Having seen the first episode of Diamond Daydreams on the Newtype USA
cover disk I decided to buy the first disk. It's a series of short
stories rather than one long story, but none the worse for that. These
are stories about fairly ordinary people going about their ordinary lives,
there's not a giant mech, magical girl or evil overlord anywhere to be
seen, but this can be good thing sometimes. ^_^ The first two stories
which are on the first disk are really well told have some very good
characters in them. I'll certainly be buying the rest of the series.

The extras on the disk were quite good too. They include some interesting
information about Hokkiado where the stories take place.

But back to that cover disk...

Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series someone's idea of
a joke?
It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic models, and
very cheap looking plastic models at that.


== Peter ==
-----------------------------------------------------
"Was it all a dream? No it really happened."
(Hitomi Kanzaki: Escaflowne)

In message <memo.20060222060535.2192B>, Peter
Boulter <starhunter> writes

>Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series someone's idea of
>a joke?

Yes. That ol' Japanese sense of humour.

>It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic models, and
>very cheap looking plastic models at that.

Yes. It has them rolling in the aisles in Osaka.

In article <gUVnIZF2GD$DFw7M>,
Robert Sneddon <nojay> wrote:
> In message
> <memo.20060222060535.2192B>, Peter
> Boulter <starhunter> writes

> >Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series
> >someone's idea of a joke?

> Yes. That ol' Japanese sense of humour.

Of which I am at present learning ever more from liner notes.

> >It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic
> >models, and very cheap looking plastic models at that.

> Yes. It has them rolling in the aisles in Osaka.

This should be interesting: a montage of stills of cheap plastic
models being rolled around in the aisles of Osaka...

In message <gUVnIZF2GD$DFw7M>, Robert Sneddon
<nojay> writes
>In message <memo.20060222060535.2192B>, Peter
>Boulter <starhunter> writes
>
>>Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series someone's idea of
>>a joke?
>
> Yes. That ol' Japanese sense of humour.
>
>>It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic models, and
>>very cheap looking plastic models at that.
>
> Yes. It has them rolling in the aisles in Osaka.

More importantly, still shots of plastic models of *Americans*,
and therefore funnier to the Japanese than an explosion in a nitrous
oxide factory.

Robert Sneddon(nojay) added

> >Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series someone's
> >idea of a joke?
>
> Yes. That ol' Japanese sense of humour.

Ah!

> >It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic models, and
> >very cheap looking plastic models at that.
>
> Yes. It has them rolling in the aisles in Osaka.

If the Japanese dialogue is anything like the dubbed dialogue they'll be
rolling in agony not the aisles. ^_^


== Peter ==
-----------------------------------------------------
"Was it all a dream? No it really happened."
(Hitomi Kanzaki: Escaflowne)

John M Ward(john) added

> > >Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series
> > >someone's idea of a joke?
>
> > Yes. That ol' Japanese sense of humour.
>
> Of which I am at present learning ever more from liner notes.

Liner notes are an amazing source of knowledge, I wish more companies
would include them.

> > >It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic
> > >models, and very cheap looking plastic models at that.
>
> > Yes. It has them rolling in the aisles in Osaka.
>
> This should be interesting: a montage of stills of cheap plastic
> models being rolled around in the aisles of Osaka...

Well it would bring some action to the series. ^_^


== Peter ==
-----------------------------------------------------
"Was it all a dream? No it really happened."
(Hitomi Kanzaki: Escaflowne)

Justin Palmer(Justin) added

> >>Also on it was an episode of the Fuccons, is this series someone's
> >>idea of a joke?
> >
> > Yes. That ol' Japanese sense of humour.
> >
> >>It's nothing more than a montage of still shots of plastic models, and
> >>very cheap looking plastic models at that.
> >
> > Yes. It has them rolling in the aisles in Osaka.
>
> More importantly, still shots of plastic models of *Americans*,
> and therefore funnier to the Japanese than an explosion in a nitrous
> oxide factory.

Ah, yes. Good point. ^_^


== Peter ==
-----------------------------------------------------
"Was it all a dream? No it really happened."
(Hitomi Kanzaki: Escaflowne)

wow the Fuccons suck.. It tries to make fun of the USA, worst ever.
DON'T BUY IT! I bought the premiere disc, horrible. The eps. are like
4 min. long, SERIOUSLY.

Mo(morris.levy) added

> wow the Fuccons suck.. It tries to make fun of the USA, worst ever.
> DON'T BUY IT! I bought the premiere disc, horrible. The eps. are like
> 4 min. long, SERIOUSLY.

I don't know what ADV were thinking when they licensed the Fuccons.
There's another episode on this month's Newtype USA disk, but having had
the misfortune of watching episode one last month I didn't bother watching
it.


== Peter ==
-----------------------------------------------------
"Was it all a dream? No it really happened."
(Hitomi Kanzaki: Escaflowne)

On 06/03/2006 05:33, Peter Boulter wrote:
> Mo(morris.levy) added
>
>> wow the Fuccons suck.. It tries to make fun of the USA, worst ever.
>> DON'T BUY IT! I bought the premiere disc, horrible. The eps. are like
>> 4 min. long, SERIOUSLY.
>
> I don't know what ADV were thinking when they licensed the Fuccons.
> There's another episode on this month's Newtype USA disk, but having had
> the misfortune of watching episode one last month I didn't bother watching
> it.

They've been known to do one or two odd things in the past, e.g. "The
Super Milk-chan Show". A nice enough original series, but why try and
turn it into something like The Larry Sanders Show?