Thing is, as I don't know a lick of Japanese, I can't catch any of the nuances in Japanese.
Even the poorest dubs have voice inflection or tonalities that carry meaning.
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[Anime] Your "Controversial" Opinions
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Thing is, as I don't know a lick of Japanese, I can't catch any of the nuances in Japanese.
Even the poorest dubs have voice inflection or tonalities that carry meaning.
Typographenia
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I like you.
I've tried watching the subbed version about 5 times, but I can never get past the third episode without switching over to dub again. There's just something right about it, and the cheesy southern accents for the extras is perfect.
gatotsu911
Member
I agree that it wasn't a bad movie.
Don't think this is controversial, but I agree 100%.JerzeyDevil said:
p_xavier
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I don't understand Japanese either, but French and German dubs are almost always better than their American counterparts.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
It surpasses the first movie in every way. It's just a little overspecialized.
I don't know what you're talking about.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Tekkonkinkreet is the best anime.
Trash is trash. If I have to eat pile of dung or mold, I wouldn't pick either. I'd agree that most anime is bad, but there can't be any real discussion on this, because there are no hard numbers on a significant amount of critically/panned works in the different forms of media. It's a simple matter of understanding that people enjoy trash, and saying anime has an incredible amount of more trash than, say, literature or soap operas cannot be proven.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Why did you change it from 95? Come on dude, go for broke!
Typographenia
Member
I can't help it that I like robots and space travel that way. : (
You can say that dubs might not show vocal nuances, but claiming that the English language doesn't have many is just stupid.
thetechkid
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Most of the time I don't care about the sub/dub debate but with Trigun there is ONLY one anwser.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
She has some excellent range, that's for sure. Most people just don't like the roles she's cast in.
Genesis Knight
Member
You're taking a very empirical approach to this for an opinion thread.
Real talk, I kinda feel the same way. What kept my interest in the show was its sense of style (and characters) and I'm guessing that was the point. Otherwise yea, story-wise it was kinda whack.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
The amount of CG that movie has doesn't let me love it like the first.
p_xavier
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You just have to compare the languages. American English when spoken sounds loud and obnoxious, especially in cartoons.
Finally, someone who knows what's up. HanaIro was just boring.
gatotsu911
Member
This has far more to do with the difficulties of the dubbing process than any inherent flaw in the English language.
LOL OKAY!!!
You must be a francophone.
Your original assertion, "Of all the entertainment forms at hand, anime is one of the most uniquely disproportionate in terms of bad-to-good offerings." is more based on numbers than opinions. As a result, I think it's hard to discuss outside of saying "no" or "yes."
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Yes. It axes the major. +1.
Focuses on Bato. +100
It takes a grossly unsatisfying ending from the first movie and expands upon it in an intelligent fashion. +13
Better art. +1.5
No stupid babbling about identity issues for no apparent reason. +90.
No random tank battle. +11
The first movie had nice animation. (At least before the .0 release) The story was dross, the main character was an emo moron, and I don't find her essentially committing suicide to be a satisfying ending.
The prime definition of an opinion right here.
If you're trying to play that post off as fact, then wow.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Kind of weird for an "only anime I like" show, but it is a solid one.
Black Republican
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i actually liked Bleach's Hueco mundo arc, despite its pacing problems
Espada <3
Espada <3
hosannainexcelsis
Member
This post seems to be made from the perspective of someone with only a passing familiarity with anime. How many of the following things have you seen?
Angel's Egg
Anne of Green Gables
Aoi Bungaku
Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror
Bartender
Boogiepop Phantom
Casshern Sins
Chihayafuru
Dennou Coil
Flag
Gankutsuou
Genius Party
Haibane Renmei
Horus: Prince of the Sun
Kaiba
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Master Keaton
Memories
Metropolis
Mind Game
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Mononoke
Mushishi
Pale Cocoon
Paranoia Agent
Serial Experiments Lain
Time of Eve
Trapeze
Wandering Son
Whisper of the Heart
Here I listed 30 anime which, irregardless of your opinion of their quality, certainly are not designed for the lowest common denominator. And I could easily keep going. Certainly there's a lot of trash, which is especially visible to the West now as almost everything comes over in English, but there's a lot of interesting and unique stuff too if you dig into it.
thetechkid
Member
Name another anime with Freedy Mercury, a robot, and a gorilla. You cant because it was too awesome.
p_xavier
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You can check it out for yourself.
Trent Strong
Banned
What?
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Grimmjow fight is the best in the series.
gatotsu911
Member
I really like half of Bebop.
...and all of Innocence.
But still, you are the first person I've ever met who shares my distaste for Monster AND my hatred for FLCL's dub AND my preference for FMA1 AND my lack of fawning for Miyazaki. That's something.
Get your hearing checked.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Eureka 7 was one of the worst shows I've ever watched. Sky surfing robots is a crap design even if they're riding a space whale's energy currents so it totally makes sense. (Er somehow.)
Renton needs to be drowned in a bucket as does Eureka and her kids. Holland should've shot himself in the head years before the story even started, and if that world died, I'd be damn happy.
Deathnote is a melodramatic duel between idiots.
Renton needs to be drowned in a bucket as does Eureka and her kids. Holland should've shot himself in the head years before the story even started, and if that world died, I'd be damn happy.
Deathnote is a melodramatic duel between idiots.
thetechkid
Member
Dude, Brofist.
dakkumauji
Member
I liked Star Driver and Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon.
I dunno, what would count as controversial anyway.
I dunno, what would count as controversial anyway.
perfectnight
Banned
Yeah E7 was quite awful. I dropped it after I realized I had watched 30+ episodes of filler. Renton was a useless character and the story wasn't going anywhere.
Wiktor
Member
K-ON is pure garbage, empty, devoid of any soul moe nonsense. Deigned solely to help sell merchensdise
Gurren Lagan is just plain boring. The characters are flat, the fights aren't exctiting, it's perfect example of style over substance. It would be the worst example if it wasn't for:
Panty and Stocking - ugly, pointless excercise in visual variety. Action scenes sucked, characters sucked, their visuals sucked and what's worse, it was all terribly boring. Out of the whole series maybe 10% of it was worth watching.
Evangelion's TV ending is far better than End of Evangelion.
Evangelion's Shinji is the worst anime character ever created
KEY adaptations are the best thing KyoAni has ever made (Fumoffu being the sole exception)
Gonzo's Full Metal Panic was better than Second Raid
Gurren Lagan is just plain boring. The characters are flat, the fights aren't exctiting, it's perfect example of style over substance. It would be the worst example if it wasn't for:
Panty and Stocking - ugly, pointless excercise in visual variety. Action scenes sucked, characters sucked, their visuals sucked and what's worse, it was all terribly boring. Out of the whole series maybe 10% of it was worth watching.
Evangelion's TV ending is far better than End of Evangelion.
Evangelion's Shinji is the worst anime character ever created
KEY adaptations are the best thing KyoAni has ever made (Fumoffu being the sole exception)
Gonzo's Full Metal Panic was better than Second Raid
Hellsing321
Member
Summer Wars is a great movie. Suck it haters!
gatotsu911
Member
In all fairness, I have a much more than passing familiarity with anime and I have only seen a full two of those. I've heard of all but six though, and seen individual episodes of two more.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
All I can say about dub is that if the characters yell a lot, you are safer with the original. And that Dubs made in Spain are awesome even though they sound completely different (I'm in Love with the Spaniard dub of Ghost in the Shell) .I guess it is because the foreign dub industry is bigger there, since they dub everything from Hollywood blockbusters to anime.
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