Darth Mattitude wrote:

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BTW way CPC Movies has just appionted a new Anime columnist...  SPIM!!!

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You mean I got the job? Oh I thought you were still mulling it over.

Well thank you very much.

A quick heads up guys...

Just discovered on Rapture TV that they are running the Anime [I]Excel Saga[/I] and have been since Jan 3rd. It airs twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday at 8.30pm but there is a one hour (2 episode) omnibus edition on Sundays (tonight) at 8.00pm.

Here's some info on the series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Saga

Also, hopefully my new Anime column/review feature will be starting soon so watch this space for further news...

Not Sure if anyone has had the chance to watch it yet but Brave Story is a truly fascinating anime film about a boy who has trouble in his life with his dad leaving and his mom falling sick.He befriends another boy who has some kind of magical powers, and follows him through a
dark portal to a whole new world with many strange characters and unique places.As the story goes on youll find why the other boy commits bad actions, and that he and the main character are both on the same quest for the same reason which is to get a wish to change what happened
in their life. Wonderfully animated film, well told story and is quite sad at times, one of the best anime movies iv seen in a while in japan, so i higley recommend it to you guys! Here is a poster for the movie if you like to know ^^.

New Anime Corner for April up now:

http://www.cpx.org.uk/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=75455

Comments welcome!

-- Edited by Man In Black at 11:43, 2007-04-04

I do and find it very informative :)

New column will go up on Tuesday. And once again it's a goody....

Well I now have 4 of the movies mentioned on your article this month. I haven't managed to watch them yet.

Thanks Eve and Lava.

Well, I will be looking at some of the directors in future columns. As for the origins I touched upon that in the debut column but maybe I will expand upon that one day.

Thanks again.

I have now watched perfect blue.

I found it really confusing but there were two reasons for that.

The first reason was because the film was both subtitled and dubbed. But the sub titles and the dubbing did not match very well. I think the sub titles were a translation of the japanese dialogue where the dubbing it was adjusted to suit the english language more.

For example on scene where she was being helped to find the 'mimi's room' website on her computer, her friend was helping her and she said something like. "explain it in english" but the subtitles said 'explain it in japanese'. But there were times when what was said was totally different that what was written, more so during the singing parts.

The other reason I was confused was because the film does get really hard to follow whats going on. It's done really well because watching it you can feel the main characters confusion when as MIB put it in his article 'Mimi no longer knows where the lines between reality and her TV life are'

In all I really enjoyed the film and would recommend it to watch.

Sorry for the confusion, kinda suitable seeing as the cufusion I had watching the film.

It was english subtitled and english dubbed. The subtitles were direct translation of japanese where the dubbing was also altered so the two things, both in english didn't match very well.

Because of the Rain I watched Ghost in the Shell today. I have to say I can see what you wrote in your article about it being an influence for the Matrix.

Again I found this movie, just like Perfect Blue a bit confusing. But this time I had no problem with subtitles as it was only dubbed into english.

But unlike Perfect Blue when the end of the moive gave all the answers, this movie finished leaving so many unanswered questions. Does the series carry on from where the film left off? Does it explore the development of what happened to the main character Motoko Kusanagi?

I think your article MIB sums up this film very well without giving too much of the film away.

Latest Anime Corner up now on the new look CPC Movies here

All feedback and comments welcome!

Thanks poulpy.

NymVette wrote:

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Just one point, aren't they Angels and not Angles?

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 Er....probably....

Nice column again MiB, a tricky subject Dubbed or Subbed that we have discussed before. I have to say I am watching the programs on Anime Channel Dubbed because thats the only choice you get, but my dvd's I watch in Japanese with Subtitles as I do prefer to hear the original japanese voices. Sometimes the dubbed ones are so different and do change the characters quite a lot.

Again great column and a very interesting subject.

New Anime Corner up HERE

Please leave any comments or feedback in this thread. Thanks!

Thanks Eve.

Ta!

Or you could always read the Mangas to give you an idea of what to expect!

Come on Eve, even you can manage this:

 

No comments? No-one read it?

November column up now HERE. Comments welcome as always.

I haven't read it all properly yet. I'll be back on this later. The thing is MiB your consistent. I'd like to see you do something either challenging or potentially incendary to cause comments...

You might want to try GunXSword as that is Mecha show but with a lot of other stuff going on too. And episode 17 is mostly fan service which I know you like. Read my review of volume 5 on the main site.