/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who prefers dubs to subs.

>>92264

Depends on the dub quality and the show. Cowboy Bebop and Black Lagoon, for example, work so much better dubbed than subbed. Lucky Star, not so much.

>>92265
Well yeah, that and stuff like JoJo or FotNS, they're so stylistically Japanese that it's impossible for me to watch them dubbed regardless of dub quality. But for stuff like Hellsing Ultimate which I've been watching all week, why anyone would prefer the subbed version is beyond me considering the English setting and multiple authentic accents.

I got into an argument with someone whether Panty & Stocking was better dubbed or subbed. I argued dubbed, because the lack of Engrish and "Ruru~" is a minor loss compared to the dub dialogue being so entertainingly raunchy and having pop culture references a Westerner like me would actually understand. I'd never watch a live-action movie dubbed (that's just too weird) but since it's anime and the mouth movements are like 3 frames, it doesn't break my immersion to watch it dubbed.

>>92266
>and I've accepted that to be on the up and up on current anime I can't wait for dubs.
I've never really cared about that since I tend to just watch shit I'm interested in, whether it's current or not. I guess you'd need an active social life with real-life anime-watching friends to feel the need to be up and up on the "new hotness."

>>92267
P&S is actually one of the first shows I think of when the argument comes up about no dubs being good. I saw the dub way after watching the sub and I prefer the dub by a long shot. Same goes for Sgt. Frog (and I still say it's a goddamned shame that the dub was discontinued, some Western animation channel really needs to pick that show up, other than a few episodes most of it would actually be fine to air in the late evening).

I've been getting into some older stuff and Gundam Zeta is pretty fucking cool so far.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-01/manglobe-anime-studio-files-for-bankruptcy/.93611
What a bummer.

Huh. EVA turns 20 this weekend.

GET THE FUCKING FINAL FILM DONE, ANNO

Jitsu wa Watashi Wa continues to be a joy.

That is all.

>>92275
Can't wait for the next generation of bakas.

Jaysus, Drinking Girls, you gotta warn me first
http://i.imgur.com/jECzBa8.png

>>92277
You do know that this is an imageboard, right?

I was a little burned on action stuff, so a buddy recommended Mushi-shi to me. And shit I gotta be honest, I am really liking it so far. It has a fantastic dub and soundtrack, an appealing art style and an almost Miyazaki-esque tone to it.

New Lupin isn't as cool looking as Woman Named Fujiko Mine but boy is it still slick as fuck.

>>92283
>Neither have dubs, so that might be a downside.
Kino has a dub. It actually seems to be dub-only on Amazon Prime and Hulu.

>>92281
>>92283
You know, I only saw the first episode when I made that comment. The tone has NOT been consistent. Sometimes it's mystical Slice Of Life stuff, other times it's borderline Horror. Not saying that's bad, just was totally unexpected.

>>92287

Personally, I think a Mushi-shi episode which does not make you go 'jesus christ, how horrifying' at least once is a missed opportunity.

This is pretty much exactly why I could never get into the second season. The first like three episodes were so tepid.

>>92288
>Personally, I think a Mushi-shi episode which does not make you go 'jesus christ, how horrifying' at least once is a missed opportunity.
That's a terrible opinion to have. Mushishi isn't meant to be a horror series at all.
It just can get pretty grim at times, because that's just how life is. But if you only get your rocks off to that, more power to you. You should check episode 6 of season 2, then.

>>92289

Not a horror series, but one where the otherworldly effects of these strange creatures are actually weird and otherworldly and unsettling to look at.

>>92292
The $50 backers were promised "standard edition" blu-rays while $100+ backers were promised "limited edition" blu-rays. Everyone got the same blu ray, in a pink blu-ray box without a nice slipcover like that limited theatrical version does.

It wasn't an oversight. $300 backers were promised a signed LE blu-ray; a $300 backer left a comment saying they got a signed blu-ray, but it's the same pink box as everyone else.

We were promised a commentary track; it didn't have it.

We were promised subs for the "making of" documentary; it doesn't have subs.

The artbooks for the backers total 80 pages combined, that limited theatrical edition's artbook has 100+ pages.

