1st March 2006, 8:34 AM
I've never watched Naruto, but one thing that made DBZ painful to watch was the fights that would take 30 episodes. (Or at least the fight between Goku and Frieza did. Minor fights would take maybe 5 or 10.) I might watch it someday anyway though.
The Suncoast at my mall is going out of business, so everything's on sale. I thought of getting some Fullmetal Alchemist DVDs for 30% off, but they didn't have Volume 1. I've actually never seen this particular anime either, but I've heard it was good. Come to think of it, when was the last time I actually watched anime? I was starting to get tired of it, what with annoying anime fans and all their HIROSHI-KUN ^_________^ nonsense, but now I think I'm ready to start watching good anime again.
I watched a few clips of subbed DBZ compared with dubbed DBZ recently though, and DBZ in the Japanese isn't all that bad. It's still not great, but it's decent enough. At least they have actual screams instead of constipated grunts, and they don't feel the need to narrate every emotional passage. They still have the really long fights, and the plothole of "5 minutes 'til the planet explodes" even though the fight takes 30 episodes, and the panning to every character whenever something happens, and the pointless staring at each other for 5 minutes, but... another thing that's different is the music. The dub music is pathetic. The Japanese music is pretty good though. It actually sets the mood, whereas the dub music is annoying and tedious. The dialogue isn't nauseating this time around either, and there's none of this "other dimension" bullcrap. So yeah, I guess overall I'd give it an 8/10 in the Japanese and a 2/10 dubbed. This was probably the most raped anime of all time.
The Suncoast at my mall is going out of business, so everything's on sale. I thought of getting some Fullmetal Alchemist DVDs for 30% off, but they didn't have Volume 1. I've actually never seen this particular anime either, but I've heard it was good. Come to think of it, when was the last time I actually watched anime? I was starting to get tired of it, what with annoying anime fans and all their HIROSHI-KUN ^_________^ nonsense, but now I think I'm ready to start watching good anime again.
I watched a few clips of subbed DBZ compared with dubbed DBZ recently though, and DBZ in the Japanese isn't all that bad. It's still not great, but it's decent enough. At least they have actual screams instead of constipated grunts, and they don't feel the need to narrate every emotional passage. They still have the really long fights, and the plothole of "5 minutes 'til the planet explodes" even though the fight takes 30 episodes, and the panning to every character whenever something happens, and the pointless staring at each other for 5 minutes, but... another thing that's different is the music. The dub music is pathetic. The Japanese music is pretty good though. It actually sets the mood, whereas the dub music is annoying and tedious. The dialogue isn't nauseating this time around either, and there's none of this "other dimension" bullcrap. So yeah, I guess overall I'd give it an 8/10 in the Japanese and a 2/10 dubbed. This was probably the most raped anime of all time.