18th April 2005, 8:44 PM
Quote:Anime still has themes you don't see in traditionally American stuff when presented in English.
Of course, but the changing the language (when it doesn't make sense to) takes away much of what makes it uniquely Japanese, obviously.
Quote:This is true... and is mostly not fair. But really, for Europe it's not just terrorism. It's also fears of their unique cultural identities being consumed under floods of immigrants... so they will keep out immigrants, even if the result is a low birthrate and dropping population. (as I said, this is the one problem the US doesn't have.)
Where are you talking about, precisely? The only parts of Europe I've been to that were unwelcoming to foreigners were some of the poorer Eastern countries, but that mostly stems from fear and ignorance.
Quote:Uh... how does that solve the issue? What would the people be speaking, then? I'd expect the words on the bottom would be what is being said... this is one reason why some people prefer dubbed anime -- it changes most of those Japanese references into recognizable ones. The subbed version generally will not, to be more accurate... sometimes you get a choice, so it can be subbed in either version, but not usually... I'm not saying it should be done in English, but it's a more complex issue when the culture in question is not the one the developers are from.
The translated vocal track would be as accurate as possible, so think of it as reverse-dubtitling, if that makes sense. :D
Quote:Stupid Star Trek translators! If it was really being "translated" their mouths would move LIKE THEY WOULD IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE... Definitely not very realistic. But yes, at least ED made the small effort to transition into English. It goes with the high attention to historical detail that game shows.
Still, it would have been neat to hear more accurate voices. But since this was a Nintendo game, the very fact that it had good voice acting at all was amazing.
Quote:Nope. "Argument" requires opposing positions. We agree on at least 90% of this issue. So it's not an argument. It's a discussion. There's an important difference there. You're the one with the contrary opinion, not us...
But we're quoting each other!!!
