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by Bodybag of the hill people 03/18/2003, 10:37am PST

Zseni wrote:

Jhoh Creexul wrote:

Zseni wrote:

This is the anime that makes you stupid and forces you to come back for more. Slayers, Ranma 1/2, Earth Defender Mao-Chan, so on and so forth. Sometimes Type 3 anime is just superior - Hellsing, Heat Guy J, (apparently) Cowboy Bebop, etc.

Heatguy J is retarded, and Cowboy Bebop is indeed superior. It's the best anime ever because it doesn't commit the crime of constantly being fuckstupid.

But you think Hellsing is retarded too, and that's just criminal, because Hellsing has the following on top of the usual good-anime-goodies:
1. Only vampire ANYWHERE IN ANIME not to mention MOST OF THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE who NEVER FUCKING MOPES EVER. Actually he's defuckinglighted most of the time.
2. Only female character ANYWHERE IN ANIME who COMPLETELY HAS HER SHIT TOGETHER also totally fuckable.
3. A plot which is paced perfectly for the series length, divided neatly into two arcs, with no retarded love subplots.
4. Actually looks at least as good as the manga it's based on.
5. Soundtrack - with the exception of the end song - which is not hours and hours of retarded genki DDR-ready J-pop.

Anyway Heat Guy J is the sheezy because it's action without mope, without pretensions to dakyrness, without forced wisecracking, and with huge awesome robot with magnifique physique. The lead character, Daisuke, is part of a genre of heroes popular for the last five years or so in anime and manga - like Great Teacher Onizuka and Kintaro, these are a kind of reformed badass with "human feeling." It's a genre of hero I find particularly appealing, but you probably don't because they aren't Italians. For serious, if the cracked rice bowl scene in the second or third episode were voice-acted by Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, you would be touting this show as the greatest thing since lesbian porn.

You probably didn't like Fist of the North Star either, whereas I believe it is one of the best action B-movies in existence.

We had to have dubbed that movie like three times. Of particular embarrasing note was our rendition of the theme song. I was going for a heroic, Horner-esque military march, full on 4/4 beat, while my buddy seemed to be channeling the more operatic side of Ennio Morricone. It didn't sync, nor did we stop, rewind or edit anything. With each dub the movie managed to get somehow less ridiculous until, ultimately, it just wasn't fun anymore. Other embarassing dubs: Record of Lodoss War, Dragon Ball (all Japanese from Japan back in '92 before anyone knew about it and waaaay before it was *cool*, Battle Royale/ninja high school, some kung-fu flick called the Unbeaten 28, Robot Jox and They Live.

They were absolutely terrible, artistically and intellectually, and I miss the fuck out of the days where we had nothing but time to sit around and make them.