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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    We've gone out of the way to use fansubs for Symphogear, since the Crunchyroll version is almost unwatchable. Also I've acquired TV Nihon's original subs for Kamen Rider Decade, which goes way overboard on the special fonts and animations. It's gonna be great.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Banana new shoe

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Look, I'm not going to say that Birdie Wing hasn't gotten weird yet, but....
    VR Golf and real-life courses that can randomize itself isn't weird enough. Also, more villains like Vipere with a specific schtick minus the inappropriate behaviour towards minors, please.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    The worst thing about the streaming era is shows no longer translating songs. I tried to watch one of the new idol shows, which immediately opens with a completely untranslated song that's obviously supposed to be meaningful and having an effect on the characters hearing it. Fansubs are no help, since now they all just throw the same subs from the streaming site up on their digital copies of the show.

    I swapped over to the new Strike Witches But Singing show, which had the same problem...until I found someone actually fansubbing it, complete with colored stylized fonts and karaoke glowing effects and everything. Thank you for your hard work, you huge weebs.

    I don't think it's so much streaming as the companies being legal and the shows using actual talent for songs/writing.

    Since the lyrics for those songs have a different license than the song itself. So to translate it you'd need to license the lyrics. At least it's an issue I recall from a VN getting translated. So I'd assume anime is similar.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    yeah i love touch-of-love fansub flourishes. when the color of the subtitle matches which color sentai ranger is talking? chef kiss

    I remember watching some fansubs for Penguindrum and they did some funny localisation for one character's lines here and there where he'd just say a meme line (like, literally, 'you mad?') because what he was saying in Japanese was essentially the same sort of thing, and translating it literally would've been kinda dry. The rest of their subs were pretty straightforward but the occasional bizarre meme bit was frankly hilarious and had exactly the desired effect.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Reynolds wrote: »
    The worst thing about the streaming era is shows no longer translating songs. I tried to watch one of the new idol shows, which immediately opens with a completely untranslated song that's obviously supposed to be meaningful and having an effect on the characters hearing it. Fansubs are no help, since now they all just throw the same subs from the streaming site up on their digital copies of the show.

    I swapped over to the new Strike Witches But Singing show, which had the same problem...until I found someone actually fansubbing it, complete with colored stylized fonts and karaoke glowing effects and everything. Thank you for your hard work, you huge weebs.

    I make it a point to do this myself if I like the song enough, but I usually do phonetic versions, and usually for older games, a la:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpM1XhbhIM

    but as anime goes, this one was a crime I had to fix:

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6toer1
    (Durarara OP2)


    Also, I've been watching the fan translation of Macross Frontier, and the official release better go the full nine for the lyrics, since every single episode has at least one song taking place during the story.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited April 13
    With that color scheme I expect Joker and Morgana to show up.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13

    Been a steady seller since its release, big in streaming circles (a good game to react to if nothing else) and fandom circles in japan from what I know

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13

    Been a steady seller since its release, big in streaming circles (a good game to react to if nothing else) and fandom circles in japan from what I know

    I get depressed every time I remember that Cage games actually sell well for some reason

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Cage games serve up exciting setups and moments by the boat load, it's just the detail and theme writing is a never ending trash fire. It's not surprising that people remember how exciting it was to chase a suspect through freeway traffic or having to maintain your cover through a tense conversation and forget how every piece of world building makes zero sense.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Of course it is also an idol manga

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    David Cage had a talented team behind him to his stupid, stupid ideas and writing into pretty but still really stupid ideas.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    David Cage had a talented team behind him to his stupid, stupid ideas and writing into pretty but still really stupid ideas.

    yeah I always wonder what his studio could do with a better writer at the helm

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Detroit written by people who can write could be cool

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Connor and Hank parts of Detroit were actually decent. Charming characters in a well established story archetype. 1/3 kinda decent game surrounded by 2/3 trash fire (though sometimes funny laugh at trash fire) is Quantic Dream’s greatest achievement

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't remember any of the characters names but I'm going to assume you mean the part where Clancy Brown repeatedly kills the Cop-Bot

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    I don't remember any of the characters names but I'm going to assume you mean the part where Clancy Brown repeatedly kills the Cop-Bot

    Yes!

