I went to see Forgotten Island yesterday. The theater I went to was full.
I'd say it's good. Honestly, I didn't really vibe with a lot of the humor and I'm very mixed with the sode characters but I think the emotional bond between the main characters hold the film, there are tons of gorgeous imagery and the villain was very engaging to watch.
It's easy to say that Sora's opening lines was just alluding to him having weird dreams but in the Japanese version of the dialogue:
>俺には よく 分からないんだ
この世界が、本当に、本物なのか。
そんなの、考えたこともなかった…
Rather than just saying "Is any of this for real or not", he says something like"Is this world real". The general idea is the same, but it's interesting how the Japanese version uses the word 世界 or world which has kind of a different nuance. It's slightly a bit more specific. Do note that the Japanese version of the game has both the Japanese version of the monologue as well as the English version as onscreen text.
I wonder what Nomura and the devs were intending with the line in the first game. Sora questioning if the world is real never gets resolved in the first game or any of the subsequent games I feel.
In the vanilla Japanese version of the game, the very first release (2nd photo above), the opening monologue is 3 lines of spoken Japanese and 2 lines of English text as follows:
>I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately
like is any of this for real or not?
>俺には よく 分からないんだ
この世界が、本当に、本物なのか。
そんなの、考えたこともなかった…
I'm interested in the line "like is any of this for real or not?" because in the Japanese equivalent, it has the word 世界 or world. A different translation for "この世界が、本当に、本物なのか" could be something like "Is this world really real or true?".
The word "world" absent in english text in the final release of the game but in the Japanese trailer from 2001, the word is present (1st photo above). Considering , what really is the meaning of Sora's line? Is there something to it with the omission of the word "world" in the english text?
According to the Kingdom Hearts Ultimania alpha released in late 2005 Sora's scene in the opening during the monologue is a mystery (3rd photo). What is the true meaning of this line?
Occasionally I would see people online saying that Cowboy Bebop was a failure in Japan. That's not true. It had okay ratings for what it was and where it aired, had numerous accolades, one of the best-selling titles on home media in Japan in 1998, had Spike as the most favorite male character in animage in 1998 and 1999 and was big enough to have its own movie.
I think people are conflating Cowboy Bebop having an initial 13-episode run as a sign that it flopped but the context matters. The Pokemon shock incident in 1997 caused TV broadcasters especially in the channel TV Tokyo to become stricter in regulating what was shown on Japanese TV. Cowboy Bebop was one of the shows affected by this especially since, like Pokemon, it also aired on the channel TV Tokyo.
Additionally, Cowboy Bebop was merely put as a temporary show to fill time. It was put on the Friday 6:00PM timeslot on TV Tokyo. You oughta know that the shows that previously occupied this timeslot were all toyetic shows made to sell toys to young girls, and the shows that replaced bebop were still the the same kiddy toyetic shows but now aimed at boys like Medabots. On the same channel TV Tokyo, Pokemon was on Thursdays at 7:00PM.
The one I know the most is F4 that were formed due to the success of Meteor Garden, the Taiwanese live-action adaptation of Hana Yori Dango (Very inescapable in my country during 2003 to 2005).
There's Lucifer which was formed for the anime adapation of Kaikan Phrase.
There's also Kosumi Koharu as Kirarin, MilkyWay and SHIPS for the anime version of Kirarin Revolution.
I don't know how successful Bee Hive was in Italy which was formed for Kiss Me Licia, the Italian dub and then live action continuation of Aishite Knight.
Nakapagsubok ka na bang maglaro ng game via emulation, pero hilaw pa ang development ng emulator na gamit mo or kaya mababa lang ang spec ng device mo, kaya glitchy or laggy tuloy ang game?
Noong high school ako, ang phone ko ay Samsung Galaxy Y, yung pinakalowest-end na Android phone ng Samsung noong panahon na iyon pero dito sa time na ito ako natuto gumamit ng emulators. Dahil sobrang low-end ng phone, ang mga games ay panay hindi umaabot ng full speed kaya kailangang gumamit ng frameskippng which causes choppy gameplay. Linaro ko dati FF7 na hindi kita ang cursor during battle tapos sobrang choppy pa. Tapos maraming inaccurate pa dun sa sounds and graphics na produced ng emulator na ginamit ko.
