Anime: Like or dislike?

On that note, any recommendations on new anime that is out?

Its a like from me.

Death note and Neon Genesis are my all time favourites

Hunter X Hunter is also a good anime or Berserk

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Originally Posted by Molezoe

Its a like from me.

Death note and Neon Genesis are my all time favourites

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Death Note is the best anime I have seen yet....

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Originally Posted by DenSweeP

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.

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Originally Posted by shadowfox

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.

absolutely love!
anime beats everything for me! even gaming!

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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dislike .