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Moderator
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Oh, the American school system has much bigger problems than that. However, a national system will never happen in the U.S. because education is a responsibility relegated to the states by the Constitution. That and other things not being nationalized is partly because the attitude of being distrustful of a national government with too much power is very deeply-ingrained in many (especially rural) parts of the country. But this discussion is causing some serious topic drift, so I won't pursue it further. |
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Aquasakura
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I did watch Demon Girl Next Door during the Summer 2019 season, and thought it was okay with some sweet moments. However the show did not seem to hook me enough. Plus I had trouble following the subtitles at times given how fast they moved (which is due to how fast the characters were talking). At some point I fell off from watching it.
I was thinking the story picks up at some point with certain points that were brought up coming together around the end of the series, and reading this review confirms this. I might go back to watching this anime at some point, but it might be more comfortable for me if I read the manga the anime is base on instead. |
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Fluwm
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Wow. This comment thread sure got weird.
It's worth noting that my personal background is in literary and academic translation, and that game/anime translation is a bit... different. Personally I think the core ethics of translation are universal, but I have to acknowledge that, in practice, mass-media entertainment is held to a different, arguably lesser standard. Like, for me, I translate with the implicit understanding that my audience--the readers--know, understand and accept that they're reading a translation. With entertainment media, however, there is often a desire to obfuscate that process--to make the media in question appear, at least superficially, to be as similar as possible as a product of the culture it's being translated to. This can make localization a difficult tight-rope to walk, and "overlocalization" in this respect is as likely to produce translations that are very well received (the Ace Attorney games, for example) or very poorly (remember 4Kids? Robotech?). It's an especially difficult line to walk today, because on the one hand you want the translation to be as accessible as possible to new audiences unfamiliar with anime in general, while also pleasing to long-time fans that are very familiar with the media. So basically we get weird little situations like this where the needs of marketing trump the needs of a solid translation ethic. Which I don't think is a necessarily bad thing, as it generates discussion, and I think it's a net positive for both the people crafting the translation and the audience consuming it to consider and discuss the process. I can promise you, you really don't see this much discussion surrounding 18th century German poetry. |
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mangamuscle
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This is probably the biggest weakness of Demon Girl Next Door and no doubt the reason it (along with Wasteful Days of High School Girls) ended on hidive instead of Crunchy or Funi. You need to either be used to pause repeatedly or have fast reading skills or have some level of fluency in japanese and all of the above would reduce the viewer pool for this series. Chances are this will be added (right behind Witch Craft Works) to the list of JC Staff animes that deserve IMO a second season 
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