The film reel cuts (basically a sheet of paper) weren't shipped sandwiched between hard cardboard, and so a lot of people are complaining about shipping damage.

Trigger didn't save anime this time.

>>92313
Speaking of OPM, this video does a good job explaining the impact of all the freelance animators Madhouse hired for the show.

//youtube.com/watch?v=MDmZM3GkYxU

http://pastebin.com/zgPNnqT6
This is the list of manga that are currently being removed from Bato.to because of the TPP.

>>92323

So, basically all of them?

>>92323

One Punch Man being taken off is a little annoying, because I bought some official releases only to find that some fight sequences got shortened. The flip-book styled sequence while fighting Speed of Sound Sonic was dropped to one big panel. I pretty much dropped it and haven't touched the official release since, I was that blown away by the SoS Sonic fight when I first saw it.

>>92323

Because of a treaty which hasn't been ratified by its major members yet, let alone enacted? Kind of jumping the gun there, aren't they?

>>92325
WAIT WAIT WHAT

I ordered some OPM from Amazon and was waiting for them to ship. Are you saying they gutted it? Should I cancel the order?

>>92352
I'm not going to rev up my hype machine until we know the studio/director/writers.

Jojo part 4 confirmed... of course.

//youtube.com/watch?v=OrTaVV0Hkng

>>92331
I just checked this volume at the library; the cutting is in the print version too. At least it kind of makes sense there, because the original was a web manga and the technique doesn't work as well in actual print, but leaving the cuts in the digital collected version is just lazy.

//youtube.com/watch?v=5ntZhZKOy1o
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwnXByJZ9gFtMU9WQVNMQV9nTXc/view?usp=sharing

//youtube.com/watch?v=BjnXShS71yw

>>92388
Thank you for reminding me I still haven't finished volume 1.

Love Live! has taken over the U.S. government.

http://archive.defense.gov/home/features/video/player.aspx?2b8yyVczZ10

>>92393
I'm interested in if they apply that goal of reaching untapped market to the anime they produce as well. There's a lot of shounen stuff on the market already, it'd be interesting if they aim for other demographics.

>>92393
I'm OK if it means less otaku pandering and more ambitious original content like Under The Dog.

>>92404
Anything that harkens back to my childhood days watching Patlabor would be ace. There's only so much wall-to-wall Cute Girls Doing Cute Things I can stomach year-in year-out.

Kind of intrigued with what Netflix does with Bollywood, too. Hollywood studios have had extremely little luck breaking into the Indian market due to loads of basic cultural misunderstandings, so it'll be interesting to see if Netflix bucks the trend.

What other idiosyncratic local cinema industries can Netflix pounce upon? Nollywood?

http://www.wikihow.com/Act-Like-an-Anime-or-Manga-Character

https://youtu.be/oGImt5ikC0A

//youtube.com/watch?v=oBRTRLBQbv0
//youtube.com/watch?v=P3nOUJojiMA
That Power Puff Girl japanese dub is crazy good, I'm convinced that is Tara Strong speaking japanese. The Ed, Edd and Eddy japanese dub is also legit.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQbkVWrfyOBQiVAO4DhFwQ
I also found what appears to be Cartoon Network in japanese on youtube. I kinda wish english dubs were this good

>>92419
Holy shit the girls sound exactly like they do in English. That's crazy

Eddy is a little off but still good. Edd and Ed sound very very close.

And yeah this totally puts English dubs of anime to shame. I tried to watch the dub of Seven Deadly Sins the other day and immediately changed it back to Japanese because it was just so awful, like the voice actors weren't even trying

>>92415
>Find a toy weapon, a kunai, shuriken, katana, wakizashi, assault rifle, sniper rifle, or submachine gun to go with your outfit. In real life, carrying a 4 foot (1.2 m) shuriken is illegal and can get you or someone else killed or in jail.

>>92425
>>92426
I guess you can't truly call yourself a good Internet gag until you run it into the ground and start trying to inject lore.

>>92427
Yeah, but as long as it's fun who cares, it's a really good bag of junk food.

>>92431
It was good stuff.

