Anime Champions?

[Michael Hopcroft]

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Judging from the preview episode' date=' Doremi is less viciously cut than Mew Mew, but then it's aimed at a younger crowd. While the name changes grate, a nice touch is that the magic shop is now named after all three girls, rather than just the leader.[/quote']

The Arsitocrats aired on BUY-TV would be less viciously cut than Tokyo Mew Mew was.

 

But then we've had experience of that with Card Captor Sakura. But at least we finally got the original on DVD, giving us all the lovely little CLAMP touches and the marvel of marvels that is Tomoyo Daidouji in her full glory. With Tokyo Mew Mew and Ojamaho Doremi part of the license is that the roiginals will never be released in North America. That's why we haven't seen subtitled Yu-Gi-Oh! or One Piece.

[Southern Cross]

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What kind of idiot thought up that license agreement? If there's one thing that anime fans complain about,it's that their favourite show has been brutally censored.

(Just like British horror fans,only with even more justification).

[Southern Cross]

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And just like I was just now.Evidently a certain five -letter word beginning with "b" isn't acceptable to the board censorware.

[SKJAM!]

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That's why we haven't seen subtitled Yu-Gi-Oh! or One Piece.

 

Actually, uncut subtitled YGO episodes have been released on DVD here in the states. But only the first six episodes or so, and they really didn't do a good job of publicizing it, so sales have been poor.

[Michael Hopcroft]

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What kind of idiot thought up that license agreement? If there's one thing that anime fans complain about,it's that their favourite show has been brutally censored.

(Just like British horror fans,only with even more justification).

They named their company "#Kids Entertainment", and that pretty much sums up their attitude. Anything they touch must be rendered completely safe for the North American juvenile market. That means airbrushing out cigarettes whenever needed (the Japanese have a much less stringent anti-smoking taboo), not translating the Pokemon episodes in which James sprouts bigger breasts than Jessie, and -- mot importantly -- doing everything possibly to keep the image of their characters as pristine as possible. The otaku community does not matter to them, except as a possible threat.

 

There were indeed bitter complaints when 4Kids went on their current spree of licensing and editing new stuff before the fans really had a chance to lay onto it.

[SKJAM!]

SPOILERS For Death Note Chapter 1

 

Shonen Jump USA #34 has a preview of Death Note, which is nicely creepy.

 

Basic Premise: A bored Shinigami (death spirit) named Ryuk drops a Death Note, a magical notebook that kills anyone whose name you write in it (With a set of rules, of course) into the human world to see what happens.

 

A bored teenager named Light (Raito) Yagami finds the Death Note, and decides to try it out. He's smart, so he finds someone who "deserves it" and can't be traced to him to test the notebook. Once he establishes that it does in fact work, Light comes up with a plan to improve the world.

 

Ryuk is very impressed by Light's plan...though not because of its brilliance, but because it's fun to watch what will happen.

 

Naturally, subsequent chapters feature a number of bizzare twists.

 

Light would be best used as an NPC mystery for the heroes to solve. Strangely enough, this is one instance where having a Secret ID is a good thing, because he can only kill you if he knows your name and face.

[Southern Cross]

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So what exactly does Light need to do in order to use the Death Note?

[SKJAM!]

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So what exactly does Light need to do in order to use the Death Note?

 

I'll just quote the manga (with comments in parentheses) here:

 

I. The human whose name is written in this note shall die. (The Death Note does not work on Shinigami, and presumably any other non-human.)

 

II. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected. (And presumably, it has to be the person's "real name".)

 

III. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. (The limits of how ludicrous you can make the cause of death are unknown at this point in the manga.)

 

IV. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.

 

V. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds. (This appears merely to be for bookkeeping purposes.)

[Southern Cross]

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THAnks for the info,SKJAM!.It was quite helpful.

[Michael Hopcroft]

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Judging from the preview episode' date=' Doremi is less viciously cut than Mew Mew, but then it's aimed at a younger crowd. While the name changes grate, a nice touch is that the magic shop is now named after all three girls, rather than just the leader.[/quote']

Speakiing of Ojamaho Doremi, a series I rather like, I recently got to download a short (25 minute) theatrical film made to coincide with one of the later seasonhs. The group has grown to five (including one girl, Momo, who spent a lot of time in America and sprinkles her speech with English phrases).

 

Cosmic issues are not the thing for this series -- the little witches use their magic to deal with the real-world problems of their friends and others. And the movie, which involves a visit to Doremi's grandparents in the country, is actually a bittersweet story in which a local legend causes one of the girls to confront a painful part of her past -- and it ends with intonations of a greater tragedy that is going to befall soon and that no amount of magic power is going to cause to go away. (It is on a personal scale, and not a cosmic one, but it's still a very sad ending to the film.)

[Michael Hopcroft]

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I'll just quote the manga (with comments in parentheses) here:

 

I. The human whose name is written in this note shall die. (The Death Note does not work on Shinigami, and presumably any other non-human.)

 

II. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected. (And presumably, it has to be the person's "real name".)

 

III. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. (The limits of how ludicrous you can make the cause of death are unknown at this point in the manga.)

I've seen come clarification of that. What you suggest has to be physically possible in the time allowed -- not neccesarily easy, just possible. When Light tried to have someone who was in a jail cell in Tokyo expire at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it didn't work.

 

Of course, the guy still died. Just not the exact way Light specified.

 

Also, Light can dictate the actions of the victim in the period immediately before his death. He has used it to leave taunting notes for his adversaries, as well as to cause enemies to betray their comrades so that he can kill them too.

 

Lovely piece of work, Light Yagami.