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This Week in Anime - Where Did "My First Girlfriend is a Gal" Go Wrong?

Why is no one mentioning the fact that Funi is injecting western political crap into their dub completely different from the original's dialogue? If your looking for wacky plots and fanservice Manyuu Hikenchou remains unlocalized, Sentai already got Seikon (boob sucking the anime). Hajimete no Gal didn't have much hype out of me considering it's runtime outed the crap visuals to come, but when escapist content like that is having a narrative edited into its dub I am immediately disgusted. It's bad enough sports, netflix, and hollywood are doing that crap... guess it was only a matter of time before they started doing it for anime...

It's Jamie Marchi. She's a great actress but every time she's a script writer you should avoid that dub like the plague (see Kobayashi, and now this mess).

Aren't most Funimation dubs heavily localized like that? I though it was why people watched them. But I looked up the dub in question and it does seems weird they always pick ecchi anime to try to appease to the "Shonen Jump Weekly millennial cucks". If you told me I'd ever hear that phrase in a dub I'd think you were lying if I hadn't watched it myself.

Minoru was recast right around the time Jill Harris mentioned on twitter that an actor recently had to be recast because he was offended by the content. I'm thinking that was Cris

Something is wrong with "this week in anime". Two people discussed anime which none of them had any reason to watch. They are in ideal agreement about obvious nonsense. I think Steve Jones doesn't exist and this whole dialogue is Jacob Chapman talking with himself.

I read few other "this week" articles, they are just as strange. Participants don't have any personality, they are mutually interchangeable and agree about everything. It doesn't look like a real discussion, just a slightly edited monologue.

Nicholas Dupree and Michelle Liu were introduced like "anime obsessives on Twitter", yet their Twitter IDs were not given. It looks like they obsess about anime in solitude and scared of people following them on Twitter. I'd like to look at their Twitter pages if anyone saw them.

Steve Jones was added without any introduction. It's a good fake name, very common yet not completely obvious.

There was a lot of enthusiastic agreement on things this season because well, it was kinda sparse for content and quality all around. I thought we did a solid job with what we had to work with, but Fall is bound to be a lot more colorful.

We considered linking their twitter profiles in the column itself, but wanted the feature to run for a while before doing so. We might or might not at this point, I'm still thinking about it.

Not_Nitsugalego wrote:

It's Jamie Marchi. She's a great actress but every time she's a script writer you should avoid that dub like the plague (see Kobayashi, and now this mess).

No, its not. Gal's script writer hasn't been announced, but Marchi is writing Restaurant to Another World. That's shows fine, not a comedy or fan service show, so nothing to be worried about

Something is wrong with "this week in anime". Two people discussed anime which none of them had any reason to watch. They are in ideal agreement about obvious nonsense. I think Steve Jones doesn't exist and this whole dialogue is Jacob Chapman talking with himself.

I read few other "this week" articles, they are just as strange. Participants don't have any personality, they are mutually interchangeable and agree about everything. It doesn't look like a real discussion, just a slightly edited monologue.

Nicholas Dupree and Michelle Liu were introduced like "anime obsessives on Twitter", yet their Twitter IDs were not given. It looks like they obsess about anime in solitude and scared of people following them on Twitter. I'd like to look at their Twitter pages if anyone saw them.

Steve Jones was added without any introduction. It's a good fake name, very common yet not completely obvious.

You know, you can lodge complaints and criticisms without resorting to laughable and easily disprovable conspiracy theories that delegitimize them before you've even gotten started.

So here's my twitter, here's Nick's, here's Micchy's, and yes, here's Steve

he's a very real person who we specifically brought onto the team because he has very different tastes and opinions to balance the group out.

There was a lot of enthusiastic agreement on things this season

We considered linking their twitter profiles in the column itself, but wanted the feature to run for a while before doing so.

Why would Jacob be writing a column where he talks to himself?

It just looked to me like something he would do. No unnecessary dissent, full compliance with the correct way of thinking, illusion of consensus of people unrelated to him, significantly easier fluff than actual reviews. Perfect soapbox for venting. And three other just generally looked fake to me. I was wrong apparently. Live and learn.

[While we are on topic of split personalities, I would like to clarify something. Jacob and Hope Chapman are Jacob Hope Chapman, right? Why?

It's almost like this bizarre paranoid fantasy version of Jacob you've constructed in your head has nothing to do with reality!

Jacob formerly went by Hope Chapman online before coming out as transgender. They are not separate people.