penellice park. lmao
Dont you mean pinelles? and dont you live in palm harbor?
You'll just hate yourself in the end.
Naruto is a good show, but it's got the classic "let's make the show really long by have fights drag on for episode after episode after episode" syndrome of shows like Dragon Ball, and the English dub is pretty bad...
The GC games are great though, particularly 3 and 4 (the two I've played).
Instead of Naruto, I'd suggest the following:
Series:
Paranoia Agent
Kino's Journey
Planetes
Serial Experiments Lain
Samurai 7
Texhnolyze
RahXephon
Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team
Cromartie High School
Big O
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex
Excel Saga
Last Exile
Haibane Renmei
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Now and Then, Here and There
Blue Submarin No. 6
Genshiken
Saikano
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Gunparade March
Movies:
Nausicaa: of the Valley of the Wind
Patlabor the Movies 1 and 2
Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2
Porco Rosso
Royal Space Force: The Wing of Honneamise
Voices of a Distant Star
The Place Promised in Our Early Years
Princess Mononoke
Cat Soup
Armitage 3 OVA
Akira
Tokyo Godfathers
Millennium Actress
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
I've watched a few episodes of Naruto, I thought they were pretty cool and iit reminded me alot of the type of story lines in Chrono Trigger. besides, Sexy-Jitsu is awesome in a 'girl-with-a-penis' kinda way
i dont care NARUTO IS STILL MY FAVORITE SHOW
I love how you said that as though other people having contrary opinions is somehow a direct attack on your own.
Is your position so weak that the mere presense of contrary opinions is a threat? :D
Dark Jaguar is:
A.) talking to a 12 year old about the gravity of the formulating of opinions
B. Hoping that by talking to a 12 year old he will eventually convince him that he is possibly a girl
C. Realizing that he's asking a stupid question
D. Gets more booty than all of us combined
E.) Fill in the blank
Quote:Instead of Naruto, I'd suggest the following:
Naruto is actually pretty good you know... overly long (180+ episodes and counting!) through the worst anime ways (as I said, fights that go on for episode after episode after episode), but still, good...
Yeah, most of what you mention is good too, but you make it sound like Naruto isn't good by doing that. It is. It's hardly the deepest, most complex anime ever, but it's got enough to be interesting, anyway...
I just find him so ADORABLE is all lazy! Can I take him home with me?
Quote:B. Hoping that by talking to a 12 year old he will eventually convince him that he is possibly a girl
LOL
Quote:Yeah, most of what you mention is good too, but you make it sound like Naruto isn't good by doing that.
I've seen about 10 episodes of Naruto and it is pretty good. But the ones I listed are better.
GR was merely making a suggestion. He didn't outright say Naruto is "terrible", nor was that inferred. Any judgement otherwise is left to the reader, and in your case you reached that conclusion. One only has an obligation to be honest. Politics are irrelevent.
Quote:I've seen about 10 episodes of Naruto and it is pretty good. But the ones I listed are better.
It's hard to compare, say, a 13-episode series to one that's at 185 and isn't over yet... (like Dragon Ball, One Piece, etc.) You can, but the length, within anime, generally means 'overly long fights'. It is enjoyable anyway, but it is kind of hard to compare to something like a concise, focused-on-the-story one like a bunch of those (that are just 13 episodes).
Oh, it's not as good as the better ones on that list. Just saying that there are some different categories here (and length can be good too, more time to tell more story...).
Quote:GR was merely making a suggestion. He didn't outright say Naruto is "terrible", nor was that inferred .Any judgement otherwise is left to the reader, and in your case you reached that conclusion. One only has an obligation to be honest. Politics are irrelevent.
Huh? And I didn't say that he said that...
Nor did I say that you said that :D.
What I was attempting to do is say that he only need say his opinion. He's no obligation to make sure he phrases it in some special way to avoid offending the Naritonati amongst us.
Quote:but it is kind of hard to compare to something like a concise, focused-on-the-story one like a bunch of those (that are just 13 episodes).
I'd say no.
Quote:I'd say no.
No what?
A Black Falcon Wrote:No what?
Beef, or meat in general.
I've never watched Naruto, but one thing that made DBZ painful to watch was the fights that would take 30 episodes. (Or at least the fight between Goku and Frieza did. Minor fights would take maybe 5 or 10.) I might watch it someday anyway though.
The Suncoast at my mall is going out of business, so everything's on sale. I thought of getting some Fullmetal Alchemist DVDs for 30% off, but they didn't have Volume 1. I've actually never seen this particular anime either, but I've heard it was good. Come to think of it, when was the last time I actually watched anime? I was starting to get tired of it, what with annoying anime fans and all their HIROSHI-KUN ^_________^ nonsense, but now I think I'm ready to start watching good anime again.
I watched a few clips of subbed DBZ compared with dubbed DBZ recently though, and DBZ in the Japanese isn't all that bad. It's still not great, but it's decent enough. At least they have actual screams instead of constipated grunts, and they don't feel the need to narrate every emotional passage. They still have the really long fights, and the plothole of "5 minutes 'til the planet explodes" even though the fight takes 30 episodes, and the panning to every character whenever something happens, and the pointless staring at each other for 5 minutes, but... another thing that's different is the music. The dub music is pathetic. The Japanese music is pretty good though. It actually sets the mood, whereas the dub music is annoying and tedious. The dialogue isn't nauseating this time around either, and there's none of this "other dimension" bullcrap. So yeah, I guess overall I'd give it an 8/10 in the Japanese and a 2/10 dubbed. This was probably the most raped anime of all time.