I wonder how much of the manga will get shown during this season. As long as they animate the chapter where Sakurako dreamed about being lovey-dovey with Himawari I'll be happy.

>>92452
>it's not a joke
HOLY SHIT

>>92473
>a doner was found
Remove dragon.

RIP Shigeru Mizuki

Likara vs "Japan".
http://channelawesome.com/cho-dengeki-stryker-at4w/

>>92498
...meh, looks like more of the same.

I'll probably watch it and think it was alright.

>>92506
If you want gut punching read Kakukaku Shikajika.

>>92507
I've been wanting to read that. It's by the Princess Jellyfish lady, but it's an autobio comic about her becoming a manga author, right?

>>92508
Nnnnnot exactly. That certainly happens in it but it's not BIG INDUSTRY SCOOPS or whatever.

Everyone should read it, but I think the ones it will resonate most strongly with are those who work in, and especially studied in, creative spaces like art or film.

>>92509
Yeah, I wasn't expecting big industry scoops. I was more interested in the story of a person following their dream to be an artist, like Bakuman but from a different type of artist's perspective.

>>92510
Bakuman is what I was thinking of with the industry scoops. Some people make the comparison but the two aren't really comparable.

I'm bad at pitches but I will say that Kakaku is short and complete so you don't risk much by just diving in and chugging it.

So what shows are you currently watching?
What manga are you currently reading?

For me I'm watching One-Punch Man and Yuru Yuri as they come out, and gradually making my way through old Gundam episodes. Liking all of them so far, though I feel like OPM left out a few things from the manga that it shouldn't have, and I wish Gundam would pick up the pace a bit.

Been reading 21st Century Boys, pretty damn cool so far.

>>92512

20th Century Boys is hype as shit. The ending's a little weak, but only by comparison to how strong it is at its height.

I read everything in the Viz WSJ, but the ones I really look forward to are World Trigger and Shokugeki no Souma. And One Piece, of course.

>>92512
Also watching OPM and YY. With manga, I'm following so many that I'm kinda losing track. Most of them don't update very regularly. I guess the ones I'm most fervently following at the moment are:
Tsugumomo (hentai-action hybrid)
Tomo-chan wa Onna no ko! (cute tomboy love stuff)
I am a Hero (zombie survival)
Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga aru! (insanely cute SoL/romance)
Song of the Long March (it's a Mulan manga, highly recommended)
Youkai Shoujo (ecchi)
and Jitsu wa Watashi wa (romcom, we had a thread for it here)
Obviously reading a lot of Jump stuff too, but I don't think those bear any special mention.

>>92514
>I am a Hero (zombie survival)

Our suffering in waiting for updates, it binds us.

>>92512

Watching and reading One Punch Man and reading One Piece, Bleach (waiting on the ride to finally end,) Nisekoi (same), Jitsu wa, and other scattered things I try to keep up with like Terraformars and Tate no Yuusha.

Ended up buying a year of Weekly Shonen Jump because I wanted to actually have something official and not always rely on scanlator groups. Still waiting on Jitsu Wa to get an official release, pre-ordered the english release of the Persona 4 manga because I'm a whore for the franchise.

>>92512
Watching One Punch Man (of course), Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (finally a decent serious Gundam TV series in a long ass time), Osomatsu-san (hilarious), Concrete Revolutio (a fever dream combination of magical girl, yokai, giant mecha, sentai, shonen detective, tokusatsu, kaiju with post-war political intrigue) and Hacka Doll (memes lol).

Reading Emma which recently got omnibus re-releases, Vinland Saga which apparently re-started getting localized without me knowing, and Gundam the Origin.

>>92524
>Vinland Saga which apparently re-started getting localized without me knowing
For now.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/12/comics-a-m-vinland-saga-could-end-u-s-release-with-vol-7/

>>92527
Damn. I was pretty happy to see volume 6 and 7 on Amazon, and now it might get cancelled again. Well I pre-ordered volume 7 so I'm helping.

Holy fuck, that final OPM episode.

>>92534
Anyone know if the next season is already confirmed? Or is this one of those shows just meant to promote the manga?

