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On October 21 2015 05:27 jcarlsoniv wrote:
At some point I keep thinking "surely they've named all the anime they could", but you guys keep rattling off more and more.
I'll call it impressive.
Looking at Western TV vs Anime is kind of interesting. TV shows typically go on indefinitely until there stop making money where as most anime these days is made solely for advertising source material so they tend to be 1/2 seasons ending in an open way. Makes it easy to have lots of names to rattle :D
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On October 21 2015 05:32 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 21 2015 05:27 jcarlsoniv wrote:
At some point I keep thinking "surely they've named all the anime they could", but you guys keep rattling off more and more.
I'll call it impressive. Looking at Western TV vs Anime is kind of interesting. TV shows typically go on indefinitely until there stop making money where as most anime these days is made solely for advertising source material so they tend to be 1/2 seasons ending in an open way. Makes it easy to have lots of names to rattle :D
Yeah, if you look at a seasonal anime list, it's like 70-80 different ones, lol.
I might jump into the various anime my friends are watching once i get some time off next month and I get laid off for the winter and am able to just sit on my ass and collect from the government for a few months, lol.
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I liked season 1 a ton, but lost interest in season 2. Should probably go back to finish it at some point though. You guys wanna talk about terrible subs, Psycho Pass is real bad.
Also I really like the season 1 theme.
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That feeling when you go hitchhiking at 4 am and the guy that picks you up drops you off on a street corner next to three prostitutes.
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K-ON is the worst kyoani show and thats saying a lot
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On October 21 2015 06:23 Ketara wrote:
That feeling when you go hitchhiking at 4 am and the guy that picks you up drops you off on a street corner next to three prostitutes.
He was bringing you to your true harem.
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On October 21 2015 06:43 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On October 21 2015 06:23 Ketara wrote:
That feeling when you go hitchhiking at 4 am and the guy that picks you up drops you off on a street corner next to three prostitutes. He was bringing you to your true harem.
At least all the months in the brothel has taught him the importance of protection.
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Rofl.
It was really funny. I hitchhiked because the taxi drivers at the bus station were real aggressive and harassing me and I wanted to teach them a lesson.
Then the prostitutes were super polite and nice.
Obvs didn't do anything but I wanted to be like hey, there's these taxi drivers over there, can you girls go teach them how to behave professionally?
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Do you expect prostitues to yell at a potential client and be all unamicable with him?
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Sex workers are often really nice people that get an unduely bad rep. Once when I was lost looking for my hotel in Tokyo (which I accidentally booked in a red light district (hotels.com doesn't tell you this sort of thing)), I got some help with directions from some sex industry workers. They were part of a migrant worker program that imports black men from Trinadad, with the intention of hiring them to advertise for places that accept/cater to foreigners, because of a stereotype that "americans trust black people". They were super nice and helpful and not pushy at all, and totally open to talking about Trinidad/Canada/Japan and the differences in racialized oppression etc (yes I do this everywhere I travel to) since they were having a slow night.
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On October 21 2015 07:06 Alaric wrote:
Do you expect prostitues to yell at a potential client and be all unamicable with him?
By all accounts he lives in a reality where he has become a protagonist in a b tier harem anime. Pretty sure logic is long gone at this point.
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He always happens to have an eel like jaw. That may be why he's only in a b tier harem instead of transcending to the a lists.
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On October 21 2015 07:09 TheHumanSensation wrote:
Sex workers are often really nice people that get an unduely bad rep. Once when I was lost looking for my hotel in Tokyo (which I accidentally booked in a red light district (hotels.com doesn't tell you this sort of thing)), I got some help with directions from some sex industry workers. They were part of a migrant worker program that imports black men from Trinadad, with the intention of hiring them to advertise for places that accept/cater to foreigners, because of a stereotype that "americans trust black people". They were super nice and helpful and not pushy at all, and totally open to talking about Trinidad/Canada/Japan and the differences in racialized oppression etc (yes I do this everywhere I travel to) since they were having a slow night.
Yeah I wanted to talk to them more but as Malaysia is a Muslim country I'm sure I could get beheaded or something.
If it were in Thailand I totally would have sat there and had a chat with them.
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On October 21 2015 07:17 Ketara wrote:Show nested quote +On October 21 2015 07:09 TheHumanSensation wrote:
Sex workers are often really nice people that get an unduely bad rep. Once when I was lost looking for my hotel in Tokyo (which I accidentally booked in a red light district (hotels.com doesn't tell you this sort of thing)), I got some help with directions from some sex industry workers. They were part of a migrant worker program that imports black men from Trinadad, with the intention of hiring them to advertise for places that accept/cater to foreigners, because of a stereotype that "americans trust black people". They were super nice and helpful and not pushy at all, and totally open to talking about Trinidad/Canada/Japan and the differences in racialized oppression etc (yes I do this everywhere I travel to) since they were having a slow night. Yeah I wanted to talk to them more but as Malaysia is a Muslim country I'm sure I could get beheaded or something. If it were in Thailand I totally would have sat there and had a chat with them.
