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#16151: Dec 6th 2015 at 12:24:17 PM

Not Blu-Ray, something else, I think? Someone on the DBZ thread mentioned they'd fixed Episode 5.

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#16152: Dec 6th 2015 at 12:24:48 PM

[up] the Blu Ray and Dv D release for eps 1-12 came out in Japan.

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#16154: Dec 6th 2015 at 1:44:02 PM

I think they slipped in some of Dende's voice. I like that.

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#16155: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:04:51 PM

...Kaiser's lucky that they probably won't be abridging Super.

Super's animation is surprisingly abysmal.

I miss the old "gritty" look of Dragonball, not this new "plastic" character look.

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#16156: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:08:12 PM

Blame the overall declining anime industry of The New '10s. Highly competitive and oversaturated, draconically strict regulations, hellish woking conditions... I would've been surprised if the animation wasn't terrible.

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#16157: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:09:13 PM

But...the New Tens gave us One Punch Man and Kill La Kill.

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#16158: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:30:58 PM

...Kill la kill.

Yeah, the animation is a good point.

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#16159: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:31:57 PM

I've never watched Kill la Kill, I just hear it's really good.

I should watch it, come to think of it...eh, I still need to catch up on Hellsing Ultimate. I'm up to Episode 4.

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#16160: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:37:13 PM

2 new episodes of Team Four Star playing Raging Blast 2 are on youtube.

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#16161: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:40:05 PM

Iron Blooded Orphans is pretty good. Saving a lot of the animation budget for the action scenes to make sure they look good.

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#16162: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:52:15 PM

There's also everything ufotable makes and everything made by A-1 Pictures. Not to mention JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. There are plenty of examples of great animation in The New '10s. Hell, for something more relevant, Battle of Gods had fantastic animation and Resurrection "F" was no slouch either.

edited 6th Dec '15 2:52:34 PM by Zelenal

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#16163: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:53:17 PM

A-1 kinda depends.Though it's usually decent.

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#16164: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:54:29 PM

Season 1 of Sword Art Online and every episode of The Asterisk War so far have been beautifully animated.

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#16165: Dec 6th 2015 at 5:54:05 PM

What if Team Four Star decides to make their own version of Dragon Ball Super by including footage from Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F'?

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#16166: Dec 6th 2015 at 6:21:03 PM

Also, people are forgetting that Web Gen animators are starting to become popular freelancers, and with the latest tech, are actually making production values overall higher this decade then any past one before it.

Pretty Cure is Toei's best in terms of TV anime at the moment thanks to this.

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#16167: Dec 6th 2015 at 6:26:23 PM

Animation as a whole has been steadily improving... Toei is just really cheap

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#16168: Dec 6th 2015 at 7:16:52 PM

Mostly because they don't let their best animators work all the time, and usually leave the grunt work to their Philippines studio, which is known to be their worst one.

They have good veterans like Natoshi Shiida and Kazuhiro Ota.

Hell, the most recent Precure has Shingo "Star Driver" Fuji as a major fight scene animator, for one. They also let their best animators work with Gen Urobuchi on Expelled From Paradise, too.

edited 6th Dec '15 7:18:33 PM by Demongodofchaos2

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#16169: Dec 7th 2015 at 9:16:41 AM

When I saw the "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" sub in the Super Android 13 movie, I thought the crew were 9/11 truthers for a second. I had no idea it was a meme. [lol]

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#16170: Dec 7th 2015 at 9:54:05 AM

meme?

Is that an actual meme on the original definition, or are you using the word "meme" like people use it nowadays to mean "joke"?

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#16171: Dec 7th 2015 at 10:32:07 AM

Well, by the original definition the idea that jet fuel can't melt steel beams is certainly a meme among actual conspiracy theorists. Among non-truthers it fits the more typical usage of the word.

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#16173: Dec 7th 2015 at 11:10:13 AM

Numer 18.

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#16174: Dec 7th 2015 at 12:40:54 PM

I remember when I knew very little about Dragon Ball and was just absorbing things piece meal... I knew Brolly was this dude who fucked everyone's shit up. I thought he was an actual part of the main series too. Then I kept seeing that gif of 13 decking Goku in the dick.

"Oh yeah, so that must be Brolly, huh?"

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#16175: Dec 7th 2015 at 12:44:55 PM

A lot of my early absorption of DBZ came from AMVs, which left me waiting for specific scenes I thought were cool in the actual series. Many of those scenes were from movies.

Broly was one of those. There was a music video that spliced Vegeta getting smashed in the Broly movie with Vegeta rising up as a Super Saiyan, knocking down Android 15. So for a long time, I thought they were part of the same scene.

I spent much of the series waiting for one scene of Goku and Vegeta putting their cheeks together and forming a cross with their hands to fire a conjoined ki attack. I think that was either filler from inside Super Buu or from the Janemba film, I can't recall. I just remember being disappointed when I actually saw it because I had mistakenly assumed it to be an example of how well they learned to work together and coordinate as a team, when instead it's a begrudging desperation move.

edited 7th Dec '15 12:47:04 PM by TobiasDrake

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