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EricJ2
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(Although the Flintstones' Rear Window homage was funnier. 
Yes, even funnier than ALFTales' Hitchcock homage.)
Again, not to belabor the point, but the original Japanese show was fairly unapologetic in its love for Urusei Yatsura, probably the founding Jack-of-All-Trades comedy: UY wasn't always "Ataru chases girl, Lum chases Ataru and zaps him", that was only the running-gag subplot to what could be a Nausicaa parody one episode, a sports-anime parody the next, a scene-specific homage to Bruce Lee's Game of Death, or a full-scale citywide epic disaster on the level of the "Off-campus Fast Food Wars" episode. The unpredictability was the fuel of the silliness, since the characters were so idiosyncratically obsessed in their own specific loves (just like Keroro for his models, Giroro for Natsumi, Momoka for Fuyuki and Tamama for Keroro) that anything else that "made Space super-weird" couldn't raise an eyebrow. It takes a particular kind of anime fan to appreciate a Jack-of-all-trades comedy, since they themselves have to be otaku-of-all-trades to get most of the references. Funi, needless to say, didn't. One of the changes from the online Frog test dub was their initial hopes to write Gunpla out of the series entirely, and when Keroro was assembling his latest Gunpla model, he was "building his miniature army". Errr....no. (Also, in a Cagliostro-parody episode, when we see a familiar-looking VW with drivers that suspiciously resemble Lupin and Jigen, the Funi dub tried to bluff their way out of the reference, assume that "Jigen" looked too much like Shaggy, and dubbed accordingly. However, in the episode that starts off with a deliberate scene-specific Spirited Away parody, the dub blared that comparison, since, well, that was considered an "American" movie their obsession with other pop US movie/TV references could beat to death for its own sake.) The UY writers eventually went on to turn the first Project A-Ko movie into one of the other first JOAT parody comedies, and back in the early days when most of us were just getting our otaku feet wet and had no clue what they were parodying (Col. Sanders emerges from a dark alley?--It's a Harmageddon parody!), we might have been a tad confused, but that didn't stop it from being just plain silly. |
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Fronzel
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This isn't true as far as I can tell. I can't find any mention of this show on Viewster's site. Is it region-locked? |
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nadir-seen-fire
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Yeah, I don't see it either looking at the list from Canada. I do wish this series would get a treatment similar to Detective Conan or some of the other series CR has done in the past like REBORN. |
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dipanime
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THEY should have used the word fit system that would fit system for the dubbed version. the japanese version is funny shame they did not try to keep the original script for the dub. the model kits look neat and cool i would like to see the human like characters from bandia japan as model kits .
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