Forum - View topicNEWS: ADV Films Streams The Wallflower Anime Trailer
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domino
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Euggh, this trailer has got to be the worst trailer I've ever seen.
And the term "bishounen" (and any other Japanese terms that actual Japanese don't use but Americans adopted to seem more "cute" or "edgy" or whatever the aim is) makes my skin crawl, so seeing it on the front of the DVD is upsetting. I visibly winced every time the guy in the trailer tried to say "bishounen" and mispronounced it horribly. The trailer's scripting/voicing is so terrible that I can't believe ADV let it slide. That aside, it looks like an interesting show -- but the trailer did the opposite of what trailers are supposed to do and made me want to watch it LESS. Oh well. Just my two and a half cents. |
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GATSU
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I like the Ringu spoofs. Nabe-san might have convinced me again.
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kyokun703
 Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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Yeah, what the hell is a "bye-show-nen"? You'd think they could've tried to actually pronounce the word correctly (that's the main thing that bug me about dubs... the total butchering of Japanese words). That was a terrible trailer. I'm guessing it was supposed to be funny, but that was awful. I got bored of the manga, but was sort of interested in the anime since it hopefully has an end before I got bored, but this, like domino said, actually made me want to watch the anime LESS.
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sabriyahm
 Posts: 293 Location: Georgia |
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Yuck I like this show but it's a terrible trailer. Aside from the mispronounciations it's pretty inaccurate. The animation quality is terrible. I got used to it but they need to be lower expectations in that regard not raising them.
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TsubomiKoneko
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Oh goodness, I had to watch the trailer after coming here and seeing the "bye-show-nen" comment... I had to hear that for myself, and I just paused, laughed, and had to explain to my boyfriend why I was laughing
Yeah that... is a pretty bad trailer, but it's entirely because of the voice-over... they should just replace the voice-over with some music and random worded black screens and that would probably do a lot better... |
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tygerchickchibi
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Okay, so it looks like everyone has been complaining about the "bishonen."
Maybe the trailer announcer guy had to been new, or it could've been a new director. Who knew what circumstances, but The anime still looked interesting to me. My friend always bugged me about reading the manga, and I didn't. Either way, it's bilingual, if the English sucks, there's always the Japanese side. But usually ADV has good VAs, so I'll keep my ears open. |
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Paploo
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Or mabye it was just all part of the humour of the trailer itself? It's pretty tongue in cheek ["quality animation"]. This is also popping up on the ADV preview disc that ADV's slipping into some of their Oct releases..... Nabeshin style Shojo just has to be a wrong all of it's own...... it'll be worth checking out at some point.
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GATSU
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Paploo: Supposedly he played it straight(no pun intended) on Gravitation.
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britannicamoore
 Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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Wow...I actually enjoyed that trailer. Even though I can speak beginner Japanese I probably wouldn't have noticed the mipronunciation.
Seems like some of you were kinda nit-picky there. I can't wait to own this. 
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Paploo
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Looks at the trailer again, it didn't have narration, so I guess this means ADV's making multiple trailers- a nice sign for promoting it. This one was around the same bent though. I'd forgotten he'd directed that, though knowing people who like Gravi, I'm not sure how they'd take to having NB pop up in it to break the 4th wall [then again, does he?] It's also wierd to see him pop up in other anime series outside of those he directed- I'm pretty sure he pops up in an episode of Real Bout High School. |
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DarkTenshi90
 Posts: 440 Location: Nebraska |
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I'm a fan of the Wallflower manga, and am patiently waiting for the next book to be released, but I watched the first episode of it on Youtube a long time ago and I did not like it. It was definitely not what I was hoping for, especially since the characters look weird, and the animation is... eh.
I'll probably just stick to buying the manga for now and wait for the thinpak to come out or something. |
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MokonaModoki
 Posts: 437 Location: Austin, Texas |
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You realize that when they mentioned awesome animation the onscreen was one of the scenes with the guys animated as stick figures, right? It's actually a pretty awesome trailer if you just accept the notion that every bit of it is played for laughs. |
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MorwenLaicoriel
 Posts: 1617 Location: Colorado |
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How does this show compare to the original manga? I wasn't crazy about the manga at all--read the first four volumes or so and kinda tossed it aside. (The "bye-show-nen" weren't all that attractive to me, so that was a huge part of it. I liked Sunako, though.) But if the anime is a little different, I might try it.
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CCSYueh
 Posts: 2707 Location: San Diego, CA |
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People prefer ADV's Saiyuki dub even though the Geneon dub says all the names the same as the Japanese dub which means, yeah, they were mispronouncing more than a few words. Strangely enough, I manage to catch the term bishonen popping up in a few anime. It's just not a term that comes up as often in a show as much as it would be used to promote a show. Gravi was far from straight, but I don't recall Nabeshin popping up in stuff until Ecel Saga, but I wasn't looking. Gravi isn't "straight" in either sense of the word--there's a fair amount of crazy humor down to the American manager rarely seen without a gun, holes get punched thru walls, cosplay. The manga is crazier. |
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