Need for Sonic Underground Rivals (PSP)

Zarathustra · Post by **Zarathustra** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:24 am

Sadly enough, kids with monies ARE PEOPLE :(

Zeta wrote:Actually, I've seen Japanese people refer to hedgehogs as harimogura.

Japanese Sonic Adventure's manual says hari nezumi for Sonic. Japanese don't give a fuck of a difference between both. I'm a Sonic fan, and I personally don't.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:58 am

In Sonic X and all the games you tend to hear the word hari nezumi when someone is talking about Sonic , so thats the one! :) I know hari means quill.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:39 am

Double-S- wrote:Kids under 14 aren't people.

(And kids 14-17 are stupid people.)

Well, I wasn't just talking about kids or even kids that are 14-17. It's not that surprising that there are fans of the franchise that are over 18--especially seeing that Pokemon is 10 years old...then again Sega aims for the same audience with the Sonic franchise. =P

Zarathustra · Post by **Zarathustra** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:27 am

And that's the reason why we have Chao.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:32 am

Double-S- wrote:Kids under 14 aren't people.

(And kids 14-17 are stupid people.)

fuk u ima kick ur ass @ halo 2 u fagbox

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Sat May 20, 2006 4:28 pm

Zarathustra wrote:And that's the reason why we have Chao.

Nah. You seemed to forget when Sega really advertised Sonic in the 90's for the kids with cartoons, comics, toys, Macy's Day balloons, and all that other crap. Sonic was considered as a kiddie fad back in the day.

Both franchises didn't start as being geared to mainly kids, the companies later on just started to maket them that way. *shrugs*

Post by **Segaholic2** » Sat May 20, 2006 4:30 pm

That's what happens with rampant mainstream success.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:02 pm

Prime example, Naruto...

it started as badass anime and now we are getting lame fillers aimed at kids.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:42 pm

I also heard they were making all this lame filler because the anime caught up to the manga so they needed to kill time until some more came out. I really have no idea though, I don't watch the show and a friend of mine that likes it told me that.

Post by **Delphine** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:52 pm

That's what usually happens in anime based on manga that's not complete yet. (DBZ is famous for it.) Or you get stuff like the episodes after the thirtieth or so of Full Metal Alchemist.

Zarathustra · Post by **Zarathustra** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:35 pm

There are many ways for this; when an animated adaption "caughts" the original (because the weekly chapters of series like One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball, YU-GI-OH!, BLEACH! and so are mostly 22 pages long, and a single half-hour episode almost consumes two of these), what can be done is:

1) They prolongate some scenes ridiculously (Naruto/ Gokuu/ Luffy/ anyone staring at mostly nothing for almost 5 or even more minutes).

2) They add a filler (which depending of the manga's progression may become an all-feared "filler arc").

Or 3) They start an altogether separated story so the animation may have nothing to do with it's correlative manga, thus not being canon.

SegaSonic wrote:Prime example, Naruto...

it started as badass anime and now we are getting lame fillers aimed at kids.

If the fillers seem to be kids-aimed, then it's just because the scripters are so mentally challenged they can't do a fuck well.

Psxphile · Post by **Psxphile** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:49 pm

4) End the show before it overtakes the manga it's based on (Fruits Basket comes to mind).

Radrappy · Post by **Radrappy** » Sun May 21, 2006 12:08 am

Don't kid yourself. Naruto was always aimed at kids (be them ages 11-14). Whether or not these filler episodes are of lower quality, don't dismiss them as being the only material aimed at kids in a series based on comics produced in a weekly children's magazine.

Zarathustra · Post by **Zarathustra** » Sun May 21, 2006 12:15 am

11-14 Jap kids are cool.

Remember:

James McGeachie · Post by **James McGeachie** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:04 am

Why does every thread always turn into a horrible off-topic disaster?

Zarathustra, if possible I would love to hit you in the face with a shovel.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Sun May 21, 2006 9:39 am

James McGeachie wrote:Why does every thread always turn into a horrible off-topic disaster?

Because aside from the announcement about the new Shadow game last year, no thread has really been on-topic for more than a couple of pages. Even the boobies thread went off-topic for a while and talked about Animaniacs and Nickelodeon. It's just the way of the GHZ forum.

Anyways, there's one instance where adding filler and stupid stuff from a manga to an anime worked, in my opinion; Full Moon o Sagashite. The manga was too angst-ridden and not very interesting until the very end, but the anime was almost consistently happy and cute, and they used the extra time to introduce characters exclusive to the anime, and those who got almost no pages in the manga.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:07 am

As a manga, Trigun was mostly a grim tale with plenty of grotesque imagery and a frowning badass for a protagonist, but there was one self-contained short story preceding the main run in which the hero was depicted as a happy-go-lucky dude who preached love and peace and went way out of his way to preserve human life at all costs.

When the manga it was adapted for television, this version of Vash was, for whatever inexorable reason, used for the entire series. They also hired the character designer from Escaflowne, a girls' show with lots of angel wings and love triangles. That's about equivalent to taking a property like <a href="http://www.alicelandia.it/manga/berserk ... Berserk</a> and turning it in a sentai show. Not that I care one way or another, but it's just weird.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sun May 21, 2006 12:08 pm

James McGeachie wrote:Why does every thread always turn into a horrible off-topic disaster?

Short attention spans coupled with a so-so wit (greatly supplemented by the fact that unlike in real life, banter can be extended over many hours), along with anonymity and a seething hatred for 'facts' and 'seriousness'.

That's just me, though.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:23 pm

FMA lost a little direction after it overtook the manga, but I think they recovered very well. There really wasn't any filler at all in the entire series.

James McGeachie · Post by **James McGeachie** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:46 pm

I think FMA has planned to go a different path right from the very beginning, as since the manga is released on a monthly basis and wasn't very far on when the anime was airing it would've been very difficult for them to keep following the story forever. That's the main reason I think it worked out better than most shows that go the same direction with the anime team writing their own ending, because they had it planned well in advance.

The manga is still better though, easily, it's still going today too and hasn't dropped in quality once since the beginning, unlike some other currently popular manga (fucking gay shit Naruto).

Post by **Delphine** » Sun May 21, 2006 4:56 pm

Zeta wrote:I think they recovered very well.

Did you... did you <i>see</i> the ending?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:56 pm

Well, Conqueror of Shambala was the real ending . . .

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:43 pm

London!

CE · Post by CE » Sun May 21, 2006 7:55 pm

FMA is hands down my favorite recent anime. The characters were really well done; the plot was random, but believable; and there was a semi-consistant theme throughout the anime.

The ending was the best part. Ed and Al finally achieved their goal. It tied in so well to the theme of the anime, was slightly depressing, and also happy and motivating. I haven't felt this way about a conclusion since Macross.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:57 pm

True, but the movie made afterwards damaged it..although I hear its not canon.