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Permalink Reply by Haitian Harry on August 1, 2011 at 11:57am

I have an Anime question for Harris, but if you don't know then it's no big deal:

The anime Shin Chan, about a foul-mouthed 10-year old, had to be completely rewritten when syndicated and ported to english. Apparently the dirty jokes are so deeply rooted in Japanese culture that western audiences wouldn't understand them. Is this a common practice to redesign translated shows because we Americans just don't understand?

- HH

Permalink Reply by Sol Domino on August 1, 2011 at 5:26pm

Hey Harris,

I saw that you guys are doing a Western theme this week on LEOG and if you're doing an Anime Corner, might I suggest checking out a short 3-volume manga series called Gun Blaze West?

Permalink Reply by Arjun Arora on August 1, 2011 at 8:24pm

hey harris i gotta new question for you. I have been recently been watching this new series yuruyuri (yes i know your thang about shojou) but i was like " i got 3 mins lets see where this goes." It starts out with the typical " hello my name is blank i am an energetic girl" crap but then it started to get kinda amusing in a stupid sort of way. You would see the girls in the show interact in such a stereotypical way for a yuri. Then it dawned on me that it was a complete parody of every yuri trope out there.If you go in with that mindset its pretty funny. So i was wondering, have you had anything where the first time you were like "this is shitty" but then come to realize its just a light hearted parody?

 

Permalink Reply by Arsène Lupin the Third on August 1, 2011 at 10:27pm

Hey Harris, I suggested a manga a while ago called Blaster Knuckle, CHECK IT OUT IT"S WESTERN IT'S AWESOME!.

Permalink Reply by Maciek of Poland on August 1, 2011 at 10:32pm

Do you know any Anime which center around talking aimals or simply... which are serious in tone?

 

Permalink Reply by Oh Baby! on August 2, 2011 at 10:47am

My Dearest Harris,  
Are most of anime charecters white people? I'm pretty sure that Speed Racer was intentionally meant to be about white people, but I have always just kind of assumed that everyone in DBZ, Sailor Moon, etc. were all Japanese.  However, after several years of observation, in which I noticed that Japanese people either cannot shoot laser beams out of their hands, or at least not in public,  I've also begun to notice that most anime shows have, and even frequently feauture a protagonists with very non-asian charecteristics, like yellow and red hair (while japanese people's hair can only be either black or dark black) unappealing pasty white skin, and are usually kind of stupid. So basically, white people. Do the makers of these shows mistakenly believe that white people are cool in some way? That would be very silly, even by their societies standards, and that says a lot, considering that everyone in Japan has a talking animal sidekick, and all of the women are school girls, forever.
Thanks for probably not answering!
Stay beautiful.

Permalink Reply by John Henry Eden v2.0 on August 3, 2011 at 9:28am

So Harris, I just heard about this anime called Koi Kaze, and that it treats its specific subject matter differently than its ill-fated brethren (no pun intended there). I was wondering if you'd seen it, and if you had any thoughts.

Permalink Reply by Isaac Berry on August 3, 2011 at 6:13pm

Dear Harris,

 

I was wondering if you've ever seen the series "Baccano!" If you have not, it is essentially about a group of immortals in North America during the 1920s and 30s. The storytelling mechanics are very unique, and I love most- if not all- of the characters. It also has one of my favorite anime lines of all time in the form of, "Thank you, FUCK you, the villain has arrived!"

 

Also, if the series has already been discussed in a former LEOG, I sincerely apologize, as I have not listened to your most honorable podcast in quite some time and I am currently desperately trying to catch up. Thank you in advance.

 

Long Live the League,

 

Isaac

Permalink Reply by Sesshu on August 3, 2011 at 7:27pm

Going off the radar here and let me ask you if you've watched El - hazard The Magnificent World. Probably one of the few animes where the English dub is better than the Japanese voice acting. Don't believe me? Pick up the DVD and tell me that Mr. Fujisawa sounds so much better done by Michael Sorich than Koujii Ishi. It's a great OAV and should be in everyone's DVD collection. Even the people that don't like anime will really dig it.

Permalink Reply by That Guy on August 4, 2011 at 7:02pm

Dear Harris,

When ever mangakas are depicted in manga, they are always using pens and pencils. Do mangakas ever use tablets or computers for drawing, if not, Why? 

 

sincererly,

That Guy

Permalink Reply by Xinmodic on August 6, 2011 at 7:46pm

Dear Harris, durring your anime corner you tend to either tell about, fucked up shit, or really great stuff, now what if i were to tell you about somthing that was really great fucked up shit. this is were rin:daughters of mnemosyne comes up, idk if you have seen it or not but its on netflix, its six 45min episodes. i really dont wanna spoil anything because its more fun to watch it without knowing and see it all unfold but its about this woman named Rin who is an imortal who is a jack of trades and helps people who ask, and a cool thing about the show is each episode takes place years or sometimes decades into the future and shows this by both the world and this family who is assosiated with Rin. if u havent seen it you really should like i said its six episodes so i dont really wanna spoile anything, but fucked up stuff does happen. But its story is really good and had my intrest peeked all the way through, youll wanna watch the whole thing straight through like i did i swear youll enjoy it, and it would be great to hear the Leuagues reaction to what its about if u decide to tell them.

Permalink Reply by MistahE on August 8, 2011 at 1:58pm

Dear Harris,

Yo, I was just wondering if you heard of these two films called Paprika and Summer Wars. Not alot of my friends have heard of them and they're anime heads like myself. Its sad because both films are excedingly great. Paprika is kind of like an anime version of inception that came out before inception (2006 I believe). The animation is stunning and the music really plays along well with the story. Summer Wars is about a high school student who gets accused of hacking a virtual world/network. Its really cool and its from the guy who did The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, which I dont know if you seen is a great film as well. The animation is awesome and its definitely worth checking out.

 

 

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