A s-CRY-ing shame.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:59 pm

Fox is really promoting American Dad, though. I think sometimes it's moreso than Family Guy.

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:54 pm

It's funny how I like the season four episodes of Family Guy better than the first season of American Dad. Sad, really.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:01 pm

So far, I've liked American Dad better than the new Family Guys.

Hey, I think Tsuyoshi-kun should be the new Anime God.

Post by **G.Silver** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:55 am

I like his avatar.

minnietguinea · Post by **minnietguinea** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:47 pm

Family Guy is better than American Dad IMO. And I just started to watch Stand Alone Complex. It's pretty cool.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:10 pm

G.Silver wrote:I like his avatar.

Yeah, but he's the one who USED it.

Oh yeah, Gibs, it may interest you to know that Mamoru Oshii wrote the scenario for season two of Stand Alone Complex.

minnietguinea · Post by **minnietguinea** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:30 pm

Where does season two start?

The Scarlet Scorpion · Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:42 pm

Pepperidge wrote:
G.Silver wrote:I like his avatar.
Yeah, but he's the one who USED it.

Oh yeah, Gibs, it may interest you to know that Mamoru Oshii wrote the scenario for season two of Stand Alone Complex.

That, Pep, is a festival of awesome.

Oh, and I finally figured out that the music for "s-CRY-ed" is direly mediocre; the power of the saxophones has worn off. Similarly, I also realized that the "Detective Conan" music is similarly uninspired... damn saxophones, controlling my mind.

Oh, and Minnie, I think "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Second Gig" begins in late Fall, maybe early Winter... about a year after the first season premires. I just wonder how Motoko's lady friend(s) will react to seeing her/their girlfriend alive and well... You know it's gonna happen. Dead girls need love too.

What? So I restarted a thread from nearly a month ago. It's my thread. Bite me.

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:13 am

I don't watch TV so I have the wait for the September DVD release of 2nd GIG. Cry for me.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:10 am

The Scarlet Scorpion wrote:I also realized that the "Detective Conan" music is similarly uninspired... damn saxophones, controlling my mind.

Detective Conan's music rocks as much as every other aspect of the show. Which is immensely.

The Scarlet Scorpion · Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:19 am

Okay, maybe the music is pretty damn spiffy... but then, I've only had access to the highly dubious FUNimation dub of the show, so maybe the program is better as a whole in Japanese. You know, the pony is being deeply hidden, what with the coolness of the music and Gosho Aoyama's designs countered by the "meh"-ness of the broadcasts on Cartoon Network (just why did they change just about all of the names and the theme song, why?).

All the subtitles in the world probably can't make the Junior Detective League, or whatever the Hell they're called in the original version, any less iritating... unless I underestimate the lameness of the dub.

Oh, and has anyone read the "D.C." manga? I know Viz uses the "Case Closed" title, but did they also carry over the new names, too?

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:21 am

The Scarlet Scorpion wrote:(just why did they change just about all of the names and the theme song, why?).

Perhaps not to confuse the feeble minded viewers of the show?

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:31 am

The strange thing about the name changes is that they're really inconsistent. For example, the name of the protagonist, Shinichi Kudo, was changed to Jimmy Kudo. Why change Shinichi but not Kudo? It's not like they tried to make it a secret that the show takes place in Japan, either, making things even more bizarre. Imagine a character reading the nameplate outside a house; the name on the plate, of course, is written in kanji, yet the character says, "Charles Peterson."

It's really great.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:56 pm

TMS, the animation studio that originally produced Conan, forced FUNimation to change the character names and logo, feeling that they would make the show more mainstream friendly. Obviously they thought that a murder mystery show would be an easy sell to a family audience. Heh.

Also, I think the dub theme is better than the original.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:41 pm

I can't tell because each episode they cut away from it at a different point.

The Scarlet Scorpion · Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:14 am

Pepperidge wrote:TMS, the animation studio that originally produced Conan, forced FUNimation to change the character names and logo, feeling that they would make the show more mainstream friendly. Obviously they thought that a murder mystery show would be an easy sell to a family audience. Heh.

Also, I think the dub theme is better than the original.

Well, between that and the edits inflicted to "Lupin III" for Pioneer/Geneon, I'm really getting infuriated with those twits. The Clark Bar gag in "Mamo" was priceless. Unlicenced and arguably illegal, but priceless. Damn them.

And I haven't heard either version of the theme. What're the differences?