Toei adapated Hana Yori Dango to an animated show back in 1996. What's unique about this version of the show are the toys added not only to each episode but even during the opening itself. The photos shows scenes from the show as well as the ads that aired during commercial breaks promoting the Hana Yori Dango toys and merch that Bandai is trying to sell to young girls. The show aired on TV Asahi on Sundays at 8:30AM and a thing common to all shows that have aired on it's timeslot is the aspect of selling Bandai toys to kids (and specifically to young girls since the mid-90s) and being animated by Toei. The timeslot is currently occupied right now by Star Detective Precure still going strong with its Bandai Toys.
Hana Yori Dango isn't the only property of it's kind that got this treatment by Toei and Bandai. Marmalade Boy and Gokinjo Monogatari, both from Ribon, were adapated in similar fashion (both with character designs by Umakoshi for the animated versions) with a lot of toys being shoved into the shows themselves though among the three, Marmalade Boy was the most successful.
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May hypothesis na nag-lilink sa mga languages sa Pilipinas sa languages ng Thailand, pero at first glance mukha siyang malayo. Pero kung oobserbahan, kapag tinanggal ang first syllable ng Tagalog word, tila ba makukuha mo ang Thai cognate nito (tagalog "manok" ~ thai "nok"; tagalog "utot"~ thai "tot" ). Sa ngayon, hypothesis pa rin siya.
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Yung manga na Marmalade Boy inadapt both into an animated TV series and a live action Taiwanese drama (called Miki Loves Yu) at parehas silang pinalabas sa GMA around 2003 to 2005. Wala akong makuhang information about the GMA airing of these shows and honestly hindi ko naman sila napanood sa GMA during this time. May haka-haka na nagsasabing hindi tinapos ang Marmalade Boy anime sa GMA, tapos may nagsasabi rin na linipat siya sa QTV 11. Hindi ko ma-verify. May makakapagsabi ba sa inyo?
Ang masasabi ko lang, sa Taiwanese live action version, ang main actor ay si Ken Chu ng F4. Ang anime version naman ay animated by Toei with aid of Toei Philippines (then called EEI-TOEI) kaya if mapapanood niyo ang end credits ng show na ito, makakakita ka ng mga pangalang Filipino although written in Japanese.
As a kid, I used to watch this show a lot on non-cable public network tv in the mornings. Very interesting for the audience surrogate in the show to be 1st graders, probably related to how the show is marketed towards the same age range in its country of origin. This show aired in a lot of countries so probably it's the childhood of show many children worldwide. I think this even aired in the main Cartoon Network feed (not Adult Swim) in some European countries. After all, it is a kids' show.
Did you watch Detective Conan as a kid?
Akazukin ChaCha aired on cartoon Network in 1998 during the Powerhouse era. Pretty much a very cartoony comedy from 90s starring a little red riding hood-inspired character. I'd say it's very charming.
As a kid, I used to watch this show a lot on public network tv in the mornings. Very interesting for the audience surrogate in the show to be 1st graders, probably related to how the show is marketed towards the same age range in its country of origin. This show aired in a lot of countries so probably it's the childhood of show many children worldwide. I think this even aired in the main Cartoon Network feed (not Adult Swim) in some European countries. After all, it is a kids' show.
Did you watch Detective Conan as a kid?
(Context for the footage: It's from an animated TV show that aired on Sunday Mornings at 8:30 am on public network tv in the 90s and the ads shown are the ads promoting the toys from the show that aired in between the commercial breaks of the show itself. The top left text in the ads show the time as it was airing on air).
The 90s ushered in the era of creator-driven tv animated shows coming off from the 80s which is known as the era of toy commercial shows. Still though, these shows still existed in the 90s.
The thing with these shows is that they were made with funding from toy companies to sell their toys, and live or or die depending on the success of the toys. Being the one that's funding the shows, the toy companies, such as Bandai in the video shown, can meddle in what is actually shown in the show themselves which can stifle creative freedom. They are of course compelled to direct the animation staff to give more screentime to the toys they're trying to sell. Of course, a lot can be said about commercialism with children which is a matter that's even separate from the quality of these types of shows.
