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Hey, Answerman! [2008-05-09]

I had a cat like that. It would lay cutely close to and seem to snuggle with the bunny. What this picture is missing is that, at least in my cat's case, the bunny was usually missing, well, major bunny parts from about the ribcage down. Or twitching itself to a slow death after it's neck had been broken. Once we found only the bunny's face. But the cat was cuddling up to it ever so sweetly. I'd send pictures but we were too busy vomiting to focus.

Zac wrote:

(live-action Fist of the North Star, anyone?)

Oh, you sick sunnava.... Why? This movie is oh so ho-ho-horrible. It's probably best left unspoken further.

Let's be honest, though. Americans(Westerners) also have a different cultural mindset for crime shows from the Japanese. We go for Dirty Harry/Lethal Weapon/Die Hard/24-style law enforcement, while the Japanese go for detective stories. That doesn't mean our psycho cop cliches do horribly in Japan, though. [Hell, Satoshi Kon recently talked about "Live Free or Die Hard", "Shoot-em-up", and "Revolver" in some of his blog entries.] But they clearly have the patience to sit through mysteries, while we'll only watch those things if the emphasis is on the severity of the killings, and not on the detective-work. [See Se7en.]

That being said, I would likely nominate one of the barrage of popular moe trashfests, like Clannad or Kanon. Or Rumbling Hearts, which is a 2D melodrama based on a porn game. It's as though nobody even cares about plot or originality any longer.

penguintruth wrote:

That being said, I would likely nominate one of the barrage of popular moe trashfests, like Clannad or Kanon. Or Rumbling Hearts, which is a 2D melodrama based on a porn game. It's as though nobody even cares about plot or originality any longer.

Yay! Good job!! I absolutely agree.

For worst dub ever, what about the Ghost in the Shell movie? I can't remember what particularly made it so bad since I only saw it one time 5 years ago, but it was unbearable. We eventually had to switch over to subtitles to keep watching, and when we did, it seemed like the dialouge wasn't even on the same subject in that scene.

Dorcas_Aurelia wrote:

For worst dub ever, what about the Ghost in the Shell movie? I can't remember what particularly made it so bad since I only saw it one time 5 years ago, but it was unbearable. We eventually had to switch over to subtitles to keep watching, and when we did, it seemed like the dialouge wasn't even on the same subject in that scene.

It certainly wasn't the worst, but I will agree that it is bad. The actors sounded too much like they were reading from a script when they're suppose to be sounding natural. I always wished they would redub it with the series actors, but that probably won't happen.

For worst dub ever, what about the Ghost in the Shell movie? I can't remember what particularly made it so bad since I only saw it one time 5 years ago, but it was unbearable. We eventually had to switch over to subtitles to keep watching, and when we did, it seemed like the dialouge wasn't even on the same subject in that scene.

After all, if something is extremely popular, it must be overrated garbage, am I right?

I expect at least one Tang joke, the use of the term "emo" (the most intellectually devoid charge assigned to any person or work within the past decade), a declaration of how the manga version of whatever title was better, and some suggestion that "if the fans of [X] weren't so annoying, I'd like it more".

That being said, I would likely nominate one of the barrage of popular moe trashfests, like Clannad or Kanon. Or Rumbling Hearts, which is a 2D melodrama based on a porn game. It's as though nobody even cares about plot or originality any longer.

The most overrated anime for me would be Bleach. It just feels like they took parts from Dragonball Z, Ruroni Kenshin and other like-scenario anime, smooshed them together and called it good. It's nothing I haven't seen before.

Oddly enough, everyone I know who is absolutely nuts about Bleach has never Kenshin and only the Buu Saga of DBZ.

Because using big words makes you better than them.

Submit your own if you feel they're "laughable". Otherwise, respect other people's opinions.

Heck, respect their opinions to begin with.

Most overrated anime: Probably FMA. Its good, but its not the be all and end all. I liked it, but for me it wasnt as epic as it seemed to be for others.

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why are there no Japanese versions of American cartoons.