Addictive Anime

[Ameria-chan]

I know, Utena's awesome!

...And I'm completely serious. If you play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" CD with Adolescence of Utena on mute, there are a bunch of synch-up points. It's freaky.

[Orna]

Really??  Hmm.

[Graceria]

One of these days I'll have to try that. LOL

[Orna]

ditto.

[Captain Yaoi]

onion, you keep rage in the fridge?!? dont you know rage smolders if given time to set!

[Wyvern]

I know, Utena's awesome!

...And I'm completely serious. If you play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" CD with Adolescence of Utena on mute, there are a bunch of synch-up points. It's freaky.

I suppose since Pink Floyd designed the album to synch up with a movie, it's only fair that someone design a movie to synch up with the album. ^^


As far as addictive series go, the two that come to mind are One Piece and Detective Conan, for very different reasons.  OP is brilliantly written to keep you watching-you're always left hanging with a great cliffhanger,and the episodes often end adruptly ("whaaaa? Big 'THUMP' and giant TO BE CONTINUED card? But...but they were about to...and Luffy...and...NOOOO!") just adds to the pain (not to mention that Kaizoku Fansubs removes the damn previews from the episodes! Razza frazzin...) On the rare occasions where there's not a cliffhanger, it's usually because they're heading off to another island...and then you want to see what the new island will be like, and then when they get there, the madness starts all over again. OP rules.

Conan is addictive for oppiste reasons-usually the episodes are self-contained and the main plot rarely progresses (it DOES progress, at the rate of about one story every 50 or so episodes...and sometimes they advance the plot in the movies, which annoys me.) but the way the show is written is just really addictive for some reason. It's so much fun to watch a mystery be set up and then unraveled.

And unlike so many American mystery shows, all the clues are presented to the viewer, so it is possible to figure it out before Conan-I hate shows like CSI which always come out with a "oh, but HE's the killer because of a vauge scientific thing you'd need an electron microscope to have been able to know about!" That's CHEATING! Anyway, Conan's cool because if you correctly figured out the killer's identity, you get a nice feeling of accomplishment, and if you didn't, you get a nice feeling of "Ooooh, so THAT'S what that meant!" Either way, it leaves you wanting more. And the two and three-parters are just evilly suspencful, not to mentoin usually tougher to solve.

One wonders, however, how much time poor Conan, Ran and Kagero spend testifying in court, considering how they're witnesses to almost every murder. I guess it helps that the culprits usually confess once Conan does the big reveal-maybe they all plead guilty?

[Onion O' DOOM!]

onion, you keep rage in the fridge?!? dont you know rage smolders if given time to set!

we were referencing a flash movie Dustin :O

[Captain Yaoi]

oops... must have missed that one.

[Cali]

holey crud this thread is old! lol


another one i love is Bleach! I love it it's one of the best subd animes out there, if they ever get dubd then i really really am hopeing that Funanamation gets it! they are one of the best dubding studiudoes around i think

[Captain Yaoi]

um, quick question that i need you guys not to linch me for. i enjoyed dubbed. am i a bad person for it?

[Cali]

um, quick question that i need you guys not to linch me for. i enjoyed dubbed. am i a bad person for it?

not at all another thing we have in calmon! ^_^ i grew up on dubd shows! and i love them!

[Captain Yaoi]

from some one other then cali, can i get an opinion.

[Venus, Queen of Faeries]

um, quick question that i need you guys not to linch me for. i enjoyed dubbed. am i a bad person for it?

To be perfectly honest, I don't think so. I think it was Red Comet that said something like, the dubs allow you to watch more because your eyes aren't constantly flitting to the bottom of the screen to find out what a character just said. You con focus more on what's happening and more on what may be happening, because you don't have to think.

[Red Comet]

That's part of the reason I tend to like dubs (barring any unnecessary editing).  But that's not the whole story.  I don't understand Japanese, so when it's in English that I can fully appreciate what the characters are saying.  Hopefully I can explain what I'm getting at here.  This is what I wrote in another message thread (and the words in orange I added just now).

"You [Graceria, Ameria-chan, and ShikamaCHU, and Wyvern] are much better than I am. You see, my mind just doesn't work the way yours does. I just NEVER pick up the Japanese words when watching subs. I can't match up the Japanese words in the audio with the English words in the subtitles (unless one single word or short phrase is spoken) - especially since Japanese sentence structure is different than English sentence structure. In fact, I usually can't tell when one word ends and another begins.  When people write, they put spaces between words.  Butwhenpeopletalktheydonotputpausesbetweenwords.  So to me, it comes across as incomprehensible gibberish that I forget a second later. That's a reason I tend to like dubs (barring any unnecessary editing) - I can fully appreciate what the characters are saying."

And there are also people who enjoy subs for the reason that they find the Japanese language to be very interesting and/or they are curious as to how it sounded originally - there are numerous reasons for liking dubs and numerous reasons for liking subs - in the end, it just boils down to personal preference.

[Captain Yaoi]

thank you comet. glad to see i'm not the only one japanese baffles. and i'm alo glad to see i'm not the only one who likes to ponder whats happening in the show, therefore not happy when i have to keep up with subs.