Warren Peace#440153 wrote:You obviously haven't read EOE's script. Anno wrote that little tidbit into the margins. In fact, "Nice going, Maya!" is a direct quote from that.

If I told you I loved you, would I lose my Hetero-Cred?

I never appreciated how Spencer always exaggerated Shinji from being this insecure kid, kind of meek and weak, into this cartoonish whiny coward. His toning it down this time is what's made him tolerable for me. I don't remember laughing at anything he said. I could tell he was trying to be...

Wait, is this discussion serious? This is serious, isn't it? Oh, you guys.

Wow, this is... interesting? Disturbing? I really have no idea. Except to say, who got their 70s Hanna-Barbara cartoon in my Evangelion??

I'd also add that of the whole cast, Swasey's Gendo is the voice that sounds the most like the original Japanese VA (at least, to me). I dunno if Swasey is the actor to which this most applies, but he's certainly the one for whom it's most obvious; compare his performance in...

Had heard about it for years on the Interwebz; saw a few minutes of an episode on Adult Swim; was instantly convinced to shell out for a box set; started watching the series; fell in love with it by around episode 4; never looked back since.

I thought the heavy quoting was to show how communication is affected by their cyberbrain implants. It's like internet arguments where people just copy-paste their google results at each other. I'd actually never thought of it like that, but that makes a lot of sense. There's even that ...

Something else to keep in mind is that Rebuild's performers have a much broader sense of these characters than the original dub's cast. NGE's western team had to interpret their roles episode by episode. Rebuild's cast knows everything about the original story, and has seen somebody...

Jessemon#437659 wrote:Does Tiffany Grant really not incorporate as much German as she used too (swears or otherwise)??

In fact, she incorporates NO German whatsoever.

The thing is, if they didn't, it wouldn't sound natural at all. The reason they keep rewriting the script is because they want to have the English dub to be in English. Not translated Japanese lines read out loud. Most dubs, ADV's NGE included, tries too hard sometimes to be faithful to...

Wait, what happened to clips 5 and 6?

I can appreciate that point of view, that doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it.

Wait, why Maya? Asuka probably doesn't care a thing for her. Megumi Ogata would have been a more interesting choice. I agree, but would remind you of what to some extent appears to be Hideaki Anno's mantra, and one which I've found increasingly helpful as I've seen more of his (...

Since this can certainly be considered a continuation of NGE's dub, letting Grant bust out some German would be faithful to "the original", just not the original McFarland's talking about. Since the TV dub already took liberties in that area, McFarland would only be continuing the...

Not gonna dive into the heart of darkness (i.e. endless debate) here, but I will agree that GitS2 is less tightly structured than the first film. That doesn't bother me terribly; with GitS2 the agenda is less to communicate a specific message as to indulge in a stream-of-consciousness mu...

toe mash#437313 wrote:Are you saying that it's even more pretentious than the first GiTS?

Every Oshii movie is pretentious, the question is whether you enjoy that pretentiousness or not.

OMG, CONTROVERSIAL OPINION I agree that GitS2 is the most extreme exemplification of Oshii's style, and as such is destined to be a love-it-or-hate-it work. But I love it. It was fascinatingly otherworldly and lent the themes of GitS a human core that the first film lacked. Really, even if the r...

I love just about anything by Mamoru Oshii, with Ghost in the Shell 2 easily topping the list. Not counting of The End of Evangelion , GitS2 is easily my favorite feature-length anime, with Akira right behind it. (Really, anything by Katsuhiro Otomo has my interest - I also loved Memories and St...

I can understand the general cynicism directed at Hollywood studios, but again, it's kind of hard to turn those into specific criticisms when there is no announced talent for this movie (apart from Weta Workshop, which simply means that whoever does it, it will look absolutely gorgeous)....

Agreed. To most fans, changing a slap to a gun sound effect was a bad idea, but to me, not getting the actors to say those lines and stay to that scene's intention was worse. Way worse. The whole slap/gun shenanigan might bother me more if A) it wasn't in the one portion of the one movi...