2012-04-03, 17:53 | Link #1042 | |
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Obviously being a play on New York is the point, although I wouldn't call it a joke because it isn't really funny. But they don't actually call it "Shin York City" in Japan. So in this case calling it "Yorkshin" over "York New" is less blatant. It's still obvious what they're going for if you know what the word means but it doesn't jump in your face every time you see it. That and it doesn't look jarring due to looking wrong from being backwards (not because we think it's supposed to be New York, but because we're not used to "New" coming after something's name in general) |
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2012-04-04, 07:59 | Link #1043 |
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Footnotes, are, well.. Lets not get into an argument about footnotes. It's a choice that fan translators sometimes make, but localizers don't get, lets keep it at that. I will keep using the name Yorknew if you don't mind.
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2012-04-04, 12:47 | Link #1044 | |
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2012-04-04, 14:51 | Link #1045 |
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The story so far...
Introduction (ep. 1) Hunter Exam Arc (ep 2-20) Zoldyck Family Intro (ep 21-25) Heavens Arena Arc (ep 26 - ??) I imagine at some point we will be introduced to the Phantom Troupe similar to this last mini-arc. Soooo...Killua is like the Sasuke of HxH (friend that will eventually betray the group)? That last comment from his father foreshadows it. I don't know what to make of his behavior during the final exam phase from ep. 21 (where it is suggested Killua isn't responsible for what happened). This is just a guess about future events based on past ones and shouldn't be considered a spoiler (as I have not read the manga). |
2012-04-04, 15:12 | Link #1047 |
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Yeah, Sasuke is clearly based on Kurapica. Revenge for his family, eyes that change colors, etc.
Killua is... unpredictable. That's about all we know for now. He clearly wants friends, but he also has his assassin upbringing lurking in the background. Illumi thinks that he'll eventually want to kill Gon, and Killua seemed pretty jealous of Gon's ranking in the final Hunter exam, but Killua also honestly wants to escape his life as an assassin and have a real friend. |
2012-04-04, 16:14 | Link #1048 |
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Daamn .. This was progressing so slowly that I went and watched the original series.. And damn was it good. Feels almost like pointless to watch this now .. But I really hope that with so much material available right now, once this anime one day reaches G.I. Final arc and passes it, it will continue and not also end right there.
I tried reading the manga from where the original OVA's left off but god, how could anyone read that? The '' art '' is so simple and boring it can hardly be called art.
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2012-04-04, 16:36 | Link #1050 |
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Hmm ..? When I googled that just now from picture search, I got a result with much better look, indeed. This was around ch200. However the same site still had that crappy look on ch185 which is where I should continue from. Does that chapter just look that bad or does it actually look good if I bought the manga? I just have hard time believing that if an english translation of that manga exists then why would all the copies floating on the net be magazine scans?
I don't mind buying the manga, if it looks good. I don't even read manga generally but I just can't take how the original anime ended .. >.< Also looking at the wikipedia, the release of the manga volumes confuse me? Volume 29 was released on April 2011 and the next volume is set to be released on April 2012? How can it take an year for next volume to be released? Not to mention the english translations that seem to have taken even longer.
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2012-04-06, 14:59 | Link #1053 | |
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Start with the new one, but you might be tempted to watch the old one, once you caught up.
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2012-04-06, 20:22 | Link #1054 | |
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Old series seem too stretched out sometimes by having a lot of content that I think could be dismissed. However, new series seem to be shortening some scenes way too much... I would say it's the same problem as with first 10 episodes of FMA: Brotherhood where things went so fast that it made me not care =/ But the rest was up the equality. New series arcs are half shorter than what was shown in old series. I personally don't regret watching old series but I have no idea how this will reflect when I'll start new series... But then again you can always miss out the same stuff through new series and wait for new content.
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2012-04-07, 03:55 | Link #1055 |
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^ Pretty much that. I will have to add that most of the "apparently" shorter episodes are from the filler being cut. I say "most" because the new anime does do SOME things differently and DOES dispense with some things. I blame it on an attempt to not become a carbon copy of the original anime.
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2012-04-08, 07:57 | Link #1057 | |
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Honestly you talk as if the 1999 series didn't have the same amount of tension. When I first watched through that part of the show, you could feel the tension in the air. You weren't sure how serious they were, and as another poster put, that ambiguity is important in the story. And then when Killua makes his appearance the curtain is pulled open, and you see that Gotoh was merely "acting" or was he? You're unsure, but just like how he talked about the game being a good way to pass the time, you get drawn into that, and get absorbed into the pacing. Instead, in this series you get this very forced tension, which is done worse. I think in the original and how it's suppose to be portrayed, you aren't suppose to be sure whether or not they are serious, in this one, there is only one answer, and it's that they were serious. Gotoh goes from being shown as someone with two sides, to someone with only one. What I mean is he still gives off the Yakuza feel in the original, but then shows his lighthearted side when all is said and done. In this one he seems way to one dimensional, no ambiguity I think is bad in this case, because HxH as a series takes a very ambiguous stance in all the arcs, getting rid of it seems silly. They're definitely making changes to try to set themselves apart from the original, but it ends up changing the storylines enough to make it less appealing, and less like the feeling the manga gave off, even tho they are following the manga better. It's disappointing. |
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2012-04-08, 16:59 | Link #1059 | |
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It follows the manga exceptionally well... Except in those times that it doesn't. Some of the time it adds something, some of the time we're left wondering "Why change this at all?". Like the expansion of Canary's backstory was nice, but as a tradeoff them entering the trial gate was cheapened. I'm not even sure why they had Killua arrive early this time round. They could just as well just have waited. Ah well, maybe the writers here actually didn't catch the original writer's original intent. They can't be right all the time can they? |
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