[quote=“Kadamose”]
If you have a DVD Reader or Recorder on your computer, simply put a no region flash on it and watch it from there. There are also alot of software DVD players that ignore the region codes.[/quote]
Where can I get one of these no region flash’s?
Or any recommended players I should get? I dont want to download some stupid program that doesnt work very well or is riddled with spyware. o.x
[size=75]Sorry about the topic going a bit…off, eheh…[/size]
[quote=“neo-kun”]Where can I get one of these no region flash’s?
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Ah, I have a Toshiba drive, doesnt seem to be a way of getting region free with it. Oh well.
Well, on the advice of this thread I purchased the first two volumes of Nausicaa off Amazon, and they arrived in time for me to sample them in a celebratory manner after passing my driving test. 
Although at present I’ve only given these books a skim-read (I’m not used to reading right-to-left… I keep missing out panels and then turning the page at odd angles and emitting “Gyeh?”, “Wuhzat?” and other onomatopeiac exclamations of perplexity), I must say that Nausicaa at present seems to be quite a decent read. Although the plot sometimes is a little opaque (at first I fought the the Torumakian Vai Emperor and the Dorok Holy Emperor were the same person…) and the art can get quite confused with all that dense panelling, there’s a good sense of story, intelligently-conceived background and the characters are well-rendered - I’m touched by the fact that HRH Princess Kushana actually cares for her men than being the cardboard cut-out Cold-Hearted Noble™ and that Kurotowa isn’t the usual fop (of course, he schemes in the way that only Viziers seem obliged to as part of their job description, but I’d like to see who else can spin an airship about on a sixpence! 
). There’s good attention-to-detail too - not least in the glossary of Japanese sound effects! Hiiiiiiinnn…VUON! d_^^_b
More importantly, it’s made me want to see how the story progresses and buy the next instalments, so Hayao Miyazaki’s obvously doing something right!
Incidentally, am I right in saying that Heidi: Girl of the Alps was the most popular anim? ever amongst the Japanese themselves?
Concerning the Parallel article on Nausicaa, though - wouldn’t it be more appropriate for the Doroks to be the equivalent of the Panzer Empire (I’M AT THE PART WHERE THE DOROK HERETIC IS BAYONETED TO BLOODY RUIN - PLEASE DON’T POST ANY SPOILERS IF YOU’RE COUNTER-ARGUING!)? As far as I’ve read, despite the strained relationship Torumekia has with the periphery fiefs and the unresolved issue with the control unit for the ‘God-Warrior’, the Doroks seem to be emerging as ‘the baddies’ and they’re also the belligerent making the most explicit use of forbidden arts, what with them cloning ohmu worms and goading them into chewing their way across half a continent. 
Oh, and I’ll put twenty pounds on Nausicaa and Asbel sleeping with each other by Book Four. The last few pages of Three at a pinch. 
Personally I’d say that the PD Empire has elements of both the Torumekians and the Doroks in it; the most obvious links I can think of off the top of my head are that the PD empire ruthlessly invades its neighbours like the Torumekians, and (as you say) it’s similar to the Doroks in that it’s resurrecting the past to give itself a military advantage. I suspect you’ll come to the conclusion that neither side are “the bad guys” as the story unfolds, though…
I was going to comment on this, but I wouldn’t want to ruin the suspense.
Yeah, basically my thoughts parallel Lance’s when it comes to the Empire. The Empire does have similarities with both the Doroks and the TE, it’s just that latter seems to have more in common with the Empire. I mainly thought the Torumekian Empire were similar because they went around conquering other nations, whereas the Doroks seemed to play a more defensive role (to a certain extent).
Whee. I’ve just spent almost ?150 in three days on books and games, and thirty of that on getting the remaining five Nausicaa books. My reputation for miserliness is in tatters… 
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[quote=“Robert Frazer”]
Oh, and I’ll put twenty pounds on Nausicaa and Asbel being in bed together by Book Four. The last few pages of Three at a pinch. :P[/quote]
I was going to comment on this, but I wouldn’t want to ruin the suspense.[/quote]
Feh, what suspense? Those insects that knocked Nausicaa off Mehve may as well have been cherubim. Besides, the author stated that Nausicaa was inspired by the Odyssey, and Odysseus spent five years ‘suffering’ as the guest of the nymphomaniac Calypso… :anjou_embarassed:
Apologies for double-posting, but I thought that neo-kun would be interested to know that there was a PAL release of the animated Nausicaa - according to Nausicaa.net (at the address nausicaa.net/ , funnily enough. ) it was on VHS under the title Warriors of the Wind. However, it is something of a Snake’s Revenge - being a bastardised edition with over 21 minutes of footage very messily cut from it, Hayao considers it a version he’d prefer to sweep under the carpet and hope that no-one notices the bulge.
So, I’m afraid that unless you’re desperate you are going to still have to search for a region converter. 
Even so, this website tells me that the anim?'s plot has been altered substantially and only approximates Volumes I and II of seven - so you’re probably better off buying the mangas (which are stupendously cheap, incidentally - why don’t I buy everything on American import? May dollars be cheap for some time yet! ) than hunting down the videos and DVDs.
Привет!!!господа Англоязычцы,я вот вам из Москвы пишу,представляете у нас нереально найти ни одну часть Panzer Dragoon !!!
[quote=“Robert Frazer”]Apologies for double-posting, but I thought that neo-kun would be interested to know that there was a PAL release of the animated Nausicaa - according to Nausicaa.net (at the address nausicaa.net/ , funnily enough. ) it was on VHS under the title Warriors of the Wind. However, it is something of a Snake’s Revenge - being a bastardised edition with over 21 minutes of footage very messily cut from it, Hayao considers it a version he’d prefer to sweep under the carpet and hope that no-one notices the bulge.
So, I’m afraid that unless you’re desperate you are going to still have to search for a region converter.
Even so, this website tells me that the anim?'s plot has been altered substantially and only approximates Volumes I and II of seven - so you’re probably better off buying the mangas (which are stupendously cheap, incidentally - why don’t I buy everything on American import? May dollars be cheap for some time yet! ) than hunting down the videos and DVDs.[/quote]
I could always hope for a dvd release over here in the future, but oh well. I cant really afford to fork out enough money for all the manga volumes. 
[edit] ah the hell with it, their not all as expensive as I thought, buys em
Well, after devouring all remaining five books of Nausicaa in a single sitting, I can certainly say that I’m intrigued.
For neo-kun’s sake I won’t start spewing out plot, but here are some of my first impressions.
Overall, I’m not quite sure yet what to make of this series of graphic novels - perhaps I should give it a night or two to let it digest in my mind, but currently a number of my feelings about it are contrary. I’m glad to see that concepts such as loyalty, pride and honour in Book III are depicted so refreshingly brazenly, but the final moral the series closes on is little more than a dry platitude that I’ve heard many times before. Sometimes I admire the scope of the world Nausicaa inhabits - but the sort of things that she gets up to in the later instalments stop feeling fantastic and… well, let’s just say that they become more than a bit silly. Most of the characterisaton is marvellously human - for the first example that comes to my mind, how Kurotowa is a little bit of a lech without being crudely explicit - but the messianic orations that a number of characters suddenly start spouting as you progress defy credibility, even in fiction when you’re expected to suspend disbelief to an extent. Nausicaa attracts and repulses simulateneously.
Perhaps I’ll mull over the story a while longer before I start analysing Nausicaa. But I will say that Solo and Lance are right in that the events very much scream Panzer Dragoon.