Forum - View topicRevisiting D.N.Angel 20 Years Later
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Newshawk
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I guess I'm one of the few here on ANN that remember watching D.N. Angel. A.D.V. carried it on The Anime Network On Demand back around 2007 or so. I enjoyed the series immensely.
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Kougeru
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Wow...one of the few anime DVDs I bought at Suncoast because everything was usually super overpriced lol. I really enjoyed this series. I think I watched it twice, once through "The Anime Network On Demand" and once on DVD. I think I mostly agree this article. I guess my one disagreement is that I don't have any issues regarding his age. Toying with her feelings always made me dislike Dark, though.
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Akamaru_Inu
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I had a huge grin on my face reading this. I read DNAngel back in like 7th or 8th grade?? It was around 2005 and my friends and I would swap manga volumes with each other at school. It's so goofy to think back on the series but it was so much fun and SO early 2000s -- and the theme song to the anime is absolutely classic.
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zztop
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I wonder if this series might ever get a reboot that faithfully adapts the whole manga story, like FMA Brotherhood and Fruits Basket.
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Ojamajo LimePie
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Another thing DNAngel has in common with these series, none are available to stream (and only Kino's Journey is still on disc.) |
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Animegomaniac
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I do not remember this show, like at all. It's in my seen it all list so I looked up the opening. I don't remember it but I did get a feeling of "oh..." when I saw the protagonist turn into black winged angel and the twin girls.
One of the top comments on that opening: "I may not remember anything about this show but who could forget this song?" I don't remember the song either. |
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TJ_Kat
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Thank you for this article. It's been a really long time since I've watched this too and I remember enjoying it. I feel like a revisit might be in order in the near future.
Also, hadn't realized the manage had finally ended. I'd lost track of it quite a ways in to it's hiatus, so it's probably time to finish that too. |
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JustMonika
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It's off topic but is your pfp Amane? I can tell a Akio Watanabe design from a mile away. |
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Zalis116
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I also remember DN Angel pretty fondly, from first watching the TV-fansubs in 2005, and buying the ADV single DVDs and rewatching the English dub in 2007. I even showed the first episode to my decidedly "normie" aunt as a demonstration of something like "the statistical average of anime." Although the article points out the "smexy bishies!!!11!" beloved by the fangirls, the show did offer some eyecandy for everyone, thanks to the cute girls like Risa, Riku, and Mio. Daisuke's mom, Emi, was quite the looker as well. The melancholy and bittersweet second ED, Hajimari no Hi has also stuck in my mind over the years. I also like how DN Angel offered a unique sense of place, in a hilly town with cool diagonal railways. A far cry from modern anime where every isekai setting uses one of a handful of distant city background shots.
 ) a second chance, after Discotek picked up the license from the ADV scrap heap, although even their license has long since expired. But the ADV thinpak from 2005 is still quite affordable. Maybe it's just my bias for the year I officially got into anime, but I also think 2003 was loaded with great anime -- beyond what's already been mentioned, there was also Last Exile, Chrono Crusade, Scrapped Princess, Wolf's Rain, Texhnolyze, Kaleido Star, Nanaka 6/17, Someday's Dreamers, Stellvia, ROD The TV, Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, Gunslinger Girl, Gungrave, Cromartie High School, and Rumbling Hearts.
Though for the sake of perspective and avoiding rose-tinted nostalgia, it's worth pointing out that 2003 also featured the likes of .hack//Twilight, Mouse, Stratos 4, Lime-Colored War Tales, E's Otherwise, Angel Tales 2, Wandaba Style, Ikki Tousen, Green Green, Da Capo, Popotan, Dokkoida?!, Maburaho, Bottle Fairy, Avenger, and UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie 2. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I haven't watched DN Angel in years but I remember enjoying it a lot back in my high school days. It wasn't the first for me (that was Azumanga Daioh) but it was one of the first series I watched through fansubs back then. It was also one of my first anime I watched where the show was clearly ship teasing the two male leads while not canonically saying so and I remember all the Daisuke and Hiwatari shipping that went on online. I remember reading the first vol of the manga once but finding the way the panels were organized to be more confusing to understand what was happening on the page than the anime but I hadn't seen or read either in years. I've always had a fondness for shojo kaitou anime since growing up with the Saint Tail manga and I wish that was a genre we would more of in modern times. I would definitely a complete reboot adaptation of DN Angel. Did they ever finish releasing the manga in English?
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7PhoenixAshes
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Oh, goodness. 20 years already?
I was a huge fan of the manga back in the day and saved up my meager allowance to buy the DVD set. Unfortunately, DNAngel was the first series that I watched that showed me that it was possible for anime to be mediocre! Relatedly, my poorly-sized avatar on this site (which I haven't changed since joining) is fanart of Risa that I drew back in high school. |
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gilnokoibito
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I was so obsessed with DNAngel back in the day! I didn't get to watch the entire anime because I could only afford a couple or so of the DVDs on my pocket change but I loved the manga! I had no idea it was finally finished! Does anyone know if they released the lar bit in English or not?
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BigOnAnime
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So many things making me feel old these days... I've had D.N.Angel on my plan to watch list since not long after I got into anime in November 2008, and it was only 5 years old then. I still need to get my hands on one of the DVD releases and finally watch it. I did months back finally get around to Azumanga Daioh and Angelic Layer which are of similar vintage and were on my PTW list since around the same time. So many series that were once young that are now quite old I still haven't seen.
I continue to remain much more interested in older anime these days. Modern anime began losing me a decade ago and the situation never improved (a few years are skewed from a lack of data). There's a charm these older series had that is quite hard to find these days. Continuous 2-cour shows were also more common back then, so there's that too.
I wasn't too much of a fan of Chrono Crusade to be perfectly honest (I liked it enough to buy the Holiday Edition DVD for cheap when RightStuf was still blowing it out), and I still haven't seen Gungrave, Cromartie High School, all of Nanaka 6/17, Stellvia, Scrapped Princess, nor Texhnolyze. I also need to actually see .hack//Twilight in full, I remember catching a few episodes very late at night on Cartoon Network way back when before I became an anime fan. |
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asura_wings
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I think there is a chance for a reboot of DNAngel, but the possibility is slim.
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Nobuyuki
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Dokkoida' wasn't that bad (not especially good, mind).
But I still pine for Planetes, and wish that ROD's dub had been offered on Hulu and Crunchyroll when they had it. |
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