Shinmaru
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No particular order:
RahXephon
Cowboy Bebop
Grave of the Fireflies
Spirited Away
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dragon Ball Z
Sailor Moon
Paranoia Agent
Serial Experiments Lain
Fruits Basket
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Who I'd Want to Be: Spike Speigal, definitely. I'd have the time of my life flying around the universe catching bounties. Sure, he gets the crap beaten out of him a lot, but you take the bad with the good. The exciting life would be worth it.
Who I'd Probably Be: Someone like Shin from Cowboy Bebop... pop in for an episode or two, kick a little ass, then get killed or just disappear, never to be heard from again. That wouldn't be so bad, actually.
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Today, I went to a Dark Horse Manga panel first. The guy who was representing DH was one of their editors and he passed out some copies of titles they are about to release and at least two of them are ones I will be IMMEDIATELY buying when they hit shelves. The one I'm most excited about is about this group of people who can communicate with the dead. However, the reason that they can communicate with certain dead people is because these dead bodies/souls cannot pass on to the next life for some reason. They died carrying a grudge, or had feeling of revenge not achieved, or guilt, or remorse, whatever. So, the dead persons hire this group of people to investigate something for them that will help them resolve their unfinished business and allow them to go to the afterlife in exchange for whatever they can give as payment--be it jewelry they were buried with, the winning lottery numbers for next Friday, whatever. It's very cool and I think it has tons of potential.
What's the title of that one? It does sound pretty interesting, and I'd like to keep an eye out for it.
At 12:30am, I went and watched some hentai. Now, I didn't want to (for reasons that should be pretty obvious), but as I walked by the room where they were showing it, there was laughter filling the entire hallway from inside the closed doors. So, it occurred to me that, given how incredibly cheesy and awful hentai "plots" are, it would make for some great late-night comedy with some fellow anime fans. And ooooohhhhh was it ever. (We had a DS Pictochat going during the movies, too.) The one I watched had this guy who was a porn manga writer and he was trying to write this porn manga anthology, so to get all the work done within a month, he had this ridiculous pseudo-transformation sequence called "Hyper Erection Mode" where he spun around and did goofy-ass poses (with no nudity, thank heaven) and got him in the mood to write erotic fiction. It happened so many times in the movie that a group of guys sitting a few rows away from me stood up and acted it out every time it happened. That shit was even better than the morbidly bad dialogue. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:Ha, you don't get stuff like that at Anime Expo. If we did, I probably would have watched it for the sheer bizarreness of it. Still, there was plenty of amusement to be found by scouring the hentai DVDs in the dealer's room. The sheer hilarity of some of those covers was glorious, really. Hentai is just something else, haha.
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I hope I live to see the day when we're all hovering around like Marty McFly.
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I finally saw Advent Children just now, and I liked it just fine. The plot is just there, for me... it isn't bad, but it felt a bit rushed and I never got into it too much. However, I can't deny that the visuals are astounding, and the fights are just incredible to watch. I enjoyed the touches of humor, as well. Loz's cell phone playing the FF "Victory Fanfare" theme during his fight with Tifa got a nice laugh from me (Loz is great in general, actually; he's the only "remnant" I liked). Reno and Rude were also hilarious in this. The look of anguish on Rude's face when Reno accidentally stepped on his sunglasses while they were battling Loz and Yazoo cracked me up. Seeing all of the characters pop up and kick some ass is fun, though I agree with James that more of Vincent would have been nice. I was hoping for a good, profanity-laced tirade from Cid too. Maybe next time.
Anyway, AC met my expectations pretty easily - I expected a fun add-on to FFVII rather than something that would stand up to the epic story that FFVII offered, so it didn't disappoint me at all.
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I've been registered here a while, but I didn't start posting until maybe a couple of months before the podcasts started.
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I must have this game.
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PS3 to launch November 17th, 2006--$499 for 20GB, $599 for 60GB
Thoughts?
(Note: It says in the headline that the 60GB version will retail for $599, but in the article itself it says $549; however, I'm assuming that it's just an error.)
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Wow, that's pretty cool. I barely read Watchmen for the first time about a month and a half ago, actually (I'm a late adopter, to say the least...), so this'll be nice to spot a few things I probably missed.
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I cannot wait for this. Hopefully they'll revamp FFV and VI for the handhelds, so that I can play FFI through VI on my DS or PSP, and then jump into VII and beyond on the PS2.
They're way ahead of you, buddy.
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Polarium
Hey, someone else who has experienced the magic of Polarium. :urock:
Here's my list without the GBA games, as, like Yoda's collection, they are all over the place:
DS
Advance Wars DS
Animal Crossing DS
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day
Mario Kart DS
New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendogs
Polarium
Super Mario 64 DS
Yoshi Touch & Go
XBox
Beyond Good and Evil
Halo
The House of the Dead III
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Shenmue II
Silent Scope Complete
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
GameCube
All-Star Baseball 2002
Animal Crossing
Crazy Taxi
Dragon Ball Z Budokai
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Madden NFL 2002
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Mario Party 4
Metal Gear Solid 2: The Twin Snakes
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
NBA Live 2003
NCAA Football 2003
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Pikmin
Pikmin 2
Resident Evil 4
The Simpsons Road Rage
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Spider-Man: The Movie
Star Fox Adventures
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Monkey Ball
Super Monkey Ball 2
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Wario World
Wave Race: Blue Storm
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Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.
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Besides Shinichiro Watanabe, I'd go Yutaka Izubuchi (RahXephon) and Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies).
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95% Spider-Man.
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Ghostbusters, yeah. I don't really have a lot to say. I watched it over Christmas (it was on one of the Starz! channels), and I kind of agree that the content was a bit mature for a PG rating, but, what are you going to do. They can't realistically go back and watch every PG and R-rated film from before the PG-13 rating and see which ones should be PG-13.
Oh, I agree, and I hope I didn't come off as a prude. It's just that, after all these years of having PG-13 around, it's shocking to hear "shit" and "dick" and see all of the sexual innuendo in a PG film. Even if it was produced before the creation of the rating.
I don't think that you come off as a prude. I actually thought the same thing when I first saw Airplane!, haha.
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Didn't you guys ever play The Lost Levels? There could have been poison mushrooms in those boxes for all we know.
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More people seeing this series makes me happy. However, I am quite jealous of the great deal that you got, James.
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Psycho's definitely up there, and I was probably one of the very few people to not have known beforehand that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father when the original Star Wars trilogy was re-released into theaters. Seeing The Empire Strikes for the very first time with a bunch of screaming fans is still my greatest theater experience.
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Boy, I haven't been here for a while... :ohmy:
Western: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Comedy: Dr. Strangelove
Drama: Mulholland Dr.
Horror: The Thing
Action: Dirty Harry
Musical: The Blues Brothers
Fantasy: The Princess Bride
Sci-Fi: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Romance: Amelie
Family: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Animation: Grave of the Fireflies
Comic Book Adaptation: Sin City
Novel Adaptation: Psycho
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I'm having a hard time choosing between Wembley and Boober... I think I'll go with Wembley though. He always made me laugh.
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Friend Code: 4810-9724-1735
I've got peaches growing in my town, and lots of them.
My AIM name is Shinmaru007 in case you catch me online. I'll likely be on there at the same time I'm playing Animal Crossing.
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Of the ones I've played, Superman 64... but the right answer is probably E.T. The stories of its hideousness are legendary.
Death Note Anime
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I'm not really into fansubs, so I haven't seen it yet, but I'm really looking forward to it coming out in the States.
However, I have read a huge chunk of the manga, and it is godly.