Paranoia Agent

[JTD121]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (complich8 @ Feb 24 2004, 02:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JTD121)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>is ANBU-AonE taking a break or something? AJ already has Episode 3 subbed</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

heh.

aj has always tried to maintain the reputation &quot;speed over quality&quot;
aone has always tried to maintain &quot;speed is good, but quality comes first&quot;
anbu has nothing to do with paranoia agent.

you can safely assume we&#39;ll be fast, but you can&#39;t say we&#39;re the fastest no matter what, just that we&#39;re pretty dang quick. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
That&#39;s why I like AonE&#39;s work. And, if there is anyone who would kindly seed this, at my current speed (5KB/s), it will finish in 7 hours&#33; But I want it now&#33;&#33;

mainva | aptigo| JTD out

[SuntUrioN]

Episode 3 was sick. I really enjoyed that one.
Makes you wonder what people with multiple personalities go trough.

[JTD121]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (LegendarySenninJiraiya @ Feb 25 2004, 01:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> anyways, i duno if this was said before but eveyrtime i watch the intro it cracks me up, cuz of how weird the lyrics are, aaaaayyyeeee eeeee aaayyyyeeeee eee ooo wa, what a wondrous mushroom cloud in the sky....

anyone know where i can find the song from the intro, or maybe the soundtrack to Paranoia Agent?

P.S. - Did anyone stop to question that huge ass equation written in the parking lot under the detective&#39;s cars? i was wonderin wtf that meant </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I would like to know where to find the soundtrack as well.

And that massive equation - They kinda tell you who is next in the answer. The answer in the first episode was 510; the girl in room 510 (don&#39;t remember her name right now), was attacked by Shounen Bat. And in the second episode, the answer was 1; for the kid they all called Ichhi (I think that&#39;s how they spelled it in the subs).

I haven&#39;t seen the third episode yet, but I will watch it when I get home.

By the way, does this series air weekly in Japan? If so, when? Thursdays, Fridays...?

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[LegendarySenninJiraiya]

haha ep 3 cracks me up, the way the one personality calls the house phone and leaves mean messages on the answering machine like, &quot;stop using my damned bag without my permission&quot; ahaha, hilarity, i wonder, how does someone with a hooker as a split personality become a teacher?

anyways, i duno if this was said before but eveyrtime i watch the intro it cracks me up, cuz of how weird the lyrics are, aaaaayyyeeee eeeee aaayyyyeeeee eee ooo wa, what a wondrous mushroom cloud in the sky....

wtf is up with that lol, and then thers the guy laughin standing in front of it, and that freaky old man, the reporters dad thats in a vegetative state, and the weird old lady, gah, this series is just too odd, even if i get bored by it, which id ont think i will, i&#39;d have to finish it just to see the point of it, sorta like how i got confused by flcl after wtachin the first 2 eps but had to stick thru with it just for the sake of tryin to make sense of it, also, this series is lucky it&#39;s weird cuz they spend a whole ahlf of an episode on something that doesnt seem to have any bearing to the plot, then bring it back a little bit, if other series did that like, if they had us expecting a fight in naruto, and then instead they did a 20 minute filler on somethign completely unrelated, someone is gettin a visit by the shounen bat

anyone know where i can find the song from the intro, or maybe the soundtrack to Paranoia Agent?

P.S. - Did anyone stop to question that huge ass equation written in the parking lot under the detective&#39;s cars? i was wonderin wtf that meant

[LegendarySenninJiraiya]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (complich8 @ Feb 24 2004, 02:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JTD121)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>is ANBU-AonE taking a break or something? AJ already has Episode 3 subbed</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

heh.

aj has always tried to maintain the reputation &quot;speed over quality&quot;
aone has always tried to maintain &quot;speed is good, but quality comes first&quot;
anbu has nothing to do with paranoia agent.

you can safely assume we&#39;ll be fast, but you can&#39;t say we&#39;re the fastest no matter what, just that we&#39;re pretty dang quick. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
what group are u associated with? fansub group...i cant tell if ur talkina bout &quot;we&quot; as in aone or &quot;we&quot; as in aj

[Munsu]

Hahaha.. is that a joke? associated with AJ? hahhaha

Aone dude

[complich8]

sorry .... I tend to operate under the presumption that people are observant.

I&#39;m animeone staff, and tend to speak as an animeone representative in situations such as these.

when I say &quot;we&quot; I mean &quot;aone&quot; or sometimes &quot;aone and another group that we&#39;re doing a joint with&quot; ....

hence the &quot;fansub crew&quot; title, and the whole &quot;opped in animeone&quot; thing, and my name in random episode credits...

*sigh* just ignore me, I&#39;ve had a long couple days and am a bit pissed off ...

[LegendarySenninJiraiya]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (complich8 @ Feb 25 2004, 03:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> sorry .... I tend to operate under the presumption that people are observant.

I&#39;m animeone staff, and tend to speak as an animeone representative in situations such as these.

when I say &quot;we&quot; I mean &quot;aone&quot; or sometimes &quot;aone and another group that we&#39;re doing a joint with&quot; ....

hence the &quot;fansub crew&quot; title, and the whole &quot;opped in animeone&quot; thing, and my name in random episode credits...

