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Anime fans nowadays in general really have it made.
If you were a fan of anime back about fifteen years ago you absolutely had to buy stuff in the stores - and even then pick'ens were little. I remember that actually finding some sort of tapped fan subbed VHS tape by fans was actually a big luxury. For a while you could find them at cons but when the internet really started to boom up you could find people selling VHS fan subbed tapes online. I think the first anime episode I finally downloaded online had to have been around twelve years ago - and at that time I was still on dial up and it was small and crappy quality. Now I have a tetrabyte HD that's already full of anime and I'm working on filling another.
I think though that if all you do is watch your anime by downloading it online you are really missing out on quality stuff. Japanese raws on actual published DVDs or licensed titles over here are typically best. When you sub video, it takes a huge plunge in quality. I do think however that watching the fan subs are a good way to introduce people into something in particular. It's really quite novel because honestly there's so much out there that audiences outside of Japan would not have been exposed to anyway that fan subs can potentially gauge interest in whether or not something makes it's way over across the pond. When ADV Films, who recently went under not too long ago, were releasing titles in the 90's they were essentially just releasing products "blind." Sure they had a few hit releases like Evangelion, but most everything they released was potentially going into a blind market - they didn't know how stuff was going to work over here. Princess Rouge (Legend of the Last Labyrinth) is a good example here. Only two episodes of the series was made before it was ceased. By the time this was found out ADV Films had already brought it over and dubbed and subbed it.
Nowadays people can easily get episodes from multitudes of series' before they are released here. Notice that now instead of having certain companies here release titles the original creators themselves are having more influence on bringing titles over. Around a decade ago you basically had ADV Films, Manga Entertainment, AnimEigo, Software Sculptures, and a few other small companies. Nowadays, the actual producers like Pony Canyon for instance are finally getting deep into bringing titles over. I can imagine that the popularity of titles through distribution online played a role in this.
If you were a fan of anime back about fifteen years ago you absolutely had to buy stuff in the stores - and even then pick'ens were little. I remember that actually finding some sort of tapped fan subbed VHS tape by fans was actually a big luxury. For a while you could find them at cons but when the internet really started to boom up you could find people selling VHS fan subbed tapes online. I think the first anime episode I finally downloaded online had to have been around twelve years ago - and at that time I was still on dial up and it was small and crappy quality. Now I have a tetrabyte HD that's already full of anime and I'm working on filling another.
I think though that if all you do is watch your anime by downloading it online you are really missing out on quality stuff. Japanese raws on actual published DVDs or licensed titles over here are typically best. When you sub video, it takes a huge plunge in quality. I do think however that watching the fan subs are a good way to introduce people into something in particular. It's really quite novel because honestly there's so much out there that audiences outside of Japan would not have been exposed to anyway that fan subs can potentially gauge interest in whether or not something makes it's way over across the pond. When ADV Films, who recently went under not too long ago, were releasing titles in the 90's they were essentially just releasing products "blind." Sure they had a few hit releases like Evangelion, but most everything they released was potentially going into a blind market - they didn't know how stuff was going to work over here. Princess Rouge (Legend of the Last Labyrinth) is a good example here. Only two episodes of the series was made before it was ceased. By the time this was found out ADV Films had already brought it over and dubbed and subbed it.
Nowadays people can easily get episodes from multitudes of series' before they are released here. Notice that now instead of having certain companies here release titles the original creators themselves are having more influence on bringing titles over. Around a decade ago you basically had ADV Films, Manga Entertainment, AnimEigo, Software Sculptures, and a few other small companies. Nowadays, the actual producers like Pony Canyon for instance are finally getting deep into bringing titles over. I can imagine that the popularity of titles through distribution online played a role in this.
Wow. Whatever happened to the really cool Final Fantasy shit like playing as a Paladin and flying around in airships and actually having an awesome story line? This game just really looks ridiculous. It's like there's a lot of movement on purpose just to confuse the hell out of you and make it look like stuff is happening.
I stopped seriously playing these games a long time ago.
I stopped seriously playing these games a long time ago.
Are you sure you actually know what a torrent is? When you download the torrent "file", you're not downloading the file itself, so of course it's not going to play. You basically download the "information" for downloading the file. You then have to download from the seeders (hopefully the file is being seeded) or leechers (which is more likely what the file will have if it's an older, unpopular file). If you're leeching from a seeder, you're going to get the file pretty quick. If you're downloading from a leecher, you may never fully get the file (typically, you'll download a lot of the file, and then have it abruptly stop). Torrents are pretty simple really.
Also a good rule of thumb is to make sure your torrent client is placing downloaded files in a findable folder. You can general set preferences to where fully downloaded files get placed and where dropped or stopped files get shoved into.
