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wow - thanks for the v informative reply :)

Yeah even though in general I usually only like sci-fi type stuff - I've heard people lauding Rose Of Versailles and Ashita No Joe so much that I think I will definitely check them out thanks - I don't really read Manga much but I might have a look at some of that stuff - yeh the Heavy Metal feel seems to translate even into the Cobra film IMO, no wonder it's apparently so massive in France...

thanks again for the info :D
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Just got done watching Macross II: Lovers Again. Kinda silly at times, but the character designs and animation were pretty incredible. Pretty high melodrama like Macross, but it kinda lacks some of the reasoning and sense as the original series. Still, it was fun, pretty, and the girlies were cute. :mrgreen: Now to finish the Shuten Doji OVA. Hail Go Nagai.
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Raytrace wrote:Yeah even though in general I usually only like sci-fi type stuff...
I could make some boner fide Sci-Fi recommendations of anime that includes those gridline sequences, streaming flickering lights, and stretched out motion/movements and angles. They were animated around the same time as Cobra: From the early to mid 80s (also the peak era of New Wave/Italo/Euro Disco synth music... which was also used as BGM for a lot of these cartoons!). Most are not officially available nor are they distributed by fans, and some are really hard to find.

Check out Laserion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52uNiIHsImM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgV-fuioXrg

Arbegas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bed2FmlGQOU

Captain Future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjhpETolG0

Ulysses 31 (I still rank it as one of the best television series I have ever seen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

Machine Robo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0BiI5n ... re=related
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xbl0x180 wrote:
Raytrace wrote:Yeah even though in general I usually only like sci-fi type stuff...
I could make some boner fide Sci-Fi recommendations of anime that includes those gridline sequences, streaming flickering lights, and stretched out motion/movements and angles. They were animated around the same time as Cobra: From the early to mid 80s (also the peak era of New Wave/Italo/Euro Disco synth music... which was also used as BGM for a lot of these cartoons!). Most are not officially available nor are they distributed by fans, and some are really hard to find.

Check out Laserion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52uNiIHsImM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgV-fuioXrg

Arbegas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bed2FmlGQOU

Captain Future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjhpETolG0

Ulysses 31 (I still rank it as one of the best television series I have ever seen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

Machine Robo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0BiI5n ... re=related
cool stuff man - I'll check them all out - I'm actually d/ling Ulysses 31 atm - I remember it from my childhood - that and the one with the big nose guys going round the human body :p

PS - Just checked all those intros out - I think I'll like every single one :p

and yes you are right - the two which I was most interested in with the 2 coolest intros (Laserion and Arbegas), I cannot 'find' anywhere :|

Machine Robo and Captain Future are 'there' though :p

yeah I love all those analogue blips in those old sountracks - Ideon had loads of them too
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managed to find Laserion - only in Italian though :'(

@ xbl0x180 - do you have VHS's of Laserion and Arbegas - and are they subbed?
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Hahaha. I told ye these were not easy to find. I haven't tried in a long time. Actually, I didn't know the name Arbegas until a dude here mentioned it in this thred some pages back. I always assumed it was "the 3rd Voltron" without a proper name. There may be bootlegs of a lot of these programmes, but they're in Spanish. I'm not keen on searching for them in Mexico... and Chilean bootleggers don't deal with North American addresses and dollars 8)
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xbl0x180 wrote:Hahaha. I told ye these were not easy to find. I haven't tried in a long time. Actually, I didn't know the name Arbegas until a dude here mentioned it in this thred some pages back. I always assumed it was "the 3rd Voltron" without a proper name. There may be bootlegs of a lot of these programmes, but they're in Spanish. I'm not keen on searching for them in Mexico... and Chilean bootleggers don't deal with North American addresses and dollars 8)
I see yeah I had to go through loads of name variations to find the little that I did :p -so did you ever actually see the whole series of these or have you just seen the intros? (or were they on TV when you were younger) ?

does anyone know any fansub groups they could beg to sub the Italian Laserion for us? :D
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Raytrace wrote:
xbl0x180 wrote:Hahaha. I told ye these were not easy to find. I haven't tried in a long time. Actually, I didn't know the name Arbegas until a dude here mentioned it in this thred some pages back. I always assumed it was "the 3rd Voltron" without a proper name. There may be bootlegs of a lot of these programmes, but they're in Spanish. I'm not keen on searching for them in Mexico... and Chilean bootleggers don't deal with North American addresses and dollars 8)
I see yeah I had to go through loads of name variations to find the little that I did :p -so did you ever actually see the whole series of these or have you just seen the intros? (or were they on TV when you were younger) ?

