Saturday Anime on AS - Paranoia Agent #1

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Trying to decide whether I want to watch the dub for Scryed. I could only stand about 8 or 9ish episodes of the sub before I quit in disgust and frustration. Hm... I might watch it just to see who the VAs are. Sort of sadistic curiosity.


Inuyasha

Ooooh. This ending theme song is really pretty. Anyone have it?

Is Jakotsu's VA the same as Envy? I was hoping for more of a guy's voice, based on what little I knew of the character.

Koga twisting that evil guy's head around was pretty cool though.

This is the first episode of IY that I've watched in a while, and I enjoyed it. Though I do feel like I missed out on everything with this Ayame character. Still, maybe it's time I started watching IY regularly again.


Samurai Champloo

What's up with giant animatronic crab on the building? Isn't this like the early 1800s or something?

Heh. Jin is *such* a bleeding heart. Love him.

The little boy's voice is older sounding than I expected.

The dub for this show is getting better with every episode. I'm enjoying the translation for Mugen's dialogue especially--- his diction is anachronistic but appropriate.

But there's a lot more to come that could be either very good or very bad. Like the rap. And the tagging. And the fake-Christians. And the ninja baseball. And the Engrish.

Jin is pretty. As a man and a woman. Though he shouldn't quit his day job (what day job?) to be any sort of musician.


Paranoia Agent

"You know, we're living in the 21st century. Let's investigate this scientifically. Let's bet if it's real or phony. Loser buys dinner."

Betting on a meal. How modern and scientific.

The younger cop oddly reminds me of Detective Bayliss from Homicide: Life On The Street.

This show is weird. Like Azumanga Daioh meets Serial Experiments Lain. The happy/pretty/bizarre opening and closing credits just add to the weirdness.

I think I've solved the mystery identity of Little Slugger: obviously he is Naota Nandaba, spiralling into a depressive cycle of violence and insanity after being dumped by PsychoAlienWoman Haruko at the end of FLCL. There. Problem solved. IRON OUT THE WRINKLES IN THE WORLD! AND THE WRINKLES ON YOUR BRAIN!

Scryed

Steven Blum *again*? Jeez. That's lame. Man needs a different acting job. Or a way to vary his voice acting a bit.

The only thing I liked about this show after a while was the Guy With The Jeep.

Ugh. Too bad Guy With The Jeep's voice kinda sucks in English.


FLCL
I never noticed it before, but in the first episode Naota's dad calls him "Naota-kun" at one point. That's cool. I don't think I've ever heard them use honorifics in dubs before. I wonder why I didn't notice it last time I watched? Maybe I'm just so used to hearing "-kun" pronounced in fansubs that my ears just absorb it without thinking.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

I am incredibly impressed by Sesshomaru and Kagura as characters and as a pairing; they're both side-characters so all their interaction and character development has to be very subtle and in the margins and the sidestory, but it's turned out to be excellent. I think that Sesshomaru will be the breakout character for the series, if he isn't already, and deservedly so.

I can safely call Sesshomaru/Kagura a canon romantic pairing at this point. There is some very cool and squee-worthy stuff going on with Sesshy in recent months in the manga, quite a while after the anime ends, and it's all!about!Kagura! (well, a lot of it). This fairly recent manga spoiler just about says it all, without actually being very spoilery:

[MANGA SPOILER] One of Sesshomaru's fighting opponents insults Kagura and that pisses Sesshomaru off so much that he loses his cool and Inuyasha and Tenseiga have to haul off and save him. Let me repeat that: Sesshomaru, he of the two blank facial expressions, loses a fight because he gets so emotional over Kagura. [/SPOILER]

"Inuyasha" gets so bogged down sometimes in its own plot that it drives me crazy, but I tough it out because there's still interesting character development happening (amid the long looong loooooooong Inuyasha-powers-up-Tetsusaiga-AGAIN plotlines o' doom), and that still hooks me. The leeeength of Rumiko Takahashi's stories drive me nuts, but I still have faith in her, and I know the end of the story (if it ever comes) is going to be awesome--she does great endings.

Oh, "Inuyasha", first anime love, I'll follow you to the end of the world where the story's ending will break my heart into tiny pieces.

But if we could go from now until the end of the series (500 minimum chapters total? another year or so?) without Tetsusaiga getting another sword power-up, I would be a VERY HAPPY KAWY. (And if Sango and Miroku and Kagome could actually fight sometime that would be GREAT TOO.)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Dude, I *need* to get back to IY manga this summer. Okay, that's my new summer anime project. The idea of Kagura/Sesshoumaru has enough appeal to warrant ti.

What manga chapters are the beginning of the Jakotsu arc? Didn't you say that was the arc that gets really good? I could pick up from there and just blaze ahead.

Also... where do I find scantalations?

[octopedingenue]

Good luck on finding scanslations: I have the most recent chapters but nothing from earlier than about a year ago, and I have no idea where to find them with the series licensed. Maybe you could ask the unnamed community? Surely someone has some.

- Text transcripts of the entire manga series. Jakotsu shows up in volume 24/chapter 237; the Shichinintai Arc (arguably the best of the series) lasts through about volume 30 (and has the best Sango/Miroku stuff ever).

Did the anime dub call the guys the Shichinintai or did they translate the name? (It means something literally like "Seven-Man Group/Squad", which doesn't roll off the tongue with such menace. *g*)


- Scanslations of the newest manga chapters; scanslation/text transcript archive of the not-newest-but-still-recent-chapters. I love Ear-Tweak. The Sesshomaru/Kagura stuff has been building throughout the series, but it really starts to pick up around volume 36/chapter 350 through volume 38. It's reappearing in recent chapters (volume 41), so it's probably going to be A Point (like Inuyasha/Kikyo) through the rest of the series. I am not sad about this.

The story really drags in places in the gap between the Shichinintai arc and the Kagura arc (I can't stand Moryoumaru or Hakudoushi, though, and I am in the minority in this, butthe great emphasis on them throughout still makes me cry), but it works and is worth it for me, and some of the little moments of ship and squee and snark are glorious. It's up to you if you can make it through the draaaaaaggy bits for that.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Let me repeat that: Sesshomaru, he of the two blank facial expressions, loses a fight because he gets so emotional over Kagura.

Wow. That is... like... impossible in my mind. I definitely have to read that and the stuff leading up to it.

[octopedingenue]

It was a REALLY nasty insult, admittedly. The universe resounded with a great cry of "OH NO YOU DIDN'T BITCH!"