I saw it with my college anime club back in '97. The first few episodes, I was like, "Wtf is this?"
Then it got amazingly fucking intense...and then petered out again. It picked up a little again by the end. I liked the series in general, but it could have been a lot shorter.
That's exactly how I felt about it...and funny that you saw it in your anime college club, because it was the same for me. Sadly mine was a year later...it would've been eerie though :-P.
IIRC the show picked up in the teens, got really good up until like 30-something and then they were on this island for a long time and it sucked. Then it got good again...oh and the scene with the giant King status was funny...with balls and everything...(why do I remember this?)
I bought the first 3 DVDs a few months back when hitmenow.com had a special and had them for $9.99 (USD) each! I have yet to watch them though! I saw the first few eps years ago and liked it. Plus I like ethnic babes like Nadia. some day I'm going to do a video about the "ethnic" babes of anime. I have an idea for that if I can get the track I want for DDR 5th mix next year ...
You may want to try out "Secret of Cerulean Sand (Patapata Hikosen no Boken). It's got a similar look and feel (George and Jean could have been twins), but none of Nadia (the character)'s annoying preachiness or other abusive traits.
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Date: 2003-06-09 10:07 am (UTC)I saw it with my college anime club back in '97. The first few episodes, I was like, "Wtf is this?"
Then it got amazingly fucking intense...and then petered out again. It picked up a little again by the end. I liked the series in general, but it could have been a lot shorter.
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Date: 2003-06-09 10:10 am (UTC)I agree, it should be shorter but I can tolerate the slow parts.
I wish the dvds had the omake on them... I dont know where my nadia omake fansub dissapeared to.
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Date: 2003-06-09 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-09 11:17 am (UTC)I'm friends with everyone who were once Nautilus Fansubbing who fansubbed a version of it a good few years back :)
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Date: 2003-06-09 11:02 am (UTC)IIRC the show picked up in the teens, got really good up until like 30-something and then they were on this island for a long time and it sucked. Then it got good again...oh and the scene with the giant King status was funny...with balls and everything...(why do I remember this?)
Perhaps I should watch it again...
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Date: 2003-06-09 10:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-09 01:25 pm (UTC)If you liked Nadia...
Date: 2003-06-09 02:13 pm (UTC)