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I do recommend Monster. This is a 72 episode series (of which like 52 or so episodes have aired in Japan already). Based on the manga, of the same name, the plot is about a Japanese young doctor, Tenma, who resides in Germany to learn to become the best neurosurgeon there is. His first morality...

Buy the book of Howl's Moving Castle, James, and read it. It is based off an English (not American) children's book. And you can determine if it is appropriate for your child.

Wolf's Rain unfortunately was overshadowed by the success of Scrapped Princess. So, Studio Bones placed more money into SP over WR and you can just tell where the quality of WR went after a certain episode and the quality of SP went too. JohnAD: Yukikaze is a 5 episode OVA series. Only 5...

the redone Evangelion is digitally remastered frame by frame, especially getting rid of the stutter problems from the original telecine version. The 5.1 used in Evangelion includes a more ambient sound that didn't exist in the original track. You will hear more environmental ambient sounds...

FMP is a waste of money. Just the first 12-13 episodes are good and the rest were horribly drawn out and boring. Lost all the charm of the first half of the series. FMP Fumoffu is a better buy IMO. I now pray FMP 3rd series will continue the good trend of the 2nd series. Jason: harem anime...

Regarding Gainax, I think my 2 top series from them are Nadia of the Mysterious Seas and His and Her Circumstances. Nadia has been my favorite for a very long time and still is in my top 10 series of all time. Yes, the island episodes were huge fillers and there were some more fillers spread...

Andrew: Noir had a really good starting premise that wasn't executed correctly throughout the series. A lot of us thought they could have cut out all the fluff stuff and reduced the episode count to like 6 or 13 episodes. Only Chloe is the saving grace of the show.

James Kiang: Congrats on the incoming bouncing baby! Funny how Pioneer now had to push their release sooner than what they wanted to give it because of a minor leak of previews that happened to have Gankutsuou on it before the actual official announcement of acquisition. LoL. But yes...

Import DVDs are the same price as LDs used to be. I see no difference in terms of paying for them. However, a lot of people are selling off their old LDs for the DVDs, which is why you have places like Anime Jungle selling them for cheap.... All the hardcore Japanese collectors are finally happy...

Christopher: Unfortunately the LD market died out in 1998, so you can get almost any anime up to 1998...probably 1999 at best. But Japan phased out LD when they finally saw the potential of DVDs and what it has to offer and finally got the encoding right rather than treating it like a...

Well, blu-ray will be coming out soon in the near future. The thing now is whether or not Japan will adopt this new format for their releases for anime (movies I am sure they will). For the domestic USA studios, this will become another renegotiate rights issues if the anime is to be released in...

JohnAD: Their initial charge is the same as everyone else's to the retail stores. The question is whether or not they placed a MAP on the DVDs rather than a MSRP. As for Princess Tutu, I read they are doing it for both the sub and the dub. >

In no way, does the retail pricing is dictated by Geneon. However, what dictates pricing are sale volumes. High demand = higher pricing. Lower demand = lower pricing. It is basic economics. Most likely from sales volume of certain studios, they can tell which studio is selling more and base...

Just read a bit about Gantz release by ADV of 26 episodes spanning 13 volumes. I am shocked and stunned, as well as satisfied, that they are attempting this method, because it is a very typical method used in Japan for popular shows (or any new releases by Victor Entertainment Japan) to spread...

JohnAD: Woo-hoo! Does it have a box? I may go get my copy soon. Who got the rights to Stellvia btw? And Nadia of the Mysterious Seas is one of my top 10 series of all time. Dave: Well, let me spoil this for you and Stacey....the series is not all that it is cracked up to be. ;P...

JohnAD: Is Stellvia already out? I may go and pick up my copy then. :) (Off topic : I am an ecstatic fanboy now that Japan released the R2 DVD of Shall We Dance? the original version...uncut. Woot getting my limited edition copy asap!!)

Stacey: I can't believe Bandai got the rights to the limited edition figurines that came with Scrapped Princess. The R2s never got a box but a lot of figurines instead. So don't expect a box either for R1. As for Kiminozo, definitely worth getting. ^^ I am glad you liked Scrapped...

James Kiang: Hi James...yeah it's been awhile. I haven't been on due to an addiction to MMOs...lol... Anyways, to answer your question, you should get both because both are quite different. Samurai 7 is based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (shichinin no samurai) movie. The setting of...

Woo: You gotta admit, it has one morbid sense of humor. I thought the humor was even more morbid than Hale nochi Guu TV series and OVA series combined.

Stacey B: Sorry, didn't answer you sooner about Koikaze. Yes, it is my official recommendation. Most of my recommendations are pretty spot on. Geneon has released the R1 disc of this beautifully romantic show. However, due warning, it concerns a taboo subject. To give a hint, it is about...

I picked up the R1 of Koikaze (3 disc version) woot! I got the ltd. ed. with the box. And it looks so sweet next to my R2 box version (5 disc version). Go buy it!!! ^^ Not spoiling the story plot I am such a happy fanboy of this series.

I am in love with the new Gonzo series Gankutsuou. I am getting the R2s for this show. Directed by Mahiro Maeda, of Last Exile and Blue Sub 6 fame. Awesome story, based on Dumas' The Count of the Monte Cristo. Other R2 I am picking up recently are Samurai 7 and Sunabouzu (another Gonzo...

Anyone interested in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (shichijin no samurai), will take not of the new anime that is based on Kurosawa's work called Samurai 7. It is very well done and is a 26 episode series. Very very good indeed.

Hahaha, John...well played FFXI, and then World of Warcraft (aka WoW) came along and I love that more than FFXI (believe it or not). WoW suits more my constrained time schedule than FFXI, and also WoW gives me a chance to catch up on watching TV shows while the servers are down (-_-)...

The new Appleseed movie is so awesomely well done. These critics don't realize that it is the same technique of model + cgi + cell shading like in the Korean anime Wonderful Days. I went to see the dubbed showcase (yeah yeah..I know) and it is as I imagined it to be. Awesomely well done for a...

John: Gilgamesh is an utter mess of an anime. It is based on a popular gothic shoujo series of the same name, but the studio who did it must be on a very very extremely overtly low low low low budget. The animation is not even that great and the story got all messed up someplace. It's...

Gilgamesh got licensed by ADV.... Hahahaha, they deserve that crappy show.

Back from Anime Expo 2004! Pretty fun ride. Staffed again. I'm amazed what rights some companies have lately...geez... Anyways, loads of new licenses. So far fun fun fun... Hope you enjoy yourselves.

I am back... ^^ AX 2004 is nigh, so I will be on this forum a lot more now that we get to hear what's going to be licensed starting next week...so I can start ranting and raving. ^^

I am back... ^^ AX 2004 is nigh, so I will be on this forum a lot more now that we get to hear what's going to be licensed starting next week...so I can start ranting and raving. ^^