Forum - View topicWorst Anime DVD "Feature/Extra."
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Kidotai
 Posts: 138 Location: one of those islands in the pacific |
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I'm kinda wondering if Anime DVD's have very dumb features/extras that seemed okay in the begining, but are now just idiotic ideas of sorts.
I ask this, when I bought the Steam Detectives DVD's. Now, I don't mind if the song is subtitled in the begining or end, but when it's subtitled during the show itself is very distracting (The "English with Song Subtitle" option, which I believe is the default option from the start!!). I mean, (fictious made-up scence now) it could be a scence where the Machine Baron and Crimson Scorpion are fighting each other over whether to destroy Goriki or save him, yet the BGM is being subtitled during the fight and taking a nice chunk of the viewing space. Also, if you disable this option, the episode title screen and the preview title screens aren't even translated in the English dialogue!! So I ask, any features that made you reconsider your purchases or made your head scratch as to what they were thinking? |
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ShellBullet
 Posts: 1051 Location: I hit things, with my fist. |
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A lot of DVDs have a textless opening and/or closing. I always wonder what the point is, especially if the opening is not that great to start with.
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gnollman
 Posts: 535 Location: Richmond, KY |
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Frankly, Kidotai, that's the way I prefer my subtitles... nothing irritates me more than when companies script over kanji with english...
When I replaced my Evangelion VHS with the DVD Collection, I was incensed that ADV had written over all the kanji in the signs and road boards.... Dammit, they should at least make it optional! Which is one reason I like The Right Stuf anime releases like KareKano... the multiple angles they use allows one to view either the original kanji or English... edited for ubb code... damn code.... Last edited by gnollman on Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:53 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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darkchibi07
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There's textless openings and closings so AMV creators can use that footage for their AMVs. |
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Louie-kun
 Posts: 420 Location: I'm back. |
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ADV went back and redid the first dvd where they wrote over the kanji. Look for the dvd where the title is near the bottom of the cover and shinji is closer to the top. |
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gnollman
Posts: 535 Location: Richmond, KY |
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Yeah? Maybe I'll have to have another peek....
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Swordfish_II
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This applys to all DVDs, but I just hate Easter Eggs and all that hidden crap. I want my special features to be under a menu labled "Special Features," not some hidden dot under scene selection. Really, who wants to search every menu on their DVDs to see if they've found all the extras?
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hellsing
 Posts: 248 Location: top of mt Fuji killing sin with Titus. |
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ahh yes the openings and endings. the point of those I guess is for people to enjoy the music while looking at images without seeing credits. 
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Digital-Kitty
Posts: 15 Location: Greenville, SC |
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Only one I can think of would be Disney sticking a small clip of John Lasseter talking about the movie (Kiki and Spirited Away both)before the movie started. Actually, that wasnt even a good idea to start with. When I press "Play", I want to see the movie, not some goofball telling me about how great the movie is. It was enough to make me actually not buy the DVD.
I have to agree with the easter eggs too. Bright idea there. |
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Cassandra
 Posts: 1356 Location: Birdsboro, PA |
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The worst extra is the Goldenboy textless ending. (For those of you that don't know...there is no animation to the Goldenboy ending theme....so you just watch a black screen and listen to the music.)
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frostedsaiyan
 Posts: 637 Location: Maryland |
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Yep that one takes the cake. |
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Louie-kun
Posts: 420 Location: I'm back. |
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The easter egg on the last Cowboy Bebop dvd was really bad. You had to push right 20 times, do a 360 spin, round pi off to 40,000 places and after all that you just get a three page gallery of Ein pictures.
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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I once forced my computer to evaluate pi to 100,000 places. It's been rather mad at me since then, but I refuse to blame the problem on myself. I used to be rather enchanted with textless opening and endings on DVDs, but after a few volumes on a long series, it gets dull. It's especially funny when the "textless" opening isn't textless at all. |
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rage-demon
 Posts: 356 Location: WA, USA |
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One extra that makes me irritated at times are the previews they put on some DVDs. Now I’ll admit that usually the first thing I do with a new anime is check out the previews for other animes that I might not have heard of. But what irritates me is when they put the SAME EXACT previews on an entire set of DVDs for some series. I mean, come on. If you're watching volume 5, then the chances are that you've seen volumes 1-4 and the previews on those disks also. Plus this is irritating when this is the only "extra feature" they have on the disk.
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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What I hate are the previews that are just badly done. I cannot stand when companies decide to try and give their previews that "Hollywood narration" thing...the people they have trying to imitate said voice just sound awful, and the tripe their forced to read actually makes me want to see the shows less. I'd rather see all anime DVD previews done the way Pioneer & ADV do them. Just clips set to the show's theme, with almost no voiceovers whatsoever (and if there are voiceovers, just have it be a character from the show a la Strawberry Eggs, or actual soundbytes from the show, and not some cheesy, gruff-voiced narrator trying to make everything sound like a Steven Segal movie
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