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By the way one more thing related to Azumanga Daioh and mecha anime
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Found this edit online featuring Yukari as Shinji's rommate in place of Misato
 
Azumanga reminded me of a dubbism that a few english dubs used to do in the early 2000s where if a character had an Osakan/Kansai accent, they would give said character a southern or Texan accent (iirc it bled in to a couple fan sub groups as well).
Azumanga did this, Love hina did this, and I think one or two other popular shows did this (this was 20ish years ago so can't remember which). Haven't watched any dubs recently so no clue if they still do this, I know subs stopped doing this since the few times I've noticed a character speaking in a dialect, most of the time they don't change the subs aside from maybe putting a ya or yer instead of you or if a word ends in -ing replacing it with -in'
 
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I'm currently watching IRODUKU with my gal-pal, which is an heavily underrated anime with very beautiful visuals so far. Doesn't have any fanservice at all, and it's generally a wholesome time-travelling anime where the granddaughter revisits her grandmother in the past to "treat" her color blindness and lack of emotions.
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It's really good for 2018 anime standards, pretty much I liked it so far. I really like the art style, especially with the mix of realistically sized eyes and facial proportions similar to SSSS.Gridman, another tokusatsu that I am biased towards to. Our next on the list is Majo no Tabitabi and Umamusume (liked Special Week and Haru Urara), and we just finished Sakamoto Days recently.

Really like Blue Archive's lore, but the animation sucks cock, and fuck off with the fanservice of underaged girls. I don't watch anime that much, but I'd occassionally pick one if I am bored. I still love Kara no Kyoukai, as it's the best Nasuverse series, alongside with Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime (no such thing as the Tsukihime anime).
 
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is there a particular reason everybody in Kaiju #8 looks like poorly drawn Naruto extras?
 
Does anyone remember this anime information book from the early 2000s?:

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I wonder what this kind of book would be like if it were made today, since this book is almost 25 years old now.

Here's some highlights for the book that were interesting:
  • While some older isekai titles were mentioned, i.e. Magic Knight Rayearth, Fushigi Yuugi, Escaflowne, and Inuyasha, isekai wasn't specifically described as a theme or genre.
  • I don't think the book mentioned about Dragon Ball Z, and Pokémon was only briefly mentioned, even though those shows were running at that time, I think. I don't remember how big the DBZ and Pokémon anime fanbases were at that time though.
  • The book was made years before the moe craze kicked off, as shows like Haruhi, Lucky Star, and K-On! were still years away before they released.
  • While it mentioned about some shows that parodied other ones, namely how Pretty Sammy parodied Magical Girl shows, parody also wasn't labelled specifically as a theme or genre, as it was years before shows like Gintama that really kicked that genre off too.
  • The sports section was also very small, although this book is from a US (?) perspective. Older sports shows like Ashita no Joe, Attack No.1, and Attacker YOU! weren't mentioned, even though the latter two were popular in Europe with young girls because those two shows also received dubs in their languages, i.e. German and Italian. In German, Attack No.1 was called Mila Superstar, and in Italy, Attacker YOU! was called Mila e Shiro. In some of those European countries, Attacker YOU! was labelled as sequel to Attack No.1, and YOU!'s MC (You Hazuki) was called the cousin of No.1 MC (Kozue Ayuhara), even though the two shows were not related to each other at all. Although to be fair, Attack No.1 and Attacker YOU! didn't get English fansubs until much later, as OldCastle did the No.1 subs from 2017-2019, and JohnnyEnglishSubs did the YOU! subs starting in 2015, and finished it just this year.
 
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BingBongDingDong said:
Should I watch the 2008 version of spice and Wolf or the 2024?
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I think 08' has more era faithful music, and it must have done something right to get the following it did in the first place.
Eddie Riggs said:
It's 2025 and Anime is more normalized than ever.

Thoughts?
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Nothing says "unique and original" quite like normalization... Shit is too westernized, trying too hard to court a western audience, and increasingly getting bought out by (((western companies and streaming monopolies))), becoming milquetoast.

