Four words. I. LOVE. this. series!
It's like FLCL with more giant robot fights! I love how the series seems to feel the need to outdo itself with every fight scene. Now if only the fansub group I watch would sub the series faster (I'm only on ep 17 ;_;)
Even Better News ADV is bringing it to us, starting in February, Dub and Everything! GIGA DRILL BREAKER. Sorry had to do that
I'm pretty sure the group you're watching stopped at 17. You're gonna have to switch if you want to continue, or support ADV and buy it.
Btw, you think you've seen epic? You haven't seen anything yet... just wait.
Most epic anime ever made
Quote from: Squirrellord on January 30, 2008, 02:37:28 PM
I'm pretty sure the group you're watching stopped at 17.
I stopped there anyway. Didn't really like the series at all, to be honest, I'm surprised I made it that far. >_<
Does anyone spreak engrish here
ARGH only up to episode 12....must find more episodes :lordilvryannoyed:
Ah, yeah, ADV lost the licensing to the show, and now Bandi has it. Could be a good thing, considering how HORRIFIC the ADV dub was, at least from the previews I saw. And the movie comes out this September!
i heart adv dubs. They give us the cheapest anime out there with their promise to always box set everything that they do. ( I cannot think of anything they haven't box setted in a year period)
El Tigre and I have been watching it on the Sci-Fi channel once a week. We're up to episode 8 I believe. It's a freakin amazing show thus far.
Its a great fast paced show. Loving it.
Only seen about five episodes, but it's been a fun watch so far. The style of animation remindes me somewhat of Dead Leaves.
[Spoiler warning]
Thought it was the damned funniest thing when Kamina and Simon first tried (seemingly impossibly) merging the head unit with the larger body to create a more superior robot. And the fact that it actually worked was a jaw-dropper for me. That was great![/Spoiler warning]
I've seen it all, and I'm still torn... I think I liked the start, then it took one sudden turn, and I stayed on, then it took another turn and got REALLY fucked up, and then... well, yeah, it got so extreme and kinda cheesy. In the end though I can award it high points for creativity, but it's so all over the place and odd. I enjoyed it well enough, but I wouldn't buy it, and I don't think I would even rewatch it again, but I didn't hate it.
I've been watching it as it airs on the sci-fi channel. Absolutely loving it so far. Totally zany stuff. :il_hahaha:
Not sure if this has been posted before, but it's awesome enough that it bares repeating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGpCmvGTwU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGpCmvGTwU)
thats quite clever actually
I love that video so much. I like it better than the actual Mulan one.
Just finished the series off about a week ago or so, and
HO-LEE SHIT WAS THAT ENDING EPIC.
This has gotta be my favorite series to have come out this decade so far. Can't wait for the boxset to come out :kabapu-1:
Seriously, if some of you guys haven't seen it, check it out-it's made out of pure awesome with a high concentration of win.
epic win. wins internets lol i love these expressions. True this series rules. but somehow I find Eva only slightly better. the best thing Gainax ever did was Kare Kano (my favourite anime).
I'm concidering just blindly to buy this anime just like that...
A friend of mine recomended it to me, and just so i don't spoil myself, i decided not to look into the series at all untill i get it... Because according to him, it's too epic to allow myself to get spoiled...
I guess it's a very good series then... As long it contains loads of humor, crazy scenes, and creative original scenes i'm all for it...
...If just they'd release a full collection by now, and not several seperate versions of it... It's getting extremely confusing to me...
^^ Yeah, it is a bit confusing. I'd recommend going to a store and actually looking at them, it's a lot easier to figure it out in person. Then you can order them online if you want.
Don't got it in retail stores here in denmark, at least not around where i live, so i don't got that option unfortunately...
Ah.... well, I could help you out if you were looking at Amazon or something.
It can be confusing when wanting to buy this.
Here's a breakdown for those who need to be 'in the know' about the release:
ADV originally bought the licensing rights, apparently even english dubbed it, but later sold off the license to Bandai.
And far as I know, Bandai now has the series released as an English subtitle only format with a English dub release soon to follow (probably out now actually).
I would recommend to anyone wanting to buy this to check which one of the two available versions you want - the bare bones English sub only, or the regular version with all the bells and whistles.
IMO, the english voice for Kamina sucks ass. All other english voices were pretty good.
I'd like the english dub in it, it adds replay value to the whole series for me...
As for now, i haven't been able to find a single full collection... There are these 3 parts that combined become the full series, but damnit, there has to be a full collection boxset with all of it bundled... I'be been looking for that, no luck yet...
I usually only buy these things from play.com, Axelmusic.com, cdwow.com (-rarely), and imusic.dk
Pretty good websites, imusic.dk actually has a few for ridiculously low prices... But none of them seems to be a full collection...
There is no full box set at the moment.
That collection of 3 sets is still being released, and is what you want right now (unless you want to wait for a box set to be released, which I've heard nothing about as of now). Currently the first two "sets" (containing 2 DVDs each) have been released. The third and final set (containing the fifth and sixth dvds) will be released on March 17th.
Perhaps i should wait for now, untill the third one is available...
I've got plenty other series to look for anyhow... Still gotta complete my PaniPoni Dash! collection, and get the complete boxset of Abenobashi, and i thought of getting FLCL as well...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v122/ElTigreNumeroUno/Misc/Calvin-Kamina.png)
:kabapu-1:
^Touché. :il_hahaha:
So about the movie(s):
There's two films, and they recap the show. Poey and I saw the first one a few days ago at Anime Expo. The animation is largely the same (which isn't too surprising since in the show it was top notch). It's about 2-2.5 hours so they had to brush over a lot of stuff. It's hard to say if the pacing felt rushed, having seen the series already I was able to follow along completely and fill in all the gaps. However, what the scenes they kept in were almost exactly the same.
Until they start fighting the four generals + Viral...which they fight all at the same time.
That's the big change, and it's even more awesome than whatever you can imagine. Made the close timing of release totally worth it for me. Having a crowd of people yell "GIGA DRILL BREAKER!!!1@!31" didn't hurt either. :il_hahaha:
At the panel with the directors they said the second film would 1) explore the Anti-Spiral character a bit more, and 2) be even bigger...
Also, they played a 45 minute documentary on the production which was pretty interesting if you're into that side of things. The main directors are pretty entertaining guys as well.
I saw a decent amount of this anime on SciFi but I really need to pick it up now that it has been released in store. I usually hate animes with giant robots but there was so much more depth then just robots duking it out!
After not being able to watch for awhile I was devistated when I was able to tune in and learned that you-know-who had died! I've never been depressed by an anime character death before!
Yeah that was a huge shocker, we couldn't believe it either.
It's not really quite a typical mecha show cus the mechs in it are very human like and animated. IE not very robotic. They talk like people, move like people, etc. A bit more cartoony, in a good way.
read dragon half.
i'd say watch, but the creator of the anime got caught using drugs, so only 2 episodes were released.
however the manga was finished recently
im suprised at how quickly madman entertainment is releasing TTGL. They've almost released about 12-13 episodes and that's only a couple of months behind America started releasing. Im saying this because usually it takes forever for stuff to come out, except if there's guranteed sales. Death note came out like a shot, and Code geass isn't too far behind.
A question - should i wait until the box set? How long will it be?
I already saw a complete box of TTGL locally if my eyes did not deceive me. I would just wait for the thin pak set, because it will save you tons of money.