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tl;dr by reading anime about depression

• provemewrong 10y ago
  >reading anime triggered
  • Kristine1975 10y ago
    Subtitles ;-)
    • emodendroket 10y ago
      I don't think the Japanese need those.
    • wonks 10y ago
      The only TRUE way to watch anime. ;-) The anime club at my college was so adamant about this that they put a no-dubs rule in their constitution.
      • leojg 10y ago
        True story! All types of content are better to be consumed in their original language when possible!
        • astrange 10y ago
          A lot of Square-Enix games are better in English than Japanese. There's just no traditional way to write western character stereotypes in Japanese (like the pirate city in FFXIV) and they end up sounding like nothing in particular. Or maybe S-E's Japanese writers are just boring?
          • Nadya 10y ago
            I disagree. The English ones have no issue with completely change character personas. The way someone talks is as important as what they are actually saying.
      • butisaidsudo 10y ago
        I used to be an audio engineer at a studio that dubbed anime. It was amazing how many smart and talented folks were involved in pumping out a shitty dub. I worked with some really, really good directors and actors, but there's a limit to what they can do. The biggest constraint is the need for perfect mouth flap syncing. The original Japanese versions aren't even very well synced, but English-speaking audiences apparently demand it. It really constrains what you can do with a performance. Emotional explosions that are great in Japanese seem really cheesy when done in English. Since Japanese syllables almost always end in a vowel, you get these really big month flaps that are hard to work with. In really bad dubs, it's why you get lines like "Heyyy! What's the big ideaaaa!" so often. Of course, dubs usually have a tiny budget as well. That means that there's only one actor in the studio at a time, so they never get to play off of each other.
        • lotyrin 10y ago
          Maybe you can answer: Why assume that vocal sounds -> mouth movement dissonance is more grating than stimulus -> reaction dissonance and character -> behavior dissonance (combined with dub-cliche)? Is there the general sentiment in production that the audience is not sophisticated enough to notice the latter, but any 12 year old can notice the former?
        • wonks 10y ago
          I think I read once that in Japan they animate first and then record voiceovers afterwards?