And as for a good all-around player to play movie files, I can't stress VLC enough. It plays virtually every file and can read every codec out there. Plus it's simple and you don't deal with a lot of bullshit like with RealPlayer.
Also a good rule of thumb is to make sure your torrent client is placing downloaded files in a findable folder. You can general set preferences to where fully downloaded files get placed and where dropped or stopped files get shoved into.
And as for a good all-around player to play movie files, I can't stress VLC enough. It plays virtually every file and can read every codec out there. Plus it's simple and you don't deal with a lot of bullshit like with RealPlayer.
I guess the first hentai genre I came across was simple harem cgs. I remember back in I think around 1996-1997 there was this awesome site called Wedding Hentai Angel (WHA for short) that was ran by some Japanese person and had like basically all cg sets from nearly every game of that time (which likely had some classics that have been lost through time). All I remember was on AOL dial-up and on a computer with only around 3 gbs of space it took FOREVER to see it all - and I never managed to download hardly any of it.
After that though I quickly became assimilated with the many genres. Fan-fiction was nice too, especially reading all the classic lemons by writers like Shinji the 10 O'Clock Assassin (whose work can still be found if you dig through decade old sites).
After that though I quickly became assimilated with the many genres. Fan-fiction was nice too, especially reading all the classic lemons by writers like Shinji the 10 O'Clock Assassin (whose work can still be found if you dig through decade old sites).
I know most of you have already beat and beat on this topic like crazy.
However, most of you are pointing out social, religious, and economical reasons by which space colonization would be acceptable. There's however an actual physical problem that space colonization presents to the human race, and it has been studied extensively by scientists.
Some scientists believe that extensive settlement on a terrestrial sphere other than earth could potentially reshape human genetics. You're likely not going to find this on wiki or similar sources. One study that has been done - and what is often cited to press away the nay-sayers that speak of the moon landing never happening - is that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have what is known as a symptom called "dark matter brain". It's basically because they were positioned on the moon for some time that they developed some sort of restructuring of their brains. I don't exactly know why it's the brain explicitly, but it has something to do with the fact that your brain is the primary receiver of all the signals from your body. Armstrong and Aldrin were extensively tested when they returned from their trip, and some years later were found to have some indentions in their brain matter. If I remember correctly, scientists hypothesize that the reason it occurs is because of different gravitational pulls upon the body. While in space there is essentially no or little gravity, when your on a planet you are subjected to a different gravitational force than what you are accustomed to and what shaped your body.
Basically what this means is that humans could not stay on any spherical body in the solar system for an extended period of time - they would have to be constantly rotated and travel back and forth between Earth and where ever. This would mean that space travel would be at an incredible cost.
Apparently, the only belief around this 'dark matter brain' theory is hypothesized to be water - thus another reason why it doesn't affect us as much here on Earth. Scientists believe that whatever type of structure would be built on another spherical body would require it to be surrounded by water to help block the 'dark matter brain' syndrome.
Do note I cannot verify how true any of that is that I just said. I had a co-worker about four years ago show me an article in a science journal that had been done on it, and I did my own little research for a bit and that's pretty much the gist of it. I know there's the deal with the Russian space station where cosmonauts were stationed there for some time but they were rotated out at regular intervals.
However, most of you are pointing out social, religious, and economical reasons by which space colonization would be acceptable. There's however an actual physical problem that space colonization presents to the human race, and it has been studied extensively by scientists.
Some scientists believe that extensive settlement on a terrestrial sphere other than earth could potentially reshape human genetics. You're likely not going to find this on wiki or similar sources. One study that has been done - and what is often cited to press away the nay-sayers that speak of the moon landing never happening - is that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have what is known as a symptom called "dark matter brain". It's basically because they were positioned on the moon for some time that they developed some sort of restructuring of their brains. I don't exactly know why it's the brain explicitly, but it has something to do with the fact that your brain is the primary receiver of all the signals from your body. Armstrong and Aldrin were extensively tested when they returned from their trip, and some years later were found to have some indentions in their brain matter. If I remember correctly, scientists hypothesize that the reason it occurs is because of different gravitational pulls upon the body. While in space there is essentially no or little gravity, when your on a planet you are subjected to a different gravitational force than what you are accustomed to and what shaped your body.
Basically what this means is that humans could not stay on any spherical body in the solar system for an extended period of time - they would have to be constantly rotated and travel back and forth between Earth and where ever. This would mean that space travel would be at an incredible cost.
Apparently, the only belief around this 'dark matter brain' theory is hypothesized to be water - thus another reason why it doesn't affect us as much here on Earth. Scientists believe that whatever type of structure would be built on another spherical body would require it to be surrounded by water to help block the 'dark matter brain' syndrome.
