Anime: Like or dislike?

DenSweeP said:
Nice to hear everyone's opinions etc. Shadowfox, you are really into it, it seems. Wow.

The sub-title thing and foreign language is a killer. I'm sure if you can understand Japanese it must be pretty cool watching the original, but if you can't, then reading sub-titles the whole time sucks and the voice over is not the same.
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Hehe ... I'll be honest - I've seen ENTIRE arguments and flame-wars break out about the topic.

Myself - I'm something of a purist - I really, really prefer watching it in Japanese. Sadly, my Japanese is very patchy, so I still need the subs in order to fully understand what is going on. On the flip-side - if the subs are badly written/translated, I DO notice it, and it drives me absolutely nuts.

A very good example here is Kiddy Grade - keep in mind I have the originals - and Funimation did an absolutely shoddy job on the translation - I can't believe they didn't get someone to double check. It was, in short, horrendous. So those with a total lack of knowledge of Japanese will be able to watch the show happily, secure in the knowledge that "professionals" took care of the translations - for myself, it spurs me on to expand on my knowledge so the day I can switch the subs off come that much sooner.

All that being said, Kiddy Grade is one of the series I've come across where the English voice-overs are passable (meaning I don't want to repeatedly stab myself in the ear - as was the case with Negima!) In the end though, it's still not the same.
 
shadowfox said:
Hehe ... I'll be honest - I've seen ENTIRE arguments and flame-wars break out about the topic.

Myself - I'm something of a purist - I really, really prefer watching it in Japanese. Sadly, my Japanese is very patchy, so I still need the subs in order to fully understand what is going on. On the flip-side - if the subs are badly written/translated, I DO notice it, and it drives me absolutely nuts.

A very good example here is Kiddy Grade - keep in mind I have the originals - and Funimation did an absolutely shoddy job on the translation - I can't believe they didn't get someone to double check. It was, in short, horrendous. So those with a total lack of knowledge of Japanese will be able to watch the show happily, secure in the knowledge that "professionals" took care of the translations - for myself, it spurs me on to expand on my knowledge so the day I can switch the subs off come that much sooner.

All that being said, Kiddy Grade is one of the series I've come across where the English voice-overs are passable (meaning I don't want to repeatedly stab myself in the ear - as was the case with Negima!) In the end though, it's still not the same.
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I don't know much japenese. But I can see when the translation is shoddy and it puts me off a bit:(
 
I'm in two minds about anime. I went through a phase where I really loved it, but then I started noticing that characters looked very similar and in almost every setting, i.e. if it was in the year 3000 or year 1, the plots would find a way to have very similar settings. And then they keep adding mystical shit into it which is fine for one or two but eventually got annoying.
 
Also lost interest in anime with all the looonnnggg drawn out series that gained popularity. Then I got hold of a few really good, short series (Ga Rei Zero being the best of them) and I've been rekindling my interest
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I like it. Although it would`nt mind getting more stuff to watch.
I loved the Cowboy Bebop series and busy watching some stuff I got
recently. Only problem is the original voices are better than the dubbed
ones but that means reading subtitles like mad...
 
i am and forever will be a big anime fen it has so many different types you can alleys get what you like
 
BIG fan 4 life!!! Shippuden & Bleach the best.
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I have 50+ complete anime shows and growing steady.

All in Japanese with subtitles, trust me Japanese versions are better and you learn the language quite quickly.

I never used to watch anime because all I could ever get was translated stuff and it irritated the hell out of me, then I got Bleach from a friend and watched it, I was hooked.

I moved on to others like Naruto and Shippuuden (The best), Death Note, Ghost hunt (Creepy, not scary), Higurashi No Naku Koru Ni (OMG) and lots more.

So I love anime.
 
There's so much crap out there, I'm tempted to say no. In the end though, it's the few gems that you find, that make you like the whole genre. I definitely can't say the same for Series. Haven't seen a series that piques my interest since BSG :wtf:
 
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