How to watch anime correctly?

Watching Akira edited (and in English) is just a recipe for failure.

Wow thanks man! I'll try that right after the german shouting dub, and the sign language version with a little senile lady in the right hand corner translating the movie.

Any word on the blind edition with the braille card included yet?

With Japanese animation you have to watch it with subtitles! You get so much more emotion and context from the characters and dialogue. This is especially true in anime shows like One Piece or Hunter x Hunter.

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Depends on the anime, depends on the particular dub. The dubbed version of Ranma 1/2 I saw was funnier. Hate the newer dub of Akira that I heard but even though I prefer the Japanese version, I still have a soft-spot for the original English version (with a Ninja Turtle voice actor doing Kaneda). Giant Robo is pure camp in Japanese or English, but I slightly prefer the (original) English dub for Fabulous Fitzgerald's entrance scene. Macross: Do You Remember Love (with a title like that it's hard for me to get too worked up about fidelity to the Director's Vision) has to be seen at least once in its terrible British version.

With your pants around your ankles.

Oh, and english subs.

No, that's just Guap.

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That's true for the most part, but shows with a lot of fast and complicated dialogue seem to be a trend nowadays, and stuff like The Tatami Galaxy (combination of fast-paced monologues with creative visuals) can really become an issue to follow.

Watch it subbed. It might take some time getting used to but when you are used too you notice how better it is. The fact is that while it's true animation is always dubbed the original audio track is executed accordingly to the director's directions (sorry for the pun) also, Japanese voice acting is a very well developed field (voice actresses in Japan train for years and achieve performances that are incredible, such as Shimamoto in Nausicaa's) while the dubbing in English is often very bad (in Portuguese it is a little better though) and seriously hurt the experience. That's valid for Miyazaki's films as well as less mainstream titles. Miyazaki's films suffer also from having it's dialogue altered by Disney in order to suit itself to American audiences, for instance, in Ponyo, the dialogue makes it appear that the film takes place in the US () and they add lines that did not exist in the original film as well.

Tatami Galaxy is for pros. It has 3 lines of subtitles instead of 2!

You should never watch anime dubbed. It's awful.

Subs take a bit to get used to, but it's always better in the original language.

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Dubbed sucks because american importers spend very little time and money getting it dubbed. fan subbed is the best and least likely to dumb it down ie. they change lines because it's too alien to the english speaking audience.

Japanese Audio.

Unless the particular anime is in an English/European setting. (Black Butler for example has an excellent English dub).

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Trash the subtitles and feel the dialouge with your heart.

Watch anime with your pants on. You can do what you want ultimately, but if you don't I will be silently judging you.

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Latin dubbing with Greek subtitles.

Do you have anything against pornography?

Boku no Pico may be the stuff you might need! http://web.archive.org/web/200710121...-boku-no-pico/

I watched some hentai, it is mostly for the fun of it: so funny to watch people being raped by teddy bears who turn into muscular men who turn into tentacle monsters.

Anime has been exploring new themes in pornography since always, have you ever seen a porn animation made with MS Paint? Or a rape hentai with a Gainax'd (AKA troll) ending?

I was trying to make a joke and you made it weird.

> starts watching it
> some hot anime girls during the opening, thinks "what's wrong with it?"
> the reach around scene where the girls figure out to be boys
> Guap, you sick...
> then the actual anime starts and we see some normal hentai scenes
> wait, actually... I LIKE DAT
> wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Guap, you slick bastard, THAT GIRL IS LIKE TEN
> wait, wait, wait, wait that ten year old girl is A BOY
> Guap you will pay for my psychiatric treatment

PS: I'm exaggerating, but I'm pretty sure this may be shocking for other people. I've seen worse, not in the form of anime, tho.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

you and I both.... thank god the anime I watch is drama... very little action.... no sex or henti.... however.. I do enjoy Yaoi manga... Mr Minio.. believe me.. its not your thing.....