Quote:E.) Fill in the blank
E.) Owns a swingset inside his large bedroom (that has a bed shaped like a heart, except that heart has a really phallic tail, so it's really an optical illusion to trick you into thinking that you're seeing a heart when you're really staring at a cock-and-ball-shape upside down, thereby facilitating the process of mistaking sex for love), which he never uses for innocent swinging. Oh, no. Unless, of course, that swinging is swing-dancing, and is horizontal, and involves someone's pole inside someone's hole.
Quote:http://www.cardcaptors-uncensored.com/series.shtml
And remember folks, Cardcaptor Sakura is a show for elementary-aged children... yeah, Japan is different from the US. :)
But anyway, lots of anime is drastically changed for the worse when it's adapted for American television... particularly if it's broadcast TV or meant for children.
Great Rumbler Wrote:Not quite:
http://www.cardcaptors-uncensored.com/series.shtml
That's not a porn site, by the way.
Oh yeah, I forgot about CCS. Okay, THAT is the most raped anime of all time. (They didn't even show the episodes in order half the time.)
And I guess one advantage of the DBZ dub as opposed to other dubs was that they didn't change very many characters' names, one exception being Mr. Satan to Hercule. TienShinHan was shortened to Tien and Kuririn was translated as Krillin, but that's about it.
DBZ is such a terrible show...
I haven't watched more than a few minutes of it in a long time...
I watched two episodes last week. Not sure why... it was so utterly pointless...
I still don't understand why it's as popular as it is.
Same reason any super hero show is? It's a bunch of people wailing on each other.
It's young men trying to prove who is the most powerful in the universe and you have two routes to that power, insane and corrupt or benevolent and inspired and ultimately learning that the greatest power in the universe is having family and friends *awww*
Plus the fights are cool with odd concepts and planet-splitting and what not.
In the end, it's about the good guys trying to prove to the bad guys that "all that matters is power" is a WRONG philosophy, by becoming stronger than them and defeating them! Apparently, DB world is an irony free zone.
haha, yeah but when they get the dragon balls together they end bringing their friends back to life instead of asking for the ultimate power.
But they did! The ultimate power is FRIENDSHIP, and in anime, that tends to be LITERAL, as in the power of friendship glows and shoots lasers and generates force fields.
Also, the entire underworld is religiuos commentary.
Watch this instead:
![[Image: B0007ZEORS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007ZEORS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Is that the Screw of Damnation?
What's it about?
Quote:Is that the Screw of Damnation?
If it comes into contact with your spaceship at orbital velocity, yes, as the series itself demonstrates.
Quote:What's it about?
It's a basically about garbage collectors in space. To be more specific, it's the debris collection branch of the corporation that runs an orbital space station. They're generally regarded as good-for-nothings since they don't actually generate any revenue for the company. More than that though, it's about everyday life and realistic situations that would happen to people who live in space [or in the moon, in some cases]. It does try to be flashy like other scifi anines, rather it takes a very realistic approach and doesn't skimp on the physics. If you like outerspace or the science of space travel, you'd be hard pressed to find a better anime series than this.
![[Image: planetes1lg.jpg]](http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/9801/planetes1lg.jpg)
Great Rumbler Wrote:If it comes into contact with your spaceship at orbital velocity, yes, as the series itself demonstrates.
It's a basically about garbage collectors in space. To be more specific, it's the debris collection branch of the corporation that runs an orbital space station. They're generally regarded as good-for-nothings since they don't actually generate any revenue for the company. More than that though, it's about everyday life and realistic situations that would happen to people who live in space [or in the moon, in some cases]. It does try to be flashy like other scifi anines, rather it takes a very realistic approach and doesn't skimp on the physics. If you like outerspace or the science of space travel, you'd be hard pressed to find a better anime series than this.
Well let me ask you this. How much work do they need to do to make sure they are travelling at the same speed as whatever debris they are after?
you flap your arms slower or faster, depending on the rate at which the Screw of Damnation is traveling, and then lasers and forcefields. Friendship, realistic physics, garbage collecting. OUTERSPACE!
Quote:How much work do they need to do to make sure they are travelling at the same speed as whatever debris they are after?
Roughly the same as they would to dock with a space station?
Perhaps, but a space station, if it isn't in total disrepair, is a nice large target with a relatively stable orbit. I'm thinking tracking the speed of something like that and matching it's speed if it happens to be in a decaying orbit might be a bit tougher. Perhaps not though?
At any rate, knowing this, I'm surprised you didn't think it was that big a deal that someone was actually going to golf a golfball off the ISS. NASA is still examining the issue, but are very likely to label the plan as "dangerous" and demand that those crazy peoples of the other government don't do such a publicity stunt.
Also,
<img src="http://www.outthereliving.com/worldbike/Europe_1999/Images/Europe_5/October_31c_1999.jpg">
Quote:At any rate, knowing this, I'm surprised you didn't think it was that big a deal that someone was actually going to golf a golfball off the ISS.
Well, for one thing there's already about 100,000 peices of junk over a centimeter wide. Maybe the golfball is the straw that breaks the camel's back, but I doubt it.
Quote:I'm thinking tracking the speed of something like that and matching it's speed if it happens to be in a decaying orbit might be a bit tougher. Perhaps not though?
I don't think their orbit would be decaying rapidly enough to be a problem in recovery and the series takes place in the future, where I imagine that tracking systems would be a lot more advanced.
