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DangerMouse
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Same here, I'm glad we still get to hear him regularly as TOM, so we still hear him with our anime, and on other cartoons otherwise it'd be really brutal, but I really miss hearing him in more anime. Hmmm, I think Expelled From Paradise was the last anime I've heard him in. |
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Chrono1000
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Ouran High School Dropout
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I don't have the background on the production, but I always got the feeling that the order for the second season caught Sunrise off guard, and they needed a teleplay like yesterday. What saddened me most was how much of Roger's charm and confidence just evaporated. As for an "elaborate ending", I always felt that it never ended at all. Of all the anime I've ever watched, Big O is the one title that screams for a proper conclusion (the only other contender in my book is the Tylor OVA.) But to be honest, it would take one hell of a writing job for a season 3 to reconcile the first two years... But despite everything, Big O remains a favorite--so much so that I'm still sharing the show with friends and family even today. Of all the romantic couples I've seen in anime, Roger and Dorothy stand out...and having first watched the show in my early forties, my wife and I would chuckle at the "old married couple". "Showtime," indeed! |
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leafy sea dragon
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Satisfying ending? I thought that was supposed to be a cliffhanger for a third season they never got.
Richard Ian Cox is a Vancouver voice actor, and so he's largely doing western animation right now (primarily, but not exclusively, Canadian animation, and there is actually a LOT of it produced--just that most of it is low-profile and never leaves Canada). |
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Chrono1000
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Top Gun
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Big O is my all-time sentimental favorite anime series, and I pre-ordered this release as soon as it was available, which is something I pretty much never do. Yeah, it's a bummer to lose the original opening (I went out of my way to get the older Bandai DVD releases to make sure I had it), but this was an absolute must-buy from day one. The robots are awesome, the music is fantastic, the dub is iconic, and every square inch is dripping with noir. Yes please.
(Series director Kazuyoshi Katayama was also behind the early-2000s Sunrise series Argento Soma, which was pretty fun in its own right.) |
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Animegomaniac
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And here I was wondering about the jab at "the standard definition era" myself as if that actually means anything in predigital days. The real problem is that sweet spot where the medium advanced to computers but stuck to the path of least pixels because it was just for 4:3 TVs. My BD of Magic Knight Rayearth may be 4:3 but it doesn't mean the HD treatment doesn't do a thing for its film stock. Also, I don't understand the problem with running 4:3 images on a modern widescreen TV; You're not losing anything on height or any image at all so you're miles ahead of the time when widescreen images appeared on 4:3 screens.... or really widescreen images, 2.35:1 and greater, are played back on modern TVs. As for the Big O, I saw the first season and thought it was ok, a little too aloof for its own good but I do like Metropolis and the art deco style is just one of the things the show... stole, let's just say that outright... from that film. Pity it didn't bother to take the heart and humanity. I've no interest to watch season 2. I still have to get the BD of the latest Metropolis cut first. Priorities and all that... |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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I've heard him in several commercials as well in recent years. Most notably the wonderful pistachio commercials as the narrator. |
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leafy sea dragon
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There was also the 7-Eleven commercials from a couple of years ago, when they had the tagline "Oh thank heaven!" Also a commercial from last year involving stick figures selling something I don't remember. It sticks out in my head mainly because it would air during Toonami commercial breaks, and Blum would use the exact voice he uses for TOM. If I was off doing something else (like in the kitchen or something), this commercial would fool me into thinking the break was over as I heard his voice. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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I had forgotten about that! Now that you mention it though I remember it clearly. I remember thinking, much as I did with the pistachio commercials, holy crap Spike's doing commercials! I guess there's no bounties to collect on heh. Silly I know, but that's my brain. |
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MarshalBanana
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AyanamiRei
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How can a late 90s animated series animation "be dated"? Too many shortcuts? Lack of movement? In the animation department, I don't really notice such a gap between this period of time and nowadays average animation. Movements are usually not more detailed/realistic or I don't know.
(I'm not aggressive or defending, I never saw more than an episode a long time ago; I am simply wondering) |
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leafy sea dragon
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During the late 90's, a lot of animation was still drawn on cels, and digital animation was still pretty new. Nearly all animation is done digitally nowadays (the only ones that do have to special-order or manufacture their own cels). The result is that animation during that time had film grain, inconsistencies in things like outline thickness and onscreen text, and other imperfections that aren't present in today's animation. (Of course, today's animation isn't drawn perfectly either, but it's easy to tell digital from analog.) These differences are mainly what makes something look dated, and it seems to be the primary turn-off for viewers who aren't accustomed to it. (Except for film grain. The lack thereof in Pixar's movies caused viewers to feel uncomfortable, so they add a small amount of artificial film grain into all of their movies.) There are shows like Samurai Jack and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (as well as the European video game Cuphead) that are deliberately made to look like cel animation, but it is an expensive process requiring a lot of extra steps, and except for Cuphead, they do away with most of the grainy texture of analog animation. |
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Mosaic
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Not sure why the reviewer made this comment. The animation for the first season of Big O is wonderful. There's a bit of stock footage, but overall the series looks amazing. Animation for the second season however... |
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leafy sea dragon
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At least for the original airing, I really liked how this is one of the few, perhaps the only, attempt at an anime to lip-synch to the English dub. |
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