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DragonsRevenge
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What happened to the original thread?
Oh well. My thoughts are still the same. |
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hooliganj
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My apologies, my remarks were regarding the review, not the preview, and when I clicked on the button marked "Respond to this Review" it took me straight to the posting window. As for the "beat you up" talk, it was simply a response to the rather juvenile condescension I found in the article. Judging by the responses in the rest of this thread, your preview article contained a similar tone. Instead I'll offer a wild speculation, one that is as groundless and based on derivative interpretation as some of the statements in the review. How much money changed hands to make a supposedly unbiased reviewer espouse this dub so closely? Before you get insulted, remember that I imagine this implication to be as true as the statement that Gakkou no Kaidan has 0 fans. |
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Winter
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Yes, I'm sure those "groundless" statements in the review were meant to be taken as 100% sincere and factual and not at all derived from a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. |
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hooliganj
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Sarcasm aside, I was sure that they were; hence my original, equally tongue-in-cheek response about what to do with the stick. However, my response was taken more seriously, and so I am forced to assume that a sense of humor was also absent in the original review, and equally not welcome here, in which case the statemens were groundless, and not a little offensive. |
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Winter
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Yet you treated his assertion that Ghost Stories has 0 American fans (an obviously false and presumptuous assertion made in a tongue-in cheek manner) with total seriousness, just as he responded to your statement about the stick seriously. Looks to me like the pot's calling the kettle black.
That's a pretty big leap in logic, and a very self-serving one at that. |
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GATSU
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hkrok:
Um, there's more to kung fu films than fighting. There's a ton of cultural references to Kung Fu Hustle alone. You can't appreciate half the film if you don't have an understanding of the setting.
You obviously have not seen Dragonball or Flame of Recca. Steve:
Same here. I think Macek respected the vision of the original series better than most companies would have at the time. And let's face it. The Japanese ripped off his idea of Max and Miriya having children when they did Macross 7. |
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Andromeda
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[quote="antonmonter"]
Ah, yes. Except, you know, for that little thing called Freedom of Speech. If I want to very vocally disagree with you on something as ridiculously trivial as a single inaccurate anime dub, I am well within my rights. Oh, and Anton? I know perfectly well that unless you're completely dyslexic (which, funny, you didn't mention previously) you called me "Androshit" in a bad mixture of Ancient Greek and Spanish (oh, yes, by the way, Andromeda is a Greek feminine name, from mythology. Which, you know, you'd know if you had bothered to Google it?). Do stop mangling languages, if you're going to complain about ADV supposedly mangling translations (in general, according to you, not just this dub) from one language into another language that you don't speak at all fluently. I live in Florida. ADV is over somewhere in Texas, last I checked. The only place I work is a picture framing and art restoration place. The closest I've even come to anyone from ADV is meeting Tiffany Grant at a con last year, and mostly we just talked about cool women characters in anime, which I somehow doubt was an attempt at brainwashing or hiring me. Just because I happen to like a lot of their RECENT DVD releases, doesnt' mean I'm working for them. And yeah, I'm completely "wrong" and an "Androshit" just because I pointed out how stupid a comparision between Enron and ADV is, since ADV has done nothing actually, you know, illegal? Or that it's not a "bad" business idea unless it causes them to lose money (again, I never said it wouldn't be offensive to some, but that doesn't mean that as a business practice, which implies simply a way of doing business, business being simply a means to make money, it's a bad idea; it's only a bad business idea if it makes them lose profits). Riiight. Anton, you seem to imply that I'm less intelligent or mature than you. However, I don't recall calling you a "shit" or implying, say, that you work for Bandai or one of ADV's other competitors simply because you disagree with my opinion. Funny, must have slipped my mind, my doing either of those things.
I felt it was neccesary to point out where he was being ridiculous. That's my perspective, therefore, sorry, out of your control. And it was certainly appropriate to the topic, which was about this release, which includes discussion of the dub, the translations, and the concept of the release.
You give cash back? Huh? Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist. I think that may be a typo, could you please clarify what you meant?
