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I absolutely love one of the opening themes for D. Gray-Man, but Bleach... did you know the artist for the comic is so lazy as to drawing backgrounds that he gave all the characters the ability to fly so they can fight in the sky?
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Well, I chose the monsters in Sailor Moon because they're are different varieties of them. Youma, Cardians, Droids, Daimons, Lemures, and Phages.
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quote:Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid: I absolutely love one of the opening themes for D. Gray-Man, but Bleach... did you know the artist for the comic is so lazy as to drawing backgrounds that he gave all the characters the ability to fly so they can fight in the sky?
That's kinda clever, actually.
Certainly doesn't seem to have hurt the series' popularity.
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I know, still, it's the same reason I fell out of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, it repeats. The main characters have to fight people to gain the "ultimate" battle move, and then they do it again and again and again...
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quote:Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid: I know, still, it's the same reason I fell out of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, it repeats. The main characters have to fight people to gain the "ultimate" battle move, and then they do it again and again and again...
Oh yeah.
Nobody hits the repeat button like Japan. If the story isn't reset so the characters have to essentially start over again, you get something like the Super Sentai franchise which reboots the same basic formula every year.
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At least with Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena they had the good sense to END it.
Sure, Sailor Moon might have been repetitive, but each season explored and fully explained the history behind her abilities, her past and her ultimate future as the strongest Sailor Senshi, and the brightest light of the universe, whereas Bleach and Pokemon just keeps adding more and more, it never stops.
In Revolutionary Girl Utena, there was only ONE power, and while at the end it didn't recreate the Earth or destroy the major villain, it did something much more important.
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I didn't think to mention this earlier but the site crunchyroll.com offers free, legal streaming of a bunch of anime, including Skip Beat which is my favourite manga. The stuff there isn't super popular, but it covers a lot of genres and has some old classics like Captain Harlock and Black Jack, that I'm going to get around to watching one of these days.
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quote:Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid: I think you mean Xiaolin Showdown, but that was an American cartoon as well.
No, that's a kiddy version. The one I'm thinking of is real people illustrated, sort of. I'll think of it, someday. The title is the main boy's name, a blonde with a white tie around his head.
Has anyone mentioned one of the original series to come from Japan, the one with the space submarine and all of the fighter pilots and the older, gray bearded captain? It was on for quite awhile and very popular.
The thing about Pokemon is that it just doesn't repeat, he goes to a different region, with mostly different people and mostly new pokemon. This year's have been fairly inventive, with new types of pokemon contests and some actual growth in the main characters, Brock, anyway. Yugio grew up, too and has a very dark and involved story.
The Z story I mentioned was DragonBall Z. Dorian loved that show. I still have a couple of his action figures for that show, from McDonalds, I think.
Outdoor Miner - thanks for all of that wonderful info!
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Hmm... a space submarine... something similar comes to mind. Nadia: The Mystery of Blue Water.
The original Yu-Gi-Oh wasn't about the card game. The style was that each episode had this incredibly cruel or mean person doing something to Yugi and his friends. The Millennium Puzzle he wore would bring out Dark Yugi in order to teach that person a lesson with a "shadow game", and usually the person would try to cheat but still lose. Example:
This beautiful but mean teacher with a habit of enforcing strict and stupid rules. Dark Yugi and herself had to play a game of putting a broken mirror back together, but they had to wear blindfolds and gloves. The teacher takes off her blindfold and puts the mirror together. Her punishment: Her beautiful face crumbles like a puzzle and reveals what she looks like on the inside, a withered old hag. From that point, she has to put on heavy amounts of make-up to look like her old self, and any time she tries to act mean or cruel, her face will crack.
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I'm surprised I didn't seen this thread earlier as I'm a huge fan of various manga/anime series.
>Has anyone mentioned one of the original series to come from Japan, the one with the space submarine and all of the fighter pilots and the older, gray bearded captain? It was on for quite awhile and very popular.
Candle your probably thinking of Star Blazers, which was based on the series Space Battleship Yamato, one of Leiji Matsumoto's most famous works.
As for the repetitiveness of various manga and anime it's hardly as if american comics and animation (as well as other countries) aren't guilty of that quite often themselves. We as LOSH fans should especially be keenly aware of that fact.
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