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- July 15, 2012 at 11:42 PM
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stewonder44
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Anyone know where i can stream Photon?

Peace.

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- - July 15, 2012 at 11:43 PM
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  stewonder44
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  ( also… is it any good? how does it relate to the tenchi-verse? )
- - July 16, 2012 at 12:03 AM
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  jgzinv
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  Well as I’ve said elseware, Photon is the ISM as dual! is to Tenchi OVA/GXP.
  
  So yes it does relate in a bunch of ways.
  
  As to streaming it…
  
  Dub
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDqEiHRMSOU
  
  Subs (the better of the two)
  
  http://www.goodanime.net/category/photon-the-idiot-adventures
  
  Give that a shot.
- - July 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  From what I read the title hero is so stupid he makes Excel Excel look like a genius. 😆
- - July 23, 2012 at 12:50 AM
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  Eh. Photon isn’t really all that dumb, he’s just a really simple guy. And pretty quiet. And naive. And innocent… for now.
- - July 23, 2012 at 6:55 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  If I remember right Photon’s somewhat girlfriend,who is also as brain challenged as him,was played by
  
  Hisakawa Aya better known for playing Sailor Mercury on Sailor Moon.If I’m right then not only did she
  
  play one of the most brilliant female characters in anime but also one of the stupidest ones too.
  
  Have to admire that kind of range! 😆
- - July 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM
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  shades of blue
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  Thou I believe Photon is 15, like the rest of Kajishima’s main characters, in a sense he is more like someone even younger than that. He is more like an uncorrupted child, who only thinks of moving forward and the safety of those around him. That does not necessarily make him an idiot, it just makes him unbelievably gullible.
  
  Thou it is amusing that he writes baka [idiot] on everyone’s foreheads and ahou can be interpreted as “stupid”. Meaning his ahou power [stupid strength] is what makes him strong. 😆 Or, to put it nicely, the ability to overcome any obstacle through sheer willpower, without regard for logic & reason. A trait he shares in common with another, more famous idiot. Monkey D. Luffy.
- - July 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  They made him younger in the American version because of the entire nudity issue.
  
  I guess this was before SURVIVOR and people walking around in the buff hit American Reality Tv.
- - July 27, 2012 at 8:27 PM
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  shades of blue
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  I don’t recall it ever stated how old Photon is, I’m just saying that I assume he is 15 because that is a common age shared by other Kajishima main characters.
  
  Tenchi Masaki 15 in OVA1, 17 by GXP
  
  Kazuki Yotsuga 16
  
  Photon Earth ???
  
  Seina Yamada 15
  
  Kenshi Masaki 15
  
  Japanese ages not given, US ages listed as “19”. lol
  
  Gen Hiraga
  
  Taiyo (last name unknown)
  
  Shougo Yoshisuzu
- - July 28, 2012 at 10:44 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  I read it in a review of Photon that his age was made younger in the American Version because of worries about the fact that Photon goes around naked a lot.I forget which one it was where I read this,either
  
  The Anime Review or Akemi’s Anime World.
- - July 28, 2012 at 10:53 PM
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  jgzinv
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  the female characters are more naked than photon.
  
  I can only recall 2x that he even does and both are in the bath.
  
  Watch it then denounce it… really not good to make claims before doing such.
- - July 30, 2012 at 6:19 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Well I think they were trying to explain why the American licensee made Photon younger than he was in the actual Japanese.The whole idea was that if he was younger it would be so off putting when they showed him nude.I didn’t read anything about the women being nude or else forgot about that part.I think Photon’s nudity was the bigger deal for some reason.
- - July 30, 2012 at 11:15 PM
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  Kiyami
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  Did somebody say Photon?
  
  Look what I found at Otakon:
  
  ~~http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i410/kitteascone/cd7fcfc2.jpg" />~~
  
  ~~Time to dig out my VCR badassplz~~
- - August 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Ah?Why does it say The Idiot Menace? I always saw the subtitle as being:The Idiot Adventures.
- - August 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM
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  Nobuyuki
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  The DVD collection’s certainly was.
  
  But a look back on Amazon reveals each VHS volume had its own subtitle:
  
  The Emperor Strikes Back
  
  Enemy Pawn
- - August 6, 2012 at 6:39 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Ok.
- - September 11, 2012 at 3:36 AM
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  Soundmonkey44
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  I got lucky last summer and found a used copy of Photon at my local video store for only $14.49 I have watched it about half a dozen times sense then. Something about it, just amuses me.
  
  Also I suggest Earth adapt the courtship ritual seen in Photon, merely by marking the same thing on you and another person that shall automagically make you married! Much cheaper then a wedding. 😆
- - September 12, 2012 at 6:45 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  ~~Soundmonkey44 wrote:~~
  
  I got lucky last summer and found a used copy of Photon at my local video store for only $14.49 I have watched it about half a dozen times sense then. Something about it, just amuses me.
  
