Anime/Manga's increasing popularity(cool news!)

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Post by Coffee 54 » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:43 pm

One potental downside is how many more great shows are going to be butchered into terrible dubs. For every Cowboy Bebop(a good dub in my opinion) there's a Crest of the Stars(a bad one) waiting in the wings. I guess I'll just have to settle for subtitles.

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Post by Yukina_Raven » Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:25 pm

someperson wrote:Those people are seriously bored. They're the type of people who say that Harry Potter is evil. :roll:
Excatly who I was thinking off when I wrote my post. :wink:
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Post by Jimmy Balls-O-Steel » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:44 pm

(In response to two or three people who responded to me)

Okay, I guess I have a tendency to fly off the handle about various things. And I know that I can go off on tangents. I guess it's just that I don't live in a big city that my local Chapters sucks for manga. And like I said, the spines and covers on what they do have are bent to shit. I can't do much online ordering, because I have no credit cards. I know I can do in-store computer ordering from Chapters, they don't carry anything from Dark Horse's new line of manga (they carry those big friggin' Akira books, yet no Trigun or Hellsing), and they, for whatever reason, suck for delivering things that I order (good thing I keep my reciepts). I rely on a comic book shop with a fucked-up distributor. What do I mean by "fucked-up"? Here's an example: I'm on the "subscription list" for various manga titles. Tokyo Babylon Vol. 2 came in for me 2 weeks before the street date, yet they didn't recieve any copies of Trigun Maximum Vol. 1 at all until just last week (and they're still waiting on Hellsing Vol. 3).

I think I'll just stop bitching now, because I'm quite off-topic. I'll just leave you with this:

Being an anime/manga fan in Canada fucking sucks.

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Post by GMM2005 » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:57 pm

Yukina_Raven wrote:Hey, I'm glad anime is getting some popularity. However this thought makes me cringe.

It gives the idiots in the world a perfect oppertunity to jump at it and say "Look! This stuff is EVIL!" :roll: Because, as I'm sure you've all realized, everytime something becomes popular with the world, there are people out there who have to make up something wrong with it.
Yo... Pikachu is satanic :lol: :lol:

Meh, those people should die.
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Post by Moonlight Soldier » Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:32 pm

Jimmy Balls-O-Steel wrote:(In response to two or three people who responded to me)

And like I said, the spines and covers on what they do have are bent to shit.
That I can completely relate too! I refuse to buy anything that's bent :?

Lotsa stores do that though sadly, I've had to bug the dude at the one store I go to, to stock the shelves better :P Dave (the owner) makes fun of me sometimes since I'll go to pay and then notice some minuscule thing wrong with the cover and I'll switch it for another copy.

Err anyways...feeling somewhat off-topic today =/

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Post by Otohiko » Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:12 pm

Jimmy Balls-O-Steel wrote: Being an anime/manga fan in Canada fucking sucks.
:lol:

You know, reading your situation, you had it much better than me with my town - eh, I had NO distributors there whatsoever. My solution had always been going to cons and blowing money on the good stuff there.

Of course now, I moved to Ottawa, and I'm betting there's no such problems here. At least there's a good list of retailers who are supposed to have it.

Anyway... maybe this thread needs a split...
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Post by gforcecm » Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:59 pm

Anime's increasing popularity is like the weather. Unpredictable. Tommorow it could be the worst thing ever , then the next day its the best thing in the world. All I know is weather and anime have 1 big thing in common. WE NEED IT TO LIVE! Long live anime for ages to come.

P.S. I'd like to see more anime video games.
An mmorpg anime would be nice! :D
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Post by Yukina_Raven » Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:44 am

GMM2005 wrote:
Yukina_Raven wrote:Hey, I'm glad anime is getting some popularity. However this thought makes me cringe.

It gives the idiots in the world a perfect oppertunity to jump at it and say "Look! This stuff is EVIL!" :roll: Because, as I'm sure you've all realized, everytime something becomes popular with the world, there are people out there who have to make up something wrong with it.
Yo... Pikachu is satanic :lol: :lol:

Meh, those people should die.
Okay, I'll agree with you on the Pikachu thing. :lol:

Oh wait...and I agree that those people should die, too. :D
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Post by someperson » Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:10 am

Wouldn't it be interesting to see a manga ("graphic novel") as a New York Times Bestseller? Unlikely to happen, but it would be interesting. [/pointless wandering thought]
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Post by njijin » Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:32 pm

I would say that manga and anime have defnately hit the top of the intertanement at the moment. Hell it was only last year that the book store in my home town finly got mangas.(to bad they keep changeing were to find it in the store every two months.) :?
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