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INTEREST: Live-Action Web Show Reinterprets Thomas the Tank Engine as a Japanese Salaryman


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mdo7



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2022 12:17 pm Reply with quote
Oh Japan, this country never cease to amaze me with their antics. Laughing Razz But seriously, I don't understand why they're doing this for, who's the target audiences for these shorts? I mean little kids (the demographic that watch Thomas the Tank engine) won't understand this, & adults don't make up a significant fanbase to warrant this.
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one3rd



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2022 1:06 pm Reply with quote
Tenchi wrote:
I'd say it's weird to hear Thomas speaking with a Japanese woman's voice but, then again, it's weird for me to hear Thomas speaking at all since Ringo Starr just provided the characters lines within the narration. (I'm talking about the original British TV shorts that aired as-is on Canadian television in the mid-1980s before they were even incorporated into Shining Time Station. I don't think Shining Time Station even premiered on PBS until I was already in my teenage years.)

Today, I learned that both Ringo Starr and George Carlin were in a PBS show that I watched as a child.
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mrmoviemanic1



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 7:13 am Reply with quote
This is pretty genius.
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