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Julia-the-Great
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Oh my GOD. I started watching this expecting to see some good old fashioned, sci-fi yaoi entertainment, and ended up being scarred for life. I can't think back to this title without a visible shudder. Worse yet, I watched the dub version, so I didn't even get any BL out of it at all. Just a manly looking woman trying to shove her tongue down that guy's throat.
I still to this day have no idea how I sat through the whole thing. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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It can be had for 4 bucks on Rightstuf, that price sounds about right for it.
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posterior_praiser
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You're being very generous my friend  !
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Unholy_Nny
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They seriously changed the dude to a girl for the dub?
Really? Ehehehehe, I kinda want to see it just for that. |
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Elves
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Erm...yeah, they were doing that a lot in the 90's. Sailor Moon always pops into my mind whenever I think of any gender-changing characters just for the US. Pokemon didn't necessarily change Jame's gender, but all the homosexual hints about his character totally got thrown out the window. Heaven forbid we ever got exposed to anything even close to resembling homosexuality back then. Thank goodness we've grown. Last edited by Elves on Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:57 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Mad_Scientist
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Really? I heard they changed a pair of lesbians to cousins, but I never heard anything about the gender of a character being changed. |
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Elves
Posts: 270 Location: USA |
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I admit, I'm not a huge Sailor Moon fan and didn't regularly watch the show. But if I'm thinking correctly there were two guy-evildoers (one with purple hair, the other with light blue?) where one of them was being presented as a girl when "she" was really a he (or vice versa - I don't really know which). I think it was nearer to the end of the series. But as I said, I'm not really a big fan, so I could be wrong. But I know this always raises a big stink in the fan circuts. |
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kamui85
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the blue and purple hair couple were boy and girl, on the other hand on the first season, 2 of the generals were men, and they changed the brown hair one to a girl |
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Elves
Posts: 270 Location: USA |
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According to Wikipedia the lesbians turned cousins were Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.
And I found a past posting here on the ANN forums which also mentions the gender switching I was talking about earlier. They're only boy and girl in the US version, in the original Japanese version they are of the same gender. |
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areaseven
Encyclopedia Editor
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Well, thanks a lot, Justin. I had undergone several weeks of therapy to forget this anime years ago, and you had to bring it up today.
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poonk
 Posts: 1490 Location: In the Library with Philip |
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Wow, a yaoi OVA I haven't heard of, and based on a Kazuma Kodaka title, no less. It must indeed be pretty dang awful*... Almost makes me want to see it, though (masochism, I guess).
*not because of the KK origin, but the fact that despite the creator's reputation it's been "buried" |
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RadicaLElly
 Posts: 194 Location: Coral Springs, FL |
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Amazon Marketplace has the DVD starting at 90 cents. If you think that's still being too generous, the dubbed VHS starts at 29 cents. I wouldn't be surprised if you could literally haggle the price down to dirt and rocks. |
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toddc
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If you plundered a local Blockbuster's anime selection long enough in the 1990s, you eventually had to watch Kimera. I'll always remember it for making me think "You know, maybe LifeForce wasn't such a terrible movie after all."
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Saphiro01
 Posts: 71 Location: California |
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Egads. Here's a fact check from someone who actually watched both versions of the show. In Season One of Sailor Moon there were Four Generals. Jedite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite (Malachite). (All green gemstones including Queen Beryl). In the original manga NONE of the Generals were homosexual in insinuation or actuality. However for some reason in the anime version Zoicite and Kunzite were insinuated to be together in some way. That is Zoicite refered to Kunzite as 'Kunzite-sama' and was quite effeminate. Zoicite's gender was changed to female for the DIC dub (although 'her' chest is still flat as a board). She had blond hair and he had light blue/gray btw. In The fourth season of Sailor Moon, Super S There was a member of the Dead Circus named Fish Eye. He was again very effeminate in the original (and even got away with wearing a dress at one point that was very convincing, I was actually surprised to find out this character was originally male). Again for the incident with the dress and an episode involving the romancing of a boy the character was changed to a girl in the dubbed version by Cloverway. His hair was bright aqua blue. And yes, Haruka (Amara) and Michuru (Micheal?) were pretty much full shoujo ai level in the Japanese version. If you watch Sailor Stars (or even the SuperS tv special) this is made painfully obvious. This was again altered into a really close cousin affection in the dub, which incidentally just made it creepy in it's own way. Haruka thankfully stayed 100% female. (Don't even get me started on the Sailor Starlights ).
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britannicamoore
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Oh boy, how could I forget this? I rented this from Blockbuster back years ago. I still remember seeing it on the shelf, picking it up along with grave of the Fireflies.
Needless to say I was a very sad child. I remember thinking Kimera was cool because it made me feel more adult like. spoiler[didn't someone get raped or have sex?] I watched it again recently, (about two years ago) and didn't even make it through ten minutes. |
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