Panda4christ:3 (post: 1596070) wrote:Attempting at ghost hunt XD I'm so lazy starting back on anime
Ace33Wing (post: 1596080) wrote:I wasn't aware there were south american dubs. I am more familiar with the dubs done in Mexico and the dubs done in Spain. I usually prefer the ones dubbed in Mexico because it is closer to the latin american spanish that I grew up speaking. (Well specifically I grew up speaking Costa Rican spanish which falls under latin american.)
Neane (post: 1597352) wrote:I think the only part I liked in Ghost Hunt was the The Bloodstained Labyrinth arc. [Last time I saw it was in 2009 and I quite frankly can't remember a single thing about it other than the The Bloodstained Labyrinth arc. But from my memory, I think I thought it was somewhere in the 5 to 6 out of ten range.]
Neane wrote:Those Who Hunt Elves. So this is where a good chunk of NGE's voice cast went immediately afterwards. I'm sure they welcomed the chance to do some comedy for a change. Tomokazu Seki plays a hilarious man-tsundere, Miyamura is a military otaku and Mitsuishi's high priestess is animal cursed for most of the time, except when it's a beach episode. Michie Tomizawa, who plays Roberta in Black Lagoon, completes the team as a chameleon-like super-actress Airi. They have a fantastic team dynamic, and I can see why the original manga ran 21 volumes. Fascinatingly, even though the story revolves around them forcibly stripping hot elf chicks naked, the show doesn't feel creepily pandering like, to use a recent example, Total Eclipse, which makes me feel like a dakimakura cover strangler. Also fascinatingly, the show completely forgoes the cliched first arc where the Japanese heroes are spirited away to a magical land of high fantasy. Instead, the viewers are dropped right in the middle of Adventure Time, and what little back-story there is is revealed in intentionally deadpan flashbacks. This includes defeating the final boss. The comedy scenarios are often very inventive and unexpected, with my favorite being an episode where the team needs to strip a ghost girl naked. Unfortunately only ghosts can molest ghosts, so they set up a spiritism session in order to facilitate an out-of-body experience. While their souls are temporarily floating elsewhere, the local priest finds their currently vacated bodies, mistakes them for corpses and sends them to be cremated, and much poltergeist fun ensues. There's tons of variety, from straight-up toilet humor to a mission to save genderswapped Giordano Bruno from the Inquisition. The story obviously has no ending to speak of, but in an episodic comedy show it doesn't really matter that much. The manga is untranslated save for the very first chapters, naturally.
GeneD (post: 1597594) wrote:I started Ouran High School Host Club. Well it's quite hilarious, but I can't help but be the tiniest bit squicked out by the whole idea of the host club.
Mmm I think what bugs me is the fawning-over-the-guys reaction that the girls have/show, which is a little too much for something that's just supposed to be entertainment. But I am totally thinking about it way more seriously than it's meant to be and it's not like it's impeding my enjoyment of the show. I should probably stop analyzing and just go watch more episodes. XPAtria35 (post: 1597657) wrote:Well, the good thing is that they really are just meant to provide conversation and entertainment - it's almost like an intimate dinner theater. I'm just grateful it didn't center around the really common kind of host club, with the guy surrounded by girls.
It seems weird that that would bother you when that's pretty much the reactions of most girls I know to the show itself.GeneD (post: 1597814) wrote:Mmm I think what bugs me is the fawning-over-the-guys reaction that the girls have/show, which is a little too much for something that's just supposed to be entertainment. But I am totally thinking about it way more seriously than it's meant to be and it's not like it's impeding my enjoyment of the show. I should probably stop analyzing and just go watch more episodes. XP
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