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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:15 am Reply with quote
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It's [Princess Principal] a show that made a splash for itself back in the day, but sadly, it didn't seem to parlay that into much later notoriety. We've got a series of Okouchi-less follow-up movies that have been trickling out since 2021, the first two ending up streaming alongside the series on HIDIVE to no fanfare.

That seems to always happen when they follow up a TV series with a bunch of mini-movies rather than a conventional TV season. Same thing happened with Girls Und Panzer, which I think is still dribbling out new movies? Instead of just getting a second season on your streaming service of choice, these movies get held back from western release, maybe one or more of them gets a one-night theatrical showing in a handful of towns, maybe they get a physical release, maybe they get on HIDIVE or Crunchyroll eventually. But by that point, it's been like three years and everyone has moved on to franchises that aren't a pain in the ass to keep up with.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:03 am Reply with quote
I love Flying Phantom Ship so very much. I was ecstatic when Discotek picked up the license and preordered my copy ASAP.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:23 am Reply with quote
Mystery of Mamo is up on Prime, for $3 to rent. Rated 16+, if that matters to anybody.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:26 am Reply with quote
Flying Phantom Ship is a fun time. Not only that, the US release is memorable in that it has an English dub! Somehow, Toei actually preserved the M&E track for Phantom Ship, which allowed Discotek to be able to dub it. I mean, how can you go wrong with Mona Marshall and Patrick Seitz being in the cast? Oh, and watch the bloopers on the blu-ray, too. They're pretty funny.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 12:46 pm Reply with quote
I watched Princess Principal a few years after it aired, and found it a very pleasant surprise. A fun and exciting spy thriller with a memorable cast, nice animation, and just the right amount of drama.

I've long been meaning to watch older anime films (non-Ghibli 80s fare for sure, but moreso whatever pre-Ghibli notable 70s and 60s entries I can feasibly access). I'll have to look into Flying Phantom Ship.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 4:11 pm Reply with quote
FireChick wrote:
Flying Phantom Ship is a fun time. Not only that, the US release is memorable in that it has an English dub! Somehow, Toei actually preserved the M&E track for Phantom Ship, which allowed Discotek to be able to dub it. I mean, how can you go wrong with Mona Marshall and Patrick Seitz being in the cast? Oh, and watch the bloopers on the blu-ray, too. They're pretty funny.
Pretty much this. I really enjoyed Flying Phantom Ship after blind-buying it. Just the fact they dubbed a 1969 film was just too cool not to support and I had a goofy smile on my face while watching it. Great stuff.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:11 pm Reply with quote
Princess Principal totally slaps. And yes, my brain has also been randomly belting out "GET ACROSS THE WALLLLLL" for years now. Smile I agree that having to wait so long for the movies to trickle out is lame, but at least we're still getting more. Shout-out to Sentai for the spectacular dub job; I'm not sure if they're particularly authentic accents, but they sound fantastic anyway. Shirobako is on my large pile of shame too.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:14 pm Reply with quote
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Someone on the team at Toei drew the hell out of that octopus. Maybe it was Miyazaki himself, and this would inspire him decades later to put that distractingly well-animated octopus in the background of that one Ponyo scene. Who's to say? There are many mysteries of The Spooky Sailboat.

According to his Sakuga@wiki page, Miyazaki animated the “battle between tanks and golems”.

Who did the sequence referred to is conceivably on there on the animator’s page, but it will take a lot of reading to find as there isn’t a page for the film.

Always appreciate the Toei Dōga classics getting some recognition. Or, TBH, anything from earlier than the ʼ90s that’s not AKIRA, Dragon Ball or Ghibli; I don’t have that high standards, but they’ve been considerably exceeded tonight.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:16 am Reply with quote
Top Gun wrote:
Princess Principal totally slaps. And yes, my brain has also been randomly belting out "GET ACROSS THE WALLLLLL" for years now.


Princess Principal The Live is available on blu-ray and CD also - Void Chords and Yuki Kajiura + 4 vocalists and the Front Band Members.
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