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Advent_Nebula
Posts: 932 Location: Colorado |
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This one could have been titled "Music to Dunk To" or "Paino of Blood"
By the Way are you going to review anymore GANTZ Bamboo? |
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GATSU
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It's the bearded dude. I know it.
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Advent_Nebula
Posts: 932 Location: Colorado |
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I know what Bamboo looks like, hell I have had her give me the evil eye.
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darkhunter
 Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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Some detail on Hoop Days.
1. The whole series is about "teamwork" as they pound it through your head over and over again. Guys sitting around talking about their feelings to each other and how teamwork will win. 2. Every shot/pass/rebound/block will be falsely exaggerated to generate excitement. Probably isn't the most realistic portray of bball, but hey most people in Japan don't care. Players have time to stand around to talk and congradulate each other after a basket instead of getting back on defense. Oh yeah, must watch the japanese sub, it's funny as hell hearing "nice shoota" everytime they score a basket (and that's like every time). 3. Good animation to start with, but the overall animation is pretty bad. A lot of stiffness with cheap panning tricks and recycle footlage, which are reuse over and over again. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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Nuts. I was hoping it would stay that way. I was really impressed with how carefully they rendered all the spinning balls and hoop shots. =/ I guess the novelty wears off after the 20th time. As for your other points, I agree with you. I actually loved Hoop Days the minute I watched it, but given its American audience and the way it's presented, it still comes off as pretty lame. As hokey as it feels though, I can't help but be excited for the upcoming volumes. |
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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Dear Boys sound kinda Gay?. LOL that's a good one. While there are female "love interest" in the series, I see dear boys more as a yaoi-like baskteball anime. The guys do more posing on the bball court than playing the actual game. And while they're not playing bball, they're dress up in the latest trendy clothes.
From what I head, the production budject got really bad during the last few episode, therefore one of the episode had really horrible animation. Such as still face-shot with flapping lips and guilding movement that didn't make any sense. Also the characters didn't even look like they in the previous episode. But thanksfull it was only 1 episode and the animation got better by the last episode. Nice review on hoop day though, it gets addicting the more you watch it, so it's not all that bad. If they bring over the manga, I'm definitely getting it since the anime leave an openning ending. Look for me at AX (or Disneyland) 
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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So no titles that needed to be trashed this week, huh? That's unusual.
I've been meaning to check out Dear Boys (Hoop Days, whatever you want to call it) for some time now. I'll probably check it out for a rental at some point. |
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ericb35
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I couldn't agree any more. Slam Dunk, though dated, is a far more superior basketball anime than Dear Boys (Hoop Days). It does have it share of "quirks" (games dragging on, flashbacks, etc), I would take Slam Dunk any day. It's kinda cheesy for me to say this, but I could feel that there's more love and attention put into SD than into Dear Boys. I feel the story is more realistic, the characters are more likeable, and the basketball is more sound in Slam Dunk. So I guess I'm sticking with the classic. |
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Strategos
 Posts: 91 Location: Ohio |
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Can't really disagree with any of the reviews, except I adore FMP? to death so that is a definate buy for me.
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darkchibi07
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Hehehe, glad you liked Elfen Lied.
Have fun watching the later volumes; it gets more "interesting". |
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rankothefiremage
 Posts: 523 Location: Michigan |
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FMP-F covers all the stories from the FMP manga that didn't relate directly to the core plot shown in the FMP anime.
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frubam
Posts: 135 Location: under Sana's bed |
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I liked it too, it was definitely funny, but i still feel that the hijinks that occur in the show feels a bit forced. When it came to comedy, i feel that the original FMP did better than FMPf? in that department. Scrapped Princess was ok. I actually found the 1st vol to be more enjoyable than the 2nd. The 2nd vol just went too fast for me. Maybe it was because there weren't any "real" fights in vol 2. I believe i was more intrigued by seeing Chris on his little mission(though I much prefer it if he were fighting). As for Hoop Days, yeah, the animation is crappy and flat looking for the most part. Slam Dunk, is probably better, but i like Hoop Days about the same. Its something about sports in anime that's just so fun to watch. |
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v1cious
 Posts: 6229 Location: Houston, TX |
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the true plot of Scrapped Princess hasn't even revealed it's self yet. i went into this series with low expectations and it's actually pretty good. a lot of people will be surprised by the plot twist that's coming.
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HitokiriShadow
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Glad to see Elfen Lied and Scrapped Princess on the Buy Shelf.
Keep watching these series and you won't be dissappointed. |
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Joe Mello
 Posts: 2312 Location: Online Terminal |
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DearS hasn't been released yet. *ba dum ching* W00t for Scrapped moving up. Yay! |
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