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Anyone here read the manga?
So far I definitely prefer it over the TV series.
>Action scenes that don't consist of the same drawn-out attack animations, featuring some surprisingly visceral violence at times (Umi getting spiked, Hikaru's dog biting her in the throat)
>More confident in it's sense of humor, Hikaru's spontaneous cat ears and the super-deformed characters never coming across as an afterthought
>Story is more concise than the TV series, though I still appreciate Nova and a couple of the MOTW capers
Between this and the Sega Saturn game I've found a new appreciation for the characters and their interactions, a prime example of how a good cast can turn a fairly banal or juvenile work into something truly special.
>Hikaru is both a fierce warrior and the friendliest person you'll ever meet
>Fuu is wise, but too dense to understand jokes or hyperbole
>Umi is a snotty rich girl thrust into a world of monsters and warlocks
It's been a couple years since I watched the anime adaptations and I've still got about 3,5 volumes left to go, but I will probably stand by most of these words long after I've finished.
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how is the mecha
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>>22487219
I like that the animal/dragon motifs are very understated.
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Just for kicks, another example of how the manga is more in-tune with it's own humor.
I'd argue that the same goes for Patlabor.
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>>22487219
>how is one of the most renowned super robots shows /m/?
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>>22487208
Only read the first chapter so far
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>>22487341
Retard, he's asking how ARE the mechs in the manga version
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>>22487208
>Anyone here read the manga?
Yeah. I own several versions of it in fact. The hardbacks that came out a bit a go is nice. I still think I prefer the anime though. The manga is nice but the anime feels like things are given more time to breath and as a result the trio become a bit more than you said.
>Hikaru is friendly and brave but more naive. She rushes in without thinking about anything else.
>Umi seems self centered snooty but is really acting as Hikaru's foil and a voice of common sense in over her head. She doesn't want to leave people hanging but has her own family and people back home.
>And Fuu is the peace maker who sort of has a more middle pragmatic outlook. Well we're stuck here and we have to do what we have to do. Stupid sexy Ferio.

The manga is still good but it's almost too fast paced. And the quiet moments just give more weight to the girls and their quest.
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>>22487208
I have the two omnibuses. Though, I haven't read much of them.
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>>22487353
>The manga is still good but it's almost too fast paced
I dunno, it's not like the original Mazinger and Grendizer manga, that were more or less treated as promotional/bonus material.
I mostly mentioned the Saturn game because of the journal entries and the ability to read the characters' reactions to the local flora and furniture - complete with a cheeky joke about Umi trying to grow her rack (I don't play RPGs often, but judging by the recurring Working Designs rage/defense threads on /vr/ I suspect it was inserted by a bored translator).
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>>22487208
Clamp art is so pretty.
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>>22487208
I don't remember the anime well enough to properly say which I prefer at the moment, but the manga's great.
I think the reason the lightning speed of the first half of the manga stands out to me so much is that they have rather convenient transport as opposed to having to camp out and take their time in the anime, so it feels to me like it's trying to skim over it despite not actually doing so. Which I guess is my fault for continuing to read manga adaptations of anime that actually are trying to skim over things.
I think I prefer Rayearth 2 in the manga though, it's fucking insane, things coming down to Hikaru and Eagle makes a lot more sense, and that last page has got to be my absolute favourite final page in any manga. I also don't remember feeling that strongly about Asuka in the anime but when I read the manga I thought she was great. But on the otherside I didn't feel as strongly about Hikaru in the manga, so either that's on me or there was a bunch of extra stuff in the anime I liked.
I do love the anime's soundtrack though, it's probaby my favourite, and now that I think about it I don't know why it never occured to me to have it on when I was reading it.
Also the Japanese editions with these covers are absolutely fucking gorgeous, pictures do not do them justice. Easily my favourite manga to actually have copies of.
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>>22488793
>. Easily my favourite manga to actually have copies of.
Yeah I don't buy a lot, especially considering a lot of series can run for a long while and 20-30+ volumes doesn't sound like a lot it eats up a lot of shelf space fast even when you double row. So normally I'll stick to shorter series or nicer hardback editions.

>>22488577
Now if only they would actually fucking finish X/1999. I know it's not /m/ but goddamn.
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Hikaru Shidou is confirmed to be the second coming of Noa Izumi.