So what do you think of cartoons made just to sell toys to kids?
The 90s ushered in the era of creator-driven tv animated shows coming off from the 80s which is known as the era of toy commercial shows. Still though, these shows still existed in the 90s.
The thing with these shows is that they were made with funding from toy companies to sell their toys, and live or or die depending on the success of the toys. Being the one that's funding the shows, the toy companies, such as Bandai in the photos shown, can meddle in what is actually shown in the show themselves which can stifle creative freedom. They are of course compelled to direct the animation staff to give more screentime to the toys they're trying to sell. Of course, a lot can be said about commercialism with children which is a matter that's even separate from the quality of these types of shows.
So what do you think of cartoons made just to sell toys to kids?
A very satisfying thing for me about the series is the satisfying way the games show a slow motion effect with an accompanying sound effect after dealing the final blow to a boss fight. It's just very stylish.
Which one among the games does the slow motion effect the best when finishing a boss battle?
There's a bunch of 90s cartoons which are led by female protagonists, so many of them in fact. I'm not talking about female side characters, supporting characters or love interests from shows that mainly follow male main characters, I'm talking about Main Characters that are girls/women from shows that are about them(if its a show that has two protagonists and she's one of them, it counts). Which one's your favorite?
According to page 198 of his book "Park Chan-Wook's Montages" from 2005:
"I wanted to make films of 'Azumanga Daioh' and 'Sexy Commando Masaru-san'. But I didn't have the confidence to surpass the original. So I chose Oldboy."
This seems to be the only time he has mentioned these two works in relation to Oldboy (feel free to comment other sources where he mentions these). The only thing in common with all three works is that they are all Japanese comics first releasing in the 90s.
Azumanga Daioh is a light-hearted fluffy slice-of-life high school comic while Sexy Commando is an absurd gag comic with lots of parody elements a lot of which are lost for a korean audience. These three works couldn't be more different from each other.
His comment mentioning how he really didn't have confidence to adapt these two works (but apparently he was confident with Oldboy) is intriguing but I kinda see why.
What would it have been like if the film versions of these were made by the esteemed director in place of Oldboy?
According to page 198 of his book "Park Chan-Wook's Montages" from 2005:
"I wanted to make films of 'Azumanga Daioh' and 'Sexy Commando Masaru-san'. But I didn't have the confidence to surpass the original. So I chose Oldboy."
This seems to be the only time he has mentioned these two works in relation to Oldboy (feel free to comment other sources where he mentions these). The only thing in common with all three works is that they are all Japanese comics first releasing in the 90s.
Azumanga Daioh is a light-hearted fluffy slice-of-life high school comic while Sexy Commando is an absurd gag comic with lots of parody elements a lot of which are lost for a korean audience. These three works couldn't be more different from each other.
His comment mentioning how he really didn't have confidence to adapt these two works (but apparently he was confident with Oldboy) is intriguing but I kinda see why.
What would it have been like if the film versions of these were made by the esteemed director in place of Oldboy?
Ito yung airing ng Fushigi Yugi sa TV5 around 2015. Ang alam ko, dito sa airing na ito tinuloy nila pati mga OVAs. Hindi ko napanood yung airing na ito kaya di ko alam ano ang na-cut. Yung napanood ko ay yung airing sa TV5 around 2008 to 2009.
Inere rin ang Fushigi Yugi noong year 2000 sa GMA and sa AXN. Sa japan, originally inere ito sa TV Tokyo ng Thursdays at 6:00PM noong 1995 (contemporary niya yung Akazukin Chacha na inere rin sa TV Tokyo noong 1995 pero tuwing Fridays naman 6:00PM din).
Yung manga niya by Yuu Watase was serialized from 1991 to 1996 sa magazine na "Sho-Comi" which is a teen girl's magazine na naging notorious sa Japan dahil sa level of sexual content ng mga works serialized dito considering yung target audience nito. Other works sa magazine na ito ay yung "Lady Georgie".