Okay, I've heard lots of good things about this series, and I've decided to give it a go. However, I have a question about how I should go about watching it.
I'm thinking about getting an uncut sub version out for sale, but it only has 13 episodes in it. Now, I think that a lot of people here have seen more than 13 episodes -- Someone mentioned 90 on some thread. Where can I get this many of them? Or are you talking about watching the americanized dubbed version, instead of the sub? Do you watch the DVDs or on television?
NOTE: I have a feeling that the sub/dub debate is pretty hot, so I just want to say I don't want that. I'm just wondering how I can go about getting/watching the series, as there appears to be several options...
Thanks a lot ahead of time!!
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Calypsa - Posts: 52
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Most people here watched the fansubs before the series was licensed in America, and some people watch the current episodes in fansubs. By the way, there's a LOT more than 90 episodes, according to Anime News Network, it is at least 202.
The uncut sub version in the US will only have 13 episodes per set, and I think they will be released every six months or yearly, I can't remember. Either way, that's a long way to go.
If you want to "get" them, your only option is either raw DVDs from Japan, which you probably don't know Japanese so they wouldn't be helpful, or bootleg DVDs which are illegal and poor quality. Fansubs are also illegal, though there are unscrupulous groups out there who have all the episodes available for torrent, whereas most decent fansubbers have removed all torrents for the older episodes.
So you're either gonna have to buy the DVDs, or watch the dub on TV.
The uncut sub version in the US will only have 13 episodes per set, and I think they will be released every six months or yearly, I can't remember. Either way, that's a long way to go.
If you want to "get" them, your only option is either raw DVDs from Japan, which you probably don't know Japanese so they wouldn't be helpful, or bootleg DVDs which are illegal and poor quality. Fansubs are also illegal, though there are unscrupulous groups out there who have all the episodes available for torrent, whereas most decent fansubbers have removed all torrents for the older episodes.
So you're either gonna have to buy the DVDs, or watch the dub on TV.
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Or you could possibly get Fansubs to stay ahead (there's probably some place that still has them), then get the Uncut sets as they come out? Or maybe just try the Edited DVDs for now (since they're really not that far off, for once).
Of course, I'm not sure this is the kind of series I'd really want to put that much money into. Sure, the first arcs (Zabuza and Chuunin exam) were pretty nice, but it really goes downhill from there (a couple of lackluster arcs followed by filler in the anime, and pretty dull current chapters in the manga).
Of course, I'm not sure this is the kind of series I'd really want to put that much money into. Sure, the first arcs (Zabuza and Chuunin exam) were pretty nice, but it really goes downhill from there (a couple of lackluster arcs followed by filler in the anime, and pretty dull current chapters in the manga).
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Myoti wrote:Of course, I'm not sure this is the kind of series I'd really want to put that much money into. Sure, the first arcs (Zabuza and Chuunin exam) were pretty nice, but it really goes downhill from there (a couple of lackluster arcs followed by filler in the anime, and pretty dull current chapters in the manga).
yeah. what he said. (about the anime going downhill after the first couple of arcs.) anyways, unless you're REALLY set on watching this series, then i suggest that you simply watch it on cartoon network (or adult swim or whatever) because i don't think the anime's all that great. IMO.
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Ok, gotcha. Thanks everyone! I've set the tv to just record it on toonami...I might just leave it at that and invest my money into something else, then. While I'm here, I'll just say that my other ones I'm considering are Rurouni Kenshin, Haibane Remei, Bleach, and Inuyasha. Maybe Tsubasa. Anyone have some advise on which to choose? My favorite kinds of anime are along the lines of Escaflowne, Lodoss Wars, Spirited Away, Howls' Moving Castle, Twelve Kingdoms, etc... I really like fantasy stuff -- a bit of romance doesn't hurt either. I know that's off topic; if it's too much so, I'll just be quiet now and go order my anime. *grin*
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
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I'll be blunt. This is NOT a series to invest your time and money in. It's excellent for the first few story arcs. But around episode 100 or so, it starts to seriously decline. There is filler everywhere. And it is incredibly annoying. Too many episodes.
I definately recommend Bleach, Haibane Renmei and Kenshin. They are better titles worth investing.
I definately recommend Bleach, Haibane Renmei and Kenshin. They are better titles worth investing.
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Okay! Really won't be buying Naruto, then. I had no idea it got so lame after the first couple of arcs...Ah well. I'll look into those suggestions -- thank you for your bluntness. 
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Ooh, ooh, I'm definitely going to suggest you watch Haibane Renmei. VERY good series! Rurouni Kenshin is also a great series (my second favorite, Haibane is my third), but I'd steer clear from buying InuYasha right off the bat if I were you. XD; It's kind of like Naruto/DBZ, in that it's far too long and drags things out on and on. It's not the worst series ever created or anything, but I'd rent it first (or catch it on TV) if I were you, and then buy just the DVDs that have the episodes you liked best on them. Buying the entire series would be waaay too expensive, expecially considering the amount of mediocre episodes. 
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you should try out bleach.
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- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
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-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
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