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Honestly, I'm guilty of having this misconception myself. Thankfully I've since been educated. Sadly I don't think the "Shonen is a genre" narrative will be going away as the term is so ingrained in the anime fandom consciousness.

Its a falsehood that will only cause confusion for years to come ...

I very much disagree. The actors have significantly improved since Z. If you don't like the voices they use for their characters, that's fine, but their acting quality has improved significantly. I also don't think you're taking into account the actors that don't do those types of voices. Sabat's ...

The video game performances aren't really a good base for assessment, they've been mailing those in for the last 15 years and Sabat mentioned that the direction process for the games is incredibly confusing, overseen by the Japanese studios, and they have little context for what's going on other ...

Breaking Bad if it had DBZ dub tier acting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8dIpNcyEY


Oh wow lol. Oh and Brian Cranston was a dub actor lol.


Oh my god, YES, I fucking LOVE that video :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Easily my favorite comment on it is " It will never not astonish me that there's ...

That's exactly what it does; it basically writes the characters as their most popular version, regardless of whether or not that's actually who they were at the end of the Buu arc. I'm surprised they didn't find a way to age Gohan down to his Cell-arc self. :lol:


I mean... *gestures to all ...

I mentioned Kimagure Orange Road as an example because that is what I'm thinking of, a popular series that was licensed, just never dubbed in English.

Teeeechnically the second KOR movie from '96, which ironically is the very last bit of KOR material ever made, was the only thing from the entire ...

Project DBZ is just a moniker for Kenji Yamamoto's video game music projects. Another name he sometimes used was Y.S. Project, and MONOLITH which was his musical group composed of himself, Hideki Matsutake, Chiho Kiyooka, and others.


Gooootcha, that makes sense. Hell, the full title of the ...

Wasn't that the working title for DBZ Kakarot?


Naaaah, dude. That's not at all what I was referring to. Like I said in my previous post, I've only seen it in stuff ranging from 1994 to 1998... so we're talking circa 25 YEARS before Kakarot :lol: :lol:

Again, I've seen it written, in English ...

So I meant to post this here a WHIIIILE ago and completely forgot, but was randomly reminded about it earlier today via some other stuff I was looking into and figured I'd post this now before I forget for Kamisama knows how long yet again :lol:

Anyhoo, I was wondering if anyone had any specifics ...

Funny how, after a Gokū float appeared yet again at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade the other day, I've seen a bunch of people talking about how "After several years, Al Roker finally pronounced Saiyan correctly!!" And of course, he used the incorrect Funimation "Say-in" pronunciation, as opposed ...

The fact that most of those titles are still in print in the UK (via MVM and Anime Limited ) says to me that the underlying issue is Sony taking almost everything out of print and very slowly re-issuing stuff with Crunchyroll branding. Hell, even the original Dragon Ball is apparently out of print ...

You spent two paragraphs framing yourself above 'stupid shit', 'throwaway fluff', 'yeeeeuuch', 'vapid', 'inane', 'generic', 'moronic slice-of-life/isekai/ecchi garbage' works, and described people who liked them as having 'the most generic, fad-chasing tastes possible'.

First; being someone who ...

I'm not here to sing the praises of HeroAca or One Piece —two series that I personally do not think are good—but I do think it's worth baring in mind that this weird blaming of them and their fans—fans who, quite frankly, will never read your post either way—is honestly just—and I'm not trying to ...

Doesn't sound surprising, and tbh they're all the better for it.
Those two are overexposed at this point, and there's lots of other material that's far more deserving of their efforts.

Cosigning. Couldn't agree more. Discotek is - overall - by far the best game in town when it comes to anime ...

We have 3 different timelines now or better 5

GT
Daima
Super Anime
Super Manga
Super Movies

Straight up bullshit. Hell not even the multiverse of Marvel is such a Trainwreck


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeeeeaaah... as someone who's been reading Marvel's (and DC's) mainstream ...

What was the point of Daima if it's "nOn-CaNoN"?

Well, what was the point of the original anime's filler? Or GT? Or the original 17 movies? Or the THREE different versions of God and God/Battle of Gods (they CAN'T ALL be "cAnOn")? Or the four different versions of Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans? Or ...

Jesus Christ, this thread has gone on for a whopping seven pages now and at least 60-70% of the posts have been less about the episode itself, and instead focused entirely on "Gee golly gosh, I sure do wonder how Daima's gonna undo literally everything it's done so far in the one episode it had ...

Even in some of those cases though, some of the older dubs/localizations for even some anime that was always aimed at an adult audience were not immune from attempts at, uh, "artificially enhancing" their "masculinity": I'm thinking particularly of Manga UK, who were exceedingly notorious for this ...

I will forever maintain that Naruto and Sasuke are literally written like a romantic couple. Like, Jesus Christ, if you factor in the contributions of the anime staff to the franchise, too—especially given how much wider a reach it has internationally—there is no goddamned way this Tsuru Toshiyuki ...

Of course Death Note is battle shounen: Death Note is about two twinks with terribly repressed bisexuality and casual misogyny duking it out in a battle of wits as opposed to just coming out of the closet and dating one another like normal people. That's Weekly Shounen JUMP battle manga to a tee ...