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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is the best Gundam.

Conversely, I find that Gundam Wing is grievously overrated.

Fixed.

Full Metal Alchemist does some things better than its remake Brotherhood.

You didn't have to go that hard

Im not a fan of the overtly simplified anime art styles that pretty much omit facial details like noses. It makes everything a bit too samey.

Oh, and strict adherence to subs over dubs is just nonsensical snobbery, except in the now rare circumstances where a dub is botched. Most dubs nowadays are professionally done and at least decent.

First of all, subtitles are meant to either translate someone speaking that others on screen aren't meant to understand or to further emphasize a sense of other on some characters to the audience. When everyone is subbed, those distinctions aren't made.

Second, you watch different when you're reading than not, so your eyes aren't as focused on the intended centerpoint of a given scene.

Third, you almost assuredly don't speak the language, so you don't have a meaningful capacity to understand or appreciate the quality, or lack thereof, of the original VAs. You've just watched so many subs that you've come to expect moonspeak as a background noise as par for the course. There are good and bad voice acting performances on both sides of the Pacific, it's not all quality over there and mostly shit over here.

Oh, and sometimes it's okay to actually translate an attack name. When an attack name's in Japanese, it's being said with the understanding that the audience understands what the dude's saying. If something means something in Japanese and the dub says that in English, they didn't ruin your childhood.

Couldn't agree more with this.

I truly think it's mostly just pretentious BS.

To me a lot of the Japanese VAs voices don't sound like they fit the characters unless the characters are obviously Asian and even then sometimes not. Which is why I prefer dub.

I feel like most Japanese VA's sound the same to me, have the same inflection and cadence.

It's like there's one Japanese Troy Baker out there doing the voices for everything.

But that's likely because I don't speak the language. Which I think more people need to check themselves on when they're watching something with subs and saying how much better the VA work is.

Tournament arcs are lazy and serve as crutches for poor writing and plot planning.

not about the anime, but I ended up dropping Jojo Lands, or whatever it's called (part 9).

Yeah, Jojolands has been kind of underwhelming so far. I also really dislike how they keep misgendering Dragona even though she's incredibly clearly a trans woman. I don't know if it's written that way in the source material or if it's the work of the fan translation group, but either way it's not right.

Yeah, Jojolands has been kind of underwhelming so far. I also really dislike how they keep misgendering Dragona even though she's incredibly clearly a trans woman. I don't know if it's written that way in the source material or if it's the work of the fan translation group, but either way it's not right.

Shonen is the lowest form of art put to screen.

Sailor Moon was good for its time, but has aged poorly and is coasting on nostalgia at this point with its recent installments. Almost everything that Sailor Moon did well, the Pretty Cure franchise has done much better since, in some cases multiple times over.

TMOG why did you think Dragona is a girl to the point you were insulted to read otherwise?

Only because she presents as feminine, takes HRT to grow breasts, and uses female pronouns to refer to herself.

Should I wait until she holds up a neon sign that says "I AM A TRANS WOMAN" and shouts it at everybody in every conversation, or am I allowed to take the character's own actions as evidence?

he goes by he

Dragona likes girly fashion, dresses in feminine outfits, and uses the Japanese first-person pronoun "atashi" (), which is primarily used by women.

The editorial manager of the French publisher for The JOJOlands, Pascal Lafine, explicitly says Dragona is a trans woman.

"atashi" is often used by queer japanese men

i think the evidence overwhelmingly points to one thing, but i acknowledge the slight possibility that he is a trans woman. but i dont think its anywhere near actually the case

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the info

I'm willing to also acknowledge the possibility that Dragona isn't indeed a trans woman. At this point with the info you've given me I can see it going in either direction, so until the series itself gives harder evidence I'll start using they/them instead. You've been an eye opener for me and I thank you for it :)

i appreciate the discourse, and next time i wont be hasty to declare characters definitively one thing or the other

Satoshi Kon didnt get the recognition he deserved.

Speaking of which, while the rest of the show is solid, Welcome to the NHK goes about suicide horribly

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/858a2813.jpg

in this image we are both clearly from Phantom Blood

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is the best Gundam.

I don't get the appeal of slice or life anime.

As a concept I can see why some people would like it but the few I've seen it's like the execution was always very lacking and there was just this vibe I can only describe as empty.

Closest I've enjoyed is gravitation but that's more a romance with some comedy anime and even it suffered a tad from the empty feeling. Had I need read most of the manga series I probably would have walked away from it too.

Idk my brain is wired weird if there isn't a active conflict that requires fighting I'm generally not interested and this spreads across most media tv movies games etc. it's weird cause I'm borderline pacifist