>>22488793
>I do love the anime's soundtrack though, it's probaby my favourite
The orchestral stuff is beautiful, while most of the battle music sounds like it was made on a cheap MIDI synth - especially the crusty brass instruments.
Probably meant to invoke the atmosphere of contemporary RPGs, though considering the emaciated state of TV anime at the time it might just be the studio skimping on the sound budget.
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>>22488829
>Now if only they would actually fucking finish X/1999
They seriously didn't finish it?
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Does this show have a lot of mecha action or is it mostly human stuff?
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>>22487208
I only read the first part. I thought it moves way too fast, it’s basically battle after battle afte battle. I barely feel like I got to know the villain characters before they become allies. Is there any good emulator for the Saturn game? I kinda prefer season 2 of the anime so it's disappointing no game covers that, but it looks great regardless.
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>>22489554
There's no robot battle every episode if that's what you mean. It's very serialized so there's many epsodes of exposition and world building before a big mecha battle happens. Also, the robots take a while to appear in the show itself and only become prominent after epsode 16 or something close to that.
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>>22489554
It's like twenty episodes of the most cliche fantasy shit (with maybe one good episode in there), then some robots and a decent enough segment, then the second half is somehow more cliche but has a lot more robots and associated designs. The mechs themselves are fine to great; there's a lot of tedium around them.
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>>22489596
>there's a lot of tedium around them
What this even means?
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>>22489559
>I thought it moves way too fast, it’s basically battle after battle afte battle.
I don't really mind, so far each of them has had played a part in the cast's development.
>Is there any good emulator for the Saturn game?
Yaba Sanshiro works pretty well on my laptop (8th gen i5, 16GB ram, Intel UHD Graphics).
Don't know well the game works with older or less demanding emulators, but considering that it's a 2D game you shouldn't run into any performance drops.
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>>22489600
It means that the mechanical designs are interesting and the rest is boring - what's there isn't inventive or novel and the parts that have been done a thousand times aren't done in a particularly effective way to make them worth watching in their own right.
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>>22489506
>They seriously didn't finish it?
The anime gave it an ending but the manga was left on permanent hiatus
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>>22489720
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How's the OVA?
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>>22489748
Entertaining but very different. It's only three episodes. Just try it.
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Mods, you can go ahead and delete the thread.
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>>22489748
Grimdark. If it would get any edgier it would die its hair purple and start cutting itself.
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>>22489992
Clamp could be pretty grim at times
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>>22489596
How does the manga sequel compare to the second season of the anime? I know that the anime has lots of concepts Hirano intended for Iczer, so I was considering checking it out for that reason. Does the manga increase the mecha in the second half too?
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>>22490028
One thing to know is Nova isn't in the manga. She was created for the anime.
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>>22490030
Debonair was anime original as well. Eagle mostly plays a larger role in the manga. At least in regard to his relationship with Hikaru. More of a thing between them and Lantis.
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>>22490222
He thinks making fun of a show with girls will make him cool and manly.
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>>22490222
>>22490263
It's just an in-joke, anon.
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>>22490028
I don’t think it was Hirano’s idea and while Nova does look like a Iczer reject, she was still designed by Clamp and their writer did the scripts for the entire second season.
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>>22490497
Pic related
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>>22487208
Wasn't Nova original to the anime? Oh, and Presea and Eagle did not die in the manga, and Hikaru admits to wanting a threesome with Lantis and Eagle.
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>>22490501
>Japan only
Dang. I bet t hose are interesting.
>>22490502
Hikaru's just too pure to understand.
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Finished reading the first arc the other day, still stand by a lot of what I said in the OP.
It's nice that the anime expanded the journey, but I find the Magic Knights more interesting when they face off against people rather than waves upon waves of mindless beasts.
Using the diplomatic victories as the catalyst for obtaining the Mashins makes the whole thing feel more earned.
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>>22489619
I just realized the FTO has twin GN drives; and in the anime, it releases GN particles as well when starting up its engines.
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>>22492925
Now if only it could use Trans-Am
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I can't never tell what the fuck is going on in the fight scenes, the paneling is garbage
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>>22495276
I can follow the human fights just fine. But the mecha are drawn kinda sloppy and look too tiny with no sense of scale. If you draw something so overly detailed you need large panels to showcase it. That's how I fell about Shimamoto's G Gundam manga as well. Not every artist can make mecha well, no matter how good they are.
