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Hey, Answerman! [2006-10-20]

Generally they try and release the films once the series has been around long enough to gain a considerable audience.

See Inuyasha for an example of Viz's release strategy regarding the films.

Also, someone else licensing the Bleach movie will not happen. Yes I suppose "anything is possible" but you'd have to throw out a lot of common sense to be "concerned" about that happening.

Lapis Lazuli Lolita wrote:

Someone_II wrote: I'm aware of this, I'm saying that because of the pheonetic similarities that, when spoken, it may not be interpreted as a distinctly japanese name. "Hana" is pronounced "hah-nah". "Hannah" is usually pronounced "haa-nuh", "haa" as in "bat".

Not from New England, I take it?

It's not just the Internet that's negative. "A satisfied customer tells three friends. A dissatisfied customer tells eleven." I've also heard 5 and 19, but it's still about 4 to 1. Unhappy people talk more. Then too, it's just easier to remember what annoyed you. Try it yourself.

Foreign words don't have to be for concepts that don't already exist. Cash, for instance, is Chinese. Boondocks is Tagalog and made it in even though "back in the hills" works just fine. Skosh' was all over the U.S. Army 40 years ago and is slipping into civilian English. Hear a word enough and it creeps into your language. After a while it creeps into other people's. "English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys and takes what it wants."

The vast majority of anime geeks will only watch 'fan-subbed' stuff because obviously, shit that isn't in Japanese is un-American. I'm not a Nazi, but I play one on TV when geeks pelt me with their hypocrisy. Some fag called "Sorata-kun" (You aren't allowed in the japanophile club if your name is Bob) says to me, "Oh, boo hoo, I am Christian and I follow the cross and I follow all laws, you people who download mp3s are evil, Satan is going to assrape you, blaa blah." All the while he is trading his illegally stolen, illegally fansubbed, and illegally distributed anime. Hey geekboy, which part of the Berne Convention are you not understanding?

On this note, it's rather funny that most of the website's screenshots are from fansubs like Love Hina (which I can't even find fansubbed anymore ) and Mahoromatic.

1) The Japanese have studied English a hell of a lot more than Americans/British/Canadians/Australians have studied Japanese. As such, English words in Japanese advertising are far more likely to be recognized than Japanese words in any of those other countries.

I don't have a problem with people basing their fics in Japan or using Japanese names with their characters because it isn't the location or the language you choose to name your characters in that makes fics original. It's the originality of the story and the uniquness of the characters themselves that make a fic creative. You can have your fic located in America and use nothing but Engilsh names for your characers and it can still suck if you use a cliched plot or stereotypical characters. We could re-locate Naruto to New York, call Naruto Nicky and Sasuke Sammy, and change it so that it's about punks instead of ninjas and Naruto will still be a DBZ clone. Besides, if every English anime fanfic writer based their fics in America and used American names, then we'd be in the same boat we already are in now expect the country being used is different. So long as the location of Japan is revelant to your plot and not simply there for a cool factor and you do the proper research, I don't see the problem of basing your fics in Japan or using Japanese names for characters.

Viz would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't wait on releasing the Bleach movie. Judging from the Japanese promo site, it seems to feature characters from the second story arc (which hasn't even finished in the manga release yet); anyone who'd been watching the official US release would be confused if they released it too soon. (The best time to release it would be when the series hits the filler arc, to keep up the fans' interest. The same goes for the Naruto movie, for that matter.)

This was eons ago, of course, but back when they started releasing Ranma 1/2, Viz released the OAVs and movies shortly after they started releasing the TV show. Those OAVs were packed with characters that hadn't shown up yet and, in some cases, wouldn't show up for years. Of course, that was also the first property they ever licensed, so their business practices have obviously changed a lot since then.

Which is good, because if you base your opinion of anime fans (or, hell, anyone in any fandom, really) based on what they say on the internet, they come across as harsh, hateful people who live to complain about things.

I remember seeing a fansub of one of the Ranma movies after having only seen about half the first season of the TV series. It wasn't too hard to follow, but having the shift in the series' tone dropped on me in one chunk was a bit startling (well, that and the shift in the female characters' bustlines for that movie...).