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Look Juan I could talk about Commander Kunugi but then I start wanting to spoil the plot and that isn't good for anybody.
Besides I'm trying to convince some moe-bait fans to watch RahXephon. Trumpetting a stone cold manly guy like Kunugi would probably scare them off.
I don't remember it being a loop but I don't want to get into spoilers here.
ewww
Just kidding. But really, I'm just not interested in RahXephon.
Don't be afraid. It is okay to let testosterone into your entertainment.
Now strap on some sunglasses, ride the bomb, build a robot, find your true love, strum a guitar and save New York with an army of octo robots while your angsty clone stabs a giant spider with tits.
Am I missing like a big series of references?
All you need to know about commander kunugi's that his tree produces blue leaves because he used alien blood to fertilize it
that's how it worked right
Okay, Azusa's two long-hair streaks. I don't know the K-On cast names.
Her twintails or the other part of her hair that's sort of long?
If it's the former, Azusa must have twintails because she is a cat.
Her long, thin, and weird-looking twintails.
Also, cats don't have twintails.
Nekomata do.
Aww, don't be talking shit about Azusa's twintails, GMH, they're cool. :[
Best K-ON! twintails are Ichigo Wakaouji's twin drills (or ringlets for you silly people who don't like calling them drills... >.>)
Also I admit I don't have any actual source linking twintail characters with nekomata, though it's certain that that's the intent at least some of the time.
Does K-on! have a dub yet.
All Nines: Trinity Blood has some problems, like having incomplete world-building based mostly on aesthetic, but the characters are mostly likable and it has some of the most touching and truthful uses of the concept of Christian forgiveness and love I've ever seen.
^By Bandai. Second-hand sources tell me it's not very good though.
How bad are we talking here?
Because as long as I can understand the characters I don't really care. I loathe watching subbed anime.
I watched it dubbed and it was nice enough.
^^ K-On's dub is pretty good.
blaah, RahXephon talk reminds me that I'm supposed to be rewatching it and it's been like two weeks since I watched any
K-ON!'s dub has Stephanie Sheh, so there's that. On the other hand, it has Christine Marie Cabanos.
EDIT: In unrelated news, Crunchyroll seems to think that both Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki and Chitose Get You!! are shoujo, despite their manga both being serialized in the same seinen magazine, plus Chitose Get You!! airs at like 1 in the morning. You'd think a website that actually licenses its content would make at least some effort to describe it accurately... (well no, maybe you wouldn't. It would be nice if they tried though)
Persona 4's BD release is causing controversy. Come on people:
That's not the sort of thing I get angry about, but...why?
I think that's still a pretty decent reason to be upset, if you aren't interested in the dub but still want to be able to watch the show in a format that isn't 17 years old. I mean, yes there are reasons for it and it's good that it's being released at all, but honestly I'd probably be pretty annoyed too if I was interested in Persona 4 BDs.
^ Why do they have to do it? To discourage Japanese fans from importing the much cheaper NA BDs.
Unrelatedly I am very glad fourteenwings revived the thread because I was planning on bumping it with something really dumb. >.>
Why is the BD release causing controversy or why the Japanese Track is missing? DYRE covered the second.
For the first: Anime fans seem to have become over-priviledged and think complaining like whiny children about how "[This release/license/lack of Japanese track] is the end of anime licensing" will get them whatever they want.
^ In the end Anime is still a niche though and getting anything is good, especially for a dub fan like myself. Being old doesn't mean the DVD is bad and already outdated though, in fact I didn't even own a Blu-ray player until a couple of days ago and I still sort of prefer my DVDs.
The latter.
Ah, of course -_-
Companies that produce digital media would really be served by checking out Steam's pricing model.
It's sadly about making the most amount of money from the japanese fanbase.
^True, but my point about the Steam pricing model is that they probably aren't making the most money they could from the Japanese fanbase.
The thing is though, the Japanese anime fanbase is actually pretty small (aside from kids' shows and the like). It's just that they spend an extraordinarily large amount of money per person on their hobby, and so anime ends up being somewhat profitable. Significantly lowering prices will increase sales somewhat, but there just aren't enough people to sell to that that would actually make them more of a profit than just selling extremely high-priced BDs like they currently do.
Well, they make enough of a difference for Atlus to decide to make P4: Arena region-specific.
True, but if they were to, say, sell the same thing digitally for 2/3 the price, wouldn't they make more profit per sale even if the actual numbers didn't increase much?
Probably not, actually.
Some people are apparently willing to buy 19 copies of the same movie. This wouldn't happen with digital releases. Not to say that anime's success is contingent on every fan buying multiple copies of each release, but there's more to buying anime than just being able to watch it, and digital copies don't necessarily satisfy that.