*sigh* just ignore me, I&#39;ve had a long couple days and am a bit pissed off ... </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
i hate to tell u this, but usually during ops &#39;n endings, i and most people i know dont pay attention to the fansubbers names so much as the karaoke, with 90 thousand words flyin on the screen ur bound to pay attention to the ones with the coolest effex on em, basically the karaoke, secondly, &quot;fansub crew&quot; in no way indicates aone, if it were &quot;AONE fansub crew&quot; or even &quot;AONE FANSUBS&quot; it would, since it doesnt my &quot;being observant&quot; has absolutely nothing to with why i had no idea what group u work with, especially seeing as the thing i &quot;observed&quot; the most was that u seemed were talkin about Animejunkies and using the word &quot;we&quot;, i dunno about for other people but until i find reason to believe otherwise 2+2=4, but since i know now that ur aone, why dont u guys use less loud colors for ur fonts, then maybe i&#39;d notice ur names, these bright greens and such are a lil too loud to look away from

[Munsu]

Such a long paragraph to say meaningless crap

[SuntUrioN]

LOL

Damn, you guys crack me up

[The_Adjective]

Well, I downloaded the first episode but it seems I can&#39;t watch it. I can only hear it.

Does it need any specific Codec, or soemthing? Because there&#39;s obviously something wrong.

[EDIT] Nevermind. Fixed it.

[chb]

When I hear a series I&#39;ve become really addicted to is, or has become, licensed, I get a bit... wiggly. All sorts of terrible visions start to fill my mind. Vaporous release dates, sub par releases. Maybe some group will continue to released subs in the absence of published ones, but they will inevitably be of aggrevatingly poor quality.

Anyway.

I have loved the first three episodes of paranoia agent, so this, of course, has upset me:

Anime News Network&#39;s Paranoia Agent Information
AnimeSuki&#39;s AJ Paranoia Agent Information

Now, I have found some information on the AnimeSuki&#39;s forums that explains why it has been classified as licensed by some people.

AnimeSuki Paranoia Agent Thread

So, are there any animeone crew members who can comment? I haven&#39;t heard anything from aone about it so far, so I assume that it&#39;s sort of a non-issue. Geneon USA&#39;s placement in the credits doesn&#39;t imply acquisition?

[Munsu]

I dont think it matters... Aone will keep releasing it until they&#39;re asked to stop... they usually don&#39;t care about releasing licensed anime

[Kn1ves]

I really think Aone deserves to have its own tv channel, i swear to god, i dont care if everything is subtitled, id still watch. If the anime community can cough up &#036;417444091247917471320913619321 million it could wor...

nvm

[JTD121]

I noticed that Geneon USA was in the credits, and wondered what it meant. However, it seems that AonE doesn&#39;t care if it&#39;s liscensed. Maybe when the DVDs are released domestically, they might stop. But, by the time that happens, they will more than likely have subbed the whole series, so it won&#39;t matter.

I still haven&#39;t watched Episode 3, I just haven&#39;t had the time. I won&#39;t be able to watch it today either&#33; Maybe tomorrow...

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[JTD121]

Alright, finally watched the third episode.

Now, I don&#39;t know about this series. Maybe it&#39;s one of those series that starts out a bit slow, and eventually picks up. Kinda like Lain....So I guess I&#39;ll continue watching it.

And the multiple personalities; maybe Icchi should talk to the Harumi/Maria about what&#39;s going on.

However, at the end, it doesn&#39;t matter, since Shounen Bat attacked her and she was just Harumi....Can&#39;t wait for the next episode&#33;

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[complich8]

yup.... two things about this series.

While geneon usa is credited, that doesn&#39;t necessarily mean it&#39;s licensed by them. It might be, it might not be, it might be an option for them in the future. No official announcements have been made, so it&#39;s officially unlicensed, but onofficially people think it might licensed but not announced.

Second thing is that aone doesn&#39;t care too much about licensing, as a group policy. We care in that if the people that own the license want us to stop, we&#39;ll stop. Geneon (formerly pioneer) has never expressed that they give a rat&#39;s ass to us, so we will continue to operate under the presumption that they dont&#39; give a rat&#39;s ass until they demonstrate otherwise by contacting us (on irc, via email, through forum posts somewhere, whatever). We don&#39;t do bandai and adv stuff because both of those licensors have expressed they don&#39;t want us to do their stuff.

we&#39;re &quot;unethical&quot; like that, you see

[chb]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (complich8 @ Feb 28 2004, 05:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> We care in that if the people that own the license want us to stop, we&#39;ll stop. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
That is the position I&#39;d hope my favourite fansubbing group (aone) would take. Thanks for clearing that up.

[hachimitsu]

Never heard of this series till I read about it here last week and was intrigued by the comments... I just watched all 3 eps-- nothing like what I was expecting, but I really like this series. It&#39;s different. To say the least.

I love all the weird, surreal bits, especiall in ep 2. And (so far, anyway) it&#39;s the kind of mystery that invites all kind of wild speculaiton and guessing, which is always fun. It&#39;s interesting to watch a series with so many, um, dysfunctional characters...

So I wanted to say thank you, AonE. It&#39;s so great that you guys provide such a wide variety of anime.

[SuntUrioN]

Episode 4 came out yesterday. I just watched it. Probably the best of the four that's already been released. But only because of the ending.

Check out the look on Shounen Bats's face.

It had me laughing like till tears started to fall.