tonight's anime... PURCAHSE =o

Archaic · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: tonight's anime... PURCAHSE =o

That's right, I actually bought anime tonight, and it was a lot of anime too! I got packages 2&3/4 of Yu Yu Hakusho, so episodes 29-84. Then on top of that I bought... the entire Club to Death Angel Dokoro-Chan series! Dokoro-chan is only subbed (yay!) and only cost me $17 (double yay!)

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Lord_Obagon · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject:

There is a second season of Dokuro-Chan. Also where did you buy them?
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Archaic · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject:

Bought it at best buy, and it also has the second series with it. Its the COMPLETE series, all 12 episodes, all uncensored.
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Billgar · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject:

Nice, what a deal. Dokuro chan is for heros, what company brought it to the states?

Lord_Obagon · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

I am curious too because most companies will give an english dub option with it when they bring it over.
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Archaic · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:50 am Post subject:

This was published by Anime Works, and thus can be considered pretty legit as far as everything goes. The only change is that it is not "Beat to Death Angel Dokoro-Chan" it is instead "Bludgeon to Death Angel Dokoro-Chan." That said, NOTHING is changed or censored and thus it is awesome-o.
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Billgar · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

That is awesome. Sadly my frustration with the American anime industry is now on a different level. Working with Manga, i find that sadly very few people in the office have any idea what the products or series actually are. The subbing and dubbing is done by third party companies, and everything. It seems usually one or 2 people only will be conscious of the actual products.

Lord_Obagon · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:53 am Post subject:

I agree with you completely on that. It is sad that they don't know anything about what they are working with and it shows. Any of the decent dubs are done well because the voice actors and writers had scene it first and tried to do it right. What I did find interesting is that some companies actually just take a fansubber's script and use it instead.
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Koku · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject:

Wow that seems a bit wrong, especially as it is just ripping the fansubbers off. I would think that in those cases getting the episodes from online should be ok. Why pay a company to rip off a fansubbers work when you can enjoy the original for free. I mean, even if it is dubbed, who listens to many anime now aw days in English.
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Lord_Obagon · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

Fansubbing is technically illegal because it is the distribution of copyrighted content. The companies do it because it is cheaper and they already know that in most cases the quality is good and excepted by fans. Sadly the companies can't "pay" the fansubbers for their work because that would be endorsing illegal activities.
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Koku · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject:

I suppose that is true. Still, they can always say they were hired to sub the copies they got. No matter what though, having more purely subbed anime will be a good thing indeed.
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Lord_Obagon · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject:

I still believe that the episodes should be both subbed and dubbed with the releases because it appeals to more audiences and gets them more money which will then make them release more. The problem that they have is that like Bill said, none of them seem to know anything about their products at all which makes their marketing horrible. They also have no enthusiasm toward selling things. For example, the Anime Boston booths. I use them because all the brand named booths like Geneon America and Manga Corps just had stands of things and some less then enthusiastic guy sittings their waiting for people to need him for purchases. The non-big company booths had people like the Doujin guy who would talk with you about anime, or the Haruhi cosplayer that was trying to convince everyone that walked by to buy the new Haruhi dvds they had. The point is that without enthusiasm people don't want to buy their things which is why Geneon America went under.
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Archaic · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

Yeah that is a shame that they don't know their products better. Like in all honesty, I wouldn't have bought Dokorochan if it wasn't for my watching it before. The package screams stereotypical, and the translation of "bludgeoning" as opposed to "beat to death" is kind of lame and doesn't capture the comedy in it.

However, it must be said that the English dub would probably be horrible. I mean, Dokoro has that kind of high pitched voice that does not work well and just sounds irritating when in the English language.
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Billgar · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

Lord_Obagon · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

The fact that most companies see the benefit of them is the only reason they haven't been destroyed by law-suits. Especially since they aren't that difficult to find.

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