Topic: The Anime Thread

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Not all dubs are bad, no, but when given the choice between an English dub and the original Japanese subtitled (or any original language for any film), WhyTF would anyone go English dub?

Because VIC MIGNOGNA. That's why.

Also, watch The Wallflower in English. Seriously, Hanna Alcorn completely steals the whole show as Sunako, and Vic Mignogna, Chris Patton, Josh Grell, Jessica Boone, and Greg Ayres round out the cast amazingly.

Cowboy Bebop requires no explanation on my part. It's just awesome no matter what language you watch it in.

Also, Miyazaki's movies have an amazing track record of doing well with American celbrity voice actors. That tends not to work, yet somehow it often works with his films.

[Inccubus]

English dubs are stupid, so watched subbed. PROBLEM SOLVED

It's too late for me. I started watching both on Adult Swim.

[Neobelmont]

Because VIC MIGNOGNA. That's why.

Cowboy Bebop requires no explanation on my part. It's just awesome no matter what language you watch it in.

Also, Miyazaki's movies have an amazing track record of doing well with American celbrity voice actors. That tends not to work, yet somehow it often works with his films.

For me it's Johnny yong bosch.

Style that show is it just comes on so late.

Castle in the sky is my favorite with howl's moving castle a second also anime needs more big name actors the only other anime I can think of is afro samurai.

Also since were are talking about anime what hair color do all of you prefer and the style of hair that goes along with it for instance I like short brown hair,sliver does not matter if long or short,and long blue hair for girls, for guys well I guess I don't care as much for them

[Abnormal Freak]

Cowboy Bebop requires no explanation on my part. It's just awesome no matter what language you watch it in.

Compared to Japanese Spike, I can't stand American Spike. D: Former has all sorts of range of voice and emotion, whereas the latter only has one setting: "coooool." Spike is a cool, laid-back character, but he can get into a frenzy, and the English voice doesn't really portray that well.

Steven Blum's a good voice actor, but srsly, I love the Japanese' sense of "overdrama."

[X]

I 'm glad some mentioned Trigun as I had forgotten about that one too. That was also a good watch. Unfortunately as the series went by it got more and more serious which kinda choked out the humor a bit. I do notice that this is a problem for a lot of anime out there. They start hot at the beginning and then down the road it becomes a radical departure from what made it so good & funny at the start. Another series that I love to watch is "Those who Hunt Elves". I've only seen two seasons so far and what I really like about it is the humor doesn't stop or degrade as in the aforementioned Trigun. It is wickedly funny from start to finish and all the American references added in for the dubbed versions has enhanced it somewhat it for us westerners. Either that or it was done intentionally by the people who made it.

[Abnormal Freak]

IMO, Trigun wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is if it were just carefree all the time. You come to learn just how badass and serious of a character Vash is underneath all the buffoonery.

I bumped into this anime last night and am considering watching it. It seems pretty typical and crawls at a snail's pace LIKE ALMOST EVERY ANIME TV SERIES, but the perverted bits are wonderful. Particularly this whole section here:

Heaven's Lost Property - 1 - A Full-frontal Hero Arises in the World! (SUB)

[X]

IMO, Trigun wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is if it were just carefree all the time. You come to learn just how badass and serious of a character Vash is underneath all the buffoonery.

Vash was always a badass, there's no denying that. Even when he acted like a buffoon it was not without purpose and it can be seen all throughout the show. However in terms of being carefree that's not how I ever saw the show even when it was funny. I just fund it a shame when the comedy just dropped off the face of the earth in the latter half of the series. There were one or two funny moments but they were sparse at best and did not do enough to help smooth over the dead seriousness of the evolving climax. I guess I'm just one of those people who expect a kind of consistency in a story, anime or live action show. Consistency is just as important as Continuity. Both are integral to the series/stories they represent and help keep them in focus. Unlike continuity, consistency does allow for some 'wiggle room' but not too much or everything just falls apart. Fortunately Trigun didn't fall apart so to speak, but it came damn near close. The one thing I hated about Trigun was the character Knives. He just pissed me right the f**k off and I wished death on him right at the start. For me, I like villains who are interesting and are always a pleasure to see come back because you get such an enjoyment out of them...Knives isn't that kind of villain. He's just a dark Megalomaniacal psychopath who's hell-bent on the extinction of humanity in order to create his so-called perfect race. Pretty hard to do that when there are no women of his kind around to knock up. The character Wolfwood was also interesting and I thought that he complimented Vash's character quite nicely. Sort of the 'Wanted due' of the series. And having both Milly and Meryl there to accompany them completed the quarto. It's a shame he died though.

[Abnormal Freak]

Something tells me you wouldn't like the dramatic shifts in tone that occur in the movies Vamp and From Dusk Till Dawn. :p

Trigun getting more serious toward the end is no different to me than Cowboy Bebop and Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight dropping the silly stuff for the last few episodes and going into total melodrama mode. That's just kind of the anime formula, I guess, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

[Kale]

Personally didn't like Trigun. I never liked the whole I'm a silly protagonist hiding a secret power thing. Its lame. The first couple of episodes were enjoyable, but it got worst, and I don't think I can even say slowly... roughly half way through I just got tired of it and quit watching.