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Sunday, January 9, 2011

DBKai Time Slot To Go To Toriko?!?!?!?!?!?!

Nani? No!!!!!! I don't want to have to read the horror that is the English manga! I don't want the orange bricks! I don't want to have to wait for the Dragon Box releases to finish!!!!! Finish DBKai, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, December 24, 2010

My Censorship Powers

Hi! Merry Christmas! (Well, it's Christmas Eve, but....) Anyway, I spent some time in my favorite image editor, GIMP (with G'MIC). I did some amazing censorship on some Sailor Moon screenshots from the Japanese version, all with screenshots from Sailor Moon Uncensored. I came here to show you these photos. Most were pretty easy, but some weren't. I won't show you the uncensored ones, I don't have a lot of time. I'll just point out the edits. Behold!
This is Ami/Amy's transformation. I used G'MIC to smooth out the image,and brightened the image with the curves function. I did that with all of the shots, so I won't point it out each time. The exclusive edits are the erasing of the body lines (I did that myself, not with shots from the dub) and the addition of a couple sparkles, most notably on Ami's pen.
This is Rei/Raye's transformation, with the same edits as Ami's. The body lines on this one were harder, because of all the different colors. I blurred the spots that I patched a little, you can't really see it.
This is a full body shot of Luna's transformation to human from the Sailor Moon S movie, cut from the dub. This was really hard. I tried to blur the revealing parts, but it wouldn't work. In the end, I added sparkles, and a giant lens flare in the shape of a dress over everything indecent.
This is a shot of Uchoten, the daimon from the infamous Sailor Moon S skipped episode, episode 119 of the Japanese version. While the dub gave this daimon a digital bikini, I erased the outlines of the breasts. My way was easy, and it toned down the nudity (to me at least, it made the breasts look smaller).
This is a shot from Japanese episode 4, which is cut from the dub because Umino/Melvin had a sweatdrop on the back of his head. It was unbelievably easy to erase the sweatdrop, and I blurred the area around the patch a little to make it look even better than it already did. It was really easy.

And, that's it! What do you think? I really would like advice, especially about the Luna dress one. Does it look good? Does it work? Feel free to criticize!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Hyde & Closer: My 3 Wishes for an Anime (if there would ever be one)

1. A Faithful Adaptation
Something that stays pretty close to the manga, like DBZ Kai or FMA: Brotherhood. Minimal filler, if possible, even if a semi-semi-biannual (or, completely erratic) schedule would be required to do so. We don't want to see something like the Bount, or that big, giant, extremely crappy filler arc in Naruto. On the other hand, if we see some really good filler, like ummm.... maybe the filler before the storyline completely branches off in the first Fullmetal Alchemist series? See, that would be fine.
2. A Good Dub with Fitting Voices
Definitely not 4Kids. FUNimation? Yeah.... so anyway, I got a good idea for the voices of Hyde and Closer. And these voices probably sound like wierd choices, but they fit. Just listen to the voices I picked from these shows.
Shunpei Closer
Jeremy Shada's "Finn" voice from Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake".
My reasons for this choice? First of all, it's a perfect little kid voice. And while sometimes, his voice lacks depth and emotion, what's better than a 13 year old for a 13 year old? If, by the time this gets dubbed, Shada gets too old for the role, Veronica Taylor's "Ash" would work too.
Hyde
John DiMaggio's 'Bobo Haha' voice from Cartoon Network's "Generator Rex" voice.
You may already know DiMaggio as the voice of Bender from Futurama. However, this deeper, gruffer voice would work better than any other American voice actor I've heard for Hyde. The voice of a diaper-wearing monkey who happens to be good with a hand gun as the voice of a cigar-smoking, chainsaw-wielding teddy bear? Watch it, it fits.
3. 4Kids not touching it with a 400 billion yottameter pole (longer than the diameter of the universe).
There is obvious reason for this one. Those anime-raping bastards. Watch the videos below to see why.

Molly's "Death" Sonic X- 4Kids Edition
Molly's Actual Death

*vomits*