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Loops don't make characters unbalanced. Everyone has good loops. None of the characters in GG#R nor Slash are unbalanced. Eddie and Slayer were both top in #R but weren't broken by any means, Slash Eddie got nerfed a lot. Other characters all got better.

Accent Core plays retardedly though.

Sol was at best High-mid in any of the guilty gears.

I think a good Miyazaki film is a good way to get just about anybody started. Mononoke-hime is good, but its kinda weird (especially at the end) and can be hard to follow. And Howl's Moving Castle is just plain shallow. I'd say something like Totoro or Kiki, or even Nausicaa or Spirited Away.

The only problem with Ghibli is that their films are very unique, and not really representative of anime. But KawaiiAngel brought up a good point in that a lot of people are turned off of anime because they think it's all DBZ and Pokemon, and nothing really shatters that preconception quite like Studio Ghibli ^_^

Most people that are turned off by anime don't this it's like DBZ. Most of them think it's either Pokemon... or Angel Jibrielle(don't ask if you don't know).

I can confidently say that most of the people that watch it in the US, started off with shows like Dragon Ball Z, or Sailor Moon. Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were huge reasons why I got into it(The biggest reasons being Doraemon and Anpanman).

In general, any show that you'd have to read liner notes to understand(Azumanga Daioh is an example, PaniPoniDash, Kami Chu although all three of these are great shows...).

AzuManga strikes me strangely to be honest. I understand the appeal of it for a western audience, but I don't get why a lot of people hold it so highly. To be honest, a lot of the content was so culturalized that even a lot of Japanese people don't get some of it. Like the whole sea cucumber conversation and hemmerhoids. That's very intelligent use of wordplay.

It seems to me that the fans that make such a huge deal out of azudai(Again I love this series a lot so I'm not bad mouthing it) are the ones that don't really understand it but try to form their own sphere of it. My friend and I swear to each other, that if we're in Japan and we hear a random foreigner screaming out "SATA ANDAGI!" repeatedly for no reason I'm gonna slap them in the back of the head. The reason that joke is funny is because Ayumu is from Osaka... and she's acting more touristy/stupid than the rest who are from Tokyo. Sata Andagii is just... fried sweetbread.

Anyways, off that tangent. A lot of Ghibli stuff would be good, but not all. Laputa, Mononoke Hime, Nausicaa and the such. On the other hands, Porco Rosso, Totoro(unless they're young), the one with the tanuki whose name is escaping me at the second.

ParaPara has been dead for years though. It was a fad that officially died in Japan last year(though it tried its hardest to last).

There's little secret to para para. It's based on small movements(side stepping is only about 5inches in each direction) and are movements are supposed to be fluid and njot grandiose.

because it's boring.

Talking about something you can google and is factual is a boring panel.

You can record matches and stuff via camcorder, I'm not sure about the regionals, but for EVO itself, you cannot post the videos online.

EVO sells DVD"s of all the matches, so posting up videos will deter people from buying(It can advertise but it's unsanctioned). If it'sfor personal use though, by all means, record show your friends... the fighting game scene has been slow lately, more new faces would be nice. You guys are near SVGL which is sad, because there aren't a lot of 3S players up there. You guys have the best CvS2 players in the US though... and no one plays marvel up there.

I never followed Smash Bros. as I never found it my type of game.

I love support for evo and everythihg(since i've been in this scene for a decade now and have supported it full force),

but here's a little bit of advice. Most people overestimate themselves in games... a lot.

Here's some examples of things that should help in first recognizing if you're even close to being tournament wother for different games.

MvC2:You play the big9... you can block magneto mixups well, you know what a battery character, point, and 3rd characters are and why they are called the such. You can do all guard crush setups and you know timings for when and why to push block specifically to get out of different setups and lock downs.

CvS2: You can roll cancel atleast 90% of the time you attempt it(unless you're playing K). You know zoning and footsies really well.