Do note I cannot verify how true any of that is that I just said. I had a co-worker about four years ago show me an article in a science journal that had been done on it, and I did my own little research for a bit and that's pretty much the gist of it. I know there's the deal with the Russian space station where cosmonauts were stationed there for some time but they were rotated out at regular intervals.
jonlost wrote...
and the first subtitle that comes gets stuck, and it won't proceed to the next one! I'm running on Windows 7, and I'd like to play this game!Are you playing the actual DVD from Hirameki? It won't play on a lot of PCs. I have to use my copy either on my PS2 or PS3. It would freeze on both of my PCs.
This is a rather interesting 'game', but it does have some problems. Obviously as mentioned the lack of the adult scenes does remove some of the depth of the story. There are also a lot of grammar inconsistencies, which makes me believe it didn't receive the amount of beta testing required. It also just moves REALLY reeeeallllllyyyyy slow at times.
The first stand-alone anime movie I watched was Akira back around early 1992. That was probably the point when I began to figure out what anime was and became a fan. I didn't get really serious into it until the mid 90's. Before that it was an on-off affair, but I kept up with what I could.
Before that the things relating to anime I remember the most were I watched two of the most bastardized series to come to the States - Speed Racer (Mach Go Go) and Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamoto). Realize I had no clue back in the 80's what the hell they were. I just figured they were normal cartoons.
I actually can't believe some of the series some of you on here had as your "first". Time has really REALLY REALLY flown. I was rolling my eyes when Pokemon came out in Japan and remember back in the early 90's when Pioneer was bringing over Tenchi Muyo and was my first dose of harem. I think somebody even said Haruhi Suzumiya and Clannad?!?! Wow. I guess stuff like that is hard to fathom when you've been watching it consciously for nearly over twenty years.
Before that the things relating to anime I remember the most were I watched two of the most bastardized series to come to the States - Speed Racer (Mach Go Go) and Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamoto). Realize I had no clue back in the 80's what the hell they were. I just figured they were normal cartoons.
I actually can't believe some of the series some of you on here had as your "first". Time has really REALLY REALLY flown. I was rolling my eyes when Pokemon came out in Japan and remember back in the early 90's when Pioneer was bringing over Tenchi Muyo and was my first dose of harem. I think somebody even said Haruhi Suzumiya and Clannad?!?! Wow. I guess stuff like that is hard to fathom when you've been watching it consciously for nearly over twenty years.
oneshott wrote...
I like comedy as much as the nest guy, but I haven't seen enough anime's were there was enough romance to counteract the comedy.I'm personally looking for a DEEP anime with romance. Preferably one where you aren't being given choices about who to cheer on. There's just two of them at the end.
If you haven't even seen it, Ginban Kaleidoscope [銀盤カレイドスコープ] is somewhat similar to the criteria you described. It's about a young Japanese figure skater and a Canadian stunt pilot. They perform at the same time, in different parts of the world, but the stunt pilot is killed in a crash, and comes back as a ghost in the figure skater's body. It has a lot of lighthearted comedy and tibs of romance. Some interesting for a change of pace.
Somewhat depressing because the male protagonist is... well... dead, but if you've seen Maburaho it's similar to that except there's only one female protagonist.
That was hilarious. It could be worse.
You could be playing Revelations Persona on the PS1, as some really dorky looking ghostly white main character, wondering why you're in a city that Atlus claims is in America even though you go to a Shinto Shrine, and then deal with the rest of the over-Americanized content thrown in the game.
I guess the door can swing both ways.
You could be playing Revelations Persona on the PS1, as some really dorky looking ghostly white main character, wondering why you're in a city that Atlus claims is in America even though you go to a Shinto Shrine, and then deal with the rest of the over-Americanized content thrown in the game.
I guess the door can swing both ways.
LittleWhiteButterflies does an amazing job bringing these works to us. I'm going to start sounding like a broken record, but what has been released is awesome and greatly appreciated.
I'm starting to get really confused with some people here. First, people are complaining that some of the works being posted are too graphic, then at other times when some appear that have no sex they get upset also. What the hell? I've even noticed people on the download pages basically saying (paraphrasing here) "I won't read anything by LWB anymore". That's sending a bad message to the community.
LittleWhiteButterflies just happens to release more rape and torture doujins that most might like. I think people need to remember that first and foremost doujin really does not necessarily mean sex. It's a fan work. It's somewhat getting annoying because 'doujinshi' is now being a term basically aligned with manga featuring popular characters having sex. And really honestly LWB's works aren't that graphic compared to some of the really disturbing works out there such as ones featuring anthropophagy-styled themes. Even then if some works like that were to appear here it would be good simply because of the time taken to translate and modify.
I'm starting to get really confused with some people here. First, people are complaining that some of the works being posted are too graphic, then at other times when some appear that have no sex they get upset also. What the hell? I've even noticed people on the download pages basically saying (paraphrasing here) "I won't read anything by LWB anymore". That's sending a bad message to the community.
