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[Anime] Your "Controversial" Opinions
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p_xavier
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perfectnight
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You think it sounds better in Japanese because what they are saying is fucking stupid and it sounds so in english. kuristaaa powaaa
lmao
English clip sounds more like poor direction rather than an indictment of the spoken language.
Rahxephon91
Banned
The Japanese is way more obnoxious. But it's also fucking sailor moon.
Edit-Damn she had a short skirt. Could almost see her ass.
Edit-Damn she had a short skirt. Could almost see her ass.
The Akira movie is much better than the boring and drawn out manga.
Hellsing Ultimate, PSG and Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail are above-average at best.
Trigun is incredibly overrated.
Kaiba comes across as rather empty and scatterbrained and is Yuasa's weakest work (fwiw I haven't seen Mind Game).
K-On! is a great series.
Hellsing Ultimate, PSG and Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail are above-average at best.
Trigun is incredibly overrated.
Kaiba comes across as rather empty and scatterbrained and is Yuasa's weakest work (fwiw I haven't seen Mind Game).
K-On! is a great series.
please don't troll
p_xavier
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I didn't say that. I said that I preferred French and German dubs and that I found the English language loud and obnoxious in dubs.
PdotMichael
Banned
Umm... The Japanese thing is just poor english...
As an expansion of this, I'll go on to say that SHAFT in general is a godawful studio who have produced a grand total of two watchable series, Hidamari Sketch and Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru. Both of which are pretty good, though. But everything else? Shit. Terrible.
Yes, the English clip sounds that way because that's how the English language as spoken by Americans naturally sounds. It's not at all because of the audio levels and how the actress delivered her line. Nope, couldn't be. That'd be too logical.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
yes!
Edit: It all depends in the quality of the animation.
Typographenia
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Is it controversial to say that Jupiter is the best sailor scout? Because that's how I feel about it.
I'm not hip with how the scouts rank.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Isn't the Sailor Moon dub also Candian? I think one of them is.
I don't know which one that video is from.
I don't know which one that video is from.
p_xavier
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I watched many anime and cartoons, and American English sounds loud and obnoxious. You can still turn down the volume, but it doesn't change that.
Evangelion in English is horrible, listening to Asuka makes me cringe.
Tomino is the George Lucas of anime. His writing and direction is mind-numbingly stilted and dumb.
KEY shows are melodramatic crap for people who have never experienced tragic fiction before.
Pretty much all of Evangelion's influence on anime has been for the worse.
The flashback portions of Only Yesterday are sublime but the movie falters a bit in the present day portions.
Inception>Paprika
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru is the best SHAFT show that nobody watched.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the best anime film in the last half-decade at least.
Usagi Drop is the best anime series in the last few years.
Glass Fleet is the best show Gonzo has ever made.
Panty and Stocking is wonderfully animated trash.
Angel Beats is the ugliest anime of all time.
Now and Then, Here and There is a great series.
KEY shows are melodramatic crap for people who have never experienced tragic fiction before.
Pretty much all of Evangelion's influence on anime has been for the worse.
The flashback portions of Only Yesterday are sublime but the movie falters a bit in the present day portions.
Inception>Paprika
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru is the best SHAFT show that nobody watched.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the best anime film in the last half-decade at least.
Usagi Drop is the best anime series in the last few years.
Glass Fleet is the best show Gonzo has ever made.
Panty and Stocking is wonderfully animated trash.
Angel Beats is the ugliest anime of all time.
Now and Then, Here and There is a great series.
PdotMichael
Banned
She has the most talent, but I would put Saturn, Venus and Pluto higher
gatotsu911
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This is the first time I have ever seen someone attempt to use the Sailor Moon dub as a representation of the entire English language. Hopefully it'll be the last.
Also, since you were mentioning how much you hated American accents before, it might interest you to know that the Sailor Moon dub is Canadian.
Wiktor
Member
Ughh..no..just no. Especially the books.
perfectnight
Banned
Holy fuck you have the worst taste in this entire thread haha
Empty is just about the last thing that I would call Kaiba because it sure as fuck is a lot more substantial than K-On. If you want to criticize Kaiba then call out its mediocre ending episodes because those were incredibly weak compared to the rest of the series.
Seriously did you just not pay attention to Kaiba or something? FYI both Mind Game and Kemonozume really pale in compassion to Kaiba in storytelling structure, pacing, themes, art, music, characters and scope.
Tiffany Grant makes anyone with ears cringe.
hosannainexcelsis
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When I watched it as a youngster, I liked Mercury the best because she was geeky like me.
But now I have to give the nod to Uranus and Neptune, if for nothing else than their amazing transformation sequence.
I agree with this.
Trent Strong
Banned
I think you mean that the people speaking English in these dubs are loud. American English itself can't be "loud". That doesn't make any sense.
Typographenia
Member
Hahahahaha! That she does. ; P
From a storytelling perspective, I always felt Paprika was the weakest of Kon's work.
It's still one of the most visually entertaining anime films I've seen, though.
edit:
My brother and I love saying her "WHAT ARE YOU, STUPID?" line to each other a lot.
We watched the dub originally, back in the day. Good times, good times.
K-ON is more substantial than anything Masaaki Yuasa has directed.
My man.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I refuse to believe you're being serious here.
perfectnight
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C'mon son at least act like you mean it.
Wiktor
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Isn't it because anime generally sell pretty weak in US, so they can only afford cheap (ie..rarely talented) voice actors? Because english voice acting is great in videogames and american-made cartoons, especially since they often hire normal actors.
That's what struck me when watching Supernatural anime. All the voices were pretty terrible. They sounded fake and unnatural. The sole exception was the character of Sam, because he was voiced by the same actor that plays him in tv series. The difference between him and the rest of the cast in anime was simply ridiculous.
I've been watching some Batman cartoons recently and they also have far superior voice work compared to most english anime dubs.
Anyone who knows me knows that I mean it.
Yuasa shows are extremely non-substantial, all his shows are masturbatory crud.
gatotsu911
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One could argue, however, that in the case of Asuka this was actually the point. In other roles she's managed to be considerably less obnoxious, though I'll admit that twang still gets under my skin.
p_xavier
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And how do you want me to prove the point? Do I have every video available in every language with the exact scenes ripped in a convenient format to show the world? It happened that Sailor Moon was easy to find in many languages for a given scene.
I'm Canadian, the dub was made in Toronto and I'm sure Americans didn't say how it sounds "Canadian". It's the same northern accent.
That can be dangerous sometimes; one of the best anime of the last few years is better if you pretend the manga doesn't exist.
gatotsu911
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At least half of all US voice actors working in games and cartoons work or have worked in anime.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Just because Hito hates it doesn't make this controversial.
gatotsu911
Member
But the Sailor Moon dub is notoriously bad.
perfectnight
Banned
In what way is Kaiba masturbatory crud? Are you sure you're not talking about K-On?
He's far from the only one on GAF.
Let's not go down this path. It won't end well.
Naturally there are exceptions but with long animes I often find the 'fluff' included is so poor or throws off the pacing so much that it makes it unbearable to keep up with a series. There are exceptions to this however, FMA is a good example I think (I still liked Brotherhood x.x).
gatotsu911
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Compromise: SHAFT is 100% style, 0% substance.
This is supposed to be controversial? Fucking amazing series, one of my favorites in fact...
This makes no sense.
I don't mean that you can masturbate to his shows. I mean that his shows (and movie) are self-masturbatory, overindulgent piles of awful.
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