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AICN Anime - Ergo Proxy Preview, Le Guin Talks Sci-Fi and Ghibli, Octopus Girl Sickness and More

Sporty spice coughed up a hairball. by Orionsangels	Oct 18th, 2006 12:50:33 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =enGv9CLymcY
octopus girl looks pretty good by team america	Oct 18th, 2006 01:11:25 AM
I only recently found out that Dark Horse has been publishing lots of horror manga, and I've been seeking them out since then. Kazuo Umezu's books are especially nice. I'll have to check this one out.
"To be a man you must have honor...." by trashcanman345	Oct 18th, 2006 07:32:45 AM
"...honor and a penis"- Shin-chan Funny show!
Stop!! Grammar Time!! by godoffireinhell	Oct 18th, 2006 08:56:28 AM
Dude, your reviews aren't bad and you seem like an intelligent guy but they are so full of grammar and spelling mistakes that it's painful to read them. Just because you're reviewing anime doesn't mean you have to do it as if you're suffering from ADD. Use spell check and maybe read the reviews yourself once before posting them. Thanks.
Have to agree with godoffireinhell this time... by Johnno	Oct 18th, 2006 11:35:44 AM
Just a few nitpicks on sentence structure, but I guess I'm in that mood after writing a psychology essay this morning... then again I'm one to talk... heck, my posts all over AICN contain numerous spelling errors... I JUST CAN'T TYPE!!!! Speaking of Ergo Proxy... seen it all, and it's pretty good, except that I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the ending... The last few episodes contained what could be called some cool 'stand Alone Complex' stories that later come into play, but then suddenyl they're approaching the city when WHAM! The Finale begins right outta nowhere and I'm left stumbling to catch up... I swear, it's like there's 3 episodes worth missing from the end from what looked like a 26 ep run... They run out of budget and rushed the ending to keep the quality of the show or what? Also that witchblade clean-up job was interesting, wish more companies put more effort into that for DVD releases, and I'm looking at you GONZO! Anyway... that Studio 4C Music vid thing looks interesting..
Ergo Proxy is trippy by v1cious	Oct 18th, 2006 10:42:53 PM
the first few episodes aren't any real representation of the actual show.
I'm convinced... by veritasses	Oct 19th, 2006 10:32:00 AM
that Japan has the largest number of warped minds of any country that have ever committed their far-out, weird, gross, obscene ideas to some form of media. You'd never suspect it if you just observed their society on the surface level, but you dig around a little bit and there's lots of stuff you're going to see that makes you say "wtf?" I can watch Hollywood horror movies with a yawn but I read just a few pages of some crazy freaky Japanese manga and I feel like throwing up. Though I must admit that there's an obvious level of quality and thought behind the presentation of this stuff that you wouldn't expect given the genre. Re: Gedo Senki. Will the board members over at Universal/NBC please fire the idiots running the SciFi network? It's a tough call but I think that there are actually more bad decisions coming out of that place that have PO'd their audience then over at the Cartoon Network. Re: Witchblade Re-Animated. That story speaks volumes about the Japanese and is just so amazingly humorous on so many levels. There's the Otaku (who else but...) who figured it out, the creative director guy (who else but...) who ordered the re-work, the animator who was probably thinking "wtf?" as he's trying to "improve" the new designs, the middle management committee (half of them themselves probably thinking "wtf" as they just go along with the orders from up top) that OK'd the budget and the new designs, the hordes of new Otaku who'll probably go out now to buy the dvd.... Re: Grammar and Spelling. I'm going to side with Scott here. Considering that he finds, reads, watches, thinks about and reviews/comments on enough material to create a magazine all on his own, and considering that you aren't going to find people with as much knowledge and exposure to manga/anime as Scott and that most of the collective content isn't something you can find anywhere else I think a little leeway would be nice. And yes, while it might seem that a pass with a word processor would be an easy way to fix the spelling, when you stop to consider that there are already so many words in each column that are going to be flagged simply because the word is a Japanese name/word, I can see that it would be easy to miss a few misspelled English words in the sea of flagged Japanese words. Most people hire an editor with an English/journalism degree for the types of things you're asking him to do.
Concerning Gedo Senki... by Johnno	Oct 19th, 2006 10:52:11 AM
SUcks that Sci-Fi is likely to just sit on them... Maybe Disney/Miramax could fire out some kind of deal even if it isn't Miyazaki Sr. it's still Ghibli! I'd call, but I'm here in Canada, where we don't get sci-fi, I think... so it's hopeful that we might still get it in theatres in original Japanese and subtitled... thoguh knowing this place we're probably going to rely on the American release anyway...

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