Well, Malaysia isn't a very homogenous country, so it varies significantly by area, but I assume you know this and were just generalizing for people who don't know much about Malaysia. From my understanding of violence against sex workers in Malaysia, you talking with them publicly for an extended period of time would be more dangerous to them than to you, for what that's worth.
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On October 21 2015 04:07 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On October 21 2015 04:03 Gahlo wrote:On October 21 2015 03:27 Sufficiency wrote:On October 21 2015 03:24 Gahlo wrote:On October 21 2015 03:18 Sufficiency wrote:
On the topic of anime, gamespot claims that Annie will be voiced by Kugimiya Rie in the Japanese version of the game.
Urusai? Don't intend to play with Japanese VOs and prefer dubs in anime anyway, so I don't care. You have an extremely minor opinion - likely more minor than GMD's win rate debacle. Don't care. I'd rather spend less time reading when I'm watching something. Uh oh. You are going to get smitten by the tyranny of majority. Jokes aside, English dubs have a lot of problems. The voice acting itself has consistently been bad due to few voice actors and fewer talent. This does not even remotely factor in issues with localizations.
Smote. Smitten is something different entirely. Localizations don't matter to me because I don't read manga.
On October 21 2015 04:07 Requizen wrote:Show nested quote +On October 21 2015 04:03 Gahlo wrote:On October 21 2015 03:27 Sufficiency wrote:On October 21 2015 03:24 Gahlo wrote:On October 21 2015 03:18 Sufficiency wrote:
On the topic of anime, gamespot claims that Annie will be voiced by Kugimiya Rie in the Japanese version of the game.
Urusai? Don't intend to play with Japanese VOs and prefer dubs in anime anyway, so I don't care. You have an extremely minor opinion - likely more minor than GMD's win rate debacle. Don't care. I'd rather spend less time reading when I'm watching something. That's a fine stance to take, one I share. I appreciate that the Subbed voices are better and that the VA scene in Japan is a much higher quality than it is here, but I honestly don't take anime that seriously. Aside from a few special series, it's mostly just stuff I put in when I want a good time, and I don't want to spend as much time reading and jumping back and forth between the action and words.
The actors might be better quality, but it's all japanese to me.
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Being able to understand the audio is always going to be a better experience then reading subtitles. As I can't understand Japanese I like having a version that let's me do this.
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I appreciate that people don't like reading while watching or taking things too seriously in terms of caring about the purest form of the medium, but as someone who has only recently gotten into anime and thus only watched a selective slice of the whole big moe-filled pie, I can say that I firmly prefer the original Japanese voices. I've watched anime dubbed in English (some very artistic stuff, even) and I find myself wishing I hadn't. Unfortunately, as an American buyer, I often don't have (affordable, legal) access to the original Japanese for some of these works because of how the distributor decided to go about things.
Of course, take all this with the knowledge that I am also the kind of person who regularly watches foreign language films and strongly prefers manga to anime in general and there you go. I take my light entertainment extremely seriously.
On October 21 2015 08:21 Parnage wrote:
Being able to understand the audio is always going to be a better experience than reading subtitles. As I can't understand Japanese, I like having a version that lets me do this.
Hm. I disagree in some respects, but it depends on your motivation for watching.
Obviously the very best experience is understanding the Japanese. In all respects, this is the best option. Serious otakus learn Japanese for a reason. If it were easier, I might myself, just because of how much great anime I could re-experience without having to understand the words through a translator.
But as for English voices versus English subtitles, the argument is a little more nuanced. While being able to hear how someone says each individual word and also understanding the meaning of that word at the same time has its advantages, you still lose out in some respects, even if the English dub has stellar voice actors. You're listening to something that has not only been translated, but also probably been localized (this happens in anime too!), which means that the meaning of some things (small or large, as far as the overall experience goes) has been changed. Really, the issue is that you're not getting the same actual anime that someone who watches the original Japanese is. As long as you go in accepting this fact, that essentially you're watching someone's interpretation of the director's work, then there's nothing wrong with this.
The original Japanese with English subtitles still has this issue, but to a much smaller extent. Absolutely no actual editing has been done to the movie. You still understand tone and voices quite well as long as someone even remotely competent put in the subtitles. It is the closest one can get to truly experiencing the work as the director intended it without actually learning Japanese. For me, that means a lot, and I don't mind having to read to get that experience.
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Any good recent shows? I'm watching Gundam Orphans and OPM at the moment.
I got spoiled for Psycho Pass, so that's out
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I usually watch/read things for the plot, so if I get spoiled on a show, it's out usually a no-go for me. If the show is extremely good, I'll watch it despite the spoilers.
If I get spoiled and the plot isn't that big of a component, I'll probably watch it anyways
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