LittleWhiteButterflies just happens to release more rape and torture doujins that most might like. I think people need to remember that first and foremost doujin really does not necessarily mean sex. It's a fan work. It's somewhat getting annoying because 'doujinshi' is now being a term basically aligned with manga featuring popular characters having sex. And really honestly LWB's works aren't that graphic compared to some of the really disturbing works out there such as ones featuring anthropophagy-styled themes. Even then if some works like that were to appear here it would be good simply because of the time taken to translate and modify.
This isn't the answer you're wanting but most comic collectors had these style comics. Before tankoubon became popular here in the U.S. many comic collectors in the 80's and 90's still collected what little manga came over here. Really the trend has only declined because of the massive influx of modern manga graphic novels.
With that being said if you can't find it online, you might check locally or even in a nearby state for a comic collector who has a store that has been collecting for a long time. Oftentimes these guys have older mangas because as I said they once upon a time were collecting them. I know I have a local guy that has hooked me up with all kinds of manga from the 80's and 90's that he simply no longer wanted. It's a long shot, but there might be some floating around in some obsessive comic collector's store.
With that being said if you can't find it online, you might check locally or even in a nearby state for a comic collector who has a store that has been collecting for a long time. Oftentimes these guys have older mangas because as I said they once upon a time were collecting them. I know I have a local guy that has hooked me up with all kinds of manga from the 80's and 90's that he simply no longer wanted. It's a long shot, but there might be some floating around in some obsessive comic collector's store.
I used to work as a diesel mechanic. I was out on a call when a bus got in a wreck. It was on an off ramp to an interstate. I was standing in the grass directing traffic, when all of a sudden an 18-wheeler doing about 55-60 mph threw on his brakes, began to jack-knife, and slid down the grass right towards me head on.
First thing in my mind - "Oh shit..."... Followed by "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" I pretty much froze in place like an idiot until I was pushed out of the way by a bystander who was in the wreck. If my bladder was full I'd have probably pissed my pants too.
That's my recent "oh shit" moment.
First thing in my mind - "Oh shit..."... Followed by "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" I pretty much froze in place like an idiot until I was pushed out of the way by a bystander who was in the wreck. If my bladder was full I'd have probably pissed my pants too.
That's my recent "oh shit" moment.
Here in America I believe that advances in technology such as bipedal machines would not be used in the ideas that we have seen glamorized in Hollywood and even in anime. You've highlighted one problem and that is there will be an ethical question. It would be a question further strengthened by our country which was founded and to a large degree remains on traditional Christian values. Although there has been a noticeable decline in the influence on Christianity as a whole in America I don't think that it will in the future dramatically decline in such a way to alter the majority's beliefs to where people would seriously question having some sort of robotic companion among common populace - it simply wouldn't be accepted.
A second deal - and if you've studied basic economics you'd understand this - is that this technology would be applied to make lives easier, but not in the fantasy way like Chobits or Star Trek has portrayed. Bipedal machines would take jobs. Machines have made areas such as assembly lines and constructing things easier and faster. If bipedal machines could be applied further into these areas, they would be quickly utilized to make processes that humans perform easier. The laws of economics state that while it may be unethical to just take jobs, in the end by having machines perform processes and lessen the workload of people everyone will be better off, even if there are less jobs.
With that being said though, as a teacher on history and applying the above to it, I very often quote massive gains in technology that have been made simply in the 20th century. We went from walking or riding on horses from town to town in the 19th century to flying across oceans, driving vehicles, and flying into space. I don't expect anything of the sort as mentioned such as a bipedal humanoid machine to be common place in my lifetime, but with the massive gains in technology that occur near daily anything could be possible in the future. I guess all I'm saying is don't get your hopes up.
A second deal - and if you've studied basic economics you'd understand this - is that this technology would be applied to make lives easier, but not in the fantasy way like Chobits or Star Trek has portrayed. Bipedal machines would take jobs. Machines have made areas such as assembly lines and constructing things easier and faster. If bipedal machines could be applied further into these areas, they would be quickly utilized to make processes that humans perform easier. The laws of economics state that while it may be unethical to just take jobs, in the end by having machines perform processes and lessen the workload of people everyone will be better off, even if there are less jobs.
With that being said though, as a teacher on history and applying the above to it, I very often quote massive gains in technology that have been made simply in the 20th century. We went from walking or riding on horses from town to town in the 19th century to flying across oceans, driving vehicles, and flying into space. I don't expect anything of the sort as mentioned such as a bipedal humanoid machine to be common place in my lifetime, but with the massive gains in technology that occur near daily anything could be possible in the future. I guess all I'm saying is don't get your hopes up.