3S: you can hit confirm, you know what charge partitioning is, you can parry decently well(as in opponent does a block string with ken such as... c.short c.short c.strong s.rh) and you know the c.strong or s.rh is coming and can parry it. You can beat a turtle chun by rushing her down...

I'd add more for other games, but that's not the point. I suggest a lot of people that are thinking of going to EVO to play, to d/l tournament videos and study them, and completely understand what's happening. Understand why RX's double mk.tackle into headbutt is hard. Know that one command grab with Makoto means you lose a round. Know how to get around RC Honda in CVS etc.

I support people coming, but as a player, it's not worth it to waste 30$+ on entry fee if you're not even close to competition videos. There's plenty of videos on youtube, or on websites you can find links from on shoryuken.com. Come though to watch. It's an amazing experience to see the world's best going at it at fighting games, and see how these games were intended to be(and many times surpassing) played.

About the team tournament for GG. Time is a major factor at EVO since you have up to 200 competitors, it can take upwards to 20 hours to do some games. So for guilty gear having teams shortens this. Teams will have 3 a team so two teams will have a maximum of 5 games between them instead of indiviuals you would have 6 players having to go round robin which would take 15 games minimum.

Japan is far superior than the US in guilty gear. We don't even come closed. For the most part only "good" players from Japan come for GUilty Gear, their top demolish our best easilly.

Advice though, study videos, and if you can't follow the subtleties that happen then chances are you're not ready to compete.

I've played DoA4... i just haven't gotten to mess with it in retarded ways(like spend hours checking properties of moves, frames etc.).

But no. It's just like DoA3. The only major changes is damage on counters and counter length. It's still a trash game. You play grappler characters just like regular character...

The game becomes...

Press attack string and hope they get hit or tried to throw.

hit counter and hope they press attack string

hope they counter and throw.

Essentially that's what the game comes down to. I watched "high level DOA play" at evo, and fooled around with it enough to understand the game itself.

Because of speed and the amount of movement your character makes for merely pressing attack(hitting p twice movies you 1/4 of the screen) ranging doesn't exist... nor does poking. Everything is a guaranteed combo outside of one hit knock down moves...

Really, it's not meant to be deep or complicated, that's the ploy of the fighting(and the tits). If it was deep at all, it would have failed at doing it's job...

Smash Bros... isn't a fighting game. It's competitive and deep, but not a fighting game. It's as much of a fighting game as NES double dragon vs. mode, or Urban Champion, or even the fighting part of Blades of Steel.

I decided against it because no one's really showing interest in it.

DoA is more of a game of rock paper scissors than anything else. Almost everything is safe to do as long as they didn't do the one thing that beats it... There's no risk in anything you do except for getting countered. There's no variation between characters at all(sure their moves are different, but you play them all exactly the same).

There is no such thing as ranging, zoning, poking, etc. There's no such thing as capitolizing frame advantage etc. etc. etc.

It's a trash game that's only played to mess around and have fun without getting technical.

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Not really, Hibiki isn't that hard. Vega(claw one) is a better character. Less range, but better options and more variable.

Beating hibiki is a zone game, force the poke roll through and do 35% to her. One wrong guess on hibiki's part and she loses 35%, if the have meter you lose 80%. She's theorhetically like strider/doom in MvC2. Super good, but a minor mistake and you die. She's not forgiving if you mess up minorly.

I don't know about DoA4... but in DoA3 he sucked. Ein raped everyone in DoA3. I don't like DoA much as it's not a serious fighting game. It's for casual players that just want to mess around.

Toki vs Toki XD

Well, Hokuto no Ken is a terrible game regardless. So it doesn't even matter.

The idea of "cheap" is only valid if there is absolutely nothing the player can do to get around it. Such as glitches and the what not.

Cammy Sagat Blanka isn't cheap at all, it's just top tier characters. You can play A-Blanka, Sakura, Bison and beat that team. Cammy/Sagat/Blanka is just easier to play is all.

