I'll take that into consideration. But it would be kinda expensive getting the 16 volumes now with the high cost of the dollar.... who am I kidding? i'll probably buy them anyway... after Shugo Chara...
I'll take that into consideration. But it would be kinda expensive getting the 16 volumes now with the high cost of the dollar.... who am I kidding? i'll probably buy them anyway... after Shugo Chara...
Yeah, I certainly admit it's sad all real subs disappeared. Crustyroll was the least bad of the remaining ones, but it's not saying much when you need to call something that. Still, I got used to it. Beggars can't be choosers. At least the language isn't horrible, even if translations are lacking.
When it started, I watched half of the first ep of Shugo Chara, and had to visit my doctor for an insulin shot for a sudden development of acute diabetes. Needless to say, I never finished the first episode.Originally Posted by RyougaZell
There was an Ureshii-Yoroshiku release yesterday (ep 10), so I reckon Crustyroll (or Chihiro) isn't the final version to archive after all. Still, Crustyroll just release the episode 22, so waiting for the better versions for the first watch isn't really a viable option.
Chihiro also dropped Skip Beat after episode 13 in order to support CrunchyRoll and the production company's efforts to translate the series into English.
Final episode:
[Crustyroll] Skip Beat - 25 [h264][1280x720][79D335AA].mkv
For anyone interested in reading further ahead, the chapter after the series ends begins at chapter 67, but I'd start from chapter 1.
Last edited by enkoujin; Mon, 03-30-2009 at 02:58 PM.
It surely didn't conclude anything. We didn't even learn if Tsuruga managed to get his acting right, or why he has such an anti-love and anti-closeness problem. Kind of a strange last episode, unless there's a second season coming. I hope there is, for this was one fine series.
I'm not going to start to read the manga, though. It wouldn't feel the same, because Marina Inoue's voice acting played such a big role for me, in addition to how the exaggerated emotions and moods were animated. All in all the graphics were nothing to tell your city's art gallery curator about, but I felt they used their budget really well and invested where it mattered.
That's the thing about Yoshiki Nakamura's (the mangaka) art style...
The anime actually subdued it to an effect. Some of the exaggerated emotions, well, mostly Kyoko, are even more elaborate, more detailed, and more over the top. Maybe it's just the cleaner lines of one artist and her few assistants compared to a crew of Korean animators/in-betweeners. They didn't really capture how much weirder she gets when Kyoko slips into Fairy La La Land or when her miasma goes way out of control.
I don't really see your point about Marina Inoue either. Aside from the experience itself, I haven't had any problems imagining an actors voice inside my head when I start from the anime and then go to the manga. Starting the manga first, I had a fairly different imagined voice for everyone but Ren and probably Erika Kouenji (Moko's spoiled blond rival). They were great once I got used to them though, particularly Moko, Shouko, and Kyoko. I can only really see the problem starting from the other way around.
I'm not watching the last ep until they make a second season D:..
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
You are already reading the manga, so it's not the same for you. I want to retain my pristine image of the anime. No doubt the effect would be even much stronger had I only been reading the manga and not wanting to watch the anime. However, anime is far more important to me than manga as an art form, which causes me to very often not to grab the manga after an anime, but it rarely prevents me from watching the anime after reading a manga.
The manga version of Skip Beat is simply... fabulous.
I really need to save money for Amazon's crappy and expensive shipment... errr... to buy the 16 published volumes in English
I'm not happy with the ending.
So many anime seem to be ending on a cliff hanger.
I know right? It's like... "Now that we've hooked you, you'll have to follow the manga to see what happens next! Hahahha!"
I'd love to read the manga for the beginning, but there's no way I could prevent myself from continuing past 24 eps worth and voluntarily spoiling myself.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Then do so. "Spoiling" yourself by reading Skip Beat can only be taken in the positive sense of the word.
Peace.
There's also material that was skipped from the anime, to center more on Kyoko, so in a way you wouldn't be reading the same thing again.
I'll probably end up buying it anyway. Amazon currently has Skip Beat on their books promotion of 4 for 3. I just hope it stays for another 15 days, so I can buy it to be charged until the next month.
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