19th April 2005, 6:27 AM
Quote:What's worst is animes set in "America" which have nothing to do with it... *shudders at the memory of those episodes of ... what was it, Miami Guns or something like that?* It's just as stereotypical as American shows about Japan often are. Oh wait... it's not. It's basically just set in Japan. At least the US episode of ... uh, that other police show... made a stereotypical attempt to be American (that is, everyone has lots and lots of guns...)...
There was one anime series, Gunsmith Cats, that was set in Chicago, but the creators actually did a pretty good job of making it feel like it was set there [American muscle cars, Chicago skyline, American style buildings, lots of guns, sort of American sounding names]. On the original langauge track everyone spoke Japanese though...so I guess in that case listening to the English dub was probably better.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.