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NEWS: Funimation Adds Deadman Wonderland, Steins;Gate, More

Blood- wrote:

Believe me, I WANT people to read your pathetically feeble attempts to support the contention that Baccano! has a lot of deep characters.

So feeble in fact that you decided I was right.

"@ ikillchicken - okay, I agree that stuff is interesting. I can't remember now if the distinctions Ladd makes about who he kills blew by me when I watched the series or if I have simply forgotten about that aspect, but yes, I would agree that makes him somewhat more nuanced than what my memory of him was: a thug who revelled in violence purely for violence sake."

Anyway though, this is all pretty moot. You can come to whatever crazy, doublethink conclusion about that particular discussion.

Like I said, I'm hardly so arrogant as to claim that I've never been mistaken about anything.

I wouldn't say it was a smart show, but I did get a lot of laughs out of it. Humour, like a lot of things, is wildly subjective, so while I'm not surprised you or other people didn't find it funny, I am surprised that you somehow can't imagine other people enjoying it. Are you one of those people who simply can't imagine others having an opinion different than their own? That's kind of trite, actually.

Well there goes my all access to Steins & Deadman on Crunchy/Roku.

I swear I cringe every time I see the words add or acquired followed by Funimation in the same sentence. Their "re-versioned" dubs are atrocious & irrelevant to any Anime fan with half a brain.

Dear lord god what was that crap they did to Sengoku Basara - an already silly fighter show that was only good because of the great characterizations done by the Japanese cast... Now you can't find the classic for rent to save your life, because they want everyone to watch their horrible dub...

which is a little surprising considering how much attention they gave Tsubasa, and the story just isn't complete without xxxHolic too.

Blood- wrote:

I wouldn't say it was a smart show, but I did get a lot of laughs out of it. Humour, like a lot of things, is wildly subjective, so while I'm not surprised you or other people didn't find it funny, I am surprised that you somehow can't imagine other people enjoying it. Are you one of those people who simply can't imagine others having an opinion different than their own? That's kind of trite, actually.

Oh, SPARE me the antagonization, PLEASE! That's not even what I mean and you know it! If other people like this show for some reason, then fine, whatever! I'm not going to manipulate anyone to go to Japan and beat up the manga author and the people at Hal Film Maker who animated the show! I just don't LITERALLY understand what people find so hilarious that their own ribs were hurting. Okay? Sorry. Yamada along with the rest of the cast felt too one note to me and had about NO depth to them, the animation was too cheaply done for me to bear, and most of the intentional jokes just didn't make me laugh.

I don't understand why as an anime fan, I'm somehow "obligated" to watch everything, start to finish, no matter how unentertaining to me it is and then become infatuated with whatever I watch like everyone else who watched it for the same reasons. Dear fellow anime fans, stop making other people suddenly treat television consumption like an old-fashioned marriage or else you make them feel like horrible people! If I didn't like the show from the first episode (which I don't care what anyone thinks, the first episode of a show needs to entertain me for me to feel like watching more), then oh well, not my problem, nor is it anyone elses. I just wasn't entertained.

The licensing of Steins;Gate was probably my largest hope for this convention, what a nice thing to come home from a bummer of a day at work and read about. I'm extremely glad to see that it has been picked up, but then I have to temper my excitement a bit when I think of the humongous backlog that Funi has as of now, including many shows that were acquired at the same convention last year. Hopefully it has a good BD release, or failing that if the JP version has english subs I might have to just pick that up instead of waiting until the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2012, or even possibly 2013 (that's not even considering the whole Mayan aspect to that......)

Okay, here's my point: everybody has their own opinion. If you say, "I didn't like that show for x, y and z reasons" then I have absolutely no quarrel with you even if I don't agree. But as soon as you say, "I didn't like that show ... and I can't imagine why anybody else would either" I feel you are going beyond merely expressing your own opinion and you are denigrating mine. Come on, why not just be forthright and say, "Anybody who likes this show has lousy taste?"

And what are you raving about in terms of feeling "obligated" to watch shows? You didn't like B Gata H Kei, yet you watched the whole damn thing. So I'll ask again - did you have a gun pressed to your temple?

No, ikillchicken, the point of me providing the link was so that other people - i.e. those who don't have a self-serving agenda to defend like you and I do, can arrive at their own conclusion by reading the entire exchange.

Blah blah blah you were wrong about Baccano

Blood- wrote:

Okay, here's my point: everybody has their own opinion. If you say, "I didn't like that show for x, y and z reasons" then I have absolutely no quarrel with you even if I don't agree. But as soon as you say, "I didn't like that show ... and I can't imagine why anybody else would either" I feel you are going beyond merely expressing your own opinion and you are denigrating mine. Come on, why not just be forthright and say, "Anybody who likes this show has lousy taste?"

*sigh* Because that wasn't even what I was saying. I just can't understand what other people liked about the show so much since I technically didn't like it, that's all. Was I suppose to know somehow? Because I can't read minds, I can't already know everyone's taste in entertainment. Alright? I made my point clear already, I wasn't offending anyone's taste for the umpteenth time, move on!

Blood- wrote:

And what are you raving about in terms of feeling "obligated" to watch shows? You didn't like B Gata H Kei, yet you watched the whole damn thing. So I'll ask again - did you have a gun pressed to your temple?

No, so stop asking that already, please? I'm just aware of how anime fans easily like to pull that, "don't give an opinion before watching the whole thing," card. So in case I felt like expressing what I didn't like about that show, no one would have to give me that nonsense.

Yeah...I hate to break it to you but I don't think anyone else really cares.

You are so full of ... psychological improbabilities.

Because really, I don't get what the hell you want me to say at this point.

Hypeathon wrote:

Because really, I don't get what the hell you want me to say at this point.

Well if I understand correctly, he's mad at me because I didn't watch enough of the show before criticizing it...and he's mad at you because you watched too much of the show to be criticizing it.

He's a regular Goldie Locks, this one.

^I'm sorry, I tried to read that with a straight face for as long as could...

...then I saw "Decepticon" and I'm afraid I just couldn't hold the laughter in anymore.

Some excellent nonsensical trolling there.