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ikillchicken
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I've been aware of the Attack on Titan manga for quite a while at least insofar as I'd heard the name mentioned a fair bit. I hadn't read it or really looked at it in detail though. Now that I'm watching the anime though I've learned that, in actuality, the show is more or less a fantasy series set on Earth (or at least an Earth-like world) about people fighting actual giants called Titans. The odd thing is though, that for as long as I've been aware of it I was under the impression that it was actually a Sci-Fi series about a war on Saturn's moon Titan. In retrospect, I have no idea why I thought this. That's certainly an obscure and specific concept and I can't imagine where I got that impression. The only possible connection I can think of is that the Cowboy Bebop movie's back story involved a war on Titan. Other than that the only other explanation I can think of is that for some strange reason my mind heard "Titan" and for some reason thought of the moon instead of the mythological creature and then put together the rest by implication.
So what about you guys? Anything like this ever happen to you? It doesn't have to be the premise of a show. It could be anything in or about anime that you somehow managed to totally misunderstand. |
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Rhyono
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| Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:57 pm |
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| When I first watched the trailer, I jumped to the conclusion it was going to be heavily steam punk based on the propulsion for his equipment. I didn't even pay close enough attention to notice that he wasn't using a flying contraption of any normal sort. |
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lesterf1020
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:37 am |
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I do it all the time. I always have silly preconceived misconceptions on anime shows. It's one of the reasons I try to watch everything in a new season because I frequently misjudge shows based on previews and word of mouth.
based on the title I thought that Kiss Dum: Engage Planet was an ecchi harem comedy. Imagine my surprise when it turns out to have a lot more in common with Blue Gender.
I thought Al was the Full Metal alchemist.
I thought Najica Blitz tactics was nothing but soft core porn with pantyshots.
Based on the Mecha designs and the first episode I thought that Zegapain was the most cliched mecha story in the universe designed to sell hideous mecha action figures to preteens.
I thought Dance in The Vampire Bund was nothing but loli porn.
You don't want to know what the character designs of the girls in Divergence Eve made me think that show was about.
In the case of Sci-Fi Harry the description always made me think that every time Harry was forced to use his power one of his friends or family would die as some sort of compensation and thus he always had to make a decision to sacrifice someone when using his power. |
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Animegomaniac
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:51 am |
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Attack of The Titans or even Attack on The Titans would sound better as the problem is the rather useless preposition/proper noun combination; I thought it meant the moon or maybe a planet as well as "On {proper noun}" is indictative of location and not thing {unless that living thing is big as a planet?}. The spanish title, "Ataque a Los Titanes", makes more sense in english than the english title.
So, in short, it's not a misunderstanding, it's a dumb title, official or otherwise. |
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Galap
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:51 am |
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^^ I do want to know what you thought about Divergence Eve  .
Anyways, since I'd only heard the title spoken aloud and never saw it written down until much later, I always thought Chi's Sweet Home was "Cheese Sweet Home". The funny thing is, that never even really struck me as terribly odd, because lots of anime have pretty odd English in their names. |
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Touma
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:07 pm |
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| ikillchicken wrote: | ... Attack on Titan ...
The odd thing is though, that for as long as I've been aware of it I was under the impression that it was actually a Sci-Fi series about a war on Saturn's moon Titan. In retrospect, I have no idea why I thought this. That's certainly an obscure and specific concept and I can't imagine where I got that impression. |
I had the same impression (actually until just now) but I know that I got that impression because I was a fan of science fiction long before I ever knew about anime. I have read a lot of stories with titles similar to "Attack on [some planet or moon]" so I just naturally thought of that when I saw "Attack on Titan."
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| Animegomaniac wrote: | | Attack of The Titans or even Attack on The Titans would sound better ... |
I agree. The use of an article adjective would have made a big difference.
Whoever wrote the English title should have realized that.
| Quote: | | So, in short, it's not a misunderstanding, it's a dumb title, official or otherwise. |
Actually it is a misunderstanding, which is caused by the dumb title.
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I also thought that "Tiger and Bunny" would be a cute kid's show about a tiger and a bunny. Sort of like "Hello Kitty" or "My Little Pony."
I still have not seen the show or read the manga, but I am now pretty sure that my impression was wrong.
Based on the premise and the cover image I expected "Maid-sama" to be mostly a fan service show. I was somewhat disappointed to learn that it has amazingly little fan service. But I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it is a very enjoyable and entertaining romantic comedy. I think that I probably like it much more as it is than I would have liked it as a fan service show.
