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Animegomaniac
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I did not realize Funimation's commentaries were disappearing; Sure ADV's... the whole company up and vanished and Sentai's had more Japanese commentaries than dubside ones but with the advent of video commentaries, at least I can see a point to the very common Funimation ones: Getting to know a voice actor who's more voice than actor. "Who is that person, is that a real person?" It helps that Funiamtion has a large cattle call, uhh, cast pool.
I enjoy them well enough I suppose and I'm not interested in the production side as the most interesting animation has already been done years ago. Plus, if you're talented enough to produce something worth talking about, why are you wasting your time rehashing it rather than concentrating on something new? Then there's the bottom of the barrel stuff: Japanese actor group commentaries. They're there to get cast in their next role so, ahh, be cute while at the same time, letting one person get in a line in, right? and then: group Reaction! Ahh... Repeat. It gets even better when one of them gets star designation from producers; It's their show, they're speaking and every now and then, they allow other people to talk. |
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Philmister978
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Funny thing about that, I was the one who did most of the work. |
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Happiness for Subaru
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The Attack on Titan episode 13 commentary is really interesting. It show how much thought was put into pronouncing the characters' European names.
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Joe Carpenter
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I can not vouch for any other commentaries, but the English commentary tracks for R.O.D The TV on the original Geneon dvds are some of my favorite things in life
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Elves
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I can totally see why short episodic anime wouldn't sell really well stateside. Though wouldn't that go against the grain when our supposed shrinking attention spans are accounted for? lol
There is one series in that vein which I would absolutely love to own: Damekko Dōbutsu. It's so wacky and odd that you just can't stop watching. Then, before you know it, you find yourself loving the characters and watching more. Everyone I've introduced to the show always says, "Why are we watching this?" around episode seven and we still always make it through to the very last episode.  I'm sure that a relatively continuing storyline found in the 5-6 minute episode series is what really kept me coming back for more.
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Stuart Smith
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Multiple themes is one thing I love about anime. It's amazing to see the amount of work they put into them. It updates and changes to reflect the current storyline of the anime which is always great to see. For western animation you can get away with having the same theme for the entire run since it's not really story focused usually, but anime is constantly changing and moving forward. It's always fun to go back to the first opening of a series and compare it to the last to see just how far the series has come. 80s and 90s anime only had one or two themes probably due to budget reasons. Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon come to mind. We should be thankful anime has become a lot stronger so we can have new themes for each new arc or storyline. Personally, you can call Cha La Head Cha La and Moonlight Densetsu classic you want, but I still got tired of them after 50 episodes. -Stuart Smith |
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jymmy
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The line where they, guffawing, commented that the spoiler["gunshot" they replaced] sounded "like someone got slapped" sure had me in paroxysms. The lines she claimed were "strictly for [her] own amusement" sure were funny, especially after hearing her describe them as such. Hearing them refer to the Reiquarium as the "Chamber of Guf" was also good for a laugh. Really, there are many golden little moments throughout. One of the nicest was near the end, when Amanda Winn-Lee said that in the spoken Japanese language there was no word for "I". |
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Maokun
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While I agree that Tom & jerry Kids was one of the worst shows resulting from the babyfication trend, the very worst had to be A Pup Named Scooby Doo. ugh. However, if it is the price we had to pay to get the instant classic that Tiny Toons is, I guess I'll gladly stomach it.
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gravediggernalk
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Two words to define the commentary: Baby batter |
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Kikaioh
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...I love A Pup Named Scooby Doo! 
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configspace
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Maybe Fred meant from the US industry as a whole. The English commentaries have disappeared from everyone else but Funimation. Funimation is still regularly producing them. I still also see a lot of commentary on Japanese releases. And a lot of drama cds as well. |
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omiya
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Agreed. Good OP/ED (and insert) songs are an important part of an anime. There were a few elephants in the room left out of the Answerman column: Many of the OP/ED singers are also anime voice actors/actresses; besides the labels mentioned, 5pb, FlyingDog, Geneon Universal and others have artists focussed on music of anime and video games; there are also composers/lyricists who write music principally for anime; besides their popularity in karaoke, the music of anime/games has dedicated concert series like Animelo Summer Live (10th anniversary this year), Animax Musix and 5pb live. The impression that I have gained is that most of those involved want to grow music of anime - "making a bigger pie" rather than only "trying to get a bigger slice of the pie", so one gets strong collaborative involvement that spans different companies. (Disclaimer - I attend 12 music of anime live shows in Japan in 2013, including Yuki Kajiura Live vol. #10, all 3 days of Animelo Summer Live, 5pb live and Animax Musix day 2). |
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kevinx59
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^Don't forget about VAP, Avex, and even Warner Bros is jumping in. I've noticed that a lot of the heavy metal and screamo openings tend to be by musicians signed by VAP. I really like openings though. I spend a long time going on YouTube watching openings to anime from all time periods. I may not watch the anime but I've seen its op. Some have awesome music, and it's fun seeing some of the more creative ones. I don't like Shaft, but their openings are usually very interesting.( their choice of music is a bit more questionable). Noitamina series are usually creative with their theme music as well.
For commentaries, I like listening to ones by the creators. Plenty of director commentaries give fascinating insight into choices made and how everything came about. Not an anime, but Jean Pierre Jeunet for example talks about all the specific choices he did and why he did them. For me VA commentaries are fun to listen to at least once. Even if they aren't very informative it's interesting getting to know a bit of the personality of the VAs outside of their roles. Oh, and it'd be cool if more shorts were released here. It's a shame Nis didn't license the Nyarko shorts, they would've made nice extra. Although the one I want is a nice Yame no Susume collection. Maybe those disturbingly addictive Puchim@s as well. |
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Greed1914
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The Good Luck Girl commentary was easily one of the best I've seen for the very reason you mentioned. Sometimes it can be interesting if the actors don't actually know each other since they get to ask each other questions and keep the discussion going. I'll also give Funimation credit that they have the actors watch the particular episode entirely beforehand. There used to be a problem of some lengthy silence, and then somebody would mention that they hadn't seen that part yet, so they were distracted. As Justin mentioned, actors typically get paid for the time spent on this, so asking them to sit through a whole show might be too much. But I don't think watching one episode is a stretch.
I was actually pretty bummed that those didn't make it onto the Blu-ray set from Aniplex. I'm pretty sure there was an Answerman a while back saying why commentaries didn't usually carry over with the license rescues. |
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PMDR
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Having done SDCC once, it was immediately clear to me that the main usefulness of the show was the dealers room and the nearby beaches, and I made good use of both of those things during my time there.
Never attempted to see a single panel -it was a lost cause anyway with the whimsical policies on lines and room-clearing. I had no interest in wasting my time trying to see any of that stuff. If I miraculously ended up back at SDCC again, I would do exactly what I did before: buy a bunch of stuff to ship back home and promptly park myself on the beach. And hit In-n-Out Burger. A lot. San Diego is a great town. SDCC is not its best shining moment. |
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