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Post by: Dagurasu on May 06, 2006, 02:21:10 PM: I remember only seeing half of Berserk when I first saw it so I decided to go and watch the rest of it. Why didn't I believe people when they said the ending was messed up? That last episode was fucked.

Did I miss something? Like maybe a not-released-in-the-US movie or ova?
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Post by: IDE on May 06, 2006, 02:44:57 PM: Did you watch the extras? The gag reels on that are the best I've ever seen in an anime.
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Post by: Max Con on May 06, 2006, 04:44:09 PM: The manga continues beyond that point.
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Post by: B E C K on May 06, 2006, 06:30:21 PM: JOERAMMSTEIN!!!!
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 06, 2006, 07:27:16 PM: Where the fuck is Joe?
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Post by: B E C K on May 06, 2006, 07:37:48 PM: He didn't really exist. It was just the village elders wearing a joe costume.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 06, 2006, 11:03:29 PM: He's posted at Crazy's as recently as this week.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 06, 2006, 11:37:43 PM: When I saw this, I was reminded of the lyrics from Clerks, the one Jay's cousin was singing.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 07, 2006, 12:18:49 AM: Yeah I thought it was something about that too. Weird...
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 07, 2006, 12:43:05 AM: People from the Eastern bloc are wierd.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 07, 2006, 10:15:21 AM: I"m a fan of the eastern bloc.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 07, 2006, 10:58:54 AM: I worked with a dude from Latvia, and he obsessed about Trance music and vodka.
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Post by: joe on May 07, 2006, 11:51:12 AM: The anime only covers about twelve and a half volumes of the manga, if I remember correctly, plus there was a significant amount of stuff that appeared in those early volumes that never made it into the TV series. Currently the ongoing Berserk manga is partway through volume 31, so if anyone's interested in checking out what happens to Guts after that particularly nasty business, there's plenty of catching up to do.
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Post by: B E C K on May 07, 2006, 02:09:07 PM: Holy crap. Joe's fucking Beetlejuice.
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Post by: Extra Zero on May 07, 2006, 02:16:04 PM: Hmmm... Let's put that theory to test...

"Joerammstein, Joerammstein, Joerammstein!"

Nothing happened! You fail, whitey!
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Post by: B E C K on May 07, 2006, 03:10:43 PM: Look around your house. LOOK!!!!!!
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Post by: Extra Zero on May 07, 2006, 09:04:57 PM: I refuse to play your games.
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Post by: Rama on May 08, 2006, 12:07:53 AM: Let's not say his name anymore just to be safe though.
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Post by: Extra Zero on May 08, 2006, 12:39:12 AM: Who's? Canada Gundam's?
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Post by: Rama on May 08, 2006, 12:46:27 AM: Yes...Joe of the Royal Mounted Police.
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Post by: B E C K on May 08, 2006, 08:49:22 AM: Quote
I refuse to play your games.
You always do. You suck. You're no fun since you quit drugs.
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Post by: Sam on May 08, 2006, 09:43:40 AM: Quote
Yes...Joe of the Royal Mounted Police.
I thought Joe was a lumberjack (and he's okay).
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 08, 2006, 09:44:07 AM: Most of the Mounties are lumberjacks in the off season.
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Post by: Dagurasu on May 08, 2006, 10:34:11 AM: Quote
Did you watch the extras? The gag reels on that are the best I've ever seen in an anime.
Yea, I saw those. Some of them were humerous.

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The anime only covers about twelve and a half volumes of the manga, if I remember correctly, plus there was a significant amount of stuff that appeared in those early volumes that never made it into the TV series. Currently the ongoing Berserk manga is partway through volume 31, so if anyone's interested in checking out what happens to Guts after that particularly nasty business, there's plenty of catching up to do.

See, I don't like it when shows do that, expect you to read the source material if you want to know more, rather than wrapping the series up in a somewhat better way. For example, if they weren't making an Xmen 3, and they just said at the end of 2 "Read the comics if you want to know more..." Well, the comics and the movies differ enough that any casual reader would be confused.

Now, Berserk might follow the manga closer than any Hollywood stuff, and I could pick up the Manga where the anime left off, but Joe said there was some differences and you'd be better off starting from the beginning.
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Post by: joe on May 08, 2006, 01:44:24 PM: Actually, that's not the case. As long as you start with volume 13, you won't have any trouble getting back into it. To be honest, the first few volumes really aren't all that great. And it's well worth it to chell out the continuation of the manga, because it outstrips the anime in practically every way.

Anyway, no one said you had to pay for it. This is the internet afterall.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 08, 2006, 02:20:58 PM: What ticks me off is when anime starts production, knowing the original manga is nowhere near ending, yet they decide to just stop in the middle or go in different directions.

See Hellsing, Kare Kano, GTO.
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Post by: IDE on May 08, 2006, 04:42:41 PM: In this case the director tried to find a respectful stopping point. The manga had already passed the point where he stopped and he hopes to do more some day.

As far as what's left out does anyone know if it was really important?

I know chibi guts gets man raeped but I can live without seeing that animated.
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Post by: Max Con on May 08, 2006, 04:44:01 PM: Well ...

The character of Puck, Ricard not being killed by the Apostles (Was that his name? I can't remember), and the Skull Knight.

That's all I can remember off of the top of my head.
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Post by: IDE on May 08, 2006, 04:46:29 PM: oh yeah they mentioned that puck guy in the special features I think, I don't remember why he said they took him out.
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Post by: joe on May 08, 2006, 04:50:41 PM: Quote
What ticks me off is when anime starts production, knowing the original manga is nowhere near ending, yet they decide to just stop in the middle or go in different directions.

