I recently downloaded the anime “Chobits”. IT IS INSANELY GOOD!!! IT has all that a Bishoujo fan wants. CUTE, FUNNY and PERVERTED. GET it while you can.
p.s It just aired in japan…but it is fansubbed.
and also, I saw the preview of Brave soul. In the game, would it have animated fighting cut-scene… It looked so cool in the demo…or it is just a cut-scene of the anime??
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Originally posted by Berserk:
I recently downloaded the anime "Chobits". IT IS INSANELY GOOD!!!! IT has all that a Bishoujo fan wants. CUTE, FUNNY and PERVERTED. GET it while you can.
If you like the anime, try the manga! The English version by TokyoPop is available from PeaPri.
well, since chobits the anime isn’t licensed…it is all right RIGHT?
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Originally posted by Berserk:
well, since chobits the anime isn't licensed....it is all right RIGHT?
I am not sure... Chobits anime didn't get licensed yet. Which TV series or OVAs? I noticed TokyoPop didn't announce Chobits anime. I saw only TokyoPop announced Real High School Bout?, GTO, Love Hina, and Inital D. As I bought GTO Vol 1 DVD, last week.
Chobits the TV series is not yet licensed by an American distributer. As far as I’m concerned, downloading it now is still technically legal.
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Originally posted by Berserk:
CUTE, FUNNY and PERVERTED
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Originally posted by d0rkus:
Chobits the TV series is not yet licensed by an American distributer. As far as I'm concerned, downloading it now is still technically legal.
But that gets into one of the arguments that pirates always are using, that it's not licensed where I live so it's alright. Like our whole point about bishoujo games that are being distributed in the same way. Would it be alright for someone in (and before anyone gets mad, I'm pulling out a country name at random as an example only, I'm not slamming them) Belgium to be distributing Snow Drop because nobody holds the Belgian license for it?
Downloading is never supposed to be legal. These titles explicitly say ‘Not for public broadcast and only for private use’ and to put it up on the net is a violation of that. The companies may not come down on you because the legal charges is not worth it, that’s why there are civil case that don’t treat case by case, but collects hundreds of case together and bring them to court to save on court costs. It’s the right thing to refrain from downloading, although I know the temptation is extremely powerful. My friend, intelligent and all that, has a huge hard drive and all he does is fill its 80 gig capacity with mpg’s of the latest domestically unlicensed anime, despite our numerous attempts to dissuade him, and we are still do try [to dissuade him].
One of my other primary objections of fansubbing and distribution of mpgs, aside from its obvious illegality, is that it often brings only the most popular anime in Japan to people’s attention, and other quality works simply is unknown outside of Japan or ignored. Who would ever learn about Night on the Galactic Railroad if Central Park Media never licensed it? Quite simply one of the most amazing literary work translated to the silverscreen. Also, lesser known titles like Ghost Sweeper Mikami remain in obscurity to many people (though Manga’s delay after delay worsens matter). My friend professes he never even heard about Ghost Sweeper Mikami.
Please, don’t download, express your interest for a series to the companies and they do listen. If they didn’t listen, why would they license so many Anime titles? because the consumer demand exists, and the companies can afford to take gambles on baseball anime, serious dramatic anime, shoujo anime now, instead of bringing just Pokemon or Dragonball Z derivatives.
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Curious, never heard of it besides in passing or what not, what is it about?
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Originally posted by bokmeow:
Also, lesser known titles like Ghost Sweeper Mikami remain in obscurity to many people (though Manga's delay after delay worsens matter). My friend professes he never even heard about Ghost Sweeper Mikami.
I think you might rewrite that as: "Mikami remain in obscurity to many people in the US". Mikami was broadcasted in several countries in Latin America (ditto with Magic Knight Rayearth and Rurouni Kenshin) way before they were licensed in the US. Yamato Takeru, Mahoujin Guru Guru, Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo, are more obscure except those that will not even leave Japanese shores.
Now that I mention it, it is really odd how anime is brough in the US vs. Latin America. In the US, you can only watch mainstream anime on TV (read: Pokemon, DB, DBZ, Digimon, et al), and you must buy DVDs for the rest. In Latin America, there are no, not even ONE (AFAIK), company that are licensing anime for Latin America distribution (unless they have a world-wide type of distribution a la ADV/Evangelion), yet we have a somewhat respectful amount of anime on TV. And yes, those of us who are interested in getting those not broadcasted on TV, we buy it from the US... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
Now, going back to the topic, though we know that it is illegal to download (and I can safely assume, to host) the episodes on Internet, how about exchanging video tapes? A friend of mine used to swap tv series from Europe for Latin America soap operas, and both ends where happy. I guess this is comparing, somewhat, apple and oranges, as this is a one to one exchange, but still is a similar scenario.
