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Answerman - Quick Answers Part 4

GoldCrusader wrote:

Unless you live in a place where streaming services arent available, any excuse for pirating is dumb and laughable. You just don't want to pay the 7$ a month. You are going to buy the BD directly from Japan? Sure lol.

Even if it's not available where you live, if that excuse doesn't work for anything else, why should it work for anime? "Oh, they don't sell USD iTunes cards here, so I just stole some."

Agreed. I currently watch five series on Amazon Strike on a weekly basis, so even assuming I was paying for Prime only for anime, each series would have to price $9 or less for a whole season for the subscription to not be worth it. Would have to be way lower than that for CR.

there are a lot of countries, where 7 dollars is the minimum wage for two days.

there are a lot of countries, where 7 dollars is the minimum wage for two days.

I also continue to find it amusing that people still complain about "we always hear the same voices" in English dubs but don't for Japanese dubs, where some seiyuu have hundreds of roles to their credits.

Would a person with a wage of 7$ for 2 days even have a computer or a screen to watch stuff on? Is this comment for real?

maximilianjenus wrote:

there are a lot of countries, where 7 dollars is the minimum wage for two days.

If they are paid 3,5 dollars per day, you should realize they wouldn't even afford the technology to illegally watch shows. Stop posting troll comments.

Also, low income doesn't justify crimes. It sad and depressing that they are being severely underpaid, yes. But it still wrong to commit crimes, though if they must steal it should be food, not crap like tv-shows.

This is main problem I have with english dubs, and that's hearing the same voice in multiple shows

don't know the name but I have recognized in various animes the voice of whoever does the Kotomine Kirei and I do not mind

I also continue to find it amusing that people still complain about "we always hear the same voices" in English dubs but don't for Japanese dubs, where some seiyuu have hundreds of roles to their credits.

A lot of legal anime watching sites are region locked though. I live in Massachusetts so Crunchyroll's a great option for me, but other people have no choice but to pirate. Then there are high schoolers, who don't have jobs and could not afford subscriptions. Obviously they are going to pirate.

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This is main problem I have with english dubs, and that's hearing the same voice in multiple shows

I really don't get why people say this. If you actually bothered to read the credits, you'd see Japan is doing the exact same thing. Right off the top of my head, Mariya Ise is voicing main characters in two different shows this season (Made in Abyss, Kakegurui). Japan isn't the melting pot of voice talent that people seem to think it is.

I also continue to find it amusing that people still complain about "we always hear the same voices" in English dubs but don't for Japanese dubs, where some seiyuu have hundreds of roles to their credits.

Anime is a lot more enjoyable when you stop looking for things to complain about.

Honestly, anyone who says they don't have CR because they can't afford it is lying. You can totally afford it, you just don't want to pay it. There's a difference.

That is pretty similar to how I look at it. The bulk of recording is still done by an actor showing up at the studio, which means they need to be local if they hope to make money for their effort. That means that there is a limit to how many people there are to choose from, and that number gets smaller when you consider that many local actors don't know that anime dubbing might be a thing where they live. A lot of actors on Funimation commentaries have mentioned that they only got started because another cast member in a play suggested they audition. Throw in that the dubs need to be both quick (for cost reasons) and good (for the audience) and it's not hard to see why you see a lot of the same names. For what it's worth, Funimation has broadened its actor pool quite a bit, especially now that they are dubbing so much so fast.

there are a lot of countries, where 7 dollars is the minimum wage for two days.

A lot of high schoolers (probably most high schoolers who live in homes that can afford high speed internet) still get allowances, though, even if they don't have jobs. $7 for a month's anime streaming subscription is basically the same price a teen would pay in the US for one combo meal at a fast food place, a handful of iTunes songs, a single volume of a digital manga, or one small popcorn at the movie theater. If they really want a CR subscription, it's not hard to just skip the popcorn when they go see The Fast and the Furious 14 with their friends on Saturday night.

For me, at least, I find most Japanese voice actors have more range than American ones. I mean, there are still seiyu's who sound the same in most of their roles, but often they at least sound different (unless you'd watched every single anime they'd been in, whereas then you'd start picking up on the limitation of their range). Meanwhile, a lot of American voice actors just sound the same in 99% of their roles. Not sure why that is, if it's a limitation to their range, or if they're getting paid/expected to do the same sort of voice all the time. (I guess that can be said for certain seiyu's too)

That said I haven't seen a lot of dubs, as I prefer subs. But I do know of certain American voice actors who sound the same in most things they do..............

I work in a high school and all the kids have iPads. As I've walked the library, where I mostly see them, I have not seen a single manga-reading or anime-watching kid doing so on a legal site. They all pirate. Some of them have had the balls in the past to suggest to me apps to read thousands of manga. I've told them that stuff is illegal and all they do is ignore me and go back to their usual ways.