06-08-2011, 11:53 PM | #151 |
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Whoops, I totally goofed, my bad. I've put it in spoiler tag now. You can edit your post later if you'd like to try and avoid collaterally damaging Mcsweeney's or bbb's viewing experiences for this episode. I know I certainly appreciated the connection and I'm sorry to have spoiled it for you.
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Disagreed with your first spoiler box, then expanded your second and saw that we're now in complete agreement. Guess you hadn't finished the episode when you wrote that first bit.
Okay, just finished Episode 10. It was pretty good. It'll be remembered as the Sakazaki Character Development episode since it pretty much fleshes out his character in a whole lot of ways. Looks like we're in for a rough, slow ride the next few episodes though since it's going to (a) be Predictable-ville and (b) be way too early in the arc for anything major-good to happen to Kaiji. Thoughts: Spoiler: show I'm looking forward to this arc. Looks like it's going to be intense. Who'd have thought, right? That pachinko would ever described as "intense"? XD But we already knew by the end of Season 1 that Fukumoto could make anything intense. Two words: TISSUE BOXES.
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It's also aesthetically pleasing to see Kaiji get out of that dank, brown den for a while, and into a place with bright colours and flashing lights everywhere (putting aside the fact that someone not so aesthetically pleasing might be showing up soon).
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Breaking news from The Triad! Kanna indicates in the latest news post that they are "waiting on Labaa". This means that Labaamen was subbing season 2 the whole time.
OR! Or ... the more exciting possibility. It was actually being done by Dragosmore, and, tiring of his laziness, they're now bringing Labaamen out of retirement for a Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven-esque final job!
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06-14-2011, 04:23 PM | #159 |
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I think it's the latter. "Drago couldn't get his lazy ass to bother translating [my Dogtato comic]" may not prove he was working on Kaiji S2, but it certainly points to it when you consider:
(1) I felt a difference in how things were being subbed and (2) it felt like a drop in quality If Drago was always their #2 to Labaamen's #1, it makes sense if this is what happened: 1. Labaamen couldn't or refused to come in. 2. Dragosmore offered, seeing his chance to shine. 3. LordBrian reluctantly agreed to this. 4. But Dragosmore fucking dropped the ball. Slacker. (Edit Note: and we know he's a slacker because, jokingly or not, LordBrian even said so about the Dogtato comic!) 5. So LordBrian and Kanna didn't know what to say or do. 6. Only after I more or less forced them (with my posts and the popular replies people wrote to me in response) to give us an announcement did they ... 7. ... go hunt for Labaamen and beg him to come back, saying, "Either it's you or we have to cancel the whole project." But if it is the former, then I'll certainly be disappointed. Why? 1. Because it would mean Labaamen was the one being the lazy ass and so we're sort of screwed for the rest of the year when it comes to Triad releasing things in a timely matter. 2. Because it would mean Labaamen's translation skills have declined in the two or so years since he's last worked on anything. So I'm really, really hoping that it's the second of the two scenarios you provided.
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I likened Labaamen to Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven because he is just that much of a badass. He is THE person most responsible for introducing the Western world to Fukumoto works, and die hard fans like me owe him a debt of gratitude. If it wasn't for his bold insistence on tackling a bizarre looking anime about an incomprehensible Chinese tile game, my life would have never been enriched by such awesome stories. I still laugh when I read Triad's old news posts about Akagi:
http://www.the-triad.org/News-topicmore-22-31.html They mocked the art style, and expressed disbelief that they let Labaamen drag them into this shit. That all gave way to shock when the show actually became a big hit, and would forever be considered their trademark project. Without Labaamen, would Kaiji eventually have become a cult hit anyway? Maybe, maybe not. The thing is, before Kaiji even debuted, people were waiting for it. They WANTED it because they knew how awesome Akagi was, and they built up a lot of pre game hype, which got more people who never saw Akagi wanting to see what all the fuss was about. Without the Akagi fanbase supporting it, most people would have just wrote it off as some weird looking niche show that doesn't translate well. Perhaps some obscure subbing group would have taken a flier on it, and a few people would have checked it out, but not enough to build up a sufficient amount of steam, and trigger exponential word of mouth. Thus, no demand for Ten, no demand for Legend of the Strongest Man Kurosawa, no demand for Gambling Emperor Zero. Akagi even inspired lots of people (like us) to learn how to play mahjong, which paved the way for other mahjong shows to be translated, like Saki (despite being terrible).
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Episode 11 was a bit of a snoozer. Not too bad, but we're definitely going to be getting lull episodes like this one for the foreseeable future. If Kaiji S2 ends up being a 24-episode series, and if the pachinko arc is its final arc of only two arcs total, then it's going to be quite some time before things heat up between Kaiji and Ichijou (dude with the red hair).