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>>22489720
>manga was left on permanent hiatus
Ouch.
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>>22498312
Yeah as I understand there was some disaster or event that made it a sensitive topic so they never really went back to it.
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>>22490030
That reason alone makes S2 worth trying even if you prefer the manga. She's so fun to watch.
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>>22498683
You delete this denoised screen shot and go grab a proper BD release right this instant!
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>>22498332
Reminds me of Highschool of the Dead. Though, that series also suffered from the writer dying.
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https://www.clamp-ex.jp/
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>>22499070
Oh piss off. He was dragging his feet on that for years prior. The simple fact is he didn't want to do it anymore and you retards make it out like some massive loss when it was just a shitty zombie story that died before it could go the cliche routes and cancel out all your stupid mental fanfics. It was completely carried by the sexy art and none of read Triage X.
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>>22498683
>>22498731
Got you covered, anons.
Nova was my waifu before I even that term even existed.
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I'll post a few more, while we're at it.
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Exceedingly smug.
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Love how they redrew these bits in SRW T. These designs look so good in digital.
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>>22500593

Better. This kind of shit should be illegal.
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Out of the trio, which one is your favorite?
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>>22500644
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Umi... saikyo.
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https://twitter.com/gsc_mechasmile/status/1763898334865932326
https://twitter.com/gsc_mechasmile/status/1763898584460652948
https://twitter.com/gsc_mechasmile/status/1763898840543826417
Resales
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>>22500644
Umi always and forever. I think all three Magic Knights are equally perfect choices, though.
She looked so hot in that belly dancer outfit.
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>>22503986
The series had some excellent frames.
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>>22504917
Solid key framing can carry you a long way. Even or especially in shows that rely heavily on stills.
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So how'd you react to the manga ending?
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>>22504917
>>22504999
Hirano always had a great sense of direction. He really elevated the whole thing.
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>>22500686
>>22500691
Saikyo indeed
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I like Fuu's armpits.
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>>22488577
CLAMP are great at telling stories, world building, and designs... and absolutely dogshit at finishing most anything they've ever started.
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>>22498332
I honestly think they just didn't want to work on it anymore. It was the Kobe earthquake in the 1990s that devastated the Kansai area. They kept doing it up until the early 2000s. It's been almost 20 years. They just don't want to do it.
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>>22505927
Just like Ishikawa and Getter Robo Saga. It wouldn’t happen even if he lived another 20 years.
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>>22507636
Fuu Honey
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>>22488577
It really is. And all the more heartbreaking at times too.
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>>22507751
>>22507759
Where did her glasses go?
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>>22510258
They get magiced away in her final form.
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>>22487208
The anime is inferior, because it drags every scene forever. I legit had to watch at 2x speed.
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>>22500605
Cute shrug
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCXVXHxpX1E
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>>22505914
>absolutely dogshit at finishing most anything they've ever started.
The ultimate weakness
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The Rayearth girls ended up being some of my most used characters in SRW 30. I didn't expect to like them that much with short/simple weapon lists, but they have a great BGM and shouting out the spells never got old.
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>>22519189
Helps that Hikaru and Umi are so good at offense, and that Fuu is one of the best support units alongside Fa and Kei.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCtOIruAr7k
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>>22505030
Ya got me.
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https://twitter.com/sachiko1108/status/1769160024214130899
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>>22500644
All of them.
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>>22500618
Beautiful frame of Nova.
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https://twitter.com/gsc_mechasmile/status/1769319554163814809
Reservation deadline: March 2027, 2024
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>>22500599
>>22500594
The tsurime eyes are great.
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>>22487219
Good and treated well enough
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If this comes back to SRW, I hope you can either recruit her, or have her as some type of unlockable attack.
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>>22532893
After she's accepted and recombines it would be pretty cool if she became an attack where she could be summoned and double-team the enemy.
But that's probably too 'original content' to be plausible.
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>>22532893
Third time's the charm hopefully
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Anyone play the Saturn game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ326BME2fE
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>>22536956
Yes, I own it. It's pretty good. Not 900 ebay scalper good. But pretty rad.
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>>22536956
Haven't played it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pF0M9mRELg
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>>22488577
Agreed.
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>>22490222
R.I.P.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ilUX34Sb4
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>>22544304
Those style of anime girl masks have always weirded me out
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbMXci3NkmQ
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>>22544308
Anime just does not transition well into a three-dimensional plane.