There you go. That's a better way of putting it, Steven. Disliking it is one thing. Implying it's bad for their business (which some have) just because you dislike the idea behind it is different, and that's one of the things I was responding to. I don't recall saying anything much more than basically, a few people are taking way the heck too seriously. True, my words were slightly cruder than that perhaps (I'm PMSing, and had vomited during the day, so I wasn't exactly in what you'd call a "polite" mood), but the meaning is the same: it's not the end of the blood world just because ADV made a goofed up dub of a children's series that few have heard of. Real fans of the original version of this particular show will be watching subs anyway. Anybody who knew the series and was a fan before this had to have been watching it subbed or in raw Japanese anyway to begin with.
Er, who are you replying to here? Anton? Just curious, your post wanders a bit, and it's a little late at night for me. I think it's funny that somebody in this thread suggested that people who care about Japanese culture don't watch dubs. Explain to me then, all the fans Adult Swim brings in who because they saw a few episodes of a show or three dubbed, continously absorb and spout cultural tidbits and Japanese slang. True, they don't KNOW the culture very well yet, but it can't be said that they don't like or care about the original culture JUST because they prefer dubs. Hell, I prefer dubs most of the time unless the dub is poor (read: awkward translations and bad acting, obsessive cuts). That doesn't mean I don't also watch a LOT of anime subtitled or even raw as well, it just means that I like watching something translated to my own language, in audio in my own language. I still prefer certain series, such as CCS or Sailor Moon, subtitled if the translation wasn't accurate or the acting was horrible in the dub. Like I said, if I buy this, I will be checking out BOTH versions, that includes the subbed original series.
Like I said, I don't work for ADV. I can't even be said to KNOW anyone from ADV, since I only talked occasionally with Ms. Grant and her husband at a three-day con (because most of the panels I went to ended up being co-hosted by them or they showed up for them), and we hardly shared life stories with each other, let alone talked business. So, it's a moot point. I also find it rather incredible that anybody who defends a company or says they don't particularly care that a series they're not even a FAN of yet got a bad or weird dub, or says that "I like ADV, alongside Bandai and Manga Video, because they have cool extras on some of their DVDs", is automatically assumed to be in ADV's employ. I have to ask anyone who would believe this if they also believe that Elvis was abducted by aliens, the Stargate is real, and Godzilla really does attack Japan on a regular basis? Because those would make just as much sense. I'd also like to add that for the most part, Bandai and ADV are two of the three companies (the other being Geneon) that tend to license most of the series I'm interested in to begin with. So in other words, some of the series in their catalog are things I'm already interested in, and I'm a fan of extras and high episode counts (and they have a tendency to lately have decent episode counts on most of their releases that I've actually bought or recieved as gifts, and that they quickly realized that fans like extras and started including more of them). That's the reason I'm at all keeping an open mind about the release being potentially entertaining to myself.
Yes, and so are all the comments that people made that said "hey! This sounds fun!" or "I couldn't care less since I'm not a fan of it, so I wouldn't buy it one way or another", or anything else. I wrote in "business terms" because somebody else brought up capitilism. One of the interesting aspects of American capitilism, I'd like to add, is that when things stir up controversay, they tend to sell better. So, the more people B**** about it, the more they're bringing people's attention to it. If you really hate it so much, just say "I don't like the idea" and leave, allowing the topic to die a lot sooner. Funny how no one seems to realize this.
Perhaps we also need to realize that not everyone who doesn't take this show seriously enough to care that ADV's screwed around in the dub version is neccessarily an ADV employee, as well. Of course, I can't vouch for any other posters, mind, but still. Not everyone will obsess over the quality of release for EVERY series.
Exactly. Look, don't get me wrong, I like accurate, well-acted dubs, but if one dub isn't that, it's NOT the end of the world. so long as a sub is available, on the same disc no less, I don't have a problem with it. If the dub is not entertaining, I won't watch it all. Either way, I'd be watching the subbed version AND the dubbed version just to see what both were like so that I could make an actual informed decision about whether the idea was as stupid as some claim it is without having seen the dub or in some cases, either version of the series. -Andromeda |
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Tempest
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Tempest
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The two threads were merged, no need for two threads on the same topic. All posts from "the priginal thread" were moved to this thread. -t |
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Whearn9999
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I love a good comedy. That fact alone was reason enough for me to want this show. Thanks to all the debate and controversy,it just whets my appetite even more. I'll be watching for it
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larmesdesucre
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http://animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=1158
I think John got it right. |
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Smack
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I've been reading ANN for years now, since before George and Chris took it over in 2000.
