2004-04-04, 21:58 | Link #3 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: USA
Age: 37
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Heh, I didn't find it disturbing. Quite the opposite, I found it a little funny and I couldn't help but smirk through the whole thing. Poor polite Japanese guy.. all he wanted to do was go to college and us evil Americans force him to become an assassin. The series has plenty of action and, even if it's only the first episode, so far not much substance. The only scene that did disturb me a bit was when Ein was butt-nekked on a table and humoring that freakish guy. Anyhoo, it's okay. I'll give it a chance.
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2004-04-05, 05:15 | Link #4 |
Manual Mode
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Play the Phantom of inferno dvd game!
Info: http://www.jastusa.com/Merchant2/mer...y_Code=DVDGAME You'll appreciate the anime a bit more. Maybe.. >_< |
2004-04-05, 17:25 | Link #5 |
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Audio Problem with Phantom?
Did anyone have an audio problem with Phantom?
Perhaps my download was somehow corrupted, but I've never had an audio problem like this before, certainly nothing that I haven't been able to fix with ffdshow or the like. When it starts off, there's complete silence until right before the camera pans past the girl on top of the building. Right there I get a big blast of static that will continue on that way unless I click the mouse further up the progress bar. When I do that the audio "sounds" fine, and I can even click on the progress bar to take it back to almost the beginning. Great, I thought, it's fixed. Yeah. Now the timing's off. Wayyy off. That's it, every time. Static, click forward, click back, sounds fine, timing off. I've got the latest Divx player, up to date video and audio codecs. It also does it on Windows Media Player. I'm going the download it again. Any positive thoughts would be appreciated. Kai |
2004-04-05, 22:34 | Link #6 |
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: good 'ole US of A
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Yeah I'll agree this one is generic. I couldn't help but laugh when the freaky guy told the Japanese kid that he has potential to be a great assasin. He was running around screaming his head off! Oh yeah so he could tell where she aimed from whooo.
Also really funny when goes into "murder mode" and then switches back and cries hehe. This is like Kite Ultra Lite. Still, I'm glad it was fansubbed because I've wanted to see it and I never would have known it sucked unless it was fansubbed. And well, at least the character designs are nice... |
2004-04-05, 23:56 | Link #7 |
Famous Dead Pirate
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I just finished watching the 1st episode. As far as I could tell, the translation was accurate and the editing solid. The only thing I could complain about would be the font size and color. The font size was pretty small, even for watching on a computer monitor, and the color (kinda neon-ish magenta with white halo) was also kind of distracting. The font itself seemed appropriate for the atmosphere of the show itself...
Aside from that, I'm kind of interested in seeing the 2nd episode. Although it might have been a bit generic, it was still well made enough to hold my attention throughout most of the episode. I didn't like some of the voice actors though. Some of them just seemed flat and not very 'into' their roles... |
2004-04-06, 09:40 | Link #8 |
annoying white bat
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I didn't find anything in this series to recommend it to me or anyone else. It just seems like the dregs of the "young person forced to be an assassin" barrel. "Generic" already gets 4 votes counting mine and that's not a good sign at all.
"Contrived" is another word that comes to mind. The first episode of anything is supposed to convincingly put the main characters into a situation, and that didn't happen at all. The events which led to young whatsisname cowering behind a table were random and silly. "Cheap" is the third strike I guess. Some decent production values could have papered over some of the plot holes, but there were too many points in the episode which needed more animation or at least some kind of rendering. KSS usually does a much better job than this. |
2004-04-06, 19:37 | Link #10 |
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: good 'ole US of A
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Is Phantom an OVA? I've been so disappointed in OVAs lately. I don't think I've seen a good one that wasn't a TV spin-off in a long time. (Not since Read or Die...) OVAs are supposed to have higher production values, but I've seen TV series surpass many an OVA. Is the direct-to-video market dead?
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2004-04-06, 19:58 | Link #11 | |
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2004-04-17, 09:38 | Link #15 |
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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I never see this OVA but I used to play this game on playstation2 ,it was great story so I like to see this OVA . I think you should to play this game too ,there's english text if you play in dvd vedio game version may be you will love this OVA too.
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2004-04-17, 14:38 | Link #16 | |
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2004-04-19, 17:38 | Link #17 |
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I thought it was kinda funny, as someone already put it... the way Zwei changed into assassin mode and then back into "I'm such a crying asshole"... boy, at least Zwei is funny. It's almost the only good thing in this OVA. I mean... I didn't really the desing characters and the soundtrack was poor and the history, generic.
But, since it's an OVA, I might watch the rest of it. Just because Zwei is *such* a nice name... Ps: the scene with Ein nacked also freaked me out... |
2004-04-20, 03:40 | Link #18 |
Combating Spoiler Scum
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 40
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Wow- I guess I'm really alone here, but....I really liked the first ep, empathized with the main character, thought the way he switched to assassin mode was awesome, etc. etc.
also, AT THIS POINT, I"LL TAKE ANYTHING THAT A) Doesn't have incredibly busty girls and B) ISN"T SHOUJO Good grief- this season REALLY sucks the only shows worth watching so far are madlax, kyou kara maou, this one, and maybe Baku Ten (if I can get over the annoying busty characters) |
2004-04-20, 10:30 | Link #19 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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We got the raw as soon as it came out and started work on it then, but we're slow on everything we do and work at our own pace. We could have released Angel Rabbie a month and a half before we did, we finished most of the work on it mid January(around the 11th) but we were the last to release it in the end. |
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