Kind of disappointing to see just how dumb Sakazaki is. He's like, AnoHana Jinta-level dumb. Spoiler: show Still, there were some really great things about this episode. Spoiler: show
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06-22-2011, 04:07 PM | #164 |
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And this episode. I don't know what Kaiji's thinking. Even if we consider the simple trick of Ohtsuki, this isn't intuitive at all. I'm completely at a loss. I'll need to think over this...
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Didn't expand your spoiler-within-the-spoiler. As for everything else you said ...
I don't think it has anything to do with air because, quite frankly, the machine has a broad, solid top and any vents would have to be directly above the machine. The only opening the machine has is its glass face which, as we discovered this episode, is actually a door which swings forward. So you could argue that air could theoretically flow in that way and do stuff. But that ... I dunno, Doppel. It just seems so silly to me to consider that they'd be manipulating the balls with air currents. Shouldn't pachinko balls be too heavy for that? Fukumoto's never steered us wrong before when it comes to his display of realistic technology, realistic physics, realistic biology, etc, so I'm not about to give up on him now and expect that physically absurd scenarios (like air sucking dense metal balls upwards against gravity) are in the running for possible answers to how The Bog works. But I could be wrong. As for the point of the maintenance schedule, I thought that'd be obvious already: setting C is the default (which is No Win anyway), and settings B and A exist only because they tantalize the guests into not giving up on the game. Think about it: if you saw a difficult game of chance and you'd never seen ANYONE win at it or even come close to winning at it, would YOU risk playing? Of course not. But what does the house do? It addresses both of these concerns. It: (1) makes it so that the guests do see people winning -- albeit staged (2) makes it so that the guests see others of their fellow guests inexplicably come close to winning without actually winning 1 + 2 --> the guests entertain the possibility that the game can be won and they squander their money on it. Without 1 and 2 together, people wouldn't trust the machine. (2 alone means you'd conclude that no one's ever won. 1 alone means you'd conclude that the winners were plants for sure. But 1 + 2 is likely to fool most of these simple-minded and desperate men.) But maybe I'm wrong again. Don't mean to tear down your theory. You could be onto something. I don't think you are , but I accept that you could be and will patiently wait until future episodes before concluding one way or another whether you were right or wrong.
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Still no Kaiji S2 Episode 13, but I did write this up earlier today. Held off on cross-posting it here originally because I didn't want to bump this thread and get your guys' hopes up that Episode 13 was already out -- the very act I'm doing now! -- but I decided to go ahead and cross-post it now because (1) it's 6:34pm EDT and (2) I figured I'd at least give you guys something to sink your teeth into Kaiji-style. Even if it's just me doing my usual: counter-bitching at people bitching in one direction or another on Triad's blog. (Expand spoiler tag to read. Not a spoiler.)
Spoiler: show Anyway, some small news you've no doubt been expecting for the last few weeks but now it's official: the program's not over yet for the season as we've got Episode 14 already confirmed to air on July 6.
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I actually read that comment yesterday, I was wondering if it was you. The hatred against /b/tards gave it away, haha.
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Yeah. They're not all me, though! The long comments on Triad's blog, I mean. I think the popularity of some of my earlier ones in the season (remember?) encouraged some other long-winded bastards to not feel ashamed of posting some replies that would ordinarily be ridiculed by anyone on a blog like Triad's as being "tl;dr". But I think I've linked most of the ones I've made here (mostly because I wanted to solicit your guys' feedback too) and I think you can tell me apart from some of the other long-winded guys since they have some /b/tard behavior ("faggot" this or "cool story bro" that) or else because you guys are better at telling who people are by their posts than I am and you can "see" my fingerprints all over these writings.
(I keep talking. Expand to keep reading.) Spoiler: show Hey look! In the time it took me to write that long-winded ramble about /b/tards and language and stuff, Nutbladder pushed out Kaiji S2 Ep13! Yay! Off we go!
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06-30-2011, 01:43 PM | #170 |
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I wouldn't even call that FF7 comic awful, merely amateurish. Even the clumsiest of doujins are practically indistinguishable from many professional works, Americans have trouble reaching that modicum of quality.
And boys, Kaiji is OUT.
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Kaiji S2 Episode 13 was good. Actually, it was a great intermission episode, but since it is only just that -- an intermission episode -- it's not exactly like I was über excited at any point. But it was pretty durn good.
Spoiler: show
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^ Love it.
I also love that we've got another weapon to add to our arsenal of tissue box jokes. Now it's not just tissue boxes: it's tissue boxes and cubes! Oh, Kaiji.
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Aw man. Unless I just got trolled, I just heard on Nutbladder's blog post for last week's episode that this week's episode is a recap episode. So we're going to have to wait another eight days before we can see the next real chapter.
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