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Hmm... Was that one too tough? I can do another.

What anime TV series includes an episode that specifically references Tom Godwin's famous short story The Cold Equations?

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No, John Carpenter used to rock, but it's been a long, long time IMO since he made a decent movie. As far as I'm concerned, the only great movies hes made are: - The Thing Escape from New York Big Trouble in Little China Any more that anybody thinks are worthy to be called 'Great John Carpenter Movies'? Graham Dark Star

If the blood is compatible, it's compatible. If it's not, it's not. I don't think XY chromosone arrangement plays into it much.

Looks like they guy has posted more pictures showing a lot more detail as well as a making of section (http://www.brickshelf.org/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=60698).

Looks cool. Could you throw in a human and a Zentradi for reference as well?

Good show. I've only seen the first half dozen episodes, and I'm eagerly awaiting the US release so I can finish it. Basically, it's about this high school kid (the show is set in the US, by the way) who suddenly discovers psychic powers and things start getting really weird from there. The animation is good and everything is done in very muted colors, which really adds to the show's feel.

It makes sense that the boosters are space only, but I don't see why they couldn't use the arm launchers inside Earth's atmosphere. Can the FAST pack parts be mounted piecemeal?

Volume 9 is due out Oct. 24.

It's best to think of the manga and the TV show as being two different continuities. The manga is still running, last I checked. Mr. Legato is correct; the TV show was made after the original Trigun had ended (due to the publisher going out of business), but Maximum hadn't started yet. The way I understand it, the TV story is technically not Nightow's, but the script writers got a lot of imput from him.

I wasn't saying that you had to flip the book to change the sound effects. What I meant is that doing one is the same as doing the other. I don't believe that "translating" the sound effects is worth destroying the integrity of the art. Look at any manga and see how much of a part of the artwork those kana symbols are. Taking them out requires the translating company to have to edit and touch up the art. Somthing most artists and many fans hate. There are compromises though. One is to note the sound effects in the margins (requiring a slightly larger book to add the margins). The other is to go the Five Star Stories route and note all the sound effects in an appendix. Of course, since 99% of all sound effects are written in katakana, you could just take the few hours required to learn all of them or keep a quick reference handy.

In Japan, most books are printed to be read right to left. Up until a couple years ago, almost every manga that was brought over to be released in the US was reversed (or flipped) to be read left to right like other western books. The thought of the time was that manga in the original format is that Americans would never buy them that way and would have a hard time reading them like that.

They used the reprints as the basis. There were originally three volumes of Trigun and they were later reprinted into two volumes. The book is about one and a half times bigger than your average manga then. They also used the reprint cover. I am very happy they didn't mess with the sound effects. Sound effects are considered part of the art and not part of the dialog. Changing them usually requires quite a bit of touch up and usually pisses off the original artist (and Nightow is very picky about this stuff). And it's not like you need them translated. I know what a gun sounds like. I know the made up words are meant to sound like a gun. Knowing what those specific words are is unnecessary, and certainly not worth screwing up the art for. If you're going to change the sound effects, you might as well flip the damn thing while you're at it. Overall, I am satisfied with the US release, and I hope they maintain the same quality in the future volumes.

Excellent show. The main character is one of those understated genius types. You know, one of those guys who can pretty much do anything, but always come across as being kind of average to people who don't know him very well. The stories range from mysteries to slice of life bits with a little action thrown in here and there. The stories are also intelligent and well thought out. The animation isn't top of the line, but then this kind of show doesn't need expensive animation. It's also nice to see a show with a main character who's a little bit older than the normal teeny bopper anime hero (he's somewhere in his mid to late thirties).

Ah. I usually buy stuff locally through comic book stores and Best Buy. I avoid SC like the plague.

I've never heard of it. Do you have to subscribe to get it, or is it being sold in stores?

They're getting a domestic release, I believe, so might as well get them locally.

I've never seen the Robotech Movie edit of Megazone, but I do know the extra animation bit was tacked onto the beginning of Macek's unreleased dub of part II (a bootleg copy of that was one of my first introductions to anime). It does use the part I character designs.

One can hope, but I won't be holding my breath.

Need to see this one. I hear the manga's been picked up for US release, but I don't know by whom. I also hear that's it's really depressing.

Specifically, that's from the additional footage that Carl Macek had commissioned for Part II, not part of the original show.

Do the right thing, Yang. Burn it.

Well there was Warriors of... yeah, you're right. Twenty years and no US release.

Probably not going to see this one in the US for a while. It's the one Ghibli title Disney doesn't have the distro rights for, so some other company is going to have to pick it up separately.