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Post 61

Mauritania

Also known as Situation Comedies


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Post 62

Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like

Ah, no.
I think that'd be Tenchi and Giant Robo. smiley - smiley
smiley - shark


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Post 63

Xanatic

Anyway, how do you define manga and anime? Simply all asian animation? Or is there some definitions. I think after all a lot of Disney cartoons use Korean in-betweeners.


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Post 64

Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like

Anime is the Japanese shortening of animation, and is used to describe any animated product originating in Japan.
Manga (literal trans. 'Irresponsible pictures') is used to describe any comic originating in Japan. Though it is now bening used increasingly to describe certain stylistic quirks in the US as well. Korean comics, which stylistically resemble Manga a lot are referred to as Kanga.
Manga is also a word used increasingly on the web to describe cartoon porn. Why, I have no idea.
smiley - shark


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Post 65

Xanatic

I'm guessing because it seems it is all about porn and violence as I've mentioned earlier.

So the deifnitoon is just that it comes from Japan? I thought it was supossed to be a certain style.


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Post 66

Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like

It does all tend to have a certain style anyway-best epitomised by the 'Big eyes small mouth' saying. The first and best known practitioner of the stuff, Osamu Tezuka sort of set a blueprint down with his series Astro Boy.
Some have speculated that the Japanese are not hot on invention but are very good at improving existing designs, which may explain it.

So NOT getting drawn back into the sex and violence thing smiley - steam. Suffice to say that illiterates who run cartoon porn web sites choose to assume that just because there is a vast quantity of Japanese porn in cartoon form then all cartoon porn must be Japanese deserve sympathy, not scorn.

smiley - shark


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Post 67

Xanatic

I heard the Transformers cartoon should also be anime, and one of the mayor influences to make it popular. But that didn't have big eyes and small mouths and such did it?


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Post 68

Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like

Never seen a transformers cartoon in my life.
It has giant robots, Japanese obsession number 3 in a list of thousands, but I have no idea whether it was produced in Japan or the US.
smiley - shark


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Post 69

Mauritania

Is that the cartoon, where everyone who watched had an eptaleptic fit?


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Post 70

Xanatic

No, that was a pokemon episode. I remember at that time I lived in happy ignorance of everything pokemon. But I wonder if it could be used in warfare.


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Post 71

F F Churchton

Yes, that one with the Porygon it?


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Post 72

Xanatic

I don't know which episode it was.


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Post 73

Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like

Promptly withdrawn from every country in the world.
Someone had a Japanese copy of it at a convention last year (the year before?).
They showed it, I think. Nobody died.
smiley - shark


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Post 74

Jay and Silent Bob

OK i was just searching the internet for anime and a website (tomgreen.com) had a listing the first one i clicked on was animated porn and i have to say it was pretty good and not one of the women on it looked underage i just had to point that out.


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Post 75

Mauritania

There was another pokémon epsiode which was cancelled which showed James reveiling too much when dressed as a women in a beach party!

I may have written this before, so to stop this, Who on Earth is Tom Green and is he a reliable source?


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Post 76

Xanatic

He's supposed to be a comedian. Fairly tasteless. He did a show for MTV and was in the movie Roadtrip. And he's no reliable source.

So what did James show off? I mean if he's a guy it can't have been the breasts. Did he lift up the dress or what?


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Post 77

Xanatic

A Chinese Ghost Story, is it worth watching? They have it imported in a shop here, but a bit expensive. I think an animated verson of it has also been made so not all off-topic smiley - smiley

But is it worth the price? And what other movies are there which have the same sort of enviroment and magic atmosphere as Crouching...? I want to see some asian movies, but not just John Woo action flicks.


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Post 78

Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like

Chinese Ghost Story is a classic.
If you want stuff in the manner of Crouching Tiger...then the names you should be looking for are Tsui Hark (either as director or producer), Yuen Woo Ping and Sammo Hung. Jackie chan'sd early work is also top quality, as are most of his collaborations with Hung and Yuen Biao.smiley - ok The Once Upon A Time in China series is great, featuring some of Tsui Hark's best stuff.
HK cinema is a much broader church than just John Woo, though I do have a fondness for his movies.

As for Tom Green, I think the websites do not refer to the comedian, but they are a generic range of porn sites.
And what do we mean by the term 'reliable source' in this context? Reliable as in 'does he have porn' or what?
smiley - shark


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Post 79

Mauritania

Tom Green looks Irish to me! (no offence)


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Post 80

Xanatic

To Tom Green or to the Irish?

Okay, I bought ACGS and I'm gonna watch it wednesday. Hope it won't be a disappointment. Else I blame you bluesshark smiley - tongueout


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