Although I've not always agreed with what's been done with this site, and how commercial it has become, I've continued to respect the unbiased and fair reporting. And up until now I've never questioned my belief that, while I think they should have remained non-profit, they made the site profit oriented because they thought it was what they needed to do in order to make the site better. If I recall correctly, Mr Mcdonald is a network engineer of some sort, and I doubt he's making as much money working on ANN as he was working on networks. But this whole thing with Ghost Stories make me suspect that ANN's objectivity might be for sale to the highest bidder. Just how much money does a company have to spend for advertising in order to get a good review? This is my first post here, despite years of following the site, and I'm saddenned that its on such an unsavoury topic. Hopefully my belief in the site can be redeemed. -Smack |
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Tempest
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Actually, ADV Films has never advertised with ANN. In 5 years of business, we've received about $40 from ADV for referal fees. Conversely, Geneon and Funimation are our two largest sponsors, yet if you go through our review stack you'll find no shortage of negative reviews of their products. If you look at any one major distributor and all their reviews on ANN, you'll probably find that the average grade is probably around a C. Regardless of whether that company advertises on ANN or not. Unlike some publications, we don't allow advertising dollars to dictate what we cover or how we cover it.
Hopefully I've managed to do that. -t |
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antonmonter
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Agree with larmesdesucre & Smack.
I’m not always coincide with all of John’s columns, and some time I ever felt disappointed when he wrote his famous “top anime titles” of the year the last year; but I consider his latest article to be the best conclusion to this debate. It explains with accuracy how some anime fans feel and also exposes solid argumentation (anyone trying to reply to that article is wasting its time).
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larmesdesucre
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I think a good question to ask ADV would be why they acquired the license for Ghost Stories in the first place if they thought the dialogue wasn't good enough for them to sell the show. Can you even imagine what you would feel like if you were a writer or director of a non-comedic show and discovered that a licensing company made a comedic parody as the only dub for its release in another country? It's disgusting and offensive and it sets a horrible precedent. The "well if they don't make money they can't release more anime here" logic doesn't work if you offend the Japanese creators so much by bastardizing their creations that they'll never want to license anything to you again. "Warriors Of The Wind" anyone? It's 2005, American anime licensors were supposed to have evolved past this BS by now. What ADV's done to this series is a dangerous reminder of the time when it was deemed acceptable to completely butcher Nausicaa because being commercial was more important than the art and respecting the artist.
I'm meandering a little but this really makes me think of Mamoru Oshii's "Tenshi No Tamago" (Angel's Egg), a hauntingly beautiful film that despite its merit and Oshii's and Yoshitaka Amano's names on it remains unreleased in America, with the common reason given that "it wouldn't sell" because it's "too slow" or "too artsy". I think if companies like ADV would look outside of their own little universe for just a minute, they'd notice another section in the video store called "foreign and independent film", where they'd find films infinitely more obscure and with less potential for mainstream success than anime like Tenshi No Tamago and Ghost Stories, and apparently those companies are making enough money off them for them to release them. Maybe if companies like ADV stuck their head out of the crowd of teenagers repeatedly demanding for violent anime with busty girls and tried marketing to a different crowd, they'd notice there's people like John at AnimeNation and myself who like anime for more than animated blood and breasts. Now I fear that if ADV ever felt like picking up Tenshi No Tamago they'd stick themselves in seats at the bottom of the screen MST3K style and crack jokes at the whole damn thing, and then pat themselves on the back for being so clever enough to come up with it. Being able to make up funny alternative dialogue in a movie doesn't make you a creator of "a new art form", it makes you that 16-year-old ass in the theatre everyone wants to shut the hell up. |
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