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>>22546496
What's this? They getting a reissue?
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>>22546672
Just a Figma pricing on their website I believe.
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https://twitter.com/Kawashiro_Mint/status/1772279880912183480
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>>22490502
>Hikaru admits to wanting a threesome with Lantis and Eagle.
The best decision.
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>>22547824
Hikaru loves EVERYONE.
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>>22547824
Those guys are both giants compared to her underaged japanese schoolgirl ass.
She'd be getting DPd between them and barely be noticable, the two looking each other in the face unobstructed
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>>22548036
>Those guys are both giants compared to her underaged japanese schoolgirl ass.
No kidding.
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>>22548036
What part of CLAMP are you not getting?
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>>22548466
There's male characters apart from them that aren't as tall
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOGeUBj2YaE
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>>22548473
Yes and Umi has dibs
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>>22550072
>Umi has dibs
Umi Saikyo
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>>22550072
All the girls get their own love interests.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSszLPNwEHE
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>>22552218
Oh hey someone remembers RG Veda
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJDL_PiOFQ
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Watched the OVA. A short, but good alternate tale of the series.
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I wish GSC did a reissue of the Figmas. the last time Umi was on Mandarake it was almost $200 and prices elsewhere are even worse
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sdE2T2nfM
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Tomaranai
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>>22552356
I'm happy on that someone remembering RG Veda.
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Happy Easter, Magic Knights.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MjNH_WnkmQ
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April Fools Day, Rayearth
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9c1o3gxu8
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>>22559193
What a tacky design
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>>22537450
Good to hear that.
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>>22536956
it's nice enough
>>22537450
dude that ain't scalpers, that's the market. I put mine up like, a hundred or something cheap and by the time it finished shit went for 800 and change
ngl I'll always be grateful to my USA saturn game collection for keeping a roof over my head for a couple of months between good jobs
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Youtube recommended me a whole mess of Rayearth videos yesterday, and a couple car reviews mixed in. Namely stuff like Geo Metros. Really made me chuckle.
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>>22566536
Sasuga youtube recommendations and algorithm
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>>22566102
I could probably get quite a bit for my saturn collection if I were to sell it. But even though I have a moded saturn and a pseudo cart and could play the games I'm just sort of hoarding anyways I really fee like I'd regret it when I'm not hurting for the cash.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Pyap5DqZ0
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>>22569304
Alcyone was so hot.
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>>22569414
I don't understand the use of this image in this thread.
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>>22489748
>How's the OVA?
High quality but for some reason all the fights take place in Tokyo instead of them going to Cephiro
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>>22569439
Ignore and report.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2RnVhCaLuY
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>>22569412
Tragic she died in the manga, TV series, and OVA.
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>>22492886
Cool art.
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>>22570884
At least she gets spared in SRW 30.
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>>22571244
Doesn't Eagle get spared in the SRW games too?
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>>22572505
Yes, and he becomes playable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV04yE0f9rc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_PsY7-ACQg
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>>22572513
Dude really doesn't have much attacks on him.
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>>22572786
This is surprising. Would this have ended up like Escaflowne?
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>>22570884
The game had the girls go full murder mode on all their villains
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>>22572795
>>22572786
I wonder what happened to the episodes. Discotek released one or two of them on series release as an extra. I wonder how far they got into the dubbing process. Though It's surprisingly common for a company to get a show, dub it in it's entirety and then just not release it like Rurouni Kenshin's Samurai X dub
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Test
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>>22568196
it was a bit of a hurdle to get over selling off a lot of my older game shit, but tbdesu I _never_ use a dedicated console anymore
I'm always doing at least two or three things so I can have a game on my laptop or my phone, or in a window on my main stationary machine, but "okay now I will turn on the game console and only play the game" isn't anything I have the time or effort for
after a hot minute of selling it was kinda nice to know my shit was going to homes where it would be appreciated and enjoyed, like the dude I flipped my copy of Sailor Moon Another Story to weebed it up about which senshis we waifued, and I hadn't actually played the cartridge of that in like, twenty years. Turned out the saves still worked too lol
I'm still keeping some of my cooler merch, like the puyo puyo pins
still have most of my consoles because I don't want to deal with the bullshit of checking if they work, gonna give a couple to my sister-in-law because she wants her wii back after a decade and a half, and her daughter broke her PS2 fat, pretty sure I have a couple of them around here somewhere so she could use one for parts or if it works already even better
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>>22572971
I mean there's the rub. I haven't even taken my games off their shelf in years so they're pretty far from my thoughts until a thread pops up but at the same time I'm not so in need of cash that I need to start selling stuff and I don't need to make room.