  Also I suggest Earth adapt the courtship ritual seen in Photon, merely by marking the same thing on you and another person that shall automagically make you married! Much cheaper then a wedding. 😆
  
  Is that like the shadow tag game in the first Uresei Yatsura movie My One And Only?
- - December 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM
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  Makoto_Mizuhara
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  ~~mitsuki lover wrote:~~
  
  If I remember right Photon’s somewhat girlfriend,who is also as brain challenged as him,was played by
  
  Hisakawa Aya better known for playing Sailor Mercury on Sailor Moon.If I’m right then not only did she
  
  play one of the most brilliant female characters in anime but also one of the stupidest ones too.
  
  Have to admire that kind of range! 😆
  
  Want to get even more technical? Aun (the girl you were referring to)- her English VA also voiced Filia Ul Copt in ‘Slayers Try’, and the Galactic Emperor’s English VA is none other than Crispin Freeman himself, who went on to voice Kamikura- one of the friends of the student punched out in the first episode of the first OAV. Damn, I’m getting technical…
- - January 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Ah!Filia,one of my favorite supporting female characters.But I digress.
  
  So Crispin Freeman is in the Photon dub?One of the best male VAs out there.Even though I’m more into
  
  subs these days I would have to say that two of the best American VAs ever would have to be Crispin
  
  Freeman and Wendee Lee.
- - August 22, 2013 at 5:27 PM
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  wwwwhhhhoooo
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  ~~mitsuki lover wrote:~~
  
  Ah!Filia,one of my favorite supporting female characters.But I digress.
  
  So Crispin Freeman is in the Photon dub?One of the best male VAs out there.Even though I’m more into
  
  subs these days I would have to say that two of the best American VAs ever would have to be Crispin
  
  Freeman and Wendee Lee.
  
  Indeed, indeed, Crispin Freeman is in the dub. I should have read this thread a long time ago, before I obtained my dvd copy at Otakon…
  
  ~~http://tenchiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&p=19514#p19514” class=”bbcode_url”>~~http://tenchiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&p=19514#p19514
  
  …but I digress
  
  Interestingly enough, ML, I found on my dvd copy the exact opposite of your particular source with regards to the dub version toning down Photon’s age (not bashing or saying you were wrong, this is just what was on my dvd I watched recently). They “up-play” (opposite of downplay? lol) his age precisely because of the nudity. As stated by shades, Photon is certainly very young; not knowing his precise age, I would have pegged him as even younger, say like Son Goku in Dragonball aged (then again, I guess I don’t know his precise age, either), but 15 is a good guess. But the point is even 15 was too young for the English version distributors, so to play it safe, in a seemingly last-ditch effort to make it less appalling to conservative-natured folks, they put a disclaimer before the video starts that says something to the effect of “all characters in this production are at least 18 (or maybe 19, can’t remember) years of age” & blah blah nudity, blah blah.
  
  Even though, of course, the few times Photon is in the buff, the context is non-sexual, I can see why (especially in the nineties) production people would want to play it extra safe (but Photon being 18/19 yrs? That’s just incorrect, imo, and I’m guessing centralparkmedia knew that but “fibbed” anyway).
  
  Now, for folks who haven’t seen it, there are some scandalous scenes, but they’re of the whimsical, typical anime fan-service type, nothing more “egregious” than in Tenchi. I’ll probably say more later, but it’s great, see it.
  
  Oh, and just so I can add my own little patch to the quilt of funny “well how about that?” ‘s that ML and Makoto started: I happen to buy both Photon and School Rumble at Otakon, two (unrelated) series I love. I particularly love the intro to School Rumble, “Scramble” which is sung by Yui Horie…who also voices Aun in Photon! Small world & all that, eh?
  
  p.s. Soundmonkey… $14.49? FFFFemo (jk, lucky!) 😉
- - August 26, 2013 at 6:34 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Is a bit jealous now since Horie Yui is one of my favorite seiyuus.
- - December 19, 2013 at 7:55 PM
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  shadowsfall0
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  Crazy thing this: just found this kind of offer on amazon last night for Photon.
  
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004W61K/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
  
  It’s…ridiculous. And it ships from my state so I wonder who decided to try to sell for that high. Kiyofacepalm1
  
  I enjoy the series a lot, just not THAT much. lol
  
  "For the curse of life is the curse of want. And so, you peer... Into the fog, in hope of answers."
- - December 19, 2013 at 9:46 PM
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  wwwwhhhhoooo
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  ~~shadowsfall0 wrote:~~
  
  Crazy thing this: just found this kind of offer on amazon last night for Photon.
  
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004W61K/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
  
  It’s…ridiculous. And it ships from my state so I wonder who decided to try to sell for that high. Kiyofacepalm1
  
  I enjoy the series a lot, just not THAT much. lol
  
  yeah you can find a better deal somewheres, but that’s actually not terribly far off from what u will see photon go for.
- - December 19, 2013 at 11:22 PM
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  shadowsfall0
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  I see what happened. >.< The guy took dropped the offer price a LOT since I posted it. The guy M and N Media had it running for 100k. Or at least that's what it was last night up until I posted about it today. The same guy made his offer of Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure at $1599. Guess he finally dropped his price to an extent.
  
