RKDreams been blinking in and out all day. Wonder if a backup LJ community would be useful.
...but if all the animated incarnations are inferior, why even bother asking Sony to rehash Jinchuu?
Seriously, ISTR hearing (though possibly in error) that the main reason that both Seisouhen and the third Tenchi OVA were made is because of good US sales for the previously-existing material, but despite that, most of the US fans I know of for those respective series *hate* those. Really, *really* hate those. Intensity of a zillion burning Kamiya Chili Specials, complete violation of everything the previous material stood for, etc. etc. (I have no idea of what fans back in Japan thought about them.) On an anecdotal basis, that suggests to me that those sequels may've been warped by whatever notion the Japanese creators may've had of what American fans would want, and also that they were primarily driven by monetary reward rather than artistic integrity. Whatever that means in the anime world anyway.
(Man alive, how many ripoffs of Evangelion do we need? Gasaraki? Sucked. RahXephon? Sucked. Okay, not complete abject suckitude on all possible levels, but despite the pretty animation and expert voicework, the drama seemed rote and the characters seemed like dead puppets being steered around by plot contingency, with no inner lives of their own. IMHO.)
...though one of the reasons I wasn't terribly impressed by my first encounter with RK was because we were renting our way through the series at the same time as Trigun, and the Kenshin/Sano/Kaoru team struck me as being awfully similar to Vash/Wolfwood/Meryl. And I'm still not completely certain why I dislike the Viz reprints of the RK manga, but ngeh-- I should probably make like fujifunmum and just interleave maigo-chan's translations with the Japanese tankoubons, since I have those anyway.
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on 2006-05-10 04:10 am (UTC)...but if all the animated incarnations are inferior, why even bother asking Sony to rehash Jinchuu?
Seriously, ISTR hearing (though possibly in error) that the main reason that both Seisouhen and the third Tenchi OVA were made is because of good US sales for the previously-existing material, but despite that, most of the US fans I know of for those respective series *hate* those. Really, *really* hate those. Intensity of a zillion burning Kamiya Chili Specials, complete violation of everything the previous material stood for, etc. etc. (I have no idea of what fans back in Japan thought about them.) On an anecdotal basis, that suggests to me that those sequels may've been warped by whatever notion the Japanese creators may've had of what American fans would want, and also that they were primarily driven by monetary reward rather than artistic integrity. Whatever that means in the anime world anyway.
(Man alive, how many ripoffs of Evangelion do we need? Gasaraki? Sucked. RahXephon? Sucked. Okay, not complete abject suckitude on all possible levels, but despite the pretty animation and expert voicework, the drama seemed rote and the characters seemed like dead puppets being steered around by plot contingency, with no inner lives of their own. IMHO.)
...though one of the reasons I wasn't terribly impressed by my first encounter with RK was because we were renting our way through the series at the same time as Trigun, and the Kenshin/Sano/Kaoru team struck me as being awfully similar to Vash/Wolfwood/Meryl. And I'm still not completely certain why I dislike the Viz reprints of the RK manga, but ngeh-- I should probably make like