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4 days agoAkagi. Can I also count Saki as a battle shoujo?
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Best dub has to go to Kaguya-sama.
A remake of a series that’s still ongoing is… huh.
Most people are.
Netflix and Crunchyroll have both released data confirming that more viewers watch dubs than subs. Even on Crunchyroll, which only serious anime fans are gonna subscribe to, sub viewers are still in the minority.
If the goal is to pick something you can convince your non-anime watching friends to try out, there’s gotta be as little friction as possible. Subs will be a turn-off for a lot of people, that’s for nerds.
That’s probably a good reason not to have a new viewer start with anything that’s still ongoing, pick something they can watch start to finish.
It can’t be anything long, has to be something they can reasonably finish. No One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z. Ideally one season, no longer than two.
It also shouldn’t be anything that’s still ongoing, has to be something they can literally finish. I’d really like to say Frieren, I think it hits a lot of the right beats to appeal to someone who has never watched anime before, but I wouldn’t want to leave them hanging. And we don’t even know how long it’s going to be in the end, I already said no longer than two seasons anyway.
Has to have a dub. Someone who does not watch anime is not going to read subs. I’m so close to wanting to recommend Apocalypse Hotel as a short and sweet 12 episode masterpiece, but the lack of a dub will be a dealbreaker to your non-weeb friends.
With how much I’m emphasizing that it has to be short, movies would be better than television shows. Which leads us to the extremely obvious answer of Ghibli, anything Ghibli. But maybe Ghibli is too obvious an answer, I know plenty of people who watch Ghibli but have never seen anything else, so maybe we’ll say Ghibli doesn’t count.
So then I’d say my next answer would be A Silent Voice. Not just because it’s my favorite movie, but it’s a good example to show that there’s so much more to anime than just battle shonen. I imagine most people who don’t watch anime may have only ever heard of popular shonen and might not know what else is out there.
Can I just put A Silent Voice on there nine times?
Cute finale to a cute show. Really hope this one gets a S2.
“Because that’s what Himmel would do”
“Because that’s what Ms. Frieren would do”
Little late catching up, but wow, best episode yet. An invisible man trying to be seen makes for a very interesting character, and I love the visual direction of how his backstory was animated.
The very first entry on that link is A Silent Voice. Absolutely phenomenal film, my all-time favorite in fact, but extremely not one I would show to a 6-year old child.
spoilers for anyone who doesn't remember
The film begins with Shoya’s suicide attempt, and much later Shouko tries to kill herself too. Not appropriate for age 6.
Was just about to say Little Witch Academia, but you’re one step ahead of me.
Spy x Family does have some violence in it, but it’s mostly Looney Tunes-tier. I know it’s one that’s very popular with kids in Japan.
Bocchi the Rock is quite wholesome, but it is sub-only and I’m guessing at that age she’s probably not reading subs yet.
CITY: The Animation and You and I are Polar Opposites are two recent family friendly hits.
Na na na na na na na na na na Katamari Damacy
I’m just holding off on watching S3 until I hear whether the ending is any better or not.
Absolutely phenomenal film, one that resonated with my own mental health issues in a way that made me feel extremely seen.
spoilers and discussion of mental health
The visual metaphor of the Xs to represent Shoya’s fear and distrust of others hit me so hard.
I went through an incident where a few people I thought I could trust, people I once considered to be my closest friends, had been saying very hurtful things about me behind my back. It set off a chain reaction of events that killed a longtime dream of mine I’d been working towards, and the lasting trauma still makes it hard to trust anyone to this day.
It was about a year after that incident that I saw this film for the first time, and I realized this is what I’ve felt. I see those Xs every time I second-guess whether someone is truly ‘safe’ to interact with, always worrying about this fear in the back of my head that anyone and everyone might secretly hate me behind my back like my so-called ‘friends’ did. Even when they seem friendly to my face, the X is still there when I feel like I never know if that’s sincere or not. And of course the rational part of me knows it’s wrong to fear everyone around me this way, surely most people are not like that, but fuck, it happened once and it could happen again.
And then you get into the way the Xs start to peel away when he makes one new friend, then more, but then he regresses and the Xs come back again, and then peel away, and then come back. And I just felt, yeah, all of this is me.
They took a week off two weeks ago, I think they didn’t want to air during the Olympics. And since the dub is on a two week delay, that has reverberated to this week.
Damn, everything with Azuma hit way too close to home for me.
I’m just saying that the original is always better than dub.
To say that as if it’s universal is exactly what I’m trying to say is wrong. Especially if your justification is “it’s not 1:1 so it’s bad” - SungWon Cho, who IMO is one of the most talented English VAs out there, has a response to that that’s way better than I can ever put it.
I really wish this hadn’t been turned into a SF6 ad.