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Anyway yeah there's loads of talented people working on those games in virtually every capacity, they're just chained down by some of the worst writing and story telling I've ever encountered

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Monogatari watch order thoughts, spoilers for Kizu and Owari Second Season
    I only just watched Kizumonogatari after a few weeks of taking a hiatus from well, most media, due to moving, but I felt like where I left off and picked back up was unconventional in a really cool way

    see, I chose to watch Kizu after leaving last month's watch through on Mayoi Hell, when Araragi returns to find Shinobu/Kiss-Shot fully formed and waiting, and that was the moment where I decided "ok I have procrastinated on these films, but i need to know badly what Kiss-Shot's true deal is before going any further"

    and honestly after a couple episodes back into Owari Second Season, that actually felt like a really good place to take a break and dip back in, somehow? might have better ways to put it soon idk

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Connor and Hank parts of Detroit were actually decent. Charming characters in a well established story archetype. 1/3 kinda decent game surrounded by 2/3 trash fire (though sometimes funny laugh at trash fire) is Quantic Dream’s greatest achievement

    I'm waiting for the Heavy Rain manga where the panel just lies to you. Super hard and blatantly.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    The Connor and Hank parts of Detroit were actually decent. Charming characters in a well established story archetype. 1/3 kinda decent game surrounded by 2/3 trash fire (though sometimes funny laugh at trash fire) is Quantic Dream’s greatest achievement

    see, the thing that makes the connor & hank bits good is the actors, not David Cage
    Bryan Dechart and Clancy Brown improvved a lot of scenes and, according to Dechart, David Cage didn't want them to do that

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Whippy wrote: »
    yeah i love touch-of-love fansub flourishes. when the color of the subtitle matches which color sentai ranger is talking? chef kiss

    I started watching fansubbed Kongming and all the colored letters and nice effects and scene lettering, instead of just "white Arial at bottom" are *so* pleasant.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Chainsawman 2-2

    "Hello fellow kids isn't this Chain-saw-man the hippest cat?"

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    rhylith wrote: »
    Ok I fucking love the concept of uncle from another world.

    This is cracking me up so far.

    It's so CHILL I love it.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Really happy y'all are enjoying that one. It's been a favorite of mine in manga form.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I was gonna be real unhappy with Uncle from Another World if
    it was gonna be all like 'women are all cruel to ugly people' so I was glad that was actually just a joke about how he just didn't understand the girl really liked him and was being tsundere at him, and that he didn't pick up on the signals at all because that trope didn't exist in japanese media when he was isekai'd

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    All of Cage's games have fun ideas and good world building, but he badly needs to hire a co-writer or at least a talented editor.

    My favorite of his was definitely Beyond Two Souls, though I fully realize it's a problematic mess.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    david cage doesn't need coworkers he needs to fuck off out of the industry

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Uncle got picked up by Netflix, right?

    Probably going to have to go in on a month sometime down the road to binge through that and a few others...

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    yeah it's a netflix-funded production I think

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    weird how netflix ordered a one episode season of it, though
    yes I know it's more than one episode, i'm making fun of the fact that most of the time netflix animes end up in 'netflix jail' until the series finishes airing

    ...

    there is more than one episode, right?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    there are three episodes out on japanese netflix I think

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yes, three very funny episodes I've definitely watched with my Japanese Netflix account.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I was gonna be real unhappy with Uncle from Another World if
    it was gonna be all like 'women are all cruel to ugly people' so I was glad that was actually just a joke about how he just didn't understand the girl really liked him and was being tsundere at him, and that he didn't pick up on the signals at all because that trope didn't exist in japanese media when he was isekai'd

    Lum existed since 1981.

    Megadrive in '88.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    That was still the joke they went with

    Also is Lum tsundere? I have only seen the movie where they're trapped in a dream world on a giant turtle, but she seemed pretty straightforward in expressing her feelings to protagonist boy.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I've been on a Gundam binge recently. These are all shows I've watched before

    IBO: still really good, if incredibly bittersweet. I'd like them to do more in this universe, just because the emphasis on the very physical combat was so different. Feels like they could do a show about the battle 300 years ago and it'd be real interesting

    Seed: it's okay? Some good, some bad, some bizzare.
    Seed destiny: oh very dear, what a hilarious train wreck. The way Neo gets to just change dudes and no one calls him on his prior actions is big ooof.

    Stargazer: interesting, but too short.

    Re:Rise - about 8 episodes in to my rewatch, save it's still amazing how good this show turned out to be. It's character work is just exceptional

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