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admin · Site Admin Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 9

I found this article:

>> If fans like me didn`t scream at them, ADV`s DVD releases would still
> look
>> awful, be obscenely expensive, use eight discs for 26 episodes, and
> be
>> full of hardsubs and overlays after all this time.
>
> And those where things well worth complaining about. Complaining that a
> chracter named "duck" is translated as "duck" (thus giving the English
> viewer the same sense that the Japanese viewer would get from hearing
> the Japenese word for duck) is so much more minor than that it`s
> rediculous.

If Ahiru was an anonymous duck who wasn`t central to the plot for every
frame of her appearance in Princess Tutu, that would be a different
matter, but I`ve watched the actual anime and, most of the time, she`s a
young woman and the female lead of the show. Big difference.

>> And I`m far from the
>> only person to be pissed about the stuff they`re doing now with
> Princess
>> Tutu and Gantz.
>
> There`s always plenty of anal fanboys to be found, so that`s hardly
> surprising.

Oh, so you like the idea of buying 13 $20 discs to get a 26-episode show?
Gawd, you are an idiot, aren`t you?

>> > No, actually i get a chuckle out of you being mad again
>>
>> AKA *fap, fap, fap fap*.
>
> Keep up with your whine whine whine.

Fuck off and get some porn instead like regular people do.

>> Which reflects on you more than it does me.
>
> Well, it might make me as bad as you, but then, unlike you, I don`t
> pretend to be better than anybody else.

I don`t pretend, either. I be.

>> If you think wanting the characters` original names, characteristics
> and
>> relationships kept the same as they are in the Japanese versions is
> being
>> "anal," then you must be one of those people who`ll swear by diet
> soda
>> until the day the tumours kill you.
>
> I can`t stand diet cola, but you won`t see me whining like a little
> crybaby and accusing cola companies of assuming I`m dumb because they
> continue to make diet cola.

Food and drink companies treat me like I`m hungry and thirsty, which I am
sometimes (their advertising execs, on the other hand) but this is a
different issue. They deal in material that appeals strictly to your
mind. That`s where it stands or falls. I accuse anime and manga companies
of assuming I`m dumb because their work on a title treats me and other
readers like we`re dumb. I let Tokyopop`s marketing division know exactly
how I felt about their doing that to a lot of their manga in a
non-insulting/profane but still undiluted two-page letter last year. I`ve
been sampling all their new titles since that time, and, so far, I haven`t
spotted any of their old habits since then (the ones that started way
before that, on the other hand...). I doubt very much that mine was the
only letter they`ve received saying what I said, but I like to think that
it did help.

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