>>92535
No second season in sight. And it's gonna be at least until 2018, since the manga only updates once every blue moon. Sometimes only to redraw a previous chapter.

>>92536
Well, poop. OPM is excellent, so hopefully we are able to get more at some point.

>>92536
If the manga keeps going that slowly they could just start adapting chapters from the original webcomic, and take more artistic liberties with the interpretations of fight scenes and stuff since they wouldn't have Murata's to base stuff on.

>>92563
Ahaha that fucking Mob, that's exactly what I want them to do

>>92555
That is a great monster, it's too bad the manga abandons them for more superperson fights.

http://mangafox.me/manga/helck/

I'm keeping an eye on this.

>>92569
They sadly are not.

>>92570
Well fuck.

Guess I'll keep reading on DC comics rules, just keep sloughing ahead until you are too sad, angry and embarrassed to keep reading something made entirely of wasted potential.

Otherwise known on this board as Bleach rules.

>>92572
I mean, the manga might still be good. I just don't really care for anything in this manga but the monsters, so when it starts to drift in focus into the awakeneds I'm immediately wary.

>>92571
Heh, for a second I thought that said Smegma Princess.

>>92574
And what is that?

>>92575
Nothing.

>>92578
I think that's a reference.

Wow, this anime season looks fucking dismal.

>>92584
At least there's Lupin. Otherwise though, yeah, absolutely nothing worth watching.

Well, I guess it's probably better that there's gonna be a couple of shitty anime seasons with not a lot worth watching this year since videogames are gonna be fucking crazy.

Iron Blooded Orphans us still on.

>>92591
At some point it stops being so funny, but it never stops being a wonderful series.

http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/hatsukoi-zombie-r16551/

GODDAMN IT THIS IS FRUSTRATING, This has one of the most interesting premises you could possibly have but I have a feeling it's going to get really homophobic.

>>92597
It's a premise that leads to a lot of easy ecchi I guess, but it doesn't take a genius to see how this will degrade.

>>92603
I haven't read it but I like that art style a lot. Kind of reminds me of dragonball and cyborg 009.

>>92604
Funny enough it basically is Medieval Dragon Ball.

I get the feeling Helck is heading for some Berserk eclipse shit with this revelation story line.

>>92606
You are seriously overselling Helck. It's a fairly standard fantasy series with funny characters Tiki, come on.

I do love that not once has Vamiro ever been shown to consider herself in real danger. Like when Helck gets between her and Not Zero Berserker, she doesn't go "that was close, Helck saved me" she goes "phew, I almost blew Helck's face off"

>>92612
I know I'm overselling it probably but I am honestly this excited about it.

>>92613
Stop that: The Hype Train basically only has one stop and it's Disappointment.

>>92614
Nah, I'm not really like that, there is only two things I've ever come to hate because I was so exited about them, Drakengard 2 and DC comics.

And both of those deserve hatred even when you're not excited for them.

Evil Baldwin IV is a hell of a guy.

>>92621
So is he Fujiko this time?

Hey tiki

Can you stop just posting spoilers of brand new chapters

>>92624
Should at least be using the spoiler file button.

>>92624
>>92625
Sorry, coulda swore I hit the button.

It's good but there's like, no chapters of it

>>92629
Yeah, but they'll come sooner or later.

Helck and Vamiro will save everyone and Alicia will make Helck wear a shirt at the wedding

>>92635
The new chapters on /a/ (they'll be on batoto soon) bring back the funny at least.

>>92638
The worst part is we've got a confirmation of Alicia's location ;_;

>>92640
Please note also: this is often the winged soldier who gives the others commands, the one who most fiercely rejects coexistence besides Edil, and also the one that goes totally silent when Azudora mentions past alliances.

>>92641
Man I am getting so tired of manga that use C - B - A - S -SS - SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS for power level ranking purposes.

>>92645
needs a metal wolf chaos edit.

>>92655
I have no idea what this is but i love the design of that skeleton robot nanny

Yona owns

I'm downloading several gigs of anime to tide me over the week or so that I'm gonna be without internet after moving. It's actually quite a nice opportunity to catch up on stuff I never finished and check out series I was interested in but never found myself making time to watch for.