Blog Talkback: Toons of the 2000s: Anime We Hope Never Come to America

Ive never even heard of "Sky Girls"

(Also Im suprised no one responded to my earlier post...I mean I would expect some feedback, be it Negative or otherwise.)


But I digrese, I just hope that Companies will slow down on the niche & Fanservice stuff in the future & give some focus to Older anime series.:anime:
 
You'd think it's horrible, but the main character is such an a-hole throughout the show that more people cheered at the scene than be disgusted.
 
Hey Media Blasters. What happened to that dub of the second half of GGG and where's GGG: Final? Oh that's right, you cared more about freakin' Queen's Blade. :(

In defense, the problem with most of these newer ecchi is that they're all 12-13 episodes and could really care less about the story. Just the pandering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5S8PDguFpg

Now you have. :D
 
Or just wait for the Blu-ray release, at this point. I wonder how it'll fare in the licensing arena. Probably not well if the most comparable Shaft productions are anything to go by.

--Romey
 
Well, the staff working on the article didn't really feel it met top 5 either. Like I said though, so much crap made it over.



Eh, way old stuff has been the only thing that sells worse than over-servicey and over-intellectual titles (shame, cause I like over-intellectual titles, and there are some old gems like Ideon that'd be neat to get boxsetted domestically.) Plus, Japanese companies aren't hustling to move their classics - yet. They are however chopping prices on some of the recent d-grade stuff, allowing it to come in.
 
Well, the description of School Days certainly made it sound awesome, what with the dude getting what comes to him. But, alas.

Exactly who's reading this article? That's a lot of thumbs-downs at the bottom, there. O_o
 
I have to say, this read more like a rant about fanservice, moe and loli. It's true that the three are overrated, and that the shows mentioned are all mediocre at best, but that fact remains that there are many shows that are much worse, or that would cause just as much--if not more--of a negative reaction in the media, especially if you include OVAs.

Imagine if Angel Sanctuary, for instance, got licensed. I personally loved the show, but many did not. First, the plot is rushed, second, it is blasphemous as hell, and third, it has incest. This series, if it got licensed and released, would cause an outcry much more massive than if Chocotto Sister got licensed (and honestly, if they just edited out the fan-service the series would have been a lot better--it certainly had some genuinely dramatic moments, like the pet dying or the man's wife and child's ghost).

As for Kiss X Sis... I can only imagine it getting licensed as porn. There have been plenty of similarly themed smut OVA licensed and released without affair, and I doubt they would be advertising it on daytime TV or anything like that. Kodomo no Jikan would probably cause a outcry, admittedly, but I don't think that justifies the #1 position (personally, I was hoping for Akikan).

School Days was incredibly violent and perverse. That said, it earns major points in originality for not being merely another high school themed harem comedy.
 
I'm repulsed. I mean, killing the jerk is one thing. But the pregnant girl getting killed and the fetus...

Can I go ahead and say it totally figures /a would find that sort of thng endearing? I mean, it just seems like a crapstorm for the sake of "Lawl! People die! We're adult!
 
I dunno, this is some bottom of the barrel stuff.

I mean, I'm still lukewarm on School Days (being the worst of anything and all) but like, Ultimate Girls is just a bad show altogether. Same with Chokotto Sister.
 
Don't.

I watched it after all the comments praising it, and it's so idiotically done it's not even funny.

It's pretty much all the worst aspects of anime rolled into one show.
 
Apparently, School Days has been available in the US on Crunchyroll since April. I just discovered this minutes ago, and double-checked to see if the other 4 were listed (they aren't). And, yes, the final episode is there.

The anime wasn't on the streaming list, so I wondered if "Crunchyroll licensed" counted or y'all just forgot.
 
I disagree with #5 and #1.

If Kodomo no Jikan ever makes it stateside, the R1 company should put out 2 separate releases - an edited and an uncut (under an 18 or 21+ label) version. The show, despite its nudity, is really quite sweet and touching. It's a case of "looks can be deceiving." While tame in comparison, Popotan has been licensed and released twice.

As for School Days, it's only a matter of time until it gets licensed here. It's not if, but when. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's a good "shock value" anime if anything. Higurashi is a "shock value" anime and its done pretty well here.
 
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