Bleach

Originally Posted by bigdadyb

So which is the more acurate translation for shinigami soul reaper or death god?

Personally, I think the fansubbers should pull an Inuyasha and keep it as "shinigami" (Most fansubbers for inuyasha used "youkai" instead of "demon).

From a non-manga perspective, I really enjoy this anime, and look forward to watching it every week. I may be crazy, but I think it is starting off a bit slow. I shouldn't judge this until a few more episodes, however.

On a side note, I dislike the opening theme, but I don't think it doesn't fit the anime's genre. The show isn't that serious, and it coincides with the current high school generation (watch MTV much?). I don't like the song at all however, its one of Orange Range's worse ones. (Viva Rock for life!)

[sothis]

guys, it clearly says a few posts back to continue the shinigami term discussion in this thread

[sothis]

now in the db!

http://anime-planet.com/animerec/780.html

please make recs ^_^

[Lord_Vegita]

i need shal discuss this and get the thread moving again, especially since a few more eps are out. plus now it seems like lunar is out of their slump a little and back on the ball. they just released two eps tonight that i still have to watch

i do think they will keep the term shinigami. it just wouldn't make sense to change it.

also as for the opening theme and the title, the author of the manga really loves old rock. i do believe Bleach is the title of metallica's or some other older bands first song. if you look closely in the series you can see of lot of things that represent rock and roll. ichigo's rebelious bleached hair, and many other thigns that also slip my frazzled mind this morning.

keep watching bleach, and rock on

[BTime]

Is anyone else checking out TW/Naisho's release of Bleach? I'd recently viewed their release of Episode 7 and had a little problem with their encode. It wouldn't really run at all in my normal player (DivX 2.1; stfu, it works for 98% of everything I watch) and had to load up VLC Media player to check it out. Which works but is less than ideal.

Considering the funky playback in the VLC player, it looks like a quality release with good fonts, timing, & translation as to be expected from TW. I must admit to not having seen any of Naisho's work before and it looks like they have a good partnership going with TW. Now if only thier encode played well with others could I then give an outstanding thumbs up. Right now I have mixed feelings :(

[Enragin_Angel]

The encode is 120fps... the internal filters of many do-it-all players don't play 120fps well. My suggestion is just to use ffdshow alpha oct 2004 with mplayer2.exe (which can be found in C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe Yes...it comes standard with windows.) Either that, or just uncheck all the internal filters of your player.

[BTime]

Yeah, cause I always want to use Alpha codecs :P

[sothis]

bleach only has a few recommendations, but it's a new series that is checked out often by referred links. can you guys please go make a few recS? ^_^

[Lord_Vegita]

so demanding........ sure why not

[Lucky]

Recently watched the entire thing as far as it's available fansubbed (ep16 by lunar)

Episode #: 1 - 16

It seems that while producers of the anime modified the plot from manga's a whole lot, they are definitely following the manga. It's like watching manga with several scenes completely cut out, a lot of character development never happening, and some added (like Orihime past ep3). All in all, I have to say that it's not all THAT bad, even though manga is a hell of a lot better. If nothing else, one can think of this as a colored animated version of the action scenes, even though they seem to be cutting off a good half of two arcs and fusing them together, which feels really weird after having read the manga.