Forum - View topicGrenadier : The Beautiful Warrior
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Espeon
 Posts: 105 Location: Australia |
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After Seeing this on Fansub a while back I had the hankering to buy the english release, And man was that smart. It's a wonderful series not just for the fanservices which generally fills me collection
 .. Beautiful animation , clean and clear. The action is nicely paced and the Music works wonderfully with a good beat , if I had some surround sound speaker would be nice. The show is a mix between Trigun ( with the guns and bad guys) and Ninja scroll (cuase only thing I could see in my collection to remind me of ninja sword dudes) .. Being only 13 epis it has a most amazingly famous voice cast. Wendee Lee as Rushuna Tendoh ( Wendee Lee know as a very good voice actor who works in all groups Geneon/Funimation/Bandia and Media Blasters) And alot of other Read Or Die TV voice actors filling the shoes of the lesser characters.. I was very happy with my buy and will be collecting it further on. Also the figurine does stand up but not to well so I left it in the plastic boxing.
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darkhunter
 Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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With all the good thing that I heard about this series, it might be a surpise hit of the year. I can't wait for my copy to come in.
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abunai
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 Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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What beats me is why they found it necessary to mistranslate the title using the adjective "beautiful" instead of "smiling" - it weakens the vital story element underlined in the original title...
- abunai |
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Ohoni
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Yeah, Hohoemi no Senshi translates to "Smiling Warrior", not "Beautiful Warrior", there's no way to honestly mistranslate that (although I can't imagine it could be in error because as we know US distributors are infallible and Fansubbers are hacks).
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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Smiling warrior might be more vital to the story but isn't as appeal to the mainstream as beautiful warrior. But forwhatever reason, they think it will help sales of their propertie. |
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abunai
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Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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Well, then, why don't they call it "Grenadier - The Warrior With Gravity-Defyingly Huge Gazoombas"? That would probably sell quite well... - abunai |
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Espeon
Posts: 105 Location: Australia |
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Hehe its all good.. boobs are boobs.. nothing suprises me these days.. from watching Eiken to watching Pretty Sammy special and the unuasully well rounded Sasami. Who for some reason changes chest size afew to many times in one show
though i guess i pay a little to much attention to the upper half .
Make sure you watch the special making of Grenadier in the extra's to the end has a nice little extra there for the guys
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R.G.
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Too obvious. |
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ActiveX
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Upper half? Trying to come from a respectable point of view, I would rather you stare at the upper half than the bottom half... 
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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That would scare away the protential female buyer. |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7992 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I saw part of the series subbed in my anime club but we stopped when it got liscened. I may have to pick up the DVDs as well.
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Bruce Lee
 Posts: 715 Location: Seattle, Washington |
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One of my favorites jokes was when the swordsman asked Rushuna to call him Yajiro-Sama, but she decided on Yatch-chan. I was wondering - how does that work out in the dub? Does he still ask to be called "-sama" and she decides on "-chan" - even in English?
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Nirvana
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lmao |
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abunai
Old Regular
Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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Yes, and we all know that uncounted numbers of female buyers are standing in line, eager to buy an anime starring a female character whose salient (and I do mean salient) physical characteristic is clearly designed to cater to males who either are in the throes of puberty, or who somehow never managed to get past that point. In other words, a female with huge gazoombas. Yes, I can see a pretty long line forming, right there. - abunai |
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Ohoni
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Honestly, I think in Grenadier it's too comic relief to be offensive. I mean come on, she SPEED LOADS with those things!
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