Samurai Champloo
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Samurai Champloo
Who here hasn't seen this new series from Shinichiro Watanabe, the alarmingly inactive director of Cowboy Bebop?
It's awesome, just in case you were wondering.
It's awesome, just in case you were wondering.
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Didn't Geneon USA own the English rights to the show before it even aired in Japan? I'm raising my eyebrow that certain fansub groups are bold enough to fansub the series.
I would predict that this will go to Adult Swim, however, it probably won't get the same respect as Cowboy Bebop did(despite certain content edits) because Williams Street are curently acting like twats towards anime.
I would predict that this will go to Adult Swim, however, it probably won't get the same respect as Cowboy Bebop did(despite certain content edits) because Williams Street are curently acting like twats towards anime.
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But this is samurais with hip-hop. If you search through the vast world of existing science fiction, I'm sure you could stumble upon multiple other stories involving bounty hunters in space, but I seriously doubt you'd be able to find anything in the history of fiction that combines samurais with hip-hop.
Though believe it or not, there really aren't that many samurai shows these days. It's sort of like with westerns, which makes sense seeing as how samurais and cowboys are spiritually the same thing or something.
What's a Champloo, anyway?
Though believe it or not, there really aren't that many samurai shows these days. It's sort of like with westerns, which makes sense seeing as how samurais and cowboys are spiritually the same thing or something.
I wouldn't be surprised if this were to air on US TV before its run in Japan is even finished. It's 26 episodes, right?Ngangbius wrote:Didn't Geneon USA own the English rights to the show before it even aired in Japan? I'm raising my eyebrow that certain fansub groups are bold enough to fansub the series.
What's a Champloo, anyway?
Kill Bill had hip-hop in it.
Cowboy Bebop isn't really bounty hunters in space, though-- at least in any generic "Hmph, I've seen THIS before!" sense. I mean, Metroid is bounty hunters in space, but it's hardly the same: the fact that it's 'set' in space means its amount of different settings, characters and environments are by, necessity, unlimited in variety, whereas Champloo's setting is automatically much more limited in scope. Besides, that isn't really what I'm talking about.
There's gillions of anime and manga and films featuring samurai and katana swords and shit. There's further millions of these that feature samurai and katana swords and shit with a twist, which is nice and all, but all I'm saying is this is still fucking swords and shit. Again.
Cowboy Bebop isn't really bounty hunters in space, though-- at least in any generic "Hmph, I've seen THIS before!" sense. I mean, Metroid is bounty hunters in space, but it's hardly the same: the fact that it's 'set' in space means its amount of different settings, characters and environments are by, necessity, unlimited in variety, whereas Champloo's setting is automatically much more limited in scope. Besides, that isn't really what I'm talking about.
There's gillions of anime and manga and films featuring samurai and katana swords and shit. There's further millions of these that feature samurai and katana swords and shit with a twist, which is nice and all, but all I'm saying is this is still fucking swords and shit. Again.
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Well, it <a href="http://www.samuraichamploo.com/">looks pretty cool.</a> I'll have to check it out.
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Not just one, but by my count like FIVE fansub groups are doing it. It's not a matter of practicality, there's obviously no tangible motivation for fansubber groups to do what they do. Some like AnimeJunkies do it because they think seem to think they're gonna be huge and that when people download their stuff it means they like them or something, or at least that's the impression I get, and at least they get their subs out quickly (if often poor quality). But when there are like three or four groups working a single series individually, you just have to ask, why are you doing this? I already downloaded these other guys' version, what was wrong with it exactly? I guess they just really, really want to make fansubs...Ngangbius wrote:Didn't Geneon USA own the English rights to the show before it even aired in Japan? I'm raising my eyebrow that certain fansub groups are bold enough to fansub the series.
Anyway, I also like Champloo. Sure, there are a lot of samurai anime out there, but this one is BETTER.
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Does it have nekkid boobies?
If it's the constant urge to one-up, it's something I can understand.
I've played many a translated RPG and though to myself: "Huh, I could've written better dialogue than this." It's even more the case if it's an RPG I really, really like. Such as the original Grandia. I was desperate to find some fan translation group back when it only existed in Japan on the Saturn because I knew in my soul I HAD to write the dialogue for that game. Then of coure the PSX version came out in the US a few years later and it was awful. I still want to rewrite a complete English dialogue script for the game.I guess they just really, really want to make fansubs...
If it's the constant urge to one-up, it's something I can understand.
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Green Gibbon! wrote:Also, those boobies are pretty small.
I dunno, I prefer them to Faye's OMG I HAVE BOOBS LOOKITME!!!
Then again, large breasts on skinny women in anime annoy me, because most skinny women have nice small pert breasts, and the lovely large squishy breasts are found on pleasantly plump chickas. I enjoy both versions, of course, but I'm just sayin'.
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