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    There is a character from Romance of the Three Kingdoms from africa that's black. Historians are divided on wether he was a real person. Still just the fact that the writer chose to insert one into a text that old proves that they had some interactions. EDIT: and it happened in Blazing Saddles.
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    Well you got one part right about companies using the high price to recover production costs. Your little rant on labor exploitation, and wage rights is abject and complete garbage. DVD/BR/CD are cheap to make, because they are in fact cheap to make. The materials are easy to come by, the manufacture is mostly automated, the writing and printing is also automated. This isn't making a damned pair of jeans or a sweater. The most labor intensive part would be authoring the dvd which wouldn't happen at the factory anyway and then quality control. The former is usually well paid because he has a skilled job not easy to come by compared to Long Duk Dong from eastern rural village of yu suk mi with no education and no skill besides manual labor gets stuck in the sweat shop making jeans for Calvin Klein. The disc market in Japan was, is, and always will be a niche market of luxury items for those with the space and disposable income to afford them. Because of that, and that the market is still rental driven it is less likely to be affected by collapse. Especially with the average Japanese citizen earning more than average of most of the rest of the world.
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    The fact that this movie lives or dies by its sequel and what it will reveal is telling. If movie number 2 is more of the same with people doing weird things without provocation and more "what the hell is going on?" Moments its not going to go over well. I agree Prometheus isn't that well written. Take Empire Strikes Back for example. Imagine if the scene were Luke first sees Obi Wan's ghost on Hoth isn't there or the mynock scene doesn't happen. You'll wonder how the hell Luke knows about Dagobah, or why Han pilots the Falcon out of a perfectly safe cave right into the impirial fleet. No Boba Fett? How the hell did the Empire know to get to bespin? This is what's going on with Prometheus right now. Key moments seem to be missing, and people are doing things for no clear sane reason.
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    So when do we get Gundam+Aika= Gundam F(anservice)? How did Godannar do in Japan?
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    The last civilisation game I played was II for the PSX. I attempted to play the others, but I felt in over my head. My dad thought I had issues when I nuked Ghandi.
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    I was originally going to say "And on this day not a damn was given...", but you know what? If we ask and they deliver I want the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, the TMNT Party Wagon, Truckasaurus, and the Warthog from Halo.
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    I picked up SF IV the premium collectors edition when it was on clearence for 25(haven't opened it) and Super SF IV for 20. That's the last capcom game I bought.
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    I was over at starblazers.com reading the episode summeries for the third "bolar wars" series and I thought you guys appreciate this quote. " Desslok appears to have made a drinking game out of these meetings. Every time he gets a good report, he takes a drink. When the report isn't good, Desslok doesn't get a sip and is therefore cranky. When Desslok gets cranky, he shoots people."
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    Never watch that film, it is exactly what you think in the maternity and much worse.
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    So let me get this straight... the reapers safeguard all organic life, by killing all organic civilization before/just after they can create synthetic life and recruit said synthetics to aid them?
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    The high cost of dvds and blu-rays in Japan comes from the fact that the country is more rental driven than consumer retal driven. Space is at a premium, and dvds are viewed as a luxury item so if you want to buy a series expect to pay them same as a video store would from the distributor. A $40 dvd containing 2 episodes isn't a bad price when you know you can rent it 20+ times at $10 a pop.
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    Bible Black was mentioned because it was pretty much the first title people noticed something was wrong and wasn't the same as the original(nevermind the U.S. is actually uncensored compared to Japanese mosiac) with footage missing and things animated as they should be. Media Blasters looked into it and found out the company did it on purpose to try and deter domestic fans from importing the cheaper uncensored dvds. It led to a falling out between companies and the rest of the series almost never got released here.
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    The problem with this is a lot of Japanese companies are afraid they will lose a cut of the cash from their own domestic dvd sales by people importing the cheaper dvd's with more episodes from the states, so they do 3 things 1) refuse to let anybody license a series untill their dvd sales run their course. 2) slap a heavy licensing fee to a series to compensate for what they see as lost sales. Or 3)deliberately sabotage their own series by editing it, censoring it, and sending out workprint editions with shoddy animation because in their eyes the "baka gaijin" aren't going to notice or care leaving the original intact of their home audience. Bible Black, Papilion Rose, and Koihime Musou are some of the titles that suffered this. There might be a 4th option of a Japanese company trying to get an American to sell a dvd with the same properties as a Japanese releise I.E. 1 or 2 episodes, little special features, and high price tag ($40-60). Its only been done a few times usually with poor results(gunbuster 2). Unicorn seems to be the exception, but people seem to be willing to pay for the qulity that show represents.
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    Alrighty you guys want fun with grammar and the english language? Analien: In Space No One Can Hear Your Ream Analiens: This Time It's Whore! Analien 3: Doggystyle Analien Wrecktherectum Analien Vs Penatrator Analien Vs Penatrator Rectum Pumpmeinthis: The search for the gangbanging may be our rear end
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    Cruel headmistress at an all-girl academy maybe.... but definatly not Samus.
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    Parental guidence suggested... MADBULL 34 condensed
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    Sign of the apocalypse?
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    Discotek media just announced on their facebook page they are going to release MadBull 34!
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    Yeah the cube is thousands of years old possible asgardian tech, but a common theory is that the arc reactor is based on its technology and the element the cube is made of was the one Howard Stark was working on. The same one Tony created using his fathers plans in Iron Man 2.
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    Don't say I didn't warn you about Ikki Tousen! In a way I consider Queens Blade more tame. I also get what you are saying about Hakafu Sonsaku, she's not very bright and is borderline mentally retarded considering some of the things she gets herself into. I think there was a backlash against this prior to the second season as she gains braincells and is more on the competent ditzy side the second time around closer to how she is in the manga. As for Kanu she plays a minor part in the first season, but becomes a major player in the second as the focus shifts away from Wu, to highlight the motivations of Wei and Shu. She is definatly one of the more popular characters with her having the most figures made of her followed by Ryomu and Hakafu a distant third.
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    Oh hell no....
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    Not trying to derail the subject, but this thread might be the place to go with this... I was watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and I think the stage hands might have inserted a facehugger prop into the tunnel with all the bugs were Willie Scott freaks out. Its right around the 00:57:38 to 43 mark of the dvd. Its half in shadow crawling up the wall behind her head. I might just be seeing things, but that is one big bug.
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    Not exactly where I was going with that, but okay.... El Santo or just Santo is a masked pro wrestler from Mexico who is considered by many the greatest of all luche libre. He wrestled for almost 5 decades, never took his mask off, and made over 50 terrible sci-fi/horror films like this one that appeared on MST3K... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_vs._las_Mujeres_Vampiro
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    So can I nominate the various "El Santo" movies or are they off limits?
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    No that was a review of Sukiyaki Western Django which Quentin Tarantino makes a cameo. The Django character is treated in a way a bit like Sherlock Holmes, as in everyone and their mother has done their own takes on him. Technically there are only two "official" films the original Django and a sequel that was made in the 80s. Yet there are supposedly over a hundred something other films made using the character by other studios or directors. Some even stared the same actor. The main characters mecha in Burst Angel is even named after him.
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