Forum - View topicNEWS: One Piece Premieres on Adult Swim's Toonami Tonight
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SuperiorCaptain
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Wow.
So for starters anyone who isn't a child that watches things in their primary language is an illiterate fool that may as well be a child? "No, i'm not insulting anyone that's just what I think. Then again i'm fluent in Japanese!" Smooth. Why would I learn a language i'll never use just so i can watch some cartoons? That's mighty impractical, and you really are a weaboo purist. Nobody shows subtitles in the US because nobody wants them and ratings go south. "Hurr durr americans are too lazy to even read!" Welcome to Television, where you're not expected to read. It's kind of how the medium works. That's the whole point of a dub in the first place. It's not like the US is the only one to do this seeing as its aired in places such as France, Germany, and even the Catalan countries. But hey let's just assume everyone should watch foreign stuff because that's what mature adults do! It's not like cultural differences exist anymore, right? |
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Mr Sinister
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Oda, the creator of One Piece said he wanted a female to voice Luffy. All of the Strawhats had to be approved by Oda himself, so it wasn't really an option to do what they did for Goku. Personally I love Colleen's Luffy now. It took me a little while to get used to it, but now I can enjoy both the Japanese and English versions equally. |
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sypherman
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Maybe I'm wrong but as far as I can tell One Piece does not take place in our world, and as such none of these characters are japanese. So while japanese is the language the story is presented in, nothing within the fiction says anybody is speaking japanese. If you prefer japanese One Piece good on you, implying people who don't are lazy or stupid just makes you a pretentious asshat.
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Keonyn
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People need to lay off the freaking insults. Plus, if we continue to devolve any thread mentioning a broadcast in to a "anime versus domestic cartoons" thread or a "dub vs sub" thread then we're going to have a problem as that is blatant soapboxing.
Also, Pangea, it seems you can't make a single post without insulting people and blatant personal attacks. If you continue to do this you will either be placed under moderation or outright banned. |
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lostrune
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Those ages seem a bit high than what it is actuality. Shonen definitely extends to under 10 years of age. One Piece's biggest ratings demographic comes from kids under the age of 10. One Piece's target audience is pretty clear, though 
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Nonaka Machine Gun B
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What is most interesting to me is, no matter what the thread is about, there is always one or two people who registered to make one post and never again.
I didn't watch OP last night, but I'm sure it was fun. Not a Nielsen family anyway, and the biggest anime currently in production doesn't really need my help. |
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AbZeroNow
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Somehow I can imagine there are once long debates between whether literature was better to be in the original Latin(or Greek) or better translated in one's own language. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Getting back to Toonami, I bet One Piece is crack 1 million in the ratings. |
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Agent355
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I could never get into the manga so I decided to give the anime a try last night.
I know most of the characters and basic ideas of the settings plot points, etc. (pirates on a fantastical sea fighting against people's oppression by warlords in a ridiculously over-the-top world) simply because it's so popular. A complete newbie would have been completely confused. I wasn't sure who was who (the black-haired girl was Nico Robin, right?) I had no idea what the Don Flamingo stuff was, but I assume it was a holdover of the last arc and wasn't important. Toonami should make a commercial that at the very least introduces all the characters. The episode was cute, the character designs will take some getting used to, and all the dub voices were okay except Luffy, who really grated. I really liked Tony Tony Chopper, who sounded exactly like Happy from Fairy Tale. In any case it's really cool that Toonami has the top three Shonen Jump properties back-to-back on Saturday nights. |
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11G4GUNOT
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a sub vs dub flame
it would be awesome to go back to episode168 but no skipped. also 196 to 207. missing 9episodes of season 4 to FUNIMATION.com and DVDs. sorry the last post was a lie from last week it's 39 episodes not 51. fixed. @Keonyn I'll delete that [post was removed] now
yeah the mainstream days are over. |
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Running Wild
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So they are starting with the Davey Back Fight, but did they even finish Skypeia last time One Piece aired on Toonami years ago?
Oh well, sooner they get to Water 7/Enies Lobby the better. Great story arc, and I've been enjoying the english dub episodes quite a bit, Usopp is just too good. |
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Banken
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That's the original cast, and yes a female is fine when cast right, but there are simply so few female English VAs who can do adult/teen men as well as the Japanese VA who specialize in them. |
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Banken
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Of course there were. Did you know Dante's Divine Comedy rhymed in Italian? If you are given a chance to enjoy something in the original language and don't, then I guess telling you what you're missing is a waste of breath. To the others, no one is suggesting you should learn Japanese for anime (well, I'm not), simply that if you watch subbed anime long enough you WILL learn some. To be honest the only reason I have taken the argument this far is because I like to argue 
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Kutsu
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While saying only kids and 'illiterate people' watch dubs is obviously taking things slightly too far, I do think it would be nice if channels offered their viewers the possibility to chose whether they want to watch their show dubbed or subbed (when the original isn't english, of course). That's treating your viewers like adults, and not simply like brainless people only there to swallow your ads.
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Winger
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No. Some Shonen Magazines are for boys between 8-12 years, and some are for boys between 13-18. Shonen Jump ia a Magazine that is for boys between 8-13 years, One Piece is published in Shonen Jump. An example of magazine for boys with 13-18 years, is Shonen Magazine. But One Piece has the targef of boys with 8-13 years old, include Oda says that he draws One Piece for kids. Whatever, Kodomo magazines are for 5 years old kids, not 10 years old kids. Pokemon is a Kodomo anime, One Piece is a Shonen. |
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TitanXL
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How do you figure that? It airs right before Naruto does and Naruto is shonen. A lot of the manga adaptions run in shounen magazines, and one has run in a shoujo magazine. I'd say Pokemon is definitely shounen in it's themes and execution. |
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