does anyone know any fansub groups they could beg to sub the Italian Laserion for us? :D
I used to watch these shows when I was a kid (except for Machine Robo). For the most part, I began collecting anime because of nostalgia. These series were famous and were dubbed into multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Farsi, Arabic, Corean, Chinese, and... Italian 8)

Hahah. I WISH I could find an English subbed version of Laserion. I tells ya, the best I could probably do is find the whole series in Spanish.
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Yeah, all that really exists at the moment for Ulysses 31 is the dubbed English...which is unbearable.
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drauch wrote:Yeah, all that really exists at the moment for Ulysses 31 is the dubbed English...which is unbearable.
The French and Spanish dubs were really good. For example, the voice of Zeus was done slower and deeper, using formal language, and the voice of Telemachus was done as if he were a teenager rather than a little boy. Actually, I will only watch the Latin American dub (not the one from Spain or Mexico); it's one of the raer instances when I like the dub 8)
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xbl0x180 wrote:
Raytrace wrote:
xbl0x180 wrote:Hahaha. I told ye these were not easy to find. I haven't tried in a long time. Actually, I didn't know the name Arbegas until a dude here mentioned it in this thred some pages back. I always assumed it was "the 3rd Voltron" without a proper name. There may be bootlegs of a lot of these programmes, but they're in Spanish. I'm not keen on searching for them in Mexico... and Chilean bootleggers don't deal with North American addresses and dollars 8)
I see yeah I had to go through loads of name variations to find the little that I did :p -so did you ever actually see the whole series of these or have you just seen the intros? (or were they on TV when you were younger) ?

does anyone know any fansub groups they could beg to sub the Italian Laserion for us? :D
I used to watch these shows when I was a kid (except for Machine Robo). For the most part, I began collecting anime because of nostalgia. These series were famous and were dubbed into multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Farsi, Arabic, Corean, Chinese, and... Italian 8)

Hahah. I WISH I could find an English subbed version of Laserion. I tells ya, the best I could probably do is find the whole series in Spanish.

seriously let's try and get someone to sub from the Italian - actually I know an Italian who's mad into anime - I might try and force him to translate it for me haha - no doubt it takes AGES though :s
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drauch wrote:Yeah, all that really exists at the moment for Ulysses 31 is the dubbed English...which is unbearable.
yeah it is pretty bad - however I can kinda handle it because that's how I saw it on TV when I was young so the nostalgia factor counteracts the horror ;p
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drauch wrote:Yeah, all that really exists at the moment for Ulysses 31 is the dubbed English...which is unbearable.
The French and Spanish dubs were really good. For example, the voice of Zeus was done slower and deeper, using formal language, and the voice of Telemachus was done as if he were a teenager rather than a little boy. Actually, I will only watch the Latin American dub (not the one from Spain or Mexico); it's one of the raer instances when I like the dub 8)
I take it you can speak Spanish ? - actually I can pretty much understand French usually so in future if something is utter hard to find, I might try looking for a French dub and see if I can handle it :p
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Lupin the Third is back! 4th April 2012 is the start of the 13ep series. Directed by Sayo Yamamoto.
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xbl0x180 wrote:
drauch wrote:Yeah, all that really exists at the moment for Ulysses 31 is the dubbed English...which is unbearable.
The French and Spanish dubs were really good. For example, the voice of Zeus was done slower and deeper, using formal language, and the voice of Telemachus was done as if he were a teenager rather than a little boy. Actually, I will only watch the Latin American dub (not the one from Spain or Mexico); it's one of the raer instances when I like the dub 8)
Really? Well, news for you, Arbegas was dubbed to spanish down here in Argentina, that's why it might sound different from the spanish from Spain and the spanish from Mexico. They even left the "gan gan gan" and "jin jin jin" of the opening, lol, something I pretty sure I mentioned before because I'm like a broken record when it comes to stuff I like. And what a motherfucking kickass opening it had! Can't forget the "Rayo Custodio" cutting space demons in HALF, hell yeah, no cover bitchez. I grew up watching it along with Robotech (I know it was the watered down version, years later they showed the DYRL movie unaltered) and Transformers and all that stuff. There was a bunch of crazy anime back then, even Candy Candy, Saint Seiya (where initially they put a totally made up spanish from Spain opening that was incredibly lulz worthy, later on they just left Pegasus Fantasy ftw). Ok, nostalgia attack inbound.

