Oh yeah, totally. I just know the utter crappiness of the dub that was most likely recorded in some back alley in one hour will somehow leak over to the absolutely GODLY japanese vocals and completely corrupt it. You’re so right, it’s going to be totally ruined. I bet they won’t even bother putting on the original japanese version! Damn bastards. Americans shouldn’t be allowed to sully such masterpieces. They shouldn’t even be allowed to breath near them. They’re all hacks that are deliberately going out of their way to ruin all our favorite animes! They probably have daily meetings on Wednesdays discussing how to do it! THEY SHOULD ALL BURN IN HELL!

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See, I never get this argument when we talk about the dubbed versions of classic foreign films. People seem to understand the importance of loving something the way it was meant to be seen and heard when it relates to movies, but once you start telling a group of self righteous, entitled Americans that you’re not really an anime fan if you’re watching these butchered, hack-written, hack-acted, piss poor lip service reworks, then the “shutting the fuck up” gloves come off and “running my pedantic mouth” gloves fly into the picture.

Understand. I think that if you are going to pretend to be a fan of anime, at least make a little fucking effort. You don’t like to listen to it in the original Japanese? Then you aren’t an anime fan. You’re a fan of Japanese moving pictures featuring “actors” that real talent wouldn’t piss on to keep their house from burning down. You can’t say you are an anime fan or waddle your fat fucking ass into a con and start spouting chibi and baka and shit like that when you know dick about the culture behind it and know dick about the reasons it is what it is.

So there’s the root of the issue. I am sick of fat shitcan American pukes running roughshod over a culture and trying to cram it into their own without having to learn a fucking thing. It’s the same stupid shit that makes this country’s world outlook so narrow in every other aspect. And I’m sick of watching fourth and fifth rate cue card readers make a mockery of what was, at one time, a well-acted piece of cinema.

And don’t give me that bullshit about “Why shouldn’t people be able to enjoy it how that want?” Because they are fucking idiots to begin with and if they can’t step up and learn the slightest little thing about the culture, or enjoy art the way it was made, then they haven’t earned the right to view it at all.

Hey, no problem.

Feel free to drop me a line on AIM at the name: digiwombat

I’d be glad to talk to you about anything you like.