Unless the character is  beyond overpowered(Gill in SF3, Ivan Ooze in Power Rangers the Movie:Fighting, Justice or gold version characters in Guilty Gear) then it's not cheap, just tiers.

Turtle Hibiki gets beat by empty jump in K-groove/P-Groove.All of hibiki's recovery are too slow to do shit. Hibiki never wins tournaments(unless your Cambell)

realistically, things aren't cheap...  because you can do them too.

Disgaea 2. Strategy/tactics RPG. go buy the first one. NOW. then buy the second one. IN THE NEAR FUTURE. seriously, nippon ichi software only makes so many domestic copies of their games out here because of their small but loyal fanbase. so dont be surprised if they're hard to find, moreso disgaea 1 than its sequel

I might be wrong, but I think he meant the image. If that's the case...

It's from Melty Blood, the fighting game based off of TsukiHime. That's Kohaku(the most loving fun caring... psychotic, manipulative, lovely in the world).

Just throw it in the hallway, like everone else does.

Seriously...what the Hell is WRONG with you people to spew out paragraph after paragraph of hatred over eachother over a simple thing as giving out anime to new people? I'm trying to HELP people and make a simple list for newbies...not make a thread to tear eachother apart! We are TRUE fans and we are BETTER then this!  :evil:

No... that's the thing, most people aren't true fans. And also, people overthink their fandom when they give out requests like this. Most people name off things they like, or that they think are "good" for the genre, not good for people just starting the genre.

Spouting out names and not putting thought into something is detrimental to the project. If you showed things like, Chocotto Sister, Sugoiyo Masaru-san, and Paranoia Agent to people that have never seen anime before, chances are... they will not want to continue watching.

But if you show things like, Cowboy Bebop, Berserk, Nana, Inu Yasha, chacnes are a lot of prejudgments that they had about the genre(it being just for kids, or being nothing more than cartoon porn... and the such) will be wiped out and they will become interested. As their tastes become more refined, they can pick up more series and expand their horizons.

(Funny how I'm going into advertisment... and this is a fundamental thought process for that profession).

Series is easy-going and fun but cliche and predictable.

It plays out rather like Slayers, it's not spectacular, but fun and easy to watch.

づ isn't a "dzu" sound.　ず　and づ have the exact same pronounciation.

That depends on whom you ask, and how precise you are in defining "exact same". Some people can hear differences in pronunciation that others cannot. An example in English - some people can hear the difference between different homonyms of "there" or "pear".

(´・ω・｀)？

But there isn't a phoenetic difference. That's what makes them homonyms. They are literally pronounced the exact same way. If they sound similar, but slightly different, they are no longer homonyms. Cart and Card for example, are very similar in pronounciation, but not exactly the same.

But ず　and づ are physical homonyms. If the conversation were about kanji and different voice fluctations, you would have a standing point, but this isn't the same. There are four Japanese speaking friends sitting at my dinner table right now. One is Chinese, but fluent in Japanese, and they are from all different regions of Japan. All of them said they are pronounced exactly the same. Another friend of mine who is a translator also said the same thing to me when I asked, as well as my other friend and her entire department(a legal firm in Japan).

Sounds and phoenetics are quite important. The issue here is, romanization is stupid. Because pronounciation on romanization is usually incorrect, so it's the romanization that should be questioned, not the pronounciation(by who it was romanized by).

づ isn't a "dzu" sound.　ず　and づ have the exact same pronounciation. They're typed differently for word processing information.

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is pronouned "kannazuki no miko" but for typing purposes they had to seperate the ず　and the づ characters. So one types out "ZU" and "DU" to get the correct desired character.

^^

Pronouncing it "Kannaduki" is the incorrect pronounciation, but can be considered correct romanizing. Seeing that some people romanize phoenetically and others romanize through type text and character matching(which to be honest is a bad way to do it in my opinion since it leads to misinterpretations like this ordeal).