  "For the curse of life is the curse of want. And so, you peer... Into the fog, in hope of answers."
- - December 19, 2013 at 11:40 PM
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  WisperG
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  What did he drop it too? His listing is gone now. Did someone actually buy it?!
- - December 20, 2013 at 12:27 AM
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  shadowsfall0
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  It’s in the used for about $80 now. I doubt he’s going to get sales since the used copies are stupid cheap compared to even that in the offers.
  
  "For the curse of life is the curse of want. And so, you peer... Into the fog, in hope of answers."
- - December 20, 2013 at 6:49 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  I wonder if he’ll get any bites or if he’ll decide to go lower still.
- - December 23, 2013 at 5:38 AM
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  wwwwhhhhoooo
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  ~~shadowsfall0 wrote:~~
  
  I see what happened. >.< The guy took dropped the offer price a LOT since I posted it. The guy M and N Media had it running for 100k. Or at least that's what it was last night up until I posted about it today. The same guy made his offer of Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure at $1599. Guess he finally dropped his price to an extent.
  
  When I clicked on it and subsequently commented, I saw $99.99 new; usually I see it in the $80 ballpark (I got mine used for $40-$45).
  
  100K? As in, 100,000? Dollars? American??? That’s got to be a typo doesn’t it? $1599 is also outrageously overpriced, but I have an easier time believing it wasn’t a typo lol.
- - December 23, 2013 at 7:41 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  100k certainly does sound a bit over the top.
- - December 25, 2013 at 5:03 AM
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  Makoto_Mizuhara
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  ~~mitsuki lover wrote:~~
  
  100k certainly does sound a bit over the top.
  
  Uhh, you tell yourself that.
- - January 13, 2014 at 6:51 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  *bump*
  
  This looks worth it just because Aun is played by Horie Yui.And also from what I read recently Orikasa Ai
  
  had a small part in it as she played Keyne in the original CD drama(or was that radio drama? I’m a bit
  
  of which it was actually).
- - January 15, 2014 at 4:50 AM
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  wwwwhhhhoooo
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  I think it’s worth owning, and it is most definitely worth seeing. Like classic shonen? How about early (non-Hentai) work of Kajishima? Do you enjoy laughing while being open to experiencing something, shall we say, Tenchi-esque? Then you won’t be disappointed.
- - January 15, 2014 at 6:51 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Hey having Horie Yui in it is good enough reason for me. kiyonesmile1
- - January 20, 2014 at 5:59 PM
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  Yosho24
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  Just finished up Photon for the first time. I enjoyed it very much, although it got pretty weird at some points. I found all the characters to be very well-designed and enjoyable. Photon himself is a very likeable protagonist, along with Keyne, Ahn, and Papacha. It takes a little while for the story to really pick up, but it was very good. Go check it out if you haven’t already.
- - January 20, 2014 at 7:21 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Is it true that there’s no real plot until the last couple of episodes?
- - January 21, 2014 at 1:04 AM
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  For Washuu
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  No, I wouldn’t way that. It’s just that -true to Kajishima’s style- the plot-elements present in the first 2/3 of the story aren’t clearly labeled “ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT” like in a lot of anime.
- - January 21, 2014 at 3:31 AM
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  Yosho24
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  Its not unlike Tenchi in the sense that the main villain of the OVA doesnt show up until the second to last episode. There’s a lot of content that was squeezed into the 6 episodes, much like Tenchi. Lots of character development, which really helps to immerse you in their world, and care for the characters. Not to mention quite a few plot twists towards the end of the series. The only downside is that the series felt a little too short, but that doesnt take away from the charm that it has. You should most definitely give it a watch because it’s definitely enjoyable and filled with a lot of hilariously goofy goodness.
- - January 22, 2014 at 7:11 PM
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  mitsuki lover
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  Well it should be on my need to see list just because as I said it’s got Horie Yui in it.
  
  Durn if she isn’t one of my favorite female seiyuus. soawesome1
- - January 22, 2014 at 8:48 PM
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  Yosho24
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  Yeah shes great as aun. Easily the best voice actor on the show
- - January 30, 2014 at 6:36 AM
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  wwwwhhhhoooo
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  ~~Yosho24 wrote:~~
  
  Yeah shes great as aun. Easily the best voice actor on the show
  
  She’s just phenomenal, period. Though her performance is excellent, and her character admittedly provided an interesting blend for the show’s dynamics, at the risk of opening a can of worms did anybody not despise Aun? Or at least find her difficult to tolerate at all times? Maybe it’s just me, but it was hard for me to salvage her as a redeemable character in the end. And though the potential is arguably there to a degree, there really don’t seem to be Keyne vs. Aun camps* as there are for, say, Ryoko and Ayeka (maybe there was in the past, I don’t know, but I guess it’s to be expected largely in part to it being far less popular than Tenchi). Thoughts?
  
  January 30, 2014 at 10:53 PM
  
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  Aun? Well, I definitely thought she deserved to have バカ written on her head more than anyone, but I didn’t despise her. She was annoying to no end, but she was a deeper character than many out there in anime, and… sometime you just need a total stinker in the cast, you know?