Yet Another Hang Out: Rasgrez loves big thick pickles.

[Spose']

Yes She was in season 1.
F the random kids, more carefully placed contractor fights that centers around the Syndicate is what's needed
But I haven't watched it, so maybe I'll like it, maybe not.

I might enjoy it more if i wasn't so tired but fuck it need to be up 4-5 more hours so.

[Elin]

Which doesn't even get into the fact that a lot of comedy is in the delivery/timing. If you're watching a comedy and only able to understand it through subtitles you are decidedly doing it completely wrong.

We watched Cromartie subbed at anime club. Myself, a couple of other Japanese-capable people and our exchange student friends were all pissing ourselves laughing at it. Not many of the others seemed to take to it. I'm a total subtitles purist, but as far as comedy's concerned, I do think something very powerful is lost in translation. Especially with something like Cromartie, where the ridiculously macho speech styles and delivery employed by most of the characters in Japanese are a big part of what makes it funny, and something that you can't quite translate as well in plain text.

Oh, and +1 on the Japanese voice actors not always being better thing. Back in the Playstation era it's fair to say that Japanese dubs were nearly always better because you were frequently comparing professional actors on the Japanese side to people who had been picked up off the street on the English one (hi Grandia~ ). In recent years, though, the quality seems to be pretty even between Japanese and English. Well... the odd Chaos Wars or Arc Rise Fantasia aside.

Of course I would have to go and stop playing Japanese games in English just when English dubs of Japanese games started to become competent. :'D

[Slacker Magician]

Careful Brit they be fightin words around these here parts.

I don't really care too much for anime, I used to like it more when I was younger, now not so much, I've watched a few series over the past year but I think that tv shows are in general better.

I agree. Anime has always taken second chair for my watching habits, there's just more of it available.

[Spose']

I agree. Anime has always taken second chair for my watching habits, there's just more of it available.

Thing is with TV shows and me its one bad actor and i lose interest in the whole series forever. Once its obvious it's actors it bores me.

[Slacker Magician]

//Goes to make small sandwich
//Notices expiration date is a little past
//Puts entire package onto sandwich

[Nemkoon]

//Goes to make small sandwich
//Notices expiration date is a little past
//Puts entire package onto sandwich

You can only blame yourself for food poisoning.

[Slacker Magician]

You can only blame yourself for food poisoning.

I said a little past .

[Spose']

I said a little past .

That can be enough to catch food poisening sometimes.

[Slacker Magician]

That can be enough to catch food poisening sometimes.

I've a hardy stomach, I'm sure I'll be fine.

[Nemkoon]

*Cue Shard vomiting.

[Sheik]

Lalalalala

Sheras got his laptop, newest challenger awaits

[Slacker Magician]

*Cue Shard vomiting.

I haven't thrown up in years .

[Nemkoon]

[Tassadar]

But why? Some of us know enough Japanese to realize that J voice actors are semi-frequently terrible, overused, or inappropriate for the role.

A good (see: not totally half assed) english dub is no worse than the average japanese dub. Just saying.

I wasn't saying I prefer subs all the time, hell I prefer the GITS SAC dub with Crispin Freeman's glorious voice but I've seen how rabidly the fanbase can be in favour of subs. Secondly I've watched enough films in languages I never understood to know the difference between good and bad voice acting, lastly Raymond I never cared about learning Japanese.

[Raype]

I wasn't saying I prefer subs all the time, hell I prefer the GITS SAC dub with Crispin Freeman's glorious voice but I've seen how rabidly the fanbase can be in favour of subs. Secondly I've watched enough films in languages I never understood to know the difference between good and bad voice acting, lastly I never cared about learning Japanese.

I like you. Come over to my house and fuck my sister.

But yeah, I was mostly just taking it as an opportunity to point out how incredibly absurd sub purists tend to be. Especially the militant ones who immediately cry "foul" if you don't watch everything subbed. And god help you if you genuinely believe the localized version has better acting or some serious localization win. Which, sometimes, they do. Elin might be surprised to learn that Japan actually got an incomplete version of Chrono Trigger's story. The explanation of how Lavos works was cut in Japan, and only put back in with Cross. Everyone else got it because the development notes were made available to the localization teams. In other words, the plot makes more sense if you aren't playing it in its original language. I like how this works.