Comment Mod parent informative (Score 1) 361
I was looking for this post :) Everyone should at least have an understanding of the argument.
But, for a permanent place in a collection, the better produced DVDs with extra content are much preferable. I buy the DVDs of the shows I like as soon as they are released. Pirated stuff isn't good enough to be a "keeper".
Not actually true in my experience. I've found that, at least for content released in the US, you can usually find a fansubbing group who did a magnificently better job than whatever group got the US license. There's still worth in buying the US versions to support the industry, but the industry is often producing in months or years a worse product than you can get for free hours after the episode airs in Japan.
Good fansubbing groups are much more conscientious about typography, timing, translation, and explanation than I generally see from the industry. AND I get the whole thing in an easily portable, easily convertible format with neat soft subs. What's not to love?
Buy the DVD and if you're not subjected to horrible voiceovers from the same five people who seem to do every anime ever produced in the US* then you'll have horrible, solid yellow or white, aliased, blocky, poorly-wrapped subtitles that make all kinds of weird decisions about what to translate and how. And I've never seen a U.S. industry release that will translate signs, messages on cell phones, blackboards, notes, etc., much less in the right location on screen and in a font that matches the spirit of the original writing.
If the anime industry in the US ever wants to complain about sales these are the things they should fix. *Disclaimer, there may be some slightly irate exaggeration and/or hyperbole in this statement. Viewer discretion is advised.
If everything was public, everyone would realize everyone else is just as weird as they are and we can get over it.
Except for those very few, very strange individuals who really just don't know...
when you're in high school you dread the busy work, as do your parents who are forced to do your homework for you
Where did they learn to do it?
There's still slavery in lots of places in the world. Even in the US.
Citation needed.
Seriously though, what do you mean? Slavery in the US? Now? Where? How?
Hegemony?
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
