Chatterbox - Anime & Manga

Apparently Netflix redubbed the original Saint Seiya.

https://twitter.com/zoid9000/status/1184210770076360704

First 41 episodes are dubbed.

Is he allowed to just reveal it like that?

He is because it’s publicly available on Netflix.

https://www.netflix.com/title/70267476?s=i&trkid=13752289

Hey that’s better than the CG one.

I don’t hate the CG one, finding it average (I keep getting the feeling more kids are watching shows like it and Miraculous than The Dragon Prince) but yeah, original flavor with blood and a better dub than the old KOTZ one with “I ran” is better.

Edited by Beatman1 on Oct 15th 2019 at 9:43:21 AM

On the matter of pornography and sexual mores: there is a strange tendency for the Japanese and the Americans to think of the other as more sexually liberated. Much of this has to do with what gets exported; American films are allowed more sex than comics, strangely enough, even now that there are few restrictions on violence. But it also has to do with nudity being taboo in Anglo-Saxon culture while Japan has always been open about it (ecchi mangas make into more of a taboo, oddly enough, with their prudish tsunderes), while the stigma against out-of-marriage sex and talking openly about it have come down much more in the Anglophone world than in Japan. Ero-mangas were long regarded as an outlet, a way to relieve stress and loneliness rather than pointing to a healthy sex life. They have still been subject to bouts of censorship when someone in government wanted to keep them out of reach of his own daughters.

While Japan has this paradoxical image of a nation of prudes and pornographers, the States is seen as one of puritans and pornographers, a mix coming from strong religious culture and a free market. Compare to France, where culture is fairly open about both nudity and sex. Quite a few Franco-Belgian comics amount to carefully drawn, full-colour pornography. On the other hand, the country has a much deeper problem with sexual harassment than Britain.

Sometimes I remember rage of bahamut virgin soul and I just get viscerally mad

You too huh

The Bahamut animes are honestly good but how Virgin Soul ended sours the experience

Rolling over from the end of Last page:

KARAS? Awesome

GARO? Also Awesome

Put them together and what do you get?

Cmon, Tatsunoko and Tohokushinsa. Give us a Crossover already.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Oct 16th 2019 at 2:18:30 PM

Virgin soul was such a monkey's paw experience for me. I was really looking forward to the drama from Nina's relationship with Charioce only for them and the romance to suddenly lose all its interesting traits from the anime's first half (not like it was devoid of issues either)

Wait, the original Saint Seiya show has ANOTHER new English dub?! Didn't it already have two previous dubs before that? I know ADV attempted to dub the series more faithfully than Di C Entertainment did but weren't able to get past a certain amount of episodes for some reason. How is the new dub anyway?

Hey random thought:

We know Studio Ghibli apparently doesn't like the idea of making their movies available digitally, right?

I'd hate to be disavowed by them, but it just hit me.

What if the DVDs and Blu-Rays go out of print? Wouldn't having the movies available digitally keep them from being lost forever later down the line?

Or serve as a way for folks to watch Ghibli if they somehow can't afford physical discs or watch it in theaters?

I imagine some of them could be on Disney+ eventually, though I reckon they could just make more disks.

Don't hold your breath for Disney+ to stream any of them any time soon.

If Ghibli even survives as a studio after Miyazaki's passing, which hopefully won't be anytime soon, you can bet it's gonna do a complete 180 on that policy.

The man is pretty big luddite, which probably got worse now that he's old and inflicted with the usual stubborness that comes with advanced age.

I’d make a joke about Martin Scorsese but even The Irishman is going to be a Netflix exclusive.

Not gonna lie, that's a really dark thought, but it admittedly does sound like something that would happen.

The rationale behind say, refusing to use 3D for your films or whatever, I can get, but not making your films available digitally is genuinely puzzling to me.

I don't think there is any real risk of Miyazaki's films going out of print for any foreseeable future, they are simply too well known and loved and horrendously overpriced like televised shows tend to be. Maybe the more obscure films like Ocean Waves.

Bandai Namco Holdings announces takeover bid for Sotsu Co. Ltd. in order to make it a wholly-owned subsidiary in order to consolidate the Gundam franchise.

@Rage of Bahamut: Honestly the fact Bahamut gets back at both by making them inconsequential nobodies in the new universe Bahamut created that Granblue Fantasy takes place in after destroying the old universe is icing on the cake.

Poor Azazel though. Even in a new universe he's still a Butt-Monkey even when he's still loyal to Supreme Primarch Lucifer even as the other Fallen Angels rebel against him, sex fiend Primarch Belial gets him locked up with the rest for defying their Archangel superiors.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Oct 16th 2019 at 6:13:03 AM

Wait, I thought Lucifer was killed in WMTSB II?

Yes, but The Fallen Angel rebellion happened in the past, and to further him being a buttmonkey Azazel has no idea what's going on.

I'm guessing this is context we get in the third event? 'Cause I don't remember any of that from either WMTSB or Paradise Lost.

Yes along with his fate episodes.