HTF Anime Discussion Part VII - Page 90

ChristopherDAC · 03-01-2005, 10:36 PM

GALL FORCE: ETERNAL STORY
An intriguing story of conflict and the eternal search for resolution. The Paranoid race, tentacly protoplasmic creatures which use a variety of body forms, are at war with the Solenoids [hey, I didn't make this up], a race apparently made up of human females. This is the sory of the Solenoid cruiser STARLEAF and its desperate attempt to reach and defend the terraformed world "Chaos", in the "ninth star system". The plot is, I'm afraid, tightly enough constructed that to say much more about it risks giving away the whole; but suffice to say that the subtitle, for once, actually means something. Speaking of subtitles, Central Park's subtitled presentation is OK but not much more than that, and the animation and film elements are both showing their age; but it's quite good for all that, particularly as a lead-in to the other stories in the GALL FORCE continuum. At least, I bought it having seen it once before!

Woo Jae · 03-02-2005, 09:31 AM

Well finished Freeman last nite.... And re-read the manga, and there ARE divergences but nothing too major, except in the last story.

Alanna · 03-02-2005, 10:48 AM

GALL Force was one of the first anime movies I watched back on Sci Fi Channel's late nite anime movie showings. Was probably heavily edited I would guess.

Andrew Beacom · 03-02-2005, 06:58 PM

Just finished the 3rd GitS: SAC disc and I'm really enjoying the series. The 3rd disc wasn't as strong as the the 1st or 2nd IMO but it was still pretty good. Unusually for me I watch the opening credits every episode because I quite enjoy the theme and the cgi.

ChristopherDAC · 03-02-2005, 07:11 PM

Alanna: unless you saw plenty of [undetailed] female nudity and a modicum of distinctly juvenile homo- and hetero-sexual behaviour [not going so far as actual acts], then, yeah. Mind you, in context there is really nothing inappropriate about it; but American TV, even cable, tends to get hinky about that kind of thing.

Andrew Beacom · 03-02-2005, 10:44 PM

I'm looking at the Cowboy Bebop box sets out on Amazon. They are under the marketplace sellers and I'm wwondering what the odds of these not being bootlegs is? A number of sellers with good feedback advertising an import version for $33. That prive seems way to good unless thery are not region 1 discs?

ChrisBEA · 03-02-2005, 10:47 PM

Probably boots.

If you don't have them I'd probably wait and pick up the CB Remix disks that I believe start getting released in the summer.

Woo Jae · 03-03-2005, 09:19 AM

I agree with ChrisBEA, the Amazon Marketplace thing is almost as bad as Ebay in terms of offering bootlegs for real items.

Got some stuff yesterday - Ikki Tousen #4 (finishes off this series - well the collecting part of it), Samurai Champloo #1, Bambi Platinum Edition, and GTO #22 (manga).

Watched the special features of Karate Kid - it's really fun and annoying as every one in it makes it out to be "the greatest movie evar~~".

Andrew Beacom · 03-03-2005, 09:51 AM

I did some digging in the feedback on a couple of sellers and if you look for the negative responses you find people complaining about bootlegs. Which makes me wonder if the other people who got bootlegs didn't know or didn't care.

JohnAD · 03-03-2005, 11:03 AM

Andrew:

Probably a bit of both.

John.

Alanna · 03-03-2005, 01:39 PM

I know I would be really pissed if I thought I was getting "legit" discs and they ended up being bootlegs. I wonder though, how do people manage to bootleg stuff with only single layer DVD burners? Do they compress the audio/video or what? I would be ripped if I got something like that.

I'm thinking about Thinpaking or maybe putting some of my lesser watched DVDs in cd cases to save room. Is there someplace online where you can find cover anime art to fit thinpaks or cd cases? I'm just running out of room and literally cannot get another DVD rack in my apartment. I have six already.. and its still not nearly enough.

Oh and I hate edited cable stuff... too bad Sci Fi doesn't show anime anymore though, it did introduce me to alot of stuff, and with Comedy Central showing uncut stuff late at night, they could air some of these without ripping the shows to shreds. See, I really didnt know GAL Force had any homo stuff in it or nudity.... lol I remember my mom liked the edited version though but she sure would hate and be shocked over that.

PreOrdered Full Metal Panic Collection and the rest of Wolf's Rain this morning. Plus the Europe - Rock the World DVD which is a Europe video collection. Am probably more excited about that than the anime.

JohnAD · 03-03-2005, 04:48 PM

Alanna:

More likely, they're copying from some substandard source like a VHS tape or camcoder. If they're going from a real DVD then I would suspect that the DVD gets ripped to a computer for subbing before being re-encoded on a single-layer disk.

As for Thinpaking, dvdcoverart.com used to be the place for getting custom DVD artwork, but right now they're in legal trouble with Warner. It's probably much simpler just to get a good paper cutter and modify your covers. For a single disk DVD, it's only 3mm on each short side, so it's not as big of a change as some people would have you think. Fiskars' paper cutters, with the cutting wheel, is what I use and I highly recommend it.

John.