See Hellsing, Kare Kano, GTO.
You're describing pretty much every manga to anime adaptation that's been produced in the past ten years. Kenshin, Trigun, Excel Saga, Fullmetal Alchemist, the list goes on. It's highly irregular for a popular manga to finish its run before being adapted into an anime.
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Post by: IDE on May 08, 2006, 04:58:40 PM: hey it's joerammstein! The guy that got me to finish watching the rammstein super splooge video and realize that they weren't gay.
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Post by: joe on May 08, 2006, 05:10:39 PM: That's nothing. You should watch their video for Mann gegen Mann.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 08, 2006, 05:29:34 PM: Quote
Most of the Mounties are lumberjacks in the off season.
What off season? Crime doesn't take a vacation!
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Post by: IDE on May 08, 2006, 09:04:31 PM: Quote
That's nothing. You should watch their video for Mann gegen Mann.
What will that do? Make me think they're gay again?
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Post by: joe on May 08, 2006, 10:27:03 PM: Hahahahaha...
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 08, 2006, 10:39:41 PM: Quote

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Most of the Mounties are lumberjacks in the off season.
What off season? Crime doesn't take a vacation!
I thought in Canada, there was no crime aside from what we from the States bring.
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Post by: Rama on May 08, 2006, 11:49:59 PM: You think Snidely Whiplash is just going to stop tying girls to train tracks just cause it's the off season? I think not.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 09, 2006, 12:26:37 AM: Quote

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Most of the Mounties are lumberjacks in the off season.
What off season? Crime doesn't take a vacation!
I thought in Canada, there was no crime aside from what we from the States bring.
Then crime commited by US tourists doesn't take a vacation.

It's be sweet if it did. I could just take a few weeks of the year to work on our prod systems without worrying about the cops missing them.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 09, 2006, 01:18:10 AM: Thats because we quench for the sunny beaches of Canada. (10 bucks for anyone who gets that reference*
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 09, 2006, 05:39:13 AM: Canada does have sunny beaches it's just a few days a year and pretty much always cold.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 09, 2006, 10:31:58 AM: Quote
You're describing pretty much every manga to anime adaptation that's been produced in the past ten years. Kenshin, Trigun, Excel Saga, Fullmetal Alchemist, the list goes on. It's highly irregular for a popular manga to finish its run before being adapted into an anime.
Yeah, and it really ticks me off! I only named three of the bigger offenders in my book.

But Excel Saga benefitted, IMO. The manga (rather, the parts I've read) wasn't nearly as fun as the anime.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 09, 2006, 01:52:55 PM: Quote
Canada does have sunny beaches it's just a few days a year and pretty much always cold.
Hot Chocolate doesn't mix with surf.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 09, 2006, 03:27:47 PM: Surf? I said we had beaches I didn't say we were retarded.
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Post by: Rama on May 09, 2006, 10:28:30 PM: All beaches that have waves have surf...not all have surfing however.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on May 09, 2006, 10:31:12 PM: all the beaches in the east of the US SUCK for surfing. that's all i'm gonna say about it. they SUCK.suck.suck.suck.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 09, 2006, 11:22:55 PM: Quote
Surf? I said we had beaches I didn't say we were retarded.
Surf in that sense meant waves and spraying. Not the verb.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 10, 2006, 01:02:55 AM: I"ve never heard it used in such a way.
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Post by: B E C K on May 10, 2006, 01:18:32 AM: But it does though. The first one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf)
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 10, 2006, 01:47:18 AM: I am from the American North East. I get made fun of alot for using odd words they use in England but nowhere else in the United States or beyond.

Like Bubbler, Guess what that is.
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Post by: B E C K on May 10, 2006, 01:52:23 AM: I have no idea. I'm sure you can guess "swamp cooler". Some chick's husband from the west uses it.
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Post by: joe on May 10, 2006, 03:12:44 AM: A bubbler is a drinking fountain. I'm pretty sure you've mentioned it before.
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Post by: Rama on May 10, 2006, 03:21:29 AM: I thought it was when you farted in the swimming pool.
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Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 10, 2006, 05:52:56 AM: Weird. Not many oceans around these parts. I've never actually seen one.
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Post by: Sam on May 10, 2006, 09:38:39 AM: We call it a bubbler here in Wisconsin too.

And a swamp cooler, otherwise known as an evaporative cooler, is an iar conditioning device that cools and humidifies air by forcing it across a media (usually a corrugated paper pad) with water running down it.

I just wrote a patent having to do with one last week.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 10, 2006, 09:59:13 AM: Could "iar", perchance, be Wisconsinian for "air"?
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Post by: Sam on May 10, 2006, 10:14:19 AM: It's a new thing I'm trying to start
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 10, 2006, 11:38:12 AM: And how does one get into the ground level of this 'iar conditioning'.
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Post by: IDE on May 11, 2006, 03:06:50 AM: When I hear the word bubbler I think of a water pipe...and I don't even smoke pot.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 11, 2006, 10:11:05 AM: I do.

:)
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Post by: B E C K on May 11, 2006, 11:20:50 AM: We noticed.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 11, 2006, 12:19:47 PM: Bubbler: a fart that feels round and rolls around the inside of your ass before it pops out in a manner analogous to that of a bubble popping.
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Post by: Bernie AKA on May 11, 2006, 12:22:05 PM: Quote
The gag reels on that are the best I've ever seen in an anime.

True. Like when Schemmel kept dicking up his line, followed up by the crowd's pre-recorded "YAYYYYYY!" Texhnolyze had some pretty amusing ones as well, plus Victoria Harwood talking dirty. Rowr. :evil:

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Bubbler: a fart that feels round and rolls around the inside of your ass before it pops out in a manner analogous to that of a bubble popping.

So don't drink the water in Wisconsin?