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Mawaru Penguindrum's dub being directed by... Steven Foster?

You might as well not watch anime if you have so little regard for an English dub's accuracy to the original product.

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"English is the original to me." This is not a matter of opinion. It is a FACT that the Japanese version is the original. If the Japanese original didn't exist, the English version wouldn't exist, because there wouldn't be anything to dub in the first place!

You don't even care if an English dub is inaccurate? If it disrespects the original material? If it spits in the face of the hard working people who made the show in the first place? You might as well not watch the show at all if that's your attitude. An anime is Japanese. The people who made it, the people who originated the storyline, the dialogue, the music, the voices, all Japanese. Now, that doesn't make them inherently superior because they're Japanese, it makes them the first, it makes them important because they were the first, that this product doesn't exist without them.

English dubs are a marketing tool. An anime can exist without an English dub. It cannot exist without the Japanese crew. It simply does not exist without them.

You might as well not watch anime if you have so little regard for an English dub's accuracy to the original product.

To me, the English is the original, I'm NEVER going to watch the Japanese track, to me, it's a worthless add-on to me. Todd and Jason with be the voices of Allen and Lavi to me, not the Japanese VA.

getchman--
I think that the movie (5cm/sec) has an upbeat -- albeit open-ended -- ending. You should really watch the sub version!

Wow. Pretending that Japanese anime is actually American cartoons is certainly a curious approach. Guess that's one way to overcome cultural identity crisis

Yes, Japan does a better job at making them visually appealing, but western made cartoons also have more details having in the background, they're not standing around and the mouth just moving.

Wow.

How would you feel if Japan took, let's say, Ben 10 (really, Ben 10? Hahahahaha...) and changed it's script drastically, rewriting whole portions of it, effectively changing the context of the scenes and thus the show itself, took out its music, gave it their own (actually, I'm pretty sure they did this... The Pillows did a song for the show in Japan), and hired VAs that totally missed the things the original English VAs were trying to put across?

Would it not be a slap to the face to the original product?

The English dub of an anime is its ambassador to the English-speaking costumer. If they do one at all for an anime, it has to reflect the Japanese show as closely as possible. Otherwise it stops being the show and starts being something different.

Have you watched any anime released in, like, the last 10 years? I haven't seen a show abuse static animation like that in ages.

And just because kids think something doesn't mean it's right, or that an more experienced viewer can't have a different opinion. I mean, kids think that Shakespeare is something long and boring they have to read for class and Math useless and dumb. Doesn't make it true

Just because something is legal to do, doesn't make it right to do it.

Uh...no duh, I still watch anime. I plan to get Shiki, but watch every DETAIL in an Japanese animation and a western cartoon, western cartoons will have more stuff going on in the background. In anime these days, when they're not fighting and crap like that, they'll just have them standing around and have them talk, nothing else will be going on. Anime might've gotten move visually appealing over the years, but at the lose of detail.

Anime is 2-d drawn character and background with music playing in the background. Western cartoons, they're 2*d drawn characters and background with music playing. I don't see WHY I cna't call them a cartoon, they're the same damn thing. it's like my parents keep calling them "cartoons" I'm not going to fight when about it and tell them different because they're right, they're just a different verity of cartoon. Hell, fans were giving Eric Vale the middle finger because he called anime "cartoons," it's all what you grow up on, simple as that. It's not something to get all pissed about.

Can I point out...that Afro Samurai is something drawn by Gonzo studio, but only has a dub-track. Do yo whine and cry about the fact the release is dub-only, even though it was we most know that Gonzo is a Japanese production studio.

You honestly think anime would be as "popular' unless companies did add the English track? I don't think so because Funimation and Sentai have both said that 80% of the fans are dub fans. Most of those people mostly only care about the English cast, so to see who voiced a curtain character and meet them at a con.