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Originally posted by Spectator Beholder:
Hmm... Suddenly a name appears in my mind: Puni Puni Poemi [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
[This message has been edited by Serio (edited 04-13-2002).]
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Originally posted by Serio:
[quote] Originally posted by Spectator Beholder:
[b] Hmm... Suddenly a name appears in my mind: Puni Puni Poemi [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
hey now, Excel Saga wasn’t that bad, it was pretty decent, i do admit that it is out of the norm and sometimes is just down right confusing. But it has its charms, and you just have a open mind about it.
quote:*coff coff coff* May I disagree with that statement? I've been into anime since '89 and I don't agree AT ALL with that affirmation. At the contrary, if you recall r.a.a. and r.a.m. back then, the fans were then "hardcore" fans in the sense they had nothing available by "official" way and have to get everything by themselves at the source. For the same reasons, they were interested by any and every kind of works, since there weren't any "mainstream" anime/manga back then! Those anime weren't licensed back then because there just weren't many US anime companies back then... and none interested by bringing a non-americanized version of an anime (well, AnimEigo, but it was later, in about '91)! Heck! I first heard about GSMikami back then on r.a.m.!
Originally posted by Kumiko Kamiyama:
(...)
GS Mikami was a hugely popular manga story during the 1990s, running over 30 volumes, if memory serves. The TV anime was pretty popular when it was made in the early 90s, but anime was still just getting noticed in the English world back then - all the "fans" were into Macross or Bubblegum Crisis, and Mikami is a very esoteric story from such a point of view.(...)
I won’t agree or diagree, but I will say that today very few people even heard about GS Mikami and various other Anime, and even fewer will probably fight for licensing these titles than say, Neon Genesis Evangelion movies or Digi Charat.
quote:GSM is 10 years old. Doesn't it make sense for a company which want to license an anime today to go to the Japanese companies and ask for their recent releases rather than a 10-years old one? I'm an animefan from that time; I was overjoyed to see series of my childhood being licensed (and, yes, there are: "Wedding Peach" was licensed, "Saint Tail" was, Gundam was, Macross was, City Hunter, Original Dirty Pair, etc.) but I can perfectly understand companies willing to license mostly recent series... Come one, people who lived their anime youth back then, we're old now and have to admit it! ^_^
Originally posted by bokmeow:
I won't agree or diagree, but I will say that today very few people even heard about GS Mikami and various other Anime, and even fewer will probably fight for licensing these titles than say, Neon Genesis Evangelion movies or Digi Charat.
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Originally posted by olf_le_fol:
GSM is 10 years old. Doesn't it make sense for a company which want to license an anime today to go to the Japanese companies and ask for their recent releases rather than a 10-years old one? I'm an animefan from that time; I was overjoyed to see series of my childhood being licensed (and, yes, there are: "Wedding Peach" was licensed, "Saint Tail" was, Gundam was, Macross was, City Hunter, Original Dirty Pair, etc.) but I can perfectly understand companies willing to license mostly recent series... Come one, people who lived their anime youth back then, we're old now and have to admit it! ^_^
Um, my anime youth goes back further than 10 years so I'm definitely starting to feel old now... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
Well, they are planning to bring back the grand-father of all anime (Astro Boy), so why not a 10-20 years old anime?
BTW, the first anime I recall watching was Doraemon, when I was in HK, about 22 years ago… Now, I feel old… -_-
quote:Mine was Grandizer in '78... But I wouldn't call myself an animefan back then, so I'm using '89, since it's when I became an "hardcore" animefan...
Originally posted by fxho:
BTW, the first anime I recall watching was Doraemon, when I was in HK, about 22 years ago... Now, I feel old... -_-
Saw most Tezuka works back then as well... ^^;;;;;
[This message has been edited by olf_le_fol (edited 04-17-2002).]
Well, I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense, but doesn’t it feel somewhat lonely that people are so rabid about the most recent series, get extremely pissed off when it gets delayed, as if it is a right as upstanding American citizens, and no one will even care two shakes of a cat tail about Ghost Sweeper Mikami. A painful analogy that hits even closer to home would be the ‘mainstream’ U.S. gaming fans looking forward to the next Final Fantasy installment, whereas no one except us dedicated Bishoujo gamers eagerly anticipate the next Peach Princess, Himeya or Jast USA release.