I sort of disagree that average people inherently don’t like to read, or hear foreign languages.

“Forever,” is a mess in katakana English, though. It’s basically made entirely out of sounds that don’t exist in Japanese and need super lossy approximations. I can’t think of ever seeing it used in Japanese English titling or expressions.

It doesn’t matter how good the dubbing quality is, Independence Day dubbed over in Polish or Portuguese is not really Independence Day. It depresses me that there is even a demand for dubbing, anime or otherwise.

The scene in Spirited Away/千と千尋の神隠し where Haku remembers his origin and he and Chihiro are falling from the sky is basically the final word against Dubs. Watch it in English and watch it in Japanese one right after the other. For all Ghibli’s best efforts, it is so stupid-sounding and -looking in English.

Dubbing is…

I loved this.

The person who said that was a woman.

I’m the guy who submitted the story. The call came just as I was walking out the door with the new pizza to get in my car. I didn’t stick around to listen to it. When I got to my house, the guy basically screamed a lot of word salad with the words and phrases like, “unacceptable,” “need to be taught a lesson,” “not a…

Hi. I was the person who submitted that story. I mean, you’re not wrong that it would have been awesome of me to jump to the guy’s defense. I will mention (this detail was in my original submission, but C.A. Pinkman cut it — completely fairly, because I am always long-winded) that I was barely 18 and the guy getting…

In-car mirrors still completely unusable for realistic first-person. That’s too bad.

How does one do this? I can't find the setting. I have a super sweet ultra detailed realistic Osaka going, but everybody driving on the right side of the street is totally killing it.

I don't think I said Japan was a special case. I was just pointing out that it's vastly different from England, which your whole point is predicated on it not being. Being historically realistic, it's England/The UK/Western Europe/etc. (i.e. the great white fraternity of privilege) that's a special case, so maybe I…

Well, of course you wouldn't be worried. You guys didn't go through what Japan went through and you have never paid for your crimes. That your level of historical privilege is so great you can't even feel offense doesn't mean the commenter wouldn't actually be out of line, though.

Voice actress Yuka Otsubo lends her voice to the characters Kitakami and Oi. In the following clip, Kitakami and Oi are talking about food that Kitakami likes. It sounds like two people, but in the recording studio it's the same person talking herself!

Well, I'm disappointed, anyway.

I don't get how it's "historical" or a "joke." Lots of Koreans and Japanese really do hate the other race, here now in the real world, and I don't get how text-shouting at a country that they are "sons of bitches" is a joke.

Definitely sad for the loss of historical heritage and for the polluting of the environment, but I can't really see as how it's unfitting of the brutal legacy of the man himself.

Flagged that original comment. You usually seem like a sensible commenter. I have no idea what makes you think saying something like that is okay, but it is not.

Excellently handled. Following you.

What are you refuting, though? I think the poster was just pointing out the hypocrisy of criticizing a game for being sexually perverse when the majority of games are violently perverse. Doesn't your whole rationale also justify the creation and consumption of a game like the one in this article? How is violence in…

During the late 1800s, the Japanese government began to cultivate the island. However, by the mid-1920s, the Japanese military was using the island to manufacture chemical weapons like tear gas and mustard gas. These were later used in China and throughout Asia during World War II. Located in Hiroshima Prefecture, the…