Anime - General Discussion Thread

Terryb wrote:Yakitate 40 was just released :)

yup, saw it...a little disappointed...i expected something more fanciful from pierro nii-san.

qilver, check your pm. :mrgreen:

MixxDreamer wrote:^ i miss watching that eve, that was one of my favorites back in high school, i never get to finish it..
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Well Im midway through Key now.
Im a little tired of the "side of evil" deal. Kind of predictable conflict, but the main characters are charming. Especially the guys. :hehe: :hehe:

L-E released Blood+ ep1 today, the intro looks hella cool

things look promising, lot better than the movie it seems.

Blood was so disappointing.

Tu_triky wrote:

yup, saw it...a little disappointed...i expected something more fanciful from pierro nii-san.

more fanciul, that would've been great :hehe:

I thought it was funnier then some of the eps he was in.

Down to my last 5 episodes of Hajime No Ippo.
Was unbelievably exciting when he performed his "Dempsey Roll" on the boxer from Thailand. :beaten:
Or Takamura-san taking the title with his left :woot:
Looking forward to the final showdown with Sendou-san.
SO happy I have all the action figures too. :hehe: :hehe:

Eve wrote:Just started watching an older anime, Key The Metal Idol released in '94. I really was not expecting much, Im not big on robots. But the story is strangely compelling as was the story of Pinocchio.
Im on the fourth episode and continuing to forge ahead. So far so good. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

That's a great show. :D I'm a big fan. It didn't get as much attention as it deserved.

Koshiba wrote:

That's a great show. :D I'm a big fan. It didn't get as much attention as it deserved.

Im finding Key has a small but loyal following. :victory:

Hope she hits her 30,000 friends goal. :fingerscrossed:

@Koshiba ` I love your avatar. I am a big Urusei Yatsura fan. I have 100 eps on tape. :woot: I adore the entire crowd at Tomobiki High. :glomp:

K.T.Tran wrote:

more fanciul, that would've been great :hehe:

I thought it was funnier then some of the eps he was in.

well it was funny to see him "sweat" a bit.

poor pierrot-han just isn't as funny as kuro-yan :hehe:

on a side note, GITS SAC s2 ep 25 was released too, only 1 more - finally!

Terryb wrote:poor pierrot-han just isn't as funny as kuro-yan :hehe:

Yea, Pierrot-han doesn't compare to Kuro-yan on expression, but he is silly and funny in his own special way :hehe:

mai otome ep 1 subbed by static sub just came out!

K.T.Tran wrote:

Yea, Pierrot-han doesn't compare to Kuro-yan on expression, but he is silly and funny in his own special way :hehe:

you guys just can't appreciate the skills of a "sekai-leberu" clown.....lol...

nah...kuro's reactions are off the chart funny.

:puppydog:

did you guys hear? K-F (one piece) is changing from avi to .x264 (mp4), fruck! even if it freakin works with my players but how am i gonna freakin burn it?! i know i sound so selfish but it would help if they put up like instructions on other problems, and plus that never give them a problem for 3 years now, and why change now!? gAahH! i didnt even care about the changes but i was completely contented with avi.. if theyre gonna continue doing this, then we're all screwed and freakin rely on those HK sucky subs i hate these guys :grumble: :usuck: :banghead: i even complained too but i guess that wont help plus i feel bad to those who had or bought divx/xvid for that purpose (watch one piece) .. i knew somethings gonna happen like this, and f*ck us over.

anyway, i use nero vision to burn my AVIs to dvd, do u guys know any upgrade software or anything, cuz i really dunno squat about tweaking nero.

ill be starting Submarine #6 when i get a chance, probably bring the laptop to the hospital.

MixxDreamer wrote:did you guys hear? K-F (one piece) is changing from avi to .x264 (mp4), fruck!

I know what you mean. I don't understand why people feel the need to jump on the "latest and greatest" video codec, when the ones we have out there (DIVX/XVID/etc) are already more than adequate for the job. My computer is currently a little slow for doing x264 decoding, so I usually just re-encode in divx, and the heck with them and their fancy new codecs.

whats so great about x264?????
I have no idea what its suppose to do and what makes it any different from avi

K.T.Tran wrote:whats so great about x264?????
I have no idea what its suppose to do and what makes it any different from avi

Actually, AVI is a container format. They are switching codecs from Xvid to x264, i.e. they are using a new compression encoding called x264. The difference is that x264 gives a little bit sharper image (there is less "blockiness" if you blow the picture up and look at detail). Of course, the obvious tradeoff is that it takes a little more CPU power to decode x264. You don't get nicer picture for free.

The thing is, if you play the two versions side by side, I'll bet you a dollar that you will not see any difference. It's not too hard to see the difference when you look at an enlarged, still frame, but I think it's close to impossible for a normal person to detect much difference when the video is actually playing.

That's my opinion on it anyway.

thanks for the explaination loris :mrgreen:

If its not too much a difference, I too don't see the point in switching over to x264 :sweat: