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Thursday, January 26, 2006


   Tired Ramblings!!
Again with the random!! Well I hadn't posted anything in a while and as I actually have a topic this time I thought I'd have a go!! This may turn into a long ramble, but we'll see how we go!! Lol.

The otherday I noticed just how strongly I felt about anime and how my opinions about it have changed.

When I first got into anime, about 3 and a half years ago, one of the first things I did was to go on the net and find out what shows were available and which ones to look out for. What I found were countless review pages and hundreds of posts in forums with people bitching about how they thought the english dub of a show ruined the original intent, or how the credits theme had been changed or cut on certain DVD releases etc. This really irritated me, why couldn't people just sit back and enjoy the show? Why was a closing credit sequence that important?

Then the other day, I was just looking through a number of anime forums, I think it was on IMDB.com and I saw a number of comments that really annoyed me. This is specifically relating to the Dragonball series, where somebody had asked a question about the Japanese themes to one of the series, and was then mocked by another member for liking the original Japanese music. This was followed by alot of other comments agreeing the Japanese music sucked compared the English Dub themes. For those who don't know, when DBZ and DBGT were dubbed into English, they re-recorded all the background music as well as the opening and closing themes!! Lol, this is where I noticed the change in my opinion, I had become one of those fans from the forums.
I got so annoyed, these kids were adamant that the dull generic rock type music used in the dub was better than the music which was originally intended because it was 'ROCK' and anyone who prefered the Japanese version could go to Hell and was a moron etc!! Well you get the point, their narrow mindedness irrtated me.

Finally, I get to the point!! I now see what people were getting at when they were complaining about dubbing etc. It's all about individual preferences. For example, Dragonball Z. I enjoyed that series, the version I borrowed only had Japanese audio with subtitles which didn't worry me at all. However when I got the chance to watch some episodes in English, I realised just how much I prefered the Japanese dub....Alot!! But then on the flip side of the coin, there are shows such as Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemi where I think the English dub conveys the humour so much better than reading the subtitles.
So, as I'm starting to ramble again, the final point I'm trying to make is that there is no right or wrong in the dub/sub debate, it's up to the individuals preference, there's no point in watching someething you don't enjoy!!

Apologies to anyone who sat and read all that, I'm pretty sure you're sat there wishing you could get the last 2-3 minutes of your life back that you just wasted!! Lol. Thank you for humoring me!!


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