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vanfanel
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 Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:04 am
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I could get on board for this if it wasn't for those names. Wanna do a Patlabor TNG? Fine; I don't need Pacific Rim-level SFX to enjoy me some giant robots. But why use similar characters with names that are kanji-puns on the original characters' names?
Izumi Noa（泉 野明）/ Izumino Akira（泉野 明）: In this case, they came up with that just by shifting kanji around, and that's one of the clever ones.
But it takes me completely out of it. Not only is it unnatural, it's like they're dangling the characters I really want to see just out of reach.
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penguintruth
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:09 am
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Nobody's even subtitling these live-action Patlabor features. Can't Discotek or Maiden Japan or somebody else get these things? I'd be all over that.
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the-antihero
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:57 am
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And that's how you design cool-looking robots. Hollywood could learn from this.
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Sautor
Joined: 16 Feb 2015
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:39 pm
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So a giant robot movie without a robot v robot fist fight?? meh...
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bob_loblaw
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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Location: Tanning in Hell
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:53 pm
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| penguintruth wrote: | | Nobody's even subtitling these live-action Patlabor features. Can't Discotek or Maiden Japan or somebody else get these things? I'd be all over that. |
I'd be [pleasantly] shocked, if anyone in NA licensed the Patlabor live-action films. Heck, AFAIK, no one's even gotten their hands on the Kenshin one's.
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MarshalBanana
Joined: 31 Aug 2014
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:49 pm
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| Sautor wrote: | | So a giant robot movie without a robot v robot fist fight?? meh... |
The whole point of Patlabor was to show Mechs that would be possible in the real world, and to subvert the viewers expectation by showing them as simple tools, rather than big shiny toys.
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belvadeer
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:40 pm
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| vanfanel wrote: | | I could get on board for this if it wasn't for those names. Wanna do a Patlabor TNG? Fine; I don't need Pacific Rim-level SFX to enjoy me some giant robots. But why use similar characters with names that are kanji-puns on the original characters' names?
Izumi Noa（泉 野明）/ Izumino Akira（泉野 明）: In this case, they came up with that just by shifting kanji around, and that's one of the clever ones. |
Nice catch there. I didn't even realize.
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Greg Aubry
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:32 am
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| penguintruth wrote: | | Nobody's even subtitling these live-action Patlabor features. Can't Discotek or Maiden Japan or somebody else get these things? I'd be all over that. |
+1. I would definitely pick these up if Maiden Japan added them to their great Patlabor catalog.
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