calling all apple-colored freaks.

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I now know how bad FUNimation's mutilation truly was (although they did manage to sneak in some humor where it didn't exist in the original, it can't compensate for the dumbed down, TV-Y7 version they offered America). 

My only complaint about the Japanese version?  No Sean Schemmel.  Srsly.  Masako Nozawa = No.  What is this, Naruto? 

All in all, though, the uncut original is far superior.  The music isn't retarded, the dialogue is actually engaging, episodes are stitched together coherently (to the point of reeling in wayward former fans), characters swear and strut and are generally more interesting and realistic, and that one guy was decapitated.  And there's blood, buckets of it.  Plus the dream sequence of Embodiment of Fire is the same, though the episode title is different, which is really all I wanted anyway.  So thank you, Lindsey!  :D

* - Pic not related.  Except in that if I were FOX, I would hire Ben Stiller to direct the LAM.  Instead of that dumb ass who hired a music composer who thinks the overall tone is "a combination of Transformers and Harry Potter".  There had better be some fucking blood is all I have to say about that upcoming disaster. 

Comments

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I take it you can speak Japanese, right?

I like reading the manga too - just because I think it's really well-drawn (more than people give it credit for), the dialogue is great, and it's just... much more intense than the anime. I'd stick to it exclusively if it weren't so much fun to actually watch the pictures move. Oh yeah, and if I had the nerve to buy it. -_-

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Not fluently, so don't get that idea. XD; I had about three and a half years of lessons? It was a while ago, so I forgot a lot, but I can poke my way through most reading (I'm bad at speaking but better at understanding - but not near fluently by a loooong shot).

My Japanese teacher - I actually used to watch DBZ/GT raw on the International Channel to practice my understanding. Like - picking out words and sentence structure. Likewise, I was given manga by my teacher to practice reading (it's actually a very good way to learn, since manga is made intentionally easy to understand/read).

I love the manga. Toriyama - I get why people might not like his art style, but there's no denying his *technical* skill. He's great and detail and linework and - and making girls that look like real girls, not fanservice shots. I love that even when he draws Bulma in a fanservicey manner, she has rounded legs and her stomach has curves and she has - you know, meat on her bones. And that she's considered to have a huge chest, yet is "only" a C-cup. REALISTIC PROPORTIONS. IMAGINE.