Yup! Anime should be respected beacuse its a highly way of entertaining people in all ages!

Hmm...I can understand though. I mean, it's like that with everything, and if they think anime is nothing more then cartoons then they miss a lot of joy from watching it. Here it's basically the same with soccor. Either you hate it, think it's silly to run after a ball and then kick it away again, or you think it's the best sport ever. It's best to find a middle way. I think soccor is silly, but I love watching it in the middle of a crowd. I don't see much soccor, I have to admit, but singing songs and boo-ing at the other team sure is fun. Anime is a hobby to us, and while it's important to us, it shouldn't be taken too seriously when it concerns other people.

yes but it is quite an annoyance when your parents dont understand your love of anime. They sometimes nag you about it all the time and say "why are you wasting your money on that?" and stuff. you know what i mean.

I really understand what you mean... it gets to my nerves sometimes too...

anyway, enough of the anime dislikers, lets get back on track! here we go!

This thread reminds me of the Voice actor commentary on the OVA. At one point Scott Simpson is talking about how he always imagined Belldandy as an Ambassador to the UN, lecturing the world leaders..."This is how it is going to be, because my dad said so..."

hehehe... Gomen nasai

Larry

really! well wadda ya know!
i didnt know that because i havent watched the commentary bits yet!

Oooh... you've gotta! It is absolutely hillarious. Some highlights include the cast singing, everyone making fun of Juliet over the egg song, and Pamela quoting Babylon 5. They also make fun of Keiichi by making a Dune reference. It is great!

really? im afraid it might be too detached from the OVA and make the OVA look like another "product". thats why i dont watch commentaries, hmm... after hearing what u said maybe i should give it a try, maybe.

The people from Animeigo are so obviously fans of the series, it is like watching it with a group of friends who have seen it just as much as you have...

Larry

hmm.. well the AnimEigo would be "fans" of the anime, since they're the ones that helped dubb it.

im still not sure of watching commentaries, it makes the anime look so commercialised

Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Naturally, all anime is commercialized... if it wasn't making people money, it would never have been brought over in the first place. I've never bought into the whole "So and so is selling out" arguement... any entertainer is trying to make money, whether they be a basketball player, a really crappy band (like Metallica), or a starving painter. Anime is a business, so you can't expect the people involved to be saints, and if you do, I am sorry in advance for the crushing dissappointment you will someday face. Lord knows that the fact that Tenchi Masaki has yet to make up his mind is the single biggest proof of this fact.

Any time an anime I get has a commentary, I listen to it. Some of these have been really dissappointing. For example, the commentary on Abenobashi Magical Shopping Arcade was a real dissappointment. The two voice actors they had commenting on it had obviously never watched an full episode of the series, had no idea what the story was, and were barely aware that there was such a thing called anime.

Animeigo's commentaries really shine. Firstly, they are one of the smallest, and oldest, ADR houses out there. They've been at this a long time. Although, like any business, they are commercial, you can also tell they are doing it because they love anime. In the commentary to the OVA, they discuss the manga repeatedly, talk about having seen the movie (which hadn't even been released in the US yet), and basically have a pretty good time. That, and they seem to forget they are doing a commentary, so it is like being with friends who are talking over a movie (kinda like my friends do when we watch Ghostbusters - we just have a conversation, stopping occasionally for our favorite scenes).

It's worth watching in my opinion.... give it a try...

Larry

"Mother-puss-bucket! Nobody steps on a church in my town!"

so u like Ghostbusters huh, hmm... i see what i make of the commentary on the anime DVDs

I thought that the OVA's Commentary was too hard to hear. . .

Then again, I personally thought the OVA were horrible DVD Productions that did not do justice to AMG. The video quality was sub-par at best, and the audio quality was horrendously frail... but I'm a very picky DVD Buyer.

What I mean is, I did not feel the DVD release was of good quality. It seemed more like sub-standard VHS than DVD.

i can see where u're coming from aimi, i myself also like my DVDs to be of the utmost quality. But lets not forget that the OVA was released back in the early 90s so the quality back then is probably not as good as some animes now.