Thats the problem with anime’s like that, when watching becomes a chore instead of a fun thing to watch. Anime should in the very least be enjoyable to watch and not feel like daily homework. I intend to battle my way trough till the end I’ll keep you guys up to date if it was worth the watch for me.

They talk so much its hard to follow anything they’re saying, I’ve become almost an expert at speedreading subtitles. They make the characters from Re:Zero seem short and to the point in comparison. And thats saying something! or saying a lot, actually.

Thats very true and thats also the sense I’m getting from Needy girl overdose. Interestingly the game isn’t like that at all, no weird shots or cuts in it as far as I can tell. So I think they maybe made this creative choice to give it more substance, yet failing at that. I mean you can’t just put some random footage trough a video and then claim its deep, if it isn’t relevant to the story or somehow works to tell the story. If anything the story is very confusing and barely even there, its just teenagers moping and talking about edgy stuff thats 3edgy5me.

With Lain it was different, Lain could have weird cuts, weird in between footage and yet it helped tell the story, there was a much deeper story underneath and it had that substance. Ironically if they tried to take a page out of the Lain book a lot of it was actually NOT talking. There were a ton of long almost uncomfortable silences in Lain, characters not saying a word at all. Sure it sometimes had sort of narratives, but the rest of it was really up the viewer to notice and then interpret. Which was beautiful, Serial Experiments Lain to me truly is art. Wherest Needy girl overdose is just pseudo-intellectual drivel and random imagery and flashing texts pretending to be art.

I do truly appreciate the risk the studio took, but they themselves made this comparison and drew inspiration from Lain and with that they set the bar incredibly high. You don’t just go out and learn Macromedia Flash and then decide hey I’m going to make the next Akira, and not expect people to catch on. It just won’t work, you can’t force magic like Lain to happen, it just happens. The right people, the right time, everything aligned perfectly. You can’t force that kind of magic to happen. It needs to happen on its own.

I remember that Wolverine origin movie back in the day, it was out before the final effects where even put in. Right off the cutting room board.

I love Lain. In fact, lets all love Lain.

LETS ALL LOVE LAIN LETS ALL LOVE LAIN LETS ALL LOVE LAIN

Personally I’m hoping for some type of piracy technology that will even let us download the movies before they where even made. How? I don’t know, nor do I care how its done, just create this tech already. We need it.

Urotsukidoji, after seeing it on laserdisk at the first ever Hellraiser rave party (Netherlands). I was mesmerized more by that giant screen than the actual rave, so I looked for it, which back then was very very difficult. People didn’t know what anime was and I didn’t even know that word anime. I was lucky enough to have the Videoland (video rental place) help me out because after me telling him what I had seen, he was interested. First I actually managed to get Akira, and watched that, then eventually I found Urotsukidoji, which back then was imported via a label called “Manga entertainment” and dubbed, from great britain. Later on I would also find (very expensive) Manga dubbed tapes in the brand new Virgin megastore in Amsterdam. And thats how I got started with anime, this was in 1992. Been in to anime ever since, first thinking it was actually called manga, but then learning about it. even joined a mailing list fanclub (there was no internet yet, just BBS’s which were dial-in) where I learned a lot about it over the phone from the guy running that mailing list. they would send out a news letter it was a lot of fun reading those.

Demon Slayer made me cry tears of boredom if that counts?

the old 1997 miniseries for sure, the modern one: naw, i’m good. :)

Major major out of sync. You can reproduce it I suppose the way I would attempt it, and maybe you know what I do wrong in such a case:

What I would do (to attempt doing it) is take two different versions of the movie, maybe one has good video quality but is in russian, and the other has a good english audio track with it right. And so I wanna take the audio track of the good one and lay it under the good footage in powerdirector. i’d try and find the right lineup for the audio to sync it with the video, but then eventually if you go further down the line in powerdirector (or even produce it and forward the movie like to halfway trough) the audio will be way out of sync. I think it may have to do with bitrates and stuff but I have no idea why. and heck I used to even work in the industry back in the early 90s for TV this should be a breeze for me. but this oldtimer is stupid, I think. there has to be a way to solve this, and if anyone has any suggestions you’re more than welcome to tell me because i’d love to know.

My problems with that usually go beyond that, its weird the few times in my life I tried i had the audio matching up in the beginning where I set it right, and then eventually going way out of sync. Which is weird because you’d think well its the same movie, the timing would be the same as an audio file from a different version of it, but no such luck :(

always a pickle to do, because it tends to always go out of sync. you’d have to find a way to get the timing right over the entire movie.

Warning, not always SFW but I recommend this site: https://rarelust.com/ theres very rare movies on there. I also recommend using a tool like j-downloader for it.

Where I lived not very common, it was more common in the 80s. I still remember my friends not believing I had already seen E.T., yet I did thanks to “Video Studio Leo” where I grew up, in Haarlem. Betamax rulez.

The spice must flow!

I think you need to hack the Gibson to be able to do this.

“Name our band”

Fan service.