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classicalzawa
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:14 pm |
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| lesterf1020 wrote: | | In the case of Sci-Fi Harry the description always made me think that every time Harry was forced to use his power one of his friends or family would die as some sort of compensation and thus he always had to make a decision to sacrifice someone when using his power. |
Ditto, it was described as "someone close to him will die" for those curious, and I thought that meant personal. But it actually meant physical proximity. I think the former would've clearly been more interesting, as he never seems to kill anyone he knows (even if they're in close physical proximity, being a named character somehow tends to spare them).
The description of Key the Metal Idol made it sounds like it would be a more moe friendship gathering story. Clearly this is the exact opposite of what it actually is, but the moe idea made it seem very unappealing to me, so I am happy.
I thought the Fruits Basket manga would 1) maybe have something to do with fruit gift baskets and 2) be nothing more than a magical animal hugging shape change comedy. It drops this guise really damn quickly. It also took me a while to figure out that "fruit" was the plural word, not "basket".
I though Astro Boy was gonna be like US superhero comics, or just going around punching and fighting things. The 1980 series is probably the most straightforward, but Astro is actually really awesome and quite tormented by often being asked to pick a side between robots and humans. Seeing how most people who haven't tried the manga or any anime know him based on pictures and reputation and don't want to go into it due to it being so old, this is an easy mistake to make, but there really is a lot to Astro Boy, in part because Osamu Tezuka can't let things go without some sort of moral question. Though I will say that the stories made earlier (chronologically, Dark Horse used a Japanese edition that published them out of order, but had all the stories) are pretty basic and rather "meh", but the good stories are some of the best ones I've ever read/seen.
Also, the GBA game is easy to dismiss as yet another cheesy property game, but that is because people aren't looking at the bigger picture. Namely the "Treasure" picture, as they'll make a damn good game no matter what they have to put in there. It also didn't help that the PS2 game was made by Team Sonic and was one of their worst efforts ever. The GBA game is also a damn good Astro Boy story (albeit one whose definition of "Omega Factor" is in direct opposition to the 1980 series), not just a damn good game, and an awesome Osamu Tezuka character cameo factory, so do get it if you have a GBA, people!
For everything else that I can think of, I either got a pretty clear picture, or didn't have any real expectations to begin with (there certainly are things best seen with no background). |
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ThisShadeOfCrimson
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:34 pm |
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| Some people expected there to be more jazz than there was in Kids on the Slope. I expected more snowboarding. |
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Scytalle
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:13 pm |
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| The first thing I thought when I read the thread title was how I had mistakenly thought Attack on Titan was a sci-fi mecha show in outer space. Now I see that at least a few people also thought this. I swear I saw a preview or a show synopsis to back this up, but I'm not finding anything now. Kind of an odd coincidence... |
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TitanXL
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| Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:18 pm |
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| Only thing that comes to mind is the way someone described Baka and Test to me made it sound like a monster battling show. Kids who go to school to learn to summon beast and stuff and battle with other classes? Sounded fun. Not really what I envisioned when I watched it. |
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Tris8
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| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:24 pm |
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When I bought Now and Then, Here and There, before watching it I looked at the covers of the 3 singles. I saw a guy and a girl on the cover of the first volume, and what I thought was the same guy and girl, only years older on the 3rd volume cover. So while watching, I was anticipating a time skip that didn't exist  By the third-to-last episode, I was thinking 'dang, how are they going to make this time skip work?' Didn't figure it out until the second-to-last episode. |
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yotsubafanfan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:50 pm |
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I thought Nichijou was an action anime the first time I read about it.  |
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EricJ
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| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:57 pm |
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As I'd mentioned on another thread, I was first mystified as to why everyone was giving such good early buzz about Bodacious Space Pirates--
What, it wasn't some cheap US porn company's generically-retitled English dub of a hentai title?  |
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Chiibi
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| Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:16 pm |
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| lesterf1020 wrote: |
I thought Al was the Full Metal alchemist. |
That is great.
I can hear Ed screaming with rage in my head.
Um....
I thought Inuyasha was a girl the first time I saw a manga pic of him
*winces*
Was still very new to anime at that time....ugh.....
I thought Pita-Ten was shoujo.
And was very disturbed to find out it was aimed at adult men. |
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Polycell
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| Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:02 am |
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| Chiibi wrote: | | lesterf1020 wrote: |
I thought Al was the Full Metal alchemist. |
That is great.
I can hear Ed screaming with rage in my head. |
I'm pretty sure that the first anime made a crack along those lines in the first episode. |
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