I heard the Sailor Moon dub was held in high regard too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2aXYJsOasc (This was done in Mexico, also shown down here and another one of my childhood)

So, yeah, any of you does speak spanish? Just wondering. I do speak very basic italian, heh. Che cosa fai oggi? Siamo tutto bene nel forum degli shmuckmups!

English is overrated. :P
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Observer wrote:
xbl0x180 wrote:
drauch wrote:Yeah, all that really exists at the moment for Ulysses 31 is the dubbed English...which is unbearable.
The French and Spanish dubs were really good. For example, the voice of Zeus was done slower and deeper, using formal language, and the voice of Telemachus was done as if he were a teenager rather than a little boy. Actually, I will only watch the Latin American dub (not the one from Spain or Mexico); it's one of the raer instances when I like the dub 8)
Really? Well, news for you, Arbegas was dubbed to spanish down here in Argentina, that's why it might sound different from the spanish from Spain and the spanish from Mexico. They even left the "gan gan gan" and "jin jin jin" of the opening, lol, something I pretty sure I mentioned before because I'm like a broken record when it comes to stuff I like. And what a motherfucking kickass opening it had! Can't forget the "Rayo Custodio" cutting space demons in HALF, hell yeah, no cover bitchez. I grew up watching it along with Robotech (I know it was the watered down version, years later they showed the DYRL movie unaltered) and Transformers and all that stuff. There was a bunch of crazy anime back then, even Candy Candy, Saint Seiya (where initially they put a totally made up spanish from Spain opening that was incredibly lulz worthy, later on they just left Pegasus Fantasy ftw). Ok, nostalgia attack inbound.

I heard the Sailor Moon dub was held in high regard too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2aXYJsOasc (This was done in Mexico, also shown down here and another one of my childhood)

So, yeah, any of you does speak spanish? Just wondering. I do speak very basic italian, heh. Che cosa fai oggi? Siamo tutto bene nel forum degli shmuckmups!

English is overrated. :P
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Yeah, I speak Spanish and I grew up watching anime dubbed in Spanish. The best ones were dubbed in South America. I don't like Mexican or Spanish accents - one has way too much local slang (with spanglish thrown in) and the other has an annoying, weird lisp I can't get past and they use formal conjugations from "vosotros," which is the equivalent of using "thee," "thy," and "thou" in English, but only in a really obnoxious manner.

I don't speak Italian. I just know the words that cross over into the other romance languages just like with Portuguese and a few French words 8)
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I am Italian, so I speak...my dialect (Aquilan) and Italian as a Lingua Franca.

I speak good Spanish but I have vague Madrid accent, as I studied with lectures from there. I had a good Portuguese Portuguese and French, when I practiced.

I remember watching Kenshin in Spanish as form of practice, but I found the dub not too good. I grew to hate Italian dubs as they tend to remove all quirky acting aspects of original actors: ironically, dub actors tend to speak accent-free Italian.

I have been told that Brazilian dubs are usually quite good, anyone can confirm?
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Well, I would need a brazilian to confirm it but I recall watching Saint Seiya and another series similar to it via O Globo (I think that was the channel back then) and it was pretty damn good.

Kenshin was dubbed in Colombia and it's indeed regarded as a pretty awful dub, close to those done in Venezuela (where the majority of the last batch of anime from Animax, before that bitch from Sony took control and killed it, was dubbed there). By then, people were already shifting towards the Internet and beginning for subbed anime on TV, something that happened thanks to a channel called Locomotion but it didn't last too long.
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Venezuela should just stick to making telenovelas, although Brasil makes the best ones as well 8)
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Yeah, I used to watch anime such as Ulysses 31, Captain Cantella, Treasure Island (the 1978 anime series produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha) & Conan (aka Future Boy Conan in Japan) dubbed in Spanish back in the mid-1980s. Quite a dramatic departure from watching Robotech, Transzor-Z, Voltron, etc. back in the day.