Recent example, I read the 90s Green Gables manga and they included the kids doing indian war-whooping around a fire, as they should have (we did that kind of stuff when I was a kid). And while the nuAnime covered the scene, the kids' feathered headdresses were removed for some dumb (guessing post-modern) reason. Then the dub of the scene came out, and of course they removed even the whooping... so now the kids are just laughing retardedly around a fire, moving their hands around their mouths like something is wrong with them because the faggots at CR naturally would never besmirch scalper indians noble savages. oy gevalt... how utterly predictable.
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Azumanga reminded me of a dubbism that a few english dubs used to do in the early 2000s where if a character had an Osakan/Kansai accent, they would give said character a southern or Texan accent (iirc it bled in to a couple fan sub groups as well).
Azumanga did this, Love hina did this, and I think one or two other popular shows did this (this was 20ish years ago so can't remember which). Haven't watched any dubs recently so no clue if they still do this, I know subs stopped doing this since the few times I've noticed a character speaking in a dialect, most of the time they don't change the subs aside from maybe putting a ya or yer instead of you or if a word ends in -ing replacing it with -in'
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Magical shopping arcade abenobashi does this, the main characters sound like they're straight out of Huckleberry Finn. As for why, part of it I imagine, is the fact that a lotta dubbing took place in Texas, and part of it is dubbing/subbing in general has been slowly been taken over by a handful of people, who probably seethe at the idea of yee haw cowboy accents still existing.

Eddie Riggs said:
It's 2025 and Anime is more normalized than ever.

Thoughts?
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Lot of the fun unique shit went away a long time ago. Still a few animes I like coming out, like jujitsu kaisen and Delicious in Dungeon, but for the most part when I look at a season list I just see the institutional shit like Conan or one piece, generic otaku/tranny bait shit or fucking endless "I was hit by a truck and now I'm [x] in a new world!?" shit.

I don't think it's specifically because of the west though, feels like the crunch anime has to go through just kind of kills most projects, and the need to sell merchandise and blue rays means they target otakus HEAVILY.
 
NoonmanR said:
Magical shopping arcade abenobashi does this, the main characters sound like they're straight out of Huckleberry Finn. As for why, part of it I imagine, is the fact that a lotta dubbing took place in Texas, and part of it is dubbing/subbing in general has been slowly been taken over by a handful of people, who probably seethe at the idea of yee haw cowboy accents still existing.
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I actually did find this from the old ADV release that went over why they chose to do a southern accent, the fact that company was based in Texas probably was the reason the went with it over something like an east or west coast accent.
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Ayumu Kasuga's Accent - Being from Osaka, she does have an Osakan accent, but it is very soft. The stereotypical Osakan accent is harsher and interspersed with local vocabulary. This is what Miss Yukari and the students initially try to get her to speak. In the English dub, this has been equated to a Southern accent from around the Houston area, which shares the business-oriented attitude with Osaka as well as the country image that color both the Southern and Osakan accents.
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Part of me does think that the fact few if any subs or dubs tries to take in to account regional accents is a bit of a loss since unless your someone who actually has gone out of their way to learn Japanese most of it will probably go over peoples head (and even then most people learning jap probably need to be really deep to start catching it)

Then again its probably a very thin line to use any accent and not come off as fucking stupid. Might not be as bad as some when they shove in internet meme lingo like some shows, but its probably safer to just pretend everyone is speaking standard Japanese and translate as such.
 
I really do miss hearing accents in dubs, they were pretty charming. I've recently been thinking back to Nerima Daikon Brothers where Luci Christian puts on a southern-belle accent for Mako, since she has an Okayama dialect in Japanese, though apparently they were considering Cajun at first, but Luci obviously couldn't do it.

I kinda wonder what was the last dub to have an accent since they've fought rabidly to discontinue that practice. If a voice-actor just has a natural accent, that works, too.
 
For those of you who managed to finish watching Tasuketsu, does the show get any better later on? After the 3 episode rule, I'm still confused as to what the game's rules are. It's somehow more confusing than King's Game's rules, even though that game also tacks on more rules later on to kill more people. Regarding Tasuketsu, the part where a bunch of characters are brought back to life after dying was so fucking stupid, and I was baffled that a death game would resort to that tactic. Also, since the show is 24 episodes instead of the usual 12, do they put filler shit in the show too?

I'm also not liking how the deaths in Tasuketsu don't have the violence and gore that King's Game's deaths were, even though those deaths were a bit too over the top and became boring due to the lack of variety in death methods, as it's mostly hangings and exploding in showers of blood.
 
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