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>>22573094
yeah, I was between serious gigs and have been REALLY cluttered for a while, so it was killing two birds with one stone
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>>22572971
Cool collection.
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>>22487208
I loved the Rayearth characters just from their SRW appearances. I remember min maxing that chinese sketch drawing mecha for shits and giggles. I really need to check everything else out.
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>>22572795
What happened to Escaflowne? All I know is the English opening trying really hard to make Van the main character.
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>>22573409
IIRC, the entire show was heavily censored and trying to focus more on Van by downplaying Hitomi, hence why Fox Kids skipped the first episode. Sort of like how Kids WB skipped the first few episodes of Cardcaptor to put more emphasis on Syaoran as a co-lead in order to make it more appealing to boys.
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>>22573409
More importantly the censor job ended up being more of a challenge than they probably realized it would be and just called the whole thing off because without getting into spoilers for any new viewers there's some stuff that's just impossible to dance around.
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>>22573409
the biggest problem it faced was it was opposite Batman Beyond
censorshipwise iirc they mostly drop the first episode's "Hitomi mopes around about shit" and just cut to the chase about getting Van there and her and him back there, sorta mushing the first three eps into two, might have been the first two into one
there were shadows overlaid but it was still pretty clear that Knight Captain Assistant Old Guy seriously got the shit impaled out of him, not sure that there was anything else

iirc if you REALLY want to check I think they put out some of the tv edit on vhs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq4LSRxJHg0
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>>22573288
Didn't the know the Game Gear had a Rayearth-themed handheld design
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What series could work well with Rayearth in SRW?
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>>22576831
Getter
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>>22576892
This.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_0Eh4n4Tk
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>>22576892
I meant stuff that hasn't already appeared alongside it like say Escaflowne.
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>>22577369
Wataru and the Legend of Heroes
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Testing
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>>22577369
Sailor Victory. Because I wants it.
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>>22578092
Twice the RBG trio.
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https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3974158
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Happy 60th birthday, Ferio.
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https://twitter.com/torippy_takumi/status/1779418445140160983
Yamazaki's (Ferio) birthday post.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYYXLixAr0k
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>>22500613
>>22504999
Yeah the series had a lot of strong key frames and character designs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSEQcVxSJMM
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>>22487208
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOxkIUt6vA&t=103s
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>>22487208
The show is plain bad
>lol just kill this manga character for no reason why not
>oops she's very important in the manga actually
>uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is her twin sister
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>>22577850
Hikaru is a /m/iracle of the universe
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>>22585134
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Py9E5bAUNY
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>>22585134
Hmm
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>>22587362
Lockon Stratos before Lockon Stratos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cDymd5tLVY
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>>22587362
Gotta admit that one was a dumb move.

>>22590920
LockonLockon- LockonLockon- LockonLockon- LockonLockon- LockonLockon- LockonLockon- LockonLockon-
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOND-ecwpdA
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>>22587744
Harmony, Love, Hikaru.
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>>22488793
Too bad there never was a Rayearth 3, or any collab with Akira Toriyama
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>>22594576
>or any collab with Akira Toriyama
Hurts even more knowing he's gone.
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>>22569309
Sucks that CLAMP and female mangakas didnt do jackshit in memory of Akira Toriyama.

I bet DQ was an inspiration from Rayearth.
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>>22572864
POST THE RIGHT ONE NEXT TIME YOU FUCK
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>>22594619
The perfect tea/m/
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Would you have done the same, /m/en?
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>>22594570
Is it me or the bluray release has worse colors (and audio) then the japanese DVD release from the mid 2000s?
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>>22595628
Really gonna have to download the DVDs to compare now. The show looked so nice already it didn't even occur me to check though.
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>>22595628
The blueray release is oversaturated, afaik.
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>>22594682
Yes.
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>>22595628
It's been a while since I watched the DVD but I don't remember the BD looking bad. Discotek is usually pretty solid about their releases as much as they can be anyways so it could be a master problem. There's also some massive faggot online who goes around and doing DNR vandalism to a lot of old shows by trying to remove the grain so maybe you saw that?
