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Hey, Santaman! [2006-12-15]

Such would be the case if a large enough audience was exposed to the dub, but aside from the people who surf the internet, many of the folks who watch CN were sheltered from the "bad" dub for a long while;

the Krieg and Kuro arcs, relatively "less-painful" than the Morgan and Arlong ones, were shown on primte-time Toonami early on, followed by a serious bount of Drum, then Arabasta, and finally a rerun of Drum.

In the United Kingdom, OP took off even during the first trashy 4Kids episodes; it's been theorized that is is due to people "finding the merit" in the show. If the UK could do it with the heavy butchered episodes, why couldn't the US do it with the lightly manhandled ones?

Given that the series was virtually unknown and had mild (though excellent) promotions on CN, I'd say it was a good effort.

I used that group with the hubris complex, and showed people choice fight sequences (namely, Luffy v. Crocodile I); I tried to find an action-packed episode that embodied OP but didn't suffer from a lot of flow weaknesses (as was the case in the East Blue fights).

I had a lot of trouble finding a comparable series, so you'll have to excuse me for that error (if one was made); regarding UM, it resulted in the unusual situation of a second-season being produced exclusively for America (well...), so its popularity cannot be underestimated.

Somehow I doubt that, since Illumitoon are the distributors and VIZ Media had all the opportunity in the world to get the title themselves;

they handled the manga, and have records of how well the manga did.

so for the VIZ manga to fail so profoundly that VIZ won't even touch additional volumes leads me to infer that there isn't much interest in it.

That contrasts all the rave I've heard about Bobobo on various forms, but eh, if OP or Slam Dunk are any indicator of success in America versus Japanese or internet popularity, neither are exactly 100% sound indicators of profitability.

I reinterate; the OP fandom is terrible.

It's pretty unlikely that any company will look at what an enormous failure OP's been here and want to buy its license, and if that did happen, it wouldn't be for quite a while.

If this actually comes to fruition, so help me God...........

I forget who Cosette is, which is sad, since I actually saw this on Broadway.

A new anime "Kaze no Shoujo Emilee"/"Emily Of New Moon" will be airing in Japan on Educational TV in April 2007. The anime will be 26 episodes of 25 minutes each.

The anime is set in late 19th century Canada on the island of Prince Edward. It is about how a girl, Emily, overcomes obstacles to gain happiness in life.

Why do people keep saying that? I used to be a dub-basher when I was just watching the dub and reading the manga, but when I actually saw the original I realized the show in its Japanese form would *never* click with American audiences. It's due to the cultural sterotypes we imprint on anime; something like OP creates a conceptual imbalance in our minds since we expect characters who look as ridiculous as Oda's characters do to be jumping around, screaming or smashing stuff.

Instead they talk about politics, relationships, tactics or engage in "slice-of-life" stuff like eating food or flirting. That kind of show isn't what America would agree with readily; I've shown Japanese OP episodes to people and they've hated the show.

OP fans are just bitter and rabid; I know, I speak with them every day. There's also an atmosphere of denial as well; people are blind to the faults of their own favourite show and refuse to acknowledge that people simply don't like their title.

Les Miserables could be good anime if done well, but giving Cosette saucer eyes is a step in the wrong direction.

Wow! I keep reading more people who think that the rant was great. I suppose it's a good rant from a minimalistic libertarian view (specifically for those who love to here people agree with them), but I found it hollow. I equally hated the rants by the people who were against the "over abundance of nudity and violence in anime, " and I think that the real issue is art. If something clearly has no redeaming quality, then it should be treated more harshly.

I think the rant of this week missed the point of last week's rant which wasn't that "OMG, violence in anime = ebil!", but that it was a satirical rant about the hypocrisy of the supposed lack of complaints regarding violence in anime compared to the complaints about fanservice in anime.....

Eos wrote:

Les Miserables could be good anime if done well, but giving Cosette saucer eyes is a step in the wrong direction.

You have obviously missed the point as to why the Japanese did this in the first place then. Can you point to any anime character who is drawn like a 5-year-old girl who doesn't have saucer eye's?

I know why they did, to make the focus of the story be "don't you feel sorry for Cosette?" I'm just saying I'd rather an adaptation that doesn't center around her but tries to drawn in more from the book.