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Hey, Answerman! [2007-04-13]

Steroid wrote:

To answer your question, why are bird-species such big deals to an anime fan, it's the same reason that species are big deals to taxonomists and biologists: it's one more fact, one more bit of truth, added to the store of knowledge.

Expect that most anime fans aren't taxonomists or biologists or at least I've never met one before. Whether the bird is a parakeet or not, it's unimportant to the plot whereas the rant seems to exaggerate its importance and tries to make Bleach appear to be as butchered as a 4Kids dub. I think the point trying to be made is that while it's an annoying change, whether you call it a parakeet or not, it doesn't affect the plot in anyway, so who really cares? There are other more important things to worry about, aren't there? And I find it amusing that the ranter makes a big deal about Viz getting the name of a bird wrong but doesn't even point out all the typos, inconsistent name spellings, and misplaced word speech bubbles that are frequent in the FMA manga. I think that's a far more pressing issue given how much they reoccur in the series and I think it would've made a stronger case for their rant than complaining about what a cartoon bird is called.

Seriously though, please try and link them because I still have no clue how I got from each field to the other