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Aye, that was back when Univision had children's programming. I managed to maintain watching anime when I emigrated into the U.S. in the last years they were showing those cartoons, as well as Remi and that cartoon with the big-nosed critters that travel through the body :mrgreen:

Addendum: Univision soon went to s*** a few years later showing a lot of retarded shows 8)
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xbl0x180 wrote:Aye, that was back when Univision had children's programming. I managed to maintain watching anime when I emigrated into the U.S. in the last years they were showing those cartoons, as well as Remi and that cartoon with the big-nosed critters that travel through the body :mrgreen:

Addendum: Univision soon went to s*** a few years later showing a lot of retarded shows 8)
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It's like every TV channel eventually went and boycotted anime out until, with the sorry death of the empty shell Animax LA became, things definitively went down the drain and everyone shifted to the interweb.
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The cool thing about Spanish dubs from Argentina is that the voice acting was really good and there was no distinct accent! They were very detailed down to the theme songs, which sounded similar to the Japanese songs.

Candy Candy

Japanese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYnmSra3os

Spanish (Argentina):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX5fACaH ... re=related

Remi

Japanese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjb1oVJYZIw

Spanish (Argentina):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DcBt72 ... re=related


Any other kind of Spanish dub is horrible and I would consider them the equivalent to the majority of English dubs; therefore, I avoid them at all costs. I actually have the bootleg Candy Candy box set with the Spanish dub from Argentina AND the original Japanese language with English subtitles option. I only watch it in Spanish, though 8)
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If you are interested in other dubs, I think Killzone 3 was dubbed here for its release when Sony launched PSN for us. They even left some cursing (where it says "shit" it'll say, of course, "mierda", not "rayos/maldicón" or those softened up stuff).

I heard someone say that Argentina's accent is precisely, the lack of a distinctive accent, lol. Well, unless you go to Córdoba (they have a "cantito" that makes spanish sound somewhat more melodic, haha) or some northern provinces. But it always shocks tourists when they come here since they usually get trained in spanish from Spain or Mexico. They are always in for one hell of a surprise. Same with how we call spanish, we call it "castellano", not "español". So here we sometimes ask "¿Habla castellano?" instead of the far more common "¿Habla español?".

Lain, Earth Girl Arjuna, Gene Shaft and that crazy cool anime about the group/club of kids looking for ghosts (the one where a kitten was a sealed away god and they were always into some serious business shit) were all dubbed here.

Tokyo Godfathers, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (dubbed "El viajo de Chihiro" and I think it's a miracle they respected the japanese name of Chihiro), Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo were also dubbed here.
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Older Argentinian dubs were quite awful. Chihiro's is pretty good though, didn't know Tokyo Godfathers was dubbed here too. Was it dubbed by the Chihiro team?

Mexico usually has a very high quality voice acting. Cowboy Bebop's Mexican dub >>>> original.
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Figured I'd give this a shot here but, I'm looking for manga suggestions and even reading through about a dozen pages here, I wasn't sure what fit into this vein, so here goes. I have been reading scanlated versions of Btooom! and Otogi Matsuri as I am a big fan of Joker Jun's artwork. I really like both stores, with Otogi Matsuri having some traditional Japanese folklore mixed in with current day events and Btooom! being a video game come to life. Both are really well done, good characters. I have no love for vampires or teen drama or need for fan service.

I went to Chicago Comics and looked through the series there and didn't see anything I thought I would like so, maybe someone here can recommend something good? I'm also a big fan of Star Blazers, Bubblegum Crisis and Full Metal Panic!
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If you like traditional Japanese folklore maybe you should give Mushishi a try.

Suiiki, by the same author, is also pretty good.

Other than that, I would recommend most stuff scanlated by http://hoxtranslations.blogspot.com/ and http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/
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I should be receiving two seasons of Magic Knight Rayearth this week. I've already gotten some City Hunter movies and the Boys Be... set released by Nozomi. The Rayearth junk is not the re-released/remastered versions, but it's not as if I have the kind of teevee where I could see the difference 8)
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Just recently checked out the DVD version of the OVA "Fighting Fairy Girl: Rescue Me Mave-Chan" based off of the famous Yukikaze 3-part series. For some strange reason, Best Buy did sell all three Yukikaze DVDs seperately (and later on as a collected boxed DVD set) but never sold this additional OVA DVD in their stores.

Instead of those futuristic planes, they've become shapely gals out fighting some super deformed Jams set in an alternate reality/universe. Really light on content story-wise and with a bit of more fan service with the busty racks presented, it'd be better.

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