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>>22596543
Who's that guy?
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>>22596543
Keep in mind that there's 2 DVD releases, one by Media Blasters but is just old Laserdisc transfers (tough with superior japanese audio) and the mid 2000s japamese DVDs who have better colors then the blurays which are yellow tinted.
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>>22596601
Just some uploader on cat sound. When downloading old shows I make sure to always double check.
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>>22596601
IIRC, Moozzi2
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>>22596614
Oh that guy
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>>22596619
>>22596614
Man, fuck that guy
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>>22596624
I recall xPearse subbing the Rayearth BD too, but I'm not sure if he also does the grain removal or other arbitrary decisions.
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Raybump
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>>22597857
>Hikaru pulls an electric Red Kame Hame Ha
>rarely uses it in the series
>only once in S2
>SRW30 literally has the KameHameHaa pose
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https://note.com/saimofusaimo285/n/n8e3934a1afdf?sub_rt=share_pb
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>>22598373
Hikaru is a shonen protagonist in a shoujo series.
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>>22596643
It's been a while, but xPearse's release had an issue with the audio quality in the second half. He would later release a remux or so when the issue was pointed out.
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Bump.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJvBV3zvu3M
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https://ruka617.com/rayearth_hikaku/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZg-bgLSYnY
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https://twitter.com/Neowing_Otome/status/1782636852237005289
https://www.neowing.co.jp/series/902
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>>22487310
My favorite Mashin
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https://twitter.com/ishida_atsuko/status/1783342620242321702
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>>22593929
>>22594556
Rayearth's third opening is so good.
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https://twitter.com/asa0935oj/status/1784593888407433434
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>>22604506
I didn't care too much for the second one
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_yz1Cp6Cw
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>>22606553
The second ending theme was pretty good at least.
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https://note.com/yumeiro_wing/n/n006604d0edcb
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>>22489619
Got better pics of those ones?
>>22487208
What about the OVA?
>and the Sega Saturn game
Has that been released elsewhere?
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>>22608443
Sadly no
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>>22608443
The Saturn game came out in America at the very end of the system's life and is one of the rarer and more expensive games.
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>>22608460
It is actually the last official western release game on the system
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>>22608443
The OVA is great, but it's essentially its own thing. Sadly, too short, as well.
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>>22608551
>too short,
The sad fate of a lot of OVAs.
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>>22608460
Heard it's an actually good take/adaptation that can stand on it's own too.
>>22608554
Word. Back then I though that it was very bold of them to have them pilot the Mechas while nude tho now I feel they really holded back at the very end by, at leadt, not outlining the nipples. The doll-anatomy's uncanny valley gets in the way even of the story.
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>>22598373
>you cannot escape the kame hame haa
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>>22608460
>>22608443
>>22608514
Its was released in 98 in the US

>>22609180
Fuck no man, you been duped!, its a fucking Working Designs localization, so its BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD, makes 4kids and current Funi look like Intertrack in latin america, also the game was rebuild because "SUPPOSSEDLY" sega lost the source code. (Working theory, they just pulled a "Ghost Stories did so poorly in Japan" type of thing, and the difficulty and glitches were caused due to MUH RENTALS)
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>>22609626
Zoomie
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Best girl with best mech
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>>22487208
I only watched the anime dubbed and subbed.
I tried getting the omnibus to read, but someone stole the package.
Maybe i should just find a torrent.
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>>22487341
>most renowned super robots shows
>renowned for having them in like, one episode at the end
ok
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>>22609868
>I tried getting the omnibus to read, but someone stole the package.
My condolences.
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>>22609626
There is a hack around that reverts the Working Designs gameplay changes. Sadly AFAIK, there is not a combined version with the undub hack, at least for now.
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>>22609626
>sega lost the source code
Jokes aside... That happened to Panzer Dragoon Saga.
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>>22609710
Can't disagree with that.
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>>22609180
>holded back at the very end by, at leadt, not outlining the nipples
I agree. And it's kind of strange they would, since Hirano always packed his OVAs with pretty good fanservice. Maybe they just thought it wasn't worth the effort drawing some extra lines and adding a little more colors, since their chests are usually obscured anyways.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5EievsOyA



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