Sound like a fool because of not being technical? Come on, does it matter to be honest? Who cares how it's pronounced as long as YOU know what it means. if you want to sit there correcting what should be right and wrong, then we ALL should be making sure we are perfect in everything we say. Yes, it's wierd to call something whatever that technically has something correct to be called. I can write Chrno Crusade or Chrono Crusade. I can call DaiAkuji, Daia-Kuji etc etc. If you or anyone else want to be technical of how things should be, then get in line for a person with accurate Japanese pronouncation to correct us all.

You can call anything, anything you want. You can call Mai-Hime Cheesecake punipuni afrobox... the point is, that it isn't correct. Romanization is one thing, it can be romanized as "My-Hime" or "Mai-Hime"  or "My-Heemay" and all of those would be correct romanizations... but the pronounciation will still be the same, regardless

"mahy-hee; unstressed ee-mey"
(as of the US standard pronounciation guide)

Calling it "May-him-EE" is incorrect, even if through English phoenetics that's what the text looks like.

I'm not writing this to say what's wrong is right, I'm saying no one should be considered a fool for how they want to say somthing or pronounce something because it works better for the person. Criticizing and likewise just makes good use of what an elitist would sound like. But whatever, if you consider me an old fool, good for me. I've come to get used to stuff like "Kannaduki".."Gerad"..."Chrno". Right or wrong whatever, who cares. You know what I'm talking about. It's basically all it matters. End of discussion.

I think it is foolish. Mispronouncing someone's name purposely is quite offensive. "Your name is spelt Thy? It's pronounced TEE? I don't like that, I will call you Thigh".

How is that not foolish? It's not even ignorant, it's blantent stupidity. My favorite is "ramen". It makes me giggle whenever someone calls it "Raymen". I can understand if it's a difficult word to pronounce, like say Suikan" and someone pronounces it as "Suey-can" because that's do to difficulty, not actual choice. But Kannazuki being pronounced as Kannaduki, AFTER knowing this, is quite stupid.

But I think, romanization in general is pretty stupid. ^^ It's hard for English Speakers, it's hard for Japanese speakers, really... it's just pretty stupid.

There was one guy at the arcades that was pretty decent. He was probably the only guy there that could beat me, and we were going about 1:1.

Everyone else was rather bleh.

I didn't see STen there last year though, he's usually there to beat me when I'm drunk.

[it's telling people to not waste their time.]

I'm gonna say this to people who are thinking about responding to this joker to re-think if they really do that... not because he's right, but because he thinks he's right when he sounds like someone who does not know what he is talking about. Yes, I'll be the first one to say you are an idiot SohmaYuki and you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I'm probably not just speaking for myself but for the people who aren't as open to say what I'm saying.

This response isn't meant for the half a brained trolly to respond to again should he/she chooses to respond for who cares whatever reason... no it certainly is not... it's telling people to not waste their time.

And... you... prove this how? By not explaining anything at all? All you've done so far is go "I AM RIGHT, I REVIEW ANIME, SO I DEFINITELY KNOW MORE!"

Please, what a joke. I explain reasoning as to why I say the things I do.

Chibi Maruko-Chan XD It matters the age group, but it's goooooooooooooooooood for young kids. Most adults would just look at it and go... "what the hell am I watching?" Same with Anpan-man and Doraemon. I loved those when I was younger.

For the most part, a lot of the big name staples are good for people to start out with. Cowboy Bebop, Ranma, Inu Yasha, even Eva.

With Eva, let me explain though, most people think it's bad to start out with but it's not really. Eva is quite a shallow, simplistic series(please please please if you're going to argue this, I beg of you to really know the series and about it's history and existance. I don't want you to spout off things about symbolism and religion that you might have heard over the net), that has a lot of pretty stuff and a lot of action. There's a lot better series out there, but starting out with Eva is good because it prepares and puts down a staple for other series to be watched and to sorta compare(not to say that Eva is super good and all others are to be compared to it, but to be compared to as an accepted staple, a median I would say).

