
Greeting, netizens of MAL!!! 36 years old active anime/manga fan since 2006!!!
I'm a 36 years old active anime/manga fan since 2006. I've been a long time anime fan (even before I knew what anime was). I'm a big video gamer, and a big fan of science and history. I used to work at NIH as a student intern for 4 summers (2008-2011). I graduated with an AA in biotech (2012). I am also big fan of K-pop and K-dramas (been in the fandom since 2013).
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Days: 48.1
Mean Score:
7.49
- Watching41
- Completed199
- On-Hold50
- Dropped0
- Plan to Watch110
- Total Entries400
- Rewatched10
- Episodes2,678
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Densha Otoko: Bijo to Junjou Otaku Seinen no Net-Hatsu Love Story
May 31, 2:48 PM
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Hope we'll get along, also really passionate about retro Anime so we have something in common to begin with.
anyway i'm happy i found anime when i did. best piece of media i've had the pleasure of partaking in.
Reading the threads on this forum always made me angry and depressed, so I made the decision to avoid them entirely. I even used my ad blocker to make the "community" tab at the top of the website disappear, so that way I wouldn't be tempted to ever read the forums again.
Aside from the fact that the voice acting in anime dubs is usually bad or comically bad, the more important qualities that determine my position is the fact that the original creators and directors never work on dubs.
And even if in one or two cases they have heard it in the way the dubbing was done - it still means nothing. Any dubbing also completely distorts the cultural heritage of the work in question, so necessarily watching/listening to a dubbing is watching something completely different.
Each dubbing is of completely different characters to the original, expressing completely different emotions and lacking the original mannerisms.
Does South Park in dubbed Japanese sound bad? Well, it doesn't sound bad, but it is quite a different entity from the original, even though the Japanese have tried to translate the dialogue faithfully.
That's why it would never occur to me to watch it with Japanese dubbing, and the same goes for any other dubbing.
Of course, I'm leaving aside the very issue of localization, culturalisation and censorship, because these are obvious problems in basically all dubbing.
Also, to answer you question about kids cartoons you linked. It doesn't sound bad, but it sound off. I still prefer the original, since this is how it was created.
it would have been really nice if i was exposed to it in school time and not after finishing high school. i would be sitting at 700 completed by this time i think.
to clarify some more. anime only became well-known around 2018-2019 here and really popular in the past 2 years since lockdown period. now it is popular enough that even local stores sell naruto t-shirts but before that i'm thinking it was quite a niche hobby. also i lived in a relatively small town during the ages of 10-15 so there's a chance that kids didn't know about that stuff. i moved to a big city when i was 15 and that was when i was properly introduced to animes by my new friends.
Id rather you reply in the thread than here, so others can join in on our deep philosophical discussion. The more the merrier, amirite?
You also asked if I ever wanted to own any shows streaming that were not Anime. I basically stopped watching western TV a long time ago. The last TV series I was interested in Watching was "Game or Thrones" simply because I was reading the books at the time. Will I ever buy the TV series on physical discs? Probably not since I wouldn't have much interest in ever watching it again. I still will occasionally watch Movies but rarely do I ever feel the need to collect and buy them like I do with anime.
Collecting Anime on Physical Copies simply just became out of habit over the years more so than really anything else. It was something to do with the money I was making during a time period in my life when I didn't have much free time to even enjoy the money I was making other than saving it up. Eventually when my life started slowing down and I changed jobs freeing up more time in my life I just kept collecting Anime still but was finally able to start actually enjoying what I have been collecting over time.