July 01, 2007
How can I be nostalgic when it aired in '96?
Spent a good bit of today marathoning Nadesico - hadn't watched in a while.
For me, the show's an old, old friend. It was one of the first series I ever saw, back when it was new. I picked up fansubs of the last few episodes, literally, the day ADV licensed the show. I ended up subbing the back half of it or so after I got hired, then put in a lot of work on the first DVD release (oh god, lemme tell you about the fun in synching subs timed with DF/NDF mismatch sometime) and authored the second release myself.
It's just got the feeling of a very comfortable easy chair; I can just sit back and relax with it, and not worry too much about it. It did occur to me, though, that it was one of the first examples of a parody anime - not many shows took on their own genre back in the day. But it's not a parody anime in the same way as Excel Saga or Hayate no Gotoku; I enjoyed it even when I was a new fan and hadn't seen anything that it was parodying. That's generally a sign of pretty good writing.
And yet, it's still kind of a mish-mash. Lots of guest directors, lots of pure filler episodes, lots of romantic comedy, with the mecha taking a back seat for a lot of the show. The ending is kind of weak, and the transition to the movie... ugh, it's just not comprehensible without a lot of information presented neither in the TV episodes or the movie.
Still one of the more enjoyable shows in the collection, though. It's not a show about robots so much as it's a show about robot-lovers with robots... but it never descends into "lookit the smelly otaku" jokes, the way even otherwise-respectful shows like Comic Party do. And it has Megumi, one of the few real-life to anime conversions I've seen that worked...
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For me, the show's an old, old friend. It was one of the first series I ever saw, back when it was new. I picked up fansubs of the last few episodes, literally, the day ADV licensed the show. I ended up subbing the back half of it or so after I got hired, then put in a lot of work on the first DVD release (oh god, lemme tell you about the fun in synching subs timed with DF/NDF mismatch sometime) and authored the second release myself.
It's just got the feeling of a very comfortable easy chair; I can just sit back and relax with it, and not worry too much about it. It did occur to me, though, that it was one of the first examples of a parody anime - not many shows took on their own genre back in the day. But it's not a parody anime in the same way as Excel Saga or Hayate no Gotoku; I enjoyed it even when I was a new fan and hadn't seen anything that it was parodying. That's generally a sign of pretty good writing.
And yet, it's still kind of a mish-mash. Lots of guest directors, lots of pure filler episodes, lots of romantic comedy, with the mecha taking a back seat for a lot of the show. The ending is kind of weak, and the transition to the movie... ugh, it's just not comprehensible without a lot of information presented neither in the TV episodes or the movie.
Still one of the more enjoyable shows in the collection, though. It's not a show about robots so much as it's a show about robot-lovers with robots... but it never descends into "lookit the smelly otaku" jokes, the way even otherwise-respectful shows like Comic Party do. And it has Megumi, one of the few real-life to anime conversions I've seen that worked...
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I knew the Megumi character was supposed to be an homage to Hayashibara Megumi, but does the character actually resemble the real life woman in any important way? (Physically, or in terms of personality, or really in any way at all?)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 02, 2007 04:24 PM (+rSRq)
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Not physically, and I never -met- Ms. Hayashibara, so I couldn't say on the other end. I do know that both of them have nursing training.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at July 02, 2007 08:00 PM (dlP4b)
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