The common point though, is that these shows are very straightforward and simple. There's no really a complicated underlying plot with very subtle undertones, or small cultural things that people won't understand. Even cliche anime, Slayers, Love Hina, and the such are good for new comers... because they do not know the cliches yet. They do not know that every shounen fanservicey romance comedy has cliches like a bath house, and overly violent girl that beats up on the pathetic loser crap of a main character.

Things you would show a new person are very different than what you'd show a person that was asking for "something good". Half the shows I recommend to my friends, I would never think of showing to someone who was new into JP cartoons. I would never show Nadesico to a new watcher because they wouldn't get the point of the series. I would never tell a new watcher to watch/read Hand Maid May, because there are so many better series in that genre that he could be watching or reading.

So what exactly don't I know what I'm talking about? Or are you going to use the same falicy and say because you are a anime reviewer for some fan site(BTW I read some of the reviews on that site, and showed a few of them to people and we agreed on that *some* of those reviews were god awful terrible, some were okay, but none of them were really *good*) therefore that means you know more than others.

Is your friend sure the person in question wasn't joking (as inferenced by the 'legendary' sata andagi)? That's pretty damn shallow otherwise.

He didn't even know what sata andagi was.

Ive already established that I dont use the word otaku (or many other japanese words, for that matter) "correctly" or otherwise, and that I already knew the "real" meaning before this conversation even started...so I dont see how my using the "Well language changes and English adopted the word" argument was a result of suddenly learning "that otaku doesn't mean what they think it does in Japanese."

Simple, because you feel that you have to look out for the majority, and the community. It isn't about feeling attacked, but you feel your community is being attacked, so the reasoning is the same. I could easilly point at something else and make the same claim. HI, WHY IS YOUR NICK "SUPERKAWAIINEKO", it's retarded to use Japanese for no reason. Does the shift point change anything? Not at all, because to you it wasn't about the individual. You would retort no matter what, or who i pointed out as being something that shouldn't be done, because you believe I have no right to say any of this, nor anything at all, because I am an outsider of this community. Therefore I should not say anything that could be seen in a negative light.

I would very much like to visit Japan. When people ask me why, I genereally tell them I want to eat taiyaki and authentic ramen, and spend some quality time in Akihabara.

Does this mean that I dont give a crap about anything else? The hell it does! Ive seen a lot of pictures, and I think Japan is a beautiful country. I want to see the mountains and the forests. I want to see the shrines and the city lights. I would very much like to see some no or kabuki (yes, even if I cant fully understand them =P) But guess what? I like to eat and watch anime and play video games. I want to go to akihabara and eat some god damn taiyaki.

But that doesnt mean Im not interested in anything else, and it CERTAINLY doesnt mean Im unable to appreciate it.

I can get authentic Ramen in the states. I know quite a few really good ramen places in California, New York, and Seattle. But question... what kind of ramen? Ramen varries according to region... So authentic Ramen varries according to where you go.

Taiyaki... you can get at almost any Japanese bakery, and a lot of restaurants. It's not a complicated thing to make you know.

Regardless if you want to see other things, regardless if you will appreciate other things. The reasonings you are giving, are the reasonings that you give to represent what you want to see in that trip, which represents what you want to see in that culture. By stating, taiyaki, and ramen... you are stating that the most important reasons for you to go are... a common piece pastry, and a low budget food that people eat because it's quick/cheap/and abundant. Akihbara is a legit destination point, but everything else you said cheapens the worth of the culture.

It's the equivalent to "I want to go to America to eat donuts, and fried chicken".

Anything I should know that would make the song more complete?

Real things can be moe.


Yuko Ogura is quite moe...

Also, eh I don't have any pics of it but, like when a girlfriend or something makes a really poutty cute face or something...that can be moe.

How the hell can you feel "moe" from William Shatner... or Captain Kirk... that just, doesn't make sense to me o_0?