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- From: shimkevi@acs.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: Re: Anime ratings in Video Movie Guide
- Message-ID: <105870@bu.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:53:59 GMT
- References: <105818@bu.edu> <1992Dec31.121031.23501@pegasus.com>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- In article <1992Dec31.121031.23501@pegasus.com> ranma@pegasus.com (Doug Cha) writes:
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- >In article <105818@bu.edu> shimkevi@acs.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich) writes:
- >>Looking at the latest issue of the Video Movie Guide, I've noticed that
- >>they now include a lot of anime. The ratings, however, were a little strange:
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- >>Gunbuster **
- > Com'n guys! one more star for Freud-chan.. <H>
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- Quote: "Tedious and overwrought drama about duty and sacrifice in the
- Space Force. Quality animation."
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- >>Vampire Princes Miyu **
- > I thought the visual direction alone merits it at least 3..
-
- For some reason, this one was in the "Foreign" section, all others were
- in "Science Fiction".
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- >>Makes you wonder whether they actually watch the movies that they review :-)
-
- > They probably just read the back of the cassette boxes..
-
- To be fair, looks like they watched at least some of it. Quote from the BGC
- mini-review: "...more than pays a homage to Blade Runner."
-
- I forgot to mention in my previous post that both Robot Carnival and Project
- A-KO got three stars.
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