Personally, I liked to OVAs better than the television episodes. Maybe it's the theme song or something. But the television episodes just weren't as enjoyable for me.
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Originally posted by ekylo:
Yes I have. Heck, getting my first DVD drive was more or less driven by the fact that I could only find volume 7 on DVD. It's sad when my anime addiction drives what computer upgrades I do... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]Personally, I liked to OVAs better than the television episodes. Maybe it's the theme song or something. But the television episodes just weren't as enjoyable for me.
I liked it the other way around, only because the OVA was not as fun as the TV version. The TV series also was Too Short [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by woodelf:
I liked it the other way around, only because the OVA was not as fun as the TV version. The TV series also was [b]Too Short [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img][/b]
The TV show is very odd. The characters' high school careers are about to end, so not just the show, but the franchise is most definitely over. They won't all go to the same college and in fact won't graduate at the same time. The interplay between the main cast was such a main focus that without it, there IS no show. Barring some sort of deus ex machina just to get the cast together again, it's not possible to do more.
And yet, it wasn't enough. Unless my fansub translation was incorrect, they almost dealt with the Takeo (sp? main guy) and Sae angle - but they blinked at the last second. There were a number of other changes in the characters, but nothing was totally resolved.
From an odd point of view, this makes it a better show - they ARE only high schoolers, after all - but it's...very odd watching a show that ends properly without pulling an "and then they all lived happily ever after" AND without resolving anything.
I had hoped that at least the manga kept going past the TV show (even though I can't read it), but then I read the manga was made from the anime and not the more usual reverse.
So my opinions on the TV show are divided. I respect it more than I would a show with a more traditional ending, and yet I wanted a more traditional ending. Perhaps that's a sign that it's good art - that the characters managed to touch me so.
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Test: Hmm... Looks like a new registration with the same name as an old one, can edit old posts.
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It sounds like one of those classic endings that so many strive for and so few achieve, leaving you happy and sated and yet still wanting more to see what next happens.
So what you are saying about the release is everything is in order but they don’t distinguish between what was OVA and what was TV show?
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
It sounds like one of those classic endings that so many strive for and so few achieve, leaving you happy and sated and yet still wanting more to see what next happens.So what you are saying about the release is everything is in order but they don't distinguish between what was OVA and what was TV show?
Well just buy it and find out.
The OVA is the first half.
The TV series is the second half.
If you read the discriptions you can tell
what is what.
Cool, okay it makes sense.
I still can’t see what was so great about Takeo that even Aburatsubo was after him. Okay, so it did add to the humor… (I mean, the human broomstick part was just hilarious…)
If you do get it, don’t be thrown off by the prologue in the first disk. Everyone I’ve talked to got confused by it initially.
What confuses people about the prologue? Is it something they say, they way they say it or something else?
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
What confuses people about the prologue? Is it something they say, they way they say it or something else?[This message has been edited by SCDawg (edited 01-03-2004).]
So is that the OVA or TV series first disk? I have VHS tapes so I would not know. Note with the MAGIC USERS club you do need to watch the opening and closing credits.
PS I'd watch it again but my has VCR died.
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Originally posted by woodelf:
So is that the OVA or TV series first disk? I have VHS tapes so I would not know. Note with the MAGIC USERS club you do need to watch the opening and closing credits.PS I'd watch it again but my has VCR died.
I think woodelf said the OVA is first or the first half of the disc. So the opening and the closing actually have plot points that are important to the next story?
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Originally posted by SCDawg:
What confuses people about the prologue? Is it something they say, they way they say it or something else?
In the very begining, it starts out like a war anime. You know, ships, planes, gunfire, stuff like that. Probably pretty far from the cutesy magical girl show you're expecting. I mean, the sequence does explain the back story a little, it's just a little suprising when it starts. Rowena-san even mentions it in her review on her Animetric site as well.
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Originally posted by ekylo:
In the very begining, it starts out like a war anime. You know, ships, planes, gunfire, stuff like that. Probably pretty far from the cutesy magical girl show you're expecting. I mean, the sequence does explain the back story a little, it's just a little suprising when it starts. Rowena-san even mentions it in her review on her Animetric site as well.
Okay, that does sound like something that could be massively confusing, then the prologue is something that is very different then the rest of the anime. I will look forward to seeing this when I can afford it.