(L) Canaan (428 The Animation)

[straferd]

arent they just season 1, released in 3 dvds?

[kamikazex]

Originally Posted by Yu Ominae

Amazon Japan reported the OST's out as of last month. 3 discs included.

sweet the music was awesome

[Satch]

just got hold of the OST and it's GOOOOOD

my biggest complaint is you're going to hear the song that Siam, Canaan, and Alphard hum a LOT. i swear it has 50 variations.

Highlights of the OST are "Crazy Taxi", "Love&Peace", and "Alphard".

GET IT

[Shiroth]

Wow, three discs? Sure it's been a while since i watched the series, though i didn't think there was that much material. Can kinda understand what you mean when you mention the different versions of that one piece.

[Yu Ominae]

Yeah. I know. Probably will have a look and listen to it too.

[ViewtifulAlchemist]

Just finished this. It took a while for it to pick up and I was really getting into but in the end I still couldn't totally grasp Alphard's reasoning for killing Siam. Well I kind of did but I was hoping for something more..grand since that's what a majority of events in the show revolved around so I was just hoping for something better to really seal the deal with this series for me. Ep.12/13 just let me down when it was finally revealed what really made Alphard tick.

Spoiler:

She basically killed Siam because she saw him showing fear of Canaan's abilities, aka "the despair of a soldier with superhuman abilities in comparison to his own", so to overcome this Alphard kills....him. What?

I mean I really wanted to like Alphard because she coming off as such a great character before the last 2 episodes. It was so impressive that Alphard was even able to fight Canaan at supposedly her peak but then she just randomly decided to show fear from Canaan's eyes I thought that was a BS way to end the fight. Ep.13 was basically facepalm worthy in how it made the overall series feel to me.

Random end thoughts
- Animation for this series was outstanding.
- Taxi driver was awesome.
- Yunyun was funny.
- I actually felt more sad for Liang than the whole Alphard/Canaan/Siam/Maria drama. I didn't really care for her character much in the beginning but she had quite a pitiful end. At least Cummings found some happiness in the end.
- The whole Canaan/Maria relationship was not really interesting, just stop caring halfway through the series.
- it was neat how Canaan had same hairstyle as Alphard in the end
- Alphard is some kind of woman to survive a fall like that...however she look pitiful in the end. Almost seem better if they just killed her off.
- I hear there 3 movies that will be release but they basically just covers the same 13 episodes...what is the point with a series as short as this unless they going to add a bunch of extra background info. More Alphard/Siam background would be nice.

Show had good potential but ended with a fizzled instead of a bang.

[Haohmaru]

Anyone know if the BD releases have extra stuff?

[Yu Ominae]

Got the fanbook. Animate sold it to me for 2,415 Yen. Weird though, the book's price (printed) said 2,300 IIRC. Need to check again.

[chrno]

I just picked up the fanbook myself about a week ago. I was like, "Oh crap, I want this." I kind of found out about it later. It's got that really cool shot of 'Canaan' crouching. Definitely wanted to add it to my collection of artbooks. I really gotta finish the show. Gawd, if only someone would pick it up already. It's too goddamn awesome.

*I know I haven't been here in awhile but my "currently watching" is still the same because I haven't finished goddammit.

[Yu Ominae]

Manga Volume 1's out and so are the light novels. Two of them actually.

[Yu Ominae]

Originally Posted by straferd

arent they just season 1, released in 3 dvds?

6 actually, both DVD and Blu-Ray.

[Yu Ominae]

Got some images on CANAAN. Most are from the fanbook and from BD DVD scans.

Canaan should've worn this when she confronted Alphard in the toilet.








I like this one.

[Yu Ominae]

Just found that Akio Otsuka was in the 428 Wii game as Saeki. Never realized it. I don't know what his role was, though.

[ghost_zero5]

Not completely regarding topic (and might already have been answered by 66 pages is just too much): Is there anything known about a fan translation (project) or even an official translation for the 428 Wii game?

[Yu Ominae]

As of now, no.

[ghost_zero5]

I hope that will change, though as it came only out for consoles (and not PC) I thought from the beginning that it would be very unlikely but I still wanted to confirm it.

[TMSIDR]

This shouldn't concern many here, but the first German DVD of Canaan appeared a couple of days ago, including the Japanese and German dub in 5.1, but no subtitles . It looks like the publisher wanted to save some money and now there's the typical uproar in the forums .

More information on my website.

[Yu Ominae]

How's the German dub?

[TMSIDR]

Originally Posted by Yu Ominae

How's the German dub?

I haven't checked it myself because I don't buy an anime DVD without subtitles, but I heard some good things about it. The publisher usually uses a good dubbing cast so I can believe it's bearable^^;.

[ghost_zero5]

Wait: A DVD with Japanese dub but no subtitles for them? Isn't that kinda useless for most of those who buy the dvd and want to watch it with the Japanese dub?