Blue wrote:It does though, if you're less of a "hardcore" fan for wanting to watch the anime with an alternative script you must be less of a "hardcore" fan for wanting to read the manga with an alternative script.
Edit: I brought up Simmon's subtitles in my previous post in terms of dialogue accuracy, sorry if that was confusing.
You don't like conversations like this but you're still having it after I try and end it.
You're talking "hardcore" from FUNimation's marketing standpoint; a standpoint used to make people that want to buy the Dragonbox feel self-important for spending money on useless entertainment instead of making that $50 go towards a good portion of the food you'd be eating otherwise. This is especially important to them considering that they just got done releasing the version of Dragonball Z they originally intended as definitive and have convinced most of their fanbase to buy. How else are you going to sell Dragonball Z to that same majority fanbase all over again right away unless you inflate their egos by saying that they'll be more "hardcore" for buying DBZ
again?
When taking Japanese version fans into perspective who were wasting even more money on R2 Dragonbox singles, the "hardcore fan" statement comes into place because those exact fans are only buying the Japanese version because they feel screwed over, betrayed, and/or forgotten by the company who was responsible for bringing them Dragonball Z in an accurate manner on a format that's legal to purchase and own. So, by adding "hardcore" to the packing once they finally get what they want, it's almost as if that whole blurb on the back is some sort of apology letter to those who felt screwed over, forgotten, and/or betrayed for all these years until they
finally got what they wanted.
It's all marketing crap aimed at making you, the consumer, spend more money on something that they're releasing for the third or fourth time.
If you go back up to my previous post, I stand by the idea that a more accurate word would be "purist" when it comes to Japanese version fans. It's true and it doesn't cause massive arguments that I want absolutely no part of.
