treatment

hehehe

Somebody oughta inform Toynami that the head-lasers of DYRL valkyries points forwards instead of their current rebadged-bootlegs' backwards TV-lasers.

sheesh!

fwiw, is anybody here really gonna buy these dyrl-bootlegs when these become available after Toyfare-2004?

I'm not sure if anyone have reported this, yet, but when I click on the Get New Post link from any of the forum-topics in main, I get transferred to the first-post of the thread, instead of the last post or the newest post.

I'm using Mozilla browser, fwiw. I'm not sure if it's true with IE or other browsers.

heh!

i'm finally getting my vf-2ss kits next week from hlj.

wish me luck.

i still am not sure what paint-scheme to apply.

If your buying a reissue 1A avoid the DYRL white and red valk. I've yet to see one where the chest piece lock correctly in fighter mode.

Mine locks properly.

just wondering.

It's one of the pinned threads in Toys-section. I guess it's alot more for Macross franchise than just DYRL.

I just started a thread at AnimeOnDvd-forum about this pre-order announcement.

I'm hoping that since most US/region-1 company-reps regularly visits and posts in AOD-forum that this particular issue may get escalated throughout and that we'll hopefully have more answers on what's going on with the DYRL-license.

WTF?!!!?!

Fwiw, there is a new trailer with the Yukari-sensei and Chiyo-chan (same as the dubreview.com rip) english-dubs.

http://www.advfilms.com/titles/azumanga/index.html

forewarned:

Yukari-sensei's dub is quite awful.

I rather listen to MXC dubs.

well, according to TRSI, here's the art-box.

It's going to be a 6-disc series, btw.

Well, you can look at several factors...

1. - HG Blows, and would want a chunk of any and all future Macross releases, they said as much at AX in 2001.

2. - The existing Mac Zero R1 DVD's do not have any subtitling.

3. - Did I mention that HG blows?

If we ever see them, it will most likely be years from now.

What about the Hong Kong release of Mac0, they have subs don't they?? They are a region compatable with the US.

No offense to anybody in HK, but a lot of their subtitled crap sucks. I bought several and it's really fortunate if you find a couple of them comprehensible.

To stay on topic, I think if Macross plus was able to make it through to the US via Manga, I think given the popularity of Macross 0, we'll see it a couple of years down. Not anytime soon though.

Oh and, HG BLOWS!

Ya i have kind of heard that about HK releases. But I guess its better than nothing till Manga (or someone else thats credible) releases into the US market

I'd hate to bring the HG subject up myself... they don't blow... they BLOW GOATS Woops... did I let that slip?

Mangle's credible???

fyi.

Azumanga Daioh region-1 dvd pre-orders is up on RightStuf now!

boxset = http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/ca...tem/62172/4/0/0

single-dvd = http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/ca...62171/4/0/-1843

Incidentally, there's a brief English-dub trailer of Chiyo-chan at www.dubreview.com

http://www.dubreview.com/sounds/adai1/trai...3ab911d9c71a35e

Guess it's the english-version of the legendary Tsukurimasho song.

You have been warned.

Arkan is available in the first OST. Yanyan is not.

Both songs are really growing on me. especially Yanyan.

Anybody else?

And Misato dying is just sucks <--- Engrish

I mean what kinda promise is that?  Hey Sinji, I'm gonna do you, except I'll be dead.

necrophilia

I'll pass on this.

30% is just not enough for the Ostrich.

already got two of the S-1Js

Too many to list, but I found Tomoe's death in Betrayal (kenshin ova) to be so unforgettable.

The only problem with the 1/48 Strike-Hikaru is that the FAST-packs are sold separately.

too bad you don't like DYRL.

you're just one of the very few that don't like it.

So was this movie better than the live action one with Van Damme?

yup.

Only seen a few eps of the TV series. Didn't like it. Those action/comedy anime are not my thing.

Graham

The OVA is very much different from the TV-series.

There is no comedy in the OVA. They did not hold back anything in the OVA, either.

I guess if we have to make comparisons with Macross franchise, the Kenshin T&B OVA is like 1000x DYRL over SDF-TV.

Simply put, Samurai X Rurouni Kenshin's Trust and Betrayal OVA is one of the very best anime ever made.

Hello.

I found out about Orguss only recently, after finding the origions of the infamous Orguss Valkyrie. Odd as it is, I haven't watched a single episode and yet I'm a fan.

I'm wondering if the DVD box set is any good. Anyone here have it and can judge?

Or am I alone in my single fandom....

The HK boots are the only way you can get Orguss-1. No-one knows if Mangle has the US-rights from the old US-Renditions.

Rankings:

the good:

[*] video-quality: good. prolly ripped from the last Japan-R2 set.

[*] audio-quality: good stereo.

[*] price: very decent enough. Avg $30 to $40 for the boxset.

the bad:

[*] character-designs: Abundant Minmay/Misa clones.

[*] subtitling: horrible engrish. name-substitutions and name-mangling run amok as you progressed thru the whole series. However, it's a simple story so you can follow it even tho the grammar and name-spellings are pretty high on the weird-scale.

As for the Orguss-story, it's kinda interesting pilot-turned-wandering-gypsy-due-to-time/dimension-warp-disturbance. Interesting sci-fi plot but average story-delivery. Pretty much un-interesting and really boring unless you're so into 80's sci-fi anime. The only good mecha design is the Orguss itself, tho it's pretty much weak and ugly compared to Macross and Gundam mecha designs.

In contrast, the Orguss-2 OVA is a better story and has a better video animation production, as well as great character-designs improvement over the original Mikimoto-designs, i.e Orguss-1 Mikimoto-characters all look like Minmay/Misa clones. As others have stated, it only tries to un-necessarily and half-heartedly hook up with the original Orguss-1 in the last two episodes. Although it echoes Macross-II sequel-tradition, the closest story-parity/plot-relationship I can give it is prolly Gundam-MS-08th's relationship to MS-Gundam. Same people made Macross-II, Orguss-2, and Gundam MS-08th, anyway iirc. Very very much darker in tone and delivery than Orguss-1.

Well, I guess the Spirit Rover is experiencing a Minmay-Attack as of Friday 3:55pm EST 1/23/04:

  http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html

The crippled Spirit rover remains in critical condition on the surface of Mars, engineers said today, the victim of ongoing electronic seizures that have caused its central computer to reboot itself more than 60 times over the past two days.

Engineers successfully coaxed the rover to beam back limited engineering data during two brief communications sessions and they were relieved to discover the spacecraft's power system was providing the necessary life support. But Spirit's state of mind was clearly -- and unusually -- different in both sessions, ruling out any simple explanations for what might have gone wrong.

Thanks for posting that chart Exo, but it's a little out of date. I've done a bit of renovating to it to reflect how things should be.

hahaha!!!

from another forum

just for posterity's sake.

NASA admits using Microsoft Windows as its OS 

from another site.