Sounded pretty good to me. Urabe has a really cute voice. Just not a high pitched one. Is that why people didnt like it? she sounds more "normal" than the typical anime girl.
Sounded pretty good to me. Urabe has a really cute voice. Just not a high pitched one. Is that why people didnt like it? she sounds more "normal" than the typical anime girl.
Its a more "western" sounding voice. Maybe thats why they dont like it. she speaks a darker, lower tone. Otherwise, I have no idea why they wouldn't. Its not like she sounds clumsy or nervous or anything.
AnimeGAF, did ya know that Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is awesome? Well, did ya? Just finished it recently - first 39 episodes dubbed on Netflix, and the rest subbed via Funimation on YouTube. English VAs > Japanese VAs.
It's great in it's own way much like the Kugishota in Glass Fleet and FMA but it fails in comparison to just how much better the alternative is as a whole!
It sounded bad the same way those bad English dub links people post sound bad.
It's nothing to do with pitch.
Anyway the first ep sounded a lot better so it's mostly moot.
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia 2 - This was indeed much better than the first episode. I did like the first episode, perhaps in part because I have read the manga so I do know the characters (since, yes, it doesn't introduce them), but I'll agree with most of the sentiment about episode two that I have seen -- ep. 2 would have been a much better first episode. Indeed, the series really should have started with this, and not with the ep. 1 we got.
This episode has good visuals, a serious plot that introduces many of the main themes of the series -- that is, the issue the paranormal investigations club is to investigate are the circumstances around Yuuko's death at the school ~60 years ago -- and it does so well. Yuuko
being so shy about him seeing her bones
was pretty cute...
As for the characters, Yuuko definitely steals the show. The other two characters, the MC Teiichi and the other girl (and the third girl, who was in ep. 1 but isn't really in this one) are alright, but it's Yuuko's story, so she's the focus of the plot, of course. Fortunately, she's a great character. She is both funny and amusing, and also aware of the deep, unknown sadness behind whatever happened to her, and her existence. That's really what the show's about.
As for the other characters though, Teiichi's pretty generic, but he's not so bad for an anime MC. He's smaller than Yuuko, and is the shy type, because the main character must be the opposite of the others -- if the girls hit the guy for looking at them he'll be an (accidental) pervert, but if (like with Yuuko) they don't care, he'll be shy. It works, but the series does follow that stereotype pretty straight, that's clear in this episode. Anyway, the second girl's not as interesting, in my opinion... I don't know if she gets better. She can be amusing at times, and does do a good job of finding rumors for them to investigate, but that she can't see Yuuko doesn't help...
Now, on the other hand, I can see what people say when they say that this series looks, visually, like Shaft-lite. It does kind of have that feel to it, that they were trying for a Shaft-like look, but just didn't quite have the budget and ability. And this is true. Though I think ep. 2 visually looks better than the first episode, it still doesn't quite match the manga's art. Even so, it looks more than good enough, and definitely has some good style to it at times for sure. This school's an interesting setting, and there are some interesting visuals in this episode. Even if they don't match Shaft, they do succeed at making some fairly stylish, nice visuals.
Yurumates 3Dei 2 - Yeah, as I said earlier, poor hair-tail...
Armitage III: Dual - Matrix
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Even stranger was the fact that I didn't realize there were actually two other movies/ovas before this film. I just assumed the III was for unusual naming conventions. I was very wrong.
It sounded bad the same way those bad English dub links people post sound bad.
It's nothing to do with pitch.
Anyway the first ep sounded a lot better so it's mostly moot.
I am dead serious. I vastly prefer the english dub cast over the Japanese in this particular case. they really nailed it, to the point where I refuse to watch it again subbed.
It is a great animated fight. I especially love the attention to the physics of the little doll thing that she drops while fighting as it gets thrown around in the chaos.
A fairly simple way of looking at it is as per below (apologies to bigger videophiles than I if I use the wrong terminology):
FMA Brotherhood was made in widescreen. The gif is in 4:3, so the image has been squashed horizontally to fit. This means that everything in the picture is squashed thinner than it's supposed to be - this often makes the characters look taller than they should as well.
Utena was made in 4:3. When Hix expands the video so it fills the whole of his widescreen TV/monitor, the picture is stretched horizontally. So everything becomes wider than it should be, and this also makes the characters look shorter.
Basically, if you don't know what it was supposed to look like, you can often tell purely because the character proportions look wrong.
Yeah, I saw a trailer for Summer Wars and it looked gorgeous, but wasn't sure if the visuals alone would carry it. Love getting my anime in Blu-ray. I'll probably get the complete series of FMA: Brotherhood once Funimation put out both "Complete" collections on Blu-ray.
Yeah, I saw a trailer for Summer Wars and it looked gorgeous, but wasn't sure if the visuals alone would carry it. Love getting my anime in Blu-ray. I'll probably get the complete series of FMA: Brotherhood once Funimation put out both "Complete" collections on Blu-ray.
